SKILLS & EXPERTISE:

• VMware
• System Center Operations Manager
• System Cetner Service Manager
• System Center Virtual Machine Manager
• System Center Configuration Manger
• System Center Data Protection Manger
• Windows Server
• SCOM
• SCVMM
• DHCP
• Confidential Exchange
• Active Directory
• Hardware
• IIS
• Operating Systems
• Servers
• System Administration
• Troubleshooting
• VPN
• Network Administration
• SAN
• System Deployment
• Computer Hardware
• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

EXPERIENCE:

Senior Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• I was an SME on the design team for the installation of a new development and test private cloud.
• After we completed the hardware installation
• I was responsible for the installation and configuration of all of the OSes and software.
• Windows server installations and management.
• Confidential System Center Management 2012r2 (Configuration Manager, Operations Manager, Data Protection Manager, Virtual Machine Manager)
• Confidential Team Foundation Server
• VIrtualization
• Installing and managing patches and performing maintenance on Dev/Test/Prod servers
• MS SQL (SQL05 - SQL2012): 18
• Completion of requests to change existing server configurations and add new servers for Dev/Test/Prod
• Preventative maintenance for servers with space, memory, bandwidth, processor utilization issues before customers notice utilizing System Center Operations Manager.
• Resolving issues with servers, desktops, and network that must be diagnosed using specialized tools such as Confidential System Center, SolarWinds, etc
• Designed and deployed Configuration Manager to manage and image 300+ workstations in multiple locations
• Writing powershell scripts for various processes
• Cleaning and managing Active Directory
• Syncing isolated test environment AD with current production Storage Management
• Assessment of SAN configurations, backup and restores, etc
• Backups to SAN storage and multiple tape libraries
• Speced and procured an additional 60TB of storage for Confidential
• Managed and created LUNs as needed for the various servers
• Assist developers resolving issues with SharePoint, TFS, ftp, SQL, finding memory leaks, diagnosing network issues, etc

Co-Owner

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Upgrade and installation of new hardware and software for clients
• Perform day to day administration of servers and workstations for clients in and around Austin.
• Designed and installed networks for new locations for Trammel Crow residential
• Performed software rollouts both desk side and through electronic software distribution
• Perform monitoring and repairs of tape backup systems for several clients
• Personnel management
• Perform billing and collections

Sr. Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Day to day maintenance of client networks and workstations
• Upgrade and installation of new hardware and software for clients
• Assisted with the design of the exchange 5.5 - exchange 2003 upgrade for TDPRS
• Designed and implemented Server 2003/Exchange 2003 systems for Pryor and Associates
• Move 20,000 users from Motorola servers to the Freescale virus, email and login services
• Perform day to day administration of servers and workstations for Trammel Crow Residential
• Rebuild failed multi-server cluster for Ft Food Family Housing
• Designed and installed WLAN networks at every Trammel Crow Residential site in Austin
• Designed Multi-site WAN systems for TCR, Pryor and Associates, and Troublemaker Studios
• Designed and installed wired networks for new locations for Trammel Crow residential
• Installed monitoring systems for Texas Department of Information Resources, Troublemaker Studios, and Pryor and Associates
• Performed software rollouts both desk side and through electronic software distribution
• Perform monitoring and repairs of tape backup systems for several clients
• Personnel management
• During my time with Phoenix IT I have performed many duties. I've engineered and installed LANs and
• WANs and done on-site and phone desktop support and network administration as well as software and hardware installation and support.
• I've built networks the initial wiring and repaired existing networking issues.

Sr. Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Service and maintain existing SGI IRIX servers and artist workstations
• Renegotiate and bring up to date support contracts for hardware and software through out studio
• Design and install secondary “DTAP” direct internet link network over existing cabling
• Redesign and install updated tape backup system
• Redesign and redeploy “render farm” 32 nodes cluster
• Recode “back-end” server based web applications required for cluster management
• Assist in the design and implementation of studio relocation into the new building
• Assist with trouble shooting multiplayer networking system for PC based video game
• Assist with testing of new XBOX games
• Perform software support for graphics design packages (3D Studio Max, Maya, and Lightwave)
• Perform level 3 and level 4 hardware support of all of the workstations assisting desktop support
• My most important job description, given to me by the studio head, was “road block remover.
• My responsibilities were to assess and remove any problems that might slow progress of the development cycle of the games.
• This involved every aspect of a game development studio, from making sure that the HVAC and electrical were working properly to helping to solve a code problem with the networking system in the multiplayer portion of the PC based video game (Freelancer).
• In addition I was required to monitor almost every aspect of the build-out for Confidential ’s move into the Confidential West building.
• This included everything from helping to locate space for storage closets to the design of the 5 separate networks that will be installed in the new building.
• I also had to assist with the design of the sound recording studios, video suite, and the teleconferencing systems to be installed in the conference rooms.
• All of this was in addition to the day-to-day maintenance of the studios computing infrastructure.

Sr. Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• My primary responsibility was to install and test the fibre channel devices manufactured by Confidential with hardware and software from other manufacturers to confirm compatibility and reliability.
• This included setting up numerous Storage Area Networks to simulate customer configurations and sample real world configurations.
• This occasionally meant ATM connected SANs and LANs.
• Normally this would mean testing backup software (CA Arc Serve, Veritas Net Backup, Legato Networker) on Windows 2000, NT, Solaris, and HPUX platforms.

