SUMMARY

• Sr. Systems Engineer with experience in high availability, enterprise production environments
• Expert level experience in VMWare and related infrastructure technologies such as Storage Area Networks, Fiber and SFP+ cabling technologies and host management toolsets.
• Evaluated, redesigned, and built out 19 node vSphere 6.5 environment with 3 clusters to house all virtual machines
• Rewrote DR plan for domain controllers to use VMware ESX rather than physical boxes for all Active Directory FSMO Role holders.
• Implemented Dell m1000e chassis into datacenter with installation of Blades and vSphere ESXi software installs
• Condensed SAN storage environment from 5 unshared silos down to a single shared SAN
• Redesigned EqualLogic SAN environment for larger LUNs and resolve latency issues due to RAID restrictions
• Automated patch deployment and vApp reboots for DEV/TEST, UAT and Production
• Installed Symantec EndPoint Protection 14 and migrated all clients to new management server

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Microsoft - Windows Server 2016 2012, 2012 R2, 2008 R2, 2008, 2003 R2, 2003, 2000 and NT all Service Pack Levels. Active Directory, ADSIEDIT, Group Policy. DHCP, DNS, and WINS. WSUS. SCCM. SPS. IIS. SQL. RRAS. RIS. SCOM. Terminal Services and Licensing. Certificate Authority. Baseline Security Analyzer. Operations Management. SharePoint. XP. Scripting. Project Server. HyperV. System Center Virtual Machine Manager. All Office suites and applications including 2016 releases.:

VMWare - ESX 2.5, 3.0, 3.5, 4.1, 5.x and 6.x. Virtual Center 2.0, 2.5, 4.x, 5.x and 6.x. P2V Assistant. Converter. High Availability. Distributed Resource Scheduler. VMotion. Site Recovery Manager. Update Manager. VDI. Lab Manager. Orchestrator. VMFS. Distributed Switches. :

Citrix: Metaframe XP Server. Metaframe Presentation Server. ICA Web Client. Management Console. Access Suite Console.

SystemTools.com: Hyena.

Symantec: Endpoint Protection 14 Server and Client.

Adaptec: Storage Manager.

BigFix: Patch Management Server, Relay Agent, Client, custom Fixlet writing, and application deployment.

VERITAS: Backup Exec.

Quest: vRanger Pro, vFoglight

SafeGuard: LanCrypt.

Solar Winds: Orion NPM, SAM, Virtualization Manager, Storage Manager, Patch ManagerCourion: Account Provisioning Suite.

Idera: SQLSecure

Kronos: WorkForce Central TimeKeeper 6.1.12 and WorkForce Central Configuration Manager 6.1

Linux: RedHat 6.x, Ubuntu 16.x, Suse

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Systems Engineer

• Virginia Executive level agency
• Fully responsible for large Out-of-Scope datacenter hosting 250+ virtual machines
• Zero V.I.T.A. involvement
• 24/7/365 on-call and datacenter support responsibilities
• Lead Engineer on VMWare vSphere, all datacenter hardware, SAN infrastructure, SolarWinds Orion configuration and maintenance, backup and replication for data integrity, Active Directory Group Policy design, Active Directory OU design, Symantec EndPoint Protection and emerging technologies.
• Backup Engineer to Fortinet Firewalls, Solarwinds Patch Manager, DNS, SUSE and RedHat Linux.

Confidential

Sr. Systems Programmer (Contractor)

• Large scale, multi-datacenter enterprise.
• Contracted to evaluate and implement an enterprise level VMware monitoring solution.
• On-Call rotation for all vSphere host issues.

Confidential

Technical Analyst II - Problem Management Department

• 60,000 user, multi-site, Enterprise environment
• Daily Responsibilities include but not limited to: Advise all business systems groups to changes in the network environment as well as be a liaison to the Sr. Network Engineers for the business systems groups.
• Expert knowledge of entire IT environment. Analyzes call data that comes into our outsourced help desk and proposes projects to drive overall call volume down

Server Engineer I

Production Engineering Department

• Lead Engineer on VMware ESX environment.
• Daily Responsibilities include but not limited to: Complete knowledge of all datacenter servers and applications used for production environment.
• Standing up servers for new projects and installing applications based on project charters. Evaluate all applications that are brought to engineers by any line of the business to determine impact on network.
• Day to day monitoring of datacenter and server health, doing preventative maintenance on servers and systems as needed.

Confidential

Sr. Network Systems Administrator

• 1,200 user multi-site enterprise level network.
• Daily responsibilities include but not limited to: creation and administering of daily backup routine. System log checking on all servers.
• Put performance monitors in place to create a benchmark to help diagnose server problems and lower response times.
• Active Directory: Structure and design for any new department, client, or project, security and distribution group creation (Domain local, Global, and Universal), Group nesting for Rights and Permissions assignments, Group memberships, OU creation and maintenance, Creation of Trusts between client domain’s and own, Group Policy Implementation, Sites and Services setups for new remote offices for replication, Computer account creation and clean up, use of ADSIedit and other tools to repair Active Directory as needed, and any other AD role that was not listed.
• File Share setups. Shared printer installs on our print servers. DNS, WINS, and DHCP maintenance, Windows and Citrix server maintenance and patching, patch evaluation for Windows systems in a non-production environment, BIOS flash on all server systems.
• Virtual server and workstation creation with VMWare ESX.
• SQL Database maintenance.

Consultant

Confidential

• Responsible for file server backups, network infrastructure, and print servers.

Confidential

Head of Assembly & System Development

• Built and created custom computer systems and networks from start to install.
• Installed Client networks as purchased from store front and outside sales staff.
• On Site support for client networks.
• Extensive product knowledge.
• Upgrade, service and preventive maintenance of all makes and models of computer systems.
• Handled customer complaints when raised.
• Helped maintain inventory control.