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Sikeston, Missouri, United States

Cape Girardeau, Missouri

• Manage block storage on multiple HPE arrays utilizing Peer Persistence, Synchronous Remote Copy, Adaptive Optimization, Dynamic Optimization, and Virtual Copy
• Design and manage SAN on Cisco switches utilizing DCNM, and Brocade switches
• Migrate FCoE SAN to FC without downtime
• Migrate from one SAN fabric to another without downtime
• Design compute and storage redundancy migrating from single datacenter to active-active datacenter design
• Reduce RPO to 0 minutes, and RTO to 15 minutes for key systems by implementing a VMware Metrocluster

Southeast Missouri

• Manage 4 Retail Ag stores with 3 bulk fertilizer plants, and grain
• Develop and manage capital and operational budgets for 4 retail locations and admin offices
• Develop long term capital plans and manage capital projects
• Develop pricing for retail products and market grain
• Member of the Behavioral Based Safety Steering Committee, and BBS Mentor for 6 locations

Perryville, MO

• Responsible for all client, server, wired network, wireless network, cellular and landline telecommunications systems
• Manage multiple concurrent projects to completion
• Develop short term, intermediate term, and long term plans for systems
• Develop budget for Information Technology systems
• Provide training and support for users in office and manufacturing environment for 120 user environment across 4 geographically dispersed locations
• Design, Implement, train and support Infor’s Enterprise Resource Planning software for user base

Greater St. Louis Area

• Responsible for design and development of a Windows 7 build for worldwide deployment utilizing Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and Altiris Deployment Solution
• Design Active Directory OU structure for workstations to make management of policies more efficient
• Design and implement Mobile Device Management for iOS and Android devices utilizing Sybase Afaria
• Manage proof of concept projects for evaluating hardware and software solutions
• Provide technical guidance to support staff and other engineers
• Develop supportable solutions to business problems

Greater St. Louis Area

• Design and provide operational support for development Hyper-V installation of 10+ hosts and 250 virtual machines
• Provide end user and project design support to a development staff of 200
• Manage and support file servers for development environments and users
• Design and provide implementation project management for various infrastructure projects\
• Responsible for account creation, account management, group policy design, desktop security, desktop builds, server builds, virtual machine builds, vendor escalations
• Increase the efficiency of the Product Development Support group by automating previously manual tasks

• Troubleshoot issues to root cause in vendor software, Anheuser-Busch custom software, and databases
• Maintain over 50 servers that provide a variety of services to BOT and all Breweries utilizing technology such as SMS, MOM, SQL, Citrix, Veritas Backup, NetApp, VMware ESX, and Symantec Antivirus
• Provide training and guidance on Anheuser-Busch systems and procedures to new employees and contractors
• Manage multiple Active Directory Domains
• Develop VBScript, PowerShell, VB6, and VB.net, applications for administration and reporting on CNIS systems
• Utilize tools such as Windbg, EtherPeek, Process Explorer, Process Monitor, and Perfmon to troubleshoot hardware, software and network issues to root cause

• Coordinate precision agriculture program, equipment sales, and seed sales at 3 MFA branch locations
• Developed, implemented and tracked the marketing programs for seed, fertilizer, and precision agriculture for the southeast Missouri and northeast Arkansas MFA locations
• Troubleshoot and support hardware and software systems used by locations and customers
• Assist in the development of database solutions that improve operational efficiency
• Provide agronomic guidance to customers and store employees

• Assist MFA’s Southeast Missouri Regional Precision Ag Specialist
• Troubleshoot and assist in precision ag programs at various MFA locations
• Provide on-farm training and support for precision farming hardware and programs
• Assist in the development of MFA’s seed marketing programs for Southeast Missouri
• Install, document, scout, and maintain 9 seed demonstration test plots

• Assist in the daily operations of the University’s 120 cow beef farm
• Participate in various experiments conducted at the demonstration farm

• Provide technical support for a wide range of software packages to a diverse range of users
• Maintained a local area network of over 150 personal computers and multiple wide area network connections
• Coordinated various network expansion and upgrade projects
• Designed and implemented a plan to ensure Y2K compliance of all hardware and software

Bs, Applied Computer Science, Agri-Business

Activities and Societies: Delta Tau Alpha, Ag Club

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