Below are the 5 System Engineers & 7 System Administrators with multiple systems/technical expertise. The Thor Group® provides systems engineers & systems administrators with your systems & industry expertise on a consulting, contracting, or direct hire basis.

Could the future success of your organization be helped by this systems manager who worked in automotive and construction industries? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor of Science in Commerce and Engineering in Operations Management and Masters of Business Administration in Management of Production and Operating Systems (MBA). Software expertise consists of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, SAP, Profit 21, Viewpoint, APICS and Fourth Shift. Professional certifications include Certified Purchasing Manager and Certified Project Manager.

Contributed to the organization’s success by managing a team of 10 operations managers on a program rollout, including overseeing the overall project scope, integration, and training. While employed in an automotive company as a systems manager, overall responsible for parts personnel and customer service representatives including parts ordering and returns to ensure proper parts tracking and credit returns. Key Achievement was completing a $2M project roll-out 3 months early and 20% under budget.

Supported organizational goals and objectives by leading the training of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Home Builder Solution from land acquisition, land development, purchasing, sales/design, home building, conveyance, and warranty. Serving in a construction company as a senior manager/program manager, reviewed all cost codes, chart of accounts, business units, and purchasing strategies, as well as implemented the E1 at 25+ locations nationwide, completed the pilot in Dallas, and moved to remote implementation in all other locations. Furthermore, met with the steering committee to update the C-Suite regularly; $50 mil project budget. Key achievements were attaining 50% people efficiency gain after deploying one integrated ERP system, reached MRP home order accuracy up 25%, as well as integrating Salesforce to E1.

Could an applications administrator in the trucking and agribusiness industries with Sage Supply Chain expertise make a difference for your organization? This applications administrator range of experience in business and IT related fields encompasses project management, process optimization, data analysis, multitasking, prioritization, expedient problem-solving and decision making. Core competencies include troubleshooting, installing, setting up, maintaining and upgrading hardware, software and applications. Technical skills include: Sage MAS 100 ERP, Quicken, Lawson, iTrack, SQL, SSMS, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, BIDS, MS SharePoint, WSS, MySQL and ODBC.

This applications administrator provides technical application support to a trucking used parts supplier’s five separate locations and over 100+ employees. Technologies used in providing technical support to this company include Sage 100 ERP, iTrack Parts proprietary ERP, Quicken, and MS Office Suite plus related software and applications. In addition, this applications administrator also administers network management and security, Cisco switches/routers/access points, QoS and vLANs, group policies, firewall policies, and user access creation/deactivation.

Serving in an agricultural business, main functions were creating and employing project proposals to integrate all business data resources and to provide real-time business intelligence via live interactive web-based reports gathered from a dozen remote locations. Several tools that were used for this initiative included PLC control systems, flow meters, Access databases, Excel spreadsheets, pervasive SQL databases and Sage MAS accounting system. These systems were integrated into SQL Server 2010 utilizing SSMS, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, BIDS, SharePoint (WSS), and MS Visual Studio.

Would a detail-oriented senior systems engineer with work experience in business management, insurance and publication industries fit in your organization? Educational attainment is composed of Computer Science. Software knowledge consists of Lawson Software, Lawson Advanced Technologies and Lawson Unix Technical Foundations. Other skills include Red Hat Linux 4, 5, 6 & 7 Ent, Centos 5, 6 & 7, Ubuntu, SUSE 10 & 11 Linux, MySQL/MariaDB, SSH, SMB, JBOSS, Tomcat, Apache, Nagios, Osticket, VMWare GSX, ESX, Testing Hypervisor ESXi 4, Hyper-V and Virtual Box 3.1.4.

Some accomplishments included overseeing Lawson 8.0 systems and being responsible for entire ERP administration, as well as creating user IDs, supporting end-users with troubleshooting within Lawson Payroll, HR, Finance and Procurement systems. As a senior systems engineer, assigned security levels to appropriate end-users in Lawson, as well as responsible for 100 plus NT4.0/2000/2003 Servers, 40 plus Novell 3.x/4.x and 5.x Servers and 5 Solaris v5.7/v5.8/5.9 Unix and Red Hat Enterprise v5 Servers. In addition, did Windows Server installations and management, as well as monitored configuration and maintenance.

