SUMMARY:

• Over 15 years of experience including, distinguished Information Technology Lead / Manager with extensive experience in distributed systems operations, migrating systems, systems and application implementation, and strategic enterprise architecture.
• Expertise in managing/lead infrastructure within Financial Services, Information Systems and Manufacturing environments. Proven ability to bridge technology and business goals to provide operational and cost productive solutions. Demonstrated success leading and mentoring cross - functional teams in multi-facility environments levels of productivity.
• While maintaining a hands on approach with the Technology. Experienced interfacing with all key business units including C-Level Executives, Finance, Human Resources, Application Development, Production Operations, and Engineering Architecture. Good communicator, with emphasis on building strong team and client relationships, capable of making presentations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Windows NT/2k/2k3/2k8 & R2/2k12 & R2 Server
• MS Hyper-V, VMware 4.1,5.1
• VERITAS Backup Exec
• Confidential Open Manager
• Windows AD Group Policy
• Arcserve
• HP ProCurve Switches
• Microsoft SCCM
• Norton Antivirus
• Barracuda (Email Firewall)
• Exchange Server 2003/2000/5.5
• NAVMSE 2.5/3.0
• Cymphonix (Network Bridge)
• 8.1/8/7/Vista/XP/2000/NT/95/98
• DNS/WINS/DHCP/RAS
• MS SQL 2000/2005 Server
• Cisco Wireless Router
• Routers/Switches
• Public Cloud (Azure)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Lead Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Scheduled and facilitated technical meeting to collaborate on implementation of new processes and OS builds and development of tools to be used in the deployment of the OS.
• Planed and prioritizing customers’ needs, documenting application and system requirements for present and future installs and configurations.
• Deployed OS in a virtual and physical environment.
• Troubleshoot build issues and worked as technical expert or go to person for the Wintel team.
• Worked in conjunction with other globe groups across different business units to achieve and improve the business objective.
• Tested and made recommendations on newer technologies that I have learned.
• Trained team members on Windows 2012
• Was the Windows 2012 subject expert for the group
• Worked with Windows 2012 and 2012 R2 clustering
• Worked also with earlier versions of Windows (2003, 2008 and 2008 R2)
• Tested and troubleshoot PowerShell scripts
• Configured and installed Physical and Virtual servers
• As one of the Windows Subject expert I was call in to troubleshoot many different process and server issues.

Confidential

Infrastructure Engineer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Completed assessment, planning and documenting of domains, Accounts, DNS, DHCP configurations.
• Managed server services and service-accounts migration to newer OS (Virtual & Physical) and new domain
• Identified, documented, Standardize DNS configuration for the enterprise
• Identified, documented and planned DHCP migration
• Planned physical servers upgrade and migration off of legacy domains to virtual servers with newer OS on newer domain.
• Worked with their VMware 5.1 environment (VSphere 5, vCenter Server 5.1 and SolarWinds for monitoring)
• Built test VMs for clients and migrated physical servers to virtual.
• Troubleshoot issues with virtual servers build and migrations and PowerShell scripts.
• Worked with developers to troubleshoot web applications (.Net) and IIS server environments.
• Evaluated Windows 2012 R2 features (AD, Group Policy, Hyper-V, etc…)

Confidential

Migration Wintel Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed a composite team of consisting of up to (10) contractors and Confidential consultants working onsite and remotely to execute, validate, and support the full spectrum of migration activities
• Completed the successful assessment, migration, operationalization, certification, user acceptance testing, and cutover of over 1200 mission critical application servers
• Performed project management functions while acting as Move Package Owner (MPO) to coordinate application and server requirements and schedule activities between the client an transformation team
• Served as the transformation technical lead to coordinate schedules, efforts, and manage issues with the managed services steady state team
• Operated as the project Subject Matter Expert (SME) for all documentation, troubleshooting, and management of the Novell/NetIQ PlateSpin, Double Take and VMWare Converter migration toolsets as well as providing technical consulting expertise and assistance to the managed services steady state team with VMware vCenter and VMware ESX/ESXi operations, management, and troubleshooting
• Participated in the development, pilot execution, and standardization of a customized client SharePoint and Web Application (.Net) migration process to meet a client specific requirement for their application
• Evaluated performances on a SQL Server Cluster 2008 platform for our client’s environments
• Evaluated Windows 2012 and Windows 2012 R2 features (AD, Group Policy, Hyper-V, etc…)
• Performed a VMware vSphere 5.1 full install. (Single Sign-On, Inventory Service, vCenter Server, Web Client and Update Manager Server)

