PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Highly skilled Senior Systems/Infrastructure Engineer with over 18 years of experience. Full range of expertise in Cloud/Server Infrastructure. Excellent written and verbal skills, with the ability to adapt very quickly to changing technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cloud: Azure - IAAS/PAAS/SAAS

Server OS Experience: Windows - Virtual/Physical/Azure, 2012 R2/2008 R2/2003/2000 (Standard/Enterprise) DNS, Clustering, Load Balancing, IIS, WINS, DHCP, Group Policy, Terminal Services

Server Software Experience: SQL - PAAS/ 2016/2014/2012/2008/2005/2000/7.0 , Exchange 2010/2003/2000/5.5 , VMware, Hyper-V, Backup Exec, SharePoint 2010/2007, Altiris, Ghost, Citrix, Nagios

AD Experience: Azure IAAS, Active Directory design/deployment, FSMO placement, Domain and OU administration/Security delegation, AD Users and Computers, NTFS/security admin, Group Policy management, Exchange management

Hardware Experience: HP DL 380/360 Servers, HP Drive Arrays, SAN, Enclosures/Virtual Connect, Dell

Network Experience: Previous experience setting up Cisco Switches, Core Switches, Routers, etc…

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in various Azure IAAS/PAAS infrastructure design/deployments, acting as a lead/architect in many instances for Sitecore/Other client deployments. Helping to shape the vision for the client, and to develop solutions to meet/exceed their needs, with HA and DR in mind.
• Azure SAAS/PAAS deployments, assisting with migrating web sites/databases accordingly.
• Created Azure SQL backup solution from on-premises to the Cloud, with DR resiliency.
• Assistance with improving SSO experience with Office 365, recommending best practices.
• AD GPO consolidations, reducing the number of GPO’s for various organizations significantly, as well as finding room for improvement from a creation/deployment standpoint.
• Staff augmentation for various clients.
• Exchange Support.
• DFS implementations, as well assistance with monitoring, and optimization.
• SCCM assistance with package deployment, and best practices for use, deployments and so forth.
• Assisting staff with network issues from a backup standpoint cross-site, troubleshooting various. aspects in correlation with the backup/bandwidth issues.
• SQL DBA support in various regards to support client maintenance, upgrades, etc…
• SQL license consolidation/downgrading from various versions of SQL.
• Recommend solutions for Exchange cross-collaboration, aspects of GAL synchronization, and free busy.
• Managed a project for hundreds of VM deployments/configuration of them accordingly for new retail store deployments.
• Helped to create new business/opportunities for the organization through establishing good client relations/seeing opportunities and need from a client standpoint.

Confidential, Frankfort, IL

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Support person for client resolution/consulting engagements.
• Transitioned existing LabTech environment to new version.
• Remote pushes/upgrades of existing clients.
• Configuration of LabTech infrastructure.
• Assisted with complex initiatives, offer support/direction for new deployments, upgrades, rollouts.
• Support for existing company infrastructure consisting of Exchange 2010, AD 2012, Hyper-V.
• HP DL 380 server infrastructure.
• EMC VNX storage.
• Responded to ticket escalation queue/resolution.

