OBJECTIVE

Challenging position in the systems field that will allow me to develop and expand my training, skills, education and experience.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Network Engineer

Confidential,Newark,DE

Responsibilities:

• Migrated legacy systems to VSphere 5.1
• Designed and implemented numerous VSphere hosts
• Support over 48 virtual and physical servers
• Administer legacy systems running NT Server 4.0
• Create virtual servers and virtual machines
• Convert P2V and V2V servers and virtual machines
• Architected network infrastructure
• Designed and configured SAN backup, archive and Disaster Recovery
• Designed and administer iSCSI and Fibre SAN storage
• Configured and administer AWS Cloud backup using Amazon’s S3 technology
• Managed daily network administration, I.T. budget and operations
• Directed a team of 15 Analysts, Business Intelligence, Programmers and Network Admins
• Setup IPSec vpn for remote offices in CT, KY, WA and FL
• Migrated Exchange 2003 to Office365
• Currently migrating 2008 AD to 2012
• Worked with Business Intelligence in ETL process including report generation and Data Warehousing
• Supervise Help Desk level 1 and 2 to prioritize support calls and elevated if needed
• Manage Junior systems analyst
• Supervise a team of Network Engineers that manage remote locations and India
• Worked in tandem with security consultant in intrusion protection
• Worked with hospital vendors in ICD - 10 testing
• Worked with developers and McKesson vendors in generating HL7 anesthesia reports
• Maintain and administer Cloud-based applications and servers
• Designed/configured cloud-based EC2 network for testing applications
• Responsible for all VMWare ESX, VSphere and View implementation and support
• Designed, organized and supported rotation for off-hours support calls from off-shore business

Network Engineer

Confidential, Newark, DE

• Installed/configured and manage VSphere 5.1 on an iSCSI with Clustering, VMotion, DRS and HA
• Installed/configured and manage VMWare View 5 with desktop PCoIP implementation
• Installed/Configured and manage ESX 3.x on an IBM SAN with DRS, VMotion, HA
• Installed/Configured and manage VMWare View 5.0 with PCoIP running VCenter Server, View Security Server and View Connection Server
• Installed and configured Barracuda SSL VPN
• Configured and manage Fortinet 300 and 200b Security appliance
• Support and maintain legacy systems (NT Server 4) for middle-tier in-house applications
• Administer SQL Servers 2000 and 2008 including backup and replication of tables
• Setup/configure and maintain IPSec VPN
• Setup/configure and support Site-to-Site VPN using OSPF protocol
• Currently reviewing using BGP protocol on MPLS layer 3 VPN
• Administer 2008 Active Directory, OUs, Policies, security, permissions and GPOs
• Designed internal archive/storage through iSCSI targets
• Administer Cisco 2800 series router
• Support and administer Cisco ASA 3505 security appliance

Senior Systems Engineer

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

• Provide support to clients ranging from Windows NT Server to Windows 2003 Server
• Migrated Windows 2000 Server AD to Windows 2003 Server
• Migrated Server 2003 AD to Server 2008 AD
• Managed clients running Microsoft Exchange 5.5, Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003
• Designed and implemented Group Policy Objects for network security/lockdown
• Design and Implement Active Directory Services
• Migrated SQL Server 7 to SQL Server 2000 for clients
• Provided VPN solutions thru native Windows Server Operating Systems or thru third party solutions
• Design and Implement Disaster Recovery Plan
• Provided firewall solutions, software or hardware and monitor network for security risks and internet attacks
• Provide Open Source solutions for Web Content filtering
• Managed security patches on Server Operating Systems, Desktop Operating Systems and firewall either thru firmware updates or software security patches

Senior Systems Engineer

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

• Migrated Novell 6.x to Microsoft 2003 AD
• Migrated GroupWise to MS Exchange 2003
• Managed team of 6 Network Engineers
• Supervised team of 4 level 1 and level 2 help desk technicians
• Managed Exchange 2003 administrator
• Supervised Check Point firewall engineer
• Supported over 4,000 end-users
• Managed over 200 remote sites
• Managed Cisco engineer and Verizon Wireless engineer with Radio Frequency signal issues, NATing, security
• Provide 24 x 7 support to Local and Wide Area Network users
• Supervise a staff of 7 fulltime network engineers and 6 Desktop technicians
• Responsible for designing and implementing network configurations and topology
• Lead Engineer for over 650 wireless laptops with VPN access
• Responsible for system migration and/or integration through the use of built-in or third party utilities
• Monitor client’s network usage and optimization through the use of performance monitoring tools
• Plan and implement disaster recovery procedures
• Implement and support wireless broadband technology
• Managed and supported Citrix Metaframe remote users
• Supported VPN Client/Server technology running on Windows 2003 Server

Network Engineer

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

• Migrated network from Lantastic Operating System to Windows NT Server 4.0
• Configured FTP Server thru ISDN to support dial-up access to consultants and engineers
• Setup and managed company’s IIS Server
• Migrated Desktop Operating Systems from Windows 95 to Windows 2000
• Managed Server backup using Veritas BackupExec designing a daily, weekly and monthly backup
• Designed and configured Server using RAID5 disk redundancy fault tolerance
• Rebuilt Server due to a catastrophic system crash and recovered data from backup with minimal downtime