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Vernon Hills, Il, Us

Vernon Hills, Il, Us

Vernon Hills, Il, Us

Helping clients maximize their IT investments, whether on-premises, in the cloud, or a hybrid environment. Current focus is on data center solutions including; storage, compute, backup, and cloud technologies. Discuss data center solution design best practices and provide guidance in product and technology selection. This includes strategic initiatives around Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI), migration to the cloud, or even traditional 3-tier architecture.

Overland Park, Ks, Us

Provide mentorship to emerging and established IT leaders. Work with C-Level and Executive leadership to determine how IT best serves their business. Establish improved processes to control cost and optimize IT's role in driving revenue.

Overland Park, Ks, Us

Design sustainable, cost-effective solutions for clients using different hardware and software vendors and cloud offerings. Working with clients from one-man IT shops to enterprises, setting short and long-term roadmap to best utilize IT investments.

Monroe, La, Us

Responsible for managing geographically dispersed engineering team comprised of both full-time and contractor resources. Provide infrastructure and IaaS to internal product groups. Expand team with talent from multiple disciplines ranging from VMware/virtualization to hardware and storage experts to cloud automation. Manage internal IT budget covering hardware, software, and personnel.Led team through year-long analysis and selection of hardware re-platform for internal cloud infrastructure, negotiations with multiple vendors, and subsequent deployment and training.Designed and implemented full infrastructure solution to facilitate divestiture of colocation data centers, working directly with purchasing company senior leadership.Completely redesigned internal IT data center footprint to allow for hot/hot availability and implement true disaster recovery with site-to-site replication and global site load balancing.

Monroe, La, Us

Responsible for delivering and managing infrastructure solutions to support enterprise applications, products, and core IT infrastructure. Design, expand and maintain multiple global data center presence.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Managed middle ware application support team. Deployed ZenDesk company-wide for help desk management.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Responsible for the design and implementation of the IT infrastructure. This includes, but is not limited to, Virtualization, Enterprise Backup Administration, Database Administration, Data Center design, and Application Administration.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Joined organization to give web-enabled visibility to legacy Informix-4GL application. After completing initially scoped project, role was expanded to add new features and improve upon existing application. Responsible for the web and application framework and took on the additional role of Unix/Linux Administrator for legacy SCO Unix servers and new Linux servers. Also developed processes and procedures for developers, deployed source control (CVS/SVN), and created a software release utility to control SDLC in an agile environment.

Miami, Florida, Us

Responsible for the development, programming, and release of primarily web-based applications for server maintenance and automation of tasks.Developed work order ticketing system to remedy problems in escalation and production.Also developed a custom email list management utility for clients.

Miami, Florida, Us

Monitoring email, DNS, MySQL, and internal systems.Responsible for trouble-shooting *NIX-based issues throughout the network.Development of rudimentary tools for server maintenance.Developing CGIs using PERL and HTML

Handled calls from tech floor regarding advanced problems with high-bandwidth Internet connections, web hosting issues, and email server problems.Developed small web tutorials for Tech Support Personnel Training.Helped in training Technical Support with new acquisitioned ISPs.Used extensive knowledge of Windows-based operating systems, UNIX systems, and Internet software.