ryan slimmon

* Accomplishment most proud of: Started a monthly learning session with the business. I found topics that where of interest to the company found speakers and had a presentation and Q&A time. This was well received and I got a good job letter from the CEO. I am also the only person within the IT department to receive the highest possible rating on performance review in the company 21 year history. These monthly sessions are still being done. * SCCM 2012 * SharePoint upgrade * Exchange 2010 roll out project Technical lead- Exchange 2003 to exchange 2010 migration across domains. * Exchange 2010 Administrator * Exchange on line protection roll out project and daily support admin. * Monthly outage lead * Cognos Technical lead * TIPS Infrastructure project technical lead * Day to day server operation of Altagas corp and field sites * Macfee deployment Project manager * Network operations support * Remote network management * Active Directory Admin * Mcafee Admin * F5 Admin * UCS setup and admin

* Accomplishment most proud of: Started a company from nothing to fulltime employment of 3 people. I never lost a customer. * Knowledge works is a small but very well connected Networking infrastructure company. We specialize in MS Servers, Unix\Linux servers, Novel servers. As well as all internal networking. * We do sales and support for: * VPN * VM’s * Servers * Routers * Switches * Desktops\laptops * Blade Centers * We are locally owned and operated. * With the help of our partners we can offer complete turnkey solutions. * Owner and operator of Knowledge works Computing. * At height employee count was 5 * We contracted to many different companies all over the world. * Personally I have worked in * South Africa * South East Asia * New Zealand * England * Begum * Bermuda * Some of our clients were * Suncor * IBM * Tim Horton’s * American Apparel * As well as smaller companies in and around Calgary * We provided * IT project management * Desktop support * Server support * Cloud services including desktops, Servers, storage space, Email

* Accomplishment most proud of: Successfully manage 8 simultaneous projects, 3 very complex projects. Largest size 18 IT Largest budget 2M I am responsible for IT related Projects USA Power plant acquisition and integration CommVault upgrade Desktop Refresh SCCM 2012 AD Consolidation and upgrade SharePoint 2013 upgrade Duties on these projects included * RFP process * Vendor recommendation * Creation and maintaining Gantt chart: MS project * Collecting requirements * Creating all project artefacts: Weekly status reports, Change documents (ITIL), decision documents, WBS, Charter, lessons learned, etc. * Decision on how to deliver the project setting of milestones * Schedule enforcement * Resource management both vendor and staff * Vendor on boarding * Negotiation of staff resource to project with management * Procurement of goods and services * Project meetings\ team communications * Steering committee meetings * Budget tracking * Help create and mentor staff creating architect documents: MS Visio * Conflict resolution * Quality management

Mount Royal University is a Global Registered Education Provider of the Project Management Institute (PMI)®. Mount Royal is a four-time winner of the PMI®-SAC Professional Development Provider in Project Management, an award which acknowledges exceptional skills in the delivery and implementation of a professional development program in project management.