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Chandler, Arizona, US

Lead DevOps, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and support teams to enhance technology strategies with a strong emphasis on cybersecurity. Oversee critical IT infrastructure, ensuring its reliability, security, and compliance with industry standards. Coordinate support teams, manage strategic budgets, and implement robust cybersecurity measures to protect.

Chandler, Arizona, US

Lead DevOps, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and support teams to optimize technology strategies and drive operational efficiency. Overseeing critical IT infrastructure, ensuring its reliability and security, coordinating support teams, and managing strategic budgets.

Chandler, Arizona, US

Overseeing information technology strategy for Offerpad, developing and implementing the policies, goals and budgetary needs for the IT department. Analyzes the business requirements of different departments to determine the best use of technical resources.Technical investments may include a new information system or upgrades to hardware or software.

Chandler, Arizona, US

Offerpad is a Direct Home Buyer and Seller that makes buying and selling a home convenient and hassle-free. OfferPad delivers the best of both worlds—a great experience at a competitive price—all at the click of a button. "By focusing on providing the best experience and service to homeowners, our goal is to continue innovating in ways that are centered.

Walnut Creek, California, US

Directed and manage Infrastructure team- Provide technical and tactical leadership to leverage people, process and technology to deliver superior class of service and support. - Responsible for the management of day-to-day infrastructure operations for Servers, Storage, Backup/Archive, Communications, Network (data) involving Windows, VMWare & Hyper-V.

Downers Grove, IL, US

Facilitated the design, implementation, management, and communication of customer focused strategic business plans. Defined, managed, and implemented long term strategic Information Technology roadmap. Partnered with functional groups and development teams, delivered system products, achieved service goals, and met business requirements. Establish and.

Responsible for all functional areas of IT Operations, including Windows administration, Network, Data Center, Middleware (IIS/MSSQL Database), and Helpdesk.- Independently driven to deliver on overall technology roadmap.- Provide technical leadership to the IT Ops team and manages distribution of work and quality.- Established enterprise best practices in.

• Managing, maintaining and migrating Server 2000, 2003 and 2008 servers, Active Directory, 2005 SQL Server, MS Exchange 2010, OWA, MS Great Plains 9.0, Vsphere 4.0, Application Extender, Modifying SQL Reports and Avaya.
• Designed and implemented network infrastructure with Cisco equipment to multiple locations.
• Created documentation for network hardware, software licenses.
• Managed Backup Exec for server backup and tape rotation.
• Managed Hardware/ software rotation.
• Managed IT department staff of 9

Midland, Texas, US

• Created Equipment life cycle refreshing every 3 years keeps technology current, OEM warranty lowers support costs, lowered staff training requirements on new technology, and contributed to higher user productivity.
• Delivered 22 enterprise mergers and acquisitions to Network environment and phone system in 18 months.
• Designed and implemented network infrastructure with Cisco equipment to multiple locations.
• Created documentation for network hardware, software licenses.
• Developed Disaster Recovery and successful Business continuity plan reducing outages 80%.
• Created Policy to inforce retention of intellectual data.

Salt Lake City, UT, US

• Migrated Oklahoma City, Tulsa and Yukon sites from Novell to Active Directory also GroupWise to Exchange 2000.
• Upgraded all users’ workstations from NT 4 to XP. Supported File Server 2000 & 2003, Exchange 2003, and McAfee EPO, WSUS, Citrix.
• Created backup jobs using Arcserve and developed tape rotation schedule with Iron Mountain for offsite rotations.
• Support Oklahoma City office phone system (Option 11 PBX Meridian).
• Responsible for server, Active Directory and desktop support for Oklahoma City, Yukon and Okarche sites.
• Research and test applications that would improve cost and productivity.

• Duties included packaging applications and deployment (over 900 Packages) using Altiris and SMS, created images for workstations and laptops.
• Created administrative installation points.
• Documented all packaged application and desktop support procedures.
• Migrated workstations and laptops form NT 4.0 to Windows 2000. Migrated NT 4.0 servers to Active Directory