Shawn Jackson Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, Canada Area

IX Solutions provides IT solutions leveraging technologies such as Azure and Office 365 to change the way you procure and support business applications, we provide reliable on-premises infrastructure solutions to meet your needs cost-effectively, we invest time and energy in understanding new and exciting IT technologies that allow you accomplish more with less, and we offer capable and committed consultants to define and execute IT strategies while maximizing your staff's productivity and security. We also offer ongoing support and maintenance services to keep your systems running smoothly and resolve issues that do arise promptly as part of our managed services offerings.For more information, visit our website at www.ixsolutions.ca

Vancouver, Canada Area

Responsible for leading Steeves' infrastructure practice while providing architectural guidance, designing solutions, and executing infrastructure projects for clients. Focus areas include on-premises, hybrid, and cloud-based infrastructure solutions with a specific focus on Microsoft Azure cloud technologies.A broad array of services are offered including infrastructure design, ongoing architectural guidance, cloud infrastructure deployments, network/storage/virtualization implementation, data protection and disaster recovery planning, licensing audits, datacenter migrations, Citrix deployments, and others.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Responsible for developing long-term infrastructure strategy for Catalyst Paper and leading execution of critical and time-sensitive initiatives to achieve short-term business requirements. Developed strong working relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders including the CIO, IT and IS management, the operational teams and fellow consultants in order to gain traction with proposed initiatives and ultimately successfully execute on those initiatives. Worked directly with vendors and internal teams to match technologies to business needs and requirements, ensuring Catalyst leveraged existing and new investments effectively.Key successes included developing a cost-effective plan for remediation of outdated, aging and inefficient infrastructure, creating a technology strategy that facilitates a data center relocation project while avoiding severe impact to the business in the process, taking over and successfully saving a failing Citrix implementation, as well as identifying serious gaps in infrastructure planning and addressing those before significant and avoidable costs were incurred.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Designed, deployed, managed and supported IT solutions for clients of various sizes. Proposed, budgeted for, and implement projects for clients such as server and storage infrastructure deployments, network infrastructure upgrades, Exchange implementations, SharePoint migrations and end-user computing solutions. Citrix and EUC subject matter expert. Strong emphasis was placed on ensuring that quality solutions were proposed and deployed following industry-standard best practices. Met regularly with clients and account executives to discuss technical challenges and business goals, as well as to present project proposals to address clients' needs. Acted in a leadership role and provided an escalation point for technical challenges.

Designed and managed hosted Citrix XenDesktop, Citrix XenApp and Sharepoint solutions as well as on-premises client infrastructure. Had leading role in developing, supporting and managing shared Active Directory and Exchange infrastructure. Worked closely with virtualization technologies, NetApp storage area networks and common Microsoft technologies such as SQL Server and IIS. Implemented solutions relying on Linux, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems.

Supported and developed managed services solutions for small and medium sized business in both independent environments and while utilizing shared Microsoft infrastructure. Supported end-users on-site and remotely, developed maintenance plans and maintained shared infrastructure in a co-location facility. Played key roles in designing shared Active Directory infrastructure, virtualizing datacenter infrastructure, maintaining client servers as well as planning and completing client migrations. Traveled to various parts of the United States and Canada to implement software solutions for a third-party development organization. Began development of hosted services which eventually led to moving into a new role as the Systems Architect at i-worx.