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Nashville, Tn, Us

Nashville Metropolitan Area

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

DRM & Encryption - Hoofddorp, Netherlands (950+ International Employees)Managed and facilitated migration projects, upgrades, and installations of new IT systems across the board for our newly built headquarters. Systems migrated and upgraded included Microsoft applications such as SharePoint 2007, Dynamics CRM4, Dynamics AX2009, SQL2008, and new virtualized systems via Hyper-V R2 / Windows Server 2008 R2 to new Dell Blades and Equalogic SAN's. Managing, coordinating and maintaining employee and vendor relationships was a key role in ensuring each project stage was completed on time and within budget.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Video Games & Entertainment - Amsterdam, Netherlands (65+ Regional Employees)Successfully managed and facilitated explosive company growth through reducing general day-to-day IT administration across the board. This was done by establishing and leading multiple projects to consolidate and migrate old servers into more simplified and integrated systems:Implemented Windows 2003 AD servers to reduce manual service desk maintenance of all workstation user logins and centralize internal DNS. To reduce the unreliable nature of the external POP3 provider, an Exchange 2003 was installed and accounts migrated. Configured a wiki using CentOS Linux, Apache, MySQL, and MediaWiki to provide the necessary and requested tools for knowledge management within the studio. Established an online forum for our website using CentOS Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHPBB to keep in touch with the gaming industry community. Increased service desk efficiency considerably by implementing a ticketing system using CentOS Linux, Apache, MySQL, and Cerberus Helpdesk; previously was handled by email. Facilitated the administration of our VOIP Asterisk PBX / TrixBox server and Polycom VOIP phones. To increase server reliability and uptime, the majority of the servers were shifted to a new datacenter. A 100Mb fiber line from the datacenter cabinet to the studio was also essential to ease network administration.Helped to manage and support HR, Marketing, and OPS departments. Located, employed, trained, and supervised network administrators, programmers, service desk specialists, artists, and interns. Managed and facilitated the entire company relocation process from Purmerend to Amsterdam. This included scouting for offices, designing new office floor plans, negotiating with relocation services, contractors, facility security providers, network infrastructure specialist and ISP’s. Supervised the facilities security systems; i.e. proximity cards / readers, video surveillance, and intrusion detection.

San Francisco Bay Area, California

Aeronautics & Aerospace - AMES, Moffett Field, California, United States (17,000+ Employees)Spearheaded and initiated a development project to reduce productivity inefficiencies for the Human Factors research division through the development of an internal digital asset management system. Successfully migrated the web development platform for the digital asset management system from PHP to JAVA/JSP due to the platform feature limitations.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Video Games & Entertainment - Purmerend, Netherlands (10+ Regional Employees)Recommended and implemented a FTP server, a fault tolerant RAID storage server, supervised the company website, and upgraded the IPX network LAN to TCP/IP.

San Francisco Bay Area, California

Streaming Media Technology - Fremont, California, United States (50+ Regional Employees)Significantly decreased monthly operating costs in IT by roughly 50% through reviewing current ISP/ datacenter providers and switching to new more cost effective providers. Migrated the Windows Server NT 4 network to 2000, managed and monitored Cisco 2610 routers, and implemented an Active Directory 2000 domain. Facilitated the relocation of the entire company to brand new custom offices.