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Kansas City, Mo, Us

Provide direction and oversight to multiple teams responsible for the overall technology operations of the service desk, digital and enterprise application environments. Aid the senior staff with development of annual budgetary requirements, vendor management and work with the project management department to develop projects directly impacting my area of responsibility. Developed a strategies for DevOps, aspects of continuous integration & deployment, change management and incident management for the organization. Created a new role within the organization whose responsibility is the track all of the releases into production across the teams and monitor all of the lower environments to make sure any issues are resolved as quickly as possible and all releases have been tested and validated prior to moving into production.

New York, New York, Us

Manage several teams of analysts and developers responsible for the legal discovery and review product line. Evaluates existing applications to determine technical changes, schedules projects, resources, process and monitor project timelines.

Kansas City, Mo, Us

March 2016 - Continued responsibility for the previously mentioned teams, took on an additional .Net/C# team specific to the Online Banking platform and acted as an interim manager for 2 other development teams while the company searched for a replacement, effectively making the total direct reports during this time to 32. April 2015 - Continued responsibility for the .Net/C# development team as well as a small agility focused infrastructure team specific to the Healthcare line of business.July 2014 - Responsible for managing .Net/C# development teams for two high profile product lines for the company using SCRUM and KANBAN frameworks.October 2012 - July 2014 Manager of 12 Engineers for the Virtual, Tools and Windows Operating Systems. Responsible for all Microsoft servers within the environment, VMWare vSphere environments and tooling for the company.January 2011 - Oct 2012 Manager Middleware, 8 engineers that span the administration of the File Transfer and Web environments. July 2010 - January 2011 Manager of the Application Services team, which incubuses 9 engineers that have the primary responsibility of managing and integration of WebSphere Application Server, IIS (.Net), Apache, and Citrix environments for the company. Have been selected to represent Distributed Systems in several comittees ranging from the MIS Incentive program and Change Management.

Kansas City, Mo, Us

Working closely with the project management, development and infrastructure teams with implementation and administration of new and existing products, as well as daily management and direction of the systems team.

Provided Web Developer services and *NIX Administration services for businesses. Some of the companies websites are listed below.SlenderFungus Multimedia - http://www.slenderfungus.com WebAir - http://www.webair.com CreativeNet Enterprises - http://www.creativenet.net Faction Creative Inc. - http://www.faction.com Falcon IS - http://www.falconis.com Herbalo Inc. - http://www.herbalo.com

Working with the Technical Director to increase the security of their locally hosted systems, as well as their remotely hosted systems. Setting up Name Service (DNS), Sendmail, and a secondary DS3 for web hosting venture. As well as web programming (PHP & Perl), and SQL / MySQL Database Management. Was also tasked with LAN management for all of the artists and administrative coworkers, which included desktop management, large format printer maintenance (IRIS), and the care and feeding of a large NAS system based off of Novell.Sample URLs : http://www.bustarhymes.com http://www.rollerball.com http://www.tombraidermovie.com

Lead teams of Java, PHP, Perl, and HTML developers, to release a software application for the Internet, including the development of a dynamic system for the development and upkeep of the The United Nations Standard Products and Services Code®. Also designed a global WAN (Wide Area Network), which is still being implemented in the US, Japan, and UK.

Managed web server farm, using Solaris 2.6, Linux, and IRIX on Origin 200 SGI Servers. Approximate traffic for the web farm included 12 sites with around 2 million unique hits a day. Maintained name service (DNS), and sendmail for entire company. Interacted with the Management for new technologies development, and proposals for their current systems, as well as the future development.

Manager of 8 person technical support, and development team. Technical support was a 24 hour 7 day a week operation, as well as one half development of new technologies, mostly for the now defunct ecommerce (billing) system PowerCharge. Additional support for the senior systems administrator in the maintenance of a 7 million hit a day web site, and the build out and daily support of a new data center.

Starting out in technical support, I rapidly began assisting the UNIX Administrator with simple tasks. I was promoted to the technical support manager, which I managed for nearly 6 months before I was promoted to the Assistant Systems administrator. My main responsibilities were to maintain a Solaris UNIX environment, ranging from sendmail / POP3 servers to setup and follow through of customer co-locate machines on many different platforms.

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