Confidential, Darien, IL

Senior Systems Engineer - Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all aspects of server maintenance for nearly 2000 servers, a mix of both physical/virtual.
• Administration of all aspects of AD infrastructure, including architecture/design.
• Completed an AD migration.
• OU/Object maintenance.
• Cross-Forest group membership maintenance.
• Delegation of control.
• GPO management.
• AD Sites/Service management.
• Defining subnets for appropriate sites/authentication traffic.
• Maintain Windows DNS infrastructure.
• Administrator/Architect of 50-node ESXi vSphere 5.1 environment, encompassing multiple datacenters, and clusters, as well as Vcenter instances.
• Server migrations, transitioning servers from physical to virtual, via P2V or manual means.
• Provisioning of new ESXi hosts.
• Planned, coordinated, and participated in VSphere migrations.
• Storage migrations using storage VMotion.
• Setup/Configuration of new clusters.
• Setup/Configuration of HP Enclosures.
• Leverage Virtual Connect technology.
• Redundant Flex Fabric module configuration.
• Experience with SRM.
• Coordinated provisioning of new SAN storage/configuration of data stores accordingly.
• EMC SAN infrastructure used for VM environment.
• Leveraged various Vcenter tools DRS/Storage DRS, etc…
• Maintain SQL 2008/2005/2000 servers/clusters, this includes creating maintenance plans, performance optimization, etc…
• Maintain Exchange 2010/2003 environment. Also, responsible for maintaining ProofPoint filtering devices for virus/spam.
• Architect/Lead initiatives to migrate Exchange environment from Exchange 2003 to 2010.
• Managed, and maintained Symantec Enterprise Vault software for E-mail archiving.
• Implemented various clusters in the environment.
• Architect for Enterprise Site to Site clustering solutions.
• Monitoring of server infrastructure via Nagios, responding to/acting on alerts accordingly.
• Worked in a project management capacity, coordinating the pieces for application deployments in the organization.
• Architect/design solutions, spec out hardware/software, and implement/configure accordingly.
• Work with application owners for proper rollout.
• Go to person for high-level initiatives, and involvement in enterprise/infrastructure related projects.
• Give recommendations to optimize performance of applications, and servers, etc…

Confidential, Glenview, IL

Senior Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for building a network from the ground up for a new school.
• Tasks completed are as follows.
• Installed APC infrastructure racks.
• Configured/programmed APC equipment accordingly.
• Configured all Cisco switches, core switch, and routers.
• Implemented and configured E-Policy Orchestrator virus solution for the school.
• Setup HP servers.
• Mounted and configured SAN devices for use in clustering servers.
• Setup of SQL, and Exchange clusters.
• Installation and configuration of tools for Spam Filtering.
• Created AD structure for the school, configuring DNS accordingly.
• Defined backup schedules and disaster recovery images for the servers.
• Implemented and configured Altiris Deployment Solution for the school.
• Responsible for maintaining two other networks for the school district.
• Tasks are as follows.
• Maintained Windows servers.
• Created OU’s, users, groups, and group policies.
• Installed two Altiris Deployment Servers for the school.
• Created logon scripts for the domain.
• Converted users to new domain structure as necessary.
• Assigned VLAN information to switches in an as needed basis.
• Programmed and installed Cisco switches as necessary.
• Cabled IDF closets, and other cable patching as necessary.
• Monitored Cisco Devices with Cisco Management Suite.
• Researched and diagnosed server and network issues as necessary.
• Total Number of Users = 5,000.

Confidential, Highland Park, IL

Back Office Admin

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all servers including Exchange, SQL, and Domain Controllers.
• Responsible for all new server builds.
• Responded to high-level Help Desk requests that deal with network or server issues.
• Created and maintained all OU’s, users, group, distribution lists, mailboxes, etc.
• Maintained security for network file shares, setup and maintain print queues.
• Restored backed up data as necessary.
• Implemented McAfee E-Policy Virus protection for the enterprise.
• Total number of users = 800.

Confidential, Bellwood, IL

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all aspects of AD administration.
• Provided Exchange Email support.
• Implemented Ghost Server to create and maintain all computer images for the company, and deployed ghost images to new desktops and laptops as necessary.
• Responsible for help desk support for the company, including maintaining the help desk system and responding to and delegating service requests to technicians.
• Responsible for all hardware and maintenance throughout the company.
• Implemented and maintained Cisco wireless points and implemented and maintained Cisco wireless cards.

Confidential, University Park, IL

Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Maintained departmental servers Windows 2000/4.0, and implemented an AD structure, group policies, backups, creating users, groups, networking printers.
• Implemented and maintained SQL 7 servers running custom In-house software.
• Implemented and maintained Exchange 5.5 servers.
• Implemented an Altiris Deployment Server to automate image deployments for educational classes.
• Implemented and Maintained a company wide web based training software called Centra®
• This leading to substantial revenue for the company, to allow for fee based tele-classes.
• Maintained network equipment for the education, and training departments.