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Location:
Ocala, FL, 34471
Posted:
August 11, 2010

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Resume:

Anthony George

**** ** **** ****** ***** FL *****

352-***-****

E-mail: *********@*****.***

I am an IT professional with extensive experience leading enterprise IT

projects, building and motivating high-performance teams, and improving

work flow by identifying systems and process enhancements. I am skilled at

building executive and client relationships and communicating across

functional business units. I have managed large scale projects in excess of

one million dollars and am well versed in writing statements of work and

price negotiations. Writing scope and business requirement documentation

come easy to me. All of the projects I have managed run concurrently. I

have managed all phases of IT lifecycle, performed employee evaluations and

provided employee growth development plans. I am a software instructor and

have taught users in a classroom setting and also one on one. I am a road

warrior who enjoys being on the road and learning from new experiences. I

want a challenge and have over twelve years of experience. I have excellent

communication skills (written and oral) and can bring these qualities along

with my computer skills, which include but are not limited to:

Mission critical System Implementations

Leading Concurrent Projects

Writing comprehensive Business Requirements

Facilitation and Motivating Teams

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer For Windows 2003/2000, MCSE ID#

2402410

Certified Novell Engineer 6.0 ID# 9775414

Citrix Certified Enterprise Administrator

VMware Certified Professional

Datacenter construction and management

Active Directory Configuration and Administration

Microsoft Windows 2008/2003/2000 Administration and Configuration

Software Training and Instruction (individual and group)

Senior level Help Desk Support and Administration

Server Repair and Configuration (I can repair to component level.)

Desktop, Laptop and Monitor Repair and Configuration

Microsoft Exchange/Outlook Administration

If you feel that my qualities and skills may be beneficial to your company;

I would appreciate the opportunity to meet with you and discuss in greater

detail my interest with your company. I can provide references from

personal, business and previous employers upon request.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,

Anthony N. George

Anthony George

4015 SE 17th Street Ocala FL 34471

352-***-****

E-mail: *********@*****.***

OBJECTIVE

I am a IT Director with extensive experience leading enterprise IT

projects, building and motivating high-performance teams, and improving

work flow by identifying systems and process enhancements. I am skilled at

building executive and client relationships and communicating across

functional business units.

WORK EXPERIENCE

IT Director

March 2010 - Present

Department of Anesthesiology at The University of Florida - Gainesville,

Florida

- Manage the IT infrastructure for a 400 user environment

- Supervise IT personal consisting of desktop, server, infrastructure and

programmers.

- Responsible for Department budget which includes all IT hardware,

software and IT department salary

- Have built a team environment in a very short time

- Have developed a full training program for residents on Centricity

Perioperative

Anesthesia CPA

- Train all residents each rotation on CPA, CPM, and Ihrm

- Consolidated 30 servers to VMware Vsphere in the process of more

- Implemented a VMware VDI solution for remote use for windows and mac

platforms

- Implemented Mircrosoft Share Point 2010 for external web presence and

internal document management use.

- In the process of upgrading all Microsoft servers to Server 2008

- In the process of upgrading SQL to 2008

- Currently undergoing a department wide desktop refurbish on the Windows

7 platform

- Have configured and support the environment to allow for Mac, iPad, and

iPhone connection and use.

- Implemented DFS for enhanced file sharing

- Converting Microsoft Access to SQL

- Converting local storage to a Xiotech San

- Support and develop all Departmental research needs

- Custom reporting with Crystal Reports

- Manage GE Healthcare's Centricity Perioperative Anesthesia (CPA)

including all configuration, variables, vForms, Monitor Capture, Script

Configuration, and billing

- Manage GE HealthCare's Centricity Perioperative Manager including Doctors

preference cards, Clinical Documentation, OR Manager, Pathway Manger, OR

Scheduler, and Patient Manager

- Negotiate and maintain all vendor relationships and contracts

- Document business ideas; turn them into business requirements to allow

for development and production use

Systems Analyst - Project Manager

September 2009 - March 2010

Shands Hospital at the University of Florida - Gainesville, Florida

- Impalmented GE Healthcare's Centricity Perioperative Anesthesia System

into a 22 bed OR.

- Was the Project Manager for the Centricity Perioperative Anesthesia

system.

- Manage GE Healthcare's Centricity Perioperative Anesthesia (CPA)

including all configuration, variables, vForms, Monitor Capture, Script

Configuration, and billing

- Manage GE HealthCare's Centricity Perioperative Manager including Doctors

preference cards, Clinical Documentation, OR Manager, Pathway Manger, OR

Scheduler, and Patient Manager

- Created several custom reports using Crystal Reports.

- Created a training manual on the use of CPA for Doctors, Residents and

CRNAs.

- Manged the CPA system to ensure 98% up time for OR use.

- Was promoted to IT Director for the Department of Anesthesiology

Engagement Manager

March 2008 - August 2009

Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp - Ocala, Florida

I was the Engagement manager for both the Title and Insurance Lines of

Business. I handled everything from new hires, to procurement, contract

negations and documentation of business practices and requirements. I

managed all projects that correlate with the business.

