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Gainesville, Fl, Us

Gainesville, Florida, Us

Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences IT Office• Enabled and assisted with the deployment of Microsoft Teams and OneDrive for county extension staff. Co-designed plan for modernizing Windows servers across the state enabling additional funding to research centers and improving disaster recovery. Azure File Sync configuration and deployment at remote research centers.• Co-trained 7000 institute and campus personnel on services across the M365 platform. Engaged by campus leaders to provide training to business units on Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, and Planner.• Community building as co-manager of 1200-member IT training community where we explore M365 services for campus faculty, staff, and non-UF university personnel. Co-hosting since June 2019 monthly “Teams Tuesday” meetings to the community for driving adoption across campus. Co-manager and host of national M365 training community for land-grant university extension agents.• Design and deploy business solutions on the M365 platform. Modernized 4-H camp processes on MS Lists, Forms, and flows. Build, secure, staff-managed SharePoint sites for faculty grant processes.• Co-architected and developed Virtual Venue as a Service with Microsoft Teams as a conference platform. Co-hosted 12 virtual conferences in Microsoft Teams reaching 5600 attendees enabling the retasking of $7 million previously encumbered for in-person events.• Manage 150 institute and department hosted virtual machines for services such as MS SQL, DNS, print, web, data logging. Support infrastructure for 200 websites on Microsoft IIS, WordPress, MySQL, Node.js, Apache, and Glassfish. Provide web page, WordPress, and PHP assistance to staff.• Write PowerShell code for managing services and processes. Moved team to GitHub for collaboration and storage of team scripts. Champion the use of OneNote for team documentation and SharePoint Online for user-facing help documentation and training.• Manage two Systems Administrator II staff.

Gainesville, Florida, Us

Campus Infrastructure and Communications Technology• Manage campus Microsoft 365 organization and related services. Manage SharePoint platform and hosted undergraduate catalog. Coordination and migration of department SharePoint sites to SharePoint Online. Manage Exchange, Lync/Skype for Business, Identity Lifecycle Manager, ADFS, and Azure AD Connect.• Responsible for the deployment and management of medium to large UF IT projects. Implement and manage highly secured FISMA/NIST compliant Windows environment, including Active Directory, 30TB file services, and 10TB MS SQL Server services. Architect and deploy enterprise risk management and central document management software.• Manage campus Active Directory infrastructure including GPOs, DFS, and security. Perform installation and maintenance of a variety of campus-facing hardware and software systems including IIS web, application, and MS SQL database servers. Maintain IIS hosting web farm with F5 load balancer. Assist customers with site settings, web publishing, and Shibboleth configuration. • Develop overall database data architecture to support application needs. Deploy and maintain MS SQL Server systems, instances, and databases for enterprise applications and central hosting. Deploy MS SQL Always On and failover clusters.• Diagnose, isolate, and debug complex hardware or software issues beyond Tier 2 support capabilities. Manage expectations with customers and management on priority issues.• Ensure knowledgebase, playbooks, and documentation reflect output of efforts by team and for campus IT staff consumption. Championed team documentation generating 600+ OneNote pages.

Gainesville, Florida, Us

Administration – Finance and Accounting• Provided software and hardware support and training to 150 staff and administrators. Initiative-taking support and knowledge transfer. Developed web-based solutions directory.• Technical lead establishing first vice president level, cross-departmental IT support system. Mentored temporary and student IT staff. Championed first use of a wiki to host IT documentation building a set of 550 topics.• Provided direction and suggestions for business process reengineering. Deployed first document imaging service for campus. Moved printed mainframe reports to PDF saving 420,000 printed pages. Designed the first process for fillable online forms and processing. Created web training sessions.• Developed new and improved existing websites for each unit in Finance and Accounting. Deployed and managed a central web server for all units. Standardized web authoring and management software. Designed Year End Schedule planning tool. Designed and maintained UF Travel Request website.• Created comprehensive plan for use and replacement of PCs, LANs, and software. Maintained current hardware and software inventory. Profiled user positions for computer requirements. Developed database for inventory control and purchase planning.• Established web request and tracking system for software, hardware, and LAN support requests.

Gainesville, Florida, Us

UF/IFAS - Wildlife Ecology and Conservation• Coordinated the use of department software and hardware resources. Installed and configured network operating system on all computers. Installed and configured two department servers. Provided information systems budget and computer and software upgrade plan.• Provided software and hardware support to faculty, staff, and students. Provided hardware and software purchasing information to students and faculty; Averaged 25 helpdesk inquiries a week; Supported 30 faculty and staff and 300 students.• Designed and managed a 50-node local-area network supporting three department buildings. Installed a communications server for remote access by faculty.• Improved computer resources of department. Oversaw the acquisition of computers, software, telecommunications, and network infrastructure totaling over $175,000. Upgraded faculty to latest class of computers and provided at least one computer for their labs.• Developed and managed first departmental website. Developed interactive database websites for species richness and endangered species in Florida.• Developed and managed the installation of a new 60-line phone system. Installed and managed MS Exchange Server for department e-mail. Created on-line forms for various administrative tasks and adopted by the college.

Develop and manufacture golf cart accessories and home electronics. VOLTSeasy, LiTESeasy, DotDock (for Amazon Echo Dot), MiniDock (for Google Home Mini)

Master Of Science, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering