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 management.• 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 fault tolerance, performance and system uptime.• 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 panels, power, and air conditioning.• Worked as an International Administrator supporting servers and users in their remote offices.• Installed and configured Insight Manager for system • Helped in the Exchange 2000 rollout.• Sped up the role-out of servers by implementing server imaging using both Ghost and Altiris.

• 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.• Maintained Cisco Pix Firewall.• Administrated the Meridian phone switch, voice mail and patch panels. Trouble-shot phones, patched in phones and created new phone and voicemail accounts.