Brad Wolfe Email & Phone Number

Basking Ridge, NJ, US

• Hands on Director of Production Servers & Operations globally (1000+)
• Architected, configured, and deployed Hybrid cloud solutions both on premise with VMware VSphere 6.7 and OpenStack On Premise Private Cloud, AWS & Azure for Public Cloud Applications
• Director of Windows Corporate Servers & Operations
• Established Production IT policies & procedures
• Vendor management for server hardware, software licensing, and 3rd party services
• Security risk mitigation management for ISO/PCI DSS/SOX/ compliance and hardening standards (CIS)

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Established Corporate & Production IT policies & procedures
• Lead a team of 5 to architect enterprise standards across all departments
• Vendor management for server hardware, software licensing, and 3rd party services
• Security risk mitigation management for ISO/PCI DSS/SOX/ compliance and hardening standards (CIS)
• Managed annual capex/opex business unit budgets in excess of $2MIL combined
• Planning and lead of hardware/software acquisition & migration of VIBE (July 2013)

Santa Monica, California, US

• Director of Corporate Engineering for all corporate application servers
• Established Corporate & Production IT policies & procedures
• Vendor management for server hardware, software licensing, and 3rd party services
• Security risk mitigation management for ISO/PCI DSS/SOX/ compliance and hardening standards (CIS)
• Managed annual capex/opex business unit budgets in excess of $6MIL combined
• Established Active Directory for centralized authentication (July 2011)

Beverly Hills, California, US

• Director of Enterprise Systems, Microsoft Applications, AD, and Messaging (11,000+ Users)
• Director of staff for global operations of Live Nation/Ticketmaster server infrastructure
• Director and Team Lead for Global Live Nation Ticketing Servers and Applications rollout (January 2009-January 2010)
• Director of datacenter budgeting, architecting, planning, building and migration of all enterprise applications
• Managed annual capex/opex business unit budgets in excess of $10MIL combined
• Vendor management for server hardware, software licensing, and 3rd party services

Culver City, CA, US

• Managed Windows 2K3 Server AD Environment for local and multiple remote sites across the U.S.
• Managed Exchange 2003 Cluster for Sonypicturestv.com and multiple Sony Productions
• Established detailed network documentation for entire LAN/WAN environment
• Troubleshoot, upgraded, and reconfigured current environment
• Established and reviewed network security for Servers, Routers, and Wifi appliances
• Technical Lead for entire migration of Production WinTel Environment to Savvis Datacenter

• Built and managed 200 users (150 desktops, 50 remote users) on Windows 2000/2003 Server/Client environment on HP Proliant hardware
• Managed all technical related aspects of company, both computer and media/audio related
• Troubleshoot and provide support for back office server environments, including Windows Server 2003/2000, Exchange 2003, Active Directory, Faxmaker Fax server.
• Handled Server Migrations from NT4 to 2000/2003
• Handled E-mail Migrations from Exchange 5.5, 2000, and 2003
• Backup and disaster recovery using Backup Exec 10, including remote agents for Exchange Server, SQL, Open File Option

• Maintained a 800 user Windows NT BackOffice as network administrator and interim IT manager on HP LH Servers w/ Netraid
• Reported to CFO weekly on IT planning, progress and budgeting.
• Handled All Server maintenance including capacity planning, hardware/software installation and upgrades, configuration and performance tuning the HP & Adaptec net raid
• Exchange 5.5 Server and client administration in conjunction with Time Warner/Warner Music Group including 5.0-5.5 upgrade and database maintenance (defragging)
• Outlook Client maintenance for Exchange 5.5 including client space management and folder archiving, custom forms and Digital Dashboard.
• Fax server and Voicemail server installation and maintenance using AVT including Outlook client delivery

US

• Maintained a 700 user Windows NT "B" class as network administrator on HP L Series Servers
• Tech. Support to LAN and WAN users both local and remote
• Handled NT backup tape rotation using HP DLT with NT Backup
• Hardware and software purchase, installation and configuration of workstations including Compaq and HP desktops, Toshiba Laptops, HP Servers
• Configured NT Server for NY Office including 30 clients and network printing.
• Setup users to access MCA accounts on AS/400.

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