From consulting to computer repair to becoming your full solutions IT department, we here at IT Guru Solutions do IT all. Internet access sales, provisioning, call centers, conferencing, storage and backups, Office 365 & Google G-Suites, QuickBooks online or local, property management, business management, bookkeeping and accounting packages available. Websites, web development and integrations.Credit card processing, POS and on-site solutions of any kind. Remote access and asset management, Active Directory, Azure and domain controllers.Business Intelligence data mining, dashboards and interactive data.Digital signage by Fourwinds, interactive and data driven signs.Cost savings analysis and sales of telephone, internet and other connectivity needs. We are partnered with all of the top carriers and providers throughout the USA. We are agents of TCG (www.tcg-partners.com) and have connections with the countries top tier providers and data centers.We are also now proudly partnered with: Microsoft, Veeam, Unitrends, Zoho, BitDefender, 3CX PABX's and VMware - to name just a few. These partnerships allow us to tailor, build and engineer any type of infrastructure, disaster recovery, database or security solution your organization requires - no matter "what flavor(s)" you like, or integration requirements to streamline your business. As we grow - even more partnerships are being made and developed in order to bring you the cutting edge, end-to-end IT solution(s) for the smallest business - or largest enterprise.ITGSI is also very active on multiple work platforms that simply do not have techs or tech companies that don't meet our world class standards. So we're changing that industry, one "buyer" and partnership at a time by blowing the "standards lid" completely off.Extensive use of:*Field Nation*WorkMarket*SmartSource*TechLink*Field Engineerand many direct relationships serving every business vertical in existence.

VMWare vSphere, Cisco UCS and Lefthand iSCSI storage Specialist. vSphere runs on Cisco UCS consisting of 3PB of storage within a dual mirrored Data Center topology spanned over a 10Gb backbone. My job was to be the lead, SME of vSphere, Lefthand and SANiq, and Cisco UCS respectively, as well as to optimize and upgrade all of these as the Data Center specialist. Tools used such as PowerShell, vCLI, ESXcli, VMWare Upgrade Manager (VUM), deploy VMWare Orchestrator, administer the vhost servers (Cisco blades) and storage consisting of Lefthand / HP DL380s, P4000x and ProLiant DL iSCSI storage servers. Extensive use of iLO, Windows Server platforms, Red Hat Enterprise 6.x+ servers, and various virtual appliances from vmware based primarily on Suse Linux. Backup administrator for Unitrends Virtual Backup, Microsoft Data Protection Manager and long term off-site backups with Tivoli Storage Manager in remote data center. Windows Active Directory Domain and Server administration, troubleshooting, and deployment for end user administrators and other departmental customers of the Housing and Student Affairs Network Services Administration (HSA NSA). As a member of a truly world class network team of 8, I was truly blessed to be a part of it!

Responsible for all aspects of every IT resource company-wide - from handhelds, to desktops, to servers, to network gear & phones - & their vendors. *Originally this was a Windows 2000 SBS network using 1 NIC. *Migrated to Novell NetWare 6.x, GroupWise, Data Synchronizer, Zenworks, *Recently to Microsoft pure 2008 and 2012 Servers on Active DirectoryImproved operational efficiency cross departmentally by: *Forming and chairing the IT Steering Committee to improve interdepartmental communications - and "change management" *Improved network security *Determined need, specified specs, & supervised custom application development projects to my developer. *"Data mining" pivot tables and data driven-dashboards most recently - this increased customer service and data crunching, as well as data integrity, exponentially. *Technical Lead of new website. Bookings from web increased over 40% monthly. That site accounts for ~20-40% of overall monthly bookings today. Prior to gutting - less than 10% of monthly bookings occurred on the old site. *Infor Visual Enterprise ERP - I have extensive experience with over 11 years supporting, upgrading, migrating, & configuring a complex on-premise MS SQL Server in support of Visual ERP (on-premise). Standard Visual reports via extended queries were also customized for mining data from non-standard report fields. *SQL Views used extensively to feed Excel, Access and other data mining products in addition to the Visual QRP's. *Reduced ~90% of all helpdesk inquiries to same-day service. *Lowered electrical consumption by replacing desktop PCs with thin clients. In turn this centralized systems administration on our vSphere guest OS's that used RDP from the thin clients. *Improved compliance and productivity by migrating from GroupWise 6.x to 2012 and then over to Office 365 Enterprise on Outlook 2013.

