Tara W.

Principal Information Security Engineer at Columbia Sportswear Company

Portland, OR, United States

Details

Education: Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

Communications, Journalism

University of Northern Colorado

1992 : 1996

Bachelor of Arts

Communication Sciences; Human Communications

University of Northern Colorado

Experience: 2022 : Present

Columbia Sportswear Company

Principal Information Security Engineer

2021 :

Columbia Sportswear Company

Sr. Information Security Engineer

2017 : 2021

Columbia Sportswear Company

Information Security Analyst

2015 : 2017

Columbia Sportswear

Storage Engineer

2011 : 2015

TriQuint Semiconductor

Systems Administrator

Company: Columbia Sportswear Company

Years of Experience: 24

Skills Active Directory, Cloud Security, CommVault, Data Security, Desktop Support, Enterprise Storage, Group Policy Administration, Information Security, Information Security Management, IT Risk Management, LANDesk, Leadership, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Office 365, NetApp, Network Security, Powershell, System Administration, VMWare, VMware ESX, Windows server 2008 R2, Group Policy

About Work as part of a small team of system administrators responsible for managing a global environment with over 700 physical and virtual servers spread across 21 sites.

• Administration and maintenance of hybrid-configuration of on-premise Exchange 2010 and Office 365 Exchange Online

--- Core technical team member responsible for migration of 3600 mailboxes from Exchange 2003 on-premise to Office 365 – Exchange 2010 Online

--- Completion of mailbox migration within 13 weeks with minimal interruption to end user mail services

• Manage virtual and physical server data protection using CommVault Simpana v10 at ten locations globally

--- Upgraded enterprise backup servers from v9 to v10 with zero data loss or interruption to data protection services

--- Utilizing innovative data protection architecture which laid groundwork for CommVault’s best practices for large enterprise environments

• Troubleshooting, administration and support of VMWare ESXi 4.1 and 5.1 in an HA environment; including storage provisioning using both EMC and NetApp SANs, and virtual machine builds of Windows and Linux guest operating systems

Technologies

Office365: Exchange 2010 and 2013 Online, Lync 2013 Online, Sharepoint 2013 Online

VMWare ESXi 4.1, 5.1

CommVault Simpana v9, v10

NetApp, EMC SANs

Exchange 2010

ADFS, Dirsync, Active Directory, Group Policy Administration

LanDesk Mangement Suite

Solarwinds NPM

F5 ARX

Certifications:

MCITP, MCTS Microsoft Windows 7

CommVault Certified: Administrator, Engineer, and Support