Friday, August 23, 2024

Professional Experience

School Construction Authority:

Lead engineer responsible for surveying, installation, configuration, and testing of all network equipment, devices, and peripherals

Wireless Initiatives:

Worked on the design, configuration and integration in multiple schools of Cisco Access Points and switches

Resolution A:

Assists schools in purchasing equipment, creating Bill of Materials and integration and training of Apple servers and labs including Apple Remote Desktop

Elizabeth Public School District:

Led a 1:1 iPad rollout of 1,500 devices for Elizabeth High School and another 500 for shared use across the rest of the district

Apple:

As part of the Apple Professional Services project John has a unique roll of supporting new and existing Apple servers in all 5 boroughs for The New York City Department of Education both remotely and on-site visits

Certifications

Apple Product Professional
Apple Certified Support Professional
Apple Certified Associate Mac Integration
Jamf Certified Associate
Certified Wireless Specialist
Certified Wireless Technician
Microsoft 365 Fundamentals
Microsoft Azure AD Fundamentals
Certified DayLite Partner
Mosyle ACN Certified Admin

Professional Associations

Apple Consultants Network

Education

State University at Farmingdale of New York, 1992-1994
Career Blazers Institute, 2000-2001
Friday, August 23, 2024

Highlighted Projects

MetLife/CIGNA/Pall Corp/Henry Schein: Successful deployment and training with ongoing support for iPad/iPhone Mobility solutions, focusing specifically on Mobile Device Management (MDM), Executive training, and ongoing support to executives. Development tasks include business logic, integration points, and data migration, usage, support and management.
The Conference Board: Responsible for iPad configuration, training and support for the Michelin Tour of Innovation.
Jerome Stevens Pharmaceuticals, Hoffman Grayson Architects, LLP., Rush Communication, Bohlsen Restuarant Group, Green Island Distributors, The Jewish Week, Kidro Productions: Serve as outsourced IT for ongoing support and maintenance of all technology systems including specification and acquisition of new technologies, infrastructure design, deployment, life cycle management, managing and support of end user computer systems, email systems, server systems, FTP, and iOS devices.
NYMCU and Stanton Carpet: iPad/iOS 10 training, tips and tricks.
Ameriprise client seminar: iOS 12 tips and Tricks.

Certifications

Apple Certified Mobile Technical Coordinator
Apple Certified Associate Mac Integration
Apple Certified Technical Coordinator
Support Professional 10.11 - 10.14
Certified Casper Technician
Jamf Certified Tech
Mosyle ACN Certified Admin

Course Development

HCS Client desktop training Series: Introduction to Microsoft Outlook 2011
HCS Client desktop training Series: Introduction to Microsoft Outlook 2016 for Mac
HCS Client desktop training Series: Introduction to Leopard OS 10.5
HCS Client desktop training Series: Introduction to Snow Leopard OS 10.6
HCS Client desktop training Series: Introduction to Lion Mac OS X 10.7
HCS Client desktop training Series: Introduction to Moutain Lion Mac OS X 10.8
HCS Client desktop training Series: Introduction to Mavericks Mac OS X 10.9
HCS Client desktop training Series: Introduction to Yosemite Mac OS X 10.10
HCS Client desktop training Series: Introduction to El Capitan macOS 10.11
HCS Guides for Executive training: AirWatch enrollment guide
Introduction to iOS version 4 through 12
Upgrading to iOS version 5 through 12

Professional Associations

Apple Consultants Network

Education

State University of NY at Stony Brook - Bachelor of Arts, Stony Brook, NY 1976—1980
Friday, August 23, 2024

Highlighted Projects

Sesame Street: Trained the creative department on Adobe CS 5 Applications including Indesign, Photoshop and Illustrator
ROD Management: Created a central depository of Media (Photos and Video) that can be accessed from other locations
Henry Schein, Inc: Initially Installed Font Reserve Server and upgrade to Universal Type Server version 1 through 4, while retaining user sets and user information. Taught End Users on Markzware’s FlightCheck. Setup QLA primary and backup servers for both Mac and Windows platforms
Rosie Theater Kids: Installed and configured backup solution for end-user machines and OS X server on a daily basis
Rush Communications: Moved all users from Mozilla mail client to Microsoft Entourage. Setup email accounts on mobile devices such as BlackBerries and iPhones. Setup new networks on different floors of building for the different divisions of Rush Communications. Migrated mailboxes for the many divisions from one service to another
Travel Impressions: Helped set up and organized fonts on their Universal Type Server and taught Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign and Acrobat workflow
MetLife: Developed, wrote, designed and produced guides on how to use an iPad (iOS 4 to iOS10)
LiveIntent: Setup and developed an ongoing IT department. Setup DEP, VPP, and MDM to manage the devices of end-users
Electrical Inspectors, Inc.: Setup DEP, VPP and MDM to manage the Mobile devices for field engineers

