SUMMARY:

• Microsoft Windows Server Administration
• Microsoft Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008, 2008R2
• SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008 Administration
• Server builds, configuration and tuning
• Administrative scripts
• Replication setup and monitoring +log shipping.
• Active Directory / 2008 Administration incl Group Policy administration
• Virtualization Technologies
• VMWare Esx
• Virtualbox
• Microsoft Hyper - V
• XenServer
• P2V migrations (Physical machines to Virtual environments)
• Windows Web Server Administration - IIS 5.0, IIS 6.0 & IIS 7.0
• Web Server security and hardening
• Apache (Linux) Web Server Administration
• Associated environment setups include Tomcat, Java, JBoss, Grails, Ruby
• Network Perimeter Security - WatchGuard | Cisco IronPort Firewalls | ISA Server (software firewall)
• Firewall Rules
• Intrusion Detection Monitoring
• VPN Technologies including ISA Server, Microsoft RAS Server, Radius, site-2-site VPN
• Cisco IOS - ACNS, routing technologies EIGRP, RIP, OSPF
• Linux Technologies - Red Hat, Fedora, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, OpenBSD
• Email administration on Windows and Linux platforms including
• Microsoft Exchange 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010, Qmail, Postfix, Sendmail
• Network, Systems and Application Monitoring for high availability.
• Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2000 & 2005
• Systems Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007 R2. SCOM 2012
• SMS 2003 / System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 R2 & R3
• Solar Winds Suite of applications, NPM, Orion, NCM, Engineer Toolset
• PRTG (Traffic Grapher + network systems monitoring)
• Nagios, Cacti, OpenNMS
• Helpdesk Management
• Remedy
• Sysaid
• Disaster Recovery & Systems Integrity
• Data Backups - Backup Exec, Arcserve, Microsoft DPM
• AntiVirus Protection
• Norton (Corporate)
• AVG (Business Edition)
• Avast
• McAfee
• DR Planning and implementation
• Network Capacity Planning
• Systems performance analysis and reporting
• Metrics gathering
• Systems research and procurement
• Dell Server hardware
• PowerEdge Servers
• HP Blade Server hardware
• Proliant Servers
• Cisco Hardware
• Switches and Routers

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Senior SCOM and SCCM Monitoring Engineer for global pharmaceutical company. Tasked with managing and maintaining all of the company s enterprise class monitoring systems including Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2, Solarwinds Orion, Quest VFoglight and Tivoli. Monitoring systems are utilized to maintain internal service level agreements for service to the Infrastructure customers as well as providing resources and alerting towards SLA s for security and compliance.

Confidential

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Senior Infrastructure Active Directory, Monitoring and Virtualization Engineer for a growing Financial Services and products company. Am tasked with a number of projects foremost of which is the design and deployment of an Enterprise class monitoring program to provide visibility into every aspect of the production systems and environments in order to meet the desired SLA’s and HA requirements. Additional focus is on the relevant regulatory compliance requirements. Additional duties include providing mentoring of other engineers and administrators on the team with projects assigned to them.
• Technologies and frameworks used include VMWare ESX4, VCenter5, VCenter Operations Manager, EMC Storage, Cisco UCS, SCOM 2007 R2, SCCM 2007, Windows Server 2003 & 2008R2, AD 2003/2008, Exchange Server 2007 management and monitoring, Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 R2, System Center Orchestrator (Opalis 6.3), What’s up Gold, Microsoft Biztalk environment management and monitoring, MSMQ Environment management and monitoring, Provenir environment management and monitoring. Quest Active Administrator, Quest Software Security Explorer, Veeam NWorks Monitoring (VMWare environment). Solarwinds network management tools. ManageEngine

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Senior Engineer on the team tasked with delivering content across a satellite network to one of the largest entities in the US Healthcare system. Primary role involves the architecture, design and maintenance of the delivery infrastructure which is built upon the Cisco ACNS platform. Responsibilities also include working with the client as they build out additional sites and locations and guiding the process as far as the topology and in depth device and network configurations need to be setup in order to facilitate successful delivery and receipt of the content for an acceptable end user experience.

Confidential

Systems Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Served as part of a dedicated design engineering team tasked with building out the latest Microsoft 2008 R2 Server based environments and applications to desktops and servers running within the global Network. Projects worked on include migration of company s email system from Exchange 2007 to the cloud (Microsoft BPOS)

Confidential

IT Network Operations Manager

Responsibilities:

• As the primary IT resource for the company, my primary responsibilities encompassed the daily maintenance and upkeep of all of the systems used by the development, QA, customer support and sales divisions. The IT environment includes machines running operating systems across the board on Windows (Windows Server 2000/2003/2008/ XP/Vista/Windows 7, Linux (Fedora, Red Hat, CentOS and Ubuntu) and virtual servers (VmWare, XenServer running on CentOS), desktops, laptops and peripheral devices. The company uses varying vendors (Dell, HP, Sony) for their server and desktop/laptop needs. For the development team duties include installing and maintaining all of their applications and tools such as Visual Studio 2005, 2010, SQL Server 20 and 64 bit, code versioning applications such as sourcesafe, vault and fogbugz. For the customer support and qa departments I provided and maintained virtual environments on windows and Linux servers as well as their desktops to support their testing and support duties. I trained the junior systems administrators in the usage of the helpdesk and monitoring systems and provide guidance and mentoring to them in tasks pertaining to all aspects of systems and network administration. Additionally I functioned as the evaluation resource for all systems and applications pertaining to the future growth of the company as business need dictates and make recommendations and or purchases as applicable. I was also responsible for
• Managed a major P2V project encompassing the migration of all legacy servers and desktop assets to the virtual platform environment (Xen Server running on CentOS - Dell blade servers).
• Assisted the sales team in closing key deals with security and compliance software products

Confidential

Senior Application Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a team member on several key projects including the breakdown and relocation of an entire data center in Atlanta and moving it to Orlando
• Managed project to expand existing datacenter space in the Orlando offices
• Managed project to setup a 200 seat call center in the Orlando offices including all of the infrastructure work such as cabling, telecomm vendor acquisition, desktop systems procurement and deployment, telephony equipment procurement and deployment
• Participated in the upgrade from NT 4.0 to Active Directory (DNS, TCPIP, DHCP, WINS,Domain Controllers)
• Participated in the upgrade project of all the companys exchange servers from 5.5 to Exchange 2000
• Participated in windows server deployment expansions as the company grew and served as a member of the server security teams tasked with meeting compliance regulations and client SLA’s.
• Worked as part of the team responsible for the maintenance configuration security and upkeep of the companys web server front end farm, middleware tier and backend (SQL) tier servers