John Upwood
Project Manager at GFI Digital- Claim this Profile
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Experience
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GFI Digital
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United States
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Computer Hardware Manufacturing
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200 - 300 Employee
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Project Manager
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Feb 2021 - Present
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Bayer
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Chemical Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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System Architect
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Jun 2018 - Nov 2020
Senior technical/operational consulting role dedicated to security and merger-integration projects: • Lead technical analyst on IT security/operations projects focusing on endpoint vulnerabilities. • Engineering lead: M&A-integration Active Directory migration project (~30k endpoints) which included driving solutions to post-migration defects and managing remediations. • Various project management responsibilities for security projects including reporting, weekly presentations to stakeholders, PPT reporting decks, and driving results from vendors and managed service providers. • Data analysis/rationalization, building tracking spreadsheets using embedded SQL queries to deliver daily reporting visibility on the security status for 30K+ endpoints on a per-machine basis. Show less
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AB InBev
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Belgium
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Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Global Project Manager, IT Infrastructure (Consultant)
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Sep 2014 - Jan 2018
Project Manager for AB-Inbev Global organization with an international portfolio of IT Infrastructure projects running in Bangalore, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Amsterdam, Belgium, London, Prague, Switzerland, St. Louis. Currently working on integration activities following the merger with SABMiller in 2016. Past activities have included data center projects to build Citrix VDI infrastructure as well as Active Directory projects in support of a large business services center in Bangalore. Show less
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Senior Desktop Engineer/Project Lead (Consultant)
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Dec 2013 - Sep 2014
Lead architecture and engineering role on a project to create a new Windows 7 "Gold" image for AB-Inbev Global HQ, migrating from XP. Subsequent role as deployment lead for the roll-out phase in New York and St Louis.Audience: International Global Corporate Headquarters for AB/In-Bev, New York City.
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Wells Fargo
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United States
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Desktop Engineer--Infrastructure Projects
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Mar 2011 - Dec 2013
Long-term projects included domain migration, exchange migration (both resulting from merger activity) and Windows OS modernization (to Windows 7) -- servicing an audience of 35,000 within the trading and financial advising division. Long-term projects included domain migration, exchange migration (both resulting from merger activity) and Windows OS modernization (to Windows 7) -- servicing an audience of 35,000 within the trading and financial advising division.
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Viasystems
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Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
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400 - 500 Employee
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Systems Administrator
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Mar 2009 - Nov 2009
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AT&T
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United States
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Telecommunications
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700 & Above Employee
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IT Infrastructure: Desktop Management/Print Server Team
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Jul 1999 - Dec 2008
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Education
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Millikin University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English Language and Literature/Letters