Joel Gerber Email & Phone Number

Cheyenne, WY, US

Fort Collins, Colorado, US

• Senior member on the team where I maintain, secure, and document large on-premise and multi-cloud technology infrastructure. Lead role for multiple infrastructure deployments, overhauls, and upgrades. Mentoring.
• Leading migration of legacy 365 licenses to Azure premium simplifying scope of licenses while adding features.
• Leading DNS and ISP redundancy project resulting in 98% reduction in services downtime when utilizing secondary ISP.
• Leading firewall best practices audit and documenting change recommendations. Recommendations will be executed with zero business hours impact.
• Manage SharePoint site creation, parameters, and deployment. One set of sites reduced time required to process billing details and increased quality of the end result.

Fort Collins, Colorado, US

• Member on the team where I maintained, secured, and documented large on-premise and multi-cloud technology infrastructures. Lead role for multiple infrastructure deployments, overhauls, and upgrades.
• SharePoint IntranetDesigned and managed migration and build out of new employee intranet from legacy website to SharePoint.Created department sites so each could manage content and communications for their respective.
• Business IntelligenceCreated 20+ PowerBI dashboards using PowerQuery, DAX, and SQL. Data sources included MS SQL, SharePoint lists, and Oracle DB.Created 6+ SSRS dashboards with MS Visual Studio to obtain the refresh.
• Phone system overhaulLed the infrastructure migration from on-premises Cisco phone system to cloud SaaS phone system.Reduced costs of services by 70% and increased ease of use and functionality.
• FacilitiesManaged facilities maintenance and upgrades including physical security access control and camera systems.

Hooker, Oklahoma, US

• Managed our GIS and Dispatch teams in addition to the IT team and infrastructure.
• Communications ProjectDesigned network infrastructure and subneting schema to support secure communications tosubstations and field vehicles.Increased network complexity by expanding subnets from 4 to more than 50 and.
• Remote support softwareEvaluated multiple solutions including SaaS and self-hosted.Selected self-hosted product for cost, flexibility, feature set, and ease of use.Eliminated the requirement of IT staff to physically.
• Virtual EnvironmentDeployed redundant VMware vCenter and SAN solution with SSD storage in preparation for VDI migration.Reduced physical server hardware by 50%.
• Custom SoftwareModified custom software application to allow QR code scanning for member registration.Time for member registration was significantly decreased.

Hooker, Oklahoma, US

• First employee hired in the IT department handling all aspects of IT as the team grew over the next few years.
• Cooperative GrowthManaged billing and accounting software upgrade from CAPS XL+ to iVue.Merged customer data resulting from territory purchase which grew the co-op from 12,500 meters to 23,700 meters.
• Annual MeetingImplemented custom software application allowing electronic registration of members.Provided real time quorum statistics.Enabled the registration team to handle additional memberships resulting from the.
• Replaced traditional PBX phone system with PoE VoIP phone system.Improved reporting options.Reduced cabling infrastructure and technician time.Decreased monthly maintenance costs by 87%.

Multicloud Bootcamp

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Information Systems

High School