SUMMARY:

• Disabled Veteran and Eagle Scout
• 10 years professional information technology experience
• 8 years customer facing experience.
• 5 years VM ware experience.
• 5 years professional managerial experience
• 5 years project management experience.
• 3 years E - commerce and web hosting experience
• Received several on the spot bonuses for going above and beyond what was asked of me for my current skill set while on the Windows Server Administration team.
• Received three Exceeds Expectations and one Meets Expectations on yearly performance evaluations.
• Helped install and configure VM Ware to include version updates with VM Ware.
• Wrote Disaster Recovery automation with power shell and power cli targeting VM Ware. This automation allowed the online and offline of 400 plus Virtual Machines during the disaster recovery exercise.
• Helped write power shell script with other team members to look up, count, display and report on the number of group policy objects in the environment with certain type of settings.
• Deployed a 1,000+ Windows Virtual Machines while using VM Ware
• With background knowledge from my Master’s degree. I was able to stand up 18 turn key appliances and successfully migrate production traffic onto these linux devices.
• Wrote and updated the entire process on how to create, delete, rotate keys for the production and test Key Secure environment.
• Went to several leadership classes at Confidential . Trained and mentored several new employees over my five-year employment with Confidential .
• Received acknowledgements and thanks from several Vice Presidents, Executive leadership and management for support and deliver on tight project time lines while on the Windows team.
• Implementation of an enterprise solution for the log on as a batch job setting to stream line windows OS configurations for applications that required this setting.
• Implementation of an enterprise solution for Remote Desktop (Terminal Service) access. Process stream line and re-write.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Microsoft XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, and 10 Desktop OS || RHEL 4/5/6, Gnome, Ubuntu, and Kali || Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012 and 2016 deployment.

Web Servers: IIS, and knowledge of Apache

Languages: PHP, DHTML, CSS, HTML, SQL and MYSQL.

Hardware: HP/Compaq server models, Dell, Intel, Gateway, Cisco (Switches/Routers), Safe Net Key Secure Turn Key appliances.

Wireless: TCP/IP protocols, Belkin, Linksys, Cisco, Wireless, Access Points, Range Extenders

Security / Lan: Firewalls, Symantec Antivirus, F5 ‘Load Balancer,’ Blue Coat, Cisco IOS, Palo Alto

Remote Access: Active Directory, Group Policy, Anywhere Connect, Cisco Connect, RDP, Team Viewer

Software: Adobe Suite, Microsoft Office, Share Point, Visual Studio, Power Shell V-sphere, V-Sphere Orchestrator, Power CLI, Microsoft SCCM, SCOM, Perceiver, Spectrum, Net Flow, Cap C, GPA (Net IQ), GPMC, Venifi and Safe Net Tokenization.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, TX

Responsibilities:

• Performed on call rotation duties as a platform Subject Matter expert for Safe Net Key Secures cryptographic and tokenization appliances.
• Helped with and performed nightly Group Policy exports to the Active Directory (AD) production environment, using Group Policy administrator.
• Helped with and resolved work in the team’s front door for key rotations and refreshes.
• Installation / Configuration of Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) onto AD domain controllers (DC). Identified a vulnerability with the OIM application and passed this finding to the vendor. Engaged Confidential to investigate the possibility of this kind of attack against this application to identify risk and controls needed to safeguard user information in AD.
• Configuration of an enterprise solution for log on as a batch job user rights setting on 2003 - 2012 Windows Server operating systems (OS).
• Worked in VM Ware to look up were AD VMs were placed (what hardware, site location).
• Worked in VM Ware to look up Storage Information (World Wide Names (WWN’s)).

Confidential, TX

Responsibilities:

• Maintained forecasts on local area network (LAN) / wide area network (WAN) networking devices.
• Maintained forecasts on HP Flex Fabric modules
• Maintained forecasts on 2003 - 2012 Windows OS and RHEL 3 - 4 Linux OS servers
• Created Microsoft HTA applications to help automate daily redundant tasks.
• Tooling: Best 1, Perceiver, Spectrum, Cap C, Net flow, Cisco IOS, True Site, Splunk, VM Ware.
• As a capacity planner we pulled ETL data out of VM Ware to corelate statistical information on CPU and Network performance analysis.

Confidential, TX

Responsibilities:

• Maintained the WSM Disaster Recovery (DR) plan.
• Identified as the WSM DR subject matter expert (SME) while on the Windows team.
• Wrote DR automation scripts in power shell and power cli targeting VM Ware.
• Installed and configured 1,000+ virtual machines (VM) and Hosts (hardware).
• Performed Availability Command Center (ACC) duties on call to support Virtual Center and Windows system availability.
• Performed V-motions, cold migrations, san swings, server renames, and server disk partitioning.
• Performed SSH Secure Copy to remote site locations with VM Ware (for example: Germany and Frankfurt).
• Familiar with and working knowledge of the 2003, 2008, 2008 r2, and 2012 R2 OS.
• Familiar with and working knowledge of the HP iDrac licensing installation and configuration.
• Removed Hyper V roll on 2012 R2 servers with a baseline group policy object (GPO).
• Created 2012 R2 Remote Desktop Session Host (RDSH) with a baseline GPO.
• Knowledge of: periodically performed HP NIC teaming
• Constantly performed: networking configurations (VMs, Hosts, Flex Fabric Profiles).

Strategic Integrator

Confidential, TX

Responsibilities:

• Successful Closed 110 Projects. This was customer facing and ranged between Windows and Linux projects that integrated into VM Ware.
• Network Management - Helped lead discussions around the F5 Load Balancer.
• Firewall Management - Helped application teams understand how firewalls work. With implementations of firewall rules for various projects to include opening firewall rules for VM Ware.
• Worked with application teams to Stand up HP/Dell Server Framework to support various system applications.
• Application designs that displayed high level technical diagrams and power point presentations.
• Started Confidential training while on the operational strategic integrator team.
• Stood up a presentation wall in the court yard that presents social media feeds to employees on a 24-hour basis.

Confidential, San Antonio TX

Responsibilities:

• POS upgrade from Linux USQL Counter Point to Windows SQL Counter Point.
• Website realignment from Word Press onto a Magento e-commerce driven solution.
• Crated Offsite Data Backup for accounting and USQL/SQL Counter Point.
• Installed security camera system with remote access to business owners home (secured)
• Implemented offsite backups (imaging) of account computers for disaster recovery reasons.
• Windows Administration Experience.