Eric B. Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Washington, United States

Sr Service Engineer working on network security and support for Exchange Online protection.

Redmond Wa

Responsibilities:• Manage vendor staff• Work with Development, Test and Program Management to understand operations requirements and drive to solutions• Work closely with lab customers to gain a deep understanding of the work they do in order to provide a high level of support• Manage server infrastructure in a self-managed lab, including racking or unracking servers, replacing failed equipment and maintaining appropriate security measures• Maintain network resources including: routers, switches, cabling & uplinks to the corporate network and remote data centers• Manage multiple SAN environments• Image, rebuild or upgrade operating systems and service applications• Ensure all operating systems and service applications are patched with security patches• Maintain Microsoft Windows Clustered servers, System Center Virtual Machine (SCVMM & Hyper-V) & hosts and custom server images • Support access management to secure labs and managed spaces• Research and provide recommended hardware solutions to solve business needs• Track hardware inventory• Implement new Azure subscriptions and manage expenditures

United States

##Establishes the team’s culture, and is accountable for the team’s performance and morale.##Ensures that the right people are in the right roles, and consistently recognizes, rewards, and manages performance.##Works with discipline peers to align priorities, processes and people appropriately. ##Builds, adapts, and runs operational processes that synchronize team or group workflows.##Works with other PMs to champion the health and mission of the PM discipline.##Leads a team that is responsible for a portfolio of projects or programs with elevated levels of risk and complexity.##Establishes a communication framework with proper escalation channels to provide timely, consistent, audience-appropriate communication to clients and stakeholders.##Establishes the appropriate methodology to minimize variance between estimates and actual project outcomes.##Identifies, quantifies, and proactively mitigates issues or risks.##Manages the schedule to incorporate internal and cross-team dependencies, assigns appropriate resources, creates logical work breakdown structures, identifies critical path elements, processes change requests, and measures progress against the plan.##Establishes project governance to facilitate, track, log, and implement decisions.##Procures and manages resources appropriately, provides accurate financial projections, and identifies and communicates budget variance as soon as possible.

Redmond, Wa

06/2007 - present – Service Ops 2 – Microsoft Corp, Redmond WAManage teams of vendorsVendor hiring process expertPID & DID process (deploying hardware to data centers worldwide)Drive to completion lab projectsTest manager with E2E experience Drive to completion E2E build deployment into productionTechnical support for Windows Server Labs - F5 deployment, configuration and troubleshooting- Cisco switch deployment, configuration and troubleshooting- OS and Imaging deployment (WDS, Ximage, Ghost);- KVM/IP troubleshooting and administration;- Debug installation and troubleshoot of all Server Sku- Triage; Bugs, work items- Deployment of Servers, network devices. Racking and mounting.- Scripting; Powershell- SAN and Storage. DFS and file servers, EMC, Netapp, Hp- Patch management via WSUS- The go to guy for all hardware and MacGyver fixes

Responsibilities:• Work with Development, Test and Program Management to understand operations requirements and drive to solutions• Work closely with lab customers to gain a deep understanding of the work they do in order to provide a high level of support• Manage server infrastructure in a self-managed lab, including racking or unracking servers, replacing failed equipment and maintaining appropriate security measures• Maintain network resources including: routers, switches, cabling & uplinks to the corporate network and remote data centers• Manage multiple SAN environments• Image, rebuild or upgrade operating systems and service applications• Ensure all operating systems and service applications are patched with security patches• Maintain Microsoft Windows Clustered servers, System Center Virtual Machine (SCVMM & Hyper-V) & hosts and custom server images • Support access management to secure labs and managed spaces• Research and provide recommended hardware solutions to solve business needs• Track hardware inventory• Implement new Azure subscriptions and manage expenditures

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