Mark Kroska, Mba, Pmp, Cissp Email & Phone Number

United States

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2700 1st Street North St. Cloud, MN

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I'm a member of the band...on keys and vocals.

MN

St. Cloud, Minnesota Area

IS450/550: Strategy, Management and Acquisition (In IS)https://catalog.stcloudstate.edu/Catalog/ViewCatalog.aspx?pageid=viewcatalog&topicgroupid=1988&entitytype=CID&entitycode=IS+450

Elk River, MN

• Classroom instruction for computer certifications including Service Desk Operations Management, CompTIA A+ and Network+, Microsoft Windows Server and Desktop OS, Windows Application Server and Cisco Routing and Switching
• Led campus GAP for student expectations by delivering insightful and intense classroom sessions. Recognized by Dean of Faculty as distinguished instructor on each review period.
• Subject matter expert and panel member for community advisory program board for IT program

• P&L responsibility for $10M+ budgets, cost reduction strategies, performance optimization and vendor negotiations
• Security Officer for Corporate Security policy and PCI compliance policies
• Project Manager for high-profile projects including Enterprise Windows 7 upgrade, SCCM implementation, NetApp storage conversion and upgrades, VMWare implementation and upgrades, Bring Your Own Technology policy and.
• Provide strategic corporate, department and team leadership to server, storage, network, telco, DBA, desktop and helpdesk teams
• Design, coordinate and support Service Desk application and reporting for 24/7 support of critical systems, dispatch and SLA management
• Primary Technical Architect Team Member for developing, deploying and testing long-term enterprise-wide operations and DR plan

• Server Team Lead over 225 Windows, Linux, Solaris and AIX instances
• Technical Security Lead for Corporate and PCI compliance policies
• Technical Project Lead for numerous high-profile projects including VDI rollout to100 initial stations, Microsoft SCOM, FrontRange ITSM, AD integration for numerous projects
• Initiated, planned and managed a successful AD migration between domains with minimal outage and significant benefit to business users (feature upgrade, security enhancements, policy improvements)
• VMWare Champion for several projects including portions of SAP in-sourcing, webserver environment consolidation and overall footprint reduction in the datacenter
• Senior Technical Architect Team Member for developing and deploying the long-term enterprise-wide plan

• Classroom instruction for computer certifications including CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+, Microsoft Windows Workstations, Microsoft Servers, Active Directory, Exchange, Microsoft Networking Infrastructure, CNA/Novell.
• Subject Matter Expert for several online courses, led instructor materialsdevelopment for Security+ curriculum
• Member of IT Program review committee to evolve the program for new standards and class recommendations
• Classroom instruction for multimedia program including Web Design Fundamentals (Macromedia Dreamweaver) and Multimedia Technologies (Macromedia Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, Premiere)Online.

• Built a world-class web and application hosting infrastructure from the beginning which hosts over 600 web sites
• Primary sponsor and architect for all aspects of security and network infrastructure from firewalls, DNS, IP subnets, Windows and Linux Server administration
• Project Manager for major projects including datacenter move of all equipment and services: customer contacts, vendor and network engineer coordination
• Designed and implemented Active Directory security measures; tested and recommended updates when appropriate for internal and external clients
• Provided training to network engineers and all Helpdesk staff for appropriate security and system administration skills for successful growth of the department
• Performed customer support at Level 4 for the most complex problems relating to networking, hardware and web hosting

Mba, Emphasis In Information Systems

Classes completed include managerial accounting and finance, management of information systems, business law, corporate strategies.

B.E.S, Business, Is, Ws

Classes completed include accounting, finance, economics, business law, management and information systems. Bachelor of Elective Studies.

Aa, Computer Science

Certification, Culinary Arts

Education record