Eric Dreksler

Work History

Alera Group, Inc

11.2019 - Current

Environment contains 150+ firms and 100+ AD environments, 400+ servers and 4,000-5,000 employees.
Implemented VMWare VDI environment and transitioned 500+ plus users over.
Ubiquiti Wifi setup and administration
Backup network administrator for Palo Alto firewalls and HP Aruba switches, as well as many other vendors brought in through firm acquisitions.
Primary for troubleshooting issues others can’t track down (final issue / ticket escalation).
Mentored junior staff on troubleshooting procedures and technology to reduce number of escalations, and help to resolve issues with SLA.
DUO 2FA setup and administration (SSO)
Implemented SSO / SAML in Azure Enterprise apps to facilitate SSO logons with 3rd party applications
O365 Administration
Active Directory administration as well as MS networking administration (DNS / DHCP) and troubleshooting
Clean up acquired firms and bring into compliance and best practices with AD / File system access and security policies, as well as setting up DFS names and replication back to secondary site.
Basic Linux administration (install new servers, guided installation of applications and basic trouble- shooting)
Deploying & Testing OS upgrades, security patches, Software packages, application configurations.

Peerless Network

09.2014 - 10.2019

Documented procedures for Desktop / Network / Servers
Active Directory / DNS / DHCP Administration
Unidesk VDI Administration for VMWare desktops
Migrated VDI off Unidesk into all VMWare backend (vComposer, AppVolumes, UEM)
Migrated several Citrix and Physical servers to Hyper-V hosted servers
Utilized Powershell to create reports and automate tasks for Microsoft and VMWare products
Migrated company to Office 365
Implemented Office MFA for dual auth security
Hyper-V setup and administration.
Contributed to development, administration and testing of disaster recovery plans.

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02.2013 - 09.2014

Access One, Inc

06.2003 - 12.2013

7 months)
Designed, deployed, and manage a Windows 2003 Active Directory domain structure
Team lead for junior employees, mentoring and technical instruction
Performed MS Exchange administration and installation for both 5.5 and 2003
Provided support to three sites consisting of 19 servers, and 105 workstations
Assisted project manager for large billing system migration
Responsible for all aspects of network administration and hardware support
Upgraded a NT4 network to Windows 2003 with active directory
Conducted a MS Exchange 5.5 to 2003 migration
Setup, maintain, and troubleshoot internal network / devices
Trained technical staff on various network administration duties
Responsible for the selection and procurement of all computer hardware and software company wide
Developed numerous custom applications utilizing VBA and Access
Coordinated and managed the development of various VBA and VB.net applications
Developed and implemented a disaster recovery plan utilizing Virtualization and Cloud deployment
Developed Virtualization plan that reduced server hardware requirements by 80%
Migrated PBX phone system to a 3CX IP phone system.

SCE Unlimited

01.2002 - 02.2003

Designed and coordinated the installation of a 100base Ethernet network running Windows NT 4.0
Server with 45 workstations (NT4, Win95, and Win98, Win2000)
Team lead for junior employees, mentoring and technical instruction
Responsible for the selection and procurement of all computer hardware and software company wide
Performed all network administration duties from establishing user accounts and setting the security policies, to the upgrading and configuration of hardware and software including multiple full installations of all MS Windows operating systems (95, 98, NT4, 2000)
Developed an ERP system utilizing Access 97 and AccpacAccounting for Windows consisting of numerous database applications
The system currently consisted of 115+ database tables, 120+ SQL queries, 100+ forms, 65+ reports and over 45,000 lines of code (VBA)
Developed Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and Microsoft Word forms for use throughout the company based on user requests and observed needs, in an effort to increase productivity and eliminate calculation errors
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Managed technical staff

Artistic Impressions

11.1999 - 11.2001

Engineered and coded an inventory and customer tracking application using Visual Basic 6.0
Designed and wrote reports and modules into P/LSQL for import into new Oracle application
Converted Access 2.0 databases to Access 97
Single point of contact for all desktop and user issues.