- Consolidated two title companies into one

identity.

- Merged 23 offices into a single organization. This touched 200 users in

the areas of network, active directory, phones, software, PC upgrades and

all shared resources.

- Implemented Microsoft Dynamics 4.0 CRM to a two hundred user base. This

included importing a customer database, designing workflow around leads and

turning them into opportunities.

- Implemented AMS360 to 100 remote insurance agents

- Negotiated several vendor contracts. I have saved the business on the

average of at least 10,000 to 20,000 or more per bid.

- Implemented XMedius to a 500 remote and local user base.

- Several of my development projects centered on .Net applications. These

applications were core to the Business. I managed The Mortgage Origination

System, CRM interfaces and Dashboards and Ernst Calculations projects.

- Listen to business and management ideas, turn those ideas into business

requirements and then into identified projects.

- Installed Project Server 2007 and helped start the project management

office.

- I started as the IT manger and managed thirty direct reports. Six Months

later I was promoted to Engagement Manager. I managed the day to day

activities of twenty server engineers and ten help desk personal. I

performed employee evaluations and employee growth development Plans.

Practice Manager /Consultant

January 2007 - March 2008

Dell Inc

Rapid App was sold and most of the consultants went to work at Dell, I was

among them.

- Provided Microsoft, VMware and Project Management services for various

infrastructure projects to Dell Clients. Projects ran through the whole

project lifecycle. Managed customer relations between Dell and clients,

provided scope, wrote business requirement documents, statement of work and

price negations.

- Practice lead for the Southeast in the areas of virtualization and citrix

- Helped sell over $500,000.00 in client services.

- Advised CIOs and COOs of Fortune 500 companies on "best practices"

- Have written several white papers for Dell and Vmware

- As a Practice Manager for Dell it was my responsibility to provide custom

solutions to clients in the areas of VMware design and implementation,

Citrix design and implementation, Active Directory support and Softricity

4.0 implantation.

-Provided VMware design and implementation to Dell Clients. The

engagements consisted of designing and building VMware ESX 3.0 servers

under best practices for security and service delivery to guest systems.

Virtual Center 2.0 was designed to fit the client's needs. PlateSpin and

Ultimate P2V were used to perform the P2V process. Project Management was

provided and changes were developed or processes managed as needed.

Performed 30 ESX 2.5 to 3.0 migrations and over 200 guest migrations

Senior Engagement Manager /Consultant

April 2006 - January 2007

RapidApp

As a Senior Network Engineer for RapidApp it is my responsibility to

provide custom solutions to clients in the areas of Project Management,

VMware design and implementation, Citrix design and implementation, Active

Directory support and Softricity 4.0 implantation.

-Provided VMware design and implementation to a large Insurance Company

base in Cincinnati Ohio. The engagement consisted of designing and building

VMware ESX 3.0 servers under best practices for security and service

delivery to guest systems. Virtual Center 2.0 was designed to fit the

client's needs. PlateSpin and Ultimate P2V were used to perform the P2V

process. Project Management was provided and changes were developed or

processes managed as needed. Performed 30 ESX 2.5 to 3.0 migrations and

over 200 guest migrations.

-Provided VMware project management, design, implementation and training to

a large soda manufacture based in North Carolina. The engagement consisted

of designing and building Vmware ESX 2.5.3 servers under best practices for

security and service delivery to guest systems. Virtual Center 1.3 was

designed to fit the client's needs and PlateSpin was utilized to perform

the P2V process.

-Provided Citrix project management design and implementation to a large

healthcare provider based in Dallas Texas. The project consisted of doing a

flat farm cutover from Citrix Metaframe XPeFR3 to Citrix Presentation

Server 4.0 including Secure Gateway 3.0 and Web interface 4.2.

Lead Technical Analyst III

March 2004 - April 2006

Shands Hospital Gainesville, FL

- Instituted VMware ESX Currently virtualizing 64 server candidates, 10

hosts planed and 90% of server inventory, 320 servers, Successfully P2V

various guests, Virtual Center, ESX Ranger -Implemented Microsoft

Operations Manager 2005 -Manage over 320 Microsoft 2000/2003 and 40 Novell

Netware 6.5 servers

- Project manager and technical lead for the Active Directory 2003

Implementation in the Shands environment. The Active Directory project was

very complex as it affected every department within the Shands HealthCare

environment which includes various locations, 10,000 users, 7,000

workstations and over 300 servers

- Write and develop complex project plans, documentation and power point

presentations surrounding various projects

- As the technical lead, I developed the Active Directory platform

structure consisting of tree, domain, user, server OU and DNS design

- Developed a production test lab in VMware, which allows our team to test

and develop products and code in an environment mirroring production

- Along with Active Directory, I lead Identity Management which includes

Novell's Identity Manager 2.1 in which I wrote the XML script s to connect

eDirectory, Active Directory, GroupWise and PeopleSoft. Currently migrating

over to M-Tech which will connect eDirectory, Active Directory, GroupWise,

PeopleSoft, RACF as well as other directories.

