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United States

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

United States

United States

United States

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

• Provided system engineering, administration, and support of all global server infrastructure to support 24x7 manufacturing/business operations; with a heavy focus on project-oriented work as a senior member of the.
• Collaborated within a team as a lead engineer to implement Azure Active Directory to support Adobe Creative Cloud transition from serial-based licensing to user-based licensing
• Collaborated with desktop, security, server, and storage teams as a lead engineer on several key Symantec projects resulting in an improved security posture and meeting PCI compliance requirements o SEPM 12-14.2, SEP.
• Performed upgrades and service migrations of all global Microsoft Windows core infrastructure AD, DNS, & DHCP servers from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2012 & 2016
• Supported global VMware ESXi 5.5 & ESXi 6.0 infrastructure running on a mixture of IBM, Lenovo, & NetAPP hardware
• Responsible for completing several global server infrastructure hardware refresh projects (SAN & ESXi Host Servers) that included upgrading VMware ESXi 5.5 to VMware ESXi 6.0

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

• Consulted with global and enterprise clients performing systems optimizations, platform migrations, and hardware/operating system refresh projects. Promoted from Consultant to Senior Consultant during this time. Senior.
• Served as a site lead and traveled globally as part of a domain consolidation & Windows 7 desktop hardware refresh project for a global performance materials manufacturing company and was responsible for managing the.
• Served as a site lead for a large Cleveland based hospital system for Windows 7 desktop hardware refresh project and was responsible for managing the team assigned to complete all system refreshes at assigned.
• Served as a migration engineer traveling nationwide as part of a domain consolidation & Windows 7 desktop hardware refresh project for a nationwide steel tubing manufacturer o Facilitated process improvement of custom.
• Served as a Windows application test engineer responsible for coordinating the testing, and repackaging of applications as part of the Windows 7 UAT team for a large Cleveland based hospital
• Completed Microsoft Exchange 2003 to 2010 mailbox migrations as a migration engineer for a global chemical company

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Cleveland, Ohio

• Promoted to IT manager after two years as a system administrator/engineer. Managed all data center operations nationwide and managed a small staff of direct reports. Responsible for maintaining vendor relationships and.
• Relocated the corporate data center to meet growing business needs resulting in greater reliability, redundancy & security
• Implemented VMware ESX 4.1 virtualization to reduce hardware footprint and operating cost and deliver higher system uptime and availability to end-users
• Completed a network redesign during the company’s expansion of 10 newly acquired sites
• Managed and maintained IT vendor contracts and reduced monthly contract expenses by $10k per month.
• Implemented and began to transition all remote sites to a MPLS network to improve network reliability

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

• Provided engineering, administration, and support of all computer & server hardware, software, telecom, and cell phones for all users across all U.S. locations.
• Completed Active Directory user account provisioning and deprovisioning
• Completed desktop/server hardware & software installations, system upgrades, & security patch management
• Managed & monitored all site-to-site and system connectivity of all mission critical servers, circuits, and infrastructure
• Managed weekly departmental ticket reporting and team performance
• Responsible for procuring and purchasing all IT equipment

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Provided hardware/software administration and support to end users. Also worked as a customer service representative serving the needs of customers commercial appliance repair needs.

Computers/Networking - A+, Net+, Microsoft

Diploma, Westhore Vocational Electronics Program

Activities and Societies: Obtained career passport in Electronics. Competed in VICA Electronics competition.