Patrick McKenney

Experience

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  Northern Michigan University

  Mar 2000 - May 2001

  FT Micro Technician

  Lead team of Student Technicians to support all Staff and Instructor Desktop Machines on Campus and off. Working with departments and user to tailor computer systems to their needs while maintaining the policies of Northern Michigan UniversitySupervising a team of Student Techs, receiving and administering work orders to this team as well as performing break-fix support personally.

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  Miller Johnson Snell & Cummiskey

  Jun 2001 - Mar 2004

  Technology Support Specialist

  Hardware and Software troubleshooting and technical support of a Windows NT/2000 NetworkResponsible for backup system, implementation, daily logging and restoring all files using Computer Associates ArcServe Brightstor.Administrator of Windows 2000 Terminal Server and Citrix MetaFrame XP.

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  IPCS Wireless, Inc

  Apr 2004 - Dec 2005

  Computer Support Specialist

  Second level user support for all IT Systems, including Desktop and Laptop PC's as well as server and related hardware in a Windows 2003 Domain Environment.Support for WAN/T1 Network to retail stores in multiple states as well as support POS stations in both fat clients and thin client implementationsPrimary Server Admin for 2 Citrix Farms, one 2 server farm and one 10 server farm using Presentation Server 4.0, IT File Servers in 4 states as well as BlackBerry Enterprise Server for remote users with BlackBerry devices Show less

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  N-Vint, Inc

  Dec 2005 - Apr 2008

  Network Engineer

  Sr. Level Engineer responsible for implementation and management of N-Vint's 2 Data center locations, running hosted systems on Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 and 2008. Responsible for the maintaining of systems, patch management, security of all systems, internal and hosted clients. Including Exchange 2007 CCR Cluster, various SQL 2005 Clusters, SharePoint Web Farm Servers as well as Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 and 2008.Also responsible for the design and implementation of systems to meet client needs.Designed the layout and installation of the infrastructure in second Datacenter Facility, including server rack placement, Telco placement and infrastructure design.Hardware experience includes enterprise class HP Proliant Servers, Fiber attached HP and InforTrend SAN systems as well as Cisco Routers and Switches and WatchGaurd Firewalls. Show less

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  IPCS Wireless / Sprint Nextel

  Apr 2008 - Jan 2010

  Network Administrator

  Responsible for Implementation of Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 and full scale deployment of over 400 new machines in company. Including Operating System Deployment using SCCM, packaging applications, MS Windows Patching and helping to define business requirements for hardware and software for all users in organization. Act as technical lead to Level 1 and Helpdesk Technicians to train on new machines and new troubleshooting techniques. Project time line 12 months.Maintain SharePoint system and assist users with utilizing the tool for effective communication and management of company data.Support and maintenance of hardware to support SharePoint and SCCM in a multi-state environment, including VMWare and HP Proliant Servers. Primary administrator for RIM BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Show less

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  NVINT

  Jan 2010 - Apr 2014

  Director, Cloud & Infrastructure Services

  Provide leadership to the engineering team at NVINT as well as interfacing with clients and designing Cloud infrastructures to help our clients use IT more efficiently. Experience with Lync VOIP Solutions, Exchange, Hyper-V and System Center products to provide solutions to clients in Public, Private or Hybrid Cloud implementations.

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  Davenport University

  Jan 2013 - Aug 2020

  Adjunct Instructor

  Classes taught: NET141: Windows Client, NET241: Windows Server Infrastructure, NETW435: Server Virtualization, NETW341 Advanced Configuration, Windows Server 2012R2

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  Arkadin

  May 2014 - Mar 2022

  In my current role I'm helping to guide the datacenter strategy for NTT: Cloud Communications to align the vision of executives and our data center strategy in order to provide world class services to our global customers from global and efficient datacenter foot print, currently encompassing 22 datacenters in 14 countries on almost every continent in the world.The Data Center Platform team to manages all aspects of our global datacenter infrastructures. In my role as manager I’m working with all of our service lines to ensure that our datacenter resources are able to provide the core services needed for their systems to service our customers. Coordination of day to day activities on our multi-national team for activities within our datacenters such as managing cross connections to carriers, equipment installation and decommission and ensuring that the physical security and resources provided by our datacenter meets our needs and is also cost effective. Show less

  • Sr. Manager - Infrastructure & IT

    Oct 2019 - Mar 2022

  • Manager - Global Datacenter Operations & Compute Services

    Jun 2019 - Apr 2021

  • Senior System Engineer

    May 2014 - Jun 2019
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  NTT Ltd.

  Oct 2019 - now

  Sr. Manager – OneCloud Infrastructure & IT

  In my current role I'm helping to guide the datacenter strategy for NTT: Cloud Communications to align the vision of executives and our data center strategy in order to provide world class services to our global customers from global and efficient datacenter foot print, currently encompassing 22 datacenters in 14 countries on almost every continent in the world.The Data Center Platform team to manages all aspects of our global datacenter infrastructures. In my role as manager I’m working with all of our service lines to ensure that our datacenter resources are able to provide the core services needed for their systems to service our customers. Coordination of day to day activities on our multi-national team for activities within our datacenters such as managing cross connections to carriers, equipment installation and decommission and ensuring that the physical security and resources provided by our datacenter meets our needs and is also cost effective. Show less