Renell Anderson

Driving, skilled, motivating IT/Business leader and innovation change agent, with more than 23 years’ experience planning, implementing, and supporting, enterprise technological infrastructures. Managing various teams’, components, and processes to and through tactical and strategically optimization and utilization. Have continuously focused on leading the delivery of cost saving automated consolidation solutions that have provided the most appropriate outcomes to enhance business productivity. Leveraging knowledge of legacy infrastructure design models that have evolved SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS, architectural models have been able to architect, recommend and champion the pursuits of structures that have significantly stabilized and future-proof of several enterprise infrastructures. Have continuously and vigilantly worked cooperatively as well as independently to help organizations experience the most seamless technologic supported environments available to foster highly productive feature-rich work environments. The diversity of professional, personal, and formal education experiences h prepared me well for your Global IT Director position. Talented Manager with expert team leadership, planning and organizational skills built during successful career. Smoothly equip employees to independently handle daily functions and meet customer needs. Diligent trainer and mentor with exceptional management abilities and results-driven approach.

• Hino Motors Manufacturing U.S.A. Inc, Manager, IT Infrastructure, 05/2022, Present, Responsible for the infrastructure for all Hino sites in North America., Researched and lead the acquisition of the initial Okta Platform Services implementation, positioning the organization with the opportunity to unify several separate SSO (single-sign-on) implementations into one, as well as provided a unified onboarding and removal platform to be used across the organization., Manage a 1-million-dollar departmental budget., Implemented a credit purchasing instance that resulted in an available corporate credit increase of $582,000, leading to improvement in the organization’s credit utilization ration, improving the organization financial health., Effectively manage our matrix organization’s remote infrastructure staff and support across Michigan, Arkansas, California, and West Virginia, Mentors’ staff, offering necessary guidance to assist them with effective accomplishment of their assigned roles as well as their skill development., Performance Evaluation responsibility to ensure individual performance goals are aligned with department goals., Promote teamwork and cooperation with interacting departments, including Japan., Participate in Kaizen/Continuous Improvement activities as well as cost reduction activities., Researched and lead the acquisition of ConnectWise Professional Service Automation, PSA, Automate, and Control, as well as AUVIK which resulted in the elimination of 4 separate applications., Manage third party vendor contracts and outside services., Work with adjacent Teams to achieve the best coordinated mission accomplishments., Team’s daily infrastructure Operations Management also includes but is not limited to :, Multi-cluster Nutanix Hyperconverged Virtualization environment, used as portions of the compute infrastructures for North American locations., Developing the roadmap integration plan most appropriate for the creation of a DR implementation to support identified RTO and RPO’s:, Veeam Backup and Replication, Palo-Alto NG firewall replacements for Cisco ASA firewalls at all locations, Cisco ISE integration, Riverbed WAN optimizers refresh to accommodate increase throughput demand., O365, Barracuda, Web Filter Management, Trend Micro, All related on-prem Active Directory and Azure AD implemented infrastructure., AirWatch mobile device management, O365 services,, Proposed MPLS SDWAN roadmap implementation.
• Marathon Petroleum, Server Administrator, 07/2021, 05/2022, Co- manager refinery server infrastructure, VMware infrastructure, Backups, patching, event notification remediation, directory service management., Meraki Switches, Firewall, O365, Intune, Azure AD
• Superior National Bank, Systems Administrator, 02/2021, 06/2021, Managed service provider oversight, Azure Cloud and Office 365 systems management and design recommendations, Cisco Meraki utilization, Managed WatchGuard Network Security, Managed Redcloak SecureWorks endpoint protection, Active Directory Management, Email systems support, Server software management, SQL management, Phone system support, Audio / video / web /conferencing support, File, print share management., Mobile device management, Network switch management, Implemented GFI LanGuard patching solution.
• Little Caesars Enterprise, Server Administrator, 04/2019, 09/2020, Evaluated Infrastructure modernization upgrade and implementation options with the primary focus upon suggesting the architected solutions that would provide the most compatible progression toward higher efficiencies., Azure and Office 365 administration., Started and led project implementation of the 1300 user directory home drive user on premise file share migration to Office 365 OneDrive., Proposed Agile methodology CI \ CD DevOps POC for the considerable development efforts used by an adjacent team., VMware virtualization SME, multi-entity site consolidations as well as VDS and cluster configurations., As an LCE infrastructure support personnel member I cooperatively participated and significantly impacted the daily infrastructure solution planning, implementation, and support of technology across the Ilitch Holdings, parent company’s entities, subsidiaries., Continuously maintained and practiced change agent mentality and practices to insure and influence, best practice implementation actions and functions occur regularly as a technical support team member., Architected the SolarWinds, infrastructure redesign solution as the SME, lead then implemented and managed the mult-site Orion platform consolidation, resulting in saving of $60k annually., Architect, implementer, and SME of a complete vRop (VMWare - vRealize Operations), proof of concept. Which displayed full feature rich functionality of a platform that would have surpassed the existing methods., Multi Active Directory domain consolidation evaluations as well as Custom Azure Domain management., Veeam, backup solution management, as well as resolving escalated L3 ServiceNow tickets., Worked within ServiceNow to support ticket escalations., IBM Storwize, V7000, V9000, SAN solution administration.
