Graydon Vogt Email & Phone Number

Hudson, Wi, Us

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

DataBank is a leading provider of highly secure and reliable custom data center services for enterprise and cloud providers with 100% up-time availability for their data, applications, and infrastructure. DataBank’s managed data center services are anchored in six world-class facilities, which incorporate multi-homed internet access hubs, and multi-terabyte storage area networks.

New Richmond, Wi

Provide pre-hospital emergency health care services.

Tulsa, Oklahoma Area

• Manage daily Datacenter operations & critical issues for our virtual and co-located customers.• Manage Pinnacle’s Helpdesk services for both internal and customer hosted issues.• Work with our Sales Team to design customer solutions by gathering and understanding our customer’s requirements for Hosted & Hosted Professional Service solutions.• Generate Hosting Estimates and Contracts for our sales team.• Manage customer contracts for hosted services.

• Responsible for Pinnacle’s internal systems: Task Delegations, Upgrades, Sys Admin & Planning.• Design, estimate and install technology solutions for customers of Pinnacle.• Install, upgrade and configure the IBM DS series, NetApp FAS and EMC VNX.• Completed migrations from Lotus Notes and Group wise to exchange.• Successful Exchange Server Upgrades / Migrations up to 9000 mailboxes.• Used Double-Take for several customers to create highly available servers and provide for near zero RPO/RTO requirements. • Configured Silver Peak WAN accelerators to optimize bandwidth for replication between datacenters as a part of the D.R. plan.• Very familiar with the IBM xSeries rack mount servers as well as CISCO UCS, IBM, Dell and HP blade centers and was certified as an HP ASE Enterprise Blade Center. • Perform VMWare, Exchange, Active Directory assessments for stabilization and remediation.• Experience with fiber channel switching, as well as iSCSI and direct attach SAS connectivity solutions. • Completed several Novell to Active directory migration projects that I designed successfully using the proper tool sets from Quest Software migration tools.

• Worked extensively with WatchGuard Firewalls creating secure environments for clients. • Designed and maintained branch office connectivity using IPSEC VPN tunnels and supported many VPN user based tunnels. Configured the firewalls to use Internet Authentication Server (RADIUS) authorize VPN tunnels for users . • Integrated WatchGuard firewalls with Active Directory & Radius for security & functionality. Created and maintained DMZ zones for secure websites and to isolate public servers from the local networks. • Created and maintained Remote Installation Servers to deploy fully configured workstations to users. • Maintained Windows Update Servers for clients to provided automated patch management of workstations and servers. • Utilized Active Directory to provide centralized software deployment and configuration of Office Products. • Setup and configured Certificate server to provide secure SSL to websites. Setup Certificates with Internet Authentication Server (RADIUS) and Cisco 1200 series Access points to provide highly secure WLAN using PEAP standards while configuring Active Directory to push configurations to computers for fully automated connection to the WLAN without ever touching the PC. • Setup and configured Exchange server 2003 with SSL and form based authentication and active sync for smart phones and PDAs over the air. • Worked heavily with Exchange Server 2003, SBS 2003, Maintaining IIS Web servers and sites. Supported and maintained Kerio email server.• Created installation and design standards for Exchange 2003, Server 2003, SQL Server, Trend Antivirus, Backup Exec & WatchGuard so the process could be streamlined. • Created, supported and maintained multi domain environments. • Planned and executed Novell to Microsoft conversion that included Group Wise to Exchange. • Provided onsite Technical assistance to 500 users and 40 servers among our client base.

• Designed and installed networks from the ground up. Maintained existing networks & provided detailed documentation on networks and configurations. Designed custom servers, depending on client needs. • Worked extensively with Microsoft Back Office products including Exchange 5.5 & 2000, IIS 5, Proxy 2.0, ISA server 2000, SBS 4.5 &, SBS 2000, Capacity Planning, IT hardware lifecycle, Email Filtering and SPAM protection using Mail Essentials, Web Surfing and Content blocking, Sonic Wall Firewalls, Watch-Guard Firewalls & VPN servers. • Provided corporate-wide virus solutions using Symantec Antivirus and E-trust Antivirus. • Implemented backup procedures in Multi-server environments using Veritas Backup Exec. • Designed and developed Active Directory environments. Setup multi server and multi site Active Directory replication connected by a dedicated T1. Installed around 15 Active directory networks and countless NT 4.0 domains. • Supported and designed multi domain environments and trusts. • Researched & proposed products that best met client needs• Supported routine network maintenance and addressed any computer user or server issues