Mackintire
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Too tired to offer a story today... I'm sure the details on my career change back in 2011 are somewhere else on the forum.
Cliff notes:
Upcoming projects include:
Cliff notes:
- Changed careers to be a full time IT guy back in 2011
- Got into a med sized business at one step over entry level
- After 6 months was told I was overqualified and greatly exceeded what I was hired for.
- In the past 18 months I've Fixed/updated, All the domain controller/ switch architecture / print servers/file servers/ SAN/ Sharepoint/ SysAid/ Solidworks PDM/ Primary Management Server/ new building layout/ 40KVA UPS /12 ton Liebart AC deployment/semi-automated WSUS batchpatch deployment/numerous Group Policy automations
- Produced 30+ new documents for all the above
- Got promoted to Sr. Network Engineer/IT Support Engineer
- Now responsible for the development network, 40+ server 500VMs 490 spindles with 2.2 PB of storage
Upcoming projects include:
- Implement the new FTA, including groupboxes (dropboxes)
- Company wide AV update (ESET 5.0)
- New wireless AP upgrades Alcatel (Aruba units)
- Add a redundant 10Ge uplink to the Production Network, by adding two new switches to the stack
- Rebuild the Dev Environment with a 10Ge backbone (currently the dev network runs almost 18 ports worth of lagged ports through the production network which causes us issues including a lack of ports)
- Exchange 2013/ Lyncs 2013
- Company wide Office 2013 update
- PGTR SNMP deployment and monitoring setup
- Implement HA in the VMware enviroment
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