JOSH LORANG

Commerce Twp. MI 48382 | | | | ###-###-8373 || joshlorang.com

SUMMARY

Driven IT professionalwith a background inWindows and Linux based systems administration anda focus on virtual and cloud infrastructure. Resolutework ethic, superb prioritization and time management skills, attention to detail,highly adaptable and ability to communicate clearly and effectively. Comfortable in a fast-paced environment with ever-shifting priorities.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Performance-driven
  • Results-orientated
  • Business process development
  • Cost conscious
  • Relationship building
  • Compliance and auditing
  • Technical systems design
  • Cloud and Virtualization

Employment

Oakland County, Pontiac, MI

Systems Administrator II (August 2017 – Present)

  • Responsible for upholding PCI compliance standards within Oakland County secure credit card systems
  • Emergency contact for system outages or other service impacting or critical issues
  • IT infrastructure and systems subject matter expert for many or all technologies employed within the Oakland County government
  • Manage and support all critical and non-critical IT systems for Oakland County as well as a nine-county public safety IT infrastructure
  • Collaborate on IT organization-wide product implementations and other large scale ongoing projects including proofs of concept, testing, implementation, and ongoing maintenance
  • Research emerging technologies and compare with existing technologies, make recommendations
  • Work with co-workers assisting and guiding with tasks, often provide information on how to complete complex tasks

VisionIT, Detroit, MI

IT Manager (February 2016 – August 2017)

  • Department Head of IT at VisionIT
  • Managed several IT infrastructure initiatives, restructures,designed and implementedprocesses and procedures
  • Consolidated and streamlined IT management structure
  • Cut spending and greatly improved satisfaction
  • Managed compliance, network, security, assets, auditing, servers, and resources
  • Project road-map and management
  • Cloud technical architect
  • IT Systems and Infrastructure Technical Lead
  • Vendor relations

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Employment(Continued)

Caretech, Troy, MI

Systems Administrator – Garden City Hospital (September 2013 – February 2016)

  • Virtual Infrastructure Administrator: Implemented,configured and managed Cisco UCS platform, managed VCenter server operations, installed, configured and managed virtual clusters
  • Storage Administrator: Implemented, configured and administered Pure, Netapp, and EMC
  • VDI Administrator: Created, deployed and managed VDI images and pools
  • Network Administrator:Added routes, configured ports, created site-to-site VPNs
  • Administered Garden City Hospital and Prime Medical GroupIT infrastructure including over 150 servers and 1000 PCs of mixed physical and virtual machines(VMware)
  • IT single point of contact and dedicated technical support for ambulatory medical group Prime Medical Group which includes 12 sites
  • Windows Server Administrator: Maintained core services including Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and Backup
  • Project Management:Active Directory Migration, Windows Deployment Services implementation, Mobile Device Management, Network Documentation, etc.

MSC Software, Ann Arbor, MI

IT Infrastructure Engineer (January 2012 – September 2013)

  • Architect for datacenter relocation, including the design of new specifications and floor plan, coordinated installation of AC, fire suppression, UPS, generator, power, racks, and servers
  • Maintained all day to day IT operations for the Ann Arbor location
  • Administered over 100 servers in a Windows/Unix mixed environment
  • Desktop support for 50 users in a Windows/Unix mixed environment
  • Developed Windows and Linux certified desktop environmentimages
  • Maintained core services including Active Directory, NIS, VPN, DNS, DHCP, and Backup
  • Collaborated with product development, marketing, international IT groups, and product managers regularly on several projects
  • Project Manager to reduce the overall size of the Ann Arbor Datacenter by half
  • Windows 7 upgrade project–Organized location wide upgrade from Win XP to Win 7
  • Facilitated local Exchange migration to Office365

TAZ Networks, Brighton, MI

Field Engineer (March 2011 – January 2012)

Certifications

CompTIA A+

CompTIA NET+

CompTIA Security5

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)

Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician (MCDST)

New Horizons, Farmington, Fall 2005

Education

Baker College, Allen Park, MI

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology and Security, 2017