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Brian Howe
@brian_howe_mr6zwyglp
Director of IT
Dallas, TX, United States
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Member since: Jan 22, 2025Accomplished Information Technology professional with a proven track record of successfully managing business systems and overseeing substantial technology projects from inception to fruition, accumulating 11+ years of experience in leadership roles within Corporate IT. Additionally, boasting two decades of expertise in the delivery of comprehensive hands-on data center solutions, with a focus on security, hardware implementation, server engineering, virtualization, and infrastructure resiliency.
. Engineer overseeing VMware, Active Directory, DNS, Intune, Office 365, and the management of a thousand external domains, ensuring integrity, and security of Domain Name System (DNS) . Creation and management of digital SSL certificates using OpenSSL creating detailed documentation and required change management. . Comprehensive Microsoft 365 auditing using Mimecast, adherence to legal and regulatory compliance. Security Analyst and discovery officer for legal case reviews, providing expert analysis, ensuring protection, and appropriate disclosure of sensitive data. . Execute Microsoft 365 administrative tasks in Azure, VMware, and Enterprise systems, effectively reducing the backlog of tasks.
• Systems engineer for data center hardware and security operations, AD, DNS, network, and helpdesk support leading project management for integrated technology solutions in 24x7 multi-state-site Monitoring and Response Center.
• Design, build, establish, and maintain infrastructure, test ISP failovers; Innovative disaster recovery planning, design, and hands on engineering providing resilient onsite/cloud solutions. Vendor Management for various infrastructure services; daily staff management, yearly reviews, and provide pay raises. . Maintain UL 827B, ISO27001, and NIST certifications for facility, proactive on compliance requirements and IT communication. . Manage day-to-day operations, support administrative computing, networking, user services, telecommunications, DC UL testing, UPS, and backup power generator. Design & deployment of technology, VMware ESX 7.0.3, and VM upgrades, Office 365, Bold Alarm Platform, and daily IT administration. Architect HA global Immix video monitoring platform; Establish tactical goals, policies, and procedures.
. Collaborate with critical teams, vendors, and engineers to successfully implement technical business solutions for AD, VMware, DNS, office 365, and Infrastructure systems. Server hardware deployment for virtualization platforms and data center operations; manage Change Management requests as needed and complete high-level IT security projects planned in an Enterprise Data Center. . Implement VMware, server hardware, Beyond Trust Password Safe, Privileged Access Management, design new HA SQL clusters, and Microsoft Windows Servers hosted within a Nutanix Hyper-converged Infrastructure virtual Environment.
. IT Administrator for Hospital domain migration project; perform active directory discovery, analysis, hardware detailed configuration, technical documentation, planning, and scheduling system with various teams, vendors, to reconfigure and migrate all systems in Sunnyvale, Texas Regional Medical Center, a Baylor Scott & White Hospital to USPI Network; manage tasks. . Windows, VMWare, and server Administration for successful migration of all hospital systems.
• Communicate with executives and hospital staff regarding all aspects of the project to formulate the best plan for execution and successfully complete all migrations to new domain in one weekend "big bang" scenario; troubleshoot issues.
. Windows Server Administration, Active Directory, DNS, Exchange, Intune, Cisco UCS servers, and Microsoft Office 365.
. Windows infrastructure deployment, VMware migrations, server software application and data center support. maintenance,
. Setup monitoring, Security, and policies to maintain high security levels; Ensure proper Veeam backups of multi-site facilities. . Support and maintain the farm of 200+ Windows Servers in VMWare; Support global server operations and project management.
. Citrix Certified Administrator ensuring VMware Windows server stability, integrity, and performance. DNS and active directory. Support 13000 users, one thousand servers, and 24 entities; troubleshoot, optimize Citrix, VMware, and servers.
• Collaborate and train helpdesk providing technical customer service solutions, reducing escalation of incidents by 25%. . Citrix Infrastructure Change Management Team Coordinator for Enterprise Infrastructure change requests.