Nicholas Falcone

IT Infrastructure Architect

PROFILE

Experienced IT leader with deep technical expertise in enterprise infrastructure, seeking a position where hands-on systems and network administration skills combine with strategic leadership to maintain operations and drive datacenter projects forward.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Lake County Ohio

Chief Information Officer
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

Lake County Ohio

System Administrator
2014 - 2020
  • 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

Cuyahoga Heights School District

Network Technician
2011 - 2014

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