Assistant Vice President/Network Manager
International Fidelity Insurance Company
Driven to create a long view strategic approach to support and improvements by designing solutions to resolve today’s problems but scale for tomorrow.
- Empowered IFIC via best practices with technology and process recommendations including:
- Monitoring/Alerting
- Data Management and Archiving, creating data management policies.
- DR failover/failback automation
- DNS management
- Operational standards
- Deployed Cisco Unified Communications PBX, configured phones
- Redesigned and implemented DHCP split scopes to allow for additional redundancy and availability
- Upgraded 2008 R2 domain to 2012 R2
- Deployed full disk encryption to the Enterprise using Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM)
Improved patching automation by Configuring, Cluster aware updating (CAU)
- Improved deskside security via creation of GPO
- Improved failing 2012 R2 Hyper-V cluster by enabling additional NIC Teaming to segment traffic increase HA and greatly improved performance and reliability.
- Researched and recommended and implemented Dell EqualLogic PS6610SAN Arrays for IFIC.
- Provided mentoring and direction to Helpdesk staff.
- Empowered IFIC via best practices with technology and process recommendations including:
- Monitoring/Alerting
- Data Management and Archiving
- DR failover/failback automation
- DNS management
- Operational standards
- Deployed Cisco Unified Communications PBX, configured phones
- Redesigned user start up environment reducing errors and logon times
- Created new VM for Evault mail access server
- Provided site and intra-site High Availability for Hyper-V Virtual Environment MSCS and Replication
- Introduced and configured Server fault alerting and maintenance availability, Dell OpenManage Essentials
- Created a consolidated backup architecture using D2D2Cloud to replace the legacy direct attached storage tape and enhance disaster recovery processes by leveraging synchronous volume replication using Backup Exec 2015 & AWS S3 Storage Gateway technologies while saving $500 per month in capital expenditures.
- Assessed, designed and deployed a server and VM consolidation project incorporating site and intra-site high availability for a Hyper-V Virtual Environment (MSCS and Hyper-V replicas)
- Planned and executed a SAN storage consolidation from 8 disparate storage devices to one consistent storage platform, Dell EqualLogic.
- Created automation to allow faster simpler backup to a centralized location for devices that could not backup themselves
- Consolidated, Expanded and upgraded VMware infrastructure to 6.0
- Recommended and implemented a File Server migration, introducing Volume Deduplication for better data management and capacity control
- Recommended DR Scripts to introduce expectations, knowledge transfer and organization to disaster recovery tests
- Recommended and deployed Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) to provide server OS patch updates
- Reviewed and corrected and created DNS recorded and zones
- Migrated and upgraded multiple applications from 2003 server to 2012 R2, CA ARCserve RHA, WhatsUp Gold, McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator