A. Stuard Graham
Palmyra, PA 17078
abkiai@r.postjobfree.com
PROFESSIONAL VALUE SUMMARY
** ***** ************ ** ********* technologies providing technical support to large user
communities. Extensive background in both System Administration and Desktop
Support. Integrates well at all levels of the organization and understands the importance
of a client’s protocol and operating procedures. Excellent communication and problem
solving skills. Flexible and adaptive in a dynamic customer driven environment.
Extensive knowledge base and resources will be of immediate benefit and value to any
assignment.
Summary of Work Experience
Technisource, Inc
Holy Spirit Hospital August 2010 – September 2010 (Contract Ended)
Technical Support Specialist
• Supported an Active Directory structure of over 4000 accounts
• Creates, Configures, and Modifies Active Directory Accounts
• Manages printers from 3 different print servers
• Resolves end user technical issues within Holy Spirit Hospital and surrounding
medical offices and systems
• Supports end user applications such as SMS Rhumba (Invision and Signature),
SysOR, Eclipsys (SCM) Clinical systems, and NextGen
• Trained technical support staff in networking tools to improve their knowledge
base
• Supports end users through Avaya call management and TrackIt ticketing systems
Technisource, Inc January 2009 – July 2010 (Contract Ended)
Department of Defense – DDC/DDSP/DHRC/SICD
Information Technology Specialist
• Supports a DDC (Defense Distribution Center) global user group
• Identified, Diagnosed and Resolved Certificate problems for email encryption and
network resource access
• Created solutions for problems in both desktop and web based applications
• Updated applications and security vulnerabilities using SMS and Active Directory
tools
• Instrumental in leading the testing and upgrading to Remedy version 7.1
• Helped develop and test the new Standard Desktop Image being deployed
globally
• Rolled out the new SDC (Standard Desktop Configuration) achieving a 90%
deployment rate with DDC
• Installed new printer for Transportation thereby increasing productivity and
efficiency
• Resolved many home network issues ensuring tele-workers’ VPN connectivity
Life Center Ministries Intl
Volunteered Technical Services October 2008 – January 2009
• Provided technical support for desk top PC’s, MacBooks, and printers
• Installed new Mac Server to migrate user accounts from MS Small Business
Server
• Networked POS for bookstore, coffee shop and online sales
• Rebuilt sanctuary projector
Ohm Systems; Inc April 2008 - October 2008 (Contract Ended)
Department of Public Welfare
Senior Level Desktop Support
• Supported a user group covering all 67 counties. Diagnosed and resolved problems in
both local and global web based applications.
• Developed new images for the County Assistant Offices and streamlined their current
imaging process to reduce end user downtime.
• Developed specific images for the Deloitte Application Development Team so they
could test their applications for Internet Explorer 7 compatibility and compliancy.
• Secondary and Tertiary hardware support resulting in either resolution or referring the
problem to our outside maintenance contract.
• Logged problem calls in Remedy and tracked resolutions to ensure minimal end user
downtime.
Transfer Technology, Inc April 2006 - April 2008 (Contract Ended)
Department of Public Welfare
System Administrator / Senior Level Desktop Support
• Supported a community of users covering all 67 counties and multiple
agencies within an Active Directory structure in excess of 60,000 accounts.
• Assisted the Unified Security Team in merging DMS (Distributed
Management System) into Site Minder 5.5 to create one primary tool for account
management; Site Minder 6.0. This helped to greatly reduce the latency within
Site Minder to bring the application into more “real time” and added more value
by increasing the available resources that can be accessed within the application.
• Researched and worked with the Deloitte Application team to modify existing
attributes and create new roles for multi-county access.
• Project lead for account management for the new managed Domain between
the Active Directories of DPW and Labor & Industry.
• Restructured contractor accounts as Business Partners into the PWMUSER
thereby creating one repository for account management for all Business Partner
accounts.
• Project Lead for Secure E-mail which allowed Business Partner accounts the
ability to communicate with each other through a secure environment much like
Microsoft Exchange is used by CWOPA (Commonwealth Employees).
• Project lead for account management for County Assistant Offices and their
respective district offices.
• Project lead for all new Compass accounts including testing, debugging and
organizing these Business Partner accounts in the PWMUSER Active Directory.
• Project lead for all new AIMS (now CWDS – Commonwealth Workforce
Development System), Business Partner and CWOPA (Commonwealth of PA)
accounts including testing and debugging in a timely manner so as not to
compromise their Federal mandate
Transfer Technology, Inc June 1999-April 2006 (Contract Ended)
Department of Environmental Protection
Level 2 Desktop Support
• Responsible for DEP’s printer server farm, encompassing 5 print servers and
over 170 printers statewide.
• Created images across several hardware platforms and 3 operating systems
(Windows NT, 2000, and XP).
• As part of the SMS team, successfully migrated from SMS 2.0 to SMS 3.0 while
maintaining integrity to the distribution servers.
• As part of the SMS team ensured the timely delivery of both software and
McAfee updates.
• Resolved problematic SMS pushes across multiple hardware platforms.
• Created custom Windows XP Desktop images for PEMA (Pennsylvania
Emergency Management Agency)
• Built custom Windows 2003 Sever for the Democratic Caucus of the House of
Representatives. This included: writing their back up scripts, setting up their
cross domain trusts, and the offsite storage of their tape backups.
• On-site resolution for all of DEP’s desktop applications in Central Office.
Remote access was used for all regional District Offices.
• As part of the Server Team, ensured the back up schedule of our severs including
the tape catalog.
• Project lead for the implementation of the JAWS screen reading software for the
visually impaired.
• Primary after hours support for DEP’s executive staff.
• Resolved over 2300 Remedy tickets.
• Project Lead on DEP’s EFP2 website. Redesigned both the internal and external
websites to ensure multiple browser accessibility and Bobby compliancy.
• Project Lead on the design and implementation of Passport terminal emulation
software.
• Primary Lead on Desktop support for the EHB (Environmental Hearing Board)
in Central Office.
• Researched and assisted in the development and deployment of a customized
Microsoft Office 2000 installation package.
• Installed and configured Blackberry devices. Resolved issues with both desktop
and wireless synchronization.
Technical Experience
Windows 95, NT, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7, Microsoft Office 2007,
(2000, XP, 2003), Outlook, Remedy, Track-It!, ViewNow, QVTNet, Passport, Visual
Interdev, Front Page, Dream Weaver, SMS, SMS Remote Tools, Active Directory
(including multiple domains), PC Anywhere, GenControl, Dameware, Site Minder, DMS
(Distributed Management System), Ghost, Visio, Visual Basic, FileNet, and Xerox
Docushare.
Education
Computer learning Network - Programming Specialist in COBOL and Visual Basic
Alternate Training Solutions – Microsoft MCSE
Certifications
Microsoft MCP
CompTIA Security+
Microsoft MCTS (pending)
Microsoft MCSE (pending)
Comp TIA A+ (pending)
References
Available upon request