Bryan Gifford's Resume (Last updated November 27th 2006)

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Bryan Gifford

Alpharetta, GA 30005 United States

(770) 296-4885

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WORK EXPERIENCE

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2004 - Present
Systems Administrator

Standard Pacific Homes

Irvine, California
As a Systems Administrator I am a member of a 6 person team who is responsible for the building, configuration, deployment, monitoring and maintenance of the 150+ Windows 2000/2003 servers in our infrastructure.
As a Systems Administrator at Standard Pacific my job responsibilities include:
  • Build, Configure, Deploy, Monitor, Maintain and Manage the Standard Pacific servers throughout the organization
  • Ensure data integrity and disaster recovery preparedness through backups, restores
  • Ensure systems security through Active Directory Design, Groups and Permissions
  • Provide support and training to end users and IT staff
  • Assist the engineering staff with research, planning, documentation and implementation of projects
  • Power management and planning, Co-location and server room UPS
  • Office Move and Expansion planning, coordination, and mentoring
  • Server Hardware Refresh, Drive Swaps, Server exchanges, Data Moves
  • Login script design and management
  • Pivotal development for Security Administration
  • Office installation points with current service packs
  • Plan new Divisions integration to Active Directory and SOX security compliance
  • Build and maintain Active Directory security
  • Project Planning via Project Success Method
  • Cisco VoIP telephony planning, deployment and maintenance
  • Maintenance of Blackberry and Good Link Servers
  • Maintaining VMware environment for server patch testing

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2003 - 2004
Client Services Technician, Client Services Technician II

Standard Pacific Homes

Irvine, California
I maintained the Office LAN, including all printers, workstations, wireless access, and remote offices for divisions in Texas, California and Arizona. I maintained my travel schedule to keep the offices working at peek efficiency, utilizing remote connectivity when I was not on site, I was on the road nearly 2 weeks a month.

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2001 - 2002
Help Desk Administrator / Help Desk Administrator II

Standard Pacific Homes

Irvine, California
At the help desk I was responsible for taking all our trouble tickets. I was level one troubleshooting, closing 80% of the calls that came into the desk. I was also responsible for making all travel arrangement for the department as well as ordering and purchasing all the equipment that the company needed.

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1999 - 2001
Channel Support Specialist

Wonderware Corporation

Lake Forest, California
Played key roles in supporting the European Sales channel. Main responsibilities include seeing that all customer needs are being met, confirming that all orders are submitted correct to expedite the shipping and ensure all orders are correct and complete. Also did minor network support for the group, mainly desk top troubleshooting.

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1998 - 1999
Accounts Receivable Specialist

Wonderware Corporation

Irvine, California
Responsible for the Cash allocation of all receivables, creation of new accounts, the Management of receivables for all the Wonderware accounts, reconciliation of receivable accounts, and preparation of Daily Sales and Backlog reports.

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EDUCATION

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1997

California State University Long Beach

Long Beach, California

Bachelor of Science

  • Busniess Administration

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CERTIFICATIONS

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Microsoft MCP
Comptia A+
Xiotech Engineer - Magnitude

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KEYWORDS

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Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server, Active Directory, Windows XP, SAN, Exchange 2000, Exchange 2003, DNS, DHCP, WINS, Ghost Imaging, LanDesk, Avocent, NetIQ, Citrix, Microsoft Office, Powerpoint, Visio, Project. VMware, VM, Cisco VoIP, Blackberry Enterprise Server, Good Link Server, Diskeeper, MORvisionWindows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server, Active Directory, Windows XP, SAN, Exchange 2000, Exchange 2003, DNS, DHCP, WINS, Ghost Imaging, LanDesk, Avocent, NetIQ, Citrix, Microsoft Office, Powerpoint, Visio, Project. VMware, VM, Cisco VoIP, Blackberry Enterprise Server, Good Link Server, Diskeeper, MORvision, HP Insight, SAN, iLO, Proliant hardware, SharePoint

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