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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 organizational assets. Drive initiatives to improve operational efficiency while prioritizing the security and integrity of all IT operations. Focus on advancing cybersecurity practices to safeguard data and support the organization's growth and innovation.

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 components.

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 around today's homeowner,” Co-Founder and CEO Brian Bair said. "Ultimately, we want to transform the entire home buying and selling process into an experience that can be painless and even enjoyable."Offerpad is a privately-held technology and real estate company headquartered in Gilbert, Arizona, with markets in Charlotte, Atlanta, Tampa, Orlando, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City and Phoenix, with additional markets coming soon.We're hiring! https://www.offerpad.com/careers

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, Microsoft Exchange, Domain Controllers, Active Directory, SAN- Unified Communications and all aspects of Network infrastructure (LAN/WAN, Wireless, VPN, Load Balancer, Internet, MPLS etc). - Responsible for planning, organizing and managing staff for overall operations ensuring stable administration and operations of the IT Systems and infrastructure for all on premise.- Directed team for Support of cloud-based programs & applications.- Responsible for scheduling and direct activities to resolve hardware and software issues/problems in a timely and accurate manner, minimizing impact to end users.

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 built relationships with vendors, responsible for all IT‐related purchasing, and budgeting. Directs and prioritizes the work load of subordinate, ensure appropriate staffing levels, and oversight of staff development and performance.

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 a fast paced, very rapidly growing environment. Able to prioritize many opportunities into direct actionable plans to unlock value.- Serve as the escalation point for the business with regard to IT Ops issues- Collaborate with multiple teams to deliver a secure, compliant environment.

• 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 phone system. • 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• Migrated Exchange 2003 to 2010 and OWA• Migrated physical server to VM environment, created virtual server with VM and Hyper-V• Managed department growth budget • Created and enforced IT Policy for SOX compliance• Managed the relationship and coordinated with local management at remote sites for server and workstation migrations.• Designed and ran Data Center • Created DR site for redundancy in environment• Deployed Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) server and Good Enterprise for Blackberry and Android phones• Created Win 7 image and migrated all users’ workstations from Win XP• Migrated SQL 2003 to SQL 2005 and• Migrated 2000, 2003 and 2008 R2 Domains• Email discovery for all public information requests, employee investigations, and legal matters

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. • Managed IT department staff of 9• Migrated Exchange 2003 to 2010 and OWA• Migrated physical server to VM environment, created virtual server with VM and Hyper-V• Managed department growth budget • Created and enforced IT Policy for SOX compliance reducing IT auditing to 2 weeks. • Manage relationships and coordinated with local management at remote sites for server and workstation migrations.• Designed and ran Data Center • Created DR site for redundancy in environment• Delivered Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) server and Good Enterprise • Created Win 7 image and migrated all users’ workstations from Win XP• Migrated SQL 2003 to SQL 2005 and• Migrated 2000, 2003 and 2008 R2 Domains• Email discovery for all public information requests, employee investigations, and legal matters

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