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Newtown Pa

Greater Chicago Area

PC Discovery merged with BSSI2. Hired as a full time Senior IT Consultant to managed and maintain dozens of networks that span across a diverse set of industries. Meet with client to discuss their technology goals and implement solutions that meet their business model and budget.• Design, upgrade, and implement technology solutions that align with business strategies and goals.• Implement a technology plan to standardize equipment and software in a virtual active directory environment that requirement HIPAA compliance and data encryption.• Configure and manage Palo Alto firewalls to monitor network traffic and lock down access based on company’s technology use policies. • Preform dozens of email migrations to Office 365.

Greater Chicago Area

Hired as a full-time systems administrator following initial consulting role to manage and maintain a 20+ Windows server (Physical and Virtual) environment, ensuring 99.9% or better uptime. Evaluate, monitor and enhance IT infrastructure with an emphasis on availability, reliability, scalability, security, data confidentiality and system integrity for a municipality.• Ensured that all server hardware, operating systems, software and procedures aligned with organizational standards and strategic business plan.• Planned and managed interconnected fiber network upgrade across multiple locations to increase network speed and reliability.• Acted as lead technician during the construction and building of a new police station, which included new servers and network equipment for the entire municipality that was enclosed in a tornado resistant server room.• Preformed the installation and training of new police squad car laptops and recording software.• Patched and configured Cisco catalyst switches and ASA firewalls to ensure network security.

Hired as an entry level technician for a managed service provider to provided level 1 onsite and remote support for clients. After several years with the company I was promoted to a system administrator role that was responsible for maintaining, upgrading, and monitoring multiple different company’s totaling in over 300 different client and server nodes in various industries.• Provide onsite and after hours support for a retail operation in a Cirtix environment with more than 30 locations.• Assisted in the design, configuration, and implementation of several computer training centers open to the public.• Lead technician to a multi-million dollar supply chain company across 5 states nationwide, interconnected via an MPLS terminal server environment that required 99.9% up time.• Install and configure WatchGuard firewalls to enhance network perimeter security.• Preformed various server 2003 to 2008 upgrades for clients

Bachelor Of Science Business Administration, Concentration: Management Information Systems. Minor: Computer Information Science

High School Deploma