Sr. Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• I was also required to create databases in Oracle 8i and SQL server 7.0 and 2000.
• These included a 115 million-row database of persons living in the US.
• I designed the migration to Windows 2000 for the company utilizing Active Directory to allow for login of the east and west coast sales staff from anywhere with in the corporate domain.

Migration Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Create a plan for migrating users from Novell/MS Mail to NT/Exchange
• Stabilize current MS Mail system to allow for smooth migration
• Reconfigure Exchange infrastructure to allow for efficient use of developed programs
• Migrate user accounts from Novell NDS to MS Directory
• My main function was to implement an Exchange system that will be seamlessly usable for the 6800+ users scattered across the state of Texas.
• These users are located in 318 sites.
• Each of these sites connects to one of 13 demarcation points.
• Part of what must be overcome is that most of these users shared a 56 Kbps modem links from their site to the nodal, and the servers are only located in the nodal sites. .
• In order to overcome the problem of file transfers and print services across a Confidential, I designed a system to use Windows Distributed File System and Directory Services to make it appear to the users that the files were located on the remote servers while in fact they were on the local network.
• This was a temporary fix to allow time for the networking team to replace the modem links with T1’s.

NT Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Design event-log storage system
• Research software for implementation of Windows 2000
• My position was to assist in the day-to-day maintenance of the current NT servers that are installed, and bring new servers on line as they arrive in anticipation of a “go live” sometime Q1 2000. These included IIS 3 and 4 servers, an Exchange server, several SQL 7 and Sybase 11x database servers.
• I also ran system stability tests and workload tests of Windows 2000 in anticipation of its release.
• Win 2K proved to be a superior product to NT 4.
• Greater speed in web traffic and higher stability in a development environment, especially when using SQL Server 7.0.
• While the tests showed that the new operating system was capable of handling a much higher traffic flow, until its final release form is known I could not recommend that it be used.

QA Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• My primary responsibility was to test and certify the shipping payment engines, both NT and Unix, with several credit-card processing centers across the country.
• This required intimate knowledge of NT server with Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition, Sun OS, Sun Solaris, HPUX, FreeBSD, as well as MS SQL Server 6.5 - 7.0 and Oracle 7.X - 8.X.
• It was necessary for me to help with the administration of the QA test-server farm. When I came onboard with the QA team they were in the midst of evaluations for test automation software. Due to my experience from Micro Medical I was called upon to assist in the evaluations.
• My personal choice in this instance was Win Runner. After spending a couple of weeks with it, I found it to be the best choice.
• Unfortunately during the testing senior management had decided to an engineer to create an in-house testing system.
• Since the actual certification required so little of my time I also got involved with the code review process on the NT product.
• In this process we would go through the C++ code for the Site Server pipeline payment engine components looking for ways to tighten up the code.
• I also assisted the lead Unix programmer with the design of the new Unix payment engine.

Sr. Network Administrator/System Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Redesign internal network
• Design and implement internal/internet email system
• Maintain 2 Novel and 3 NT servers
• Support 150+ desktop systems windows 3.1 - NT workstation
• Maintenance of an AT&T Definity PBX and Intuity Audix voicemail system
• Design of intranet/Internet network security
• Implementation of a FireBox firewall system
• Design of high availability NT system
• I was tasked with the upgrade of the network and server redesign to stabilize the internal network and to take control of the escalating problems on the users desktops. Began testing and small-scale implementation of SMS and MS Zero Admin Kit. Also installed Exchange Server 5.5

Web Design Consultant / Systems Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Assist in the design of the e-commerce system scheduled to be implemented Q299
• Design and implement internal/internet email system
• Design of intranet/Internet network security
• Assist with the design of an accounting package
• Train owner on the day-to-day maintenance of the server Train owner in the fundamentals of web design.
• Designed and configured a commerce system based on NT 4.0 servers using IIS 4.0, SQL Server, and Site Sever Commerce Edition.
• The goal of this was to make a single box to allow for web hosting and ecommerce for the internet, and to link the system to multiple sites around the country as needed for inventory tracking, accounts receivable, and accounts payable.

Sr. NT Systems Administrator/Engineer, Assistant Sun Sysadmin, Network Admin/Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Assist in the design and deployment of EDC portion of Terraserver
• Design and implement a secure high availability commerce system.
• Assist with deployment of 100+ new NT Workstations
• Beta Test NT 5.0 Server & Workstation
• Beta Test SQL Server 7.0
• Test Email systems to replace Novell GroupWise (Notes, Exchange, Netscape)
• Build & Test Cluster server system using spare components (configuration totally unsupported by Confidential )
• Project Lead for the over all NT networking system center wide
• Assistant Unix Systems Administration
• This network includes 11 onsite and 4 offsite NT 4.0 servers, with 2 additional WINDD/Terminal servers. Connect local and remote NT servers running Routing-RAS. Setup 5 IIS 4.0 web/ftp/commerce/ESRI map servers.
• Included with the Terraserver project was a Virtual Private Network spanning 10 states based on NT 4.0
• Server and Terminal Server with Unix workstations and terminals, Win 95 and NT Workstation as clients. This Network used the Department Of the Interior (DOINET) closed network with the internet as a failsafe running MS VPN as a part of the overall security system. This system was put into place partly to create a centralized location for credit card processing and mostly to allow for centralized accounting and inventory across the country.