David Groom
Network Administration Lead
Alabama, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Groom is a seasoned network administration lead with over two decades of hands-on experience building and operating WAN, LAN, WLAN and SD-WAN environments, currently leading networking for Church of the Highlands. He combines deep familiarity with Cisco, Cradlepoint, Dell/Force10 switching, Palo Alto and SonicWALL firewalls, plus virtualization (vSphere/Hyper-V), hybrid SAN and in-house AI server operations to deliver resilient, secure infrastructure. David has designed and implemented 30+ remote networking locations and manages a broad observability stack including SolarWinds, LibreNMS, Grafana and NetBox for inventory and monitoring. His background spans unified communications, VPN technologies, and security systems integration (Avigilon, Genetec, FortiNAC), reflecting a pragmatic blend of enterprise networking and physical security. A US Navy aviation warfare systems veteran turned IT leader, he pairs operational discipline with a decade of long-tenured service at one organization, showing strong institutional knowledge and initiative. Based in Alabama with a BSIT, he also brings program-level perspective from work on managed services like Teams Rooms Premium at Microsoft.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BSIT Information Technology, BSIT Information Technology at Herzing College
Github Skills (2)
microsoft-teams10
skype-for-business10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
davgroom/OfficeDocs-SkypeForBusiness
Jul 2018 - Feb 2019
Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams documentation
Contributions:7 pushes in 6 months
microsoft-teamsskype-for-businessskypemicrosoft
MicrosoftDocs/OfficeDocs-SkypeForBusiness
May 2018 - Aug 2021
Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams documentation
Contributions:11 commits, 7 PRs, 3 comments in 3 years 3 months
microsoft-teamsskype-for-businessmvldocsnon-buildofficedocs
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