Bryan Linton Email & Phone Number

Springfield-Branson, Missouri Area

Southwest Missouri

Consulting and project work involving on-site and cloud-based infrastructure and systems.

Springfield, Missouri Area

• Earned promotion to management position within three years of employment to optimize alignment between IT infrastructure and business strategy. I currently direct IT operations enhancement initiatives and strategic.
• Led migration of physical servers (local storage and limited redundancy) to vmWare virtualization (shared storage) to slash costs and capture high availability; grew managed virtual machines from a few to 24+.
• Designed and implemented large-scale infrastructure changes to networks, Active Directory, and phone system; transported all critical systems from main office to mountain datacenter and extended all systems into two.
• Accomplished Application Whitelisting (AppLocker) implementation—with no interruption in user experience—to allow only approved software to execute on domain computers (stops malware/ransomware).
• Engineered means of securely processing all messages handled by third-party secure email system into our in-house email archive for optimal compliance and discovery. Identified challenge, posited solution, and.
• Implemented single-server DirectAccess solution enabling remote laptop clients automatic and secure access to internal company resources without VPN.

Hollister, Missouri

• My top contributions in this position include:
• Rebuilt existing (non-Exchange) mail server from scratch; immediately improved performance and reliability of email for all employees with first month of employment.
• Established Windows domain and migrated company to Exchange email within first 2 months of employment.
• Led complex migration to new version of CRM system; identified cause of slow performance on new CRM app (when vendor could not), designed workaround, and pushed it out to all workstations using centralized management.
• Earned “Employee of the Year” recognition during second year of employment—awarded by employees, managers, and company owners—as a result of CRM project success.
• Deployed SharePoint-based intranet—establishing it as a critical and flexible information resource, hub for team collaboration, secure repository for HR and other sensitive information, and library for IT procedures.

Handled tech and other needs, both within the office and in the theatre itself (lighting, sound, etc). Worked as both sound engineer and lighting director, both in-house and on the road.