Michael Widawski, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Downers Grove, Il

Kilkenny, Ie

Leading Global Technology Projects Team in delivery of the business critical projects.Managing technology project portfolio (Technology Services Program of Work) and project intake process. Collaborate with executive management to help achieve an organization’s goals and come up with new strategies. Producing and presenting program status reports to stakeholders and Senior Leadership Team.Key on-site and global deployment lead for regional and global Technology Services rollouts. Delivering cross-functional groups of projects to agreed designs, time frames and budgets (business mergers and acquisitions, office and plant build-outs)Responsible for evaluating and implementing new technologies into organization and IT due diligence for business acquisitionsResponsible for IT designs for the new business locations including local and hosted data centers.

Kilkenny, Ie

Glanbia Performance Nutrition - Business UnitDirected a team managing enterprise core IT infrastructure. Responsible of IT designs and deployment of the IT infrastructure in new sites across United States, and remote offices in EMEA and AsPac regionsInvolved in business critical projects. Responsible for the IT designs for the new locations, and local, and hosted data centers.Responsible for evaluating and implementing new technologies into organization.

Kilkenny, Ie

Glanbia Performance Nutrition - Business UnitLeading regional IT infrastructure team. Responsible for planning, deployment, operations and support consistent with corporate standards and in collaboration with Enterprise Group IT. This includes, but is not limited to data centers, WAN, LAN, servers, storage, network infrastructure (switches, routers, etc) video conferences and backup infrastructure. Maintaining network hardware and software, analyzing problems, and monitoring the network to ensure its availability to system users. Managing vendor and partner relationships for enterprise IT services. Researching and evaluating new software, hardware and technological resources Developing, documenting and implementing standards & procedures for Infrastructure Operations areas include Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management and Configuration Management

Kilkenny, Ie

Glanbia Performance Nutrition - Business UnitPlanning, developing, configuring, maintaining, supporting and optimizing data connectivity for local area network (LAN) and wide area network (WAN) systems. Researching, analyzing, monitoring, troubleshooting and resolving server or data network problems to ensure its availability to system users. Providing day-to-day onsite administrative support for software users in a variety of work environments. Responsible for installation, maintenance and troubleshooting of the Storage Area Network (SAN). Installing, supporting and maintaining both physical and virtual network servers and appliances (VMware ESX). Establishing and maintaining user accounts, profiles, file sharing, access privileges, security, user e-mail accounts, daily server tape backups and implementing archiving procedures. Maintaining and supporting Polycom Video Conference devices (VBP) and Cisco devices such as Wireless Controllers, Wide Area Application Services (WAAS). Researching and evaluating new technologies related to computer networking. Involved in various Group IT projects such as domain integration and migration.

Kilkenny, Ireland, Us

Purchase, New York, Us

Primary responsibilities include daily preparation of Active Directory Accounts and 6,000+ Exchange 2007 Accounts for migration from the existing Novell NetWare/GroupWise environment. This includes using Vendor (Microsoft and Novell) and 3rd Party Tools (Quest Software) to create NetWare Objects, Match and Merge AD/Exchange Accounts, Migrate SID History and Novell Home Drive Data. These tasks are accomplished using Quest Software’s suite of migration tools including the Quest Migration Manager, Quest NDS Migrator and Quest GroupWise Migrator for Exchange. Windows Administration duties include Role Group, Group Policy and printer creation and management. Additional duties include providing end user support to MTM Clients using Microsoft’s SCCM as well as on-site PC and software deployment, printer configuration and old PC data retrieval. Documentation and PC inventory of users’ machines to create help create PC builds with the correct software. Act as backend support to 1st and 2nd level support

Provided support to end users on a variety of issues. Identified, researched, and resolved technical problems, as part of an IT help desk serving 100 employees. Maintained company IT resources including Windows 2003/2007 Servers, Windows Workstations, laptops, printers, Antivirus, DHCP, backup and multimedia equipment. Administered Active Directory and Exchange 2007 accounts, mailboxes, security groups and distribution lists. Established security policies, folder redirection policies, network printers auto-installation policies and WSUS policies for network. Daily tasks also included reviewing Event Viewer for server errors and warnings. Troubleshoot hardware, software, and network connectivity issues, disburse and retrieve computer equipment while maintaining asset inventory and network printers. Managed company VoIP telephone system and switches. Implemented and managed office wireless network as well as Remote Access/VPN Cisco IP-Sec connections. Implemented and administered MAS 500, SalesLogix CRM, Acronis Backup software and WebsenseExpress. Maintained system tape backups and implemented disaster recovery plan. Key player in the implementation of new DNS, DHCP, SQL, ISA 2005, File and Print servers, new Cisco switches and firewall. Gave product recommendations on how to improve speed of operations and system security measures. Set up Windows Mobile Phones and iPhones for Exchange Server, configuration of Blackberry phones. Produced system/network documentation as needed.

Bachelor Of Applied Science, Information Security Systems

Associate Of Applied Science, Computer Network Systems