Jon Patton

About Jon Patton

Respected IT Manager with over 20 years experience in the Information Technology field. Skilled in partnering with business units and vendors to architect and deliver cost effective and timely solutions for the business. I build teams with customer centric attitudes in serving both colleagues and customers. Seeking an organization that values someone who builds effective and efficient teams through mentoring and leading by example.

Experience

1. Engineering Manager Cx Managed Services

   Cisco

   Jun 2017 — Present

   Lead a team of 5-12 system, network and software engineersMy team builds the hardware and software solutions that enable Cisco to manage large enterprise networks and data centersWe translate architectural guidance into a working solution, partnering with software engineering groups to determine the best approachMy team has improved automation execution and tooling by replacing an excel spreadsheet and PowerShell scripts with ansible playbooks which has reduced deployment times for a standard 26 virtual machine management platform from 8 hours to 44 minutesMy team continually partners with platform engineering, architecture and operations teams to improve the capabilities and stability of the management platforms

Education

• Pittsburg State University

  BBA, Management

  1989 — 1990

• Oklahoma State University

  Management Science and Computer Systems

  1985 — 1989

Skills

• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Managing Vendor Relationships
• Budgets
• Lan/Wan Infrastructure Management
• Team Building and Mentoring
• Disaster Recovery
• Technical Support
• Data Center
• Networking
• Servers
• Itil
• Management
• Active Directory
• IT Strategy
• Office Relocation
• Insurance
• Switches
• Microsoft Exchange
• Team Leadership
• Project Planning
• Information Technology
• Budgeting
• Pre-Sales
• Citrix
• Infrastructure
• Firewalls
• Storage Area Networks
• Cloud Computing
• Physical Security
• Vendor Relationships
• Cisco Technologies
• Leadership
• Business Continuity
• Microsoft Technologies
• Data Protection
• Start-Ups
• Managed Services
• IT Management