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Infrastructure design and mgmt, hardware lifecycle mgmt, corp. IT asset and facilities mgmt., IT project and risk mgmt., DR planning and mgmt., corp. communications platform design & mgmt.

Recent Completions: Office 365 deployment with Hybrid configuration via Azure AD Connect sync w/ on premise A/D & Exchange. Initial deployment was very successful, and then we changed direction to full cloud deployment. Learned a lot about the underside of cloud deployments while disconnecting the "sync" features. :)Completions 2012-13: Hyper-V cluster on iSCSI SAN (equallogic) with 3 hosts running 18 servers in virtual fail-over environment. Implemented with full hardware refresh of DC infrastructure and migration of legacy systems PtoV, into virtual environments.Duties include IT asset research/purchases, asset management, license management, Windows Server 2003/2008 configuration and consolidation with virtualization platforms. Negotiated and provisioned server environment move to Collocation. Performed dual property relocation of HQ offices for DirectNET including WAN reconfiguration and implementation for new locations.

Supported Microsoft Exchange server environment for 5,000 user base on Exchange 5.5 and performed migration for same user base in 5 domains to Exchange 2003 and company growth to eventual user base of 10,000 employees.

Daily support of computing resources used by simulator development and design engineers, advanced closed-circuit network design and deployment for simulator environments, general suppord of SGI, Linux, and Windows user platforms, server support of SGI, Linux and windows systems.