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Ashland, Ohio, United States

Oversee the technology infrastructure and cybersecurity landscape, implementing strategic change management initiatives to improve operational efficiency, reduce expenditures, and mitigate cyber risks.Orchestrate strategic partnerships and mutually beneficial collaborations that increase business revenue. 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀:Decreased company IT expenditures by almost 50% within 2 years by identifying alternative sources of IT equipment and supplies, auditing all licensing costs, and cancelling redundant or unneeded contracts.Reduced external contractors/consultants for technology services by 75% within 2 years.Increased business revenue by ~$1M by implementing a new secure connection with our largest business partner and transferring operations to in house.Analyzed the relationship with our largest e-commerce partner; identified they were underpaying on 60% of their orders by an average of 42% over the past decade. Formalized an agreement in writing and revenue increased an average of 80% in 2012 and was up 132% YoY in January 2024Discovered an underperforming business partner through data analysis, and after establishing correct data their sales increased ~50%.

Ashland, Oh

Oversaw the Microsoft Navision ERP system and technology infrastructure including network, server, and telephony.Managed IT budget and performed cost – benefit analysis to ensure systems and efficient and operational.Developed and maintained technical relationships with several large Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) partners.Managed the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) using Cleo Lexicom, Opentext Inovis and associated ERP plugins.

Wooster, Oh

Supported and maintained Enterprise Private Cloud platform hosted on a VCE vBlock 320 located in an AT&T Tier 1 datacenter.Administered Office 365/Hosted Exchange, EMC Avamar set-ups and backups, Azure Directory Sync, and Azure backup.Managed a 48 host VMware-Virtuozzo private cloud environment supporting hundreds of customer virtual servers.Served as a Tech lead for 5 clients, providing excellent customer service and stewarding vendor/partner relations.Made sales calls and prospected new opportunities provided by the AT&T sales channel.Supported hundreds of virtual machines running various Windows and Linux OS’s. Conducted In-place upgrades from Server 2008 R2 > Server 2012 R2.Assisted with Proof-of-Concept deployment of a vRealize multi-tenant solution for a potential new product offering via AT&T, in partnership with VMware and Nutanix.Migrated a customer from on-premises infrastructure to Private Cloud environment with almost zero downtime utilizing Zerto and Asigra.Migrated a customer's VMs running on Virtuozzo type 1 hypervisor within our Private Cloud to a new VMware ESXi cluster.Deployed a VMware vShield/NSX virtual switching to facilitate multitenancy on our platform and allow secure access to Avamar for backups, and customer access to their own vCenter instance.

Ashland

Responsibilities:• Prepare infrastructure for implementation of JD Edwards ERP system (both back-end and front-end POS systems) for a multi-site retailer• Create and implement group policies to introduce shared folders, user home drives, proper security, and groups• Take part in pre-project meetings with department heads and JD Edwards consultants and serve as infrastructure SME• Learn and administer existing proprietary ERP solution, and assist employees with various issues. • Work with various external vendors to install new internet connectivity, build out a small internal datacenter, and to purchase various hardware for the ERP projectTechnology and Products supported: Oracle/Sun ZFS storage, servers, and switching, Oracle VM hypervisor, Microsoft Hyper-V, Microsoft Small Business Server 2008, Microsoft Exchange, Dell Poweredge servers, UPS devices, VEEAM backups, Ubiquiti wireless, Vipre Anti-virus

Samaritan Regional Health System, Ashland Ohio

Managed company network and server infrastructure, including wireless across multiple sites, 600 client workstations, 70+ servers, VMware virtualization, Enterasys switching, WatchGuard firewalls, Microsoft server OS, Exchange 2007, and Imprivata SSO appliances.

Medina, Oh

Conducted Network/Systems administration in a healthcare setting. Managed most IT functions for a remote site in Medina, and also the enterprise internet filtering software. Worked on initiatives to improve communications and efficiencies in the entire organization including rolling out Microsoft Office Communicator (Lync) for collaboration and messaging, deploying Sharepoint 2010, and finding and implementing a robust system for remote support and administration of desktops.Contributed to the migration to Avaya VoiP telephony, and the administration afterwards.

Westerville, Ohio, United States

Support Microsoft based PCs and products as well as proprietary bank software and systems.in a mixed Novell-Active Directory environmentOther experience includes Lotus Notes, VPN troubleshooting, EIMS Peregrine ticketing system, Blackberry, Active Directory, Novell Distributed Print Services, IP based printing. Extensive support of Microsoft applications and operating systems.

Business Administration And Management, General

Information Technology