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Continued my previous role through a company acquisition, building on past success and access to a larger set of company capabilities to grow the application development practice despite global challenges.

Hilliard, Ohio, United States

Worked to build a new modern application development practice within the company, establishing best practices and a strong company culture to deliver top quality custom solutions for customers.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Providing consulting services to customers in retail, government, and financial services in need of expertise to solve business problems. Diverse areas of work include system operations automation, software engineering, and DevOps continuous deployment.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Directed corporate IT operations group, managing 17 engineers charged with overseeing facilities, network, storage, servers and database administration for North American operations. Led department, providing project design, delivery and implementation of infrastructure elements, in addition to ongoing support and maintenance.- Contained R & M costs and.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Managed multiple infrastructure disciplines, including storage, server, network and telecom. Fostered departmental performance, addressing performance reviews, critical staff-supervisor conversations and conflict resolution.- Developed risk assessment for remediation by performing analysis of existing data center, delivering recommendations later supported.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Mentored and coached system administrators as liaison to management teams for service delivery. Coordinated architecture activities between server engineers, developing cross-platform solutions.- Enabled agile infrastructure operations by designing and leading technical execution of $1.7M project, virtualizing 400-node server infrastructure, including.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Conducted troubleshooting of customer issues, focused on enterprise availability and performance monitoring. Deployed solutions independently and in teams on multiple large engagements.- Enabled significant savings by adapting Openview Performance Insight, increasing monitoring capacity to 15K network nodes on less hardware.- Improved service levels and.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Provided operations support for monitoring and management, as well as Tier-3 engineering support for hosted software solutions.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Consulted for customers on server and infrastructure engineering needs.

Norman, Oklahoma

System designer and administrator for Windows and UNIX based hosted systems supporting the College of Engineering.