Jared Dickson Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• Currently working on a VDI project to initially allow a secure workforce and afterwards, virtualize our call center equipment to provide cost savings in equipment purchases and simplify workstation and application.
• Researched, designed and implemented a production refresh of all server equipment, network and storage. Which, also consisted of a migration from Microsoft Hyper-V to a net new VMWare infrastructure. Improving our.
• Implemented a phone system that would grow and expand as AvidXchange grows and expands.
• I have designed and implemented the basic network infrastructure that we have in our Headquarters and remote office.
• I have helped with the design, planning and implementation of office infrastructure for new office locations or acquisitions.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• Updated and maintained Lending Tree's Active Directory infrastructure.
• Assisted in domain migration projects for two different acquisitions.
• Setup an HA VMWare environment and assisted in virtualizing servers in Lending Tree's Irvine location.
• Configured and maintained their EMC SAN environment in Irvine.
• I was project lead in the Exchange 2007 migration project for Irvine. I setup the Exchange servers, migrated users and troubleshot any issues.
• Helped setup and deploy Citrix to allow secure remote access to office applications.

• Worked with Exchange 2003 and 2007, planning and performing new installations, migrations and troubleshooting old installations.
• Installed and configured Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 and 4.5. Also troubleshot issues on many small Citrix farms.
• Other key responsibilities were: Active Directory analysis and maintenance, Domain migrations, Sonicwall setup, Spam filter installation and configuration, and Backup installation and configuration.

• Managed Citrix farms, group policies, IIS servers, and supported application layer appliances such as Big IP.
• Created a change management website with SQL backend in order to streamline past change management process.
• Helped in the design and implementation of our Windows 2000 and AD architecture.
• Upgraded, configured and maintained both server and desktop virus scanning.
• Helped design and implement many of the remote office’s server rooms. This includes server installation, clustering, software installation and configuration such as exchange, server capacity and growth planning, patch.
• Worked as an International Administrator supporting servers and users in their remote offices.

• I was involved in the design and role-out their Windows 2000 architecture.
• Worked in a Windows environment with 250 clients (Windows 2000, Windows NT and Windows98).
• Worked with Exchange Servers, Proxy Servers, SMS, IIS Servers, and SQL servers.
• Provided network support of all seven California offices.
• Installed and supported in-house applications.
• Built and configured Servers.