Bryan Wood

Bryan Wood

System Administrator

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    AMI Technology

  • Education

    • Troy University

      1994 - 1996
      Bachelor's Degree Business Administration and Computer Science

      BS/BA degree in Computer Science

    • George C Wallace State Community College-Dothan

      1992 - 1994
      Associate's Degree Computer Science

      Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa - President Associates of Science (AS) obtained

    • George C Wallace State Community College-Dothan

      1992 - 1994
      Associate's Degree Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies

      Associate of Arts (AA) obtained

  • Experience

    • Southeast Alabama Medical Center

      Jan 1995 - Jan 2001
      System Administrator

      Modernized the IT environment by Implementing Microsoft Windows server, and desktop operating systems. Managed implementation of Microsoft Exchange email system and saved over $80,000 while doubling system capacity, software licensing, and provided training to staff. Integrated Hospital Information System (HIS) reporting system with email system and provided digital delivery of nightly reports.Developed internal (Intranet) and external public websites. Lead team to build both sites, and structured key staff from Public Relations to assist with content publication. Show less

    • Wood Diversified, Inc.

      Jan 2001 - Jan 2015
      V.P., Partner, IT Consultant

      IT consulting for physician practices, solution provider / implementation of servers, networking, and practice management (billing and EMR) systems. Dell, Trend Micro, and VMware partner.

    • Gentiva Health Services

      Jan 2001 - Jan 2007
      Director Infrastructure Services

      Providing leadership and project management for corporate initiatives, and company acquisition / integration. Multi site, Multi state support - 8 states and 150 locations, 4000 employees. Supervision and support of field engineers throughout the organization. Managed integration of 2000 + Fujitsu hand held / miniaturized laptop devices used by Home Health clinicians in the field into Gentiva's operation. Developed integrated support processes to encompass the entire life cycle of the device: procurement, provisioning, repair, and disposal of the asset. Responsible for the technical migration of Wiregrass Hospice, and Capital Health Management into Healthfield using Microsoft Active Directory Migration Tool - saving the company over $40,000 for competing services and tools. Implemented WAN consolidation of branch Home Health and DME office connectivity to high speed circuits allowing for instant growth capacity on demand. Also consolidated Internet connectivity for additional capacity on demand.Standardized and managed Purchasing of all IT assets, and managed vendor relationships. Stabilized Hospice desktop related issues in business critical departments (Finance, Billing, etc.) Show less

    • Alutiiq

      Aug 2001 - Mar 2015
      Windows Server Group Team Lead - Network Enterprise Center Redstone

      Held Secret Security Clearance.Responsible for day to day operations and management of a technical team that manages approximately 300 Windows ServersWindows Server platform administrator, NetApp storage, and VMWare virtualization specialist.

    • Intermark Group

      Mar 2011 - May 2015
      Senior Systems Administrator

      Amazon AWS implementation. Migration of production servers from in house virtualization environment to Amazon as a hybrid cloud. Currently in process of migrating the entire production environment to a new VPC. Creating access rules, VPN tunnels, External DNS changes etc. Provides VMWare, Storage, Windows Server, and Network support.Technology supported: Dell Equalogic ISCSI SAN, EMC Fibre Channel SAN, Dell and HP servers, Windows 2003/2008, IIS web servers, Various Linux (minor), split Microsoft DNS for both sites, F5 load balancers, Cisco ASA 5510/20, Symantec Backup Exec, Symantec Endpoint Protection, WSUS 3, Barracuda Spam/AV filter appliance, VMware ESX 3.5 and ESXi 4.1/5.1. Implemented Exchange 2010 - migrated from Exchange 2003. Support of Microsoft Outlook 2007, 2010, 2011 (Mac).Implemented Aruba Wireless access point mesh.Implemented new Equalogic Iscsi SAN and finalized virtualization of remaining servers. Show less

    • Spire (formerly The Laclede Group)

      May 2015 - now
      Enterprise Systems Engineer III

      Windows Core OSVmware Virtualization / VDINetapp SAN/NASActive Directory / integration and migrationCisco and IBM Network solutions

    • Spire

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      • Lead AMI Technology

        Feb 2019 - now
      • Senior Systems Engineer

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  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Altiris Certified Engineer

      Symantec
    • Cisco CCDA, CCNA

      Cisco Systems
    • Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer

      Microsoft
    • Network +, INet +, Security +

      Comptia
    • VmWare Certified Professional 3.5, 4.0

      VmWare