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Kissimmee, Fl, Us

San Mateo, Ca, Us

Sequoia is modernizing compensation and benefits to help companies unlock a People Advantage. With Sequoia, employers can retain and attract the best talent in all markets, local and worldwide, and get the most out of their total people investment.

Key Qualifications and Responsibilities- Remotely manage construction projects focusing on Public Works road repairs. - Perform cost analysis, identify subcontractors, and complete documents required for bidding on projects. - Create & maintain critical path schedules and communicate delays in projects due to material lead times.- Work with vendors and subcontractors to collect submittals and update as required until approved.- Order materials as required to meet project schedule.- Provide project updates to engineers and communicate field issues as needed.Key Achievements- Completed 7 projects from 2020-2022 within allowed schedule and no liquidated damages.- Won bids on 3 projects for work to complete in 2023.- Currently working with County of Santa Cruz on emergency work due to flooding.- Migrated company to Office 365 for email and document collaboration.- Implemented Adobe Creative Cloud for completing all contract documents required for bidding.- Assisted company with transition to online only bidding during Covid.- Identified areas for improvement in field activities to reduce overhead cost.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Key Qualifications and Responsibilities- Led help desk and server operations teams of 10 members providing assistance to 950 users globally in 24/7 support environment.- Recruited, trained and supported help desk technicians and representatives.- Conducted 1-on-1s and performance reviews providing feedback, mentoring, and fostering growth.- Engaged with stakeholders to identify business needs and areas of improvement.- Maintained SLAs within the ServiceNow ticketing system to identify gaps and trends.- Maintained CapEx and OpEx budget for software and hardware within annual budget.- Managed project elements for multiple initiatives from initial planning to project rollouts.Key Achievements- Promoted from Manager to Senior Manager in 2017 for completion of company initiatives and training.- Promoted from Systems Engineer to Manager in 2016 for on-time execution of company initiatives.- Implemented maintenance procedures, including system upgrades, patch management, and software deployment using Intune for Microsoft Windows and Jamf for Apple MacOS. - Increased efficiency, agility, disaster recovery, and business continuity, leading team to implement Microsoft Azure cloud solution, migrating x86 servers to cloud infrastructure and PasS services.- Implemented ServiceNow ticketing system to manage incidents, service requests, change requests, knowledge articles, assets, and service level agreements.- Migrated from WebEx to Zoom for online meetings improving collaboration and reducing monthly costs. - Migrated 1000 MacOS and Windows devices from Sophos Antivirus to Crowdstrike leveraging automation.- Implemented knowledge database in ServiceNow enabling the user community to leverage system features and find resolutions to questions without intervention from support team.- Completed onboarding of 40 employee acquisition migrating services like Gmail to O365 within the specified timeframe with minimal impact to employee productivity.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Key Qualifications and Responsibilities- Provided help desk support for 450 employees globally in 24/7 support environment.- Managed infrastructure including servers, storage, virtualization, backups, and capacity planning.- Engaged with stakeholders to identify business needs and areas of improvement.- Maintained CapEx and OpEx budget for software and hardware within annual budget.- Managed project elements for multiple initiatives from initial planning to project rollouts.Key Accomplishments- Migrated legacy mail system to Office 365 leveraging cloud based migration tools reducing downtime.- Deployed Okta as the SSO solution increasing company security leveraging MFA.- Implemented Powershell scripts for account creations to reduce setup time and increase consistency.- Implemented hardware standards, refresh cycles, and imaging processes to improve user experience and reduce deployment times.- Deployed network and server infrastructure in manufacturing enabling remote access and support for the line requiring less travel.- Deployed Backup Exec to perform client to disk backups with tape duplication meeting SOX retention requirements.- Attended Sales Kick Off events to upgrade computers in the field and educate remote employees on new offerings within IT.- Partnered with manufacturing to move production line from US to Mexico for product build and test.

Poole, Dorset, Gb

Key Qualifications and Responsibilities- Led team of 3 members in Seattle and San Jose performing tier 1-3 support calls from 40+ companies globally supporting Lync / Skype for Business Enterprise Voice.- Coordinated handoff of support related activities between the Americas, APAC & EMEA teams.- Participated in customer on boarding to identify remediation tasks to ensure supportability.- Managed the internal infrastructure for Modality including firewalls, switches, servers.Key Achievements- Achieved response and resolution SLA’s defined in customer contracts avoiding penalties.- Deployed infrastructure in US based datacenter providing increased performance and redundancy.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Key Qualifications and Responsibilities- Led team of 3 members administering complex IT infrastructure including servers, storage, and datacenter globally.- Partnered with Help Desk and Network teams on projects and changes to the environment.- Conducted 1-on-1s and performance reviews providing feedback, mentoring, and fostering growth.- Engaged with stakeholders to identify business needs and areas of improvement.- Managed project elements for multiple initiatives from initial planning to project rollouts.- Participated in on-call rotation for infrastructure responding to automated alerts and outages.- Managed Windows servers including Active Directory services worldwide.Key Achievements- Migrated primary datacenter from on-prem to off-site colo leveraging shared storage, VMware ESXi clusters, and high speed networks improving stability and resiliency.- Deployed load balancers to increase availability for mission critical applications.- Created templates and scripts to decrease deployment time for Windows and Linux servers.- Designed and deployed disk to disk backup solution leveraging Veeam and Exagrid reducing recurring tape costs.

