It Operations Manager
-Responsible for the direction and management of all Keane’s IT infrastructure, security, and Application Maintenance. Manage a team of five, hands on with day to day IT projects and issues.-Project management: Change management, including firmware, hardware and software/security updates lifecycles, including updating VMWare to 6.7 and applying security patches, Server 2008 upgrades/migrations.-IT strategy: Hardware lifecycle replacement planning, including options for moving to the cloud. Juniper core switches replacement; Dell PowerEdge R820 and deployed into vSphere cluster.-Scripting: Automation of server builds using PowerShell.-Vendor management, contract and license renewal. Worked with the Finance Department to work on CapEx spends.-Moving into a 100% work from home campaign to support the business, previously upgrading VPN and bandwidth.-Worked with Exchange 2016, migration of database, DAG replication, HA to Colocation.-SonicWall E class firewall management and migrating to virtual Secure Mobile Access VPN device.