Bill Sims

Current

• Network Administrator at Associated Hygienic Products

Past

• Thunder Field Engineer at PolyVision
• EMT-Intermediate at Pro Care EMS
• Associate Pastor of Business Administration and IT Manager at Sugarloaf Community Church

• Windows / Messaging Team Lead at Lucent Technologies
• Computer Technician at Gwinnett County Public Schools

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Education

• Luther Rice University
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• Gainesville College

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Bill Sims’s Summary

Systems engineer with a wide variety of hardware, software, infrastructure, and networking experience. Specializing in systems/infrastructure design, implementation, and subsequent support. Always learning and embrace opportunities to implement new technologies successfully.

Bill Sims’s Experience

• Network Administrator

  Associated Hygienic Products

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Consumer Goods industry)

  March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)

• Thunder Field Engineer

  PolyVision

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 2007 — February 2008 (5 months)

  Support complete product line of interactive collaboration technologies.
  
  Tasked with becoming SME (Subject Matter Expert) on the Thunder platform, a highly technical, integrated system which allows international team collaboration. Assist users with integrating this system into their environment.

• EMT-Intermediate

  Pro Care EMS

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  June 2007 — August 2007 (3 months)

  Respond to emergency and non-emergency calls and perform duties of and EMT-Intermediate.

• Associate Pastor of Business Administration and IT Manager

  Sugarloaf Community Church

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Religious Institutions industry)

  October 2002 — January 2007 (4 years 4 months)

  Design, upgrade, support, and management of all computer systems for a church of 900, including server and client side.
  
  IT infrastructure plan not in place when hired, therefore designed and implemented comprehensive technology infrastructure plan. This included Windows 2003 Server, Exchange 2003, wireless, reliable internet connectivity (business DSL, later T1), switched environment, Websense content filtering, disaster recovery, refresh desktops, deploy laptops and handheld devices, printing, etc.
  
  Additional Roles: Missions & Prayer Pastor, Manage office staff and business office

• Windows / Messaging Team Lead

  Lucent Technologies

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; LU; Telecommunications industry)

  June 1996 — October 2002 (6 years 5 months)

  Led team of 6-8 system engineers. Responsible for design, implementation, and on-going support of Windows NT/2000, Exchange e-mail, SMS infrastructure consisting of 80+ servers and approximately 3300 users in a global 24x7x365 telecommunications corporation.
  
  Completed a project which required roll-out of a new corporate infrastructure for OFS due to the business unit being sold by Lucent Technologies. Our team implemented a complete global NT/Exchange/SMS infrastructure in less than 6 months, on time and under budget.
  
  Other duties include: Capital and expense budgeting, service contract management, hardware and software procurement, licensing, security audit and policies, process and design documentation, site NT architecture, operational procedures.
  Previous roles: Norcross factory NT Architecture/Administration, Computer Integrated Manufacturing Team Lead

• Computer Technician

  Gwinnett County Public Schools

  (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Education Management industry)

  December 1993 — June 1996 (2 years 7 months)

  Responsible for installation, configuration, maintenance, and support of various computer systems’ hardware, software, and networking within Gwinnett County School System.
  
  Performed both hardware and software troubleshooting and repair on all computer related equipment within assigned clusters.

Bill Sims’s Education

• Luther Rice University

  Master of Arts , Ministry , 2001 — 2007

  Still pursuing this degree, only 6 classes remaining.

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  Bachelor of Science , Computer Science , 1987 — 1992

• Gainesville College

  Associate of Science , Computer Science , 1989 — 1990

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