Michael Manning

2008                     AQUOSE                                           Orange, CA

Founder | Chief Information Officer

Experience

Major clients include Relax The Back | H & R Block Mortgage | J. Walter Thompson | Parsons Corporation | The Capital Group | PIMCO.

Actively lead a 24x7 support staff to identify issues and resolve critical problems with low to no client impact.

Designed, managed and directed a team of 11 direct reports split between multiple locations, supporting client servers, workstations, applications and a mix of Apple OS X | Windows and iOS | Android mobile devices.

Heavily virtualized (Hyper-V | VMware ESX | Xen) client assets to better leverage existing resources and streamline power and cooling.

Support end-to-end Apple OS X and iOS deployments and Apple OS X island deployments in Windows ERP environments.

Actively managed and maintained multi-million dollar budgets and provided financial analysis, ROI, spending allocations and justifications, reporting to client Executives and Boards of Directors.

Developed custom Web Sites | SEO strategies and SharePoint Portals.

Deployed custom tailored Cloud Solutions, allowing clients to leverage the power and cost savings associated with hosted services.

Managed Business Continuance | Disaster Recovery implementation utilizing Virtualization | SAN and Cloud       Services. Documentation, process and procedures were created and tested against Federal Regulatory Agencies.

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Major clients included Pacific Bell Yellow Pages (now AT&T) | Siebel Systems (now Oracle) | AXIOM Navigation.

Directed a team of 9 direct reports focused on client IT operations, security and management.

Actively led a 24x7 support staff to identify issues and resolve critical problems.

Led risk audits to evaluate risks that could cause noncompliance in the financial sector.

Managed a cross bread of Apple | HP | Dell | CISCO | NetApp and IBM hardware and software.

Led a team of DBA’s (SQL | Oracle), analysts, and senior engineers to integrate client IT infrastructure | SAP implementation | Citrix | SharePoint.

Managed designed and deployed Avaya | Cisco | Panasonic Telephony solutions with standard DID | PBX | VoIP.

Pioneered and sold solutions for early integration of Apple OS 6 | Windows NT in SMB Environments.

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Certifications

Microsoft (MCSE)

Novell (CNE)

Cisco (CCNA)

Numerous certification classes, conferences, and professional seminars.

Platforms

Apple OS X | OS X Server | iOS

Windows Pro / Enterprise | Windows Server | Windows Embedded | POS

UNIX | Linux

Google Chrome OS | Android

Virtualization

VMware

Citrix XenServer | XenApp | XenDesktop

Microsoft Hyper-V

Software

Apple Final Cut Pro | Aperture

Microsoft Office |Office 365 | Office 365 for Mac | Project Pro

Microsoft Dynamics ERP | GP | AX | Nav | Sl | POS | Business Central

Microsoft Exchange | SQL Server | System Center Suite

Microsoft Visual Studio | SharePoint Server

Oracle | JD Edwards | PeopleSoft | SAP | Sage | QuickBooks Enterprise

Adobe CC | AutoCAD | Microsoft Visio

Hardware

Apple - Server | Laptops | Desktops | iPad | iPhone | Apple TV | AirPort

Google - Chromebook | Android Phone

Microsoft  - Surface | Phone

HP – Servers | ProLiant Blades | ProCurve | Printers | Thin Clients | Storage

IBM – System i | p | x | z | Blade Center | Lenovo

Dell – Servers | Blades | Workstations | Printers | Thin Clients | Switches | Storage

Network – Cisco | Dell | SonicWall | Barracuda | Brocade

Storage - SAN | NAS – HP | IBM | EMC | NetAPP | QLogic

VoIP | Telephony - Nortel | Cisco | NEC | Linksys | Panasonic

POS - Cash Drawers | Thermal Printers | Touch Displays | Card Readers

Security - IP Cameras | DVR | Keyless Entry | Card Readers

Audio | Video - Televisions | Projectors | PA Systems | Amplifiers | Distribution

Automation | Control - Lutron | Vantage | AMX | Crestron | Control4

Wire - Plenum Fiber | Cat6 | Structured Cable / Coaxial

Wireless - 802.11 a | b | g | n | ac | Exterior Wireless | Long Range Wireless

Racks | Floors | Ducting | Cable Management | Cable Distribution & Patch

Power - UPS | Distribution | Surge Suppression | Conditioning | Emergency Generators

Cooling - Air Conditioning | Chillers

Disaster Recovery - Temporary Building | Hardware | Backups | Satellite Internet | VPN

Internet

Services - Fiber | U-Verse | FiOS | Cable | ISDN | T1 | T3 | Satellite

Providers - AT&T | Verizon | CenturyLink | COX | Time Warner

P to P Circuits - T1 | Fractional T1 | ISDN | SDSL | IDLS | BRI

WAN - VPN | SSL | PPTP | PPPOE

Cloud

Platforms -  Microsoft 365 | Azure | Google Apps for work | iCloud | Salesforce | Amazon Web Service

Storage - EMC | Amazon | OneDrive | Google Drive | Box | Dropbox | AZURE Storage

Hosting - Shared | Co-Location | Dedicated | Elastic Cloud

Backup - EMC | Carbonite | AZURE Backup

Web Development

Domain - Name Registration | DNS | NS

Hosting - Shared | Co-Location | Dedicated | Elastic Cloud

Design – Adobe Creative Suite | AutoCad

Programming – html | Java | Peal | php | CSS

SEO - In-depth knowledge of systems and strategies

Networks - Google | Bing | Facebook | LinkedIn | Google+ | YouTube | Yelp | Tumblr | Yahoo | Pinterest | Etsy

Analytics - Google | Bing | Facebook | LinkedIn | Yelp | Yahoo

Project Management

Sarbanes Oxley (SOX)

Security & Monitoring

Strategic Planning

Systems Development

Testing Methodologies

Virtualization

Executive Leadership

Best Practices Standardization

Budget Management

Business Continuity Planning

Business Process Management

Change Management

Contract Negotiations

Data Center Development

(DC Power, Cooling, Fluid Dynamics)

Disaster Recovery

Finance

Network Design

Operations Management