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Timberlea, Ns, Ca

Peachtree Corners, Ga, Us

Advise and assist executives with risk management of confidential information, data security, training and compliance on security matters. As well as lead the delivery of security operations through multiple security service providers to meet the company’s security needs. Work with a variety of teams including, IT operations, executives, product development, facilities, and other third-parties to meet the security objectives for a 24/7 mission critical applications in the Post-Acute Healthcare market.

San Diego, Ca, Us

Develop Vulnerability and Application management initiatives for ResMed. Manage internal and external server and Application Penetration tests for key systems.Conducted HIPAA audits with auditors, Create policies to increase company security, create/adjust policies to conform to HIPAA guidelines.

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Ca

- Manage entire Internal IT infrastructure from Firewalls & servers to external DNS records.- Consulting to small companies of 50 – 100 people and larger organizations with over 10,000 employees spanning multiple provinces in the planning and implementation of Exchange 2010, Active Directory 2008R2, and Virtualization of key servers using VMware solutions to reduce overall TCO.- Provide analyses of existing IT Infrastructures, document deficiencies and areas of improvement and upgrade advice for Active Directory, Exchange and VMware.

Halifax, Ns, Ca

Work with a team to provide support & maintenance for network infrastructure, Novell, GroupWise and VMware envirnments for 2000 users. Have security clearance to work on the Police Network with sensitive data.

• Manage all IT purchases, budgeting, and network infrastructure in Canada and Europe.• Manage Active Directory domain and Exchange for 300 users in: US, Canada, UK, and Belgium.• Manage network for entire company which spans; Setup network usage and Cisco configuration change management solutions for the company to increase network visibility and disaster recovery.• Headed several network optimization projects which helped improve overall network performance by 10%.• Headed an initiative to virtualize specific servers to cut costs, ease administration, and improve server utilization.Created an initiative to cut Operating System and licensing costs by utilizing Linux on new production servers instead of Microsoft.• Manage VMware ESX server farm of 12 ESX servers in 5 countries worldwide.• Setup high availability cluster using VMware ESX for key production servers.• Mentor 2 junior member of the IT staff in US.Interviewed new candidates for IT positions.• Setup and configured Netapp storage devices via fiber, and Adaptec SNAP servers with iSCSI in US, Canada, UK and Belgium.• Established and maintained a DSL lab of over 200 modems for interoperability and compatibility testing with major vendors including Linksys, Netgear, and Thomson.• Committee Member for Occupational Health and Safety Committee.I• mplemented VoIP system in local office to reduce long distance costs to other offices

San Francisco, California, Us

Worked remotely for Zynga as a Network Administrator. Configured Cisco swtiches, Setup VMware ESX servers and performed Security audits on gaming servers before they went into production.

Ca

(prior to acquisition by SupportSoft)- Managed entire IT infrastructure including: Active Directory, Exchange, VPN, phone system, Cell/Blackberries, also budgeting and purchasing - Lead for supporting 60 local and remote users and trouble shooting of 45 Unix, Linux, and Windows servers with one desktop support person reporting to me.- Managed cable modem lab consisting of over 350 cable modems used for development and testing.- Planned and executed migration strategy moving from Windows NT4 and Exchange 5.5 to Windows 2000 Active Directory and Exchange 2000.- Managed and supported large pool of SUN Microsystems hardware and software

- Instructed both corporate and private college courses including: Windows 2000, Network Infrastructure, Active Directory Design, and custom Linux courses with up to 25 students attending each course.- Member of curriculum committee responsible for course content and materials.- Developed and instructed several courses for Linux and PC hardware.- Designed and migrated school from an NT4 and AS/400 setup to a purely Windows 2000 Active Directory network.- Maintain the school IT infrastructure and mentoring junior administrators in configuring and administering the network. - Administered Novell Netware

Itil Certified, Itil Foundation

Certificate, Groupwise Administration

Certificate, Network Security

Certifications, Mcse, Mct, Mcsa, A+, Network+

Bachelor Of Arts, History