Rob Patrick Email & Phone Number

Rockford, IL, US

In my role as a Site Reliability Engineer working on the Cloud Engineering team, I worked closely with our application development teams on architecture and deployment strategies using AWS and DevOps automation tools.Much of my focus during my employment at Colony Brands had been working with development teams to develop practices using tools such as git.

Rockford, Illinois Area

In my current role as an IT Systems Engineer I am responsible for the local VMware infrastructure as well our Azure and AWS deployments. Utilizing ARM, CloudFormation, and Chef for infrastructure and application deployment where possible. I work closely with the Systems and Application development teams to deploy, troubleshoot, and optimize applications.

Monroe, Wisconson

In my role as a Cloud Engineer and team lead at Colony Brands I was heavily involved all aspects of data center support with a focus on AWS, vmware, Citrix, and Microsoft technologies. Much of my focus over the last 18 months of my time at Colony Brands was the migration of on-premis applications and infrastructure to AWS utilizing DevOps practices and.

I was part of the North American Data Center Operations team. Acted as the technical lead responsible for management of corporate datacenter vmware environment which includes over 30 hosts, as well as smaller remote deployments. I was the project lead responsible for consolidating all smaller data center vmware hosts into one central vCenter instance.

Responsible for over 100 Windows servers in a 24/7 99% uptime environmentEnterprise Active Directory leadGroup Policy administrationExchange 2003 AdministrationMicrosoft Cluster ServicesFacilitated Windows NT 4.0 domain to Windows 2003 Active Directory upgradeAdministration of Microsoft ISA 2004SAN and fibre switch administrationInfrastructure lead for.

Active Directory administrationAdministration of Microsoft System Update Services Support of NDSMaintain and facilitate data backup and recoveryMaintain LAN infrastructure Setup and support of Windows serversPart of team responsible for facilitating enterprise wide migration from Novell NDS to Windows 2003 Active Directory environmentPart of team.

Maintain all servers including Novell 5.1, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, GroupWise 6.5, and CitrixCreate and maintain user accounts, and permissions, in Active Directory and NDSMaintain and facilitate data backup and recoveryResponsible for resolving all network hardware and software issuesTroubleshoot and maintain PBX phone system including move, add, or.

Elk Grove Village, IL

Managed software and hardware purchasing Exchange 5.5 and Windows 2000 Server administration Windows 98, NT, 2000 workstation administrationAdministration and Support of Solidworks CAD softwareAdministration and Support of Encore ERP systemSole Support administrator for 50 users

Managed team of 6 in deployment of PC’s to 3500+ usersUtilized Ghost multicast to install Windows 2000 ProfessionalSupervised Network, Operating system, and Software support of newly installed PC’s

Windows 98/NT/2000 operating system installation and supportPC Hardware installation and supportNetware client supportNetwork printer install and configurationOutlook 97, 2000 configurationNW Admin