SUMMARY:

• Respected IT Engineer with strong experience in the architecture, engineering and support of information systems.
• I have in - depth expertise in the implementation, analysis, optimization, troubleshooting and documentation of LAN/WAN network systems.
• I have “hands on” technical knowledge with VMware, Windows Server, Office 365, Work Spot, Cisco/Meraki (switches/routers/firewalls/access points), HP/Aruba switches, Palo Alto firewalls, Riverbed and various SAN products.
• 17 years of experience with Microsoft (Server and Client) Operating Systems, AD, DNS, DHCP
• 10 years of experience with Cisco routers & switches, HP switches
• 10 years of experience with Cisco ASA, PIX, Sonicwall
• 8 years of experience with Vmware
• 5 years of experience with Cisco Meraki (MX, MS and MR)
• 5 years of experience with hosted and on-premise VOIP
• 3 years of experience with Tintri, 3Par (Storage)
• 2 years of experience with Office365 and WorkSpot (VDI 2.0)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows Server/Client, Linux (Ubuntu), Mac OS Server

Hardware: HP, Dell

Networking: Cisco/ Cisco Meraki, HP/Aruba, Riverbed

Firewalls: Palo Alto, ASA, PIX, Juniper, SonicWall.

Cloud Technologies: AWS, Office 365

VOIP: Cisco Call Manager, Shortel (Cloud), Fuze (Cloud).

VDI: WorkSpot

Desktop Management: Faronics/IGel

EXPERIENCE:

Network/Systems Engineer

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• As lead Network/Systems Engineer I was responsible for designing, planning and maintaining all aspects of IT infrastructure to support 20+ pharmacies, 1000+ employees operating 24/7/365.
• Designed, planned and implemented move of core services to a colocation facility located in Northern NJ. Stood up new infrastructure (Meraki MS425 Stack, MX250 HA Pair, 15 Vmware Hypervisors) in colocation with multiple Confidential circuits back to corporate office.
• Design, Planned and Implemented IT infrastructure to support rollouts of 10 new pharmacies and retrofitted 10 existing pharmacies to conform to new company standards to provide maximum uptime and low latency.
• Planned and implemented migration from legacy PBX to a hosted VOIP with Fuze. Stood up new phone system in parallel with legacy phone system for seamless and uninterrupted migration. Worked with Fuze engineers to capture and display real time call metrics which helped improve customer hold time and customer satisfaction.
• Migrated company infrastructure to Cisco Meraki (Switching, Firewalls and WAPs) to reduce management burden, sustained features (continual updates), cloud-management and anywhere anytime access.
• Implemented WorkSpot (VDI Platform) for remote connectivity replacing SonicWall VPN. WorkSpot was also used to decrease the number of windows clients in the production environment by moving to Dell Thin Clients and leveraging terminal servers.
• Worked with MSP to migrate email infrastructure to Office365. 1000 + user accounts were migrated to Office365 while also implementing cloud services for signatures “Exclaimer” and email encryption “Zix”.
• Installed and configured two Palo Alto 3020 firewalls in Virtual Wire Mode. Deploying in virtual wire mode allowed for a simpler firewall installation with minimum downtime in our 24/7/365 environment. Once installed we were able to apply policy and use features like URL Filtering, Threat Prevention, and WildFire.
• Planned and implemented migration from Hyper-V environment to VMware. Provisioned/Configured 10 hypervisors with multiple clusters, distributed switching, Upgrade Tiered Storage to Tintri (All Flash SANs) for SQL workloads and VDI infrastructure. Upgraded VM/Storage switching infrastructure to 10gig switches Dell Force 10’s (S4810’s).

Network/Systems Engineer

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Planned and implemented migration from costly Managed MPLS service to fully meshed Site-2-Site VPN solution using Meraki MX series routers. Five sites in total were migrated off of the MPLS service saving the company 300K over 5 years. Each site was equipped with multiple ISPs and two Meraki MX series devices for HA.
• Planned and implemented a migration from a flat class C network to a scalable and efficient segmented network across all sites.
• Planned and implemented firewall migration from Cisco Meraki MX and Juniper appliances to Palo Alto firewalls. Collapsed and centralized all externally facing resources in various office into the NJ office and into a DMZ.
• Rolled out new storage solution (Tintri) to virtualize all instances of SQL server. Configured several Dell Force 10 switches (Spanned) to support new storage and VMware infrastructure.
• Upgraded/Migrated ESXi 4 infrastructure to newer hosts while efficiently decreasing the number of physical hosts in the environment.
• Built a lab environment replicating our current production environment for various facets of IT (Security, Ops, Dev and Helpdesk). A portion of the lab environment was also carved off to implement an external monitoring environment as well as for penetration testing.
• Created virtual environment for critical SQL servers using flash based storage “Fusion-IO/ 3Par SSD” ensuring little to no performance loss while taking advantage of HA/FT/VMOTION feature of Vmware.

