Bryan Lowe Email & Phone Number

Franklin, Nc, Us

Sylva, Nc

Working freelance but open to opportunities. Preferably remote or something local with no more than 25% travel.

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Kissimmee Florida

Sanford, Fl

Deltona, Fl

Orlando, Florida

Currently I am working for the Presidio client Orlando Utilities Commission . It is a full time position with three main directives. My time is split between Technical Project Management and engineering for the Security and Water Production sections of OUC. The rest of my time is providing engineering support for the corporate IT in general. This includes all server infrastructure, AD management, VM environment, and of course domain based security administration. I build and maintain the VM environment, The AD, DHCP, DNS, and application systems.We are a VMWare 5.1 shop using Cisco UCS blades and servers. We are in the process of upgrading to VMWare 5.5

St. Petersburg

Clearwater Fl.

Raymond James is an enterprise level multi-national company with 300+ branch locations, 5 Datacenters, and a 5 building main complex located in Clearwater Florida. My duties as a Server Engineer are varied. The usual responsibilities include server related activities like deploying, cloning, P2V ,V2V, and V2P, patching, OU organization and tech support to the server admin's. Active Directory administration and group policy, access rights and permissions, disaster recovery and perfomance tuning are also provided. The company maintains a Change Management system and 5 levels of server priority and maintainence windows. A merger with Morgan Keegan Financial has required engineering of Pre_prod environments for intergration purposes. The merger also exposes me to domain trusts between entities once seperate. Level 2 and 3 Technical support is provided for branchs, datacenters and corporate headquarters by way of support ticket submissions. Various projects to engineer and manage virtual environments using VMware 4.0, 5.1, and Hyper-V. Raymond James Financial is mostly virtualized using HP hardware. Although with the merger brings Dell equipment into the environment. There is a move to UCS blades moving forward and gives hands on experience to Cisco Sytems architecture as well.The work environment is very professional and the team support makes working here most enjoyable.

Orlando

Duties included Technical Project Management with application and tech teams.Disaster Recovery design and impletmentation. VM server builds and configuration. Boot from SAN via EMC storage.A tear-down and rebuild of the DHCP and internal DNS services in an Enterprise level Active Directory environment of 1500+ servers and 3000+ workstations in a mixed VMware virtual and physical infrastructure.Migration of a proprietary software. SCCM Image troubleshooting and XP Pro to Windows 7 migration.Worked with EMC appliances and Brocade switches in providing storage for VMware Servers. Administration and troubleshooting Citrix Xen applications and virtual desktop cluster. Tasked with design and implementations on several projects for various departments. Acted as a technical project manager for several projects.Several of these projects were unconventional as were the solutions.User Home Folder relocation and DFS targeting for performance and resource gain. Design and implementation were my tasks on this project. It required skill at minimizing downtime, work hours counter to regular business hours, and extreme care with regards to user data.Cataloging and updating rack mounted resources. Configured hardware monitoring and remote access software and hardware. Traced and repaired or replaced servers or components as necessary. There are two datacenters geographically separate which required my skills in hardware maintenance.Served in the capacity of tech team member tasked with day to day systems administration, Level 2/3 trouble ticket resolution, change management, root cause analysis, research, planning, group policy administration, Active Directory maintenance, Exchange/Sharepoint administration,systems engineering and so on. Participated in the hardware update and migration of VMware4 to vVMware5 virtual environment in two geographically separated datacenters. using Cisco UCS Blades. Involved from racking to VM server resource delivery.

The company provides consumer ratings to U.S. and International clients. I was hired as part of a small team to migrate outdated analog methodology to digital. Thereafter a position was created for me as a Technical Support Specialist.Duties:Provided Level 2/3 technical support for Nielsen’s growing digital data offerings using Remedy ticket tracking software.Trained junior support personnel and clients as systems engineers' as the company grew the digital business.Advised on ways to improve proprietary software and create best practices structure. This included beta testing, UAT, QA, and project management.Assisted in technical issues with outside companies connecting to our network via modem and Internet. This involved troubleshooting both our network and these companies.Engineered, administrated, and supported Juniper VPN implementation. Migrated outside companies from modem to VPN Internet access.Serve as Systems Engineer for the Client Support Services division as the company segmented it's organizational structure. Duties included responsibilities in security, performance enhancement, auditing, server management, Active Directory, Exchange/Sharepoint, DNS/DHCP, outside company domain trust configuration for access to ratings data, etc..Promoted to management role Responsible for recommending new hires, team member performance evaluations, employee training, policy adherence, etc.. -->While at Nielsen I was awarded for exceptional performance every year. -->I was Employee of the year in 2006.-->Received Helpdesk 2000 certificate-->Completed a CCNA certification course-->Became MCP certified, completed AD and Server 2003 Administration courses→ Received a letter of commendation and bonus for consistently high performance.

Various Cities In The Us And Canada

Working in a 100% travel environment. Responsible for laptop remediations and Y2K updates on Laptops and Desktops. Primarily remediations in Windows NT Server, windows NT workstation and Windows 98 domain updates to handle possible Y2K issues. Building scripts to join migrated NT Workstations into the PDC domain. Repair laptop and desktop units as needed. Documented the migrations and provided the necessary QA.

Worked in the capacity of a Level 2 Information Services technician. My principle duties where to install company software, update end user PC's, trace and repair network failures, train end users on new procedures, Administer and troubleshoot Windows NT software issues as well as company specific applications, etc.; Sell, Design, Repair, Build, Wire, and Upgrade PC's and A/V equipment.Custom design systems to integrate PC's with other electronic equipment. Manage service crews and salespersons.Manage a small business.Teach end user and corporate user PC systems

Coordinate install crew activity.Train local salespeople on light Custom Installations and specific custom electronic equipment. Sell installation related products to area home and office buildersLogistically manage the custom install market in the south central Florida sales region.

Sell, Design, Repair, Build, Wire, and Upgrade PC's, Telephone, and A/V equipment.Custom design systems to integrate PC's with other electronic equipment. Manage service crews and salespersons.Manage a small business.

Repair PC's, Telephone, and A/V equipment.Manage service crew.Manage a small business.

Assist the management in the responsibilities of running an Appliance and Electronic retail store.

Business Administration And Psycology

Aa Degree, Business Administration/Psychology; Business Administration