Christopher Hester Email & Phone Number

United States

Charlotte Metro

Product Owner helping develop new and innovative products for Nuclear Engineering.

Charlotte Metro

IT liaison for several Renewal business units. Manage the IT budget for Renewables. Work with development teams and business to help identify businesses was process that can be improved with IT integration.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

I am currently a Lead IT Business Analyst aligned with the Renewable Energy Group. My consulting activities include being the liaison between the Renewable business groups and IT. I work in all fashions of project roles including RA, Testing and Project Lead. I provide technical knowledge for my business groups and provide guidance and continuous process improvement testing and evaluating new technologies. I provide oversight to our IT process to provide procedure and process adherence to my aligned business groups. I support various types of applications insuring the maintenance agreements, licenses, asset inventory are up to date. I also help guide our business partners in the right direction when doing IT construction estimates, connection types and vendor selection. I am also certified Scrum Master to align with our new IT Agile Process.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

I have contracted with Duke since 2009 and have gained valuable experience in various areas of IT. I have transitioned from a support role into the nuclear merger program. I have the required skills and experience to perform the Requirements Analyst and Test Coordinator roles within NIT. I am also assisting with training of the Engineers on Maintenance Rule Manager at Oconee and McGuire. I accepted a full time position at Duke Energy 2015 as a Business Analyst.

Salisbury Nc

• Assistant Network Administrator• Managed and implemented several projects involving the installation and design of networks involving Servers, cabling layouts and various software solutions• Identify business needs, developed use case models for present and future state needs• Document and present business needs identifying key stake holders, current state needs and future state needs• Conducted User Acceptance Testing to ensure network design was successful• Managed IT budget for company in accordance with strategic plan. • Provide onsite support for Windows XP\2003\Outlook\Office in a domain environment (Over 600 users, over 40 different customers, 5 different states)• Document testing and deployment strategy for installation and setup of servers and workstations• Present, oversee and review vendor requirements for new Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 • Present, oversee and review vendor requirements for new Symantec Backup Exec• Present, oversee and review vendor requirements for new Spector Soft Spyware install • Support Wireless AP• Coordinate with Vendors and customers on various projects (New network installs. Complete building Wiring projects, New building rack and server installs, Major Wireless network installs, Complete computer swap for entire company including servers. )

Salisbury Nc

• Assistant Network Administrator• Managed and implemented several projects involving the installation and design of networks involving Servers, cabling layouts and various software solutions. • Plan and manage project to install, setup and support Outlook in a domain environment• Facilitate meetings with key stake holders within different business units• Identify business needs develop case models for present and future state needs• Install Various types of hardware, Servers, Switches, Wireless Antennas, Access points• Support Symantec Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition in domain environment• Build Various types of hardware including Servers, Workstations and Antennas• Ordered and inventoried hardware and software for company• Sold and installed hardware to end user. (Monitors, Workstations, Networks)• Supported networks from 5 to 200 end users all in a domain environment

Information Technology, Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology, Gpa 3.85

Recreational Grounds Maintenance, Parks, Recreation And Leisure Studies, Gpa 3.85