Mike Kasper Email & Phone Number

Naperville, Illinois, United States

O'Fallon, Missouri, United States

Promoted in September 2022 to a new role on my team.Primary roles and responsibilities: Projects, process, architecture- Own internal IT projects end to end. - Intake, prioritize, schedule. - Develop technical architecture and process documentation with all teams. - Workflow development.

O'Fallon, Mo

Promoted in January 2020 to perform more advanced tasks around the areas below, while mentoring and supporting the lower-level engineers on my team.

O'Fallon, Mo

• Designed and implemented a new environment for our Australia office using VMware that consisted of a domain controllers, database servers, web servers, and management servers. Utilized Vsphere 5.0 and vCenter operations Manager.• Set up lab environment to investigate root cause and conduct analysis to determine why customer servers and database issues occurred. This was implemented using VMware and the vSphere client in MS Server environments. • Worked in conjunction with IBM to refresh our internal hardware with a blade server environment.• Utilized vSphere, vCloud Director, vCenter Operations Manager platforms and tools for our internal office network and test labs.• Working within MS-SQL to setup replication and maintenance jobs; backing up and restoring databases; rebuilding indexes in databases; monitoring processes in Activity Monitor.• Utilized Active Directory to authenticate our hosted clients to their application. We also use this in conjunction with DFS. DNS is used on a daily basis to create A Records, and CNAMEs to configure our web applications.• Maintaining, monitoring, and upgrading our hosted environments using Citrix servers, database servers, file servers, and web servers.• Project lead for researching, testing, implementing, and deploying new antivirus software to all internal servers/workstations and hosted servers.

Saint Charles, Mo

• Successfully managed support base for a business/church website CMS, department of 2 web designers, 1 trainer and 5 support specialists. • Configured and maintained customer help desk software while improving upon processes/procedures to make the experience more streamlined for the customer.• Configured and maintained the company CRM by creating and perfecting workflow and custom procedures.• Responsible for creating and updating overall support processes and procedures. • Project Management for many projects through my tenure, of which many are web design. • Using Microsoft Project I ensured that all tasks and milestones are met throughout the project, while tweaking each project to maximize productivity.• Ensured quality functionality, in conjunction with our network administrator, of the web servers using MS Server 2008 R2 and virtualized into separate environments using VMware. Our database server uses MS SQL 2008 R2.• Windows Server Duties included: Managing updates to the web servers; Working with Group Policy and Deployment; Microsoft Management Console (MMC); Active Directory; Scheduling Tasks.• Basic Duties within SQL Server included: Adding users to databases in relation to Active Directory; Creating/modifying permissions; Table modification.• Created website applications using Plesk Server Software to configure domains, IIS to configure the application, Active Directory to create/configure user permissions, MS SQL 2008 R2 to configure the database and assign user permissions.• Designed Websites using a CMS in coordination with HTML, and CSS.• Photoshop graphic logos and image manipulation.• Guaranteed day in and day out customer satisfaction. • Hosted weekly online training sessions with many groups of clients using GoToMeeting.

• Provided technical support to field technicians for VOIP, switches, and routers for Edward D. Jones.• Guided field service technicians concerning Global Branch Network installations (Converted satellites to T1/SDSL/ADSL).• Communicated with vendors ensuring projects are on schedule and technical issues are resolved accurately.• Developed technical/instructional documentation in coordination with CBIZ and Edward D. Jones associates, for training new employees.