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Irvine, CA, US

Working to align our solutions to meet our business needs through collaboration, empathy, and a product first mindset.Ensuring my teams are enabling our staff to have the best chance of success through providing the proper tools, data, services, and solutions through transparency and inclusiveness. Managing and creating a service-oriented support.

Irvine, California, US

Evaluated entire IT infrastructure (AWS and on premise) identifying risk, security, and process gaps.Provided insight for finance and executive team on company wide IT spend and proposed budget for 2016.Re-architected on premise and AWS infrastructure to support site to site VPN, enterprise wide backups leveraging AWS S3 and Glacier, and ensuring highly.

Leading Eardish's Technology team comprised of IT Operations, Engineers, QA, project management, and DevOps.Architecting, planning, implementing, and maintaining corporate best practices, security best practices, policies, procedures, infrastructure automation, build automation, AWS infrastructure, on premise infrastructure, and any other corporate IT.

• Director of IT Operations Duties:
• Managed all IT related staff, services, solutions, vendors, and infrastructure
• Led in the implementation of the SDLC and code deployment automation using Team City
• Performed weekly security audits and oversaw remediation tasks
• Led the migration of the initial infrastructure from Azure to AWS
• Designed and led implementation of a highly available AWS infrastructure (Microsoft stack, EC2, IAM, S3, CloudFront, ELB, CloudWatch, Route 53, VPC)

El Segundo, CA, US

• Led a team of 4 engineers
• Led all IT related services, solutions, vendors, and infrastructure
• Assisted in the implementation of a SDLC and code deployment automation using Perforce and Bamboo
• Planned, managed, and implemented three production SQL server hardware refresh and software upgrades
• Planned, managed, and implemented numerous production Windows and VMWare server hardware refresh and software upgrades
• Planned, managed, and executed a local data center relocation

Beverly Hills, CA, US

• Managed/Implemented client's custom infrastructure into Zerolag's colocation facilities
• Managed project timelines, documentation, staff, resources, and client expectations
• Improved existing processes to streamline installations
• Implemented wiring/racking strategy for easy server access and management
• Participated in tier 2 and 3 support for Windows and Network services and systems

Vancouver, CA

• Redesigned and relocated production environments from Savvis to Equinix’s collocation facility implementing security and data redundancy while minimizing the downtime to our clients. This was achieved by utilizing.
• Negotiated and maintained all technical services including outsourced newsletters, CDN services, external vulnerability scanning, and collocation hosting.
• Managed all vendor relationships and negotiated all procurement of Technical assets.
• Collaborated with Executive team to address and resolve all technical issues.
• Recommended and implemented MS SharePoint 2003 and MS Project Server 2003 to assist in building better team collaboration and communications.
• Recommended and implemented a three part solution to resolve email delivery issues that included outsourcing newsletter delivery to increase effectiveness and delivery of our newsletter emails, using a third party.

US

• Designed, assisted the implementation of, maintained, and administered CommVault’s Galaxy backup solution for our Enterprise and Production environments.
• Designed, implemented, and managed an Exchange migration from a single 2000 server to a load balanced Front End/clustered back end Exchange 2003 environment.
• Redesigned and upgraded Windows AD infrastructure from 2000 to 2003 utilizing Group Policies.
• Redesigned and upgraded internal switching fabric from heterogeneous to homogeneous.
• Managed local Data Center including 50+ servers comprised of Windows, Linux, UNIX, and 2 SAN solutions.
• Provided IT support for all senior executives in and outside of the office.

Naperville, IL, US

• Participated in the design, development and implementation of local server builds: HTTP\FTP, Print, DHCP, DNS, WINS, Proxy, Backup Domain Controller, Tape Backup (ArcServe), File (Raid 5), Web Cam (Axis 200+), and Macintosh OS 9 (Print, HTTP\FTP, and File Sharing)• Installed, maintained, and troubleshot hardware/software for user’s laptops, servers, LAN.

• Troubleshot connectivity issues for company headquarters and its affiliates including: Toyota Motor Sales Data Center, Toyota Dealers, Toyota Global North America, Toyota Motor Credit Corporation, Toyota Logistic Services, Toyota Motor Sales, and Toyota Manufacturing Plants.• Monitored WAN/LAN connectivity for remote locations utilizing virtual private.

• Troubleshot LAN (NT and Novell hybrid environment) and WAN problems for clients using internal proprietary software (WONDA) which employed the use of frame relay, internet, firewalls, proxy servers, socks servers, TCP/IP, and Windows workstations and servers.• Installed, maintained, and troubleshot NT/Novell/Crosscomm/Cisco environment. • Administered 30.

• Performed 90% product purchasing
• Renegotiated pricing for products.
• Assisted in the development of product handbooks and website.
• Maintained and developed Vendor relations
• Tested new paging and cellular programming software and hardware, products, and tools.
• Supervised team of twelve