Performed daily project & task management, ran all non-automated IDX job runs utilizing AIX consoles, processing approximately $2.5 million/day in patient billing, claims, Medicaid and Medicare. Performed and/or monitored all runs for Accounts Payable / Receivable, Human Resources, and Payroll administrative functions in AIX. Performed in-depth analysis for all other production systems and initiated recommendations of viable alternatives for improvement of operational processes and procedures to meliorate service to all departments across the Shands Enterprise.

Note: I also worked with Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) at 10 hrs./week between 9/2002 and 6/2003 learning Solaris, researching, and testing various software products for possible adoption by the ECE department.For IPPD, I managed and was solely responsible for all day-to-day operations of IPPD's complex 180+ student/facutly, heterogeneous Novell NetWare, ZenWorks and GroupWise, Linux, Solaris and Windows server Windows NT/2000 workstations spanning two UF facilities, connected via an inter-campus Virtual Private Network (VPN).Worked closely with the Director, faculty and students to determine, acquire and provide any needed or requested technology(ies) needed to ensure teams have necessary resources to insure project success, including any and all software applications, or "special needs" items such as custom-built PC's for various levels of code development, hardware/PC card development, or client-server environments as dictated by the project and it's respective Corporate Sponsor. This also includes all aspects of "standard Windows 2000 PC images and applications" for use by all IPPD members.

As a team player supporting approximately 800 end-user customers throughout the University of Florida's Health Science Center and its departments, including the College of Nursing, the Office of the Vice President for Health Affairs and units within the College of Medicine's Dean's Office through participation on a high speed Novell, Windows and Cisco Aironet 802.11 WLAN spanning multiple facilities in and around the Health Science Center and various areas of Gainesville.Responsible for all aspects of workstation support "from the desktop to the wall plate", including a new Windows 2000 Professional operating system rollout to all 800 end users. Implemented Pegasus-to GroupWise 6.0 migrations, all LAN/WAN connectivity issues or triaged to proper department(s), Gatorlink -related support services and referrals to CIRCA, as well as answering phones and entering calls into the IT Centers web-basedhelp desk ticketing system.

Responsible as the sole-member of the Atkins MIS Department for support and Administration of all aspects of 65 workstations and up to 90 employees, various dot matrix & laser printers, fax machines, and Castelle fax server in a manufacturing facility on a high speed 10/1 00 Novell NetWare 3.x-5.x, Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000/NT/9x workstation LAN.Administered daily SMTP/POP and Web-based email, Cisco 1700 Series routers, HiCap data and PRI voice Ti's, coinciding with budgeting, user / departmental needs, and prioritizing overall scope and direction of these projects with the vision and mission of the company as guidance.Managed daily multi-tiered network security, including implementation of Novell BorderManager Enterprise proxy & firewall, Inoculan anti-virus, log monitoring and aggressive self-assessments of network services to find & fix weaknesses.Assumed responsibility of telecommunications, including TeleVantage CTI phone system, extension management, call routing and groups, in addition to all local & long distance services, rate & contractual negotiations.

As a team player in the State Technology Office (STO), responsible for supporting approximately 200 end-users of the Florida Department of Transportations, District 2 office branches that spanned 5 North-Central to Northwestern Florida counties. Responsible from Perry, to Chiefland, to Gainesville, and back up to Lake City. This WAN/LAN was comprised of Windows 2000 / NT Domain, Novell & AS/400 mainframe services with myriads of applications required for the various departments for construction and engineering management, with a migration away from Novell GroupWise onto Lotus Notes as the FLDOT collaboration platform.