SUMMARY:

• 20 years’ experience in Infrastructure Architecture, Systems Engineering and Administration.
• Strong communication skills; able to handle tasks, complaints and requests with tact and diplomacy.
• Managed enterprise Active Directory supporting over 5000 users across 60+ locations and three countries
• Managed enterprise Active Directory for multiple large Confidential 500 companies
• Managed Windows servers in both physical and virtual environments
• Configured and administered to Active Directory architecture and design including upgrades and new structure redesigns
• Engaged internal customers to plan requirements and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle
• Delivered solutions in the midst of live, large - scale, and sensitive operations
• Proven track record in process optimization and an analytical approach to decision-making.

SKILLS:

• Azure Traffic Manager
• Azure Resource Manager
• Azure Service Manager(Classic)
• Bachelor’s degree in Technical Management
• Associate’s degree In Computer Information Systems
• 20 years of hands on IT work experience
• Nineteen plus years Active Directory experience supporting Windows Server
• Extensive experience with Windows Server 2003, 2008R2, and two plus years with 2012, 2012 R2
• Extensive experience with all aspects of Active Directory 2012 and 2012 R2
• Experience implementing and maintaining an enterprise level AD infrastructure with multiple domains
• Extensive experience in DFS/DFS R in Windows Server 2012 production environments
• Experience in managing ADFS 3.0 and 2.0 Infrastructure (Integration with Office 365)
• Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS) and RMS - Azure Rights Management
• Experience implementing and maintaining an enterprise DNS & DHCP environment
• Experience with managing systems in VMware in a highly virtualized environment 10 years.
• Experience with managing F5 Load Balancers
• Familiar with network routing, switching, TCP/IP addressing design and troubleshooting
• Technical experience with networking and data center operations n
• Experience with Systems Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2012
• Experience with Quest Active Directory Audit and Recovery toolsets
• Experience with PowerShell
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to build strong relationships and work well within a team environment
• Lync server fail over clustering
• Excellent analytical skills, detailed oriented and results-oriented
• Self-starter with the ability to execute in an ambiguous environment

COMPUTER PROFICIENCIES:

• A+ Certified, Net + Certified
• W2k Certified Tech, Security+
• Exchange 2003, 2007, ISA, Cluster, VMware5.5, VCenter, VCenter 6, VMware ESXi 6 Virtualization, Virtual Desktops
• Clustering, Migration, BES
• WatchGard, MSOffice 97-2010,
• Active Directory, TrixBox PBX
• Windows 2008 Server, SMS, SUS, Confidential, TREO, CentOS Sonicwall Firewalls, Barracuda,, VMWare, VMotion, VSphere 5.5,
• Hosting, MDaemon Mail, VOIP Cluster, Datacenter, Colocation
• Group Policy, Fine grain password policies, Hyena
• Cisco UCS, Lync, OCS, Quest Migration Manager, VMWare 5.5, View5, View 5.5 BES, VMWare Esxi 6, VSphere 6, VSphere 5.5, VSphere 5.1, VSphere 4.1, VSphere 4
• MS Exchange Server, FTP,
• TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, WINS
• Citrix Metaframe, Asterisk
• Windows 2012 Server, 2012 R2, 2008 R2
• W2k3 SBS, Altiris, SAN
• VDI, Virtual Desktops
• IIS 6, IIS 7, IIS 8, IIS 9
• Word, Excel, Access, RDS
• Exchange 2003, 2007, 2010, DFS-R, Azure B2B, B2C, Blob Storage, Cloud Storage, EMS
• Deep Freeze, Veritas, SEP, Load Balancing
• SQL 2005, Cluster, Server Farm, NLB, NT 4, MCSE4
• IPSwitch, GFI Mail, IPhone Security, VB Scripting ADFS, Net IQ Quest Change Auditor, for Active Directory, Quest Active Roles Server, Power Shell, Dell Change Auditor, Dell Migration Manager for Active Directory
• Dell Secure Copy,
• Dell Migration Manager, Acronis Migration Assist for Windows, Dell Secure Copy for Migrations
• RAS, DOS, POP3
• EMC Clarion SAN, WAN
• CHDP-Certified Help Desk Professional
• MCP, Virtualization, SAN, IIS, VPN, DFS, App Service Migration Tool for Azure, Confidential Azure Migration Accelerator, SQL Azure Migration Wizard, Azure Site Recovery,
• IMail, ServU FTP, Ghost, Security +,
• Office 365, F5 Load Balancers, RADIUS, SSL
• 2003, XP, 2000, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8
• Ghost, Imaging, Blackberry, SolarWinds
• Windows Server 2003, XP, 2000, 98, 95
• NT Server, NT, POS, Roaming Profiles, Windows 8, Windows 2012 Server
• Firewall, Security, Wireless, Black Berry Server, BES, DotNetNuke, SQL 2005, VDI, MS 2008
• BES Small Business Server, Vista,
• Solarwinds, Barracuda, Networks NLB,
• SpamGate SG 200, SG 1000, Virtual Svr 2k5
• Kaspersky Agentless AV, SCOM 2012,
• Technical Writing, WIFI, RAS, Azure, O365, RMS, Azure KeyVault, Azure Resource Groups
• Net IQ, GPA, VMWare 5, Exchange 2010
• Azure Active Directory, Azure AD Connect, Azure Rights Management, Azure MFA, Multi Facture Authentication
• Novell Netware, Novell Group Wise
• MacAfee, Symantec, VPN, PAL, RSA, MDS

