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• Chief Information Officer, Lake County Ohio

  Feb, 2020 - Present

  Lake County is a county government in northeast Ohio serving over 230,000 residents across 25 municipalities. The IT Department supports operations for county departments, local municipalities, and regional agencies across multiple facilities.

  • Lead cross-departmental technology initiatives spanning multiple independent IT operations

  • Direct infrastructure strategy and policy development across county-wide IT operations

  • Develop robust disaster recovery plan for continuity of County operations

  • Led Dell PowerStore enterprise storage migration

  • Oversaw 10G/25G/40G Network infrastructure upgrades

  • Deploy Salt Stack configuration management across Windows and Linux environments

  • Manage enterprise VMware infrastructure with multiple vCenter environments

  • Developed incident response planning and procedures in compliance with Ohio HB96 cybersecurity requirements

  • Led lift-and-shift migration of Tyler Technologies applications from on-premises infrastructure to SaaS platform

  • Orchestrated cloud migration of on-premises Exchange environment to Microsoft 365 for 1,800 users across county departments

• System Administrator, Lake County Ohio

  Mar, 2014 - Feb, 20205 years 11 months

  • Manage site-to-site VPNs for Remote Offices

  • Manage and maintain environment of 120 servers; Windows (Active Directory & Exchange), Linux, FreeBSD

  • Manage high availability VMware clusters

  • Lead project to replace core data center networking infrastructure

  • Deployed open-source monitoring platforms, Icinga, Nagios and Cacti

  • Planned and facilitated an ISP cut over and Public IP change affecting 1500 users

• Network Technician, Cuyahoga Heights School District

  Jun, 2011 - Mar, 20142 years 9 months

  K-12 school district in northeast Ohio, worked on a small team responsible for keeping all the technology operational as well as assisting teachers and administration with tech training.

  • Deployed FreeBSD ZFS Storage system for District storage and backups

  • Deployed Linux Course Management Server – Moodle

  • Assisted with professional development training for teachers and staff

  • Maintained Campus Network – over a hundred Cisco switches and Wi-Fi APs

  • Maintained Apple X-Serve and Apple Workstations

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