SUMMARY:

• Highly skilled IT Professional with over 20 years’ experience in IT management, design, implementation, disaster recovery and remediation of diverse Windows, UNIX and Linux systems.
• Adept at implementing client goals from inception to fruition.
• Development and utilizing of sound standard operating procedures with effective collaboration across all teams.
• 15 years of Project Management. 15 years of Cisco routing and Switches. 10 years’ experience in Cyber Security.
• 15 years of designing and implementing network firewalls; including Juniper, Cisco, Fortinet, TMG, and Checkpoint. Work closely with both line of Business owners and vendors to bring about successful projects in a timely manner.
• Confidential Certified System Engineer, Confidential Certified System Administrator and MCP. ITIL Certified. AGILE Certified. Holding Security Clearance (Secret).

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Project Management of Multi - Site Enterprise Data Center
• Data Center Migration, VMWare and Hyper-V Server Migrations, SAN and NAS storage Migrations and replication, Routers, Switches, network Migrations, load Balancing,
• Cisco Switching and Routers, Layer 3 configuration
• Firewalls: Cisco, Palo Alto, Juniper, TMG and Fortinet
• VOIP Phone Systems and PBX Systems Trouble-Shooting
• Network Monitoring: Solar Winds
• Wireless Networks
• OS: NT thru 20012R2
• SQL 2000 - 2016
• Exchange 5.5 - 2013, Design, Architect, Installation, Management
• SharePoint 2005 -2013
• Acronis, vSphere Data Protection
• AD Design and Support
• Enterprise Network Architecture & Design
• AD Forest creation and migration
• Group Policy Design & Remediation
• Remote Access, VPN, and RSA
• 2 Factor Authentication
• IIS 4.0 - 7.0
• Symantec Enterprise NetBackup
• CommVault Backup
• VEEM
• SAN Snapshots
• Storage, SAN, NAS
• Nimble, EMC, Dell EqualLogic
• DNS Host Records
• Application Testing
• Firewall Installation and Design
• Solar Winds, Network Monitoring
• CA Brightstore
• System Upgrading & Remediation
• Load Balancing F5 & NetScaler
• Disaster Recover & Backup
• Core Network Infrastructure
• Operating Procedure and Standards Development
• BladeLogic Enterprise Management
• Remedy and Service Now Ticketing Systems
• LAN, WAN Management
• DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP
• Switching
• Routing iSCSI, Fiber, 10G Copper
• Antivirus & Malware
• EMC Networker, Avamar, Data Domain
• Confidential System Center 2007 & 2012
• Clustering
• Domain Registration
• SPF Records
• Virtualization with VMWare and Hyper-V
• Rack and Blade Chassis installations: Dell, HP, Cisco UCS.
• Thin client: Citrix and Confidential Terminal Services

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

System Engineer Technical Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Design and management medium to large enterprise, multi-site OS, Windows Server environment.
• VMware and Hyper-V Design and Installation, and clustering
• Exchange Migration, Design, and Installation, both On-premise and Office 365.
• Network Monitoring: Solar Winds
• Design and Administration of AD infrastructures. Windows Server Design and Mitigation
• Group Policy Design and maintenance
• Customer project management, engineering and installations of Hyper-V, Commvault Backup. Exchange installation, migrations, migration to Office 365. Installation of SQL 2012 and 2016.
• SSL Certification acquisition, implementation, installation, maintenance
• Specializing in Citrix Xen-App Installation and Support, managed services

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Architecture Design of Windows environments.
• SAN and NAS Storage Implementation, Replication and Migration with Nimble, NetApp, EMC
• Cluster Volume Storage and Boot from SAN, Volume Clustering for SQL, Exchange and other Database Clustering.
• Simple NAS storage, DFS Storage and Backup Volumes and storage.
• System Engineer, working in a large Enterprise multi-site, multi-OS Environment, Multi client locations. P3 Service Request. Consisting of VMWare virtualization, blade and rack servers. Work with both Dell and HP environments.
• Exchange installation, migrations, migration to Office 365. Installation of SQL 2012 and 2016.
• Design and Administration of AD infrastructures. Windows Server Design and Mitigation
• Group Policy Design and maintenance
• VMware and Hyper-V Design and Installation
• Exchange Migration, Design, and Installation, clustering, DAG’s, On-premise and Office 365.
• Exchange Anti-Virus, Malware installation. Edge Server Design and Installation. Exchange Policy design and reporting.
• Team Leader and Chairman of the Process Improvement Committee. Jr. System Admin Mentoring
• Project Management and working with Application and Infrastructure Vendors
• SSL Certification acquisition, implementation, installation, maintenance
• Cisco Switching and Routers, Layer 3 configuration, installation and management
• Firewalls Installation and Management: Cisco, Palo Alto, Juniper, TMG and Fortinet
• Implementation Migration of Backup, Routing, Switching and load balancing, F5 and NetScaler
• VOIP Phone Systems and PBX Systems Trouble-Shooting
• Network Monitoring: Solar Winds
• Wireless Networks Installation and Design
• Data Center Migration of VMware and Hyper-V
• Managing multiple client locations remotely.
• Mentor junior System Administrators,
• Office 365, Federated Services, Oracle Identification Services and 2 factor authentication
• Remediation and decommission of rack servers, virtual servers and application.
• Managing backups and archiving or all servers, utilizing Windows Image backups and EMC Avamar, Data Domain, Networker and Symantec Enterprise Backup.
• Developing Test, QA, DR, and Production environments.
• Tier 3 Support and Major Incident Management Team.
• Group Policy, AD Scripting and design.
• Design, build and maintain Citrix Infrastructures and client host services.
• VMWare and Hyper-V remediation and support
• Security Clearance (Secret)

