SUMMARY:

Seeking a position within the IT department to advance personal growth and advancement, specifically in virtualization and cloud computing. Specialize in High Availability and Data Disaster Recovery.

SKILL:

Operating Systems: Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows 2008R2, Windows 2012r2, Windows 2016, CentOS, RedHat 5.x, 6.x, Fendora

Database: MS SQL 2000, MS SQL 2003, MS SQL 2005, MS SQL 2008R2, SQL 2012, MySQL

Firewall: Cisco PIX, Cisco ISA, Cisco ASA, Checkpoint, SonicWall

Email: MS Exchange 5.5, 2000, 2003, 2010, Domino R6 - R8, IronPort, Barracuda, Blackberry Enterprise

Virtual: VMWare ESX/ESXi 3x, 4x, 5x, VMWare VCloud, VMWare View, VMWare ThinApps, VMWARE SRM 5.x, Citrix XenDesktop, Citrix XenApps 5.x, 6.x., MS HyperV

Others: Confidential BAC, Confidential Sitescope, Confidential SIM, IIS, Apache, Tomcat, JBOSS, Citrix Netscaler, IBM Cast Iron, IBM Cognos BI, SFTP/FTP, DNS, NetApps SANs, HDS SANs, EMC Clariion, Dell Compellent SAN, Nimbo NAS, Alberdeen NAS, Brocade Fiber Switches, Cisco MDS, Confidential Blades, UCS Blades, DELL Blades.

Scripting: Windows Scripting, MS PowerShell Scripting

EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Systems Administrator

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Manage all virtual machines on 32 VMWARE hosts, across 4 sites on 3 different SANs.
• Migrate 3400 mailboxes from On-Premise to Office 365 across 32 sites globally.
• Manage a dozen EqualLogic SANs, Compellent SANs, and Nimble SANs on iSCSI.
• Architect and configure Hybrid Exchange environment between on-premise and O365.
• Support internal Business Applications and CRM applications.
• Deploy and maintain virtual app layers via RDS 2016.
• Manage all Windows 2008R2-2016 servers totaling about 400 servers globally.
• Migrate newly acquired company’s infrastructure to main corporate datacenter.
• Automate Workday integration through PowerShell scripts.
• Implement new VMWARE Horizon for Engineering Designing Apps.
• Assist and train junior members on maintaining and support Windows environment.
• Deploy SCCM and workstation imaging.

Sr. Infrastructure Engineer

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Manage all virtual machines on 10 Hyper V hosts and 4 VMWARE hosts across 2 datacenters.
• Migrate AD from r2 and clean up AD/DNS organizational structures.
• Manage a dozen EqualLogic SANs separated into 2 groups across 2 separate datacenters and 16 JBODs.
• Implement file services on Linux platform over 140 remote sites and 1000 properties.
• Architect and plan the migration from Exchange .
• Architect and implement the upgrade from 2003 Active Directory to 2012 Active Directory.
• Deploy and maintain IIS/Apache web servers.
• Manage 4x2012 AlwaysOn SQL clusters, 4x2008r2 SQL clusters and 2x2005 SQL instances.
• Architect new network design with dual core Nexus 5k series backbone.
• Migrate Virtual Machines from VMWARE 5.x to Hyper-V 2012r2.
• Implement new RDS RemoteApps 2012 farm for replacement of Citrix Xenapp.
• Implement new Hyper V based VDI on RDS 2012.
• Administrate 10 linux platform servers on Red Hat.
• Implement new Windows 2012R2 Tiered Storage for Exchange 2013 buildout.
• Implement and migrate to Azure and Amazon AWS.
• Backend support business applications such as Workday, Ultipro, MRI, Yardi, MAS500, IIS business sites, Sharepoint, MS CRM .
• Build Development environment on Hyper-V 2012r2 and 2016.

