Robert Lightner Email & Phone Number

Arizona, United States

Customer success on the Azure platform with a special focus on designing and assisting customers build production applications while reducing technical risks and debts.

Flagstaff, Arizona Area

Flagstaff, Arizona Area

Technical Manager with project management and supervisory responsibilities for a diverse team of System Administrators. Major services include, but not limited to:* Active Directory* Azure Cloud Infrastructure* Office 365 Administration* Exchange Server 2007, 2010, 2016* Lync 2010, Lync 2013, Skype for Business Server 2015* SharePoint 2010, 2013 Enterprise Services* Cisco Firewall Services* SQL Servers* Virtualization (Hyper-V )* IIS Web Services (IIS 4, 5, 6, 7, 7.5, 8, 8.5)* Red Hat LinuxDuties include: * Direct supervision of a highly technical support team of system administrators. * Responsible for performance appraisals, training opportunities, and project plans and schedules. * Documentation of complex systems and management reports.* Participation in disaster recovery planning for servers and services. * Design and lead projects to improve ITS strategic services, this includes presentation and communication of often complex and technically intricate processes. * Provide internal guidance, support and assistance for other areas. * Stay current with modern technologies, especially Microsoft on-premise and cloud technologies. * Assures and participates in 24x7x52 coverage of all servers and services.* Leadership in providing a central view for end user computing support, network administration, security, and other issues related to a modern university environment.

Flagstaff, Arizona Area

Technical expert with project management and supervisory responsibilities for a diverse team of System Administrators. Major services include, but not limited to:* Active Directory* Azure Cloud Infrastructure* Office 365 Administration* Exchange Server 2007, 2010, 2016* Lync 2010, Lync 2013, Skype for Business Server 2015* SharePoint 2010, 2013 Enterprise Services* Cisco Firewall Services* SQL Servers* Virtualization (Hyper-V )* IIS Web Services (IIS 4, 5, 6, 7, 7.5, 8, 8.5)Duties include: * Direct supervision of a highly technical support team of system administrators. * Responsible for performance appraisals, training opportunities, and project plans and schedules. * Documentation of complex systems and management reports.* Participation in disaster recovery planning for servers and services. * Design and lead projects to improve ITS strategic services, this includes presentation and communication of often complex and technically intricate processes. * Provide internal guidance, support and assistance for other areas. * Stay current with modern technologies, especially Microsoft on-premise and cloud technologies. * Assures and participates in 24x7x52 coverage of all servers and services.* Leadership in providing a central view for end user computing support, network administration, security, and other issues related to a modern university environment.

Flagstaff, Arizona Area

* Administrating a Windows NT 4.0 domain of 3000+ users and computers which includes account purges, security, and networking for the NAU domain* Software development includes building and designing services for Windows using Visual C++, Visual Basic, and VBScript.* Implemented enterprise file and print services through Active-Active Clustering using Microsoft’s Clustering services on a Dell Storage Attached Network (SAN). * Implemented highly available web services using Microsoft’s Internet Information Server (IIS) 5.0 and utilizing the Microsoft Cluster services built into Windows 2000 Advance Server, using an Active-Passive cluster mode.* Worked with LDAP team to provide feed of NAU domain user information.* Have taken on leadership roles with the deployment of new services for NAU (i.e. File & Print services, Web services, Virtual Private Networking VPN, Network Attached Storage - NAS)* Developed Active Server Pages (ASP) and VBScript jobs to utilize the enterprise LDAP server at NAU. The code I generated for connectivity between ASP and LDAP is used by most developers at NAU.