About Me

Matthew J. McKenzie

 

About Me

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Diversified Gas & Oil
Birmingham, Alabama
August 2022 - Present
Manager, Cloud Infrastructure

C Spire Business
Birmingham, Alabama
July 2021 - Present
Implementations Engineer II, M&CS Implementations

  • Office 365 Implementations & Migrations
  • Azure Implementations & Migrations
  • AWS Implementations & Migrations
  • Server Implementations & Migrations

July 2018 - July 2021
Systems Engineer, Professional Services

  • Work with 50+ clients in medical, legal, manufacturing, marketing, financial services, non-profit organizations, and government agencies. 
  • Architect, configure and troubleshoot servers, workstations, routers, firewalls, switches, and access points. 
  • Manage services for active clients, including Active Directory, Group Policy, Exchange, Office 365, Google Workspace, Veeam, Hyper V, VMWare, AWS, and Azure. 
  • Complete projects, including server migrations, and ransomware remediation. 
  • Provide presales, assessments, and documentation. 

TekLinks (acquired by C Spire Business)
Birmingham, Alabama
July 2017 - July 2018 
Systems Engineer, Professional Services 

  • Worked with 50+ clients in banking, legal, manufacturing, marketing, financial services, non-profit organizations, and government agencies. 
  • Deployed, configured and troubleshooted for servers, workstations, routers, firewalls, switches, and access points. 
  • Managed services for active clients, including Active Directory, Group Policy, Exchange, Office 365, Google Workspace, Veeam, Hyper V, VMWare, AWS, and Azure. 
  • Completed projects, including server migrations, and ransomware remediation. 
  • Provided presales, assessments, and documentation. 

CGI 
Birmingham, Alabama
April 2017 - July 2017
Internal Systems Support, Systems Consultant I

  • Served as internal client support to 6 locations with 350+ employees. 
  • Managed inventory for all CTS assets for the acquisition. 
  • Assisted with the reimaging of all CTS equipment to CGI images. 

CTS, Inc. (acquired by CGI)
Birmingham, Alabama 
November 2016 - April 2017 
Internal Systems Support, Systems Consultant I

  • Served as internal client support to 6 locations with 350+ employees. 
  • Supported the following: Skype for Business on Prem, Exchange 2013 / 2016 on Prem, Windows Server 2008 R2 / 2012 R2 / 2016, Active Directory, File & Print, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, Powershell, Hyper V, Carbon Black, Windows Deployment Server, Windows 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10, OS X, CentOS, Trend Micro, Virtual Machine Manager, Fortigate / Fortimanager / Fortianalyzer, Bitlocker & MBAM, Dell SANs, MPLS, Aerohive, Android, and iPhone / iPad. 
  • Provided occasional guidance / support with VMWare, SQL, SharePoint, and AlienVault. 

Birmingham Business Alliance 
Birmingham, Alabama 
July 2009 - November 2016 
Director of Information Technology 

  • Provided support for 40+ internal clients. 
  • Handled management of Server 2003 / 2008 R2 Servers, Windows 7 / 10, OS X, Active Directory, File & Print, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, WatchGuard XTM, Office 365, 2 Hosted Databases, Website Hosting, Wireless APs, and Smart Devices, Hosted Exchange.

Birmingham Regional Chamber of Commerce
(acquired by Birmingham Business Alliance)
Birmingham, Alabama 
May 2005 - July 2009 
Director of Information Technology 

  • Provided support for 40+ internal clients. 

CONSULTANT WORK
McKenzie IT Consulting, LLC, Birmingham, Alabama, 2013 - 2017, Worked with 20+ clients in various industries for Sysops related implementation projects and daily needs. This included servers, workstations, routers, firewalls, switches, access points, Exchange, Office 365, Google Workspace, backups, Hyper V, VMWare, Azure, and AWS.

EDUCATION
Management Information Systems, Virginia College, Birmingham, Alabama, 2007. 

CERTIFICATIONS - A+, NET+, MCP, CNMA, AWS SAA.
https://www.credly.com/users/matt-mckenzie
AWS SAP (currently pursuing)
AZ-104 (currently pursuing)
MS-100 (currently pursuing)
MS-900 (currently pursuing)

CLOUD SERVICES
Microsoft 365 - Exchange, Teams, Teams Voice, Sharepoint, OneDrive, Planner, Tenant Management, Defender for O365, Autopilot, Intune

Microsoft Azure - Azure AD, VMs, KMS, Storage Accounts - Azure Files, Virtual Network, Virtual Network Gateway, Azure Backup, Azure Migrate, Privatelink, Azure Virtual Desktop, Azure Container Instances

Amazon AWS - VPC, EC2, S3, CloudFront, Storage Gateway, Directory Services, Workspaces, WorkDocs, WorkMail, Route53, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Systems Manager, IAM, Certificate Manager.

MISC - JumpCloud, DigitalOcean, Docker

SOFTWARE
Windows Servers & Workstations, VMWARE, Apple OS X, CentOS, Ubuntu, Office 365, Exchange, Veeam, Powershell, Visual Studios Code, Quickbooks, Sage, Bittitan, RapidFire Tools, NMAP. 

SECURITY
Carbon Black, Graylog, Sophos, TrendMicro, Webroot, Kali, The Hive, Windows Defender, Shodan, Greynoise, SecurityTrails.

HARDWARE
Dell, EMC, Cisco, Meraki, Fortinet, WatchGuard, Apple, Ubiquiti, Lenovo, HP, Adtran, Ruckus.

 

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