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Detroit, MI, US

Rochester, Michigan, US

• Directed all IT operations including desktop support, equipment management, solution architecture, vendor selection and oversight, VPN appliances, server maintenance, virtualization, and high-end workstations.
• Effectively adapted to a stressful environment at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, completing a transformation to a virtual environment by instituting remote learning capabilities.
• Oversaw a team of five personnel consisting of desktop support and enterprise support, performing mentoring, coaching, training, and team building to improve performance and nurture professional growth.
• Supported creation of a Hybrid-Flexible (HyFlex) setting across the university, providing technology that allowed students to participate in-person or over the computer for a large number of classes.

• Revamped the IT department of a county credit union, hiring and training the department’s staff and developing and implementing mobile applications that improved remote customer transactions.
• Led a renovation of the company’s IT infrastructure by upgrading the internal servers, storage, and backup systems within the virtualization environment, overhauling the hardware infrastructure to allow data growth.
• Managed the transition of an educational institution’s data center from a physical location into a virtual world using AWS, facilitating a more cost-effective service for the client and improving efficiency.

• Managed a global team, including Windows Server, UNIX, Linux, Storage Environment, Back-Up Environment, and Data Center Operations Managers.
• Overhauled IT environment from 80% Window and 60% Linux/UNIX to an entirely virtual environment, expanding the infrastructure through VMWare and Oracle Virtual Manager (OVM) Server.
• Spearheaded major projects, including migrating multiple sites from LotusNotes email services and archival solutions to Microsoft Exchange within two months.

Troy, MI, US

• Led a team responsible for providing full-time monitoring and emergency services including multiple sources of technologies within a vast area of networks.

Van Buren Township, MI, US

• Oversaw more than a dozen personnel and orchestrated the migration of various applications into a cloud-based solution, affecting multiple international data centers.

Highland Park, MI, US

• Managed seven staff members and held responsibility for three local and remote Data Centers.
• Implemented the use of Salesforce automation tools and migrated multiple servers and applications to AT&T, Secure24, and AWS Cloud Services.

Detroit, MI, US

• Planned, designed, and implemented Local and Wide Area Networks (LANs and WANs) for Marketing Associates.

Southfield, Michigan, US

Auburn Hills, MI, US

Dearborn, Michigan, US