981 Sunlite Drive

Santa Clara, CA 95050
(408) 690-3645
kevinharalson@ddct.org

Solutions oriented IT professional with a proven track record of building successful systems and teams, and creating an environment of excellence.

I strategically leverage every opportunity to reach the highest company goals, by optimizing all resources, relationships and assets available.

I have excellent communication skills geared for top management, teams, clients, and other collaborative groups.

My desire is to build on successful situations and teams, create winning solutions that help my employer achieve their goals.

TeamLogic IT Santa Clara (TLIT), Dec 2008 – Current

Senior Managing Consultant

My true value is listening and finding clients/prospects network and operational issues, and then help build solutions for their current infrastructure/business needs. Using strategic alliances and partnerships to plan, sell, install, and implement cost effective solutions.

Abundant Life Christian Fellowship (ALCF), April 2005 – September 2008

IT Director

Responsible for all technological aspects within ALCF ($10 million/year non-profit organization). Planned, implemented, and managed 3 infrastructure rebuilds within as many years. Implemented a hybrid HelpDesk/Tech support, which utilized users, IT staff, consultants, vendors and other resources. Brought a number of ineffective (hosted) systems in-house to reduce cost, increase speed, and maintain control of resources. Established security policies and procedures for internal and external network (IDS, ASA, NAC). Planned, implemented, and managed disaster recovery and backup recovery system. Managed 70 vendors.

Employee Benefits Specialists (EBS), October 2004 – April 2005

IT Manager/System Administrator

Responsible for the day to day operational of all networked systems, internal and co-located. Coordinated implementation, installations and upgrades of systems, including new purchases, and technical support. Maintained and updated all security measures for HIPPA compliance.

Persistence Software Inc, September 1999 – April 2001/January 2002 – July 2003/August 2004 – January 2005

System Administrator

Provided Technical Support/System Administration which included: creating/deleting user accounts (Unix and Windows), trouble shooting problems (individual/systemic), installing MS and unix s/w and applications, upgrading o/s with latest patches, backing up servers, managing LDAP, installing h/w on servers (memory, hd, motherboards, scsi controllers, ext hd), setup VPN. Shell scripting. Backup Administrator, setup of environment and backup policies, troubleshooting, and setup and document Disaster Recovery procedures.

Netscape Communications, Mountain View, April 1996 – July 1999

Technical Support Engineer/System Administrator

Coordinate resources between I.S. and Facilities for all project moves, technician for all computer and network considerations, while managing and balancing resources to ensure least amount of downtime. Developed move procedures that would result in successful moves (creation of shutdown scripts (VI), and trouble shooting startup problems), and put in place policies that ensure the continuance of these procedures.