Doug Kipp Email & Phone Number

Listen closely, pay attention to detail, do it right (don’t do it over), keep learning, enjoy what you’re doingWhether it's Midwestern values as some say, or part of my character, these traits have always been useful guides on how I’ve approached almost every aspect of life. From rebuilding my first car, an awesome ‘69 Mustang, to BMX racing, Mountain biking, attaining technical skills, designing solutions, managing people, and volunteer work.Combining these principles and years of desktop, systems and IT management expertise allow me to provide proper design, planning, implementation, management, operational insight and guidance in enabling businesses to achieve efficient use of technology solutionsMy IT journey has developed me into the seasoned Information Technology professional I am today with over 20 years of experience providing Leadership and Business Solutions to mid-tier and Fortune 500 companiesI’ve built an extensive background of experiences and skills across the IT spectrum, a few are highlighted belowSkills• IT Management - Direction, Hiring, Budgeting, Evaluations• Infrastructure Design, Implementation, Administration and Management• Data Center Design, Management and Migrations• Operational Procedure Evaluation & ImprovementExperiences• Managed migrating 115 virtual, 6 physical and 2 AS/400 systems with 110+ applications across 4 data centers coordinating 8 companies in 4 time zones with 100+ team members in under 6 months• Execute the design and installation of a multi-site disaster recovery solution consisting of converged infrastructure, SAN storage, virtual infrastructure, and Microsoft infrastructure components• Coordinate & implement the upgrade of 520 Windows 2008 servers to 2012/2016 in 6 months• Led global messaging and architecture teams setting enterprise infrastructure policy, procedures, guidelines, upgrade, and directionLooking forward to building the IT of the future

Listed skills include Virtualization, Vmware, Cloud Computing, Storage Area Networks, and 24 others.

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  Devry Institute Of Technology

  3.95 Gpa