SUMMARY:

• Systems Engineer with 14 years of experience within the IT realm. Responsible goal oriented contributor that utilizes his skills working for Fortune 500 companies to accomplish day to day customer challenges.
• Very skilled at communicating both written and verbally.
• Utilizes industry standard practices and guidelines to ensure customers systems are always operational.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Active Directory
• Windows Server 2003/2008/2012/2016
• Confidential Azure
• Office365
• ADFS
• SSO
• Exchange 2007/2010
• Powershell &DSC
• Group policy management console - GPMC
• GPOs
• DHCP
• DNS
• DIRSYNC
• Forest trusts ( One way two way transitive and non-transitive )
• AD sites & services replication topology
• VMware
• Hyper-V
• SCCM 2012 R2
• Dell/Quest Recovery Manager for AD ( RMAD) GPOAdmin
• Intrust
• Active Role servers ( ARS )
• Password Manager
• TCP/IP networking
• Red hat Linux Enterprise servers 5
• 6
• 7
• Solarwinds
• LDAP
• File cluster manager
• SAN
• Confidential CDot and 7-mode
• AD security
• SQL DatabaseIIS. McAfee EPO

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Systems Engineer

• Provide system design and analysis for mission systems
• Design rack layouts for field systems
• Designed Active Directory infrastructure for customer resource forest Windows Server 2012 R2
• Migrating 2008 R2 domain contollers to 2012 R2 and upgraded forest functional level to 2012
• Build Linux servers via customized provisioning server which integrates with puppet
• Maintained Group policy and helped create policies for implementation with VMware View clients
• Bash and powershell scripting to automate daily tasks
• Confidential storage administration
• Designed PCOIP solution leveraging AWS
• Extended domain into several AWS availability zones to allow authentication for services with AWS.
• Created firewall rules on Checkpoint firewall in AWS
• Powershell scripting to enhance the account creation processs
• Active Directory integration with MIM to provide Human Resources with ability to provision accounts.
• VmWare 5.5 - 6 administration and confiruation
• Patching and OS deployment via SCCM 2012
• Create and manage task sequences for multiple operating systems via SCCM

Confidential, Vienna,VA

Consultant

• Integrate virtualization technologies such as Hyper-V and VMware with Confidential Storage devices.
• Designed and implemented storage encryption solution
• Designed system that auto-provisioned storage and provide chargeback model for tenants
• Provided customer with custom-built scripts to help maintain and manage their storage environment
• Implemented multiprotocol solutions to include: ISCSI, Fibre Channel, NFS and CIFS
• Designed and implemented monitoring system that provides proactive monitoring of geo-dispersed storage systems.
• Deployed VDI utilizing VMware View on ESX 5.5
• Performed 10G upgrades to existing ESX 5.5 hosts (non-disruptively)
• Upgraded existing ESX 5.1 hosts to ESX 5.5
• Upgraded 80+ vCenters to 5.5 at multiple field sites
• Consolidated ESX infrastructure onto more densely populated servers to reduce power space and cooling concerns

Confidential, Bethesda,MD

Consultant

• Design and implement various Confidential infrastructure solutions
• Implement and design Confidential Active Directory 2003/2008 Forests and domains
• Designed Server 2008 Distributed File System solutions
• Ticketing/Self-Service Portal System Center Service Manger 2010
• Automation utilizing Opalis Runbook servers
• SCCM 2007/2012; Operating System Deployment, Software Updates, Application package deployment
• Hyper-V server farm deployments
• Provide detailed documentation referencing Confidential best practices and custom configurations
• Developed ticket based provisioning process utilizing Service manager and ESX 4.x templates

Confidential, MD

Senior Systems Engineer

• Designed and deployed a new Active Directory Domain which services 2000 plus users throughout the US
• Developed an integration lab to test and evaluate new software solutions and products
• Implemented an enterprise lab which has shortened development time
• Configured and maintain Confidential storage
• Implemented password recovery system utilizing ARS
• Created role based access administration template for System Administrators via ARS
• Administer Infoblox DNS appliance
• Developed solution to remove DNS functionality from Active Directory

Confidential, Hanover, MD

Principal Systems Engineer

• Provide Subject Matter Expert (Level IV) support to 2000+ users and 50+ technicians in a Confidential 2003/2008, Exchange 2003 environment. This supports a 24x7x365 customer in field-based hostile areas.
• Design and configure fully redundant server consolidation packages leveraging VMware ESX Server 3.5 and Equallogic shared storage This supports a 24x7x365 customer in field-based hostile areas.
• Identify and Troubleshoot customer issues related to DNS, WINS, DHCP which impacted Mission operations.
• Assisted in planning and implementation of Group Policy to 20+ field sites to ensure standardization with server and desktop settings. This significantly reduced down time as a direct result of human error. Provided direct and indirect management /administration for these hostile based sites.
• Provide training to 50+ technicians on utilization of the NetIQ Directory Resource Administrator (DRA) toolset, and aided in the development of views for Role-Based-Access to leverage Least-Privileged access best practices.

Confidential, Greenbelt, MD

Customer Service Engineer

• Configure and design Rapid Deployment Packages, which needed to be in place and fully operational in less than 72 hours. These packages contained Windows 2008 Enterprise Domain Controllers, Exchange 2003 Servers, File Share Servers, Application Servers for both COTS and GOTS packages, and backup capabilities.
• Configuration and installation of Brocade switches for IC community customers in order to setup HP Product Solutions related to SAN, LUN Presentation, and Disk Management best practices.
• Provide maintenance and support on the entire product line of HP Proliant servers. In addition, Mr. Valentine has an extensive knowledge of HP P-Class and C-Class Blade Systems During this time, Mr. Valentine worked with HP-UX OS on HP integrity servers.
• Offline firmware and software management upgrades to maintain supported versions of software and hardware revisions on HP Storage /Server Product Lines
• Configuration and Management of Storage Arrays to include Dell Equallogic, HP EVA, and HP StorageWorks XP. This was done to implement Polyserve Clustered File System on Red Hat Linux and Windows Server 2003 Operating Systems.
• Installed and configured DHCP \ PXE Servers, for remote deployment of client operating systems to HP Blade Center using Altiris.
• Troubleshooting fiber channel communication problems between storage and hosts using HP SAN Manager and Brocade software tool sets.
• Assisted customer on implementation of HP and Confidential best practices for specific OS and hardware integration with HP Proliant servers.

Confidential, VA

Information Systems Analyst / Network Administrator

• During Mr. Valentine’s enlistment in the U.S. Army Reserves, he was deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. His responsibilities included the creation and management the in-theater Hospital network. This network supported over 100 staff members, in a Windows 2000 server and Windows XP environment.