Brandon Bearden

Over twenty years of IT experience with a primary focus on Microsoft, virtualization, and cloud technologies. Strong interpersonal, organizational, critical thinking, and leadership skills. Known go-getter who can deliver results individually or in a team environment. Demonstrated experience working closely with business and technical leadership on a wide array of technology strategies and policies. Adept at earning respect, confidence, and trust with clients, colleagues, and leadership. Worked cooperatively with engineering, planning, development, product, and design organizations to develop and deliver cost effective, scalable, and robust solutions for customer facing products and services. Utilized industry standards and best practices with best of breed vendor equipment and diverse enterprise applications in high-intensity and highly secure environments to meet defined business objectives. • OS: Windows 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2, 2016, ESX 4, 5, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5, Light RedHat Linux • VIRTUALIZATION: VMware vSphere 4, 5, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5 Hyper-V 2008 R2, 2012, SCVMM 2008 R2, 2012, 2016, Azure/AWS • DIRECTORY SERVICES: Microsoft Active Directory 2003, 2008, 2012, 2016 • MICROSOFT CORE: DHCP, DNS, WINS, ADSI, Microsoft clustering, Group Policy, Group Policy Preferences • WEB AND DB: IIS 6, 7, 7.5, SQL 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2016 • SCRIPTING: PowerShell, Visual Basic scripting, batch • ADDITIONAL: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, cloud computing, virtualization, infrastructure architecture, deployment automation, systems integration, Microsoft System Center stack, SCCM, Citrix XenApp 6.1, 6.5, Cisco UCS, SAN utilization and performance, WAN/LAN technologies, load balancing, Microsoft clustering, high availability, performance tuning, troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.