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Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Design and manage highly available client/server systems leveraging the latest technologies. Technologies included, but not limited to HP SAN systems (EVA/MSA), VMware vSphere, Cloud Infrastructure (Amazon), Cisco Router, Cisco ASA VPN, Catalyst switching equipment, and HP Proliant Servers.· Architected highly available services including server/san systems, network, and security for a large web based customer

Tempe, Arizona

Managed Insight's Corporate Demo Lab for our services personnel and partners. The lab was integral in gaining Master’s level certification from Cisco as well as allowing our consultants and architects a foundation for doing quality control, training, or experimentation on a variety of networking, data center, and collaboration projects and technologies.Accomplishments• Implemented numerous tools (AD, Radius, vCenter) to bring a uniform experience to all lab users. • Developed… Show more Managed Insight's Corporate Demo Lab for our services personnel and partners. The lab was integral in gaining Master’s level certification from Cisco as well as allowing our consultants and architects a foundation for doing quality control, training, or experimentation on a variety of networking, data center, and collaboration projects and technologies.Accomplishments• Implemented numerous tools (AD, Radius, vCenter) to bring a uniform experience to all lab users. • Developed and implemented vRealize Automation so that teammates could “Self Service” pre-created virtual machines or full stacks.• Assisted in Cisco Masters Certification - Awarded the highest level in 2016 Show less

Act in a strategic role in the development and maintenance of architectures. Responsible for working on medium to high architectural impact projects, recommending exceptions to Enterprise Architecture for high level projects, reviewing and approving medium architectural impact designs, communicating strategy and direction to both management and systems related teams within their line of business or infrastructure subdomain (organizational unit) and directing implementation of the architecture… Show more Act in a strategic role in the development and maintenance of architectures. Responsible for working on medium to high architectural impact projects, recommending exceptions to Enterprise Architecture for high level projects, reviewing and approving medium architectural impact designs, communicating strategy and direction to both management and systems related teams within their line of business or infrastructure subdomain (organizational unit) and directing implementation of the architecture for their organizational unit. Serve as the highest-level technical consultant to internal clients and technical management to ensure conformity with Enterprise Architecture, having expertise across a broad portion of the organizational unit's architecture, or in-depth expertise within a more specific portion of the architecture. Show less

As a Senior Consultant at Insight, I designed and produced assessments and implementation services. These services required advanced technical planning, extensive documentation of various business related services, interviews with key constituents including but not limited to CEO’s, CIO’s, IT managers, and other key employee groups, and finally the implementation of those recommendations. The assessments, as well as the implementation services, require vast knowledge on a variety of services… Show more As a Senior Consultant at Insight, I designed and produced assessments and implementation services. These services required advanced technical planning, extensive documentation of various business related services, interviews with key constituents including but not limited to CEO’s, CIO’s, IT managers, and other key employee groups, and finally the implementation of those recommendations. The assessments, as well as the implementation services, require vast knowledge on a variety of services that are found at various corporations including but not limited to Active Directory, PKI infrastructure, route/switch and wireless networking, and device management systems. · Developed extensive assessment and implementation services. These services were used by corporations from the Fortune 500. Show less

Was responsible for all Solaris, Linux, and OS X server systems as well as OS X clients. Developed highly available services and infrastructure. Maintained enterprise backup infrastructure, email and calendaring system, DNS, LDAP, CIFS and AFP file share systems. Documented our services and trained staff as well as developed firewall, access control, and security standards.Key Achievements: · Migrated 3,000 employee email accounts from Netscape Messenger to Zimbra… Show more Was responsible for all Solaris, Linux, and OS X server systems as well as OS X clients. Developed highly available services and infrastructure. Maintained enterprise backup infrastructure, email and calendaring system, DNS, LDAP, CIFS and AFP file share systems. Documented our services and trained staff as well as developed firewall, access control, and security standards.Key Achievements: · Migrated 3,000 employee email accounts from Netscape Messenger to Zimbra Collaboration Suite as well as 50,000 student email accounts to Google Apps. · Implemented Server and Service monitoring solution; Nagios· Implemented LDAP authentication for OS X, Solaris, Linux, and Web/Server applications. Show less