Derek Salka Email & Phone Number

Newburyport, Ma, Us

Nashua New Hampshire

Greater Boston Area

Sole SCCM Administrator for 1000 Endpoint system with 4 distribution points located in Boston, New York, Washington DC and San Francisco.Create and manage operating system image and Task Sequence deployment.Using SCCM Configuration Baselines to maintain a uniform desktop environment.Upgraded Internet Explorer 11 to all desktops in a rapid release. Manged issues and resolved them.Deployed office 2016 with 97% Success after 3 weeks.

Boston, Ma

Instrumental in coordinating Windows 7 upgrade including analysis of current processes, existing applications, and rationalization/normalization of said applications.Working closely with the Infrastructure team and business analysts to determine the scope of the environment, and the process for the packaging and remediation of applications for Windows 7.Used SCCM Reports and Business area surveys to determine the application distribution and provide recommendations for single applications where multiple solutions existed reducing cost to the company and simplifying the environment.Facilitate daily scrum calls to ensure a steady flow of applications into the packaging process, and that any impediments to progress are addressed quickly and correctly.Creating application business readiness profiles for each of 20 areas to clearly communicate to business stakeholders what applications they have, and what applications we are recommending. Created a single Master workbook combining all business area profiles into a single chart to help make decisions on application packaging order and deployment order.

Newburypp

3 Month Contract-Worked with a team to facilitate the Windows 7 rollout to over 5000 desktops worldwide in a 2 month time frame. This also included assisting in consolidating 9 domains in 3 forests down to 3 domains in 1 forest.Built Altiris infrastructure servers to accommodate PXE capture and deploy imaging.Sysprepped business specific builds making sure the correct settings were in place, appropriate security patches installed and features disabled in a HIPPA/PCI compliant environment.Worked in Active Directory to troubleshoot deployment issues and manage Group Policy issues and functionality.Helped migrate Group Policy objects from the old domain to the new. Troubleshooting issues along the way.Participated in “Warroom” calls to provide instant support for issues during the roll-out nights and weekends.

245 Summer Street Boston, Ma 02110

Manage a test lab for all FMRCo business units’ last line Integration tests. The lab was created to ensure that changes made to the software on a user’s PC will not negatively impact another application. As a result of the broad based approach to testing, we are also able to prevent other kind of bugs from entering the environment. These could be packaging errors, installation issues or Integration problems. Oversaw the monthly build-out of 80 PCs of varying configurations (Desktops, Laptops, Blades, and Terminal Servers) in order to create an accurate production-like test environment to test any internal, third party, or Microsoft Monthly patch updates.Reduced errors by 50% and improved on-time delivery of lab configurations to nearly 100% by implementing and managing a shared checklist so that all in the group could see what others were doing, and those working on systems knew exactly which steps had been accomplished..Reduced number of machines per test cycle by ⅓ by working with the support personnel, QA community, and Developers to come up with more realistic testing scenarios. Shortened the build time for machines from 3 days to overnight. By using Altiris Notification Server and Deployment server.Working in a modified Agile environment the we would troubleshoot software bugs to get the best, most complete information to the right party to solve the problem quickly. Communicated with diverse groups both culturally and geographically (India, Ireland, and various US locations) to facilitate bug remediation between testers, engineers, and developers.Rapidly came up to speed on Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) to deploy applications to machines for testing in a Windows 7 Environment.Intimately involved with company-wide migration to Windows 7, including deployment and testing using SCCM and task sequences.

Prepare and maintain a heavily used training room including a drive rotation schedule, software updates and coordination with trainers. Also instrumental in vast training effort during Office 2003 rollout.Support Tandberg and Polycom video conference systems and A/V presentation equipment, coordinating with visiting vendors to set up systems and fix issues.Coordinate the activities, priorities, and inventories of over 300 clients spanning 5 floors at 200 State Street, including moves, rollouts, emergency procedures, and new employee setups.Determined root cause in faulty hardware in Dell Optiplex GX270 and presented management with my findings, allowing them to contact Dell, who admitted the flaw and replaced all motherboards on site at no cost.Closely involved with server team on client server bank applications running SQL and Oracle database. At times servicing the Windows 2000 Server independently.Cooperate with the Network Services and Server teams to diagnose and solve desktop related problems.Assisted in Windows 2000 rollout, including testing and troubleshooting old bank related applications on Windows 2000, helping the Desktop Engineering group retool software installations to MSI packages creating a more standardized and simpler application installation.Continually demonstrating dedication to the Team and the Company, doing whatever is necessary to get the job done, at one point working 30 hours nonstop during an incident.Documented installation and troubleshooting guides for commonly used software.

8 Centennial Drive Peabody, Ma 01960

Developed key mobile Computerized Tomography (CT) calibration fixture from concept to manufacture allowing the device to be sold without a table at a substantial discount.Facilitated mechanical development between Analogic and Sky Computers.Served as Engineering Liaison to manufacturing division in production ramp-up for $10 million Bomb Scanner.Communicated extensively with clients to refine products to better serve their needs and the needs of their customers.Cooperated with manufacturers and machine shops to reduce cost and ease manufacturability. Designed mechanical layout of VME and Compact PCI boards.