ANTHONY SQUIRES
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Enthusiastic and motivated Avaya Engineer/ Architect. I thrive in fast paced environments, have excellent time management skills and know every product Avaya has except IVR, Excellent communication skills both verbal and written. Recognized with Technical Lifesaver Award for my work after hurricanes thrive in a team environment and can mentor other engineers as needed. Have managed teams up to 20 people.
Thrive in a high performance, fast-paced environment
I am an excellent multitasker
A self-starter and someone that can manage their day-to-day tasks and goals independently
I always keep a positive attitude and willingness to take on new tasks as they arise excellent time management skills.
I have always been very customer focused and eager to engage when issues are encountered
I have excellent communication skills (verbal & written) I am a solution-oriented problem solver
Recognized with “Technical Lifesaver” Award for emergency Work performed during hurricanes on the East Coast of South Carolina.
EXPERIENCE
2023 to 2024
Sr Avaya Engineer - Ameren inc
Work on Microsoft teams, Avaya Gateways and IP Office. We are decommissioning Gen1 and Gen 2 Avaya PBX’s I am doing cleanup of extensions and verifying forwarding etc. on stations that are in service and putting it all in an excel file. PBX audits, Configuring Audio Codes SBC and small office appliances. Microsoft Teams adding users and extensions. Manage multiple factors on a project simultaneously. validate customer engagement design intent and to troubleshoot and isolate problems and recommend corrective action.
2019 to 2023
Sr Avaya Engineer/ Architect – Centene Corp
Working trouble tickets on Avaya, and oracle SBC, Nice IEX, Nice engage. doing trouble tickets, adding and removing users, reboots. And led the migration from engage to IEX to in contact. CM 8.0.1, Microsoft Teams, Oracle business solutions to include SBC’s and enterprise communications, IT networking on the call center dev ops team. PowerShell scripting One-X 2.25, Session manager, system manager, System reboots weekly, certificates for media servers, routing switching, and anything in between on a daily basis. Cisco CUCM Admin.
Cisco VG 204,310,320.Cisco Unity. Diagnose resolve and follow-up on incidents in Cisco, Avaya, MS teams. Call Centers CMS. AACC Scripting using Avaya Orchestration Designer’ Windows server batch Scripting, monitoring tools such as Splunk and SolarWinds. DNS configuration on endpoints and servers. Managing technical Avaya installations across the vast Centene environment
. Evaluate and prioritize IT support tickets, resolve issues quickly and inform every one of the progress/ resolutions. Develop systems and infrastructure related documentation. Resolve complex system incidents for customers, on Avaya CM 8.0.1, AES, Nice IEX Systems, CSS, using Mobi-X-Term, ASA, Putty. Work with onsite technical resources to resolve connectivity issues with Citrix environments, Work on System Vulnerabilities and ongoing project to move Centene from premise-based Avaya systems to Amazon Web Services. Troubleshoot issues related to BigFix and Tanium for software push and application packaging, troubleshoot IP telephony related issues, troubleshoot and resolve issues Session manager, System manager, G4xx gateways, SAL, related to audio/video equipment in conference rooms
2017 to 2019
Lead Avaya Engineer – Tek Systems
Moving all 5000 Allstate Agent Offices in the US to the Avaya
Cloud. Avaya System Manager for changes and working trouble
Tickets for offices. SQL server for porting numbers and
Associated tasks. Use Lyra and other applications to resolve
Main number and lead line errors. Resolve errors from numbers
To SQL. MAC work . manage and mentor 12 engineers daily
EDUCATION
May 2017 GPA: 3.8
Bachelor of Business (Management)
April 2021 Avaya Technical Instructor Certification.
2022 Avaya ACIS, ACSS., APSS
Cisco CUCM Administrator 2021
SKILLS
Avaya POM, Oceana Breeze, voice portal
Avaya CM 10.1, CMS 20 SMGR, SM
Avaya Media Gateways
Visio VMware
Multi-vendor voice/ data circuit configurations/ maintenance (Sprint, AT&T, Verizon
Microsoft Teams
Time management, Customer Satisfaction.
Team and fast paced environment
Problem solving
Cisco CUCM Administrator
DNS Configurations
Microsoft office Products
Microsoft Project. Visio
Nice Engage IEX uptivity
SIP TDM Ip
One-X agent Call Center Elite CMS supervisor
ATT RoutIT
Avaya AES
Audio Codes, Avaya Oracle SBC” S
Team Mentoring and Management.
Multitasking, Self-Starter.
Solution Oriented
Avaya Tier 3 Instructor
Server Batch Scripting
Network Troubleshooting
Project Management (PMP)