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Phoenix, AZ, US

New York, NY, US

• Designed and deployed secure enterprise solutions for global workforce and business strategies. Providing agile, secure, and centralized application platforms to align with business strategies was my primary role while.
• Consolidated business processes from across the organization to provide high levels of availability and security while reducing operational expenses.
• Managed Data Center SOX compliance, PCI audits and quarterly controls for datacenters in Phoenix, Maryland, Guam, Australia, and India.
• Designed, documented, and tested disaster recovery and business continuity solutions. Coordinated production application shifts among datacenter annually to align configurations, test business continuity plans and.
• Developed and deployed global work force solutions creating an agile application platform, allowing us to centralize our business data and provide continuity and data security.
• Led teams for critical incident management and remediation.

New York, NY, US

• Designed, planned, and led technical teams during mergers and acquisitions of large businesses.
• Designed processes and led technical teams for business mergers of complex infrastructures with a focus on security of business systems and data protection.
• Governed network and storage infrastructure, MS active directory/LDAP identity management, auditing systems, event correlation and incident management.
• Reviewed daily and weekly reports to verify configuration and maintain integrity of our role base security and business systems access.
• Managed SIEM and enterprise data sources for auditing across infrastructure applications (LDAP, AD, DNS, DHCP), production applications/databases, and collaborative platforms such as Google, O365, Exchange and Lotus.
• Audited, documented, and designed solutions for physical and logical security of business facilities and production systems.

New York, NY, US

• Led virtualization initiative, Storage Infrastructure, Datacenter architecture and design.
• Managed multi-platform infrastructure including Windows, MAC, Linux, Solaris, iSeries while maintaining a security-minded ITIL management focus of all infrastructure assets such as L2 and L3 networking, Firewalls/WAF.
• Adopted VMWare strategy in 2002 reducing operational and capital expenses. Hyper-V and OpenStack were also leveraged, but to a lesser extent. These systems positioned us to become early adopters of virtual.
• Consolidated regional and local datacenters, reducing complexity, costs, and recovery times.

New York, NY, US

• Disaster recovery, Storage and Application replication, business continuity planning and testing.
• Storage Administrator responsible for maintaining Enterprise Storage Arrays, maintenance contracts and hardware refreshes. Planned and led enterprise storage migrations such as Digital, EMC Celerra, EMC Symmetrix and.
• Managed backup and recovery systems, adopted emerging technologies and best practices to mitigate risks and achieve recovery point objectives.
• Managed media conversions, SCSI DLT to FC LTO and offsite vaults.
• Led Tape library migrations including StorageTek to ADIC, Physical Tape to Virtual Tape Libraries and later to DataDomain.
• Adopted virtual media and offsite strategies with public cloud and private vaults at Iron Mountain. Virtual infrastructure recovery solutions with EMC Recover Point, SAN Replication, VMWare replication with Veeam and.

New York, NY, US

• Primary Microsoft Platforms administrator.
• Responsible for migration from Netware and MS NT domains to Active directory.
• Audited and adopted best practices through the use of BPSA and auditing tools.
• Created Gannett’s first incident management team focusing on availability and SECOPS.
• With emerging technologies and little oversight, my role was to audit business systems, identify rouge IT systems to bring all technology assets under enterprise governance, while always focusing on data security and.

New York, NY, US

• Senior Analyst
• Created company first configuration management and endpoint deployment system. Applying best practices and enforcing security policies across all business endpoints.
• Automated deployment and configuration management for enterprise endpoints. Leveraged LANDesk, MS MOM/SCCM, GPO and logon scripts to provide endpoint configuration management and security.
• Designed imaging and application deployment solution with configuration management using a combination, ImageCast, CloneZilla, multicast networking with distribution points throughout the national infrastructure.

Phoenix, Arizona, US

Established, owned and operated a successful and respected MSP business in the southwest. Focused on data security and business continuity; although, performed all aspects of technology services for our clients from the desktop to the datacenter.Responsible for recommending new solutions and maintaining existing business systems including.

Phoenix, Arizona, US

• Education: Boys and Girls Clubs of America, Theaterworks, Alltrain Medical Acadamy, Galvanize
• Managed Meraki camera and network systems across campuses from coast to coast.
• Helped deploy physical Security, access management and lockdown automation for emergency services.
• Responsible for Classroom technology and AV, student records management, endpoint management and security. Configuration management in classrooms/Labs with Deep Freeze and GPOs to maintain patches, AV and Malware.
• Managed large fund-raising events throughout the year, providing guest services including WIFI, video content creation, auction solutions, payment solutions, event enrollment and access management.
• Managed technology grants and assisted with new lab environments for robotics, 3D printing, Media creation and Podcasting studios, etc… Setup and managed several STEM environments across the State of Arizona to assist.

