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Detroit, Michigan, United States

Seattle, WA, US

Farmington Hills, Michigan, US

• Worked with numerous hospitals across the US, as well as various college institutions, defense suppliers, and automotive suppliers both nationally, and internationally.
• Assisted in deploying multiple Citrix XenApp environments for 1000+ users at originations across the nation.
• Migrated multiple datacenters and services to Azure.
• Implemented cloud hosted desktop solutions for large national firms and international firms.
• Deployed virtual desktops in Azure for a factory in China with access to data in America to vastly improve product development and manufacturing cycle.
• Deployed NVIDIA GPUs (GRID) for creative, engineering and computational purposes both on-prem and in the cloud.

Southfield, MI, US

• Maintain IT infrastructure for a multiple site environment
• Rebuilt main data center
• Began implementation on server visualization leveraging Hyper-V
• Rebuilt multiple office networks
• Implemented Exchange 2010 environment

Novi, Michigan, US

• Designed and Implemented various components of the corporate IT infrastructure
• Rebuilt the entire network from the ground up
• Deployed a completely virtualized server environment
• Replaced phone system with a redundant Asterisk based VOIP system
• Responsible for the design and integrity of the network including multiple datacenters
• Setup intranet with custom tools using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

• Provided IT consulting services to various business in the Detroit area Worked with small business owners to overcome daily technology issues
• Deployed networks wired and wireless
• Setup file sharing, daily backups, shared printing
• Provided web hosting services, server co-location services, as well as on-site and remote support services.

Southfield, MI, US

Southfield, MI, US

• Designed corporate network infrastructure including data centers, WAN, LAN, VOIP, WiFi, & video
• Worked closely with a team of architects to design and build technology solutions for the company
• Led a project to increase WAN and Internet bandwidth by 300% while decreasing monthly costs
• Led a team of contractors, suppliers and engineers to setup multiple offices and data centers in Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York and Phoenix, ensuring they were delivered on time and on budget.

Southfield, MI, US

Maintain corporate network infrastructure including VOIP, video, data and security systems. Responsible for the AVAYA VOIP and DELL/Cisco data network including Cisco MPLS WAN and Cisco wireless for over 250 users. Responsible for over 40 Dell servers running various Microsoft applications and technologies. Grew the company's infrastructure from 50 to 250.

Provided network consulting to banks, school districts and counties. Worked directly with IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, Novell & Network Associates.

• Managed operations including mixing, mastering, manufacturing, international distribution, & production
• Toured various countries performing at various venues
• Live sound production