Rick Borquez

About Rick Borquez

An award winning experienced, highly proven Senior IT Leader, operating with 20+ years working professionally in Fortune 500 environments, educational institutions, consulting firms, Hospitality, Law Firms and Accounting Firms.Most of my career has been in consulting, I\'ve enjoyed consulting as it keeps my mind fresh and allows me to expand my knowledge and experience. My passion in this type of work, is to design and build networks, and with that, connecting and enabling people to make better use of technology. I strive for customer service, making that my number 1 priority. I\'ve been instrumental in hiring, organizing and managing effective teams for some of the largest companies and IT departments in the Los Angeles area allowing them to stay productive, competitive and relevant.Specialties: Very experienced in Microsoft, VMWare, Citrix, Cisco, ShoreTel, Mitel, Dell and HP environments, including network design, routing, switching, VPN, Active Directory, Exchange, System Center, storage and SAN\'s, disaster recovery, and high availability.Additional experiences include ProLaw, VoIP (SIP, Cisco CallManager, Lync), and Symantec Data management applications (e.g. Backup Exec, Enterprise Vault, etc.) among others (Veeam).

Experience

1. Chief Technology Officer

   Parris Law Firm

   Nov 2018 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US

   Senior IT Leader across Enterprise Technology Programs, Legal Platforms, IT Service Delivery, Website and PARRIS Law Firm Information Security Program. Responsible for all technology systems, data centers, Legal systems interfaces, application development, database systems, enterprise data warehouse environments, information security systems and methods, and the enterprise service desk. Manage IT architecture and disaster recovery programs. Manage outsourcing partners, vendor relationships, pricing negotiations, and IT purchasing standards. Oversee IT aspects of all projects, along with building support, automation integration programs. Develop technology road-maps, ensuring IT financial investments are managed in a sustainable fashion through multi-year forecasts.

Skills

• Shoretel
• Routing
• Emc Storage
• Barracuda Spam Firewall
• Mcitp - Enterprise Admin
• Iis
• Vlan
• Server Rooms
• Cisco Wireless
• Citrix
• Websense
• Hyper-V
• Barracuda Spam Filter
• Storage Area Networks
• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Exchange
• Symantec Antivirus
• Storage
• Hp Procurve
• Vmware
• Windows Remote Desktop
• Juniper Switches
• Trend Micro
• Active Directory
• Symantec Backup
• Windows Server
• Sonicwall
• Symantec Endpoint Protection
• Rsa Securid
• 3par
• Ios Development
• Iscsi
• San
• Trapeze
• Microsoft Cluster
• Network Design
• Sql Tuning
• Disaster Recovery
• Novell Netware
• Vmware Esx