Gary Buttrey Email & Phone Number

Pickering , Ontario , Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

•Leader in small, efficient Core Infrastructure team. Responsible for all server, network and infrastructure components maintaining a very high degree of datacenter uptime and reliability. •Active member of international IT teams focused on maintaining, upgrading and ensuring continued functionality of a 30+ site, 50+ domain Active Directory forest.•Communicate effectively with management and executives detailing project status, troubleshooting activities and incident resolution.•Excel in working within a highly validated and controlled environment. Completing all work in a GxP regulated workspace.•Orchestrate infrastructure improvements transitioning from completely physical environment to a virtualized ecosystem and continuing into a SaaS hybrid cloud hosted datacenter.•Designed new infrastructure for an office tower rebuild. Deploying Meraki wired and wireless equipment to facilitate a ‘wireless first’ flexible working environment.•Mentored new IT employees introducing them to IT procedures while helping them become highly productive team members.•Liaised with business security team to design and build an isolated on premises datacenter used to manage all aspects of security and storage of video surveillance for the highly secure facility.•Managed primary datacenter refresh upgrading all services from 2003 to 2008 R2 then 2008 R2 to 2012 R2 and upgraded all infrastructure applications including Exchange, SQL, VMWare ESXi and vCenter. Server hardware and Dell EqualLogic SAN upgraded as part of project.•Developed and executed full disaster recovery process yearly ensuring all servers and services were fully recovered within defined recovery point and recovery time objectives.•Maintained duplicate network for testing all changes before implementation in production environment. •Operated within ITIL environment. All activities monitored within SupportWorks, then ServiceNow ticketing systems tracking incidents, service requests and all system changes.

• Maintain multi-site, multi domain Windows Active Directory 2003 forest. Upgraded domains and forest to 2003 functional level from 2000 native realizing a forest wide, zero downtime objective.• Manage quick recovery backup solution employing disk-to-disk then disk-to-tape technologies resulting in immediate restorations and disaster recovery protection. • Introduced Dell EMC SAN providing high throughput redundant storage for primary file services and VM environment.• Implemented VMWare ESX infrastructure virtualizing 15 servers in high availability VM cluster.• Deployed GFI Network Server Monitor alerting administrators to server, device and application failures.• Administer MOSS 2007 intranet site providing a central repository for company news, policies and events.

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• Performed day to day administration and support of all aspects of the company network comprised of Windows Active Directory, a mix of 2000/2003 servers, Exchange and SQL Server, DNS, DHCP.• Received Presidents Award for Technical Lead in Business Process Transformation team responsible for introducing a Digital Asset Management solution resulting in improved production efficiencies.• Authored policies and reporting procedures to formalize change control and configuration of the computing environment, decreasing corporate risk and ensuring compliance with U.S Sarbanes Oxley legislation. • Managed software administration and license compliance; developed an automated auditing solution for notification of all client / server application installation actions.• Implemented a standardized Windows client upgrade procedure using Windows Server Update Services ensuring, after testing, all clients are protected from vulnerabilities.• Coordinated ISP switchover, increasing the value of service while decreasing cost by $4000 per year.• Installed, configured and maintained a McAfee Enterprise solution managed by McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator ensuring optimal coverage and consistent policy enforcement.• Designed and implemented a secure 802.1X wireless infrastructure in support of quality personnel throughout manufacturing environment.