Active Directory Manager

Gregory D. Fry

Mobile/Text: 404-***-**** • ***.*******@*****.*** • www.linkedin.com/in/gregorydfry

IT Manager

IT Manager with over 20+ years of industry experience of demonstrated success in leading and delivering IT services across many industries, including large global enterprises. Direct experience and specialization in managing technical engineering staff, delivering IT projects, and forming strategy for systems, storage, and Data Center application hosting.

IT Strategy

IT Operations

Workforce Management

Business Continuity

Business/IT Alignment

M&A Experience

Business Development

Resource Management

Systems Integration

Professional Experience

The Coca-Cola Company / Coca Cola Enterprises, Inc., Atlanta, GA 2001 – Present

Technology Infrastructure Program Manager (July 2014 – Present)

Demand manager for Coca Cola North America projects requiring infrastructure support. Participate in governance processes and management of project managers engaged in the timely and quality delivery of technology infrastructure. Lead large scale, technically complex infrastructure projects within the Global Technology Services organization.

Associate Director, IT Security & Compliance (March 2012 – June 2014)

Manage enterprise Active Directory, PKI, Network Security, AV/Malware, and Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions for an $8 billion dollar corporation. Led the effort to consolidate multiple AD domains into a more efficient single forest model for over 13,000 users. Manage external 3rd party support relationships with IBM, Vital Networks, Okta, CSC, Quinnox, and Cap-Gemini. Lead a team of 3 direct reports, and 18 indirect reports.

Managed Active Directory project consolidating 11 domains into 3 domains, including migrating 300 servers to the root domain and decommission 130 servers. This project resulted in the reduction of over $500K of Opex expenditures per year, reducing environment complexity and manageability, and simplifying the ability of future M&A activities

Manage O&M for AD, PKI, Symantec Anti-Virus, Okta SSO, and Firewall/VPN solutions.

Perform security reviews for cloud solutions: IaaS, PaaS and SaaS

Perform SOX audits and reviews for internal systems, specifically access controls

Senior Manager, Infrastructure Platforms (October 2010 – March 2012)

Manage all Infrastructure platforms including AS400, Mainframe, SAN/NAS Storage, Unix, VMWare, and Wintel. Oversight of primary U.S. hosted Data Center and 5 European computer rooms. Manage the external relationship with 3rd party Data Center hosting partner (IBM) for all Infrastructure servers and systems.

Gregory D. Fry

Mobile/Text: 404-***-**** • ***.*******@*****.*** • www.linkedin.com/in/gregorydfry

Manager, Enterprise Storage (March 2009 – October 2010)

Managed strategy and daily operation of all Enterprise Storage Systems including the design and implementation of backup and recovery solutions. Maintain vendor relationships as well as control of financial budgeting and purchasing activities. Ensure the interoperability and heterogeneous operation of all Open-Systems SAN/NAS and Mainframe SAN storage with Wintel, UNIX, and Mainframe information systems. Review and approve storage related software/hardware technology to ensure the technology solution contributes to overall Enterprise Information System goals.

Team Lead / Manager, Wintel Systems (April 2001 - March 2009)

Responsible for management and daily operation of all corporate Wintel-based servers. Maintain vendor relationships as well as control of financial budget and purchasing activities. Establish and enforce corporate change management procedures to ensure stability of applications and associated infrastructure. Ensure the interoperability and heterogeneous operation of all Windows NT/2000/2003, and Linux servers with AS/400, RS6000, Mainframe, and other standardized corporate information systems. Ensure that technical support for over 1100 servers in two corporate Data Centers and 600 other servers at various locations throughout North America / Western Europe is provided to over 100 application teams and 75,000 end-users. Manage a team of technical analysts that are responsible for troubleshooting system hardware and operating system software to ensure continuous operations. Develop and implement corporate information security policies for server infrastructure, ensure appropriate information availability and data integrity, and monitor infrastructure utilization.

Atlanta Casualty, Atlanta, GA 1999 – 2001

Network Services Manager

Responsible for management and daily operation of all corporate Intel-based servers and associated network infrastructure. Build, document, install, upgrade, and maintain 80+ development and production servers in a data center environment. Servers and applications hosted included High Availability SQL and IIS applications, Microsoft Exchange 5.5, Microsoft Proxy Server, and other various proprietary insurance related and financial applications. Responsible for disaster recovery plan and operations as well as proper backup / restoration of all Intel-based servers using Veritas Backup Exec. Sole technical authority on Linux-based print server managing over 150 print queues for over 1500 end-users.

Gwinnett Technical College, Lawrenceville, GA 1998 – Present

Adjunct Professor

Responsible for developing curriculum and teaching hands-on technical courses to non-traditional college students. Courses instructed include Networking Concepts, Visual Basic, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows NT Server, Windows Enterprise Environments, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Active Directory, Windows 2003 Active Directory, Windows 2008 Active Directory, and Windows Server 2012R2 Active Directory.

U.S. AIR FORCE, Various IT Systems Management and Project Management assignments.

Education

M.A., Computer Resources / Information Management, Webster University

B.S., Applied Management, National University

A.S., Civil Engineering Technology, Community College of the Air Force

Excellent recommendations available on LinkedIn – www.linkedin.com/in/gregorydfry

Contact this candidate