Professional Experience

Graphics Designs Applications

Fonts

Graphic Production

Backup

Certifications

Apple Certified Technical Coordinator
Apple Certified Support Professional
Apple Certified Associate Mac Integration
Apple Certified Associate Mac Management
Jamf Certified Casper Technician
Jamf Certified Tech
Jamf Certified Admin
Retrospect Certified
Certified Wireless Specialist
Certified Wireless Technician

Course Development

Getting Started on Mac OS X (from version 10.1 to 10.9 and 10.11-10.14)
Outlook for iOS - iPhone Edition
Guide to Outlook 2016
macOS Sierra: A Guide to Your System Preferences
macOS High Sierra: A Guide to Your System Preferences
macOS Mojave: A Guide to Your System Preferences
Introduction to DeployStudio
Customizing FlightCheck
What’s New In QuarkXpress 8
What’s new in Adobe CS 5 (Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign)
What’s New In Adobe CS 4 (Photoshop and Illustrator)

Professional Associations

Apple Consultants Network

Education

State University of NY at Farmingdale

New York

80 Orville Drive, Suite 100

Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Monday, August 5, 2024

Highlighted Projects

Henry Schein: Successfully developed and deployed the Xsan solution for the Video Production Team at Henry Schein. This solution that was designed from the ground up and included everything from Equipment procurement, Fibre / Cat 6 Installation, Backup, and Deployment of the Xsan workstations and Servers.
MetLife: Successfully deployed an iPad MDM solution for MetLife. This project included everything from iPad Procurement, Product Registration, Configuration, MDM Solution, Inventory Documentation, Deployment, and Support.
Manhattan Neighborhood Network Successfully migrated from mac servers to a Windows 2016 server solution integrated with Apple Enterprise connect, Apple Business Manager, and Jamf Pro. This will allow Manhattan Neighborhood Network to fully manage all of their apple devices and move forward with current supportable technologies.

Certifications

Apple Certified Support Professional
Apple Certified IT Professional
Apple Enterprise Connect Integrator
Apple Xsan2 Administrator
Jamf Certified Associate - Jamf Pro
Jamf Certified Tech - Jamf Pro
Jamf Certified Admin - Jamf Pro
Jamf Certified Expert - Jamf Pro
Certified Wireless Specialist
Certified Wireless Technology Specialist
Certified Wireless Technician

Course Development

Technical Editor: CompTIA Mac OS X Deployment: Lion OS X 302 10.7 course guides
Technical Editor: CompTIA Mac OS X Deployment: Mountain Lion OS X 302 10.8 course guides
Technical Editor: Managing Apple Devices: Deploying and Maintaining iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks Devices
Technical Editor: Managing Apple Devices: Deploying and Maintaining iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite Devices
Technical Editor: Apple Mobile Technical Competency course guide for 2013
Author of Imaging, Deployment, and Lifecycle Management Class for OS X Mavericks 10.9 and OS X Yosemite 10.10
Peachpit Learn By Video Series: Imaging on OS X
Peachpit Learn By Video Series: Lifecycle Management for OS X

Professional Associations

Apple Consultants Network
Apple Professional Services
Jamf Integrator
Monday, August 5, 2024

Professional Experience

MetLife/CIGNA/Bloomberg/WWE

Successfully developed and deployed Apple as a choice, focusing specifically on Mobile Device Management (MDM), Identity Management (SSO), and Security compliance.

Aetna

Responsible for piloting a large-scale Apple Mac Enterprise Deployment. This included security, compliancy, provisioning, quality assurance testing, life cycle management and high-level technical training.

Apple

Apple Profession Training – Instructional Design, Certified Master Trainer to mentor/coach potential candidate instructors. Craig is part of Apple Professional Services (APS), which allows the HCS team to work on behalf of Apple, Inc.

Certifications

Apple Mentor Trainer
Apple Certified Support Professional
Apple Certified IT Professional
Jamf Educator
Jamf Certified Tech - Jamf School
Jamf Certified Associate - Jamf Pro
Jamf Certified Tech - Jamf Pro
Jamf Certified Admin - Jamf Pro
Jamf Certified Expert - Jamf Pro
Jamf Certified Associate - Jamf Protect
Jamf Certified Admin - Jamf Protect
Jamf Security Consultant
Jamf Management Consultant
Jamf Management Engineer
Jamf Management Integrator
Mosyle Certified Admin
Certified Wireless Specialist
Certified Wireless Technician

Course Development

CompTIA: Mobility+ Subject Matter Expert
Apple Device Support
Apple Deployment and Management
Technical Editor: Managing Apple Devices

Speaking Engagements

Session Presenter: MacTech
Session Presenter: ACEs
Session Presenter: MacIT
Session Presenter: MacWorld

Professional Associations

Apple Consultants Network
Jamf Integrator
Filemaker Business Alliance

Education

State University of NY at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY 1988 – 1993

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