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Sycamore, Il, Us

Coperion Process Solutions LLC is the global technology and market leader in applied measuring and process technology.

Aurora, Il, Us

● Introduced and rolled out Azure Stack HCI virtualization to support infrastructure modernization initiatives of the business, improving scalability, deployment flexibility and simplification of operations. ● Managed project to migrate Intellectual Property software to Azure which improved performance and availability for the legal team.● Completed rollout of PRTG monitoring software which greatly improved visibility of global infrastructure, reducing potential downtime to critical production infrastructure.● Designed, developed and implemented a Microsoft Planner Kanban board to infrastructure team, allowing for an increase in value-add projects by improving efficiency, visibility and prioritization of work.

Machesney Park, Il, Us

● Directed successful completion of HiTrust CSF Certification by leading the team through creation of policies and procedures for over 250 security controls in 14 categories. HiTrust CSF (Common Security Framework) is similar in scope to other industry frameworks (NIST, ISO 27001), allows businesses to meet requirements for compliance regulations such as HIPAA, GLBA, PCI and SOX. ● Increased endpoint security and external vulnerability assessment coverage to 100% by researching and implementing new SIEM solution.● Managed 3rd party Penetration Testing assessments, greatly improving security by eliminating or mitigating critical findings with network, systems and software.● Created facility security program by creating initial security zones, researching, managing and implementing alarm and proximity card solutions in addition to establishing policies and procedures for site visitors.● Led collaboration with senior leadership in the development of an improved change management process, increasing the success rate of production changes to over 99.7%.● Established initial Disaster Recovery capability which included the development of business requirements, investigation of options, touring facilities, negotiating price, selecting and managing installation of infrastructure at selected facility.● Saved $100k on capital expenditure (CAPEX) cost by researching and engaging new vendors.● Improved security and performance of corporate Wi-Fi by 200% by researching and managing implementation of Aerohive solution.● Project manager for implementation of new high-performance Cisco networking, Cisco UCS and Pure Storage hardware eliminating production and resource limitations.● Developed 24-hour datacenter on-call rotation, decreasing response time to critical issues.● Researched, evaluated, selected, and managed installation of corporate wide digital signage solution, allowing visibility into departmental key performance indicators (KPIs).

Machesney Park, Il, Us

● Evaluated, selected, and installed IT infrastructure, maintaining better than 99.9% uptime by focusing on reliability, availability and security.● Built expert team of network and systems administrators, handling greater than 25% year after year growth.

Machesney Park, Il, Us

● Managed building new datacenter, increasing compute, power and cooling capacity by over 90%.● Developed, managed, and successfully executed plan to move production systems to newly created datacenter, within maintenance window and no downtime.

● Achieved greater than 99.99% uptime on all Internet servers, mission critical network servers, and LAN.● Increased security of Network by conducting scheduled penetration tests on network infrastructure and servers to secure against both external and internal attacks.● Fortified network security by implementing a new firewall, virus scanning and intrusion detection servers.● Increased online sales by 60% by implementing a new customer friendly E-Commerce solution.● Increased credit card fraud detection by enhancing E-Commerce gateway communications.● Designed and maintained dynamic Corporate Web and E-Commerce site for promotion of a $60 million product line.● Managed email marketing campaigns that produced over 100,000 targeted impressions.● Reduced Internet Circuit costs by changing to a more cost competitive provider.● Saved 90% on annual E-Commerce expenses by moving to an open source solution.● Maintained detailed list of corporate hardware, software, licenses, and maintenance agreements.● Planned, designed and installed network infrastructure in new 40,000 square foot production facility.