Experience

Iron Senergy

• United States
• Mining
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Information Technology Operations Manager

  • Oct 2021 - Present



Iron Cumberland

• Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, United States

• Information Technology Supervisor

  • Dec 2020 - Feb 2022



Contura Energy

• United States
• Mining
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Supervisor - IT Support

  • Jul 2016 - Dec 2020



Alpha Natural Resources

• Waynesburg, PA

• Client Services Supervisor / System Administrator

  • Jun 2010 - Jul 2016

  • Maintain and administer about 80 servers. • Manage around 350 user accounts local to Pennsylvania. • Manage File services for all the local users and department shares. • Routinely preform Active Directory task for computer and user objects. Creating Users and/or computers, resting passwords, creating groups, adding users and/or computers to a group. • Maintain the Mine Wide Monitoring System • Take Help Desk calls and help the end user. • Rotate 24/7 call as we are a 24/7 operation. • Manage the local phone system of 7 Avaya IP Office 400 switches with about 450 phones. Analog, Digital and IP • Support the building security access system. • Manage the wireless account of about 150 mixed devices. Cell phones, smartphones, air cards, iPad’s, and telemetry devices • Participate in projects like new buildings. I was in charge of relocation from one site to another for all IT related needs. Included working with the building contractors to make sure that all IT needs were meet during the construction. • Domain Migrations. When Alpha Natural Resources (Parent company of Maxxim) purchase Foundation Coal (Parent Company of Pennsylvania Services Corporation) I worked as part of the group that migrated the domain of the company the was Foundation into the domain that Alpha Natural Resources had. We migrated about 270 users and 240 desktop/laptops in 3 days. • Installed 3 VMware clusters using HP C300 Blade Servers and NetApp Storage. In doing so, we were able to virtualize 85% of our servers. Each cluster has 3 blade servers. Both the Blade chassis and the NetApps are fully redundant. Show less



Pennsylvania Services Corp

• Waynesburg, PA

• IT System Administrator

  • Apr 2000 - Jun 2010

  • Maintain and administer about 60 servers. • Manage around 270 user accounts local to Pennsylvania. • Manage File services for all the local users and department shares. • Routinely preform Active Directory task for computer and user objects. Creating Users and/or computers, resting passwords, creating groups, adding users and/or computers to a group. • Take Help Desk calls and help the end user. • Manage the local phone system of 7 Avaya IP Office 400 switches with about 450 phones. Analog, Digital and IP • Manage the wireless account of about 150 mixed devices. Cell phones, smartphones, air cards, iPad’s, and telemetry devices • Building renovation after fire damage. All IT equipment and wiring was destroyed. Was able to get the network and 80% of the building back online within 24hrs, 100% within 48hrs. • Domain Migration. Worked as part of a group to upgrade the current Windows NT 4.0 domain to Windows 2000 Active Directory upgrading Exchange at the same time. Not only help with the local sites in Pennsylvania but traveled to other location to assist in the migration. • Maintain the Mine Wide Monitoring System • Replaced the applications the Mine used to monitor the operations. Took 3 independent applications and different software packages and converted them into 1 application using 1 standard software package. Also enable remote monitoring, reducing the amount of downtime in production. • Replaced the phone system provide by the local telecom provider with an Avaya IP Office 400 system. As part of this I work with the vendor to make sure that each use that currently had a phone would be able to have an active phone on the new system. Worked with the vendor to learn the system hardware and software so that I could support it once it was installed with minimal interaction from the vendor since we operate 24/7 Show less



Marine Corps Recruiting

• Armed Forces
• 700 & Above Employee

• 2818/COMPUTER REPAIRMAN

  • Feb 1994 - Aug 1998

  • Setup basic computer systems. • Instructed other Marines on how to use a computer. • Gave computer classes, Computer familiarization, Security, and Internet use. • Setup computers for use on the LAN and internet via the LAN. • Managed LAN account for 150+ users. Building and maintaining the accounts. • Repair and rebuild computers and printers. • Accountability of gear, maintaining records of where the gear was located. • Installed system software – DOS 6.2, Windows 3.1, Windows95, Lotus, and Office 97. • Research • Wired buildings for LAN using coax cable with BNC connections. • Worked independently and as part of a team Show less