Chris Swafford Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas Area

• Built a new Active Directory forest for central user, server and PC management for a specialized, isolated application. Forest implementation including all supporting applications such as Group Policy, Symantec SEP.
• Supported detailed Active Directory cleanup efforts of a large multinational oil and gas company consisting of the identification and removal of stale user and service accounts. Defined user object fields to store.
• Supported the divestiture of an overseas oil and gas division by building a fully redundant vSphere 5.5 cluster with vCenter 5.5. The cluster was used to support the messaging environment and application migrations to.
• Design and build enterprise class Windows PKI environment
• Contribute to the implementation of a new Oracle Identity Management 11G R2 PS3 for a large oil and gas company
• Perform PCI and HIPAA compliance audits

8787 Tallyho Rd, Houston, TX

• Define multi-year strategic planning for both technological and resource improvements.
• Manage staff workloads and maintain weekly and periodic accountability for progress for a team of 11 as the dedicated team lead.
• Mentor staff on enterprise architecture and standards, and also administration and troubleshooting operations. Contribute to the promotion of individuals through mentorship.
• Conduct resource demand analysis to determine resource needs to accomplish corporate and IT priorities. Recruit and hire talent, including consultants and contractors, to meet needs and goals.
• Standardize practices and define procedures to increase efficiency and lower operational errors.
• Responsible for Microsoft and virtualization platforms consisting of over 600 servers in a primary and hot-secondary/DR datacenters and branch offices worldwide. Contribute to the migration of on-premise infrastructure.

Houston, Texas Area

• Dedicated engineer for external client’s hosted Medidata custom n-tier application within the company datacenter.
• Process external client change requests for their dedicated environment, including increasing capacity and redundancy.
• Conceive and develop graphical.NET management utility to increase engineer efficiency during custom application maintenance.
• Strict adherence to change management protocols including detailed documentation.

• Responsible for server and infrastructure environment consisting of over 200 servers in Houston and over 30 branch offices worldwide.
• Architect server infrastructure changes and prepare project direction for implementation by the infrastructure team.
• Implementation and administration of highly available SQL and Exchange environments and administration of SAN environment.
• Plan, oversee, and provide technical support for installation, configuration, and upgrade of systems including server hardware, vital supporting systems, and systems monitoring.
• Work closely with vendors and company management to budget and implement hardware and software systems in line with company objectives.
• Coordinate all projects on a daily basis for the infrastructure support team.