Thomas A. Email & Phone Number

Kenwood, Ohio, United States

West Palm Beach, Florida

• Principal Engineer of Active Directory Migration / Consolidation project. Consisted of migrating 2500+ user accounts, PC’s, file shares, servers, and AD sync with Office 365.
• Selected Palo Alto Networks NGFW to replace existing Cisco ASA's at the corporate Data Center. Architected network redesign of MPLS and SD-WAN zones to enhance network security. Primary Engineer for daily administration.
• Deployed GobalProtect VPN client with Azure MFA to enhance authentication security.
• Evaluated various technologies including DaaS using either Dell WYSE or IGEL terminals for replacing Windows 7 desktops across the organization.
• Managed and maintained corporate Meraki Networks across 130+ sites. Including provisioning of SD-WAN and circuit turn-ups.
• Installed and Maintained Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor. Configured with SAM, NCM, and Netflow. Created custom dashboards for various service views.

United States

• Responsible for the design and implementation of a new Active Directory infrastructure. Hybrid infrastructure that included servers deployed in Azure.
• Installed and configured Checkpoint security appliances.
• Manage and maintained corporate G Suite
• Responsible for troubleshooting all network issues from PC to Firewall
• Created policies for Network Access, Password, and BYOD
• Worked with executive management to develop a disaster recovery plan

Palm Beach Gardens, FL

• Hired and managed a team of seven IT professionals responsible for all corporate systems, including security, applications, servers, workstations, telecom, and storage. Reported directly to the CEO.
• Managed a team of G4S armed Security Guards, including design of corporate access control, visitor management, and surveillance systems.
• Led the evaluation and selection of new corporate systems, including ERP, CRM, Revision Control, Network Monitoring, Helpdesk, Firewalls, Endpoint Security, and PKI infrastructures.
• Designed and implemented Active Directory, GSuite, disaster recovery, and security infrastructures.
• Planned and managed VMware infrastructure to support Sonvation’s private cloud. Design included Cisco UCS, AWS, EJBCA, RC3, and Nimble Storage.
• Completed and maintained ARIN registration for class C IP block to allow ISP’s to run BGP for high availability.

Palm Beach Gardens, FL

• Maintained Corporate Checkpoint Firewalls.
• VMWare Infrastructure 3 migration. Reduced physical servers by converting to virtual.
• Led the evaluation and selection of new corporate systems, including VMware, SAN Storage, URL Filtering, Antivirus, and Workstation Patching.
• Managed and maintained corporate network switches.
• Provisioned and maintained corporate SAN.
• Revamped corporate backup system and procedures.

Palm Beach Gardens, FL

• Provide support for existing Citrix Farm which supports 2 remote offices and travel teams.
• Setup and configure new servers, including installation and management of clustered servers.
• Production code rolls from UAT/DEV to Production servers.
• Research and testing of products and services to improve day to day operations of the network.
• Setup and maintain virtual servers using both GSX/ESX server
• Maintain Exchange Environment and mailbox quota sizes

• Troubleshooting, repairing and upgrading of personal computers
• Supervision of service center employees
• Inventory management, shipping and receiving
• Customer relations/direct interaction with clients
• Training of new hire employees