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Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

Acting as the technical lead for Quartech, this role involved planning the business’s IT roadmap and key priorities with senior leadership and key stakeholders. This included developing security policies, planning for office and datacenter migrations and internal initiatives, in addition to mentoring and training members of the IT Team. Achievements:• Helped deliver a project that produced a verifiable credential to authenticate genuine products for a public sector client utilizing Kubernetes within Microsoft Azure. • Improved automation via a move to automated role-based access control groups, which dynamically assign permissions within Azure AD depending on an employee’s role at the business. • Collaborated with the onboarding of a major Government client in providing project and deployment support to their internal applications, the success of which drove significant future revenue and opportunities to Quartech.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

Working closely with the Director of IT at Quartech to carry out design and execution of critical infrastructure and solution upgrades for the business while also providing auxiliary support to Quartech’s developers who were building solutions for Quartech’s public and private sector clients. Achievements: • Undertook an extensive audit on Quartech’s IT environment and planned out a new IT Roadmap with key stakeholders.• Lead the successful migration of On-Premises Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams while effectively handling the challenges of managing VoIP providers during the porting process.• Modernized Quartech’s Active Directory without disruption from 2003 Domain/Forest Functional Level to running on 2019, as well as migrating from FRS to DFSR for SYSVOL.• Worked with Quartech stakeholders to plan and design a new development environment within Microsoft Azure.• Provisioned and set up Office 365 tenants for both internal testing and Quartech clients. • Developed numerous scripts to improve the efficiency of regular maintenance tasks such as patching and system reporting.

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Balanced responsibilities across Softlanding's managed IT Services team and the Professional Services division. Carried out systems administration on various Azure, Office 365, vCenter, Hyper-V and Exchange environments. Achievements:• Facilitated the reduction of out-of-hours callouts by 90% after a comprehensive review of related processes to discover the root issue.• Developed strong relationships with key customer contacts and became a go-to engineer recognized for no-nonsense advice and creative solutions. • Delivered complex projects including Exchange Security audits, Office 365 tenancy migrations, and onboarding, utilizing PowerShell scripts to speed up bulk operations.• Collaborated with colleagues to improve and develop the ConnectWise Automate monitoring solution.• Earned recognition within Softlanding as one of the top technical resources in the team for specialized knowledge and versatility across a breadth of technical and infrastructure solutions.

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Provided systems administration and project support for Rackspace’s managed and hosted services platform, which included the maintenance and optimization of client environments utilizing VMWare vSphere, Windows Server, Exchange and Microsoft Azure.Achievements:• Demonstrated collaboration with a global team and responsibility while working under pressure to restore service to a critical Chinese client after a major WannaCry outbreak impacting several hundred servers• Planned and lead on deployments of DirectAccess and a Remote Desktop Services farm for a major UK financial services firm, and designed and implemented a vSphere 6.5 based training and testing environment for my team.• Facilitated efficiency improvements by automating lengthy processes utilizing PowerShell and PowerCLI including automatically generating datastore reports, the creation and removal of snapshots as well as bulk changes to AD and Exchange.

Delivering administration of Net Support UK’s suite of private cloud hosting services and public cloud offerings, which included Microsoft Azure, Office 365, 3CX PBX and managed IT. Participated in the transition of key clients into public cloud-based solutions.Achievements:• Successfully delivered completed a deployment of over 200 Windows 7 PCs and laptops on a tight schedule without a supplied WDS server, by developing my own DISM scripts this was completed ahead of schedule.• Lead on improving datacenter resiliency through the deployment of additional UPSs and a generator to sustain through a 24-hour grid outage.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Politics

A-Level:, History, Geography, Ict, Critical Thinking