Bryant W. Wilkins
***** *** *** ****, *******, TX 77447 614-***-**** adl4he@r.postjobfree.com
Objective To obtain a position that will challenge my technical and people management skills while providing awesome solutions for current business objectives.
Experience Director of Infrastructure, Luby’s Fuddruckers Restaurants, LLC
2011 to Present
Manage and maintain an Azure tenant that serves public facing applications for production
Implemented Azure ASR for DR purposes including planning, deployment, and migration
Perform regular testing for DR Assets as well as monitoring backup status within the Azure Platform
Implementation of Network and Server Infrastructure Management, Service Desk Management, and application development
Manage a team of 10 people directly but interact with and direct all users within the department
Manage and maintain Office 365 and SharePoint
Migrating appropriate on-premise applications and workloads SaaS, PaaS, IaaS using Azure and other Microsoft 365 products as requested/needed
Deployed and maintain a System Center platform on premise to manage and mitigate issues and assets within the environment using DevOps methodologies developed over the last few years to manage deliverables within the department for end users and have begun migrating these workloads as appropriate to Intune Management and Azure Cloud Management Gateways as appropriate
Implemented automation routines for Identity Management and certain management routines for infrastructure as well as a multitude of automation for the Operations department to eliminate resource intensive manual labor
Built and implemented an in-house loyalty application for our table service concept entirely within the Azure platform that use web services, app services, SQLaaS and PowerApps replacing an outsourced vendor at 1/3 the cost per month
Setup and worked with offshore teams for supplemental resources and we maintain that presence today. We use daily and weekly contacts (meetings, emails, chats) as needed to keep things on track and prioritized properly
Develop and implement resources for our Culinary Services division based on the client’s needs and wants.
Responsible for implementation and management of Policies and Procedures as dictated by the Security and Compliance Officer per SOX, PCI and HIPAA standards in coordination with business needs and IT best practices
Implemented new methodologies and standards based on DevOps and ITIL to help streamline processes within the department. This helps us deliver consistent results to end users while effectively managing expectations for end users
IT Manager, Max & Erma’s Restaurants, Inc.
2003-2011
Responsible for employee, inventory and equipment management including repair and support
Setup, configure, deploy, install and integrate POS Systems at the restaurants
Managed service desk, server setup and configuration
Developed for integrations between POS and ERP systems including payroll
Performed a P2V migration from physical servers to virtual servers using VMWare
Developed in house intranet incorporating workflows for payroll and other administrative functions eliminating waste and increasing reliability of data
Deployed WAN network
Migrated from Novell eDirectory to Active Directory and from GroupWise (email) to Exchange
Dealt with up to 10 projects at a time
Experience (cont’d)
Independent Consultant – Part Time, Excalibur Computer Services
1994 to Present
Performed upgrades, repairs, installation, training and support for windows and Linux platforms for various clients
Delivered network services to clients based on need and agreed upon design including but not limited to Messaging, physical networking both LAN and WAN as well as software and interfaces to manage from an end user without compromising security and reliability
Developed and designed several systems for issue and bug tracking for clients
Developed and deploy micro VoIP systems for the home user base providing reliable and cheap phone services
Integrated devices and software for IoT integration for whole house operations
Education Columbia Green Community College, 1994
Associates Degree Computer Science
Skills & Abilities
Microsoft SQL Server Intermediate Current
Problem Solving/Analytical Expert Current
Web Page/Site Design Intermediate Current
ASP.NET Programming Intermediate Current
Visual Basic .NET Intermediate Current
Visual Basic Intermediate 2010
Network Design Advanced Current
Network Administration Advanced Current
Project Management Advanced Current
MS Office Advanced Current
Auditing/Resource Management
Expert Current
Troubleshooting Expert Current
VMWare Intermediate Current
Scripting (VBA, VB, WSH, PowerShell, Ruby) Intermediate Current
Microsoft System Center Intermediate Current
Office 365 Advanced Current
SharePoint Intermediate Current
Data Breach Response Intermediate Current
Data Protection Intermediate Current
Disaster Recovery Intermediate Current
Microsoft Licensing Management
Intermediate Current
Cloud Services Intermediate Current
Personnel Management Intermediate Current
Integration Intermediate Current
Resource Management Intermediate Current
Business Process Improvement Intermediate Current
Microsoft PowerApps Beginner Current
Machine Learning/AI Beginner Current
Azure Intermediate Current
AWS Beginner Current
Google Cloud Beginner Current
Linux (Centos, Debian, Fedora/RedHat. Ubuntu)
Beginner Current
Cisco Meraki Network Development
Advanced Current