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Kansas City, Missouri, United States

• Management of enterprise configuration utility, supporting all twelve Federal Reserve Banks as a part of the National IT team
• Process and workflow documentation for internal team and end users at Federal Reserve Banks
• Lifecycle management for supported platform on physical and virtualized infrastructure

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Responsible for implementation and support of in-house and third-party software solutions, upgrades, enhancements, and configurations. Supported organization with 900 servers and 5 locations to improve reliability and.
• Led enterprise application installations, upgrades, and patching processes, partnering with vendors to build and deploy solutions per industry and internal best practices
• Coordinated with business units to modify system and application settings and configurations
• Designed, implemented, and maintained phased environment control and migration workflow with consistent change control processes
• Built application layers for Citrix App Layering to streamline consistent application delivery across environments
• Designed and deployed software packages with a phased rollout approach utilizing SCCM platform

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Responsible for 200 physical and virtualized servers, 1200 users, and 45 locations, with VMware vSphere 5, replicated EMC storage, and Microsoft technologies. Led team in managing systems, applications, and services.
• Organized and executed migration for 80% of physical servers onto VMware platform
• Supervised team of system administrators
• Created and maintained relationships with talent recruiters, contractors, and vendors
• Maintained datacenter physical access, climate control, cabling, and backup power systems
• Configured email archiving and legal hold platform

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Responsible for virtual infrastructure, server hardware deployment and maintenance, endpoint malware management and protection, network systems maintenance, project planning, documentation, technical training, disaster.
• Architected implementation of VMware infrastructure
• Performed Active Directory upgrades and optimization
• Deployed enterprise malware protection
• Automated updates and patching with WSUS hierarchy and policies
• Created and managed group policies for software package deployment

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Responsible for help desk, server hardware deployment and maintenance, disaster recovery planning, process documentation and asset tracking for 30 servers and 325 workstations. Help desk duties included troubleshooting.
• Planned and performed physical to virtualized server consolidation and conversion using VMware ESX 2.x
• Configured new SAN infrastructure with fiber connectivity to VMware system
• Deployed enterprise malware protection
• Designed and implemented universal imaged-based utility for PC rollout
• Implemented and maintained ADI time clock system and in-house ADP payroll system

Manhattan, Kansas

• Performed help desk functions for networking, hardware and software troubleshooting in a large WAN environment
• Advised server team with technology decisions
• Assisted server team with server setup and physical installations
• Researched problem resolution techniques

Manhattan, Kansas

• Led team in help desk duties for a 150-workstation network
• Delegated responsibilities for help desk tasks to help desk team
• Acted as interim Network Administrator maintaining multiple servers and OS’s
• Created documentation and detailed network maps

Salina, Kansas

• Performed help desk functions, resolving hardware, software and networking problems across a 110-workstation network
• Implemented inventory system
• Led project to refurbish systems for donation to local school

Salina, Kansas

• Managed retail storefront and computer repair shop, including sales, ordering and training
• Performed lead computer technician duties; building, repairing and upgrading systems
• Provided onsite and telephone support for hardware, software and internet service
• Supervised retail sales and IT support staff

Computer Engineering

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