Matthew Freestone Email & Phone Number

Orem, Utah, US

As the IT Director at Pura, I direct and oversee all IT activities within the organization. My key responsibilities include:IT Strategy: Formulated and executed IT strategies that align with business objectives, with a new emphasis on integrating AI technologies.AI Leadership: Took the initiative to head AI projects, specializing in AI prompt engineering.

Milpitas, California, US

Lead Altigen platform and deployment of FrontStage partnership application.

Direct technology research and implementation at Blue Panda including monitoring technology trends and market adjustment to ensure we always lead innovation our space. I lead both the production and R&D teams including designers, developers, product managers, infrastructure team, and testers. Architected ‘born in the cloud’ multi-channel contact center.

Direct technology research and implementation at Blue Panda including monitoring technology trends and market adjustment to ensure we always lead innovation in the space. Responsible for coming up with new concepts and solutions, taking these from concept to full product solutions. Lead leadership R&D conceptualization meetings and R&D developer team.

Create and manage infrastructure for Blue Panda Communications core platforms and services in the Azure cloud, utilizing the following technologies;Azure AD/Security/Key VaultStorage solutions as follows - CosmosDB, BlobAKSFunctionsAPI Management GatewayAvailability SetsBot ServicesCognitive ServicesEvent Grid/ServiceBus/SignalRSearch Service

Milpitas, California, US

Responsible for the Skype for Business infrastructure for both multi-tenant and virtually dedicated deployments. Architect, design, deploy, supervise, and maintain all Lync/S4B deployments. I have been tasked with creating this entire new product offering for Altigen and to build a team to run it. Directly responsible for creating, designing and deploying.

South Jordan, Utah, US

Responsible for the Lync/Skype for Business infrastructure for both multi-tenant and virtually dedicated deployments. Architect, design, deploy, supervise, and maintain all Lync/S4B deployments. Directly responsible for creating, designing and deploying new product features as well as new product offerings. I created and executed a training program to take.

Highland, Utah, US

Prometheus Networks was merged with OBT out of Australia to create a new North American entity called OBT Anywhere. I architected and built the entire cloud hosting environment that OBT Anywhere and its customers operate on, as well as having deployed multiple cloud hosting environments for partner and customer organizations including a large provider in.

Started company with business partner Mark Allen to fill a need in the market for small businesses to have utilized Information Technology. Structured S-Corp, formed board of directors, company structure, developed marketing strategy, setup stock structure, etc. Was involved in all investor/business partner meetings, formed relationships with Microsoft and.

I headed up the Infrastructure practice for Statera in the Salt Lake City region, but I also travelled to deploy projects in Seattle (F5 Networks Exchange migration), Alaska (defense contractor TMG array deployment) and many others. My job entailed not only deploying products and technologies that I already knew and understood, but also products that the.

Rebuilt small IT infrastructure and modernized it, then later built an entirely new infrastructure from scratch including the datacenter. I also deployed the latest Microsoft technology, including Hyper-V, DFS with shadow copy, RPC over HTTPS, etc. Upgraded to Exchange 2007 infrastructure with an Office Communications Server 2007 deployment, including.

Hired to manage and maintain networks in both the Utah and Arizona offices, running Windows Server 2003, and 2000 Servers in an Active Directory forest. Managed Exchange 2003 server and performed two service pack upgrades, fixing exchange after a 16G storage limit exceed, configuring intelligent spam service, group policy updates. Configured exchange for.

Maintain and create networks and systems for many companies in the Salt Lake valley, including airports, Olympic venues and small businesses. System Administrative responsibilities including IIS, Exchange Server 2000, including upgrading Exchange 2000 to 2003.

US

• Developed a lab to emulate live environment to prove feasibility of removing NDS, Netware, and Border Manager as well as to simplify the environment.
• Developed a web based system for monitoring, managing and developing this lab, and to monitor the workstations in the live environment.
• Responsible for handling technical support issues from employees in the home office, as well as supporting our agents world wide.
• Windows XP deployment project, moving from a Windows 2000 workstation to Windows XP.
• Given responsibility for software licensing and tracking.
• Developed a VoiceXML system for network maintenance.

• Managed a startup and took the company from the red into the black within two weeks.
• Handled managerial duties such as hiring new employees, creating schedules and researching new products we could bring to our customers.
• Designed, built, and maintained many networks in the four corners region.
• Managed our internal network infrastructure.

• Personally managed an internal peer to peer network for Basin Title in Cortez, Colorado.
• Personally managed an internal peer to peer network for Basin Title in Durango, Colorado.
• Linked the 2 cities networks through a secured dialup connection.
• Converted an Oracle 6 (DOS 5) to an Access 97 database.
• Created new systems of inventory and management.
• Taught classes for employees on how to best utilize their systems.

I was asked by companies to design and build their websites, and so began my own company on the side and designed websites for companies.

• Started job at the age of 16, built, upgraded and repaired PC's for customers.
• Designed and implemented many networks in the four corners region, including peer to peer, wireless, gigabit and server/client.
• Performed the research and development function.
• Built 75 new systems from scratch in 3 days.

High School

Electronics