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Cottage Grove, Mn, Us

St Paul, Minnesota, United States

United States

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Lead and supervised team of twenty technicians, geographically dispersed across the countryKnowledge manager and SME on Aternity, a SaaS product that monitors endpoints, networks and software performanceDeveloped and implemented IT strategies and initiatives that aligned with the company's goals and objectives, including hardware refresh and business process alignment between parent entities and acquired subsidiaries.

Bloomington, Mn

Liaised between CIO and management/supervisor staff Developed and deployed process improvement initiatives including; hardware refresh optimization, ticket streamlining, and student employment developmentFunctioned as senior member of the desktop team responsible for desktop architecture supporting 20,000 end users with 2,500 desktops. Deployed applications. patches, operating system updates, hardware, software, and compliance reporting, in role as SCCM administrator. Also implemented and administered BitLocker for the organization.Active Directory administrator/architect. Served in a formal mentorship capacity to junior staff and student workers

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Primary project manager for senior management on all infrastructure/OS related initiatives, responsible for initiative documentation, process design and overall implementation timeline management. Responsible for configuring, documenting, and maintaining the change control management process as well as updating configuration management database and knowledge management articlesConfigured and administered SCCM/SCOM to minimize security risk and maximize application deployment

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Directed infrastructure modification and expansion projects with 5-25 employees and budgets between $100,000-$5,000,000. Organized, documented, and administered large scale company-wide disaster recovery exercise. Tracked hardware warranties, maintenance agreements, contracts and license agreement for all hardware and software installed in onsite and cloud-based data centers.

Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Main point of contact for the executive team and managers on all technical matters. Hired, trained, mentored, and managed an IT team of 10 people. Led team that implemented and maintained system security, backup, disaster recovery, and configurations of company servers while providing comprehensive IT support to end-users. Planned for, researched and prepared recommendations to upper management for server layouts, network equipment, computers, and peripheral equipment modifications to existing systems. Responsible for budget production and presentation as well as personnel and technical reports to upper management.Analyzed operations to develop risk mitigation, process improvement, and expansion strategies in partnership with business owners and executive leadership and to support go-forward technology needs.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Served as a single point of contact for all IT related hardware, network, and software needs in various small to medium sized businesses who utilized the MMIC managed service provider services. Administered Active Directory in 15 different domains. Researched and recommended hardware and software refresh and equipment upgrades as needed. Worked as a project manager on several large-scale network, hardware, and software implementations.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Worked as a consultant for Northwest Airlines on large scale implementation projects over geographically disparate areas. Supported internal and external customers with hardware, software, and networking issues.Project manager on XP to Vista migration including hardware upgrades on 300 plus workstationsProject manager on self serve kiosk OS and hardware upgrades at 180 remote sites

Hibbing, Minnesota, United States

Provided level one and two support for hardware, software, and end user issue

Master'S Degree, Technology Management

Graduated Magna Cum Laude

Bachelor'S Degree, Individualized Studies - Management Of Techical Professionals

Graduated Summa Cum Laude

Mcse+Security, Systems Engineering