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Current Projects:

IT Services                                                            Town of Dewey-Humboldt
Local Government                                                            Humboldt, Arizona
Three year contract to provide IT consulting, systems management, and training and support services under the title Enterprise Technical Support for the Town of Dewey Humboldt. Currently we are in a preliminary inventory/analysis phase to ascertain the current state of the Town’s systems. After completion of this phase we will begin developing a future state goal, coupled with a gap analysis and project plan to move us from the current state to the desired future state. Initial impressions suggest a focus on systems backup/disaster recovery to ensure systems availability as the first priority.

IT Services                                                                        Town of Clarkdale
Local Government                                                            Clarkdale, Arizona

Contract to provide ongoing IT consulting, systems management, and training and support services for a medium sized network consisting of four physical servers, 12 virtual servers, and approximately 50 desktop and laptop PCs. Windows Server 2008/Hyper-V environment, Active Directory, Certificate Services, Exchange 2007, Incode Financials, System Center Essentials, RADIUS, Symantec Endpoint 11.04, Terminal Services Application Server, and Web Server. We also support a Cisco based 10 GbE converged POE Voice/Data network with Cisco CCME phone system.           

IT Services                                                                  Clarkdale Fire District
Local Government                                                           Clarkdale, Arizona

Recommend, setup, deploy, and maintain a small organization network consisting of one server, four desktops, two laptops and two network printers. Network is both wired and wireless. Windows Server 2003, Active Directory, Vista based desktops and laptops, with full roaming profiles.

IT Technical Consultant                                                    Bush Refrigeration
Commercial Refrigeration Sales                                   Camden, New Jersey

Project goals: Migrate physical production server environment to virtual server environment using Windows 2008 Server with Hyper-V, implement a standardized managed desktop, update in-house Access Database Project from SQL 2000/Access 2000 to SQL 2005/Access 2007, and update company internet web site.

Prior Engagements:

Assistant Vice President of Desktop Computing,
MBNA America Bank, Newark, DE
• Systems Management Architect
Developed and implemented a global workstation systems management solution. Utilizing Microsoft Systems Management Server, the solution managed 30,000 PC workstations at 42 Sites in the United States and Europe. After proposing the system and securing executive backing and funding. I developed the global architecture and hired and trained the team, who then implemented and maintained the system. With the solution in place were able to roll out critical security patches and application updates to all 30,000 systems overnight. The system also maintained a complete and current hardware and software inventory of all systems which was utilized for software licensing compliance reports and hardware inventory budgeting and control.  

• Desktop Release Manager
Accountable for the successful implementation of business critical, high dollar volume credit card processing system application updates. This included management of the testing and deployment activities for 37 applications updated nine times per year, often with overlapping timetables and testing requirements; coordinating application testing, feedback to developers, daily deployment of application updates into the development and test environments, final production deployment, and post deployment verification. This position required frequent reporting to executive management.