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Redmond, Washington, US

Redmond, Washington, US

Redmond, Washington, US

• Direct a staff of twelve IT professionals and manage an annual IT budget of $1,200,000.
• Manage a distributed IT infrastructure supporting 550 employees located in 8 offices, 4 states, and 2 continents.
• Rebuilt a neglected infrastructure to support a 100 million dollar company.
• Transformed IT organization into a well respected department that has become the model for customer service across the organization.
• Integrated 5 acquisitions totaling 200 employees in 12 months while on-boarding 150 new employees through organic growth.
• Migrated business critical applications to a high availability SQL Cluster leveraging SAN technology.

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• Directed a staff of three IT professionals and managed an infrastructure and training budget of $500,000.
• Supervised the Interlink / Equarius IT consolidation. Responsible for migrating all Equarius users, computers, servers, and systems on to Interlinks network. Completed the entire project within 90 days of deal close.
• Architected and implemented Interlink’s internal Microsoft Live Communication Server 2005 infrastructure. Integrated LCS with our Cisco VOIP phone system, federated with key partners and clients, and implemented Public.
• Implemented and managed a comprehensive telecommunications infrastructure which utilized Cisco VOIP and Unity Unified Messaging.

• Managed the migration of Equarius’ Onyx CRM system to Microsoft CRM 1.2. Also, managed our Microsoft CRM 1.2 to Microsoft CRM 3.0 upgrade.
• Implemented a secure wireless LAN utilizing RADIUS and PKI.
• Upgraded Equarius’ Windows NT 4.0 network to a fully native Windows 2000 network infrastructure. Managed the deployment from pilot to production consolidating multiple domains to reduce administrative costs.
• Implemented video conferencing company-wide, reducing travel costs while improving inter-office communication

• Standardized hardware and software platforms to reduce total cost of ownership.
• Managed the migration of corporate e-mail from Novell GroupWise to Microsoft Exchange 5.5.
• Created detailed migration plan for replacement of existing Novell Network Infrastructure with Windows NT 4.0. Implemented Microsoft Directory Services, WINS, DNS, and DHCP in preparation for the later migration of.