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Charlottesville, Virginia Area

• Responsible for extending company computing infrastructure services to create the official international enterprise computing environment. Managed the recurring and non-recurring resource, technology and budget components of the project. Successfully completed on time and under budget. Received the President’s Leadership Award for efforts.• Developed corporate export compliant international vetting and user provisioning process. Successfully on boarded a mix of 20 domestic and government programs validating 350 users in the first 6 months of operation.• Stood up an international document sharing portal built on Livelink. Organized and managed a team of technical and process experts to meet security and export requirements involved with supporting a multinational internet accessible collaboration environment. Consolidated 2 document sharing environments into the portal reducing costs and adding export and security compliance.• Utilized Siteminder to broker multiple Active Directory forests and 2-factor systems (RSA secureid, active identity OTP, Onebadge) to provide a flexible and secure authentication environment.

• Architected a server consolidation utilizing IBM P5, LPAR, SAN technologies to reduce the number of UNIX servers by 50%. • Leveraged hardware resources by implementing redundant virtual IO LPARs. Currently running 10 virtual environments through shared IO interfaces. Brought NIM and SAN snap/clone technologies in datacenter to rapidly deploy ERP/database environments.• Supervised 5 technicians overseeing all critical business systems. Supervision responsibilities include employee reviews, salary recommendations, personnel development and all work assignment.• Primary technology responsible for consists of the following: Applications - 2 Multinational Baan ERP applications, Legato Enterprise Backup system, JD Edwards HR Payroll, Labor Collection, ACCPAC. Operating systems - AIX 4x/5x, W2k/W2k3, OS400 v5r2. Databases - Oracle databases 9x/10x, SQL databases 2k/2k5. Hardware – IBM Pseries, IBM DS4800 SAN, HP EVA 5000 SAN, ADIC i2k Tape Library.• Responsible for capitol and expense budgets, employee reviews/salary/development.• Created Worldwide Business Continuity Plan for WAN, LAN, ERP, Oracle, SQL Server, Email, Internal/External Web servers, Payroll and Fileservers. Perform yearly scheduled hot site recovery of systems at Sungard facilities in addition to structured walk through of all continuity plans.• Completed a Wintel server consolidation project for 26 field offices. Decreases in communications costs along with backup tape costs justified server consolidation to 3 primary sites. Completed consolidation of File, print, email and ACCPAC services for the Hong Kong, Tokyo, Shanghai, and Singapore Offices Nov 2007.

Bs, Earth Systems Science Geology

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