About Us

ECS Technology Group is a technology consulting firm specializing in infrastructure and virtualization technologies. Our consultants have over 30 years of IT and project management experience in regulated [GxP] and non-regulated industries. Over 10 years experience in manufacturing execution systems responsible for the design, implementation and support of the IT infrastructure, management and support of the process automation and SCADA environments, implementing process improvement techniques to support J-I-T inventory and LEAN manufacturing techniques. Over 10 years experience in applications development of relational systems for process monitoring, laboratory information management, workflow tracking, and document management. Over 10 years experience leveraging virtualization technologies for implementing P-O-C development and test environments as well as server consolidation of corporate data centers.

Specialties

Infrastructure Technologies – Experience in network infrastructure ranging from local-area to wide-area networks, wired and wireless designs, segmentation of production networks for added protection against security threats and viruses.  

Virtualization Technologies – Experience with the design and implementation of hypervisor technologies. Areas includes base installation, P2V migrations, resource management,  and high availability configurations.

Project Management – Experience exercising best practices for IT project and service management with formal training in the PMI PMBOK® and ITIL® methodologies.

Application Systems Design and Development – Formal training and experience in the design, development, implementation and qualification of RDBMS applications and systems in regulated and non-regulated environments.

Systems Validation – Formal training and experience in development and execution of Functional Requirements Specifications, Technical Specifications, Installation and Operational Qualifications, and Performance Qualifications for computerized systems in regulated environments governed by FDA 21CFR Parts 11, 210, and 211.

IT Operations and Process Automation – Experience in automating tasks related to the maintenance, operations and support of IT Data Centers, workgroup servers, and user workstations. Formal training and experience in the design and implementation of Manufacturing SCADA systems and supporting plant IT systems.

Supply Chain – Experience and formal training in Supply Chain concepts with concentrations in Manufacturing Execution Information Systems and process improvement implementations.

Supported Environments

Microsoft
Windows Server – Windows Server 2019, 2016, 2012, 2008 R2, Server Essentials
Application Server – SQL Server 2017, 2016, 2012, 2008 R2
Windows Desktop – Windows 10, 8.1, 7 Professional, XP Professional
Office – Office 365, Office Professional 2019, 2016
Server Roles and Technologies – Active Directory (AD DS, AD LDS), Application Server, DHCP Server, DNS Server, File and Storage Services, Group Policy Management, Hyper-V, Print Services, Remote Desktop Services, IIS, WSUS, Powershell

Data Center and Cloud
Technologies – VMWare, Nutanix, Microsoft, Citrix
Virtualization – vSphere, AHV, Hyper-V, Citrix Hypervisor, Virtual Apps and Desktops

Plant Automation
GE Intelligent Platforms – HMI/SCADA iFIX, Proficy Batch Execution
OSIsoft – PI Server, PI ProcessBook, PI ActiveView, PI SMT