MATT STRATTON

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

4524 BLACKHAWK LANE, LISLE ILLINOIS 60532

MATT.STRATTON@GMAIL.COM (773) 295-7789

IT infrastructure and operations leader with over fifteen years of experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale Microsoft-based infrastructure for financial, insurance, and ecommerce organizations. Demonstrated expertise in leading high-performing teams of infrastructure administrators and engineers in business critical roles. History of streamlining and automating processes to drive efficiency and overall cost reduction. Proven ability to manage relationships and collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to leverage technology to build practical business solutions. Passion for process, standardization, and performing as a change agent to enable IT departments to improve efficiency and stability.

Technical Expertise Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 Mac OS X VMWare Virtual Infrastructure 3/VSphere Microsoft Active Directory System Center Operations Manager 2007/2012 Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010/Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Disaster recovery procedures and planning Microsoft FAST Search Server HP/Compaq Proliant server hardware IIS and ASP.NET Windows scripting techniques including VBScript, WSH, and PowerShell Akamai content delivery network

EXPERIENCE
Director, Technology Operations Manager of IT Operations
Classified Ventures, Chicago, Illinois Direct report to line-of-business CTO. Lead team of systems administrators and database administrators responsible for support of over 400 Windows and Linux production servers for customer-facing, best-of-breed consumer search website with over 6 million visits per month. Expanded use of Akamai content delivery network to improve end-user experience. Member of Information Protection Steering Committee and Corporate Change Control Review Board. Introduced change management and incident management processes based upon ITIL standards. Manage support incidents and coordinate with application support teams. Established standards for environment management and software configuration management in application lifecycle to streamline code releases. Designed and directed implementation of a dynamic infrastructure model for disposable development and test environments for multiple simultaneous development projects. Mentor staff on prioritization and communication. Perform annual performance review of staff. Created sysadmin internship program. Mentored three sys admin interns. Evaluate new infrastructure and Web technologies and make recommendations to other technology groups. Prepare and present reports to senior management on website performance and stability. Identify areas of concern and create action plans for resolution. Manage all infrastructure projects, including acquisition integration, hardware and OS upgrades, patch management standardization, and two data center migrations Streamlined system monitoring efforts from 8 disparate tools to 3 industry-standard suites. Architected business portal environment for team collaboration and application delivery using SharePoint Server 2010. Act as liaison between line-of-business technical department and corporate technology groups. Manage annual capital expenditure budget in excess of $500,000. Maintain relationship with consulting partners as well as Microsoft and other product vendors to introduce and enhance latest technology offerings to best drive business goals. 2012 Present 2007 2012

Engineer Lead
JPMorgan Chase, Chicago, Illinois

2004 2007

Certifications ITIL V3 Foundation in IT Service Management (2010) Microsoft Certified IT Professional, Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist (2008) VMWare Virtual Infrastructure 3 (2006) Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (2004) Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (1998) Cisco Certified Networking Associate (1998)

Managed all server-related technical aspects of solutions based on Microsoft Windows operating systems and VMWare Virtual Infrastructure 3 for Treasury and Securities Services, one of the largest cash management providers in the world. Identified and leveraged opportunities across teams and integrated common functions/practices. Worked with Production Support group to strengthen infrastructure and improve production stability on systems processing an average of $2.8 trillion in wire transfers daily. Defined process and standards for Wintel-based server deployments for all TSS projects. Interacted with multiple application teams to develop requirements, and created infrastructure designs that enabled highly available, fault-tolerant, and cost effective solutions.

Server Operations Engineer (AON)

Forbes Technical Consulting, Chicago, Illinois

2003 2004

Collaborated with business units and server architecture group to plan and deploy Windows 2000 servers for high-availability resources. Supported Novell servers and contributed to capacity planning effort for disk space utilization.

Technical Principal
Heller Financial, Chicago, Illinois

2001 2002

Acted as principal systems integrator for international middle-market lending firm, coordinating business managers and IT resources in financial systems projects. Defined infrastructure standards for all Microsoft-based server technologies, including Exchange and Windows 2000. Managed team of engineers in design and implementation of all server-based infrastructure in a multiple site environment. Developed automated mailbox migration system from legacy 5.5 environment to Exchange 2000. Re-engineered WINS and DNS environments for efficiency and to best leverage new Windows 2000 technologies. Led team in planning, design, and management of Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 upgrade to Windows 2000 Active Directory enterprise initiative with over 300 servers.

Network Engineer
Heidrick & Struggles, Chicago, Illinois

2000 2001

Maintained network security/integrity across a global WAN. Provided support for frame relay network connections. Designed system for connecting new office acquisitions using VPN technologies. Designed and implemented DMZ infrastructure for secure connections to vendor networks, as well as Outlook Web Access.

Senior Member of Technical Staff

Computer Sciences Corporation, Chicago, Illinois

1998 2000

Worked with architecture team on planning and forecasting new technologies. Led selection and testing effort for performance monitoring/capacity planning software. Integrated newly acquired offices into enterprise environment.