Corporate Recruiter (TopLinked.com, MyLink500.com, LION)
Greater Chicago Area
Corporate Recruiter (TopLinked.com, MyLink500.com, LION)
Greater Chicago Area
Brian is a Senior Technical Recruiter with over 9 years of recruitment and sourcing experience. He originally started as an IT consultant and uses this background to find specific technology matches for his clients. This also allows him time to focus on the proper cultural match for both the candidate and the client.
My area of focus includes Professional and Managed Solutions related to IT networking, system engineers, virtualization, project managers, business analysts, and PC/LAN in the Chicagoland Region.
(Computer Hardware industry)
April 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)
John Drake & Associates is an IT Services consultancy focused on delivering solutions aligned to your business strategy. Understanding your business includes identifying YOUR challenges, opportunities and risks to architect secure, high availability scalable solutions tailored to your unique business requirements. We understand the importance of consistently increasing the level of services you deliver to your customers. That is why two key principles: Decrease Support Costs and Increase Customer Value are high priority in every JDA solution.
Examples of areas JDA’s consultants can support either in a Consulting or Project based engagement are as follows:
• IT Environment/Network Assessments
• High Availability/Business Continuity Solutions
• Storage Management Assessments, Strategy and Integration
• Network Operating System Planning, Implementation and Migration
• Messaging Architecture Design, Administration and Migration
• Server-based / Thin Client Computing Solutions using VMware View and Terminal Server Technologies
• Remote Access Solution Design and Implementation
• Workstation Upgrade and Rollout Methodologies/Imaging/Standardization
• Project Management
• RFP Development and RFP Process Management
• Security Services Including:
° Enterprise Policies and Strategies
° Secure Point Solutions (firewalls, hardened routers, servers, anti-virus strategies)
° Risk Assessments and Mitigation (to include external controls assessments, i.e., “Penetration Tests”)
° Intrusion Detection Solutions (IDS)
° Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions
Our Managed Services are hosted in our Tier III, wholly redundant, state of the art data center. All systems are monitored and managed 24x7. We leverage the most current tools and automation to ensure our managed services are consistent, predictable and repeatable on behalf of our clients.
recruitment, networking