Director of Infrastructure Services

• Jun 2013 - Present

Integration Analyst\Senior Network Administrator

• Mar 2001 - May 2013

• Design, implement, configure, secure, and manage the wired/wireless network infrastructure of three campuses, comprised of 1200+ network devices, while maintaining 99.9% uptime—successfully meeting critical business needs of faculty, staff, students, and visiting organizations. • Effectively manage direct reports, vendor and ISP relations, annual budget of $100K to $600K, contractor budget, network-related equipment purchases and support contracts, domain registrations, SSL certificates, and more. • Strategically manage technology assets for security, reliability, compliance, and scalability; ensure sound research-based approach to decision-making by embedding/tracking IT metrics; incur cost-savings by implementing open-source solutions wherever possible. • Reduce costs, improve service, and enhance network topology by performing network studies and traffic analyses and large network design upgrades and hardware configurations. • Ensure security of network and data confidentiality by researching, designing, and implementing network/security hardware, software, and authentication procedures. • Advance network topology—improving performance and cost reduction—by strategically relocating main router, firewall, and packet shaper to more centrally located offsite data center. • Serve as leader and subject matter expert across departments for evaluating third-party hardware/software and identifying network compatibility and bandwidth usage needs. Show less