Jeffrey Blanchard Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Reston, Va, Us

Reston, Va, Us

Weston, Massachusetts, Us

As the cloud platform architect, I was responsible for design and execution of the company’s cloud strategy. With a team of Engineers, we built and maintained the infrastructure responsible for running the Advisor360 platform. In this role we onboarded 2 companies onto Azure/o365 and provided all support.

Weston, Massachusetts, Us

Waltham, Ma, Us

Waltham, Ma, Us

Waltham, Ma, Us

Waltham, Ma, Us

Roswell, Ga, Us

As Systems Engineering Manager, I was responsible for all IT service delivery to Courion. I work in a multi-disciplinary role to both plan and lead service development on most Courion IT related infrastructure projects. My time is split between maintaining and gaining value from current infrastructure as well as working to foster new IT technologies/services to better support Courion’s business goals. My responsibilities include but are not limited to:• Maintaining a high level SLA on Courion’s network infrastructure• Provide assistance as an escalation point on all IT related issues• Mentor teammates and to provide training on new technologies• Provide reporting and analytics on maintenance, system uptime, and IT budgets• Ensuring business continuity by planning and deploying scalable and resilient services• Reviewing and maintaining all Courion’s network and system documentationPrimary systems and services responsibilities: Network Infrastructure (routing, switching, security appliances, etc), Single Sign-on, Certificate Services (SSL, AD Certificate Services), Enterprise Storage (Compellent, EMC), Active Directory (DNS, DHCP, AD topology), and Courion’s Access Assurance Suite.

Roswell, Ga, Us

As the Senior System Engineer within the Information Technology team at Courion, I am responsible for designing, maintaining, and administering an ever changing IT infrastructure in support of business critical and development environments.Top level responsibilities include designing new high available and scalable IT solutions, handling escalated IT requests, mentoring junior staff, and capacity planning.Supported infrastructure at Courion:Cisco UCS blade system managementCisco Routing and Switching (Nexus/Catalyst)Cisco ASA firewall managementCisco RoutingCisco Nexus 1000v virtual distributed switchingMPLSVMWare vSphere 5.1+Aruba Networks Wireless InfrastructureKaseya IT Management systemEMC SAN Management (CLARiiON FC/iSCSI)Dell Compellent SAN and NAS Management (FC/iSCSI)Wyse Thin Client Management (CloudClientManager)Windows Server Administration (2003-2012-R2)SQL Server Administration (2005-2012)Microsoft AD administrationAvocent KVMBluecoat SG Proxy web filter and optimizerSolarwinds MonitoringCourion Access Assurance SuiteCourion Access Intelligence SuiteMicrosoft Exchange 2010Microsoft Sharepoint 2010Ping Identity -SSOMicrosoft Clustering Services

Roswell, Ga, Us

As the SaaS Infrastructure Engineer and Team Leader of the CourionLive Operations Team, I was responsible for designing a resilient, high performing, scalable, and sustainable environment for the CourionLive SaaS based Identity Access Management (IAM) and Identity Access Governance (IAG) solutions. I was the subject matter expert on operational policy, procedures, network and system architecture design and administration. My responsibilities included:• Project Management - ensuring projects get finished on time and within budget• Training and mentoring of other Operations Team members• Security and operations of the CourionLive SaaS environment• Network, system design and architecture• Change and Helpdesk management• To ensure CourionLive meets all service level agreements to our Customers• Work directly with product management, QA, and Engineering on product changes and needs• Mentoring and guiding other members of the CourionLive Operations Team

Roswell, Ga, Us

Leads the operation of Courion’s cloud infrastructure. Lead role in creating, configuring, operating and maintaining the server infrastructure required to deliver Courion's Access Assurance Suite to the cloud. Work in a team-oriented, fast-paced, flexible environment with responsibilities across the full range of network and system administration activities required to deliver industry-leading enterprise software to market as a SaaS-offering with direct interaction with the leading enterprise access compliance and provisioning customers.

• Maintain and Support PCI-DSS compliant datacenter and corporate network environment.• Responsible for All network and server related equipment within a 24/7 customer driven SaaS/ASP environment.• Responsible for redesigning network to provide high availability and high redundancy.• Worked within maintenance windows (3am-5:30am T-Th) to minimize customer impact of outages due to maintenance.• Worked with developers to design fault tolerance and high availability within the SaaS/ASP products.• Maintained, Configured and Monitored IPSec VPN connections with Partners and Customers for high secure connectivity. Redesigned employee remote access utilizing Cisco ASA SSL VPN with TACACS+ Security. • Maintained and Deployed Barracuda Web Application Firewall for Application Layer protection for web SaaS/ASP solutions.• Other Primary Responsibility Items: Exchange 2003/2010, Active Directory, IDS, IPS, Log Management, Switch/Router/Firewall Management, Server Patch Management, and System Integrity Monitoring. Barracuda Web App Firewalls, PCI-DSS Auditing, Phone System Administration, Network Planning, Capacity Planning, and Disaster Recovery

Responsible for workstations and servers located between several different remote facilities. (15 servers, 90+ workstations, 100+ users) Experience with Win9x, 2k, XP, Vista, Win7, Win2k server, Win2k3 server, win2k8 server, Office 2k/2k3/2k7. Exchange Server 2k/2k3. Citrix PS 4.0/4.5. Symantec Backup Exec 10/12.5d. Symantec Enterprise Vault 8.0. IQMS EnterpriseIQ and M2M TMM ERP packages. Symantec Endpoint Protection 11 and McAfee Security Antivirus/Anti-spam 8.9i. SQL server 05/08 Barracuda Anti-spam appliance. What's up Gold Premium. Bomgar B200 remote administration tool. Avaya IP Office Manager/VM pro Client. Untangle Web; Deployment and administration of Avaya IP Office VOIP phone system between 3 facilities across the US.Deployed and maintained MPLS private WAN between 3 remote facilities throughout the US as well as VPN connections for remote warehouses and sales staff.

Washington, Dc, Us

Marine Corps Reserve 7242- Air support operations operators perform duties incidental to the operation of tactical air support systems, operating various electronics equipment in a clear and electronic countermeasures environment. performing liaison necessary to ensure effective air support operations, and supervising and participating in preparation, movement, and emplacement of air support equipment.Reached Rank of Sergeant/E-5 Jan06. Recieved Navy Achievement Medal for excellent service as a Squad Leader and Platoon Sergeant while being deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom to Djibouti Africa 12/06-12/07.

Head of PC/Server repair for residential customers and businesses. Worked in several Police, Fire, Medical and Private businesses repairing, maintaining and upgrading their IT infrastructure.Worked as a mentor, training high school interns interested in the IT field.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Management Of Information Technology

Bachelors, Computer Information Systems

Certificate, Network Technology

Ccna, Cisco Certified Network Academy

Associates, Computer Information Systems

A.S; Certificate, Computer Information Systems; Network Technology