Senior Systems Administrator Resume , Odenton, MD - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

An accomplished IT professional with over 15 years of comprehensive experience in complex environments.
Highly knowledgeable in all IT areas as well as business principles and processes.
A team - oriented, self directed, thorough and reliable professional. Able to develop strong customer relationships at all levels, both internal and external, by providing creative solutions and problem solving proficiency.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Odenton, MD

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

Responsible for KeyImpact infrastructure in multi-site environment with 500+ seats.
Upgraded organizations vSphere environment from 4.1 to 5.5
Managed, monitored, and maintained legacy fibre channel EMC AX4 SAN as well as several NAS devices.
Performed day to day Office 365 administrative tasks.
Managed the Active Directory environment for several trusted and non-trusted domains.
Performed upgrade of the Backup infrastructure which included the Symantec backup software as well as the iSCSI NAS storage devices.
Administered SonicWALL perimeter appliances at 60+ small satellite sites—including configuring SSL VPN, SonicPoints, access rules and firmware upgrades.
Created point-to-point IPSEC VPN with vendors for phone and internet traffic failover at the company’s primary sites.
Configure ADFS load balancing for SSO.

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

Sr. Administrator team member of the infrastructure team in a complex environment.
Responsible for managing and designing VMware 5.1 and 5.5 as well as Hyper-V environment.
Build and maintain Confidential Compellent, EMC VNX and XtremIO flash storage arrays.
Fibre Channel switch configuration.
Configure new Cisco UCS cluster, including blade servers, fabric interconnect and fabric extenders.
Implemented CIFS migration from physical file servers to unified NAS storage.

Confidential, Reston, VA

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

Sr. Engineer team member of Confidential ’s new software division ( Confidential Software Group).
Responsible for the consultation, design and support for Appassure backup, replication and recovery solution.
Consulted in the implementation of customers disaster recovery/business continuity solutions.
Handle escalated customer issues unresolved at previous tiers.
Educated junior support engineers in network, server, storage, virtualization and other technologies.
Built and maintained internal testing engineer environment, consisting of VMWare vSphere 5.1 and Hyper-V 2012 clusters.
Troubleshoot and resolve customers Active Directory issues in order stabilize Appassure environment

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

Responsible for the architecture of VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V environments for clients.
Designed, built, supported, maintained and upgraded Xendesktop Virtual Desktop Infrastructure components (Provisioning Server, Edgesight, Web Interface, Desktop Delivery Controller) and associated agents for clients.
Designed, built, supported, maintained and upgraded Xenapp environments and supported applications for clients.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

Primary responsibilities were administration of VMware, SAN, Windows, Active Directory, Exchange, disaster recovery and secure remote access solutions.
Supported, maintained and upgraded a complicated network that consist of over 300 workstations and 300 servers and span two sites.
Responsible for the implementation of a two year VMware virtualization solution to the company that enabled Confidential to virtualize over 85% of its server hardware.
Responsible for implementing and supporting a Fibre Channel Compellent Storage Area Network solution for both the production and disaster recovery environment.
Managed Active Directory, Group Policies and all other Windows administration tasks (DNS, DHCP, WINS, SQL, IIS).
In a Project Manager role, led a team of Analysts in implementing such projects as Great Plains accounting, MarketQA and QADirect financial data feeds, Teneros email continuity, Proofpoint email archiving and compliance, Trading Platforms (Deltix, Fenics, TT), Fiserv electronic commerce, Double-Take replication, Juniper SSL VPN and Xmediusfax solutions.
Administrator of messaging and collaboration services.
Performed migration of Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010, including several third party components
Managed small groups of teams implementing financial, trading and technical projects—from planning and inception to beyond completion.

Confidential, Woodlawn, MD

LAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

The LAN consisted of Windows NT and 2000 servers, network multifunction printers, digital senders and Windows NT, 2000 and Vista workstations.
Maintained all servers, workstations and multifunction printers.
Implemented a storage resource management solution using Astrum Storcast.
Designed a rotational backup scheme for the LAN using an HP DAT Drive, ArcServe 2000, and its associated open file agents.
Responsible for maintaining the antivirus domain using Inoculan/InoculateIT.
Trained junior analysts in the use of the Virtual Private Networking (VPN) and Norton Ghost imaging software.
Evaluated and recommended hardware and software for the Social Security Administration end-user community.
Assisted with the dissemination of information including, providing technical reviews on equipment and software; installation and configuration instructions; and various technical tips and techniques.
Supported and arranged product demos, technical briefings, and training programs.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Junior Systems Engineer and Curriculum Developer

Responsibilities:

Responsible for administration and monitoring a Windows 2000 environment.
Designed, created and edited Windows 2000 labs for students MCSE training.
Performed the training center’s upgrade from Windows NT to a Windows 2000 environment and setting up the active directory structure.