Systems Engineer

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all aspects of IT for three separate business units with three independent network infrastructures. Including day to day support of server and network infrastructures.
• Upgraded aging company infrastructure to a Vmware virtualized environment using Vsphere 5.0 and the following Hardware: 3 HP Proliant DL380 servers, 1 HP P2000 ISCSI SAN, and a Cisco 4506-E switch.
• Deployed Call Manager Express/Unity Express in two of our plasma collection facilities located in Norcross GA. Hardware used in deployment: Cisco 2900 series router, Catalyst 2960 POE switches, and 7940/7960 series IP phones.
• Responsible for planning/implementing a move to a new facility. Worked with various contractors to plan and oversee proper implementation of network/phone cabling, server room build out, controlled building access, and security/fire/video systems. I personally was responsible for moving the existing infrastructure from the old facility to the new facility assuring business continuity throughout the move.
• Plan/Implement/Deploy network infrastructure for plasma collection facilities in Norcross GA using the following infrastructure: 1 HP Proliant DL380 server, Local Storage, Catalyst 4500, 3800 and 2960 series switches, ASA 5505 series firewalls.
• Responsible for daily administration of network/ server infrastructure, remote users support and I am also responsible for maintaining working relationships with vendors and consultants to assist in various projects and systems deployments.
• Avaya IP Office Administration (Adds, Moves, Changes), setup and deployed 20 (9620L) IP phones for ipsec-remote-access.
• I created and maintained documentation as well as developed processes and procedures for ISO and SOX compliance.

Systems Engineer

Confidential, Morristown, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Deployed 2 remote sites connecting to Call Manager Servers located in Boston Massachusetts. The two sites were located in the UK and San Francisco. Each site had connectivity back to Boston’s Call Manager Cluster via MPLS circuits provided by AT&T. During the deployment/cut-over I configured phones, mailboxes, dial-peer configurations, AA’s and tested SRST. Performed post implementation support both onsite and remote.
• Deployed 100 IP phones in Boston office and configured extensions, mailboxes, dial-peers, AA’s and tested SRST. Performed phone training for 100 users as normal trainer was out sick.
• Worked with Senior Engineers to migrate servers and network infrastructures to Data Centers.
• Worked with Cisco to implement TCL script which allowed end users in a Call Manager environment to use DID number for both phone and fax.

Network Administrator

Confidential, New York City, NY

Responsibilities:

• Implemented NYC office backup solution using Legato Networker 6.2.
• Implemented StorageTek L80 and L20 backup devices.
• Windows 2000 AD Administration.
• Exchange 2000 Administration.
• Migrated from 3Com switches to Cisco switches.
• Completed extensive network documentation and Visio diagrams for the NYC and NJ offices.
• Migrated NYC users to new Exchange 2003 server.

Network Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Setup Exchange 2003 OWA server for Tyco.com (The OWA server were implemented as front end servers, form based authentication, Verisign SSL, enabled OWA servers to allow end users to change domain passwords).
• Collapsed 5 Windows 2000 Child Domains into the Tyco.com Domain using AD migration tool.
• Migrated 1000 home directories to a Windows 2003 file server.
• Implemented Shadow copy service for public and home directories.
• Worked with Microsoft to deploy SMS 2000 and deploy advanced client to all computers in the Princeton Facility.
• Configured and Deployed 20 Cisco 3560 switches throughout the Princeton Facility in preparation for a new Cisco VOIP telephony system.
• Maintained Cisco 3550 and 3560 switches. (Managed VLAN changes, port assignments, and VTP server.)
• Member of Tyco One Group (Tyco One Group is a team of engineers asked to develop a strategy to consolidate 5 distinct business units into one Domain Tyco.com. This project involved 216,000 employees located throughout the world.)

Systems Engineer

Confidential, Florham Park, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Network Infrastructure Roll-out for 5 regional facilities and 30 + branch offices, replaced existing network equipment with Cisco firewalls, Cisco switches and Cisco routers. Worked with senior engineer in to deploy and configure networking equipment.
• Worked software developer to consolidate several legacy applications housed on multiple servers into one database server and two Terminal Servers.
• Configured several Vlan’s for testing environment and data backups.
• Implemented anti-spam solution using Mail Marshal for Exchange.
• Implemented Windows update services for entire domain.
• Cisco Call Manager 3.X, and Unity administration for 250 plus handsets.
• Configured Castelle network fax solution at the corporate office.
• Implemented Symantec Ghost to assist in desktop/laptop deployment.