System Engineer Ii Team Lead
• Mentored, monitored, delegated, and acted as a point of escalation for the Support Team to promote the success and standardization of processes.• Provided leadership and directly manage the team’s resources, which includes team direction, day-to-day activities, setting team priorities and workflows for the day/week, team processes, coaching, and mentoring.• Identify areas of improvement and assisted with the creation and implementation of best practices and policies for the team.• Administered employee performance reviews.• Approved PTO and expense requests; manage work schedules and coverage calendar for the team IT Support relating to issues with the internal systems and network infrastructure.• Timely and effective administration, maintenance, network services, and support services for: Microsoft related technologies: Windows Server, SharePoint, Microsoft Office Suite 365.• Managed Virtualization technologies including VMware and Microsoft applications.• Network services infrastructure including DNS, DHCP, IP Address Management, VPN, and Firewalls• Supported Remote access solutions including VPN, terminal services, updates to agent scripts, responding to alerts, monitoring dashboard, periodic system review vSphere and Virtual Machines• Assisted with design, implementation, and administration of: WAN and LAN connectivity, routers, firewalls, wireless VLAN routing & switching, and firewall security in collaboration with appropriate internal resources.• Maintained hosted and cloud solutions for customers utilizing technologies that meet their requirements.• Assisted with implementation and maintenance of disaster recovery solutions in collaboration with the Security Department.• Provided timely and effective communication with customer including incident progress statuses and updates, notification of impending changes or planned outages.• Managed workstation and printer deployments.• Managed technical projects.