Technical Consultant at IP Pathways
Greater Omaha Area
- Current
-
- Technical Consultant at IP Pathways
- Past
-
- Technical Consultant at CSS Staffing
- Private Consultant at TheComputerPros.net
- Senior Systems Consultant at Adecco Technical
- Systems Engineer at Harry and David
- Systems Engineer at Harry and David Operations Corp.
- Systems Engineer at Bear Creek Corporation
- Sr. Systems Engineer at State of Oregon, State Data Center
- Sr. Systems Analyst at State of Oregon, DHS
- Applications Administrator at Hynix Semiconductor Manufacturing America, Inc.
- Information Technology Consultant at University of Oregon
- Recommended
-
5 people have recommended Doug - Connections
-
37
connections
- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
Doug Ferguson’s Summary
Senior level systems architect with over 10 years industry experience.
Doug Ferguson’s Specialties:
Intel based Server virtualization using VMware Infrastructure 3, Active Directory 2003 and 2008 architecture and administration, Microsoft Infrastructure Systems, ISA 2006 implementation in both clustered and stand alone configurations, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 design/implementation.
Doug Ferguson’s Experience
-
Technical Consultant
IP Pathways
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2009 — Present (1 month)
-
Technical Consultant
CSS Staffing
(Partnership; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
April 2009 — November 2009 (8 months)
Working on the Gavilon LLC (formerly Conagra Trade Group) Active Directory/Exchange/application divestiture project as a technical consultant focusing on the Active Directory migration/design phase and application migrations to the new Gavilon domain.
-
Private Consultant
TheComputerPros.net
(Information Technology and Services industry)
May 1998 — November 2009 (11 years 7 months)
Private consultant specializing in web design, web development with PHP/MySQL, Active Directory implementation, directory services, identity management and wireless networking.
-
Senior Systems Consultant
Adecco Technical
(Public Company; ADO; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
November 2008 — December 2008 (2 months)
Work as a Senior Systems Consultant to design, document and implement SCCM 2007 R2 for Ball Corporation in Broomfield, Co. to all of their North America and Canada sites. Developed test and implementation plan for production SCCM 2007 implementation in a large and distributed environment.
-
Systems Engineer
Harry and David
(Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2006 — November 2008 (2 years 1 month)
Primary responsibilities include corporate infrastructure systems such as Active Directory 2003, DNS, WINS, DHCP. Primary lead engineer working on projects like RWD uPerform implementation, SAP Single Sign-On with Active Directory and SAP Help LaunchPad integration with RWD uPerform. Primary lead engineer architecting and implementing VMware Infrastructure 3 for virtualizing Intel based server assets.
-
Systems Engineer
Harry and David Operations Corp.
(Privately Held; Retail industry)
November 2006 — September 2008 (1 year 11 months)
Primary responsibilities include corporate infrastructure systems such as Active Directory 2003, DNS, WINS, DHCP. Primary lead engineer working on projects like RWD uPerform implementation, SAP Single Sign-On with Active Directory and SAP Help LaunchPad integration with RWD uPerform. Primary lead engineer architecting and implementing VMware Infrastructure 3 for virtualizing Intel based server assets.
-
Systems Engineer
Bear Creek Corporation
(Privately Held; Retail industry)
2006 — September 2008 (2 years )
Primary responsibilities include corporate infrastructure systems such as Active Directory 2003, DNS, WINS, DHCP. Primary lead engineer working on projects like RWD uPerform implementation, SAP Single Sign-On with Active Directory and SAP Help LaunchPad integration with RWD uPerform. Primary lead engineer architecting and implementing VMware Infrastructure 3 for virtualizing Intel based server assets.
-
Sr. Systems Engineer
State of Oregon, State Data Center
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2006 — November 2006 (7 months)
Responsible for high-level strategic planning of resource utilization, acquisition planning, and new operating system technologies, disaster planning, and overall systems performance in a mixed environment enterprise. I continually supplied management with status reports on all projects. Recommended improvements in system operations to effectively utilize system resources.
Performed State Data Center and agency analysis and research for large or unprecedented projects and for projects involving new technology into mixed environments. I created implementation plans, which involve multiple vendors, multiple platforms, and require cross State Data Center technical discipline cooperation. I determined the final choice of vendors. -
Sr. Systems Analyst
State of Oregon, DHS
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2005 — May 2006 (6 months)
Lead systems analyst (project coordinator) for projects and/or system coordinator for large existing systems. Worked closely with the customer to determine and oversee system requirements, and perform or coordinate detail system design.
Lead system architect that built the Department of Human Services BlackBerry Enterprise Server environment, which is planned to service 2000 BlackBerry users.
Provided high level system support (Tier 3) for application servers, database servers and directory servers. Lead system engineer that architected the patch management servers and anti-virus servers for the Department of Human Services; a 10,000 user organization. -
Applications Administrator
Hynix Semiconductor Manufacturing America, Inc.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2005 — December 2005 (11 months)
Primary responsibility for management of a multiple tree Server 2003 Active Directory environment with over 1400 users. Direct responsibility for SMS 2003 administration. I was routinely called on to solve complex system problems involving multiple client/server applications and Active Directory integration.
-
Information Technology Consultant
University of Oregon
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
December 2002 — April 2005 (2 years 5 months)
Maintain the Registrar, Admissions and Financial Aid offices and their user base of over 100 staff.
Routinely asked to consult with department heads/managers on system related issues. Helped increase department productivity through web-based services like Exchange Server and Intranet sites. Handle all day-to-day user issues and management of the entire Windows Active Directory domain network.
Routinely worked unsupervised and under deadlines to accomplish systems upgrades and/or implementations.
Manage and administer a Windows NT4.0/.NET server pool. Setup and managed DFS, Microsoft DNS, Microsoft DHCP, IIS 5/6, SQL Server 7/2000, printing services, SUS setup and administration, Symantec AV Server setup and administration, Windows Server 2003 Active Directory domain administrator.
Additional Information
Doug Ferguson’s Groups:
-
Microsoft System Center Administrators -
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager
Doug Ferguson’s Honors:
A+, I-Net+, CIW, Certified Virtualization Expert (CVE)
Doug Ferguson’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- career opportunities
- consulting offers
- job inquiries
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
