Chris Woods Email & Phone Number

Solon, OH

Senior Systems Engineer on the SaaS Infrastructure team

Cleveland, OH

Team Lead for SAN, Backup and Windows/Linux serversArchitect and engineer infrastructure solutions including McAfee ePO

• Contract placement through Maverick Direct, Inc. Engineer and maintain a 150 server environment.
• Reengineered proxy server and web filtering infrastructure
• Enhance and maintain ColdFusion and WebSphere application servers
• Planned, built, and deployed a new VMware ESX host into the production cluster
• Technical lead and engineer on the CMS project to replace existing intranet and external web servers
• Recognized by management for resolving an ongoing Windows 7 client/server connection issueter IBM WebSphere and Cold Fusion application servers

• Built 90% of the physical Windows data center production servers
• VMware ESX guest deployment/configuration/P2V/troubleshooting
• Led team in Windows security patching using remote MBSA scans
• SSL certificate installation/troubleshooting, DNS record management
• Active Directory object creation and management
• Troubleshooting and resolution of issues involving Windows Server operating systems, CA products, and 3rd party enterprise applications

• Managed local IT services for 2 field offices
• Engineered a Windows 2000 ghost image that was deployed on local laptops
• Provisioned 80% of Blackberry user accounts during our corporate rollout, performed advanced device and BES troubleshooting
• While supporting multiple offices, instituted methods to resolve 75% of user issues remotely thus reducing travel costs
• Built, maintained, and repaired servers in local offices
• Introduced a Linux server to monitor network traffic usage and patterns