Shawn Pride- •-https://www.linkedin.com/in/spride
Personal statement
Senior Information Technology fellow with 20 years’ experience. Skilled in structuring hardware and
software deployment using Microsoft centric applications and systems design. Lead technical consultant
responsible for design, engineering and development of information technology solutions. Supported the
design, analysis, development and implementation of engineering infrastructure solutions of projects and
SOW requests for complex business solutions. Served as the primary contact for vendors. Technologies span
mainframe, mid-range, desktop, server, network data, voice, messaging, web, and database.
Key Technical Skills
Operating Systems: Windows Server 2008-16+, VM-Ware, Hyper-V, Windows XP-7-8-10, Linux, Mac OS10+.
Server Stack SharePoint, AD, DHCP, Group Policy, SQL, Exchange 201x, Citrix, SCOM, DPM, RDP, File Services
MS Cloud: Exchange Server/Online, Lync/Skype4B Server/Online, SharePoint Server/Online, System Center
(CM/DPM/OM/VMM), Intune, SQL Server, Azure (AD, SQL, VMs Networking), Office 365, ADFS
(DirSync/AADSync/AADConnect), Azure AD, Exchange Hybrid deployments.
Applications: MS Office Suites, Labtech, Connect-Wise, MS Project,
Protocols: including IP, ICMP, 802.11x (WiFi), MPLS, ATM, DSL, HTTP, SMTP, SSH, FTP, Telnet, VoIP, SIP,
NNTP, NTP, RPC, SNMP, SLIP, PPP, PPTP, GRE, VPN, RDP, HSRP, IGMP, RIP, POP, IMAP.
Phone systems: 3com, ShoreTel, NorTel, InterTel, MiTel and other Legacy PBX services & networks.
Languages: PowerShell, VB, Perl, HTML.
Hardware: Dell, HP, Intel, Cisco, Meraki, F5, Equal Logic, NetApp, WatchGuard, SonicWALL.
Employment History
Spin6x Consulting – Seattle, WA
Partner and Senior Consultant May 2012 to Present -just finished contract with London based firm.
Communicate with clients to provide regular updates on projects.
Architect with clients and create stable managed services environment with full remote management.
Site survey and domain consolidation planning with emphasis on Active Directory remediation.
Deployment planning and application services tied to communications and training, and best practices.
Disaster recovery planning services with failover virtual server environments in collocation facilities.
Develop solutions tailored to solve clients’ issues implement highly-available server/networking/storage
infrastructure.
➢ Tech used: Windows Server 2008-16+, VM-Ware, Hyper-V, Windows XP-7-8-10, Linux, Mac OS10+
SharePoint, AD, DHCP, Group Policy, SQL, Exchange 201x, Citrix, SCOM, DPM, RDP, File Services
Exchange Server/Online, Lync/Skype4B Server/Online, SharePoint Server/Online, System Center
(CM/DPM/OM/VMM), Intune, SQL Server, Azure (AD, SQL, VMs Networking), Office 365, ADFS
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Professional Bowlers Association – Seattle, WA
Information Technology Manager
May 2008 to May 2012
Prioritized, planned, and managed all IT related initiatives, tailored to solve clients’ issues.
Implemented a multinational streaming media service tied to content delivery networks.
Coordinated design setup of a mobile IT infrastructure for a national sports organization.
Established functional, scalable, and cost-effective IT infrastructures, including services such as local and
wide area networking, Internet access, Internet and LAN security, backup inter-office networking, email,
printing, file sharing, calendaring, centralized authentication, VPN, video conferencing, trouble ticketing,
and asset management.
➢ Tech used: Windows Server 2008-12+, VM-Ware, Hyper-V, Windows XP-7-8-10, Linux, Mac OS10+
SharePoint, AD, DHCP, Group Policy, SQL, Exchange 201x, Citrix, SCOM, DPM, RDP, File Services
Exchange Server, SharePoint Server, System Center, DPM.
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CIO Trust – Seattle, WA
Infrastructure Services Consultant
September 2004 to 2008
Identified, evaluated, prioritized, planned, and managed multiple projects for multiple clients.
Infrastructure management deployment planning and implementation.
Site survey and Domain consolidation planning manager and onsite lead engineer.
Disaster recovery planning services, including failover virtual server collocation implementation
Established functional, scalable and cost-effective IT infrastructures, including such as local and wide
area networking, Internet access, Internet and LAN security, backup inter-office networking, email.
➢ Tech used: Windows Server 2008+, VM-Ware, Hyper-V, Windows XP-7, Mac OSX, SharePoint, AD, DHCP,
Group Policy, Exchange 2007, SCOM, DPM, RDP, File Services, Exchange Server System Center, SQL.
