Experience

Express IT Solutions

• United States
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Owner

  • Jan 2011 - Present

  Managed IT support services and consulting | Systems Engineering | Network Engineering | Technical Support | Website Development | Website Hosting Solutions | Corporate Computing | Virtualization | ERP, MRP & EDI | Database Administration | Sharepoint Portal Development | Open Source Solutions from servers to web | Hosted Solutions | Enterprise Clusters | Help Desk | Desktop Support | Windows Active Directory & Group Policy | Firewalls | Web Filters | Network Security | Systems Security.2016 projects included: Building and hardening a 2 node mail filtering cluster. Implementing firewalls with centralized block lists including a universal allow list that gets pulled from firewalls that are distributed at client sites. We essentially built in central management features onto our preferred open source router platform. We love using pfSense on FreeBSD!We're continuing to add value for clients by leveraging open source platforms like email, firewalls, and other systems we engineer. That's the difference - we're not re-sellers, we're engineers!



Adobe Chateau Group

• Owner

  • Jan 2009 - Present

  Property investment group in Kalamazoo, MI. Property investment group in Kalamazoo, MI.



Edwards Garment

• United States
• Retail Apparel and Fashion
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Part-Time Systems Administrator

  • Mar 2010 - Jun 2013

  Systems administration, new project planning / implementation, network administration both Windows and Linux, network management* We successfully completed a migration of approximately 20 servers from Virtual Iron to VMWare VSphere 4.x, MS SQL 2005 Server, production ERP / MRP systems, warehouse management system, and other important servers.* We successfully upgraded our Dell Equilogic SAN from 2.x firmware to 5.x (current) firmware without incident! Additionally we upgraded the SAN from using 250 GB disks to 1 TB disks greatly increasing capacity on the SAN.* Successfully expanded the network subnet from a /24 to a /22 allowing more hosts per network segment, we then broke out the flat network on a defalt vlan to a few different vlans in preparation for a Mitel VOIP phone system. The switch to VOIP went pretty smoothly and network segmentation enhanced network capacity. Network switch configuration and tweaking is ongoing to optimize internal bandwidth and resources.



Purdue University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Windows Systems Administator

  • Jan 2009 - Mar 2010

  Windows 2003 Active Directory Domain management, end users support, application updates, software rollouts, elementary scripting techniques for automation and printer support. Windows 2003 Active Directory Domain management, end users support, application updates, software rollouts, elementary scripting techniques for automation and printer support.



SKD Automotive

• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Systems Analyst

  • 2007 - 2009

  I worked with my corporate counterpart developing methodologies to tighten networking services such as our security model, group policies, split brain DNS model, WINS, DHCP functionality and other important core networking services at all six North American sites eliminating the diverseness of each site configuration. I functioned as an escalation contact for all concerns related to Active Directory and Microsoft Services. I co-managed Exchange 2007 Servers and our Black Berry Enterprise Server (BES). I was sent to a week long VMware ESX training, then implemented VMWare’s ESX 3.5 Server in a clustered highly available configuration with V-Motion at our Milton, ON data center. Storage for the project was on an iSCSI md3000i Dell SAN.



cyberMIND Corporation

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Office Technology Specialist

  • Oct 2006 - Jun 2007

  Supported small business clients office servers and workstations. Supported web hosting clients. Supported small business clients office servers and workstations. Supported web hosting clients.



Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan

• United States
• Government Administration
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Network Technician II

  • Jul 2003 - Jun 2006

  Exchange email management was my specialty! Desktop support, developed a Windows 2000 w/Office 97, 2000 and XP to XP Pro migration w/Office 2003 project. I picked up the project halfway and further developed an existing solution. I leveraged several scripts and Active Directory Group Policy to uninstall legacy office applications, it then installed Office 2003. I also further developed our Windows XP unattended process, it leveraged a DOS boot disk, queried the technician with a few configuration questions and installed XP Pro with Service Pack 1. I also worked with Nortel networking equipment and various other technologies.