Available now · Houston, TX

Adam
Rayburn

Senior IT Support · White-glove service · ITIL

26 years of front-line and back-end IT, mostly where downtime costs real money: energy trading floors, investment banks, a SpaceX production floor and 42 car dealerships. Hands-on engineer, team lead and field IT manager.

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Uptime26 years (since 2000)

Employers13

Peak load2,200 users · 42 sites

Trade floorsBP · Vitol · Mercuria · Jefferies · SMH

CertsITIL v3 · CCNA · MCSE · CommVault

LocationHouston, TX

LinkedInin/adam-rayburn

Status● available

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What I'm known for

BP · Vitol · Mercuria · Jefferies

Trade floor support

Fast, calm support for traders: Bloomberg, ICE, CQG, Eikon, TT, Excel add-ins, IPC and Cloud9 turrets, and market data entitlements.

Kent · Mercuria · Jefferies

Endpoint management

Windows 10 and 11 migrations and hardware refreshes with SCCM, Intune and Autopilot. Mac fleets with Jamf and Apple Business Manager.

SMH · Pointsmith · Afren

Systems & identity

Active Directory and Entra hybrid, Exchange, Microsoft 365, Citrix and VDI, servers, storage, backups and firewalls.

Sonic Automotive · IFCO

Field IT leadership

Managed MSP technicians across 42 locations. ITIL incident, problem and change management, KPIs and escalations.

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Career, 2000 to today

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    Toolkit

    Endpoint & OS

    Windows 11/10, Windows Server 2012–2019, macOS, Ubuntu, SCCM, Intune, Autopilot, Jamf, BitLocker, GPO

    Identity & cloud

    Active Directory, Entra ID, Microsoft 365, Exchange hybrid, Azure, AWS, Google Workspace, MFA, Yubikey

    Virtual & remote

    Citrix Apps & Desktops, Horizon VDI, Windows 365 / AVD, VMware ESX, Hyper-V, GlobalProtect, Checkpoint VPN

    Trading & market data

    Bloomberg, ICE, CQG, Reuters / Eikon, CME Group, TT, Endur, IPC and Cloud9 turrets, Excel add-ins

    Network & security

    Cisco, Palo Alto, Versa SASE, SD-WAN, Checkpoint, ForeScout, CrowdStrike, Mimecast, certificates

    Mobile

    Intune, AirWatch, MobileIron, Apple DEP / ABM, iOS, Android

    Voice & AV

    Teams Voice & Rooms, Logitech MTR, Avaya, Cisco VoIP, Crestron, Polycom, Zoom, Webex, IPTV

    Service management

    ITIL, ServiceNow, Remedy, Jira, FreshService, Zendesk, Confluence, PowerShell

    Engineering & plant

    AutoCAD, Bentley, Hexagon, Aveva, Ansys, ProjectWise, PLCs, Fuji PCB lines, Zebra

    ✓ITIL v3 Foundation✓Cisco CCNA✓Microsoft MCSE 2003✓CommVault Administrator I
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    Let's talk

    Open to full-time IT support, desktop engineering and IT manager roles in Houston. I also take on small business clients through New Order Systems.

    adam@adamrayburn.com 832-496-3608