It was an experience,, working with the team at Olympic Foundry as their new IT Manager. First order of business was to audit the outbound MSP, the second was Informing management of the results, the third order was to resign.What's a business to do when the MSP is allowed to go rogue and holds the keys to the kingdom.? Best solution is to not let it happen in the first place. Controls, audits, management of assets. all key.

Brief contracted engagement to assist with security assessment.Very interesting product and good people behind it.

• Led a team of helpdesk and EMR managers and technicians and directed the technical operations for the multi-site, nonprofit hosting 600+ end users and 60+ mobile devices. • Architected and deployed a complete LAN revision for 3 facilities, including a VPN installation, a new WatchGuard firewall, and the incorporation of Cisco appliances. • Engineered and executed two high availability clusters, 2012R2 Hyper-V clusters on H MSA storage, and HP G8&9 servers allowing for an organizational P-2-V migration to Hyper-V 2016 on a clustered 50TB SAS and fiber storage network. • Contracted and collaborated with Comcast to manage the organization’s transition to Comcast Enterprise Fiber Network, including data and voice. • Researched and championed compliance with health care security protocols HIPPA, Soc2, and HiTrust. • Drove multiple cross-team security initiatives from end-user training to overall environment hardening. • Implemented multi-site Veeam Enterprise Backup and Disaster Recovery fabric via replication and tested the recovery. • Managed vendor relationships and contract negotiations saving the company $60K in 2018 alone. • Recruited top talent teams by interviewing, hiring, training, and supporting personnel in the Help Desk and EMR teams. • Directed the extensive IT systems overhaul of the historic Seattle elder healthcare organization. • Researched, developed, and drove adherence to the IT budget.

• Manage All Technical operations of Corporate Office 50+ users, 5 remote.• Engineered complete P2V Migration: 3 node 5.5u1 ESXI VMware Essentials stack 30+VM's.• Engineered, Plan & Implement complete Firewall/VPN/Network revision: WatchGuard.• Engineered 200TB FiberChannel HA & Redundant cross platform Storage Network. • Gained Extensive OSX, Xubuntu & FreeBSD experience. • Engineered & Implemented 30TB+ HA Clustered SQL 2012 Server.• CrashPlan Enterprise, VEEAM & Backup Exec deployments. • 2003-2010 on premise Exchange 2013 Migration.• Extensive Top to Bottom IT work across Seattle Multimedia Company. 175k 2013 Budget.

• Manage All Technical operations of Corporate Office 180+ users, 15 remote.• Premise Exchange & AD 2003-08, directing O365 cloud transition in 2011.• Microsoft UAG SSL VPN Firewalls, Production use of Hyper-V & VMware.• Sr. Administration of 50+ mission critical LAN Servers and Applications.• BUE, EMC Avamar, Acronis & CrashPlan; Enterprise Data Management & DR.• EMC 5300 VNX ISCI SAN 25TB Spec, configuration & deployment.• Solid Apple in the enterprise experience, deployment, management controls.• Sole IT purchaser for Internal IT division. Microsoft licensing coordination. • 3 Direct Reports, Provide final Tier support, Operating budget 750k, 2011.• 6 years of progressive responsibility and growth in a dynamic, startup .com.

• 48 Multi-state locations, 70 Servers, 560 Endpoints, 40+ Laptops, 900+ users.• PACS/ RIS Fusion - eFilm Client Deployment & Administration. Image Storage.• Enterprise wide Data Management, Security & Disaster Recovery.• Citrix & Terminal Server, SQL 2005 Enterprise. Great Plains Soloman.• 24/7 WAN & infrastructure. Proactive hardware support and maintenance.• Handle all aspects of I.S. purchasing, specification and Vendor relations.• Completed Business closure/merger and transfer of assets thru 11/2005.