Oakland, Ca, Us

Key Achievements- Worked with IT staff to upgrade the Microsoft infrastructure and core platforms as part of a refresh in the environment.- Upgraded Active Directory to Windows 2008 R2 providing additional stability and AD features.- Upgraded Exchange from 2003 to 2010 providing redundancy, stability and capacity increases.- Implemented Lync 2010 as the corporate standard internal chat and conference tool.- Implemented SCCM to proactively monitor software usage and centralize application deployments for desktops.- Implemented hardware load balancing to increase availability of critical applications.- Implemented hardware standards and increased the usage of VM's reducing CapEx hardware purchasing.- Managed the worldwide IT Windows Server environment on a 24x7 basis being on-call in the off hours.

Houston, Texas, Us

- Worked with business application teams to ensure alignment with HP IT standards and to help them make the right choices around infrastructure solutions.- Communicated Solutions, Standards and availability.- Proactively engaged with teams to provide input to Service roadmap, & lifecycle.- Provided infrastructure input for yearly portfolio planning.- Consulting: Infrastructure Artifacts, Shared Services for correct selection and fit.- Standards exception identification and consultation on remediation plans.

Houston, Texas, Us

HP-IT Infrastructure Specialty Services Organization (ISSO) Solution Engineer providing technical expertise and deep support for solution development and performance in custom environments.- Develop customized solutions with IT and application architects to integrate applications into HP data centers. Drive towards standards where possible and document customizations.- Deploy application environments in HP IT data centers as IT managed or ping/power/pipe.- Complete documentation for firewall requirements, capacity planning, and wiring diagrams.- Work with corporate IT teams to adopt new hardware, software, and connectivity standards based on custom solutions.- Develop support model for non-standard environments including call tracking procedures, contact methods, hardware monitoring, and corporate IT team coordination.- participate in escalation management meetings to provide background on custom environments and work with HP IT teams to identify solutions.- Work with application teams to transform from non-standard solutions to HP IT standard offerings. Troubleshoot performance and sizing issues during transformations.- Core team member on investigation into cloud services offering for Emerging Businesses within HP performing testing, sizing, and research.- Consult with application teams on solutions to consolidate workstations used for training or development purposes into centralized environments.

Houston, Texas, Us

Help Emerging Businesses move toward the future to share technologies, consolidate unnecessary equipment, move to go-forward solutions and locations, eliminate dead-end solutions, stay up with technology upgrades and changes and try solutions they’ve never used before.- Develop customized solutions with IT and application architects to integrate applications from acquisitions into HP data centers. Drive towards standards where possible and document customizations. Complete documentation for firewall requirements, capacity planning, and wiring diagrams.- Develop and manage custom images for application teams where standard images do not meet the needs.- Work with corporate IT teams to adopt new hardware, software, and connectivity standards based on custom solutions deployed in Emerging Business.- Develop support model for non-standard environments including call tracking procedures, contact methods, hardware monitoring, and corporate IT team coordination.- Perform root cause analysis on outages and failures to identify common issues and recommend solutions. - Manage Windows, VMware, Linux, and SAN storage for multiple applications in a shared infrastructure environment.- Windows security representative for Emerging Business and lab environments.- Manage hardware and system uptime monitoring tools for server environment. Create custom scripts to generate reports on server patching and performance.- Leadership role in Emerging Business for Windows and VMware management. Created documentation to train new hires on HP IT standards and Emerging Business customizations.

Houston, Texas, Us

- Windows server hardware and OS support managing 100+ servers in main data center and remote computer rooms on the campus.- Regional contact assisting Corporate IT in management of infrastructure servers in the bay area including Active Directory, DHCP, WINS, Exchange, VPN, Dial-Up, and Proxy services.- Windows server hardware and OS support managing production servers in main data center and developer environments in remote computer rooms on the campus.- Management of VMware infrastructure to provide Clearcase workstation environment for over seas developers.- Coordinated team efforts to move data centers and labs to new environment. Developed floor plans, move plans, cabling strategies, and post move testing procedures. - Leadership role teaching new team members the standards and procedures.- Regional contact in corporate pilot projects for Secure Remote Access, PC Imaging, and Microsoft Office Live Communications. - Manage hardware and system uptime monitoring tools for server environment. Create custom scripts to generate reports on server patching and performance.- Assist in migration of applications from bay area data center to Corporate IT standard data centers.

Houston, Texas, Us

- Windows server hardware and OS support managing 100+ servers in main data center and remote computer rooms on the campus.- Managed core infrastructure services,file services, backup services, and internal/external facing application servers.- Core team member developing strategy to transition Tandem into Compaq infrastructure including domain, email, remote access, and hardware standards.- Migration team member for company wide migration to Active Directory and Exchange 2000.- Manage region specific software distributions, logon script customizations, and server build image testing.- Coordinate efforts between server and desktop teams.

Houston, Texas, Us

- Support of 1000+ users in a WAN environment.- Troubleshoot workstation hardware, OS, application, printer errors. - Software testing and planning for new standard solutions at department and corporate levels.- Participate in application and infrastructure migrations.- Coordinate efforts between server and desktop teams.

Computer Aided Drafting, General Education

High School Diploma