Chris Barton – 678-***-**** – ac0hnm@r.postjobfree.com

Christopher Barton

678-***-**** - ac0hnm@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Information Technology Professional providing leading-edge ideas in driving strategic technology leadership, strengthening the efficacy of IT operations, and creating the framework of significant cost savings

Over 10 years of Project Management experience with demonstrated experience in strategic business planning, budgeting, contract negotiations, team building, and leadership

Experience leveraging technology as a driving force in fueling revenue/profit growth and business success, while aligning IT initiatives with corporate objectives

Provided Tier 3 RF wireless engineering service and support to all fiber optic cables for transport of data systems from Main Head-end / Data Center to each transmit site

Local Alpharetta area resident, with excellent analytical and interpersonal skills with the ability to successfully develop and lead a cohesive team

TECHNICAL SKILLSET:

IT Skills: Hardware & Technical Trouble shooting, Root Cause Analysis, Help Desk, Network Admin, Routers, TCP/IP, LAN/WAN, Wi-Fi, Remote Access Databases, DHCP, DNS, FTP, DSL, NAT, Firewall, Telnet, VPN, MPEG, Exchange 2010, Active Directory, Group Policy, Hyper-v Admin, SharePoint Database systems, VSphere & VCenter, Data Center Operations, Virtual Box, Hyper- v, VMware, smart phones and tablets

Telecom Skills: Analog/Digital Headend Design & Repair, Motorola, BST, BCU, Wimax 4G, 3G, UMTS, GSM, LTE, RAN, CDMA, Cabling expert, Microwave transmitter repair, MW Backhaul, FCC Licensing, Purchasing, Inventory, Spectrum analyzers, Call centers, Site Handler, Clearvision, Siterra, Call Centers

Software Skills: Photoshop, MS Office Suite, Visio Video Editing, Business Objects, MS Project, Web Design HTML/XHTML Some - JavaScript SQL Database, Dos, Linux, Windows ALL Desktop & Servers, some Mac

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Barton Technical Services, Alpharetta, GA

Operations Manager/Owner - March 2016 to Current

Managed company, build, install and maintain computer and network systems in dental offices. Install software and digital hardware as needed. Consult with customers for design plans for new office technical designs. Provide technical support for usability issues and critical site problems, as needed.

• Personally cover 16 offices about 150 computers in Atlanta area.

• Integration of Dental Technology with computer network (Digital: X-rays, Pan, intraoral cameras)

• All Windows server versions, TCP/IP, SQL, Database, Microsoft Office suite, Some Mac. May 2014 – March 2016

Presence Technology, Alpharetta, GA

Technical Project Manager

Presence Technology call center software solution manages all inbound, outbound calls, email and chat call centers. Presence works with Avaya, Cisco, and other PBX hardware. Daily operations include managing installations and upgrades for North America. Working with the customer directly on-site and build a configuration set and on-site management of cut-over processes. Work directly with the customer daily to get Chris Barton – 678-***-**** – ac0hnm@r.postjobfree.com hardware setup, access and resources. Managing a global team to implement the installation, configuration and testing of our software package.

• Manage, Plan, executes, supervise, and evaluates all procedures for a correct project deployment for new software sales and projects

• Creates all project documentation and defines a detailed scope and implementation configuration

• Manages 5 project a month

• Manages a team of 2-4 people overseas in Columbia and Spain

• Travel to customers for meetings and Go-Live events

• Manages and implements in-office server builds and configurations

• Technical Sales Support

June 2012 – April 2014

McKesson, Alpharetta, GA

IT Staging Project Manager

Provided a single point of contact for 50 to 75 IT enterprise infrastructure projects per month, development & implementation of technical projects and communicating with 20 application teams on the delivery of a infrastructure servers from the design process through a finished state for McKesson customers.

• Lean - Kanban Methodology - Agile Standup meetings. Plan project schedules and budgets.

