Nick Taylor
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Duane Kiser
I have worked with Nick for over 12 years and have seen him grow into a top tier IT professional. Nick's intelligence, drive, and thirst for knowledge keep him on the leading edge of technology. Nick is a great team member for projects as well as working independently to get the project done correctly, on time, and on budget. Nick has a knack for finding the proper solution to fit the technical requirements as well as budget and other project constraints. When given a choice, I choose to have Nick work with me on any projects I am involved with. Outside of Nick's professional expertise, he is just an outstanding person. He's one of the wittiest people you will meet and his sense of humor helps immensely when drudging out long hours trying to resolve those inevitable issues on larger projects. Nick earns my highest recommendation.
Duane Kiser
I have worked with Nick for over 12 years and have seen him grow into a top tier IT professional. Nick's intelligence, drive, and thirst for knowledge keep him on the leading edge of technology. Nick is a great team member for projects as well as working independently to get the project done correctly, on time, and on budget. Nick has a knack for finding the proper solution to fit the technical requirements as well as budget and other project constraints. When given a choice, I choose to have Nick work with me on any projects I am involved with. Outside of Nick's professional expertise, he is just an outstanding person. He's one of the wittiest people you will meet and his sense of humor helps immensely when drudging out long hours trying to resolve those inevitable issues on larger projects. Nick earns my highest recommendation.
Duane Kiser
I have worked with Nick for over 12 years and have seen him grow into a top tier IT professional. Nick's intelligence, drive, and thirst for knowledge keep him on the leading edge of technology. Nick is a great team member for projects as well as working independently to get the project done correctly, on time, and on budget. Nick has a knack for finding the proper solution to fit the technical requirements as well as budget and other project constraints. When given a choice, I choose to have Nick work with me on any projects I am involved with. Outside of Nick's professional expertise, he is just an outstanding person. He's one of the wittiest people you will meet and his sense of humor helps immensely when drudging out long hours trying to resolve those inevitable issues on larger projects. Nick earns my highest recommendation.
Duane Kiser
I have worked with Nick for over 12 years and have seen him grow into a top tier IT professional. Nick's intelligence, drive, and thirst for knowledge keep him on the leading edge of technology. Nick is a great team member for projects as well as working independently to get the project done correctly, on time, and on budget. Nick has a knack for finding the proper solution to fit the technical requirements as well as budget and other project constraints. When given a choice, I choose to have Nick work with me on any projects I am involved with. Outside of Nick's professional expertise, he is just an outstanding person. He's one of the wittiest people you will meet and his sense of humor helps immensely when drudging out long hours trying to resolve those inevitable issues on larger projects. Nick earns my highest recommendation.
Credentials
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MCSA: Windows Server 2012
MicrosoftDec, 2016- Nov, 2024 -
MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure
MicrosoftDec, 2016- Nov, 2024 -
MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure
MicrosoftDec, 2016- Nov, 2024 -
MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure — Certified 2016
MicrosoftDec, 2016- Nov, 2024 -
MS: Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions
MicrosoftDec, 2016- Nov, 2024 -
MCPS: Microsoft Certified Professional
MicrosoftMay, 2014- Nov, 2024 -
MS: Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center
MicrosoftMay, 2014- Nov, 2024 -
MCTS: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuration
MicrosoftJul, 2009- Nov, 2024 -
MCTS: Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure, Configuration
MicrosoftJun, 2009- Nov, 2024 -
MCTS: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Configuration
MicrosoftMay, 2009- Nov, 2024 -
MCTS: Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Configuration
MicrosoftMay, 2009- Nov, 2024 -
ITIL 3.0 Foundations
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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Configuration
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Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Configuration
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Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Configuration
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Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration
Microsoft
Experience
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Model Technology Solutions
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Consultant
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Jul 2016 - Present
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The Maschhoffs
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United States
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Food and Beverage Manufacturing
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200 - 300 Employee
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Sr. Systems Engineer
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Mar 2014 - Jul 2016
Architected and migrated Hyper-V Hosts from 2008 R2, to 2012, then to 2012 R2 for upwards of 250 guests VM’s with zero downtime utilizing Share Nothing Live Migration and Storage MigrationsMigrated our Dev Environment from on premise legacy hardware to Microsoft Azure’s IaaS PlatformMigration of 750 user mailboxes from existing on premise Exchange 2010 to O365Investigated and implemented Teglie Hybrid SAN for our test environment. Participated in their SMB 3.0 beta program and worked hand in hand with their engineers to stress test, bug test, and benchmark new software buildsArchitected and deployed Identity management and automated user provisioning for Salesforce with Azure Active DirectoryArchitected and deployed Microsoft’s Scale Out File Server platform with JBOD to serve SMB 3.0 with 5TB of capacity raw with a 70% deduplication rate. Initial cost savings over tradition SAN options were over 70kEngineered our production facilities failover clusters to take advantage of newer cluster in a box technologies. This produced cost savings of over 80k per site over our traditional methods while maintaining the same SLAImplementation of NetApp 2240-2 as an early adopter of SMB 3.0 File Based StorageMigration off of legacy network stacks to Juniper switches for Core, Distribution, Top of Rack, and Access Layers consisting of EX4500’s, EX3300’s, and EX2200’sArchitected SolarWinds Orion NPM and NTA for full application monitoring and up/down status and alerts for over 500 nodes. Employed community sourced tools to create a NOC Dashboard showing all connected sites via Google Maps with weather overlay to compliment the functionality of the base platformArchitected multiple SQL Availability Group instances for increased uptime and performance for our internal applications with standby nodes acting as reporting and backup targetsEngineered Run Books via System Center Orchestrator for application updates, VM Creation, and custom application deployment
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Systems Administrator
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Oct 2006 - Feb 2014
Storage Area Admin, Hyper-V Admin, Exchange Admin, SQL Admin
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Education
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1999 - 2001
ITT
Computer Network Systems Technology
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