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Apex Systems Inc. - Bellevue, WA
Senior Deployment Engineer September 2003 to September 2004
Deployment engineer for Weyerhaeuser COE deployment team covering 40+ States. Multiple locations
delivering a standardized workstation hardware and operating system; a common workstation image;
the ability to implement remote management capabilities and; IT replenishment model to sustain and
evolve the environment. The Common Operating Environment (COE) program is part Weyerhaeuser's
overall IT strategy to upgrade a significantly out of date IT infrastructure and create an environment that
can be more easily maintained, upgraded, protected and supported. With Philips Corporation I worked
with the IS team on common security audit clarification standards.
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Responsible for deployment of site-by-site infrastructure multi-function server implementations.
Application server upgrades and workstation hardware standardization for updated security.
Microsoft Windows XP image on all workstations tied to updated server renaming conventions.
Workstation hardware replenishment strategy; IIS server consolidation; Application portfolio.
Deployment planning support, application services, communications and training.
Developed applications and acted as the liaison to project managers and architects.
Tech used: Windows Server 2003 Windows XP, SharePoint, AD, DHCP, Group Policy, SQL, Exchange
Creative Works – Seattle, WA
Technical Program Manager
September 2000 to March 2002
Designed and implemented and procured server architectures and test beds for Development team
using Microsoft-centred web application design framework. Program Manager in charge of integral code
roll-outs, versioning and source library management. Have a broad understanding and expertise in
Internet hardware technologies and their implementation.
➢ Designed, and leveraged company data-center utilizing multiple Collocation Services Providers.
➢ Worked extensively in operating system risk deployment and migration plans.
➢ Assisted OEM and client users prepare project concept proposals and justification packages.
➢ Facilitated requirement discovery process, prototyped and documented requirements, and defined the
appropriate technical design, project scope, development, and overall technical implementation plan.
➢ Managed a team of 10 developers to implement software to client specification.
➢ Provided oversight during the development effort to ensure adherence to the system design, perform
code reviews, and address challenges uncovered in the development lifecycle.
Clique.com -– Seattle, WA
Implementation Manager / Operations Manager
October 1999 to August 2000
Implemented web server architectures and data centre design utilizing Co-location/Hosting service
providers. (Exodus) (Level3) Setup MIS/IT infrastructure for multiple locations at Internet based
company including Seattle, New York and London.
➢ Managed and maintained E-commerce web sites for multiple clients.
➢ Deployed Web enabled applications and infrastructure working extensively with Co-location /Hosting
service providers on deployment and migration plans.
➢ Worked with team of 8 developers to implement sites to client specification.
➢ Managing physical site migration of enterprise level data centre’s, servers, and applications including
international location.
➢ Facilitated requirement discovery process, prototyped and documented requirements, and defined the
appropriate technical design, project scope, development, and overall technical implementation plans.
Microsoft Corporation – Redmond, WA
Program Manager
September 1994 to October 1998
Performed a variety of roles in software development life cycle including, Program Management and
O.E.M. Program Management. Managed hardware and software design implementation and support for
the Windows CE (Mobile Electronics Product Unit.) Acted as Builder and Source Library Manager for the
business unit with 10+ builds daily. Multimedia hardware Plug-n-Play test engineer on the Windows
Development and Test Team.
➢ Extranet Program Manager in charge of implementation of Microsoft OEM Partners Extranet Program
for the Mobile Electronics Product Unit.
➢ Beta Coordinator/ Support specialist for Mobile Electronics Product Unit Windows CE. Worked in a
delineated Windows embedded environment. 20 plus OEM chipsets. Daily DDK and SDK Builder.
➢ Setup BVT lab (build verification test) and test case automation for daily builds of Windows CE.
➢ Builder and Source Library Manager for Office Team. Specifically, responsible for daily code pick-up's and
integration into build process. Versioning of software and testing of verification build releases before
hand off to the test team.
➢ Multimedia tester of Plug-n-Play drivers and hardware for Windows 95 Multimedia Team. Responsible
for software quality control for 30+ OEM hardware products including audio, video, CDR and external
devices.
Education
University of Washington
(September 1990 – June 1992)
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Bachelor of Science – Technical Communications
GPA 3.86
South Seattle College
(September 1988 – June 1990)
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Associate of Arts – Computing Technologies
Microsoft Certifications
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MCPS, MCNPS, MCTS, MCSE, Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Azure.
Cisco
(Current)
CCNA, and Meraki, Azure