Sr. Systems Engineer

Confidential, Sugar Land, TX

Responsibilities:

• Manage all VMWare environments across 2 datacenters and 5 remote sites, total at 38 Hosts.
• Architect and implement DR planning with SRM 5.1 with recovery planning of refinery and business critical applications.
• Manage 7 Compellent SAN systems (30 and 40 series controllers) and deploy new Compellent systems as needed.
• Implement Tivoli Data Protection for Virtual Environment across all sites.
• Architect and migrate OCS 2007 to Lync 2010, then to Lync 2013.
• Architect and implement SQL 2008R2 and SQL 2012 clusters on VMWARE.
• Migrate MS AD from r2 and provide day to day administration.
• Architect and execute migration plan from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 with 2 CAS, 2 HUB and 2 DAG members per datacenter, secondary single pair 1 CAS, 1 HUB and 1 DAG at a remote DR datacenter.
• Manage Solarwinds Monitoring and Solarwinds Virtual Manager.
• Administrator and implement all Linux systems within the corporate environment. (Redhat, Ubuntu and Oracle)
• Manage all Brocade FC switches.
• Review and recommend application designs for high availability and redundancy through load balancing, clustering and virtual apps (Citrix, MS Remote App.)
• Deploy and maintain IIS/Apache servers.

Sr. Systems Engineer

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple VSphere 4.x and 5.x environments, 3 Compellent SANs, 2 NetApp SANs, a Citrix Farm v6.x and Corporate Exchange 2010 Environment.
• Architect IT Solutions for external Customers, such as VMware, Citrix, MS RDS 2008r2, Exchange 2010 across multiple sites for DR, Business Intelligence, CIF, SAN resources, and Disaster Recovery.
• Architect internal IT Infrastructure for Hosted Services.
• AD migration from r2 forest.
• Architect Backup solutions through multi-tenant systems.
• Provide documentations and training to other teams such as Service Desk, NOC, and Project Management.
• Deploy multiple VMware environments with SAN solutions with FC/ISCSI options from scratch for external customers.
• Recommend IT Solutions to external customers as needed or requested.
• Assist and architect IT Solutions to keep IT in compliance with PCI/SOX/SAS Compliance.
• Manage multiple NetApp SANs, Dell Compellent SANs, Alberdeen and Nimbo NAS boxes.
• Manage multiple Linux machines for both internal and external customers - Ubuntu, Fedora, RedHat.
• Install, support and manage all Brocade FC/FCOE Switches for both internal and external customers.
• Architect/Deploy application automated recovery and high availability.
• Deploy multiple HA Exchange 2010 and Lync 2010 environments for external customers.
• Maintain 2x2008R2 SQL clusters, 4x2005 SQL clusters and 1 standalone 2008R2 SQL instance.

Sr. Systems Engineer

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Manage Corporate Infrastructure Systems, Retail Operation Systems, MS SQL Clustering, DELL Compellent SANs, VMWARE 5.0 Clusters, Testing/Development Servers, Zen Load Balancer, F5 Load Balancer, Exchange 2010 - 2 CAS,2 HUB,2 DAG mailbox servers.
• Migrate AD r2 forest.
• Architect Retail application scalability and Corporate Application services.
• Deploy WSUS, MS 2008 AD management, Quest Active Role Server, and automate system recovery.
• Support MS 2008R2 Windows clusters with SQL 2005/2008R2
• Deploy SVN server for Source Safe servers.
• Manage and buildout Datacenter Operations.
• Create Corp IT policies based on ITIL v3 polices and engage with 3rd party vendors for PCI type 1 compliance certification.
• Expanded the DELL Compellent SAN to an 80TB system on FC and FCOE.
• Deploy Windows 2008R2, 2003r2, and Linux Ubuntu/Fedora servers.
• Support and Maintain Brocade FC Switches and Force10 FCOE Switches.
• Deploy and support Tier 1 business and retail applications.
• Manage multiple payment systems on Redhat 6.
• Deploy Lync 2010 and MS Dynamics CRM 2011 with Scribe data imports.
• Plan and architect Disaster Recovery planning for Datacenter Protection.
• Deploy VMWARE Orchestrator and VMWARE Automation Center.

