Engineer Manager

TOD W. ARNDT

425-***-**** ********@*****.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/todarndt

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

WIN 2003 – 2019 Exchange 2003 – O365 SQL 2003 - 2017

CentOS / RHEL / LAMP DNS/SMTP/DHCP/WSUS/WDS MySQL / MariaDB

Network Operations Facilities Planning Cisco Switches/Routers/Firewalls

Barracuda / Kemp WAF VCenter / VSphere VPN (user/site2site)

Sonicwall / Watchguard / ASA PBX/VOIP Phone Systems EMC / Promise / Ultrastor SAN

SharePoint 2003 – 2013 Symantec-Veritas BU/MS DPM GFI ME / Postfix / Barracuda

Private Cloud

PROFESSIONAL GOALS

IT Manager/Director role

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Univera (Econet)

Seattle WA June 2016 – Present

Univera is a leader in the natural products industry, applying pharmaceutical standards to botanical product development with an annual revenue of $20 to $50 million and 120 employees worldwide.

IT Infrastructure and Operations Manager

Hired to manage the infrastructure and operations portion of the IT Department, concerned with all network, systems, shared softwares, client systems and 2 technical professionals. The private cloud-based technology includes EMC Unity 450F/VNX 5400/5100/CX4, Data Domain, Enhanced Ultrastor and Promise Vess SANs, HP C7000 Blade servers, Dell/HP Servers, vCenter 6.x, Barracuda/Kemp WAFs, Barracuda/Trend Micro IMSS/GFI ME spam filters, ASA/Watchguard/Sonicwall firewalls, MPLS/BGP routing on Cisco/Adtran, Cisco 5508 WLC, MS DPM 2012-2019, Foglight/Spotlight/PTRG/Spiceworks NMS, Kaspersky/Symantec AV, Windows/Apple/Linux. Standard responsibilities including computing/networking improvements/maintenance, security reviews, budgeting, contract management, project planning, vendor relations, staff management, IT policy creation/refinement, network diagramming/documentation.

The accomplishments so far are:

Infrastructure design and deployment portion of new SAP B1 ERP system (dev/stage/production db, api, web, clients), including sql performance monitoring for potential issues with queries, deadlocks, blocks, etc. This system ties into our e-commerce platform.

Datacenter migrations with systems consolidation and simplification with 50% cost reductions

Stabilization and improvement of existing historic systems including EMC 5400/5100 san by vm redistributions to enable recreating LUN designs and HP C7000 blade expansions, new FC Switch fabrics

EMC Unity 450F 100TB setup and deployment, including favorable contract negotiation saving $100K

Discovery and remedies of historic setups with analysis for security, design deficiencies and scalability limitations, including massive replacements of hardware infrastructure to eliminate aging and impacting performance/availability issues (routers, switches, firewalls, servers, SANs, UPSs, etc.)

Major changes to data circuit providers and connections between local and international office locations to improve efficiencies and reduce costs (MPLS/BGP/EIGRP, MOE/Gig-E including QOS for VOIP)

Resolved serious Shortel/Mitel corporate phone system with CC services issues

Correcting numerous existing/old AD settings that caused speed issues; upgrade of AD (2003 to 2016 to date)

Spam/email systems design and replacements including integrations with our Korean office IT team (currently Postfix to GFI ME to Exchange 2016 in split domain configuration)

Backup systems replacements, saving the company a planned $35K software purchase

New office relocation and buildout for our CC staff

Website penetration/security testing with server hardening

Saved our company research arm $260K in new scientific equipment purchases by restoring existing older equipment usable functionality that they’d not been able to use for 2 years

Received Employee of the Quarter (nominated 6x in first 1.5 years, notable as the quickest nomination in the 20+ year company history)

Current Projects:

Building our SAP HANA environment

Researching public cloud options, technical requirements and pricing

IT services/support consolidation of 4 sister companies

Linedata Services Oct 2012 – Feb 2016

Seattle WA

Global software solutions and service provider dedicated to the Investment Management and Credit community with annual sales of approximately $54M and 1100 employees worldwide.

