Zane Purdy

Trussville, Alabama *****

Phone: 205-***-****

Cell Phone: 205-***-****

Email: adw7oa@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

Over ten year’s direct experience in IT project management, four years of direct experience teaching IT and Security courses, and twelve years of direct experience in network design, installation, and network security and system admiration. I have extensive knowledge of project management and network engineering concepts, procedures, and practices. I created and approved projects and testing specifications. Scheduled and allocated work, provides advice and guidance, and resolves problems to meet performance and financial objectives.

Education

BS in Technology, Industrial Management, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, December 1989

Masters Operational Art and Science, Air University, Maxwell AFB, July 2011

Juris Doctorate, Birmingham School of Law, Birmingham, Alabama, May 2018

Skills:

PM Methods: PMBOK, Agile, Waterfall, SCRUM

Hardware: Cisco Wireless Controller, Dell Power Edge Servers, Nortons Mail Gateway

Cisco Routers & Switches, Cisco Pix Firewall, KIV-7, Cryptographic Gear,

Domain Name Servers, DHCP Servers, TACLANES, Load Balancers, Cisco VPN

Software: Xperience Financial Software, Microsoft Project, Sales Force, Microsoft

Officer 2016, Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Hyper-V, Microsoft System Center,

Microsoft Sharepoint, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Active Directory,

Microsoft Visio, Group Policy, Microsoft SQL 2016 and 2019

Operating

Systems: Azure Services, Window Server 2019, Windows Server 20012 R2, Windows Server

2016, HP UNIX, Solaris 8, Windows 10

Professional Experience

Wells Fargo

Information Security Engineer July 2021 – Present

I support provisioning and build functions for the back-end infrastructure on the Infrastructure Provisioning, Build, Logging & Vulnerability Management & Engineering Team within Information Protection Engineering.

Perform hands-on technical/engineering work and builds specific to Hardware Security Modules (HSMs), Security Appliances and Windows and Linux servers running various services related to Information Protection tools and technologies, such as encryption, tokenization, and PKI.

Collaborate with partner teams on the engineering and documentation of build documents for the listed technologies.

Participates in interactions with technical, engineering and non-technical partners across the Enterprise for the implementation of the security technologies.

Performed appliance management and maintenance including configuring high availability and GTM; deploying and patching of physical devices.

•Performed Unix Server/Infrastructure systems administration, engineering and support.

Jack Henry & Associates

Senior Applications Engineer July 2019 – June 2021

Provides customer support through the performance of on-site or remote installations, as well as overseeing any necessary diagnoses, troubleshooting, service, and repair of equipment and systems.

Wrote the implementation documentation for Credit Unions to create their own Instances that they may implement Xperience for their use within their organization.

Lead Engineer for Hosted Banks and Credit Unions.

I created, tested and implements the Instances need by Hosted Banks and Credit Unions to utilize Xperience on Jack Henry hosted network.

Performs on-site or remote customer work including design, installations, repairs, testing, upgrades and/or maintenance on technical products.

Install and configured Xperience Financial Software for financial institutions

Installed and configured Deployment Servers at financial institutions.

Ordered Digital Certificates and configured SQL server in support of Deployment Services for Hosted financial institutions.

Managed and Configure Deployment Servers and Xperience Software for Hosted Banks and Credit Unions.

Wrote Scripts to automate the implementation if Xperience for users.

May provide ongoing application, network and security support including servers, firewalls, routers, active directories, etc.

Logista Solutions

IT Engineering Project Manager November 2018-January 2019

Reviewed and assisted in the creation of service level agreements (SLA) between Logista Solutions (either internal or external) and the end user that defined the level of service expected from the Logista Solutions provided to the customer.

Responsible for the managing project scope, budget, and schedule on assigned project and services.

Leads a project team of engineers, designers, installers to cost-effectively meet project requirements.

Interact and communicate effectively with clients, senior management, sales teams, vendors, contractors, and other team members to coordinate project execution, report project status, and resolve project-related issues.

Utilized Microsoft Sharepoint. Microsoft Project, Claizen and SalesForce to communicate project status to senior management, sales teams and clients.

Utilized Remedy ticketing system to track all aspects of a project internally.

Leads and facilitates project meetings with the project team, client, vendors, and contractors.

Martin Advertising

System Administrator/Server Manager May 2015-June 2018

Engineering of SA-related solutions for various project and operational needs.

Reduced the costs of IT maintenance in 2016 by successfully rebuilding and upgrading core servers resulting in over $50,000 of annual savings.

Implemented and migrates users into the Microsoft Azure environment.

Configured, implemented and maintained server in the server farm, DHCP, DNS, Edge, Web, File, and Exchange Servers.

Managed organizations Sharepoint sites, editing files and managing permissions.

Configured, implemented and maintained SCCM and WSUS servers.

