· Played critical role in major company project consolidating company's regional environments into a single global management system. Met goals of enabling uniform management and policies internationally while reducing the overhead costs of decentralized IT systems and support.
· Spearheaded management initiative to define vision for the global proxy environment and outline a complete projects roadmap for 2008-2009. Efforts included:

· Worked with team to create a redundant firewall and DNS environment with the capacity to quickly redirect traffic to failover/redundant devices in the event of a hardware or circuit failure. Ensured mission-critical data such as EDI transmissions could continue with little/no manual intervention.
· Played key role with team in seamlessly migrating traffic from soon-to-be-decommissioned firewall hardware to upgraded hardware. Initiative involved major planning with both small and large trading partners including Chrysler, Ford, GM, Toyota, and Honda. Effectively maintained testing schedule and communications to ensure migration did not impact production traffic.
· Aided in replacing outdated proxy equipment in U.S. and Europe data centers with four BlueCoat appliances load- balanced via a Foundry ServerIron XL switch, at each
facility. Delivered a 35% reduction in Internet bandwidth utilization at the data center.
· Improved contract management and lowered costs by consolidating BlueCoat maintenance contracts from all purchases around the world into a single contract.
· Instrumental as member of project team in designing and implementing a wireless network solution to centrally manage all wireless networks within the company. Aided in creating architecture of system and configured proxy to restrict and monitor guest access. Collaborated with vendor/purchasing to acquire necessary hardware.
· Architected and implemented with the project team a reverse proxy system that enabled secure and controlled access to Web resources hosted on the internal corporate
network. Ensured system was architected to provide multiple layers of redundancy and BlueCoat appliances were configured for reverse proxy functions.

· Recommended and secured approval from top management for technology upgrades to modernize the firm's IT infrastructure, meet user demands and provide interoperability and connectivity between offices.
· Installed and configured new Dell PowerEdge server hardware. Replaced existing infrastructure and increased server count to eight in Toledo with PowerEdge 1850 & 2850 and PowerVault 745N servers; added two servers in Buffalo office to support new processes.
· Implemented low-latency MPLS private network between Buffalo and Toledo offices.
· Upgraded to SQL version of Time Matters practice management and PCLawPro billing software, minimizing bandwidth overhead and network utilization for database transactions.
· Seamlessly migrated Toledo domain from Windows NT4-based Server to an Active Directory environment using Windows 2003 Server. Converted Buffalo from Novell 6 to Windows 2003 Server, making resources easily available between offices.
· Consolidated multiple email domains and configured MS Exchange 2003 to handle email locally and set up Barracuda Spam Firewall for spam filtering/virus protection.
· Minimized non-business traffic and enforced Internet Usage policy by installing Barracuda Networks Web Filter appliance.
· Researched, deployed and maintained Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 to facilitate deployment of applications to both offices; implemented Safeword hardware token authentication for secure logins from off-network locations.
· Created detailed network documentation, providing a single point of reference for all hardware/software and network configuration information.
· Researched and installed a cost recovery system for both print and copy jobs, tied directly into existing billing system for data validation. System will potentially recover $100,000 annually in costs over previous method.
· Utilized Microsoft Remote Installation Services (RIS) and Active Directory to quickly manage and deploy workstation images and application installation and upgrades.

· Commended for ensuring systems were up and running rapidly, despite aggressive timelines and intense pressure.
· Designed, deployed and maintained multiple wired and wireless (802.11a/b/g) networks.
· Effectively trained end-users on PCs, Macs and various hardware/software.