SUMMARY:

To transfer my 10+ years of progressive IT experience to an IT systems engineering position in an established firm that needs a hardworking and experienced systems engineer with a broad background.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Elmsford, New York

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Patching Windows 2008/2012/2016 Servers.
• Scripted removal of temp and log files across corporate server reducing disk usage by 6%.
• Re - established tape backups and offsite storage with Backup Exec after jobs had been failing and not completing for over a year.

Confidential, Norwalk, Connecticut

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Deployed Spectre and Meltdown remediations across Windows 2008/2012 server infrastructure.
• Deployed Wannacry remediations across Windows 2003/2008/2012 server infrastructure.
• Scripted uninstallation of Trend Micro Antivirus on 1000 computers using psexec and reinstalled latest version using the Trend Micro console enabling centralized administration of a current and supported antivirus solution.
• Scripted new default reboot options with psexec across 240 XenDesktop VDIs to prevent them from entering maintenance mode after not shutting down properly.
• Created and maintained corporate golden VMWare template for Windows Server 2012.
• Implemented server providing DHCP, AD services in office of newly acquired company in Hammonton, New Jersey.
• Published applications in XenApp 6.5 presentation server and worked with applications team to test functionality.
• Maintained and managed Windows 2008R2 servers in Citrix farm.
• Led project to migrate 4TB data off of Amazon Snowball appliance and onto EMC VNX SAN which included provisioning a LUN, attaching it to a production file server in ESX server and copying the data to it.
• Patching and performing security remediations on Windows 2003, 2008, 2012 and RedHat Linux 6.0 and 6.5, printers and Dell Equalogic SAN.
• Led project to implement antivirus software on 25 RedHat 6.x servers hosted in the Equinex cloud.
• Led project to migrate remainder of Windows 2003 servers to Windows 2008\2012, 10 in total.
• Created GPOs and test OUs for Windows 10 pilot program.
• Systems monitoring with SolarWinds.

Confidential, New York, New York

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed/implemented vSphere 5.5 on Windows which consolidated the management of 7 individual hypervisor hosts into the management of 1 standalone ESXi host and 6 ESXi hosts controlled by a vSphere server.
• Implemented Nessus and scheduled monthly vulnerability scans and remediated as necessary.
• Implemented email encryption in Office365 and trained executives and board members how to send secure email.
• Worked with external auditors to provide evidence that internal controls were in place, working and that risk was minimized.
• Installed the following SolarWinds Products: Network Performance Monitor (Orion), Network Traffic Analyzer, Patch Manager, Server and Application Monitor, and Virtual Machine Manager.
• Configured Dell SonicWALL Confidential 4500 in a failover cluster configuration.
• Installed Dell SonicWALL Confidential 4600 and configured URL Filtering, Antivirus and Anti Bot features.
• Configured Point to Point Primary and VPN Secondary connections between corporate office and colocation facility with SonicWALL firewalls.
• Configured two factor authentication for client to LAN VPN on Aventail SRA appliance.
• Manager and technical implementer of project to move datacenter from Tarrytown to colocation facility in New York City:
• Determined power requirements in colocation facility.
• Reduced infrastructure footprint from three racks to one rack.
• Consolidated production virtual machines off of end of life SAN and into VMWare VSAN.
• Oversaw the installation of servers, switches and SAN into the new rack in the colocation facility.
• Manager and technical implementer of the setup of new office in NYC:
• Determined power requirements in new office.
• Migrated DNS from Lightpath to Network Solutions.
• Designed and installed new layer three (Brocade) switch network for new office.
• Vendor management: Stepped into IT technical lead and managerial role due to IT director leaving:
• Vetted and selected vendors for wide area networking\internet connectivity and IT help desk and networking consultants.

Confidential, Tarrytown, New York

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Support and maintenance of 45 virtual machines across 7 ESXi hosts and 10 physical servers.
• Migrated WSUS from a physical Windows 2003 sever to a virtual Windows 2008 server and consolidated the print server into it, eliminating an under - utilized server.
• Migrated file server from a physical Windows 2003 server to a virtual Windows 2012 server.
• Upgraded domain from Server 2003 to Server 2008 R2, taking 2 physical domain controllers to 1 physical server and 1 virtual server.
• Assisted in project to migrate from First Class mail server to Office 365.

Confidential, Tarrytown, New York

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performed data backup and restoration outside of established schedules.
• Upgraded Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager 11 to 12 and upgraded the associated workstations
• Active Directory, GPOs, user account creation, login scripts in a 2003 mode domain and later a 2008R2 mode domain.
• Managed Windows 2003, 2008 and 2012 patching using WSUS.
• Managed printers, print server, DNS and DHCP servers.
• Installed and managed Windows 2003, 2008 and 2012 Servers.

Confidential, Tarrytown, New York

Helpdesk Support Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided support to up to 250 end users.
• Supported lab computers used to operate Confidential, cell counters and plate readers.
• Created and maintained of corporate workstation images using ShadowProtect IT edition.
• Patched Microsoft Windows XP and Windows 7 workstations using WSUS and Shavlik Protect.
• Recovered user data in the event of hardware/software failure.
• Malware elimination/System recovery.
• Reduced workstation imaging time by 40 percent.
• Migrated end user workstations from Windows XP to Windows 7.