Ernest Jackson

About Ernest Jackson

With over 25 years of experience, I lead the implementation of secure and efficient…

Experience

1. Technology Director

   East Cooper Baptist Church

   Jun 2021 — Present · Charleston, SC, US

   Responsible for ensuring that we are serving our staff, members, and attendees with simple, secure, and effective technologies by creating, maintaining, and developing technology systems across our church and school to boost efficiency in the work environment as well as meet ministry and administrative needs.Oversee and manage the Technology team ensuring the effective implementation of our vision and strategies as well as developing individual team members both personally and professionallyDesign and maintain the church, school, and guest network infrastructure, the services running across the network, and all devices connecting to the networkManage Windows, macOS, iPadOS, Chromebook, and Promethean devices and configurations for the church employees, school staff, and studentsCreate budgets and manage spending for the yearly technology budgets for the church and schoolBuild and maintain partner and vendor relationships to provide necessary services and product updates as well as with internal stakeholders to ensure technology and customer support needs are met* Define and manage user/group/folder structures across Google Workspace Infrastructure* Define and manage firewall, switches, wireless, and endpoint security Infrastructures* Define and manage Mosyle MDM platform policies for macOS management* Rebuild the entire network topology significantly reducing the number of networking devices required* Replace legacy PBX with cloud-based VoIP improving efficiencies and reducing costs* Implement Microsoft Active Directory infrastructure for the school staff* Deploy certificate-based device authentication across the wireless infrastructure for corporate devices* Reduce operating costs through network redesign and renegotiating ongoing service contracts

Education

• University of Georgia - Terry College of Business

  Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA)

  1987 — 1989

• Emmanuel College

  ABA

  1985 — 1987

Skills

• Wan
• Dns
• Management
• Network Security
• Security
• Cisco Ios
• Tcp/Ip
• Servers
• Crm
• Technical Support
• Virtualization
• Software Installation
• Hardware
• Routing
• Ip
• Cisco Technologies
• Networking
• Cloud Computing