David Mccoy Email & Phone Number

I am a highly skilled and well-rounded IT professional with a strong drive to ensure an organization is functioning at its highest capabilities working alongside a strong team and a well thought out IT infrastructure and support mechanism.Over the course of my IT career, I have worked with many technologies and aspects of IT including, IT management, cloud migrations, VMware vSphere and Horizon, Azure and Azure AD, systems administration, network administration, Windows server upgrades and migrations, cybersecurity, end user support and much more. If it relates to IT in some way, I've either used it, seen it or likely heard of it.My IT management experience includes, leading an IT team through several successful projects and implementations including migration to Office 365 / Exchange Online, migrating on-premise third party applications to the cloud such as document management, financial software and a VoIP phone system. I have ample experience working and negotiating with vendors, making IT purchase decisions and managing IT budgets. I pride myself on staying current with technology trends and threats so that I can make confident decisions and recommendations to my IT team and leadership, and I am always willing to be part of the team to work on even the most difficult tasks.Other recent projects of note include managing the implementation of Zoom for enterprise including 10+ Zoom Rooms, VPN deployments (Pulse Secure and GlobalProtect) for 100+ users, next generation firewall (PaloAlto) deployments, networking infrastructure upgrades and replacements, implementation of cybersecurity tools such as a SIEM and CVE scanner, ensuring that systems backups/replication and disaster recovery plans are in place and working.As a Systems Administrator, I have hands on knowledge of Windows server as old as 2003 to current 2019+, Active Directory, Windows networking/firewall, DNS/DHCP, group policies, network policy server, CA server, server migrations, patch management, infrastructure monitoring (SolarWinds), troubleshooting and so much more.As a Network Administrator, I have hands on knowledge of PaloAlto NGFW firewalls including NAT and security rules, filtering, app-id, IPSEC site-to-site VPN, GlobalProtect VPN, SSL decryption. Cisco-Meraki switches, routing, VLANs, iSCSI storage networks, network topologies, troubleshooting and many more.My VMware vSphere 6.7+ and Horizon 7.0+ experience include the architecture, implementation and maintenance of the full virtualization stack utilizing best practices for availability, reliability, and performance.

Listed skills include Network Security, Microsoft Office, Cisco Technologies, Linux, and 45 others.