EMPLOYMENT:

Confidential

Cloud Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• As part of a global Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture team I:
• Work with project managers, infrastructure engineering teams, application architects and/or engineering teams to resolve issues which arise within project.
• Help drive project’s progress and critical success factors.
• Assist with designing Architecture solutions to meet functional and non-functional infrastructure requirements.
• Create and review architecture design packages as well as review and approve engineering design packages.
• Provide guidance of and to engineering staff though out construction phases.
• Enforce adherence to architectural standards, principles, global product-specific guidelines, usability design standards.
• Proactively provide feedback regarding infrastructure engineering methodologies, standards and leading practices.
• Assist with the design and build out of both our private and public cloud to include our mange services offerings.

Confidential

Sr. Azure Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Interfacing with both the generalists and specialists in the Confidential sales and delivery teams (including partners, services, Internal Confidential Product / Service organizations) focused on consumption of the Azure platform in high potential accounts
• Executing quick technical feasibility and proposal development for moving identified workloads to Azure (i.e. quick and dirty, comfortable with 80-20 rule)
• Built a technical and security architecture in Azure for the selected apps/workloads
• Selecting a migration approach to lift and shift the workloads to Azure or architecting a greenfield development and/or production platform for new applications
• Executing limited POCs, if necessary
• Driving the quality of the on boarding plan (with MCS or partners)
• Documenting and sharing technical best practices / insights with engineering and the architect community
• Understanding of cloud computing technologies, business drivers, and emerging computing trends
• I possess a proven track record of building technical and business relationships with senior executives and growing wallet share in large or highly strategic accounts
• I have a proven track record of driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through
• I possess problem-solving mentality leveraging internal and/or external resources, where and when needed, to do what’s right for the customer and for the organization (i.e. think through workarounds, evaluate risk of various deployment options, etc.)
• I possess exceptional verbal and written communication I support Azure B2B Active Directory and Azure B2C Azure configuration and support.

Confidential

Sr. Systems Infrastructure Engineer

Greater Atlanta Area

• Act as a senior technical resource within the IT Operations engineering team.
• Work directly with product groups to improve operational efficiencies around CI/CD in non-production environments to help speed product time to market.
• Provide system administration and provisioning of virtual environments.
• Responsible for monitoring and enhancing the performance of networked systems, software, hardware and storage components.
• Adhere to established Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and mitigate risk, perform detailed root cause analysis.
• Plays key role in developing and communicating processes and procedures for supporting technical operations activities.
• Create and maintain systems drawings, configurations, and documentation.
• Serve as point of contact for Tier 2 and 3 escalated operations incidents.
• Diagnose, troubleshoot, and escalate systems issues.
• Participate in automation initiatives to achieve operational maturity.
• Monitor systems to ensure availability and connectivity for all system users and perform necessary maintenance to support systems availability.
• Troubleshoots and resolves or facilitates the resolution of network connectivity and delivery services issues.
• Implement and maintain systems security measures.
• Provide support and will lead various internal IT projects.
• Resolve interoperability problems to maintain operations across all platforms.
• Monitors and tunes systems to achieve optimum performance levels.
• Coordination and oversight of change management & configuration management operating processes for changes to the systems infrastructure.

