Daniel J. Eyer has over 10 years of experience in engineering roles, with a background in Virginia and expertise in areas such as commercial, education, and Department of Defense environments. He seeks to expand his mentoring and leadership skills while staying current on emerging technologies to help guide business success. His skills include leadership, motivation, communication, and successfully implementing projects individually or collaboratively.
Experience in many facets of computer operations management that provide comprehensive insights into IT aspects on many levels. I have held technical and leadership roles in multiple IT disciplines covering enterprise computing, systems administration and security operations. This diversity of experiences has enhanced my depth of understanding of enterprise computing and security issues.
Experience in many facets of computer operations management that provide comprehensive insights into IT aspects on many levels. I have held technical and leadership roles in multiple IT disciplines covering enterprise computing, systems administration and security operations. This diversity of experiences has enhanced my depth of understanding of enterprise computing and security issues.
1. To find success is
commonplace; to
strive for it is not.
Daniel J. Eyer
Sr. Systems Engineer
2. Background
• Born and raised in Virginia
– Majority of time and experience in Richmond and the DC
Metro area
– Graduated from Virginia Tech
• 10 years of engineering experience
– Started working regularly with computers in 1995
– Experience in environments such as commercial,
educational and Department of Defense
• Family
– Born the middle child of seven siblings
– Home-schooled
– Currently married to a lovely woman from Vermont and the
proud father of a 16 month old daughter
3. Career Objectives
Short-term:
• Expand mentoring skills into managerial skills
• Drive technological success as a collaborative
team effort
Long-term:
• Stay current on emergent technologies and
trends within Information Technology
• Guide business success by predicting and
staying ahead of the trend
4. Skills
• Leadership
– Set an example for co-workers by consistently refining processes and through
career achievements and advancements
– Mentored co-workers in knowledge transfer and process supervision
• Highly-motivated
– Worked and studied hard to put myself through college
– Through career advancement, always looking to the future
– Administrative Associate of the Year 2008
• Communicator
– Briefed technologies and solutions to different governmental branches
– Experience in technical writing for proposals and documentation
5. Requirements
1. Monitoring and maintaining a clean billboard of
trouble tickets in our management system.
2. Assuring the timely delivery of services.
3. Assuring an ever increasing level of
efficiency, standard operating procedure, and
best practices.
4. Implementing key projects personally or with
other engineers.
6. Results
1. Monitoring and maintaining a clean billboard of
trouble tickets in our management system.
Maintained a low volume of open personal and
departmental tickets, despite staffing
inadequacies, hectic work schedule and
additional project demands.
7. Results
2. Assuring the timely delivery of services.
Worked over weekends, holidays and evenings to
ensure delivery of critical projects ranging from
DST preparation to SCCM hierarchy changes
to cloud migration of business-critical servers.
8. Results
3. Assuring an ever increasing level of efficiency, standard operating
procedure, and best practices.
Through the endless pursuit of perfection, refined backup procedures
to speed up process by 15 hours daily; improved computer
imaging process to save 4 hours each while delivering a custom-
tailored solution that required no further intervention upon
completion; safeguarded company Exchange server from DNS
blacklists while allowing them to perform a single mass-mailing.
9. Results
4. Implementing key projects personally or with other engineers.
Single-handedly deployed SCCM infrastructure to over 6,000 endpoints
at over 50 locations; collaboratively engineered a Server 2008
domain with full business services and migrated 6,000+ users to
it; developed a company intranet based on PHP and HTML;
absorbed three branch locations into corporate network and
deployed file/print servers and network hardware on-site;
developed proof-of-concept for hard drive encryption with fellow
engineers and deployed to all mobile workstations.
10. Results
4. Implementing key projects personally or with other engineers.
Single-handedly deployed SCCM infrastructure to over 6,000 endpoints
at over 50 locations; collaboratively engineered a Server 2008
domain with full business services and migrated 6,000+ users to
it; developed a company intranet based on PHP and HTML;
absorbed three branch locations into corporate network and
deployed file/print servers and network hardware on-site;
developed proof-of-concept for hard drive encryption with fellow
engineers and deployed to all mobile workstations.