Phoenix, Arizona, US

• Law/Legal: – Benedict Martin, Moore Law
• Managed client records and document management systems.
• Developed solution to digitize client records including encryption and data integrity of original document preventing modification for electronic legal hold.
• Managed telephone systems and privacy concerns with recordings due to confidentiality.

Phoenix, Arizona, US

• Industrial and Manufacturing: Loftin Equipment, Vern Lewis Welding, Encore Cabinets, Bay City Electric
• Migrated legacy telephony systems to VOIP solutions developed by our team using Asterisk or to vendors such as Nextiva, RingCentral, Skyswitch, Star2Star, and others dictated by business needs. Considerable cost.
• Fleet management solutions for GPS tracking, asset management and route assistance. Adopted in cab monitoring solutions for employee evaluations and incident management.
• Created secure, remote workforce and mobile solutions providing continuity during the pandemic. Adopted industry best practices and best of breed solutions from Citrix, Cisco, Fortinet and VMWare.
• Technical support for technicians as engines and industrial systems evolved requiring more technical knowledge while diagnosing issues and repair. Our team assisted the client’s staff to bridge technical gaps with.
• Supported sales teams and adopted secure solutions to allow sales associates to work in the field more and spend less time in the office.

Phoenix, Arizona, US

• Healthcare: ClinPath Pathology, Southwest Spine and Sports, Douglas Family Dental, Scottsdale Oral Surgery, Valley Vien and Vascular, Valley Urological, Hamilton Prosthetics, Northwest Urology, and HCS Onsite.
• Audited production systems and automated reporting with SEIM and asset management systems to provide event correlation and intrusion detection/prevention.
• Adopted HIPAA best practices and change management to provide active threat evaluation and remediation. Performed quarterly audits, threat remediation and consulted with management on action plans to maintain.
• Experience with radiology systems, image storage, EMR Solutions, Healthcare information exchanges and interfaces. Scanning solutions for identification and medical records storage.
• Developed remote work platforms for doctors to facilitate offsite practice management while maintaining the highest level of security through the use of HIPAA Omnibus best practices and PHI protection.

Phoenix, Arizona, US

• Graphic design/marketing: Weststar Networks (Kim Komando), Realworld media, Printing Specialists, CNL Awards
• Telephony services for voice, video and fax.
• Provided physical security including alarm, video and badge access.
• Database management and SEO Services
• Network security and isolation of production systems used for broadcasting and show productions.
• Storage systems for content storage and production video broadcasting.

Phoenix, Arizona, US

• Insurance and Financial: Paragon Partners, Reseco Insurance, PIBAZ, A1 Leasing, Choice Credit Services, Patel CPA, TWM
• Responsible for industry related technology best practices such as PCI, HIPAA, SOX and general telecommunication regulations.
• Maintained security configuration management, data protection, and disaster recovery.
• Monthly penetration testing to verify production system integrity.
• Annual audits and disaster recovery testing and verification.

Phoenix, Arizona, US

• Construction: VSS Security, K Corp, Diversified Roofing, Renco Roofing, Arizona State Masonry, K Corp, RMP Construction, Steel Creations, and JavCon.
• Managed many industry specific business applications, focused on availability and data protection. Timberline, Quickbooks, SAP, Joist, materials management, etc.
• Maintained physical security of assets in yard and internally with access management and video analytics. Provided 24/7, automated video monitoring via Centralized Vizion and Verkada including license plate and facial.
• Managed all aspects of technology from the desktop to production systems and data management.
• Network security, intrusion protection/prevention, event correlation via log analytics.

Phoenix, Arizona, US

• Automotive: Wilhelm Automotive, Sun Auto, Thunderbird Auto, Autocare professionals
• PCI Compliance, auditing and annual recertification for merchant services.
• Maintained physical security including access management, alarms and camera systems with video analytics for event correlation.
• Data protection offsite and endpoint security.
• Managed line of business applications for shop management and inventory control.
• Assisted mechanics with technical diagnostic tools for automotive repair. As technology become more complex, the staff and our team would work together to adopt new tools for advanced automotive computer systems and EV.

Project implementation onsite for new customers. Performed network upgrades including Windows NT domain and Netware upgrades. Specialized in hardware support for DIGITAL platforms.

Developed data collection and transformation processes for financial institutions.

Installed and maintained small 150 node WAN between Phoenix and Chicago.Managed Novell network and supported RAS solution including client support for our customers throughout the southwest.

Business Management In Information Technology

Network Administration

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