Ronald Parker Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Englewood, Co, Us

9 Month Contract originally hired as Solution Architect, when the EA department was dissolved to Operations, converted to Principle Engineer.2 Major projects: Office 365 migration 140k mailboxes, Okta for federation, SSO, and Universal DirectoryContract end date of April 25th 2017

Broomfield, Colorado, Us

Environment:Windows Server: 2003, 2008, 2008R2, 2012R2Linux: CentOS 6.5, 7.0, DebianHP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosures x2Active Directory 2012R2 functional level, Single Forest, single domain, 2 sitesVMware 5.5, vCenter, vCenter Operations Manager (4 Clusters, 12 host, 120 VM, 40 DS)SAN: CompellentNetwork: Brocade, SX1600, ICX, FastIron, Checkpoint Firewall. Brocade Network Advisor, MPLS, QMOEExchange: 2013 hybrid with Office 365, ADFS-single sign-on, Azure AD ConnectOffice 365, Exchange, OneDrive, InTune, Skype for Business, AZURE AD Premium, SharePoint.Citrix XenApp 6.0SharePoint: 2007, 2010, 2013System Center: SCCM, SCOM, SCDPM, SCSMMS-SQL: 2000, 2005, 2008R2, 2012, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, DMORestaurant MPLS cloudWindows deployment ServicesSarbanes-Oxley & PCI 3.0 compliancyWindows XP, 7, 8.1 and 10SQL based Business IntelligenceMS Dynamics SolomonNCR: Aloha POS, Back Office, Command Center, LogRhythmThird year accomplishments High levelPCI 3.0 ROCCheckPoint IDS, and hardware upgradeExchange upgrade 2010 to 2013 then to hybrid Office 365O365, Intune, OneDrive, Skype for businessNew Restaurant MPLS solutionStandardize POS BOH, bring all rest. to the same versions of software, configurationsSecond Year Accomplishments High levelSecurity and patch management (tighten things up)CheckPoint VPN configuration / RolloutCSO Network infrastructure rebuildTrend Deep security upgrade / monitoringCompliancy: PC, BOH, Servers, Patching, GPO’s, Third Party, LanGuardReplace all CSO Printers add mobile printing and faxing (Xerox)PCI ROCFirst Year Accomplishments High LevelConsolidate all hypervisors to VMware 5.5Replace EOL EMC Celerra with Dell Compellent SANBuild out the BI solution infrastructureReplace ISCSI infrastructureSharePoint 2013Exchange 2007 to 2010 HAActive directory upgrade from 2008 to 2012 R2Redesign AD, OU structure, review all GPO’s Microsoft System Center, OM, CM, SM implementationMonitoring / patch managementPCI ROC

Information Technology Director for AddOns Inc. A leader in the Ventyx Ellipse ERP/ EAM systems for the Mining Industry. I was brought on board as more and more of our clients needed AddOns to host their Ellipse and other IT for them. We built a world class datacenter and hosting environment, that was able to provide the security isolation and compliancy these large Mining operations required. We maintained a 99.998% uptime and high success rate never losing a hosted client or interruption of their service. AddOns was engaged from the point of divestiture, upgrades, hosted in our datacenter or our clients datacenter, we then provided managed services for the ERP and other IT solutions for these clients, again both hosted in our datacenter and their datacenters. This solution included the following technologies.Network Connectivity Between hosted Datacenter and mine sites and offices. Firewalls, IP isolation, security, routing and security. Virtualization using VMware 5.1 using Dell hardware and SANBuild on hybrid solution including Microsoft Windows Servers, 2003 and 2008 R2, Linux RH, KVM, and HP UnixMicrosoft SQL Server 2008 and 2005, including Databases, Analytical services, and Reporting servicesMicrosoft Active Directory, migrations of user accounts and resources, design and trustsMicrosoft File and Print services, including DFS and NAS to replicated between hosted and client locationsMicrosoft Exchange 2007 and 2010, including SMTP for the ERP solutionCitrix Xen App, this was a fat client solution presented to our clients via Xen App, including Ellipse ERP, LinkOne, Corvue, QuickBooks, TimeKeeper, PrintingFaxing solutions to send faxes out of the ERP systemFTP and SFTP to and from Banks and other financial transactionsBackup and DR solution, disk to disk and then off sited for long term storageMonitoring using tools like Zenoss, Cacti, Kiwi log shipping, and custom scripts and services built in house

Boulder, Co, Us

DIRECTOR OF SITE OPERATIONS• Hired to take over LifePics Infrastructure / Operations and prepare for 400% growth in first year• Redesign a small VC startup environment to a 99.99% available enterprise solution.• LifePics is the online photo processing solution for 3886 Merchants, wholesalers and Pro Photographers.• Take a system and infrastructure that was already over tasked and unstable to an enterprise solution with total redundancy and stability.• Changing the culture of LifePics from a small company to enterprise solution provider.• In the two years with LifePics our client base changed from small single store locations to corporate chains like Office Depot, Ritz Camera, Safeway, Target, Verizon wireless, HEB, PE Photo and King Supers.• I was both Director and the only FT person on staff for; Sys Admin, DBA, Technical support (systems).• I was in charge of all infrastructure vendor relationships.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

RFS SYSTEMS ADMININSTRATOR• Contractor to IBM on their largest account Cendant, 5000 total server environment, 2500 Windows servers.• Performed the lead Windows Systems Admin for deployment of new services for all Cendant Business Units.• Performed technical lead on projects across all business lines for Cendant, performing Technical solutions, resolving potential problems and maintaining IBM and Clients agreed compliancy where meet.

Denver, Co, Us

SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER • Collaborate with IT manager to develop and execute system procedures, perform training for a 30-member staff, and acted as Lead Engineer on all server projects.• Oversaw the consolidation of five external business units onto the Broe infrastructure in the AD Migration to Native mode.• Provided expertise to the application support team, identifying configuration problems across 10 SQL 7.0/2000/MSDE server through acting as DBA for SQL 7.0/2000 and MSDE systems.• Resolved issues with backup jobs, indexing of tables, and performance tuning of databases and servers.• Entrusted as DBA for application migrations to increase growth and stability abilities, including Yardi, REPS, Epicor, Track-It, Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Project.

IT MANAGER/SYSTEMS ENGINEER• Stabilized Irvine IT environment to launch a Marketing and Data application for our Fortune 500 clients.• Served as manager of helpdesk and desktop support staff, which included all staff hiring, training, mentoring, motivation, reviews, and policy/procedure creation, implementing several cutting-edge technologies to improve the department.• Oversaw the design and development of an Active Directory 2000 upgrade from Windows NT, handling the testing, planning, and implementation of all systems and services to Windows 2000 and Active Directory, including the acquisition, budgeting, and timelines of all systems and plans.• Provided assistance to the Program Teams in the automation and streamlining of procedures to reduce overhead and decrease time spent, training program teams in FrontPage and websites to launch program information to the field team, staying in close contact with daily operations.• Automated configuration of Outlook and Outlook Express to provide an easier connection for field staff, utilizing connection protocols to connect with Exchange Environment.• Performed database administration, training other teams and departments in SQL, moving from SQL 7.0 and one main server with several databases, moving to a three SQL 2000 server solution utilizing Transaction replication.