Drew Macpherson Email & Phone Number

Kitchener, On, Ca

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Kitchener, Canada Area

Designing, building and maintaining secure and reliable infrastructure that requires minimal care and feeding - so I can focus on business-impacting solutions.

University Of Guelph

● As technology architect directed the evolution and growth of diverse portfolio of enterprise IT and IS infrastructure● Supported business goals through the establishment of Business Analysis practice and strategic planning framework for central IT organization

● Accountable for voice, data network and security, compute facilities and email for university community of 25,000 across 5 campuses● Implemented university wide email and calendaring system totalling 45,000 accounts● Directed deployment of campus-wide wireless network used daily by 15,000 clients

● Incorporated regional campuses into central voice, data and server infrastructure through WAN technologies● Oversaw the securing of business applications through establishment of network security policy and architecture, and contributed to development of institutional disaster recovery plans

Guelph

● Increased reliability and capacity of campus network through design and implementation of network upgrade from ATM to Gigabit Ethernet● Demonstrated viability of VoIP solution through successful 660 bed residence pilot● Senior member of VoIP implementation project: 7500 sets and 4500 voicemail boxes● Contributing member of cross functional Security Infrastructure team which developed and implemented security policies and procedures for the institutional IT infrastructure

Guelph, Ontario, Canada

● Developed and demonstrated excellent communications, incident management and problem resolution skills through support of a variety of interoperating systems and clients in university community