Shared expertise by administering Azure Active Directory, managing Users Security IAM, as well as implementing new Virtual Machines. Serving as a systems engineer, administered and managed Windows 10 images, disk encryption, backups, patches, rollout testing, etc. Moreover, offered systems support of employee laptops, virtual machines and devices, as well as assistance editing and modifying PowerShell and cronjobs scripts.

How can a network engineer with substantial expertise in designing, implementing and troubleshooting various network technologies help your organization? Highlights of qualifications include hands-on experience, specializing in a LAN/WAN Cisco data center environment. Technical expertise consists of Cisco Routers ASR9K, GSR12000, CRS-1 16 and 8 slot chassis (7600, 3800, 3600, 2600, 2500, 1800, 1700), Cisco Catalyst Switches (6500, 5500, 4000, 3700, 3500, 2900), Cisco 4400 Wireless Controllers, Cisco Aironet 1200 Series, Nexus 7010, Juniper M320 and MX960. Professional certifications earned are in CCIE Routing and Switching Written (CCIE). This specialist is also a Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) and a Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA).

As a network engineer for a transportation company, responsibilities included configuration of routers and switches (Cisco iOS), as well as performing telecom circuit orders, trouble resolution, provisioning, and decommission work orders have vetted this specialist’s work experience. Carrying out hardware refresh of 2811/2911 Cisco ISR peering VRF BGP-4 between service provider and customer networks was also part of the job. In addition, designing Visio network diagrams, call flow diagrams and documentation were some of the duties completed.

Working for a telecom company as a network engineer, contributions included providing high level technical support for Cisco CRS iOS-XR, 7606 and Juniper M320/SDG 960 product platforms. The development of architecture and engineering method of procedures (MOP) for telecom mobility technical groups was also finalized. Moreover, this engineer participated in L2-L7 troubleshooting production problems on Cisco routers and switches CLI.

Is impacting your organization with a systems engineer who worked in computer software, IT services and commercial services industries a current business consideration? Educational attainment is composed of Computer Science. Technical skills consist of Deltek Accounting Software, Lotus Notes, Peachtree Accounting Software, GroupWise, SCO Unix, DCA, MS-DOS, Remedy, Novell and Netware.

While employed in a computer software company as a systems engineer, performed Installation and System Monitoring for all Windows 2003/2008 Servers. Also, was responsible for setting up NAS/SAN (RAID10) to optimization for fault tolerance. This professional did configuration and installation of Symantec BackupExec/NetBackup and Enterprise Vault (eVault) for email archiving. In Active Directory, this individual performed inbound and outbound replication of all available partitions, deleted the NTDS settings object for the domain controller (DC), as well as manipulated manual and automatic inbound connections to the DC, adding/deleting user accounts, computer accounts, security principles and group policy applied to user as well as computer accounts.

Part of the job as a systems engineer in an information technology and services company was to utilize EMC for storage in VMware Environments. Additional responsibilities were performing System Administration for the local LAN (Windows 2003/ XP), as well as installing, configuring, troubleshooting, diagnosing and resolving issues with Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Windows 2003 Server and Active Directory.

Could the future success of your organization be helped by hiring this system administrator with logistics and software industries experience who has Sage CRM expertise? Core competencies include extensive and comprehensive understanding of computer hardware and software, including installation, configuration, management, and troubleshooting and support delivery. Technical skills include: Sage CRM, GE, IDentiPASS, Software House, WebEx Collaborative tools, AMAG, S2 and Cisco.

While working for a logistics/supply chain company as an IT system administrator, responsibilities consisted of planning, implementing, installing and maintaining back-office applications such as Sage CRM, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and Sage Timberline accounting. The use of knowledge in Crystal Reports to solve the limitation of Sage CRM mail merge was employed. Some of the tasks completed were creating SharePoint custom pages to make CRM data available for companywide users resulting in the elimination of the cost of a custom self-service site development. Other duties involved providing support on software applications such CRM, Timberline, SharePoint and TSU.

Supported company goals and objectives through developing CRM expertise, FTP, EDIINT and UNIX skills. Some of the responsibilities performed included providing case analysis, network data transfers and migration within the company’s product and service offering environments. Additional tasks were composed of supporting and maintaining web hosting customer environment for a multi-site WAN.

