Management, Sales, Project Management, Technical Management
Resume:
Leslie “Les” Godwin
Mobile: 601-***-**** Madison, MS 39110 **********@*******.*** Visionary Technology Leader
Technical Project Management * Senior Infrastructure Management * WiFi Sales Engineering Team Leadership * Managed Services Sales * Product Development Focused, dedicated and highly motivated professional offering over 20 years of solid contributions along with a highly blended background of technology management and sales. Exceptional dedication to growing with new cutting-edge technologies and seeking to achieve beyond leadership and personal expectations in every endeavor. A motivational leader and communicator capable of building and maintaining cohesion and project engagement across all levels of staff, management, vendors and customers.
Proven experience in lifecycle project management from conception to completion, driving process improvements at all levels with forward-thinking, and a strategic planning attitude to surpass expectations and goals. Known for ability to generate positive momentum in stalled projects and rapidly deploying projects into production across multiple organizational entities. Areas of Strength & Expertise
Technology Management Strategic Planning Product Development Networking & Infrastructures Lifecycle Project Management Budgeting Change Management Security Policies Team Building
Team Leadership Servers & Workstations Customer Service Customer Resource Management Evaluation & Testing Hardware & Software Professional Experience
C Spire, Mississippi – Senior Infrastructure Manager/Wi-Fi Sales Engineer 2007 - Present
(Largest privately held Cellular Phone Company in the United States, providing diverse offerings of technology to Southeast) Maintained dual roles during the development and implementation of Managed WiFi as a new company initiative.
Implemented new environments including asset, trouble ticket, and mobile device management. As a Wi-Fi Sales Engineer, personally implemented over 20 independent fully operational and deployed designs for customers. Project managed from conception to customer hand-off. Set-up vendor demonstrations for equipment testing and eventual product acceptance as well as finalizing vendor partnerships.
• Generated in excess of $55K per month revenue for 5 year contracts in Managed Wi-Fi.
• Negotiated vendor contracts and product lines for Wi-Fi Solution.
• Achieved high level of visibility throughout internal organization as the go-to person for Wi-Fi viability and new customer acquisition.
• Played key role in Netcracker implementation of documented ordering and installation process.
• Developed complete lifecycle of product delivery for process analysis. Professional Experience Cont. Les Godwin, Page Two
• Initiated and led the company’s efforts in offering a Managed Wi-Fi Solution to education and business partners in both Mississippi and Alabama.
• Worked directly with product supporting engineers to provide customers with the most reliable and useable solution available in the market.
Led a team of 9 IT professionals as the Senior Infrastructure Manager in the development, operation and management of four individually operated business infrastructures. Mission critical server management, corporate wide antivirus and patch management. Responsible for all desktop functionality and support, both software and hardware physical connections. Management of the security vulnerability personnel. Project managed all IT Infrastructure related projects from conception to completion.
• Implemented and deployed Cisco UCS, EMC VNX and VMware environments as well as migration of all company assets to a newly created virtual environments.
• Two complete corporate wide hardware and software workstation refreshes.
• Implemented and managed multi-stage virtual migration of entire physical environment.
• Performed two full level Exchange 2003 & 2010 migrations.
• Implemented and designed layout and usage for three separate storage arrays.
• Initiated enhancements to improve VM reliability and functionality.
• Managed team weekly, monthly and quarterly physical maintenance of servers and workstations
• Utilized innovative approaches to shorten repair and downtimes of employee workstations.
• Implemented complete asset tracking, trouble ticketing and patch management solution.
• Centralized all corporate Antivirus, Mobility Management and Remote Management. Best Buy, Alabama & Mississippi – Store Services Manager 2006 – 2007
(International company with a focus on providing brick and mortar family friendly electronic shopping experience along with world class support and services)
Second in command of store location. Driving morning pre-sales meetings for store employees, with daily averages of $35K. Store revenue tracking and sales leadership within independent departments. Directly managed all service oriented sales staff. Covansys, Ohio – Senior Consultant 2002-2006
(Global Software Company, highly involved in state and federal governmental contracts) Managed a team of Consultants directly in charge of multiple state-wide Child Care Management Solutions which handled all State Department Human Resources payment allocations to low income families. Lead the redesign of internal database and initiated barcode tracking mechanisms for all corporate IT assets across the United States.
Alabama Department of Human Resources, Alabama – Network Administrator 2001 – 2002
(State entity charged with the welfare management of low income families throughout the state with 37 state-wide located branch offices)
Team leader within the Windows Server environment. Created a new cost effective FTP solution for the State agency saving on average $100K per month of tax payer monies. Designed and implemented new centralized Anti-virus solution for all state-wide agency servers and workstations. Managed the development of statewide procedures for all Windows server maintenance. Professional Experience Cont. Les Godwin, Page Three AIRINC, Alabama – Network Administrator 1999 - 2001
(Locally owned and operated, internationally renowned Aircraft component repair facility) Managed the development and implementation of a new innovative inventory solution providing a sustainable 100% uptime access to all internal records and inventory tracking for FAA/JAA/CAAC/ISO 9002 accountability. Managed and directed all activities and budgets for a complete technological business refresh.
Technical Skills and Proficiencies
Highly skilled in troubleshooting, resource capitalization, documentation, policies, procedures and new technology launch. Extremely motivated and enthusiastic IT professional with proven experience in both team and management capacities. Outstanding creative analysis thinking with capabilities for imagining processes differently and from a divergent mindset. Ability to work autonomously and demonstrated strengths in leadership and mentoring situations. Easily adaptable to change with an eagerness to learn and expand knowledge and capabilities. Industry expertise includes:
Software: Windows Server, Exchange 2003-2010, VMWare, MS Office 2013, Server & Workstation Virus Applications, Meraki, Aerohive, BMC Footprints, Airwatch, Bomgar, Symantec Endpoint, XEN, IIS, DNS, Active Directory, Group Policies, Netcracker
Hardware: Standalone Servers, Cisco UCS Blade Servers, Dell EqualLogic Storage, EMC VNX Storage Arrays, Meraki and Aerohive Switches, iSCSI, Fibre Channel Technical Education
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage VMware vSphere: Fast Track VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting VMware vSphere: Design and Deploy
Microsoft: Configuring, Managing and Troubleshooting Exchange Server 2003 & 2008 Microsoft: Managing Windows Environments with Group Policy – Windows 2008 Microsoft: Configuring, Managing and Maintaining Windows Server 2008 Servers Microsoft: Active Directory Services, Windows Server CompTIA Security + Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Fundamentals Project Management Overview Project Management Fundamentals IT Project Management PMP Certification in process SCRUM Master Certification in process ITIL Certification in process References
Terri Lowery – Account Manager – Teklinks – 601-***-**** Sam Ferrell – Senior Manager of Systems and Networks – C Spire – 601-***-**** Christopher Boyd – Director of IT – Sanderson Farms – 769-***-**** Available for Relocation
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