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Arlington, Wa

Everett, Wa.

Key IT Leader responsible for all infrastructure including network architecture and management, cloud‐provider management, information security program management including executive steering committee, disaster recovery, IT operations and software licensing, vendor management, office build outs and expansion, telephony and unified communications, and cloud integrated initiatives for high‐growth, cutting edge lighted mirror design and manufacturing firm with offices in North America, United Kingdom, and Asia.Key Accomplishments Include: • Assembled and managed a complete IT department from inception. Provided Electric Mirror with a consistent technical direction, best practices policies and procedures, round the clock support, and excellent customer service. • Utilized Scrum / Agile methodologies to keep IT team focused, accountable but flexible. • Designed, tested, implemented, and operationalized a scalable enterprise network and cloud based VOIP telecommunications infrastructure to support a new 80,000 sq ft state of the art facility. • Managed and coordinated telecommunication and network infrastructure vendors to facilitate a smooth move. This moved us from a 3 switch single sub-net environment to a fully segmented network with over 1000 ports vastly improving our network stability and up-time for the business and round the clock manufacturing operation. • Moved Electric Mirror to Office 365 to support growth, stability, and geographic expansion. • Implemented enterprise backup solution with Veeam. This provided Electric Mirror ability to recover key enterprise applications and data within minutes, rather than days. • Implemented proactive patch management system for servers and client machines to mitigate security issues. • Implemented a next generation firewall that provided best in class protection against spam, malware, viruses, phishing, and content control.

Everett, Wa

Responsible for all aspects of support for the Everett WA. Structures division of Triumph Group Inc. a worldwide leader in the manufacture of aerospace skins, stringers, ribs, spars, straps, monolithic structures, and numerous other parts. Responsible for support and technical direction from client machines to enterprise servers, network infrastructure, network architecture and management, cloud‐provider management, backups, IT security, strategic planning, information security management, disaster recovery, and telephony. Key Accomplishments: • Implement and maintained bridges, routers, gateways, remote access servers, domain servers, firewalls, application & device servers and Internet or Intranet devices and connections. • Design configure, monitor, and optimize local and wide area networks and printers for optimal performance. • Design, configure, and maintain network security features for local and wide area networks. Configure monitor and maintain anti-virus software to ensure network and systems integrity. • Perform preventative and fault isolation maintenance on local and wide area networks. Perform maintenance on servers, domains. • Coordinate and direct outside consultants and vendors on projects, Responsible for all aspects of support, desktop to enterprise servers, including IT security, strategic planning, backups, applications implementation, data communications, and client-server computing environment. • Provided business case and design for a complete infrastructure upgrade to support high-end numerical control CAD programming applications. • Lead technical resource for IT security, data networking, enterprise systems software, computer servers, and desktop computers. Directed our Brea, CA. employees on all technical issues.

Redmond, Wa

IT Manager 2002 – 2003 • Responsible for managing the IT department during cessation of business. Provided coordination with lawyers, executives, employees, vendors and suppliers to facilitate a smooth turn down of the organization.Network Engineer 1999 – 2002 • Responsible for all aspects of support in a high growth technology company, including IT Security, Strategic Planning, Backups, Applications Implementation, Data Communications, and Client-Server Computing Environment. • Technical architect for accelerated implementation of complete infrastructure upgrade. • Lead technical resource for IT security, data networking, enterprise systems software, and computer servers. • Design and implementation of leading edge communications networks including multi-building facilities, field offices, and global remote access systems.IT Specialist 1997 – 1999 • Primary hardware and OS administrator for 250+ PCs supporting 225+ users. • Developed network installation technology and automated scripts for application deployment & upgrades. • Assisted telecom and data network groups in campus build-out and maintenance.

Bothell, Wa.

• Primary hardware and client OS administrator.• Assisted telecom and data network groups.

Redmond, Wa