Increased productivity by 20% utilizing "Lean" strategies; eliminated non value added steps to standardized the process workflow which lead to a corporate initiative

Implemented and directed configuration management for the Martin Corporation bring the users, remote users and servers 95% up to date on patches, upgrades and Microsoft updates.

Wattstopper

Environmental Lighting Controls Project Manager June 2013-October 2014

Increased project efficiencies by 85% from previous years increasing revenue by 28%.

Oversaw the acquisition of AIC Wireless; using Agile Methodology. Increased Wattstopper revenue by 45%.

Managed environmental lighting projects with budgets of $250,000.

Defined project scope and objectives. Developed detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports.

Ensured adherence to quality standards, reviews, and project deliverables.

Managed a technical staff of Application Engineers and Associate Application Engineers

186th Air Operations Group Mississippi Air National Guard

Operations Officer (A9) October 2011-December 2018

Manage, train, and deploy lesson collection teams for 1st Air Force and AFNORTH.

Provide operational effectiveness / efficiency analysis for the COMAFFOR in the execution of his / her mission.

Provide risk assessments of OPLANS and near-term operational scenarios.

Use site planning tools and models to support current operations analysis of airfield

utilization capability for all US military and major non-US military airfields in the AOR.

Provide operational Effectiveness/Efficiency Analysis to the AFFOR.

Provide AFFOR effects-based assessments of ongoing operations.

Utilized Microsoft Sharepoint to communicate organizational data

Southern Company (Contractor)

IT Project Manager May 2012- October 2012

Managed Southern Nuclear Division move from Inverness with a budget of 7.5 million.

Managed the Southern Ring network Upgrade with a budget of 2.6 million.

I was responsible for all phases of projects of a highly complex nature and acts as a single point of contact for those projects.

Guided project teams in the use of Agile and Waterfall methodologies for multiple concurrent projects, while addressing the needs of various internal stakeholders

Interfaced with all areas affected by the project including end-users and IT and business partners.

Managed day-to-day aspects of Agile team, which included leading Agile meetings

Planning, Review, Retrospectives, Backlog grooming, User story generation and Daily Stand-Ups.

Developed detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports.

General Dynamics Corporation IT

ITS-S Program Manager May 2010- February 2012

Managed the testing and evaluation of Cisco Access Control System and Cisco LAN Management System on Microsoft Server 2008R Platform.

Increased productivity by 20% utilizing "Lean" strategies; eliminated non-value-added steps to standardized the process workflow.

Reduced annual expenses by 15% by leading cost reduction, quality improvements, productivity initiatives, and infrastructure enhancements supporting business systems, core network and security.

Spearheaded the transition of clients from Solutions Implementation to Client Support resulting in 38% savings in maintenance support.

Direct the coordination of all implementation tasks involving third-party vendors as well as provide consultation to clients on system implementation.

Manage transition of client from Solutions Implementation to Client Support. Manage the development and maintenance of implementation portions of the project.

General Dynamics Corporation IT

CITS Project Coordinator February 2009- May 2010

Directed and coordinated activities of designated projects to ensure that goals or objectives of the project are accomplished within the prescribed time frame and funding parameters.

Directed the upgraded 62% of CITS clients to server 2003 resulting in 75% organizational efficiency.

Establishes work plan and staffing for each phase of the project, and arranges for recruitment or assignment of project personnel.

Managed the implementation of the CITS VLMS installation Air Force-wide with eight Field Service Engineers at 120 sites on Windows 2003 server platform.

Directs and coordinates activities of project personnel to ensure project progresses on schedule and within prescribed budget.

226th Combat Communication Group Alabama Air National Guard

Flight Commander/Chief Engineer January 2000 – October 2011

Developed installation processes, procedures, checklists, and verification templates which produced success rate of 95% with 50% less downtime.

Successfully managed Facility budget of 1.2 million dollars.

Managed and directed the Alternate NOSC construction and equipment implementation at the 226th CCG with a budget of 2.5 million dollars.

Managed and worked with construction and various IT vendors.

Directed a 2.5 million dollar datacenter project that involved the design and installation of a highly redundant, high availability clustered backbone to integrate 38 independent deployed networks to a centrally managed active directory network.

Managed the Deployment of 10 teams handling Tactical Deployed Communications Augmentation 38 deployed locations.

Managed 25 million dollars of equipment and its movements to 22 deployed locations.

Obtained, shipped, and managed 1.2 million dollars of extremely scarce mission-critical TACLANE encryption devices.

Supervised the engineering, design of a new lightweight initial data network package for advanced ground troops which increased deployed assets productivity by 85%.

Managed the Infrastructure designs include Ethernet LANs, ATM, VPN, and Frame Relay.

Managed the designs, implementation, and troubleshooting of network operations and network security.

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