SUMMARY:

• A highly motivated and committed senior Systems Engineer, with 18 years’ of IT experience.
• Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills, with a friendly and approachable attitude. Attentive to detail, organized and results - focused.
• Thrives under pressure, highly adaptable and able to work on own initiative.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with excellent knowledge of IT systems and network engineering.
• Always learning and expanding skills and knowledge to keep up-to-date with today’s technical advances.

IT SKILLS:

• Windows Server 2003, 2008 & 2008 R2, 2012 & 2012 R2; Exchange 5.5; 2000; 2003 & 2007, 2010, 2013
• SharePoint 2010, 2013
• SQL Server 2008, 2012
• VMware Vsphere 3.x, 4.x 5.x, 6.x
• NetApp Data ONTAP
• Quest Migration Manager for Active Directory
• Quest Change Auditor
• Quest Report Manager
• Radia Application Manager

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked for Confidential on enterprise level projects to improve, integrate and secure applications and services that enhance mission communications and collaboration in the Southwest Asia (SWA) area of operations (AOR)
• Installed and configured enterprise services at several remote sites throughout the AOR to provide communication and collaboration to key military leadership providing enhanced capabilities for mission effectiveness. Some of the services and technologies that were installed and configured at these sites include VMware Virtualization Technology, Microsoft Windows Server 2008/2012, NetApp Storage Solutions and Cisco Unified Computing System ( Confidential )
• Introduced Active Directory Federated Services ( Confidential ) to the SWA domain to achieve broad collaboration with knowledge management platforms by providing essential single sign on services with partner organizations.
• Designed and implemented key systems/services to include Certificate Authority (CA) and Identity Management to provide and enterprise level Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and an Enterprise Directory Services that is part of a greater effort to move to true global DoD user accounts
• Participated in the successful completion of several military exercises by advising and assisting military liaison with guidance on system and network requirements

PRINCIPAL SYSTEMS ENGINEER / ACTIVE DIRECTORY ARCHITECT

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Migrated 30,000 users, 40,000 computers and 120,000 group AD objects between 6 domains at 18 sites
• Implemented an AD design providing consolidated forest and domain structure, trust model, physical and site replication topology and server role
• Designed and implemented a DNS architecture so all client/servers can resolve domain systems and services
• Designed and implemented a standardized enterprise OU and GPO model that reduces footprint, size, and complexity while adding greater security
• Assisted in design and implementation of an Identity Management and an Out of Band Management solution
• Designed and configured a physical AD test lab used by administrators to test configuration changes

PRINCIPAL SYSTEMS ENGINEER / ANALYST

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Assisted US Army in planning, designing and implementing enterprise-level projects for Active Directory consolidation, Exchange services migration, ITSM integration, Global Ticketing Consolidation, VMware customization, SharePoint services implementation and Continuity of Operations development and redesign
• Liaised with parent and subordinate organizations to coordinate, plan and implement projects with minimal impact to current operations
• Ensured project direction and schedule complied with customers’ expectations
• Provided detailed metrics to help the customer plan for project direction and implementation
• Developed the Enterprise Administration Model to define Enterprise Active Directory design and policies, resulting in standardization of all administration activities, increasing efficiency and reducing costs and outages
• Designed, implemented and documented several Microsoft SharePoint services

SENIOR COMPUTER SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGIST

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and maintained enterprise services, including Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, DNS, DHCP, Domain Trusts, Antivirus, PKI Certificate Services, MSSQL, Remedy, Quest and Backup Exec
• Managed Active Directory, including configuring, implementing and troubleshooting Group Policy Objects
• Created, implemented and maintained disaster recovery plans and backup strategies for all core services
• Liaised with colleagues and private vendors to identify, troubleshoot and resolve technical issues
• Operated a continual replacement/upgrade lifecycle of Enterprise-level software and hardware
• Organised and documented regular system maintenance activities, and wrote technical support documentation

SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked on a project for 1st Calvary Division and 4th Infantry Division at Camp Taji in Iraq
• Collaborated and liaised with all Brigade S-6 organizations, building strong working relationships
• Created training and taught students about Microsoft, VMware and Dell technology
• Installed, configured and administered a certification testing facility
• Assisted in Brigade server infrastructure redesign and implementation to increase “High Availability” and “Disaster Recovery” through advanced virtualization, clustering and other technologies
• Implemented real-time hardware, software and network monitoring for management and administrators
• Provided support in installing, training, maintaining, designing and implementing Network Appliance FAS270
• Advised on best practices and standardization in hardware maintenance and updates, security design and implementation, and server utilization and availability

SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR / ASSISTANT SITE LEAD / INFORMATION ASSURANCE SECURITY MANAGER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured, maintained and troubleshot Microsoft Enterprise, NT and Exchange Servers
• Ensured network integrity, and maintained a backup environment for site redundancy and disaster recovery
• Administered anti-virus and server updates to achieve full IAVA compliance
• Managed, maintained, installed and configured server operating systems and SAN enclosures
• Improved procedures by using imaging to increase efficiency and gain workstation network compliance
• Managed, configured and installed all data package COMSEC devices

SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR / PACKET ENGINEER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed duplicated and distributed core export decks, and monitored and documented requested solutions
• Maintained storage of Legacy applications, and updated database with add, remove and change requests
• Audited and packaged applications, and assisted with transfer and documentation into live Confidential environment

JUNIOR SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with the IT Manager in carrying out IT-related tasks as needed by corporate users
• Diagnosed and fixed issues regarding email performance, server implementation and administration, disaster recovery procedures and computer hardware/software maintenance

SYSTEMS TEST ENGINEER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed QA on SAN systems, including testing compatibility with various OS and software
• Documented all test results of failover, redundancy & compatibility, and conducted development testing