• WhizKids Consulting, IT Manager, 09/2013, 04/2019, Managed small team of capable technologist designing, creating, and implementing several small to mid-cap infrastructure redesigns support with personnel managing small to mid-sized business infrastructures within the managed service providers accounts., Provided strategic roadmap recommendations to business owners and leadership to achieve the most appropriate infrastructure designs to maximize efficiencies based on discussions with stakeholders., Integrated several hybrids on-premise Active Directory infrastructures with Azure Multi-Tenant Active Directory infrastructures using Azure Portal configurations, resource groups, ExpressRoute configurations as well as Office 365, Teams and SharePoint administration., Escalation resolution point of contact for team members and subordinates., Provided proactive and preventative outage disaster avoidance options to various account management levels., Manage multiple L2 L3 components at various accounts., Manage multiple SonicWALL TZ400 implementations., Managed Azure virtual networks for many of the clients, Implemented AWS GitHub infrastructure for two clients which required me to become the SME for it, including the use of Python as well as Bash for Linux distributions.
• Ford Motor Company, Sr. Systems Engineer, 03/2009, 09/2013, Dearborn, MI, Lead and cooperatively supported multiple upgrade project initiatives as team member and project manager monitoring project plans, noting milestones and assisted with keeping them on track., Provided ongoing support of Ford's Global Data Center Consolidation Project which consisted of virtualization of physical servers at remote locations and relocating them into one of the three Dearborn data centers., Utilized ITIL change management and workflow methodology to apply required changes., Provided innovative input through collaboration to present the most appropriate solutions needed.
• Plastipak Packaging Company, Network Engineer, 12/2007, 03/2009, Plymouth, MI, Negotiated savings of over $80K for the Exchange, VMWare, SAP, and NetApp upgrade projects to adhere to budget allocation., Collaborated with senior leadership provided recommendations for the most appropriate strategic best practice implementations of the upgraded SAP and mail solution implementations., SAP platform infrastructure and migration collaboration., Implemented VMware Consolidated Backup which provided restoration capability for VMware guest operating systems., Designed Exchange email messaging transition infrastructure on more efficient compute NetApp 3140 SAN platform., Responsible for the Symantec Enterprise Vault email archiving solution, Barracuda firewall administration, Administered replication protect messaging system disaster recovery capability.
• Waterford Township, Network Administrator, 07/2005, 12/2007, Waterford, MI, Provided project lead and management skills to ensure all Township implementations initiatives assigned were completed as desired., Network Administrator for Municipal Township providing IT solutions across multiple departments., Researched, recommended configuration and purchase decisions to meet budget constraints for assigned projects., Brainstormed with management and team members innovative ways to maximize purchase options., Responsible for over $90K in savings on the VMWare, HP Blade and EVA SAN solution purchase through negotiations to adhere to budget allocation and constraints., Supervised vendor implementations, managed logistics for the complete SAN based multi host VMware ESX virtualization project., Security and network administrator for organizations infrastructure., Provide escalated network support for the Townships multi-site, multi-subnet, Town Hall, Police, Fire, Court, Parks and Recreation departments., Insured availability of mission critical applications to support departmental daily business needs.
• Oxford Automotive, (Robert Half Contractor), Network Administrator, 08/2004, 07/2005, Troy, MI, Worked with CFO to manage modified budget amendments so that alternative low-cost connectivity methods for remaining business units., Coordinated and implemented the transition of headquarters' IT administrative control from Oxford's North American presence to its European entity prior to the Troy offices' permanent closure., Lead infrastructure Admin., Security administrator for Check Point firewall infrastructure., Responsible for troubleshooting corporate LAN Cisco switches,, Managed circuit turn downs for all sold and auctioned North American business units., Coordinating the WAN troubleshooting of the AT&T managed organizations entire Cisco switch infrastructure., Maintained Exchange email infrastructure.