Confidential

Sr. Platform Architect

Responsibilities:

• Identify, architect, implement and document solutions for current and future corporate requirementsEnsured the integrity and availability of existing systems according to business requirements, budgets and exceeded the SLAs requirementsProvided 3rd level support to business systems and network support group to users in response to identified difficulties
• Provided technical consulting support to IT projects and provide solution for system architectures using various technologies
• Advised users and management of critical situations, configuration changes and enhancements that may impact overall performance and budget of the IT environment
• Mentor junior and new technical team members to assist in the operations, maintenance and projects of the organization
• Installed, configured, and tune servers (including HP & IBM Blades), applications and various Microsoft software to meet the organization current and future requirements
• Provided technical support for Windows clustering and EMC, Autostart cluster for their Private Cloud.
• Installed, configured, administered, and optimized VMware ESX, vSphere, Windows Server 2008 & 2008 R2, IIS and MS SQL servers
• Virtualized the development servers using VMware vSphere, ESX server
• Build-out a Virtualized environment using VMware vSphere for the Platform Architecture group Cloud testing
• Worked on Datacenters Migrations and servers migrations (P2V) using VMware Converter tool
• Worked with Storage team and vendors to Optimized SAN using multiple RAID technologies and improved applications and databases performance with improved I/O
• Software evaluations and Web Application (.Net) testing and demos for clients
• Assisted in certifying backup perform of the servers and file system using OSSV and Symantec NetBackup

Confidential

Solution Engineer Consultant & Windows Server Infrastructure Integration

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the certification, regression testing, and troubleshooting of Windows Server 2003 R2/64 bits, Vista and XP systems, applications and software deployment using SCCM (PXEs and Virtual Application (SoftGrid)), VMware Production, patch deployments with BigFix, GPOs and scripts (for branch servers), routers new DNS/DHCP (Sapphires system) and switches configuration, and insuring documentations are kept up to date.
• Worked directly with engineers in formulating the standardization strategy, architecture, and design of the server and desktop environment, give input on tweaks to OS and deployment HTML scripts.
• Worked with VMware ESX.
• Demonstrate and train in the usage of desktop technologies to GWM CAI engineers and assist them to resolve issues encountered during deployment phase.
• Assisted in the design of SCCM and Virtual Application integration technology for GWM.
• Provided 3rd level application support for MS 2003 R2, SCCM, EMC Autostart, Vista, XP etc.
• Reviewed GPO’s and provided contribution towards new and old GPO related issues.
• Involved in the deployment phase of major project, resources and budgeting.
• Migrated over to Windows Server Infrastructure Integration team to assist in the implementation of the servers for the project. Other responsibilities were for system design, application integration, and 3rd level support on various platforms that support the Confidential Global Wealth Management business. I worked on Gap Analysis of server builds, future OS builds and upgrade paths.
• Also worked with the Core Services Support (CSS) team engineering level support. This is responsible for maintaining the many different environments within Confidential on the server and workstations side. I was responsible for building, rebuildingand maintaining the servers and workstations. I also interacted with clients for requests and issues in these environments. CSS is spearheading the virtualization initiative in Merrill Global Wealth Management.

Confidential

Manager of MIS

Responsibilities:

• In additional, also had to upgrade hardware involving new routers, switches (HP Layer 3), servers ( Confidential ), and workstations ( Confidential Optiplex, Precision Workstation and laptops).
• Planned, engineered, implemented, analyzed, maintained and managed network servers with NT/2003, IIS, MAS 200 server, Exchange 2003, ERP system, SQL and Access database, Terminal servers including updates and patches. Additionally, added a Goodlink server.

Confidential

Network Manager

Responsibilities:

• Planned, engineered, and maintained global network (spanning 3 continents) with NT/2000 servers, IIS servers, SQL servers, Access Database, Cisco routers/switches/hubs, TCP/IP, Exchange, Office, Project, FrontPage, Lotus Notes email servers, Novell and engineering software as well as local Lucent Definity PBX system.
• Managing group that provided 24x7 support for global users; server configuration; operating system migration; software implementation; system upgrades; disaster recovery planning; piloting, testing and configuration of new equipment.