Project Management, Organizational Leadership & Development

Christopher Michael Brooks

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PROFESSIONAL OUTLOOK

Provide leadership, mentoring and professional development for diverse IT teams in desktop support, systems administration, software development, network engineering, network security and web development.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Project Management, Organizational Leadership & Development, Enterprise Migration & Systems Integration, Change Management, SOX & HIPAA Compliancy, Operations Management, Resource Management, Capital & Operational Budgeting, Mentoring, Staff Management, Vendor Coordination & Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DIRECTOR OF IT SYSTEMS & SECURITY, Vetted International, Ltd. October 2012 – March 2019

• Served as Project Manager and Technical Lead for the following projects: o Datacenter Relocation project

o Corporate Headquarters Relocation

o Global Emergency Operations Call Center project

o Server virtualization project

• Implemented a Disaster Recovery solution between Primary Datacenter and Colocation site.

• Designed new Infrastructure Solution for the Hardware Refresh Project with immediate failover capabilities between the primary Datacenter and Colocation site.

• Implemented a Content Management System (CMS), designed the corporate website and three of its subsidiaries’ websites.

• Implemented an archiving solution for the corporate ERP system & upgraded the ERP system to the latest version.

• Served as Technical Service Manager & Solution Architect for the Intuit QuickBase Solution Provider and QuickBooks ProAdvisor programs.

• Member of the Executive Management Team and HIPAA Security Officer.

• Interim Finance, Human Resources, Marketing/Business Development & Facilities Manager. IT MANAGER, Vishay Precision Group, Inc. July 2010 – September 2012

• Global IT Operations Manager: managing a staff of eleven.

• Regional IT Manager for the Americas’ Region: managing a staff of five.

• Served as Project Manager for the following projects: o Rollout of MS Lync to 1500 users

o Relocation of the corporate ERP system (MFG/Pro) o Global datacenter build-out during the spin-off from Vishay Intertechnology IT MANAGER, Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. August 2001 – July 2010

• IT Manager for the Measurements Group Division located across 6 locations in 4 countries.

• Regional IT Supervisor for Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. for 2 manufacturing facilities and 4 sales offices beginning in 2008.

• LAN/WAN Administrator for Vishay Measurements Group as well as the Systems Administrator for Microsoft Dynamics-NAV (Navision) beginning in 2005.

• Network Administrator for Micro-Measurements beginning in 2001. Christopher Michael Brooks

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IT CONTRACTOR, Multiple Locations February 1999 – June 2001

• Served as Network Administrator and Help Desk Professional for 300+ users supporting 150+ nodes of a combined Wireless, Token Ring and Ethernet network

• Member of Network Integration Project for Florida’s Marion County Public School Systems ADVANCED ELECTRONICS SONAR TECHNICIAN (E-5), US Navy February 1993 – January 1999

• Divisional work center supervisor and Condition 1 watch supervisor for USS Carney (DDG 64).

• Performed a myriad of network administration tasks ranging from simple account management, security and data archival to resource access.

• Provide comprehensive training and instruction to maintenance technicians covering active acoustic computerized electronic Ocean Systems

• Coordinate planned maintenance and complete monthly electronic maintenance and deficiency reports as well as manage a work center of six personnel.

• Maintain and repair active acoustic Ocean Systems, including communication equipment

• Proficient in the use of schematic and circuitry diagrams for the troubleshooting and repair of electronic and computer equipment.

EDUCATION

COLUMBIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY, Orange Beach, Alabama

• Associates of Science: Business Administration

o Graduated with honors in 2012

STAUB LEADERSHIP INTERNATIONAL, Greensboro, NC

• Helping Individuals Lead Successfully (HILS)

FLORIDA TECHNICAL COLLEGE, Jacksonville, Florida

• Professional Diploma in Network Administration Program UNITED STATES NAVAL TRAINING CENTER, San Diego, California

• Professional Certificate in Digital Electronics, Computer/Electronic Maintenance and Troubleshooting

IT SKILL-SETS & TECHNOLOGIES

• VMware vSphere 5.x/6.x

• Azure Active Directory

• 2008 - 2016 Active Directory

• Windows Server 2008 - 2016

• Microsoft Exchange 2010 -

2016

• Mobile device management

& security

• Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 -

2016

• Microsoft Dynamics-NAV

• Riverbed Optimization

• Cisco Servers & Switches

• Cisco & Asterisk VOIP

• Microsoft SCCM/SCOM

• Red Hat Linux Administration

• CheckPoint & Barracuda

Firewalls

• Barracuda Spam & Virus

Firewalls

• F5 Load Balancers

• SSL VPNs

• Veritas Backup Exec

• EMC Networker & Data

Domain

• NetApp, Isilon & EMC SANs

• Apache, IIS, PHP & HTML5

• Drupal, WordPress, Joomla,

Mongo & mySQL

• Adobe Creative Suite

• Intuit QuickBase &

QuickBooks

• Microsoft Project

• Microsoft Office 365

Business Premium

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