Experience

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  Technimark

  • Asheboro, North Carolina, United States

  • IT Security and Infrastructure Lead

    • May 2022 - Present
    • Asheboro, North Carolina, United States

    IT Security and Infrastructure Lead

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  Vishay Precision Group, Inc. (VPG)

  • United States
  • Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • SENIOR REGIONAL IT MANAGER, AMERICAS

    • Jan 2014 - May 2022

    Led the IT staff, managed IT operations, infrastructure, budgets, projects, governance, mergers and acquisitions throughout the Americas

  • MICROSOFT INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGER

    • Nov 2012 - Jan 2014

    Directed Microsoft infrastructure and staff for over 30 international sites in support of Active Directory Services, System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) deployment methodologies, messaging, and compliance.

  • SENIOR ENGINEER OF MICROSOFT APPLICATIONS

    • Nov 2010 - Nov 2012

    Lead engineer for Microsoft infrastructure and operations related to Exchange, Active Directory, Hyper-V, SQL, and SharePoint offerings to include VMware virtualization

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  State Employees' Credit Union

  • SysAdmin II

    • Oct 2009 - Nov 2010

    Enterprise member within the technical services department’s production and development environments as senior Microsoft administrator in support of Active Directory, Exchange Messaging, IIS, and SQL clustered instances.

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  Aspire Telecom

  • Chief Technical Officer

    • 1999 - 2010

    Acted as the CTO and primary System Integrator for this CLEC. We provided dialtone, VOIP services and transport.

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  TR NETWORK SYSTEMS

  • Asheville, NC

  • Project and Integration Manager

    • Aug 1999 - Jun 2009
    • Asheville, NC

    Served in several integrator roles during a valuable 10 year career.KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:• Architected and administrated Microsoft and Cisco infrastructure framework for clients in the regional SMB space; managed VoIP, transport, security, and network services using best practice methodologies. • Designed and implemented through Microsoft SMS, a standard image deployed to customer client environments. • Received highly favorable recommendations from vendors to create an expanded, comprehensive indoor/outdoor wireless network with VoIP quality of service, low latency, and HIPAA compliancy for a large rehabilitation facility.• Supported a 5GHz wireless metropolitan network including multi-tenancy service offerings for downtown Asheville; managed the Cisco framework, core infrastructure, downtown fiber-optic, and data center operations. • Designed, implemented, and managed the core Windows/UNIX Server infrastructure, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and server co-location facilities for a regional hosting company.

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  Electronic Office

  • Sr. Systems Administrator

    • 1998 - 1999

    Cisco, Exchange and Citrix Administrator