What contributions could a systems administrator with proven experience in designing, managing, monitoring, and maintaining IT solutions across diverse industries bring to your organization? Highlights of expertise include Enterprise Linux (RHEL, Oracle Linux) installation, maintenance, and operation on both physical and virtual environments (Oracle Virtual Machine, Oracle Virtual Box, and VMWare). Also, this professional is adept in Oracle Technology support including Oracle RDBMS (10g, 11i and 12c), and Enterprise Business System (11 and 12) such as shared application top, Oracle Document Management, Oracle Demantra, Oracle JD Edwards (9.1 and 9.2), and Hyperion Enterprise Planning Management (including Essbase).

Challenges like implementing the monitoring of all Oracle systems through Nagios and continuing to develop monitoring infrastructure were welcomed and successfully completed on a regular basis. Part of the job was to provide Windows OS support for all Oracle Applications running on this OS (Oracle EPM and some in house applications). In addition, this administrator supported upgrades of the Oracle technology stacks used by the Enterprise Applications team.

Shared expertise by installing and maintaining UNX cluster running Solaris 9 supporting Oracle 8i, 9i, and 10g. Being responsible for maintaining critical infrastructure such as RightFax fax server, web server and Oracle 9i/10g Java Application server was also one of the duties completed. Furthermore, the management of all aspects of network administration from maintaining and monitoring the company’s Internet up-link to creating site-to-site VPN tunnels was finalized.

What contributions could a systems administrator with work experience in consulting, insurance and information technology services industries bring to your organization? This systems administrator has over 20 years of system administration experience including 10 + years Active Directory Administration; 9 + years Microsoft Exchange administration versions  2003, 2010, 2013 and most recently – Office 365; Lync 2010 and 2013 (Skype) administration. Technical skills involve Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Active Directory, Barracuda SPAM filter, Norton Antivirus and VMware.

Challenges like supporting Windows server environment consisting of 5000 + user accounts and 3000 + system / application accounts were welcomed and successfully completed on a regular basis. Serving in a management consulting company as a system administrator, administered Microsoft technologies including Active Directory under Windows 2008 and 2012, as well as performed Active Directory administration tasks including creating domains, OUs, adding/configuring roles and services, backup/restoration of AD users, account creation/group management, file/folder/share permissions, group policy, log-on scripting, RBAC Administration and Password resets. Also, has experience supporting physical and virtual Windows server environment consisting of virtual servers utilizing VMware.

Shared expertise by diagnosing network problems involving hardware or software for supported applications. While working as a system administrator in an insurance company, did administration of Exchange 2003 including user creation, distribution list creation and administration, as well as administration of Barracuda SPAM filter. Moreover, worked on Lotus Notes / Domino Administration including mNotes Support and smart device support. Furthermore, drafted training materials, organized and led multiple training sessions for a variety of applications.

Does your organization require the expertise of a systems administrator who is adept in Epicor Vantage and Oracle, with work background in manufacturing, technology and travel industries? Technical knowledge involves Epicor Vantage, Oracle, SQL GroupWise and AS/400. Educational attainment includes BS in Information Technology, major in IT Network Security. This Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) obtained certifications in CompTIA A+ CE and Network+.

Key roles of this systems administrator included managing the technical infrastructure in a global multi-office manufacturing company and building the complete Active Directory network starting from a single server to dozens of servers. In addition, this specialist handled strategic planning of IT budgets, including procurement and execution. Implementing corporate-wide Epicor Vantage ERP system, VOIP and Wi-Fi technology, as well as standardizing desktops were carried out. Important contributions included building and managing images for hardware rollouts. The server virtualization was designed to meet rigorous 24/7 system uptime requirements. Researching and planning off-site backup and redundancy for disaster recovery system were also completed.

Functions in another job involved applying extensive training in Microsoft Exchange 2003, 2007, and 2010, plus Lync. The job required taking full responsibility and serving as project manager for maintaining or upgrading the network for a fast-growing company. Skills covered rebuilding the infrastructure for internal network plus two international branches in two continents, along with managing the administration of Microsoft Exchange 2010 and Lync. The job involved purchasing computers and supplies, in addition to setting up asset tracking database for consultant training classes. Tasks consisted of managing and upgrading all the network infrastructure, including Windows 2008 R2, Active Directory and Exchange.

