Experience

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  Corewell Health

  • Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

  • Lead Security Engineer

    • Jun 2015 - Present
    • Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

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  General Electric

  • Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

  • Infrastructure Architect

    • Aug 2012 - Apr 2014
    • Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

    Design Architect for Windows Server deployments to all businesses within GE. - Leveraged Microsoft Deployment Toolkit to develop common image for ~10,000 servers - Coordinated certification of all 3rd party applications that were included with image and supported by internal operations team - Increased First Time Right server builds by crafting Standard Operation Procedures for global deployment of all servers both physical and virtual - Received numerous accolades from project managers for determining root cause analysis of issues that had escalated beyond multiple support tiers

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  General Electric Technology Services Group

  • Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

  • Windows Server Architect

    • Jan 2008 - Aug 2012
    • Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

    Senior Windows Server Architect for Aviation, Oil and Gas, and Energy sub-businesses- Orchestrated delivery of a common configuration to over 4500 Windows Servers to eliminate variations which contributed to cycle time reductions in helpdesk trouble tickets- Collapsed 15 Citrix ZenApp server farms down to 3 and reduced the server count by 60%- Enhanced security on Windows Servers by delivering a 2-Factor authentication solution that included the use of smartcards and leveraged a PKI infrastructure

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  GE Aviation

  • Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

  • Enterprise Architect

    • May 2007 - Jan 2008
    • Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

    Integration Lead for Smiths Aerospace to GE migration- Completed Active Directory migration of 11 sites from Smiths to GE which included over 3000 users and 10TB of data

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  Smiths Aerospace

  • Backup and Storage Admin

    • Aug 2005 - May 2007

    Lead the design/operations of the Windows Server activities for the Grand Rapids site and represented the North American segment of the global IT infrastructure for Smiths Aerospace.- Developed migration strategies and procedures to move users and data from combination of 11 different Active Directory and Novell Directory Service domains to a single Active Directory infrastructure

  • Sr. IT Professional

    • Mar 1995 - Aug 2005

    Novell / Windows Server Engineer- Converted the Novell infrastructure from server centric approach to directory based utilizing Novell Directory Services- Led the vendor selection, purchasing, installation, and operation for the Novell infrastructure which included server hardware, storage, and tape backup systems.- Proactively managed data growth from 10GB to 27TB over a 10 year period- Created a nested Microsoft Distributed File Service structure to replicate Novell file shares that allowed for seamless transition to the end users when migrating servers from Novell to Microsoft Windows.

  • Sr. Engineering Technician

    • Feb 1986 - Mar 1995

    Engineering Technician for new product development and testing- Conducted circuit board and chassis assembly, testing, and troubleshooting for aviation flight control systems- Developed testing environment for industries first digital cockpit voice recorder

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  DRB Corporation

  • Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

  • Associate Engineer

    • Sep 1982 - Feb 1986
    • Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

    Build and Field Support Engineer for military instrumentation systems designer- Built and delivered remote telemetry systems to military systems contractors

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  Laser Alignment

  • Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

  • Electronic Technician

    • May 1980 - Sep 1982
    • Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

    Electronics Technician for laser leveling equipment manufacturer- Enhanced accuracy of laser leveling systems by incorporating changes to electronics design and manufacturing processes