Terrell (Terry) Pickett
[email protected] I 713-409-3359 I HTTPS://www.linkedin.com/in/terry-pickett-53b6281
Senior Professional Solution Architect
Multi-talented IT professional in all aspects of the IT Community:
SharePoint Administrator VMWare Trained (to ver. 5.5)
Citrix Administrator (to XenApp 6.5) VMWare Cloud Technology Trained
Crystal Reports Administrator Cisco UCS Trained
Active Directory Administrator Employee Training, Development & Leadership
HL-7 Knowledgeable Linux Trained
SQL Server Trained HP Blade Server Trained
professional experience
Computer Sciences Corporation 2000–Present
Assigned to MD Anderson Cancer Center (Clinical Applications), Houston, TX 2015–Present
Texaco Inc. 1981–2000
Assigned to Equiva Services (Texaco, Shell, Aramco Joint Venture),Houston, TX 1998–2000
education / certificates
Bachelor of Science, 1981 • Texas A&M University , College Station, Texas
Certifications
technology skills
[email protected] I 713-409-3359 I HTTPS://www.linkedin.com/in/terry-pickett-53b6281
Senior Professional Solution Architect
Multi-talented IT professional in all aspects of the IT Community:
SharePoint Administrator VMWare Trained (to ver. 5.5)
Citrix Administrator (to XenApp 6.5) VMWare Cloud Technology Trained
Crystal Reports Administrator Cisco UCS Trained
Active Directory Administrator Employee Training, Development & Leadership
HL-7 Knowledgeable Linux Trained
SQL Server Trained HP Blade Server Trained
professional experience
Computer Sciences Corporation 2000–Present
Assigned to MD Anderson Cancer Center (Clinical Applications), Houston, TX 2015–Present
- Multiple Awesome Job Awards
- Maintained multiple health related applications, working in a Hospital environment
- As wells as still assigned to BHP Petroleum, I was assigned to Newmont Mining, BHP Diamonds, BHP Coal, Huntington/ Ingalls , ACCO Brands, VF Corp, National Grid doing various project
- Project Planner
- Installed Active Directory System
- Installed VMWare Server Farm (5.5)
- Install Citrix Servers into VMWare
- Got Oracle servers working in a VMWare farm
- Linux Administrator
- Citrix Administrator
- Installed Cisco UCS
- Capacity Manager
- Installed VMWare Server Farm
- NES Manager where I hired Network Technician
- Network Architect
- DNS / WINS Server Architect
- Citrix Administrator
- Capacity Manager
- Acquired HP Blade knowledge
Texaco Inc. 1981–2000
Assigned to Equiva Services (Texaco, Shell, Aramco Joint Venture),Houston, TX 1998–2000
- Project Manager for IT Services (obtained PMI Certificate)
- Project including Outsourcing IT Services for joint venture which transferred me to CSC.
- IT Manager for Site (flying between Lagos, Nigeria & Warri, Nigeria
- Created a Citrix Project for Accounting / Warehousing Project
- IT Supervisor for Site
- Created a voice/data network to connect AGIP(Rome,IT)/Chevron(San Ramon,CA) ,Texaco (Houston,TX) to Hong Kong and China (Shekou) for the shareholders.
- Sent to Amoseas(Texaco, Chevron Joint Venture), Jakarta, Indonesia for a 5 months project
- Work Various Projects as a Network Engineer.
education / certificates
Bachelor of Science, 1981 • Texas A&M University , College Station, Texas
Certifications
- VMWare VCP 5 Certificate
- Project Manager Certificate (CPM)
- NERC Certified
technology skills
- I have a strong level of proficiency with Internet, Email, and Microsoft programs
- Proven troubleshooting skills
- Strong communication and reporting skills
- Good knowledge of ITIL Capacity and Availability Management processes
- More than 4 years of experience in Capacity/Availability Management
- Strong knowledge of network system solutions, performance monitoring, and designs
- Strong understanding of capacity and availability management of large scale Windows server landscapes, their architecture, designs, integrations, local, and data center networks
- I keep up to date on knowledge of emerging technologies.
- Experience in budgets and forecasting of capacity needs
- Experience in working in a multinational environment
- Good background in delivering via process flow using such tools as Visio and PowerPoint
- VMware Cloud Technology Trained
- VMware (VCP 5 ) Certified
- Solid Citrix Administrator responsible for deploying the Citrix Infrastructure up to and including Citrix XenApp 6.5
- Design and Administered Windows Systems including Windows 2012
- Red Hat 5 trained
- ITIL Process Trained using Changed Management tools from BMC Remedy and ServiceNOW
- Use of Project Management Tools
- Manager Print Services
- Maintain Windows Server Patches using Shavlik (now Landesk bought from VMWare) and using Microsoft WSUS
- Subject Matter Expert in HP Flex 10 and Blade technologies
- Cisco UCS Trained
- Experience with Cisco Nexus 1000 (VMware)
- Active Directory and DNS
- Skilled in Sql Server 2012 using Sql Server Management Studio
- Skilled in Crystal Reports
- Skilled using Allscripts Bed Management System
- Administrator for Televox Application
- Administrator for 3M CodeRyte System
- Administrator for Echo Credentialing System.
- Administrator for Vocera Communication System
- Administrator for Forms Anywhere
- Administrator for Auditlogix.
- Power shell Scripting including VMware Power CLI
- Project Management including using Microsoft Project
- Installed FreePBX (IP based phone system) from ground-up for a school (outside project)