Ian Walmsley Email & Phone Number

Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Us

Skaletek Solutions provides presales support, solutions design and delivery for various technology resellers and consulting organizations consisting of custom end user computing, remote workspace, cloud, and data center technologies.- Lead the design and implementation of enterprise-wide architectural solutions for clients in the finance, healthcare, and retail sectors.- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze business requirements and translate them into scalable, secure, and robust architecture, ensuring alignment with both technical standards and strategic goals.- Mentor a team of junior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and innovation.

Pixelated Studios - 800 sq ft studio space in Des Moines.Walmsley Photography - Boudoir and OF Photography. Published over 80 times!

Small LLC I run when supporting the environments I know very well; including: - VMware vSphere, VMware Horizon (VDI), AppVolumes, DEM, and FSLogix.- Microsoft Windows Server and Windows 10, Windows 11. Physical and Remote workstation management.- Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Business 365 Business Voice, and collaboration tools with video.- Microsoft O365 Administration- Azure Administration

Quincy, Us

Responsible for senior level management, design, implementation, configuration, and maintenance of the company’s Horizon VDI environment.

Des Moines, Iowa, Us

Responsible for senior level management, design, implementation, configuration, and maintenance of the company’s virtualized and physical IT architectures supporting both virtualized and physical desktop environments.

Des Moines, Iowa, Us

- Reviewed current Horizon environment and recommend 2021/22 VDI Roadmap- PowerShell scripting to automate processes such as Refresh- Research and prepare for deployment of App Volumes, DEM, and FXLogix.- Work to balance out environment which was running 48 Gold Masters.

Grimes, Iowa, Us

· Propose, design, implement, and troubleshoot all IT solutions, including networking, phone system, security cameras, CNC systems, servers, ERP, and core infrastructure. · Architect and implement new network, including fiber connection between buildings, new server room, new rack, switches, firewall, and internal network infrastructure. · Deployed vSphere 6.7, 3x ESXi hosts, ERP, complete redesign of Active Directory and migrated all workstations to new domain and reconnected it to new tenant on O365. · IT Budget planning and forecasting.· Manage Veeam backup solution, LTO long term and expanding to cloud replication.· Fully migrated from Exchange 2013 to O365, then migrated from tenant to tenant two years later.

· Reviewed Horizon View environment and made several successful changes to stabilize and increase performance.· Constructed a VDI Roadmap, outlining the next 18 months in the space, including a Global Roll out.· Designed Windows 10 pool and migrated all VDI pools from Windows 7.· Successfully tested and deployed SecureAuth MFA in front of VMware Horizon View.· Learned and configured ComVault backup for the entire Horizon View environment.· Routine checkup of Tintri Storage Solution, as it supported our Horizon View environment.· Onsite assistance of the company datacenter.

- Deploy, configures and support the company’s virtual desktop infrastructure. Guarantees the system (server, storage, and/or application) is up, healthy, and working as designed.- Virtual Desktop Design, VMware Horizon View- VDI Performance Tuning, Base Images, Gold Images, VDI Pool Maintenance - Application and Image Design - VMware App Volumes/UEM- Top-Tier escalation support for the servers, storage, and/or applications

Elkridge, Maryland, Us

- Windows administration, design, and support.- VMware system design, build out, and maintenance with vSphere ESXi, vCenter, Horizon View, Orchestrator, LogInsight, and vRealize Operations Manager.- Regular audits of AD environment, roles, groups, and access.- Wrote PowerShell and PowerCLI scripts to automate tasks.- First 8 months I did same job but with GDIT before contract was moved to NewWave

95877 Bezons, Fr

· Allocating Data Center resources (hardware and logical) to new projects being deployed within the environment. Preparing documents and all aspects of projects for the team of deployment technicians.· Queue Management for tasks and incidents, vendor engagement and escalation and participation in ongoing deployment projects.· Manage a deployment team that install a large scalable inventory of servers, switches, routers, load balancers and storage hardware in a scalable data center.· Manage a break/fix team that troubleshoots, diagnose, and resolve all hardware and some software related problems with already installed servers, switches, routers, load balancers, and storage hardware.· Served on both the Incident Task Force and Standard Operating Procedure Task Force serving the GFS Datacenter Operations Worldwide.

· Owned and operated two divisions under the LLC; a consulting company and a brick and mortar computer repair shop.· Managed desktops for several companies in Iowa via monthly service contracts and meeting SLA’s.· Acted as Project Manager for upgrade projects and server infrastructure rollouts.· Managed varied email servers, Postfix and Exchange for 20+ small businesses.· Managed several employees, both in store and consultants on various technical projects; repair and service related.

Us

- Brand development- Web site traffic growth, web site UI and advertising revenue. - Developed brand strategy and technology roll-outs.- Strategic Consulting, including licensing agreements & sales strategy development.