Dan Ball Email & Phone Number

Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

Katy, Texas, United States

Team member supporting Energy Recovery's IT environment consisting of Windows Domain, Azure, AWS, VMware and end-user support.

Houston, Texas Area

Management of IT Systems and staff for Merit Medical's Texas region offices and support for Merit's global MIS team.

Houston, Texas Area

Provide systems and end user support for Merit Medical's Manufacturing division in Pearland, TX and Merit's R&D division in Dallas. Systems include Windows server operating systems, Windows 10, VMware ESXi 6.5, Cisco switches, wireless access points, and Mitel/ShoreTel cloud and on-prem PBX.

South Jordan, Ut

Team member supporting Merit Medical's world-wide IT systems infrastructure focusing primarily on server systems, ShoreTel VOIP PBX, VMware 6.5, Citrix Xenapp, and Pure Storage systems.

Draper, Ut

Avamar Support Engineer providing telephone technical support for Avamar customers.

Sandy, Ut

IT management, systems implementation and support of Cementation's US Operations as well as support to the North Bay, Ontario IT staff. Architect and design of datacenter to include VMware 6.x on multiple hosts connected to iSCSI SAN. Engineered host and disk redundancy, backup power, fiber and multiple VLAN's supporting wireless guest access, VOIP and data. Implemented and upgraded numerous systems to support the company's health and safety, business development, accounting and engineering departments. Administration of ShoreTel PBX system and conference bridge.

Build and support of physical and virtual servers on HP Proliant platforms running any combination of MS Server 2003, 2008 and VMware ESX Server. Support Hosting environments as well as internal systems running IIS, MS SQL, MS Exchange, MS Active Directory and a large variety of server and workstation applications. Administer disaster recovery systems including backup, restore, and archival systems, as well as other storage media systems and processes utilizing Symantec Backup Exec. Administer Avaya VOIP PBX. End user support on Windows 7 and Mac OS X running under a Windows Domain.

Provide system resources and security for data processing and plant floor systems. Work with Management to determine corporate and plant objectives. Identify opportunities to effectively satisfy corporate information needs through automation. Develop annual budget for capital and expense requirements. Systems include Novell NetWare 6.5, VMWare ESX 3.5 and 4, MS Windows Server 2003 and 2008, MS SQL, PC emulation applications (5250, 3270 and Telnet), Cisco and HP networking.

Provide systems security engineering support to the government. Chosen as interim Team Lead tasked with managing six employees in support of team objectives. Defined and documented work processes meeting CMMI objectives. Compliance with DOD STIG requirements to ensure security posture and configuration of supported systems. Responsible for testing, patching and reporting of security risks. Designed and built an automated patch disk of vendor supplied critical and security patches using AutoIt. Designed, built and provided administration for Windows 2003 Server and Active Directory network connecting to NAS utilizing PXE and GHOST for consistent lab builds. Secret security clearance

Senior level Network Systems architect and administrator. Project Lead for several projects designed to streamline IT processes and provide positive end-user experience. Engineered and promoted corporate-level software distribution methodologies and imaging technologies which led to a standards-based desktop engineered environment.

World-Wide

Performed maintenance, repair and operation of the NATO Seasparrow Surface Missile and Mark 58 radar systems. Held four year position on the Navy's Personnel Reliability Program (http://tinyurl.com/perelpro) under the collateral duty as a member of the Ship's Guard Force. Held position as division Workcenter Supervisor, later promoted to Leading Petty Officer and handled all division supply duties. Honorable discharge as an E6 (FC1) from active duty in 1986 and from the Naval Reserves in 1989.

Various Business, It And Elective Courses, Information Technology Management

Computer Information Systems

Novell CNE, Microsoft MCSE, Cisco CCNA

Information Technology Certifications

Novell CNE. Microsoft MCSE