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Franklin, Tennessee, United States

• Received Key Contributor award for efforts in applying SPF, DKIM and DMARC security to multiple email domains. July 2023• Received STAR award nomination for assisting Service Desk. July 2023• Built, configured and managed the Certificate Authority infrastructure. June 2023• Rebuilt the Azure AD Connect infrastructure. March 2023

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

• Received 24 leadership and 44 peer recognition awards in the last five years for teamwork, quality, and service.• Routinely advised and assisted IT Security on audits and incident response.• Routinely assisted e-Business developers on application authentication to Azure, AD, AD LDS, and ADFS.• Configured, managed and maintained identity access management (IAM) and single sign-on (SSO) products & services in a four AD forest environment with multiple partners and affiliates.• Built, configured and managed the Certificate Authority infrastructure.• Advised and assisted with Group Policy management, role-based provisioning, credential partitioning, and PAWS infrastructure.• Often requested as a project resource due to strong knowledge of networking, HTTPS traffic debugging, SAML, ADFS Claims Rule Language, and PowerShell scripting and automation.• Assisted with the physical to virtual conversion of over 400 servers thus improving performance and hardware stability of those systems.• Assisted with the migration of systems and closure of two data centers to both simplify system support and reduce enterprise overhead.• Performed data center systems maintenance, upgrades, and configurations in a geographically separated 2 data center VMware environment with 349 hosts and >7300 active Windows servers.• Assisted with maintenance and monitoring of backup and disaster recovery and anti-virus/anti-malware infrastructures.• Assisted with maintenance, monitoring and incident resolution within the EMC Isilon CIFS infrastructure and the virtual infrastructure involving VMware, Cisco UCS and EMC XIO environments.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Spearheaded cross-team efforts to eliminate a virus infecting 2000+ systems and to implement proactive security solutions at Memorial Health Systems. Worked with one other person to rapidly upgrade/replace an aging Desktop PC infrastructure and to migrate from Windows 2000. Achieved a pace of over 400 system upgrades per month. Contract bought out early by UCHealth: Memorial and transitioned to full-time employee at UCHealth.

Fort Smith, Arkansas Area

Leveraged experience and professional partnerships to provide advice and services for optimizing the performance of Microsoft-based servers, virtual servers, workstations, and networks for every customer, whether an individual, or 1000+ employee company, with compassion, patience, and professionalism.

Fort Smith, Arkansas Area

Acted as a one man IT department for Belmont and six related companies across four states. Implemented business strategies, instantiated standards, promoted communication and collaboration, and protected intellectual assets using a highly constrained budget and very limited resources. Responsible for: software licensing, inventory tracking, IT budgeting, network security, disaster recovery, compliance oversight, user account creation/maintenance, end-user support, web site maintenance, administration of servers, SAN, CIFS, LDAP/authentication, and email in a mixed Novell/Windows environment.

Fort Smith, Arkansas Area

Provided training and technical support to remote and local staff located across 7 states. Developed and maintained databases for inventory and support issues. Developed standards for IT hardware, software, and services for remote staff. Participated in IT strategy development and budgeting, and in aggressive vendor negotiations and partnership formation. Assisted with Novell server and PBX maintenance and administration.

Developed and maintained software components written in Visual Basic / COM / MTS and Cool:Gen for highly customized data systems. Assisted with bid proposal research, writing, and assembly for software development projects for state governments. Developed training course materials for use in cross-training internal developers from other departments or newly acquired companies.

Bachelor Of Science, Object-Oriented Programming / Client-Server Systems Administration

Activities and Societies: AITP

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