Rick Levesque Email & Phone Number

Anaheim, Ca, Us

Foothill Ranch, Ca

IOGEAR, an ATEN International Company, headquartered in Foothill Ranch, Calif., manufactures innovative consumer electronics and information technology solutions that enable convergence through connectivity. As the IT Manager /Systems Administrator it is my responsibility to support all aspects of the business though the Planning, Implementation, Management, Maintenance and support of Internal and external systems to achieve company goals. While at IOGEAR / ATEN I have personally managed the implementation of Exchange 2010, the migration of Domains to join our Parent company and the upgrade of all internal users systems from Windows XP to Windows 7 and Office 2010. I also assisted the installation of VMWare reducing physical server count by over 40% saving the company significant operational costs.

NTP is a small business Soultions provider specializing in small network implementation, administration and hardware maintenanc.e We support Microsoft Windows SBS 2003, 2008 Server 2003, 2008 ,Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000 Professional, Exchange 2003 mail services, Norton Anti-Virus software and Veritas Backup software. We also provided infrastructure hardware support and desktop training.

Managed established IT department providing level 3 support to IT Support Professionals Implemented a Microsoft 2003 / 2008 Active Directory Domain with Front/Back end 2003 Exchange Servers. Established Co-Location services for Disaster Recovery of critical business systems.Installed and configured VERITAS Backup Exec software to ensure consistent quality back-ups of all critical systems.Upgraded multisite network to Gigabit using HP ProCurve Managed switchesImplemented Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 on SQL 2005 serverInstalled HP C7000 Blade chassis to support ESX 3.5 Virtual servers Migrated several production servers to the virtual environment resulting in a lower server count while providing fault tolerance and redundancy as well as reducing operating costs (electrical, cooling and warranty expenses)Implemented Microsoft SharePoint servers for storage/sharing of business critical documentation

Managed established IT duties providing level 3 support to 5 subordinatesReplaced existing flat network with multi VLAN network (Production/Development/and Backup)Supported 30 software engineers with hardware and network connectivityDesigned and managed the construction of a new computer room necessitated by company expansion into additional floors of a high-rise buildingImplemented and maintained Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 later upgrading to 2003 when the company (Starbase) was acquired by Borland Software