Could your organization use a systems administrator with NetSuite CRM, as well as experienced in manufacturing and education industries? Technical proficiencies cover NetSuite CRM, NetSuite ERP, SQL Server, AS/400, Visual Basic, HTML, ASP, Java and XML. Educational background includes Master of Science in Decision and Information Sciences, as well as Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.

Some impact contributions of this systems administrator included technology management and providing support to high-tech multimillion-dollar manufacturing site operating in a GMP regulated environment. This individual implemented the NetSuite Enterprise Resource Planning system to vastly improve efficiency company-wide, ranging from CRM, Sales, Marketing, Accounting with detailed reporting, inventory management, and time and material based project costing and billing. Key roles involved implementing Laboratory Information Management System with Stability, Environmental Monitoring, and Calibration modules, as well as increasing productivity in both QA/QC and facilities departments. Authoring all IT standard operating procedures for network security and computer application usage was efficiently handled. Skills brought to the table involved reviewing, editing and executing IT sections of validation and qualification protocols. The project was overseen to bring a client server and intranet environment to the company with centralized storage to increase efficiency in collaboration.

In another job, one of the functions covered day-to-day technology management to the campus’ client-server environment. The site contained over 700 computers, 75 networked printers, 10 servers, Cisco router and 10 Cisco switches. Implementing server systems was done for email management, web site updating, Windows updates, and antivirus protection on clients/ servers.

What contributions could a system administrator with experience working in law enforcement, communications/technology and bottling industries bring to your organization? Educational attainment is composed of Associate Degree in Accounting and Bachelor of Education in Business Education. Software skills involve MS Dynamics Great Plains, Citrix, Active Directory, Microsoft SQL Server and VMware.

The job involved the installation of comprehensive remote management equipment at an international site, eliminating the need for a dedicated on site FTE. This individual is experienced in Great Plains, knowledgeable in Citrix and was able to perform Application Architecture Design. Other duties were installing new software releases, system upgrades, aside from evaluating and installing patches and resolving software related problems. Also, experienced in administration of HPC cluster, Lustre, OpenStack cloud, NFV, Big Data hardware and software. Moreover, has knowledge of computer diagnostics and installation, to include hardware/software troubleshooting and networking.

Shared expertise by assisting the company in achieving lower server costs due to virtualization. While working as a system administrator in a bottling company, helped the company to experience Lower SAN costs. This was because the Cisco MDS 9509 Multilayer Director Switches consolidated the company’s mainframe disk, open systems disk, and tape backups onto the same physical network. The IT department created a virtual SAN (VSAN) for each type of traffic. Furthermore, participated to achieve Lower cable costs due to the new pod design reducing cabling costs by 30 to 60 percent.

Would it be beneficial for your organization to employ an IT systems administrator with experience working in real estate and engineering services industries? Educational background is composed of coursework taken in Computer Networking and Systems Technology. Software expertise involves Sage 300/Timberline or Sage 300 CRE Accounting & Estimating, VMware, Exchange, EqualLogic SAN Storage, etc.

Serving as an IT systems administrator, has assisted the Infrastructure Manager with the daily operations of all servers, network gear, and applications. Some of the tasks were conducting daily system monitoring using Cisco Meraki, What’s Up Gold, and verifying successful backups and replication. This professional has developed and maintained documentation for Infrastructure procedures and processes, as well as deployed and configured anti-virus and web filtering. Also, has provided primary administration role for: WSUS, Carbonite Evault Backup & Replication, Webroot Secure Anywhere & DNS, Metalogix/Quest Exchange Archiver, Documentation of Infrastructure Processes & Procedures, Sage 300 CRE Accounting & Estimating, and Beyond Trust AD Auditing. Secondary administration role for: VMware, Exchange, and EqualLogic SAN Storage. Shared duties with other members of Infrastructure team encompassed AD structure and cleanup, server maintenance, and network monitoring.

As a systems administrator for a real estate company, has migrated all data and equipment to company domain from a business unit obtained through mergers and acquisitions. Furthermore, has configured and deployed new ESXi hosts to remote site and added them as a new cluster in vSphere.