Implementing computer system requirements by defining and analyzing system problems; designing and testing standards and solutions.Defining and evaluating procedures and processes. Developing solutions by preparing and evaluating alternative workflow solutions. Validates results by testing programs and ensure operation by training personnel and providing support.Designed, planned, deployed and was head system administrator for JIRA and Confluence. Atlassian software used by the PMO and software development teams to track and document projects.Used Chef to automate LDAP servers, web servers and monitoring in the organization.Build and maintain office network with Juniper switch stacks, Palo Alto firewalls and Aerohive wireless to provide vlans for dev, support, administration and our "Free Manchester Hotspots"Build and administer Zimbra Collaboration Suite to provide corporate calendaring, email, IM, and GAL.Administration of Google Apps for Work suite Designed scalable backup/restore solution for employees’ machines, reducing lost laptop or crashed system recovery time from several hours to minutes.Mentored and led team of 5 through projects and sprints.Deployed Service Desk for JIRA and built a corporate help desk for entire companies business needs.Setup and migrated the entire global workforce of 500 employees to Slack from a depreciated internal Jabber server.

UNIX/Linux/FreeBSD installs and maintenance for over 250 servers all over the world.Led a group of dedicated operations engineers for the DynECT platform, that assisted developers in implementing their code, estimating maintenance impact, and advising the team on operability.Virtualized the entire corporate and 20% of the production data centers to VMware vSphere and vCenter for administration reducing hardware and power costs.Deployed an EqualLogic SAN stack for redundancy and backups across VMware infrastructure and for Business Intelligence data needs.Designed new core infrastructure to replace existing 13-year-old hardware to eliminate single points of failure, create redundancy and increase bandwidth capacity.Trained team in corporate IT problem solving through hands-on experience and sharing responsibilities to provide career growth for teammates and reduce single-point-of-knowledge failure.Supervised the overhaul of 17 global data centers in six months by empowering my data center operations team.Oversaw the building and training a team of sysadmins (previously entry-level employees).