Objective

To find or create a role making IT

products more appealing by utilizing

my ability to create optimized

systems that work well while saving

time and money.

Profile

Experienced technologist with skills

serving a variety of functional areas

such as:

� Discern manual or repetitive

processes and find ways to

automate them.

� Deploy, monitor, maintain, patch

and upgrade infrastructure and

desktop systems using several

different tools.

� Discover problems, troubleshoot

their source and find innovative

solutions.

� Capable research and competent

documentation skills.

� Rich career history as a Navy data

Systems Technician, Instructor,

Field Service Representative,

Maintenance Technician, Desktop

Integration Engineer, Supervisor,

Writer, and Consultant.

� Proven ability to learn and

implement new technologies.

Certifications

� Microsoft Certified Technology

Specialist Microsoft Vista and

Business Desktop Deployment

� Microsoft Certified Technology

Specialist System Center Virtual

machine Manager 2008

� Altiris Certified Professional

Notification Server 6

Microsoft Partner Competencies

Desktop Optimization Using Windows

and the Microsoft Office System

Microsoft Desktop Deployment

Planning Services

Interests

Bicycling, Home Improvement, Social

Media, Public Speaking, User

Groups, Travel and Conferences

Reed G. Porter

5212 NW Pennington Lane � Blue Springs, MO 64015 � (816) 739-2491

Reed@ReedGPorter.com � http://www.linkedin.com/in/reedporter

Experience

Freelance Author

July 2000 – Present

Some Projects:

• Microsoft Deployment Planning Guide (through Beta 3), 2007, included in

Microsoft Deployment Process 4.0 Workbench.

• Infrastructure Planning and Design: Windows 2008 Terminal Services Guide,

2008, Microsoft Solution Accelerators.

• Introduction to Terminal Services Planning and Design, PowerPoint

Presentation, 2008, Microsoft Solution Accelerators.

• MyITForum.com Contributor: Blog and article writing, forum and listserv

member, and podcaster.

• Other blogs: KCCoffeehouse.com, ReedGPorter.com, and

IntenseResume.com

• Created and presented Intensify Your Resume to three classes at UMKC

Communiversity.

• Presenter and participant at 2009 Kansas City BarCamp, Startup Weekend

KC 2009, and KC StartFest October, 2009.

Independent Consultant

Righteous Technology Professionals

May 2000 – Present

Righteous Technology Professionals helps small business and non-profit entities

get the most from their computing investment and maintain a prominent

internet presence. Some accomplishments by RTP:

• Create accounts for Twitter, Facebook, Facebook Fan Pages, YouTube, and

others as appropriate for the business.

• Created excitement and interest for the companies over events, special

promotions, and the personalities or entities themselves,

• Trained client users to use the tools with social media to engage with their

community and promote their agenda.

• Market products with webinars, sales pages, newsletters, and podcasts

• Produce, post and maintain blogs, blog posts, and podcasts – both audio and

video.

• Performed computer purchasing, installation, networking and maintenance

Customers include: debiandfawn.com, knittingbiblestudyonline.com, Yennie

Chiropractic, Tucker Chiropractic, Lee’s Summit Community Church, Kansas City Real

Estate, Inc.

Service Desk Contractor

Missouri Department of Transportation

November 2009 – May 2010

Supported MoDOT’s Windows 2000 to Windows 7 refresh to over 6000

workstations.

System Center Consultant to UMB Financial Corporation

Levi, Ray & Shoup, Inc.

June 2009 – September 2009

Created project plan and implemented test bed for upgrade from MOM 2005 to

System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 and managed server updates.

Education

University of Central Missouri

Warrensburg, MO

Bachelor of Science in

Business Administration

Information Systems

Spring 2010

Cum Laude

Microsoft Courses (Partial list)

Microsoft 6451a: Planning,

Deploying and Managing

Microsoft System Center

Configuration

Microsoft 2433b - VB Scripting &

Script Host Essentials

Microsoft 5058 - Deploying

Microsoft Office 2007

Professional Microsoft 5105 -

Deploying Windows Vista

Business Desktops

Microsoft 5118 - Maintaining and

Troubleshooting Vista

Microsoft 5119a - Supporting

Windows Computers with

Desktop Images and Application

Packages

Business Desktop Deployment

Accelerator Microsoft

Management Summit 2004, 2005

Altiris:

Manage Fusion 2003, 2006, 2007

Notification Server 6, Deployment

Server 6, Advanced SSDK

Centriq University:

Linux 101, CTX-302.2 MetaFrame

Administration, CTX-=410

Advanced Citrix Server

Implementation, SMS 2.0 Boot

Camp, Active Directory 2003

Administration, VB Scripting

U.S. Navy:

Basic Electricity and Electronics

Data Systems ‘A’ and ‘C’

Computer, Peripherals, Display

Systems, Soldering, Wire

Wrapping.

Instructor Basic 9502

Community

Facilitator System Center in

Healthcare Roundtable Microsoft

Management Summit 2005

Speaker Microsoft Management

Summit 2005

Boeing Quality Achievement

Award

Coordinator Kansas City Regional

SMS User's Group

Infrastructure Consulting Services Consultant to Dell, Inc.

Levi, Ray & Shoup, Inc

April 2008 – November 2008

• Received training on the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit to implement zero-

and light-touch deployments.

• Wrote code to extend existing Dell Automated Deployment capabilities to

interface with Intuit Quickbase with AutoIT 3.0 with the goal of streamlining

data transfer between End-User Computing, Deployment Personnel and

Custom Factory Integration.

Altiris System Engineer - Cerner Corporation

July 2006 – April 2008

Led a three member team responsible for maintaining software, updates,

baselines, and inventories on 8500 servers in an heterogeneous environment.

Implemented Altiris Total Server Management System with Notification Server,

Deployment Server, and Security Expressions for CernerWorks to manage hosted

servers for offsite customers.

Created custom reports and inventories using SQL, WMI, and shell scripts.

Created custom Web Service using C# and the Altiris SDK to enable the CMDB

(BMC Atrium) to delete assets from the Altiris database via Internet Information

Server (IIS) which virtually eliminated data errors and orphaned client records.

Desktop Integration Engineer

Saint Luke's Health System

March 2001 - June 2006

SMS Administrator leading a team of 4 with 7 sites supporting 3600 clients

• Implemented SMS 2.0, SMS 2003. Altiris 5.5 and Altiris 6.0

• Planned and executed side-by-side SMS 2.0 to SMS 2003

• Performed hardware and OS refreshes for Windows 95 to Windows 2000 OS

and Windows 2000 to Windows XP OS

Systems Management Server Consultant

Universal Underwriters Group

November 2000 - February 2001

Checked existing installation and trained customer on client tracking, packaging

and software distribution strategies.

System Design & Integration Specialist

Boeing Company

May 1997 - May 2000

Project Co-Lead for Win3.1/NT3.51 to Win95/NT 4.0 upgrade of 13,000

workstations, implemented software distribution and packaging for PC’s, migrated

to SMS 1.2 from WinInstall, designed Terminal Services log in script and wrote an

application launcher for served applications.

Software Specialist Veterans Administration Medical Center

May 1995 - May 1997

Participated in Windows 3.1 to Windows NT 3.51/95 Conversion via DataLink cable

and Binary Research Ghost and helped implement paperless medical records and

patient encounter forms.

Data Systems Technician

United States Navy

August 1978 - August 1987

Data Systems Technician and Instructor