Michael Manning

"I love our business and our clients"

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Sell, design, engineer, deploy and manage Information Technology solutions and lead a diverse team of engineers, administrators, software developers and client facing technicians.

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• Major clients include Relax The Back | H & R Block Mortgage | J. Walter Thompson | Parsons Corporation | The Capital Group | PIMCO | Pacific Bell Yellow Pages (now AT&T) | Siebel Systems (now Oracle) | AXIOM Navigation

• 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.
• 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.

• Technical Skills

• 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 | Poly | Teams Phone
• 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 - Point to point 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

• 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