Sr. Systems Engineer

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple environments of 900+ servers on Windows 2003/2008R2 and Linux (CentOS) platform across 3 Datacenters, a development environment and an UAT environment.
• Manage multiple AD environments and update AD from r2.
• Deploy new releases/patches to production servers and software test automation for performance monitoring and debugging.
• Maintain all Production servers stability and performance; Application servers (JBoss), Web servers (Apache/Tomcat), dotNET, IIS, Database Servers, SQL 2000, SQL 2003, SQL 2005, SQL 2008R2 clustered.
• Deploy Citrix XenApps, XenDesktop for remote access and NetScaler for application load balancing.
• Install/Maintain Confidential BAC 8.x for all Production platform and UAT monitoring and Sitescope (RUM Probe, Sitescope and SIM on IIS Web Server, MS SQL 2003 Database on Windows 2003) for software automation and performance monitoring.
• Document all network settings, infrastructure, deployment procedure, and installation procedure with SVN base on ITIL v3 requirements.
• Develop web applications for release deployment using PHP/mySQL/Apache/JBoss based on the CMS/CSS technology for custom reporting features.
• Architect/Deploy IBM CastIron and Websphere Cloud reporting.
• Design Data Flow Encryption file exchange with vendors/clients.
• Maintain PCI/SAS70 compliance.
• Architect/Design/Migrate Exchange, Exchange, VMWARE 3.5 to 4.1 and VMWARE 4.1 to 5.0.
• Deploy VM desktop (XenDesktop), VCloud Director, and VMWare ThinApps/Citrix XenApps.
• Assist Sales/Account management team with integration solutions with vendors/partners.
• Assist Engineering teams with debugging and application fault investigations.

Systems Engineer

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Responsibilities:

• Rollout new servers and upgrades as requested, support all server hardware ( Confidential /IBM) and software deployed and network issues,
• Migrate NT 4.0 Backbone to Active Directory 2k, then 2003.
• Migrating Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000, Domino Lotus Notes R6 to Exchange and finalizing to Exchange 2003-Install separate Exchange Front End Servers for OWA for 4 remote sites and 1 main BridgeHead Server at Division HQ for replication relay.
• Deploy and maintain Bugzilla system for software integrations group on WAMP server.
• Responsible for creating the msi software package for deployment through internal Application Management Systems, deploy and install server patches and upgrades as needed.
• Supported NT based Apache Servers, Print Servers, Email Filters, Network Monitoring Servers on Win NT 4.0, 2k, and 2003 Servers.
• Supported Engineering tools such as MatLab, AutoCAD, ECAD/ORCAD, Exceed, Access, ARMS, Citrix, Blackberry, Canvas v7 & v8, ClearQuest, SAP, Oracle, AutoCAD, MathCAD, Rational Rose, ClearCase, Oracle v.6, 8.0.6, 8i, and Compaq Visual Fortran.
• Deploy/maintain corporate division internal Intranet websites, internal Cisco Call Manager phone systems, PIX firewall and IP Sentry network monitoring systems. Provide training as necessary to desktop support employees on known OEM issues and new software deployment.
• Utilizing network tool, Confidential Master Server, Ghost Master Server updates, and monitor VPN connections for network security.
• Maintain Good-Link Enterprise Servers and (Front End Server) MS Active Sync Servers for remote and traveling users using PDA to access emails.
• Deploy Email Filtering systems - IronPort
• Administrator Network and Email systems for 4000 user environment across 18 Building.

System Administrator

Confidential, Cupertino, CA

Responsibilities:

• Support/Deploy all Confidential Servers.
• Install, configured and upgrade PC and laptops Ghost Images.
• Support Confidential Printer series, fax machines, and copy machines.
• Troubleshoot any network/VPN connections/Tunneling.
• Daily network maintenance includes NT users, Print Servers and Group Policies management.
• Supported a 5k users environment with NT service requirements.
• Upgrade Windows NT 4.x to Windows 2000 Active Directory.

Systems Administrator

Confidential, Campbell, CA

Responsibilities:

• Support Windows NT 4.x systems
• Install, configured and upgrade PC and laptops.
• Support and maintain Print servers
• Implement Cisco PIX Firewall
• Deploy IIS web servers and Java based application servers for development/engineering purpose.
• Support/Create NT account for new users and existing users.
• Deploy/Maintain Novell Systems/Servers.