Create a data division that will offer hourly technical aid, managed services, retainer contracts and project management while utilizing on already existing relationships.

- Contribute to profitability with an understanding of the relationship between business and corporate level technology strategy.- Assess issues regarding information systems and create manageable solutions.- Apply contemporary business principles integral to a high-tech organization.- Leverage advanced knowledge and skills to succeed as a vice president of IT.

CFI is an IT consulting firm providing comprehensive solutions for small to large businesses. From network design and implementation, large-scale systems deployment to emergency troubleshooting, CFI has the flexibility to customize any project to fit your specific needs no matter the size.

1. Responsibilities• Lead the implementation of improvements to existing production storage environments• Managed storage best practices to include security, firmware, LUN provisioning, and configuration management• Monitor storage capacity and performance and forecast new capacity needs• Evaluate and implement new storage technologies and develop new standards and architectures• Solid understanding of storage fundamentals, performance analysis and tuning• Supported and managed SAN/NAS reporting, monitoring and selection of management tools• Analyzed performance trends, recognize opportunities and proactively implement upgrades and enhancements• Ensured secure and reliable backup and recovery of all corporate data and work to maintain Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP) and testing• Acquired new Data Domain de-duplication appliances to improve DR recovery times• Ensure quality of service for IT customers• Design & Maintain a flexible, stable and secure server infrastructure• Maintain Disaster Backup Strategy • Work together with Managers to ensure the best use of technology for their given application • Define & Achieve Long Term SLA Goals• Ensure IT System Security & Integrity• Continuously research new technologies; stay on top of the market to recommend the most up to date solutions; • Analyze current limitations of the business, IT System and recommend improvements; • Hire, Train and Supervise additional IT Personnel on a Project/Season basis • Project Management & Coordination • Coordinate Outsourcing where required

My responsibilities include the implementation and design of the school network,implementing software and hardware with the inclusion of troubleshooting in the academic andbusiness aspects of the school. I was responsible for an annual budget of approximately threehundred thousand dollars a year, which has given me experience in budgeting. Accomplishments: · Coordinated the development of a five year IT strategic plan, and align budgets with the execution of the plan. · Designed, planned, and coordinated the procurement of a virtualization solution for our server environment. This solution uses VMware VI3 in conjunction with an IBM Bladecenter and storage solution. This project was undertaken to align with our 5 year IT strategic plan to consolidate systems and work towards lowering power consumption in our datacentre. · Implemented and established procedures to enforce student and staff acceptable use policies. · Designed and implemented the corporate network including LAN with Gigabit Fibre backbone, WLAN, and VOIP telephony. Implemented Technologies: · NetWare 6.5 · SuSE 9 and 10 · Microsoft 2000,2003 and 2008 servers · Novell BorderManager 3.9 with Surfcontrol (content filtering). · Pfsense firewall for our network. · Zenworks for Desktops 7 · Zenworks for Servers 3.0 · GroupWise 7 · VMware (Virtual Server and VI3) · MySQL · MSSQL2005 ­ Present, Consultant, Dauk-Trowell & Associates · Data recovery and investigation · Forensic recovery of data · Covert operation of data collection.

My responsibilities included the implementation and design of new and existingnetworks. Software and hardware troubleshooting was the biggest aspect of my position.Because I was in the retail industry, I was constantly working with the most currenttechnology.

I was responsible for the implementation of Windows and DOS dial-in access formultiple databases located throughout the University. I was given the task to setup andinstallation of a dedicated CD-ROM fileserver with NetWare 3.12 and SCSI Express witha total of 62 CD volumes. Identify and rectify software and hardware problems. Createdocumentation for a Windows version of a database browser using Winbatch.