JEFFREY LEWIS

Innovative yet traditional Senior Network Architect who provides scalable and reliable connectivity for multi-site installations. Trusted to develop well-thought-out, secure infrastructure plans for all facets of the networking infrastructure. Accomplished in managing enterprise-wide networks for large-scale operations, who can plan, implement, and continuously improve infrastructure and controls to stay on top of changing operational and security demands. Heavy emphasis on IT security compliance, and an expert in disaster recovery and business continuity planning.

• A typical day requires that I act as the primary liaison for the company's information security vision via regular communications with the senior leadership, department heads, and employees
• Constantly maintain a risk-based process for assessing and mitigating any information security risk in the infrastructure consisting of supply chain partners, vendors, consumers, and any other third parties
• Worked closely with the technology and product departments on corporate technology development to fully secure information, computer, network, and processing systems.
• Developed, tracked, and controlled the security service’s annual operating and capital budgets for purchasing, staffing, and operations
• Recommended and implemented security policy and practice changes per local or federal law changes
• Managed and contained information security incidents and events to protect corporate IT assets, intellectual property, regulated data, and the company’s or customer’s reputation
• Monitored external threats to our environment for emerging threats and advised relevant stakeholders on the appropriate courses of action
• Developed and oversaw effective disaster recovery policies and standards to align with the enterprise business continuity management program goals
• Coordinated developing and implementing incident response plans and procedures to recover business-critical services during a security event; provided direction, support, and in-house consulting in these areas
• Facilitated and supported the development of asset inventories
• Promoted and oversaw strategic security relationships between internal resources and external entities such as vendors and partner organizations
• Remain informed on trends and issues in cybersecurity, including current and emerging technologies and threats. Advise, counsel, and educate executive and management teams on their relative importance and organizational impact

• Exchange 2013/2016/M365 hosting solutions with up to 4500+ mailboxes
• Design and implementation of L2, L3, stacked VoIP/data converged network infrastructures
• Enterprise-wide boot from fiber SAN server deployments with Microsoft, VMware, and Linux operating systems, as well as NAS-backed virtualization solutions
• Multi-tenant hosted firewall solutions from Cisco, Fortinet, Palo Alto, Checkpoint, and SonicWALL
• ISCSI SAN design and implementation
• Hosted VMware solutions consisting of 500+ Virtual Servers
• Hosted VMware Horizon Virtual Desktop solution hosting 1000+ customer desktops
• Designed and implemented electronic medical records application hosting solution, hardware, and software
• Load-balanced web farms using either hardware or software load-balancing technologies
• SQL Server clusters of up to 8 nodes in a production, redundant, or data warehousing setting
• Enterprise data backup and data vaulting solutions through many local and cloud vendors
• Proven track record for setting business financial goals for Information technology and reducing overall IT operations expenditures by implementing newer cutting-edge technologies
• Endpoint management application expertise, monitoring thousands of customer nodes daily

• Defined and communicated plans, procedures, policies, and standards for the organization for acquiring, implementing, and operating new security systems, equipment, software, and other technologies
• Participated in risk assessments for software and systems under consideration for purchase and made recommendations
• Ensured that any new software and integration into company systems met stringent security requirements
• Traditional designs have been near perfect for acquisition and deployment. This ensures that our newest team members are operating under the same guidelines and principles as those who came before
• I have participated in several acquisitions over my career that have led me to gain a profound understanding of their moving parts and then manage them in a compartmentalized fashion

If necessary, I am willing to acquire any certifications required.