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San Antonio, Tx, Us

Certified Sr. Cloud Administrator in both Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS environments. Provides daily infrastructure and operational support for the large distributed computing environment spanning multiple remote locations. Primary administrator providing high technical analysis, technical project leadership and implementation within the organization. • Experience with and migrations to Microsoft 365, including Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive and Exchange Online.• Project Implementation: Implemented multiple large projects to help facilitate datacenter relocation as well as daily administration duties supporting 1800+ servers and 3000 users.• Migrated and maintain large company dataset to Windows Server 2016 Storage Replica and DFS for a fast, cost effective DR solution and monitored data with Varonis DatAlert.• Replaced ESX with Hyper-V solutions saving the company money on ESX licensing and maintenance costs.• Windows Server 2016, 2019 & 2022 including Hyper-V, Windows Clustering, Storage Replica, Azure Stack HCI.

Road Race driver and instructor specializing in Texas race tracks with specific focus to Circuit of The Americas.Preferred driving style lends to high horsepower RWD, AWD and exotics.

SENIOR SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR / DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGYSenior hands on leader for information technology team with responsibilities including monitoring new product implementation, cultivating cross-team relationships, and managing the logistics of all IT infrastructure needs.•Strategic Planning: Delivered strategic business thinking for IT solutions to promote corporate growth and expansion goals. This also included operations for enterprise domain migration and implementing advanced group policies while maintaining overall user uptime.•Project Management: Led several geographically distributed IT implementations, including the following projects:o Migrated a failing Exchange 2003 server to Exchange 2013 server in a virtual environment. This improved overall system and user performance while enabling a highly functional messaging system in a mission critical environment where security between organizations and availability were top priorities.o Implemented a Hyper-V Geocluster using Server 2012 R2 Datacenter and Lenovo x3650 servers enabling maximum user uptime in the event of a disaster.o Implemented role based virtual servers including File, Print, web, management, monitoring, WSUS, and VPN. o Implemented “Local-E” fiber network between all facilities increasing data speeds while increasing security and reducing telecom bills by $44,000 per year.o Implemented site to site VPN solutions for those facilities not serviced by the Local-E network, as well as implement mobile VPN, Remote Desktop / Virtual Desktops as well as application publishing using Server 2012 R2 Datacenter and Remote Desktop Services.• Leadership: Responsible for the creation and distribution of company related marketing materials as well as other aspects of daily system administration, including but not limited to: backup validation, remote helpdesk support and management, system and policy documentation, and security patch management duties in a 24/7 on call environment.

Snohomish, Wa, Us

Conceptualized, developed and lead information technology team while serving as representative amongst senior leadership and executive management of the company.• Relationship Management: Aligned IT objectives to match both internal and client needs and established strategic service provider partnerships with vendors and clients while promoting company growth.• Systems Administration: Delivered routine and ad hoc IT infrastructure installation and support via remote administration tools, telephone support and on site customer visits. Setup and configured group policies to remotely distribute software including Microsoft Exchange, SQL, Microsoft updates and custom software applications. Used advanced troubleshooting skills relating to group policy and network configurations. Accountable for internal and customer lifecycle management for workstations and servers including design, procurement, installation, support maintenance, remote management and end of life.

Lexington, Massachusetts, Us

Serviced needs of organization while leading several project implementations.• IT Project Management: Provided planning, implementation and maintenance of several large scale multimillion dollar PACS systems which included network, server, workstation and enterprise software, hardware and storage build-outs including technologies such as content switches, load balancers and clustered servers.• Systems Management: Provided remote and onsite support to worldwide customers in order to deploy and integrate new hardware and software. Quickly able to remotely resolve technical equipment failures and provide regular maintenance to customers in remote locations.