Ian Forkash

Director, Information Technology at Certco, Inc.

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

About

Loyal and dependable IT leader with a long-standing track record of delivering exceptional customer service and building strong customer, peer, management, and vendor/supplier relationships. I bring energy and enthusiasm to every challenge, backed by deep experience in service desk operations, server administration, telephony, network infrastructure management, and ERP/WMS experience.

Experience

  • Certco Inc. (Fitchburg, Wisconsin)
    • Director of Information Technology
      Oct 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

    • Manager of Information Technology
      Apr 2017 - Oct 2022 · 5 yrs 7 mos

      I manage a group of talented individuals who serve on our help desk, warehouse management system, and ERP platform support. I am also responsible for the smooth operation of our Cisco network infrastructure, VMware environments, IBM Power 8, and Nutanix cluster in three different warehouses.

  • Manager, Network and Infrastructure at Credit Union National Association
    May 1991 - Mar 2017 · 25 yrs 11 mos

    Responsible for managing the network (LAN/WAN), infrastructure, telephony, server (Virtual, SAN/NAS, and physical) and backup operations for three different sites. Also responsible for budgeting/projecting and researching/recommending new technologies, and managing staff. Summarized current technologies implemented/support are VMware ESX 6x, VMware View 5, EMC NX4, NetApp FAS 2240s, Cisco 2960, 3850, ASA 5505/10/15/20/25s, Meraki APs, Cisco 5508 WAC and CleanAir APs, Windows Server 2003/08/12, and Ubuntu 12.04. Telephony is Lync 2013. Also manage cloud-based Office 365 w/SharePoint 2016, Exchange 2016, Unified Messaging, Auto Attendants, and Response Group. Currently implementing Anywhere365 for call center metrics. Vast experience from the days of DOS 3.31 and ARCNet to current technologies. Many years of project management of small and large-scale projects, testing, vendor relationships, leadership, business continuity/DR, hiring, mentoring, and unbelievable customer service and loyalty.