- Participated in the Netware 5.1 to 6.5 Migration Project in which I lead

or was a technical resource in over forty migrations

- Created NCF files to fix known eDirectory issues that can be utilized by

other team members. - Led and completed many vendor environment upgrades,

such as Novius, Ingenix and the Medicode on IDX

- Lead team and project meetings with other departments

- Developed the user principal name Visual Basic script to create the UPNs

within the new domain

Sr. Systems Administrator

March 2003 - March 2004

Halifax Medical Center - Daytona, Florida

-Supported a 300 plus server farm-Implemented rack and cable management.

-Constructed a virtual data center utilizing tools such as Compaqlights out

cards, Compaq/HP Insight Manager, Dells remote management cards and

implemented Dells IP based KVM solution.

-Migrated Novell 4.11 servers to 6.5 -Migrated Microsoft NT 4.0 Servers to

Windows 2000/2003 in preparation for Active Directory.

-Constructed a Microsoft print cluster to support the environment.

-Implemented Citrix Metaframe XP to support remote connections for users

and vendors.

-Performed the day-to-day support duties of adding/deleting users, the

creation of login scripts and directories as well as maintain rights,data

security and DNS/DHCP.

Lead Software Specialist

July 2000 - March 2003

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois, New Mexico and Texas Chicago, IL

Insurance

- Responsible for a four hundred plus server environment that spread across

three states

- Managed the day to day operations of both Microsoft Windows 2000 and

Novell 6.0 servers

- Configured new servers, including cluster servers in both environments,

utilizing HP/Compaq's packaged clusters, MSA1000s, and Xiotechs

- Knowledgeable of Novell Directory Services, EDirectory and Active

Directory and have integrated them both in a current environment utilizing

Account Manager

- Participated in a team which implemented and designed Active Directory

across a three state wide environment

- Created login scripts, manage groups, printers (2000, NDPS), DNS\DHCP,

SLP\Scope, Boarder Manager and work with Tivoli Storage Systems

- HP/Compaq certified and repaired all servers on site through HP/Compaq's

self maintainer program

- Participated in many server migrations from hardware to operating

systems and have been part of three data center moves in which over one

hundred servers were moved to new locations at one time

- Upgraded Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Server to Windows 2000 Server

- Migrated Novell 4.11 to 5.1 and then to 6.0

- Consolidated and expanded servers, migrated volumes to new servers, and

merged trees and domains

- Created vast project plans to reflect the changes in my current

environment

- Utilize Zenworks for desktops and servers to manage end user

applications and gather workstation information

- Provided third level support to desktop support services technicians and

resolve end user problems

Judicial Information Services Technical Consultant

February 1998 - June 2000

State of Ilinois, Office of the Judicial Courts - Chicago, IL

- Network Administration duties consisted of Microsoft Windows NT 4.0,

Novell Netware 4.11, Norton anti-virus administration, and Lotus Notes

- Administered the day-to-day operations of setting up new user accounts,

security access, print servers, and general network support duties

- Managed internet and interoffice email through Lotus Notes

- Assisted all users with any software or hardware problems they were

experiencing through quality customer service

- Repaired and configured new servers, routers, switches and hubs

- Installed and configured Novell 4.11, Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, and

Lotus Notes. The servers were Compaq, the routers, switches and hubs were

Bay and 3Com. The core builder was 3Com

Experienced Computer Technicial Support Technician

August 1997 - February 1998

Andersen Worldwide, Arthur Andersen - Chicago, Illinois

Management Consulting Services

- Equipment Support duties consisted of component and board level repairing

of Compaq and IBM laptops, desktops and monitors

- Network duties included the repairing and configuring of Compaq and IBM

servers

- Certified by IBM and Compaq to repair all of their servers, computers,

laptops and monitors - Provided third level support to other Computer

Technicians

- Supported off-site partner meetings. During these off-site meetings, I

worked with a team of individuals to install a Novell network that

supported on the average of two hundred end users for training purposes.

Judicial Information Services Technical Consultant

April 1996 - August 1997

State of Ilinois, Office of the Judicial Courts - Chicago, IIllinois

- Technical support on both software and hardware platforms

- Worked with the end user in assisting them by answering questions

concerning Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Word Perfect 6.1 as well as many other

software packages

- Repaired and upgraded a wide variety of Compaq desktop computers

- Assisted in managing a Novell 3.12 Wide Area Network

Senior Technician

January 1991 - March 1996

Preferred Computer Services Downers Grove, Illinois

- Provided network service to Preferred Computer Services accounts by

configuring, repairing and administrating OS2 Warp, Windows for Work Groups

3.11, Unix, and Novell 3.12

- Create and maintain new users, print queues and general network support

duties

- Utilized protocols such as token ring, ipx/spx and eventually ethernet

- Trained as a component level technician to repair monitors, laptops,

desktops and servers

- Worked on servers such as Compaq Proliant 486 and Pentium 100

- Instructed other technicians in repairing printers and desktops

- Provided tier two and eventually tier three support for software packages

such as Word Star, Word Perfect 5.0, Lotus 123, dos and Windows 3.1 on

Preferred Computer Services help desk service



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