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As an IT Infrastructure Manager, I solve large problems by breaking them into bite-sized, actionabletasks with defined goals. I explain the big picture to my team, as I dole out responsibilities and maintainregular meetings to keep them on track. Throughout this process, I provide reliable project statusupdates to firm and department leadership. I prioritize ensuring project status is simple to obtain,vendor coordination is managed, and most importantly, that engineers have ownership of their projects.I provide them with support as a technical resource, working with them to discuss and break throughblocking issues as needed. I flourish in a work environment where I can be an influential component of afirm’s success.Some accomplishments include: hybrid workforce conversion. Cloud services migration. Securityvulnerability management. Forward thinking. Budget consciousness. Service availability.Beyond management, I enjoy the technical aspects of IT systems administration and engineering. Iroutinely delve into projects and tasks that have a far-reaching impact, such as researching anddeploying a new security product, or redesigning branch-office networking to reduce costs. Additionally,I believe technology requires constant education, so I attend annual conferences and regular webinarspertaining to new technical developments in the legal field, and I read industry publications on a dailybasis. I also read and contribute to technology forums on social media platforms such as Reddit toensure I keep up with industry standards and assist others in the industry to do the same.My experience with various technologies includes the following: SD-WAN: HP Aruba Silver PeakNetwork: cisco catalyst, nexus, MerakiPower management: APC/SE, Tripplite Virtualization: VMware, NutanixHybrid worker/remote access: Cisco AnyConnect, PAN GlobalProtect, Citrix VirtualApp,ProxyProCompute: HP Blade, Dell ReadyNodeStorage: VMware VSAN, Dell Unity, Datadomain, SynologyProject management/ticketing: Jira, FreshService, ServiceNow,Infrastructure: Solarwinds, Dell SecureConnect Gateway, Dell OpenManage Enterprise, Dell vsanreadynode, Microsoft SCCMDRaaS: Sungard/11:11 Systems, DataDomainBackup: Veeam B&R, VB365, Dell DataDomainCloud: AWS, Azure, M365, Intune, iManage, ExchangeOnline, M365, MS Entra, vender-specificSAML/SSO integrationLegal: iManage, LiteraSecurity: Cisco UmbrellaDNS, Palo Alto Networks nextgen firewall, Duo, Cylance, Crowdstrike,Articwolf SIEM, Tenable.io, pentest services

Listed skills include Windows 7, Blackberry Enterprise Server, Active Directory, Vmware Esx, and 44 others.

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  Kirkwood Community College

  Network And System Administration/Administrator