IT Manager and QA Engineer

Hired to manage IT department with 2 technical professionals in an environment that included Windows 2000-2012R2, CentOS/RHEL 5-7, Exchange 2003 – 2010, SharePoint 2003 – 2013, Cisco 450x switches, Sonicwall NSA and RSA 4600’s firewall/vpn HA devices, SQL 2008 – 2014/MySQL/Oracle 11g-12c, Citrix XenCenter/XenServer, VMWare VCenter/VSphere ESXi, AD/NIS/Samba/Kerberos/LDAP/Radius/ADFS integrated authentication, WSUS, Symantec BUExec 20114 and SEP 12.1, video conferencing and PBX phone system (Inter-Tel). Duties also included company software application testing and deployments involving IIS/Apache/Tomcat/Java and Whitehat security alert testing. Standard responsibilities including budgeting, contract management, project planning, vendor relations, staff management, IT policy creation/refinement, network diagramming/documentation.

Led redesign and stabilization of corporate systems, standardized IT operations, budgeting processes, and vendor relations leading to improved systems stability minimizing services failure, virtualization and consistent data backups.

Deployed replacement security smart token Safenet system access controls to replace outdated EOL systems.

As QA Engineer in agile dev group, also recreated entire engineering and network systems from outdated Windows 2003-2008 / XenCenter cluster to current Windows 2012R2 AD, CentOS Linux, VMWare VCenter/VSphere with Enterprise Plus / SANS via iSCSI.

Designed and coordinated all IT-related aspects for office redesign/reconstruction project including cubical and network wiring, conference room video and vendor/contractor liaison for offsite senior management staff with minimal downtime for staff.

Led all aspects of local IT integration and transition for new parent company following 2013 acquisition. This included office to office vpn, routing, email changes, domain controllers and file servers.

Celartem / LizardTech 2003 - 2012

Seattle WA

Maker of compression software and tools for geographic data, document management, and web distribution with annual sales of approximately $24M and 400 global employees.

IT Manager

Hired to manage a 3-person IT department with a mixture of Windows 2003-2008, Linux/Unix(RHEL 4-6/Solaris), Exchange 2003-2007, SharePoint WSS 3.0, IIS/Apache/FTP, Cisco 26xx/36xx/45xx routers and switches, F5 BigIP LTMs, firewall/vpn(Watchguard, Checkpoint, Sonicwall), SQL 2005-2008/MySQL, VMWare ESXi, Symantec BUExec 2012 and SEP 2012, AD/NIS/Samba/Winbind/Kerberos integration, WSUS, video conferencing, pbx phone system (Inter-Tel and Vertical Wave) and php/js web development including Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash for company website. Standard responsibilities including budgeting, contract management, project planning, vendor relations, staff management, IT policy creation/refinement, network diagramming/documentation.

Redesigned corporate, development and production datacenter systems, integrated operations and budgeting.

Led comprehensive domain migration project by creating new parallel 2008R2 AD enterprise and corporate domain structure and migrating all users and servers with negligible downtime.

Initiated and led core Cisco Catalyst switching network replacement with 4506’s including VTP/Vlan segmentation between multiple locations with redundant connectivity between networks.

Designed and coordinated all IT-related aspects (e.g. cubical and network CAT5e wiring) for new office space for company-wide office relocation). This project ran smoothly and on time with minimal downtime.

Designed and implemented datacenter transition from Seattle to Portland, maintaining uptime and changes from standalone redundant servers to VMWare ESXi redundant systems and updated to current standards for Windows/IIS and LAMP deployments.

Designed and coordinated office construction using TI funds to create new corporate servers and builds rooms with power and redundant 5-Ton HVAC systems with growth factored in.

Experience prior to 2003 includes:

Manager Technical Operations – SmartContractor/SmartElectrical, Seattle WA

IS Manager/Senior Network Engineer – MountainZone.com/Quokka.com, Seattle WA

Network Engineer – Trendwest Resorts, Redmond WA

Systems Engineer – TechWave, Seattle WA

Network Administrator – RWBeck, Seattle WA

Systems Administrator – Online Interactive, Seattle WA

Education, Training & Certifications

Bachelor of Arts - Fine Arts – Washington State University

MS Exchange 2010

MCSE 2003

Checkpoint FW-1

Certified NetWare Engineer (CNE)

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