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Belville, Nc, Us

Establish the company’s technical direction and lead the company’s technological development.Consistently evaluate technical efficiency and make changes as necessary.Define company standards for systems, equipment, and software.Supervising quality assurance processes, integration, and system tests.Provide technical leadership in a fashion that supports the company’s culture, mission and values.Share technological vision, opportunities, and risks company-wide with execute team.Mentoring team members.Help departments use technology efficiently.Conduct research and development activities on leading edge technologies andmake determinations for implementation.Evaluating and implementing internal/external software systems and networkinfrastructure.Evaluating and implementing best practices as it relates to network security.Studying current and new industry trends, technologies, and software development strategies.Reviewing IT project timelines and IT budgets.Reviewing software/hardware integration strategy for over all effectiveness and efficiently.Working closely with software development vendors and teams for overall effectiveness and efficiently.Ensure technology standards and best practices are met.Developing and implementing disaster and emergency recovery plans.

Wilmington, North Carolina, Us

Leading the strategy for technology platforms, partnerships and external relationships.Building and managing a diverse technology team.Overseeing research and development as well as special projects.Making recommendations to senior management through presentations and advocacy.Managing of client’s and internal data systems implementation and monitoring their effectiveness in meeting business goals.Supervising software testing, and information systems security and maintenance.Managing staff in functional areas such as WAN/LAN/WLAN architecture, systems operations, and hardware and software support.Anticipating and reacting to major technology changes.Developing technology contingency plans to keep projects on track.Generating new products and facilitating their entry to market.Collaborating with the executive team to assess and recommend technologies in support of company needs.Analyze and define client’s business strategy and determine system architecture requirements to achieve business goals. Create team strategies and establish project scopes of work; communicate project deliverable timeframes and benchmarks to clients. Gather detailed business requirements and use cases, and translate technical specifications into product requirements.Designed/Implemented cloud solutions for client’s looking to minimize cost while having the ability to deliver their application and infrastructure in highly scalable and manageable environments using technologies such as VMware/Azure/AWS in mix of onsite/private/public/hybrid environments. Designed/Implemented backup and DR best practices using Veeam and EMC recover point.Designed/Implemented onsite storage environments using EMC/NetApp/HP SAN technologies.Designed/Implemented small to large-scale VDI using Citrix/VMware technologies.

Wilmington, North Carolina, Us

Overseeing technical projects in alignment with organizational goals.Directing the effective delivery of networks, development, and disaster recovery systems and processes.Working engineering to find solutions to manage business activities.Supervising a team of workers, while working closely with management, external vendors and advisers Preparing financial budgets and presenting proposals for capital projects to senior executives Researching and recommending new products.Identifying new market opportunities.Leading efforts to improve IT processes.Plan/Manage/Implement large-scale virtual migrations from Legacy systems.Plan/Manage/Implement large-scale server OS migrations including migrations from server 2003 to 2008/2012Plan/Manage/Implement large-scale cloud infrastructure (onsite, offsite, hybrid).

Leland, Nc, Us

Worked with management team to develop a comprehensive and successful voice/data unified communications business unit and plan.Worked with customer and partner sales and technical teams to prospect and develop voice/data sales, design, installation, and support.Responsible for design, staging, configuration, implementation, and support for VoIP installations.Responsible for managing all existing/new VOIP deployments knowledge and business development for Unified Communications.Continuously assessing business unit performance and goals to enable changes to the business unit to realign as needed for optimal performance.Assess the knowledge of the engineering staff to plan for training and certifications as needed.

Us

Install and support LANs, WANs, network segments, Internet, and intranet systems.Install and maintain network hardware and software.Analyze and isolate issues.Monitor networks to ensure security and availability to specific users.Evaluate and modify system's performance.Identify user needs.Determine network and system requirements.Maintain integrity of the network, server deployment, and security.Ensure network connectivity throughout a company's LAN/WAN infrastructure is on par with technical considerations.Design and deploy networks.Perform network address assignment.Assign routing protocols and routing table configuration.Assign configuration of authentication and authorization of directory services.Maintain network facilities in individual machines, such as drivers and settings of personal computers as well as printers.Maintain network servers such as file servers, VPN (IPsec/SSL) gateways, and intrusion detection systems.Administer servers, desktop computers, printers, routers, switches, firewalls, phones, personal digital assistants, smart phones, software deployment, security updates and patches.

Vcp, Information Technology

Associate Of Applied Science, Network Engineer

Information Technology