Daniel Bell Email & Phone Number

Oberlin, Oh, Us

Member of the Senior Management team working closely with the CEO and COO to provide governance for the organizations technology architecture and budget. Actively engaged stakeholders across the organization to understand planned business outcomes and deliver technology solutions for new business initiatives.Managed IT department of 12 staff for Network Services, IT Support, Software Development, Front-End Web Design, providing project management and a hands on technical role. The team successfully completed many new initiatives for the organization including: * Goggle Drive and Google Server Hosting * Amazon AWS * SalesForce CRM * HubSpot CMS * Office 365 * Zoom Video Conferencing * Big Commerce and Zoey cloud based commerce platforms * ShoreTel VoIP phone system * Single Sign On using ADFSProvided technical leadership with a hands on role to ensure the following services remain operational in the environment: Microsoft Exchange, Windows Domain Services, SQL, IIS, DNS, DHCP, CISCO Routers/Switches/Firewalls/VPN, VMware Infrastructure, Wireless Networks, Barracuda SPAM firewall, and Windows Server/Desktop systems.Developed strategy for supporting remote staff home offices, traveling employees, and mobile technologies.Created SQL Queries, PowerShell scripts, and basic modifications to . NET applications.

Performed duties as an IT contractor for ARES Corporation at NASA Glenn Research Center.Provided technical leadership for software applications, Windows servers, My-SQL databases and network connectivity supporting the NASA Safety Center mission. Managed team of 4 staff members providing customer support, application deployment, and new project initiatives. Team accomplishments include the following items * Redesign of Juniper Secure Meeting environment for multiple NASA locations * Implemented Help Desk System (On Time) improving issues reporting and resolution * Restored entire NASA Safety Center platforms from unplanned failure in the environment * Researched and planned a VMware environment for Safety Center platformsResponsible for maintaining and lowered technology cost by overseeing vendor contracts and recommending alternative technology solutions.

Initially hired at NACS as a Network Engineer to perform hands on technical role for the organizations network infrastructure, server platforms, desktop environment, and customer support. After 3 years promoted to Director of Information Technology overseeing the IT Department of 7 staff for Network Infrastructure, Software Development, and Customer Support. Accomplishments include:* Created IT Strategy improving IT response for outages and reduced new project development cycles.* Designed and implemented CISCO VPN services for staff to access resources while out of the office.* Improved security in the environment by implementing Barracuda and Sophos firewalls.* Designed and implemented Cybercafe and Mobile app for the organizations TradeShow.* Implemented ActiveXperts to notify staff of critical system outages in the environment.* Performed critical Windows domain upgrades in the environment.* Designed and implemented a VMware environment improving system availability.