Supporting IGS initiatives through professional infrastructure engineering.

Deliver IT operations support and administration to the enterprise data center and 47 multi-state facilities. Provides design, implementations, and hands-on administration and engineering across the Infrastructure. Monitor and maintain Infrastructure performance and functionality. My team utilizes tools such as virtualization technologies, cloud-based devices and platforms, SIEM, Mobile Device Management, Azure, firewalls, VPNs, directory services with policies, scripting, extensive network and security monitoring, RBAC / AGDLP practices, and many others to provide expert and creative solutions to infrastructure requirements supporting business objectives, information security, business continuity, disaster contingencies, and regulatory compliance to meet and exceed industry standards and best practice.

Leveraged leadership ability, excellent business acumen, and expert systems / infrastructure design, engineering, and administration. Lead or collaborated in/across teams enabling the modernization of platforms supporting business objectives and processes. I.T. Operations encompassed procurement, budget management, oversight of infrastructure elements such as endpoints, the data center, servers, blades, SAN’s, firewalls, routers/switches, WLAN, VoIP/PBX/Digital phone systems, wiring, network performance monitoring, event management, asset management, application deployments, imaging, EMR, SQL, vendor management, thin compute, VPNs, mobile device management, and enterprise security including vulnerability patching and end-point AV/Malware protection. Provided cross-functional support to the security program driving policy management, risk assessments and mitigation, incident response programs, DR/BC management, data loss prevention, data classification, and regulatory compliance including HIPAA/OminBus/HiTech.

Managed Network Services team from corporate headquarters in Muncie, IN and Columbus, OH IT team providing integrity, availability, and security of networked assets to the holding company of six independently chartered banks with 72 branches. Leveraged leadership training and skills to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, security of information assets, and reliable infrastructure operations.