Elmos Woods

About Elmos Woods

Experienced Information Technology Professional with solid background, combining in-depth troubleshooting and vast, continuously growing array of technical skills with exceptional, highly regarded communicative talents. Versatile and dedicated technical lead always eager to perform tasks of all levels of complexity from desktop to data center. Trusted liaison who works closely with all levels of personnel from C-level executives to entire departments. Welcome addition to any management team; ready, willing, and able to function in any role necessary, ensuring project success and on-time integration and delivery.

Experience

1. Systems Administrator

   Children's Aid

   Aug 2018 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Key member of highly regarded IT team, providing infrastructure administration and support for one of America’s oldest, most respected nonprofit organizations dedicated since 1853 to providing welfare for disadvantaged and at-risk children and families throughout New York City. Administer and maintain server and storage systems across multiple data centers servicing 1200+ employees in over 40 sites consisting of offices, community centers, schools, and clinics.• Contributed to major Health & Wellness projects insourcing eClinicalWorks and AccuMed platforms by building all database and application servers.• Integrated company portal and other platforms into ADFS for SSO• Manage DFS-N shares, coordinating with designated owners from all divisions for granting group-based access to staffers as well as collaborating with directors in redesigning data structure based on reorganizational needs.• Transferred staff personal files from CIFS to DFS shares, incorporating Active Directory home folder mapping, to decommission end-of-life NetApp SANs; created easy-to-follow instructions for staff on new setup.• Manage deployment of HPE Nimble and Alletra SAN units, implementing data transfer plan to move all virtual server data from end-on-life 3Par Storeserv units.• As part of server/SAN infrastructure overhaul, migrated end-of-life Windows-based 6.x VMware ESXi/VSphere infrastructure to appliance-based 7.x.• Oversee backup and restore functions for all server data as well as site-to-site replications of production servers for disaster recovery.• Maintain and patch all physical units using lights-out management as well as in-person tasks when required such as drive replacement or memory upgrades.• Managed and administered on-premise Exchange messaging as well as coordinated and implemented migration to a hybrid-based Office 365, building servers for Azure AD Connect synchronization between on-premise Active Directory and in-cloud Azure.

Education

• Detroit Country Day School

  High School Diploma

• Detroit Country Day School

  HS

  1975 — 1982

• University of Michigan

  Bachelor of Arts, English Language and Literature

  1984 — 1986

Skills

• Microsoft Exchange
• Active Directory
• Windows
• Messaging
• Jira
• Postini
• System Administration
• Vmware
• Citrix
• Networking
• Os X
• Visio
• Microsoft Technologies
• Storage Area Networks
• Troubleshooting
• Cloud Computing
• Mysql
• Sharepoint
• High Availability
• Technical Writing
• Technical Support
• Leadership
• Blackberry
• Windows 7
• Infrastructure
• Software Documentation
• Information Technology
• Project Management
• Tcp/Ip
• IT Strategy
• Quality Assurance
• Dns
• Windows Server
• Disaster Recovery
• Data Center