Eric Shotwell

St. Paul, Minnesota

eric@ericshotwell.com

Veteran IT professional with 10 years of experience across a spectrum of mission critical roles. Expertise in Windows OS, Cybersecurity, Office, Networking, Ticketing, and Hardware, with a track record of excelling in both remote and in-person support to empower professionals to do their best work.

Professional Experience

FlightPath IT (2023)

IT Engineer

  • Served as an IT Engineer for an IT MSP, serving medical offices and other institutions
  • Providing SaaS (Software as a Service) and CyberSecurity monitoring
  • Primarily using Remote Measuring and Monitoring (RMM) software
  • Heavy use of Kaseya/Datto RMM, Data Loss Prevention
  • Endpoint monitoring, AutoTask, SharePoint
  • Reference from manager available

Revation / LinkLive (2021 – 2022)

Solutions Specialist (2021) / IT Support Engineer (2022)

  • Provide IT support for VoIP / CCaaS company
  • Delivered services and supporting bespoke in-house software
  • Heavy focus on Atlassian JIRA for support requests, leveraging Confluence for work resources
  • Provided support to Medical (HITRUST) and banking/finserv professionals to empower them for success
  • Supported VOIP, PSTN, and POTS technology, troubleshooting urgent issues to unblock key business initiatives
  • Liaised between clients and software engineers to ensure projects delivered on time & under budget
  • Supported desktop, laptop, tablet, and mobile device support, on-call as needed to ensure stakeholder success
  • Ensuring appropriate Cybersecurity guidelines are met and maintained
  • Experience with coding: HTML, CSS, XML, JSON files

CHIPS Computer Technology (2021)

Design Desk

  • Managing flow for a Zero-Trust IT Security (Cybersecurity) company
  • Reported directly to vCIO, offloading work from their plate by breaking client requests down into actionable items
  • Managed workflow of 15 techs, coordinating work allocation based on availability and skillsets
  • Leveraged ServiceNow and Atlassian JIRA, liaised with technicians, clients, and upper management as needed

Reality Interactive (2020)

Technical Support Rep

  • Provided IT-related support for a wide range of companies, from startups to Fortune 500 multinationals
  • Monitored and ensured the functionality of mission critical IT issues in clients' businesses
  • Managed OS upgrades, maintenance, user acceptance testing, and troubleshooting
  • Leveraged Office 365 suite, InfoSec, Networks, PuTTY, Command Line, PowerShell, ServiceNow, Atlassian JIRA
  • Ensuring appropriate Cybersecurity guidelines are met and maintained
  • Experience with coding: HTML, CSS, XML, JSON files

Miles Technology (2019 - 2020)

Information Technology Consultant

  • On-call / As-needed technology consultant / support
  • Tasks are gathered by Miles Technology from other companies and/or individuals, and posted for any of the IT Consultants to take as desired
  • Experience with coding: HTML, CSS, XML, JSON files, SQL and R database management and searching, C, C++

Best Buy, Meriden, CT & Hadley, MA (2009 - 2014)

Various positions across multiple stores

  • Geek Squad (electronics technical support and repair)
  • Financial Solutions
  • Customer Service
  • Computer Sales
  • Level 1 and 2 support of customer devices
  • Desktop and laptop sales and support
  • Extensive experience with all aspects of Office 365, including heavy experience with Excel
  • Extensive experience with upgrades of all Windows operating systems
  • Ensuring appropriate Cybersecurity guidelines are met and maintained
  • Experience with coding: HTML, CSS, XML, JSON files, SQL and R database management and searching, C, C++

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Teaching Licenses:

Education

Springfield College, Springfield, MA

Master of Education - 2009

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, MA

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics – 2007

Skills and Areas of Expertise:

Security, Networks, System Administration, Endpoint Management, VPNs, Virtualization, VoIP, LAN/WAN, Ticketing (JIRA, AutoTask), Cloud Computing, Database Management, Network Infrastructure, Wireless Networking, Disaster Recovery, Network Monitoring, Telephony, AWS, AI, Machine Learning, HTML, Python, SQL, C, C++, R, CSS, XML, BASIC, CLI, Advanced Mathematics and Statistical Modeling