Deandre Valentine

About Deandre Valentine

Respected, self‐motivated & high‐performing, IT professional with more than 28 years experience with various aspects of the field including, client and application support, software and hardware migrations and upgrades, server maintenance, infrastructure, networking, system administration and security. Highly skilled at relationship building with clients and across organizations and teams. Consistently receive positive feedback from directors, managers, colleagues and clients. Proven expertise in establishing rapport and building trust with clients from a variety of backgrounds. Possess strong written and verbal communication skills, exceptional writing, presenting, and interpersonal communication skills and the ability to work with a variety of personalities and computing technologies. Extensive experience managing large‐scale projects from the requirements gathering phase to completion. Highly skilled in tracking details, communicating deadlines, documentation and following‐up with internal and external partners to ensure on‐time completion within budget. Ability and continued interest in learning and incorporating new technologies.

Experience

1. Systems Engineer

   Industrial Electric Mfg. (IEM)

   Sep 2025 — Present · Fremont, CA, US

   Design, implement, and maintain enterprise systems across on-prem datacenters and Azure cloud environments• Support and manage hypervisors including SCALE and Hyper-V, along with hyperconverged infrastructure solutions• Administration and optimization of Windows Server environments and Microsoft 365 services• Develop and execute cloud adoption and migration strategies aligned with a “cloud smart” approach• Ensure high availability, performance, and disaster recovery readiness of corporate systems• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize hybrid infrastructure performance• Document system configurations, procedures, and best practices while driving modernization and security improvements

Skills

• Microsoft Exchange
• Networking
• Active Directory
• Windows Server
• Management
• Microsoft Office
• System Administration
• Servers
• Network Administration
• Virtualization
• Citrix
• Customer Service
• Disaster Recovery