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• System Engineer, working in a large Enterprise multi-site, multi-OS Windows Server Environments.
• Project management to upgrade, refresh and migrate current network infrastructure to current OS and application version.
• Green Field Project, Implementation and Migration
• Enterprise Architecture Design of Windows environments.
• Utilizing both VMWare virtualization, blade and rack servers. P-V migration, legacy application migration. Windows OS Data Center upgrade.
• Effectively managing multiple contiguous refresh projects simultaneously while continuing to administer current LOB applications, customers and equipment.
• Ensuring complete backups and archiving or all servers before decommissioning, utilizing Windows Image backups and EMC Avamar, Data Domain, and Networker.
• Maintaining and building, test, QA, Production, and DR environments.

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Project lead keeping all project on time and on budget. Design, install, maintain and optimize customer project, utilizing good standard practices and technologies.
• Design and Maintain Network Monitoring of customer systems
• Design and Administration of AD infrastructures. Windows Server Design and Mitigation. AD Forest Design, Migration, Integration
• Enterprise Architecture Design of Windows environments.
• Group Policy Design and maintenance
• SSL Certification acquisition, implementation, installation, maintenance
• VMware and Hyper-V Design and Installation
• Exchange Migration, Design, Installation, clustering, DAG’s, On-premise and Office 365
• Project Management.
• Manage multi-disciplinary Teams, maintain professional workplace and effectively meet customer goals.
• Cisco Switching and Routers, Layer 3 configuration
• Firewalls: Cisco, Palo Alto, Juniper, TMG and Fortinet
• VOIP Phone Systems and PBX Systems Trouble-Shooting
• Network Monitoring: Solar Winds
• Wireless Networks, Installation & Design
• Data Center Migration of VMware and Hyper-V
• SAN and NAS Storage Implementation, Replication and Migration with Nimble, NetApp, EMC
• Implementation Migration of Backup, Routing, Switching and load balancing, F5 and Netscaler
• Managing multiple client locations remotely.
• Identify trends, recommend remediation and corrective actions.
• Stage and test all Pre-Installed hardware.
• Maintain review all network management logs and reports.
• On-site remediation and maintenance. Delivery and review of all reports to customer management.
• Train Internal IT Support and customer based IT staff.
• Enterprise design, optimization, support and backup management, including EMC Networker, Data Domain and EMC Avamar technologies, HP DataProtect. SAN Snapshot and replication.
• Optimization and Deduplication software and technologies.
• Disaster Recovery testing, ensure SLA’s, data recovery and service restoration.
• Setup and monitor daily, weekly, Monthly backup routines of all customer sites.
• Virtualization with VMware, Hyper-V and Citrix
• High Capacity data Storage with EMC, HP, EqualLogic SANs and Tape.
• Windows AD, UNIX, Linux and Mac OS management, installations, migration and design.
• SQL, Exchange, SharePoint, SCCM Installations, migrations and design
• Thin Client and Terminal Services with Citrix and Confidential technologies
• Database maintenance and Support.

Consultant \ System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Consulting, Network Design, Installation, Remote Support, Project Management, Sales & Trouble-Shooting of Microsoft & Novell environments.
• Design and installation: Citrix XP, Exchange 2K, SQL 2K, ISA and Cisco, PIX, & Watch Guard Firewalls, DMZ and Spam Filtering, Multi-Domains, WANS, LANS, DNS records & Routing tables.
• VPN & IPSec Connectivity.
• Support a variety of business applications including: Btrieve, Pervasive, Sybase & MS SQL DB; Accounting Software; & Medical Mgmt. DB installations. NAS Storage, Cluster Servers, RAID Farms, ETC.