• Developed and implemented the method to extract Monthly/QTR/YTD metric data from SharePoint into Excel pivot tables.

• Developed over +10 new procedures to improve department performance and efficiency, within the first few months at McKesson.

• Supported other departments and customers to resolve build issues with over 20 software systems stages. Agile Standup meetings with 8 Staging

• Completed builds for McKesson software, such as Paragon, HPF, Clinicals HLAB and more.

• Tested all remote connections to customer servers through VPN and other remote connections. Resolved issues such as firewall / NAT, LUN/SAN validation. February 2009 – June 2012

Telecommunications Technical Services (TTS)

Construction/Project Manager

Managed and installed/commission sites for Clearwire and Multi-Million dollar LTE upgrade projects for major carriers. Technical Tier 3 support for 10 field engineers for Clearwire service and LTE upgrades. develop the project scope of work; define all goals and any materials that will be needed to be delivered, team building, manage budgets. IT system administrator of 40 desktops and 5 servers, including Exchange.

• Upgraded 600 BTS (BCU-II) Clearwire sites and serviced a total of 800 sites in Atlanta

• Managed tower crews in upgrade replacements of DAP, RF Heads, Microwave links

• Managing all site inventory, tracking all aspects of the project.

• Managed Site survey project in TN and GA 125 sites small Telecom company 2011-2012

• Managed Ericsson LTE project integration for 125 cell site in Tennessee 2012

• Managed AT&T UMTS project North Georgia, @100 sites, 2011

• Managed Cspire in Mississippi 2011 - 2012 - around 100 sites LTE upgrades

• Managed Construction, Pre-post Site walks, SOW, RFDS, NTP, MOP, QA, Civil, Schedule, Forecast. Verified all completed work for acceptance. Site Handler, Clearvision, Siterra and many others. Chris Barton – 678-***-**** – ac0hnm@r.postjobfree.com 2001 – 2010

Bartech Design, Alpharetta, GA

Operations Manager/Owner

Managed company, build, install and maintain computer and network systems in dental offices. Install software and digital hardware as needed. Consult with customers for design plans for new office technical designs. Provide technical support for usability issues and critical site problems, as needed.

• Personally covered 45 offices about 500 computers in Atlanta area.

• Integration of Dental Technology with computer network (Digital: X-rays, Pan, intraoral cameras)

• All Windows server versions, TCP/IP, SQL, Database, Microsoft Office suite, Some Mac. 1998 – 2001

Bellsouth Entertainment, Atlanta, GA

Platform Maintenance Specialist (Video and Microwave Engineer) Provided Tier 3 RF wireless Engineering service and support for 4 major areas, 20 million dollar Head-end / Data Center facility (NOC and CO), 14 Wireless Microwave sites. All Fiber optic for transport of Data systems from Main Headend to each transmit site. Also built all mini Headend used in apartments and small offices.

• Internal 20 million dollar Digital CATV Headend, Data Center, Noc’s, IRD’s, Divicom Encoders, Mux’s, NVOD, MDU’s Head-ends, Multiple corporate Computer Systems, Motorola equipment

• Serviced all Fiber optic and diagnostics, Specialized Training in ADC DV-6000 Equipment

• Field Engineering for Digital/Analog Microwave Transmitter 14 sites in Atlanta area. PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES:

Project Management, Strategic Business Planning, Budgets, Technical Writing, Contract Negotiations, IT System Administration, Information Technology, Business Process Design/Reengineering, Solutions Design and Deployment, Organizational Change Management, Team Building and Leadership, WiMax, LTE, RF Engineering, Service Delivery Management, Customer Responsiveness, SDLC, Kanban, Six Sigma and PMP Training, Business Analysis

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS:

Associate’s Degree of Applied Science in Electronics, Ivy Tech Community College, Fort Wayne, IN Certifications: A+ Dentrix, Comtrain, OSHA Safety, First Aid, Ericsson LTE Integration Member of PMI.org

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