Career

Edmund is a Solutions Engineer in the SharePoint Practice at Hubbard One (a Thomson Reuters Company). He has a background in engineering and IT consulting and has worked with over 60 client since 2005. Most recently, Edmund served as a consultant for SWC Technology Partners where he designed and completed SharePoint farm infrastructure migrations and upgrades. He also has experience as the head engineer for multi-site enterprise software implementations across international and domestic locations. Today, Edmund can be found configuring custom OneView implementations for many Hubbard One’s clients. Edmund graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. A Boston native, when he’s not working at his computer, Edmund paints abstract artwork in acrylic and is active in the Chicago arts and culture scene. From my Hubbard One Bio

Edmund is guided by personal principles in his career. He is there to solve complex and diverse informational technology problems, and to work, intimately with clients, to reach specific goals. He feels happy and fulfilled as an applications engineer. He likes that his work centers on complex web applications. This is interesting, not only because he gets to explore in depth with the application, but because of the constant server and network considerations. Edmund has extensive experience with SharePoint, SQL, Windows Server, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux among others. Please review his resume below as well as connect on LinkedIn.

Resume

Profile

  • Skilled IT Consultant: 4 ½ years experience with over 60 clients
  • High technical/computer aptitude: my goal is to be challenged by difficult computing problems
  • Team player: contributing creative & technical solutions to users, managers, executives & technical teams
  • Effective listener and communicator: I get things done for you and your clients

Experience

Solution Engineer – Hubbard One, Chicago, IL – July 2010-Present
Hubbard One is the leading provider of marketing, business development and information technology for law firms. Our solutions empower more then 300 organizations around the globe.

  • Solution Engineer for custom SharePoint Implementations at the world’s top law firms internationally

Consultant – SWC Technology Partners, Oak Brook, IL – November 2008-July 2010
Named 101 Best and Brightest Companies in Chicago, SWC is a provider of IT solutions to midsize businesses – specializing in managed services, infrastructure, virtualization, SharePoint, business intelligence and custom development – Microsoft Certified Gold Partner, Microsoft Central Region Partner of the Year

  • Operated as systems administrator and domain admin for software developers and clients
  • Designed and completed SharePoint farm infrastructure migration and upgrade for three clients
  • Provided regular ongoing Linux system administration tasks on production servers for three clients
  • Designed and implemented SQL replication infrastructure for a high growth environment where scalability was a factor
  • Designed call center hardware and software infrastructure for over 200 seat operation considering return on investment and scalability
  • Conducted database administration and performance assessments including maintenance, error/failure response and performance tuning
  • Saved thousands in infrastructure upgrades by managing and automating virtual machine and SAN usage
  • Prevented expensive upgrade of development SQL server through cleaning up and optimizing current system
  • Identified new opportunities with existing clients procuring thousands in business growth
  • Saved hours of daily labor by automating data uploading and importing processes in Linux using bash scripting
  • Installed a windows and SQL remote node cluster for web applications with high availability requirements

Application Service Engineer – Informance International, Northbrook, IL – April 2007-November 2008
Serving multi-national Fortune 500 manufacturing companies with enterprise manufacturing intelligence and software solutions

  • Led as head engineer multi-site enterprise software implementations across international and domestic locations
  • Coordinated efforts of users, managers, IT personnel and executives during implementations
  • Supported technical application issues remotely and on-site for over 30 domestic and international clients
  • Furthered sales initiatives through on-site scoping and perspective client visits
  • Voiced input that led to significant application improvements and further sales initiatives
  • Formally trained medium to large groups on software use and administration

Engineering Co-op – The Rise Group, Chicago, IL – June 2004-January 2006
Ranked in nation’s Top 40 Program Managers – project management consulting for developers of large scale construction projects including commercial, residential high-rise, industrial, and public projects.

  • Paid full time Engineering internship totaling 1.5 years work experience
  • Developed a centralized intranet repository for company-wide documentation saving duplication of efforts throughout the company
  • Created a database solution for tracking change orders which provided better organization and reporting, and cost savings to the client
  • Performed quality control on a contract that prevented potential legal proceedings
  • Presented cost breakdown in clear, accurate and concise manner which enabled easy recognition of potential future budget problems

Technical Competencies

Applications Systems Networks
  • SQL 2000-2008 R2
  • SharePoint 2003-2010
  • Reporting Services
  • Analysis Services
  • Team Foundation Server
  • Symmantec Backup Exec
  • Strategy Companion Analyzer
  • Windows IPSwitch FTP
  • Shell Scripting for Automation
  • Asterisk/Vicidial for Call Center
  • Windows 2003-2008 R2
  • Linux/Unix Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu
  • Virtualization: VMWare, Hyper-V, Xen
  • Performance Monitor
  • Laptop/Workstation sysprep, imaging
  • Linux Apache MySQL PHP Servers
  • Bash/Batch Scripting Automation, Backups
  • Hardware Spec’ing, Racking, Upgrades
  • Active Directory Upgrades, Management
  • Clustering Windows and SQL
  • SQL Replication
  • Help Desk Support
  • SNMP monitoring NCentral, DUDE
  • Colocation Setup and Management

Education

  • Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois – March 2007
    • Co-operative Education Certificate
    • Ford Dean’s Scholar
    • Concentrations in Nanotechnology and Robotics
    • Designed an original nano-scale optical switch concept and wrote National Science Foundation grant proposal for further study of its commercial viability (report)
    • Statistical MATLAB computer model of ATPase in biological cells for study of protein function (report)
    • Fully autonomous model of a home HVAC system with an original control systems design (report)
    • Additional Information on Projects and Presentations

Other Interests

  • Freelance Web Design, System Administration and SEO work on open source Linux based frameworks primarily WordPress
  • Painting abstract artwork in acrylic and involved in Chicago arts and culture communities