Confidential

Sr. Systems Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for working with leading edge technology such as Windows Server, Systems Center, and Active Directory 2012 across the enterprise.
• Used in-depth Active Directory experience and a considerable breath VMware experience to complete day to day tasks. From data to day I manage our environment that is 96% virtual, mostly 2012 servers. We have a 2012 native mode environment.
• Configured and managed all Group Policies and Group Policy preferences, all DNS changes, create, configure, and migrate Windows 2012 and 2012 R2 virtual machine on a day to day bases.
• Setup and use Confidential ’s (Fine Grain Password Polices) though out the enterprise.
• Configured delegations and maintained the OU structure in place. We have a VMware 5.5 environment. We are running agentless Kaspersky Antivirus software in the entire environment which I administer and maintain and setup.
• Configured DFS-R as needed as well as ensuring that replication is occurring properly between all 63 of our domain controllers.
• Setup and configured our F5 Load balancers to balance network and application traffic to our servers.
• Worked with Vendors on a day to day bases to resolve issues to ordering new supplies.
• We are a Confidential Partner and we are also on Confidential support contracts.

Confidential

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Project to roll out Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor and also Server and Application Monitor to the entire Confidential enterprise which consists of over 10 thousand servers and over 5 thousand devices.
• Reconfigured DNS to work properly for the entire company also assists daily with clean up efforts to WellStar’s Activate Directory.
• Currently assisting with domain migration efforts.
• Built out entire new QA environment for WHS which is now currently being used by over 9 departments and currently has over 1000 vm’s in this particular environment.
• Implemented Solarwinds SAM and Solarwinds NPM to the entire organization to include all remote sites and hospitals. (Contract)

IIS Infrastructure Architect

Confidential, Greater New York City Area

Responsibilities:

• Architected and developed and assisted with implementing a plan update over 6000 IIS 6 websites from Windows 2003 server farms up to IIS 8 running on Windows 2012 R2 server.
• This project was successfully implemented and completed cutting down the number of servers from over 500 servers down to 50 servers. (4 Month Project)

Confidential

Group Policy Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Provide support and configuration to over 30,000 devices and 35,000 user accounts, Provided P2V conversions to servers, Provide group policy changes via Native tools GPP and GPOs, Administer GPA with Net IQ, DRA and
• Active Directory administration to multi domain trust environments, Group Policy management, Software deployment
• And administration, VMware administration, configuring host, datacenters and cluster migrations to PCLAN host and clusters. Administered to VMWare 4.1, 5.0 5.1 environments.
• Supported Exchange mailboxes and user OCS Office communicator accounts as well assisted in the upgrade of our environment from OCS to Lync 2010.

Confidential

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Provide Tier 3 support to organization, Manage and administer to 7 different domains throughout USA
• Exchange 2007 CCR environment 4000+ mailboxes, 5000+ user accounts, 500+ Windows Servers, Remedy,
• Network Load Balancing, Certificate Administration, Clustering, IIS support, Postini Administration, Advanti,
• Symantec End Point Protection Administration, Active Directory Administration and Configuration, Active
• Directory Reporting, Group Policy Administration, VMware Administration and configuration 4.1 Symantec End Point Protection administration, Postini administration. Supported and configured Dell R710’s, HP M1000 Blade serves.

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provide collocation services for clients, host both physical and virtual servers.
• Sonicwall 5060 and administrated and maintain Windows 2000, 2003, 2008 Servers Active Directory and VMware configuration and admin.
• Linux, CentOS5 server setup.
• Administered Orion NPM/Solarwinds.
• Provide clustering and load balancing.
• SEP - Symantec End Point Protection configuration and administration, Spam filtering and hosted exchange hosted email services.
• Configured and maintained Trixbox and Astrix PBX phone systems.
• Provide support to clients such as PlayerGPS, Effingham County, Bluff Media, Alliance Medical Physics etc.
• Provided Colocation Services and datacenter migration projects to several clients in several datacenters throughout Atlanta

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Senior Systems Engineer to Windows 2003/2000 Server environment with several remote sites and employees in the US, managed, built over 238 serves, SUS, (DHCP, DNS, WINS, RADIUS, VPN, NAT),Routing, SOHO, SOHO6, WatchGard FireBox, III 1000, Sonicwall TZ150, TZ170, 2040, 3060, 4060, 4100, 5060, Group Policy, Active Directory, Domain Schema upgrade from 2000 to 2003 domain. veritas Group Policy, Server 2000.
• VMWare, Exchange 2003 Server, Windows XP, FTP, Wireless, DMZ, WIFI, Tier 3 support, Backups and Disaster, VMware 4.0 administration.
• Terminal Server configuration, AD Reporting, Clustering, IIS, Load Balancing, Domain Security, SBS 2003 Configuration and Support, Virus Protection, NAS, Black Berry Enterprise Server.
• Data Center support, Colo-Setup, SonicWall Administration, Collocation setup for Dell Financial Services, CoalTek, Seagull Consulting, AllSet2Sell, Sonicwall Security, Datacenter Support, Spam Filtering, Infrastructure Support