SUMMARY:

• Well - rounded senior IT Professional with over 15 years experience in large enterprise environments as an implementation engineer, system engineer/analyst, and supervisor/manager.
• I'm looking for a long-term position but will consider contracts in California.
• 20 years Windows server and enterprise solution implementation and support - Ver. 3.51 NT - 2016.
• 16 years NetWare/OES server and solution implementation support - Ver. 3.11 - OES 11.
• 18 years NTFS / Share permissions and best practices
• 7 years PowerShell scripting experience
• 6 years NetIQ / Novell Identity Manager: Driver development, system implementation projects
• 10 years Virtualization using VMware, XenServer and Nutanix
• 6 years Cloud solutions: Azure, Rackspace, AWS, SaaS, HaaS, IaaS, Backup as Service
• 6 years O365 migration and support
• 20 years enterprise email system support, installation, and system design.
• 14 years enterprise consulting
• 14 years designing and implementing enterprise solutions for organizations with up to 100,000 users
• 12 years LDAP integration and support.
• 14 years IT solution documentation visio, howto's, project proposals, server build
• 11 years openSUSE, SLES, Ubuntu, CentOS and RedHat Linux support and solution implementation.
• 10 years business processes analysis to identify opportunities for IT to assist in improving efficiencies
• Project Management for NetWare, Linux, Windows, SAN, and enterprise email projects - mergers, migrations, and solution implementation.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Redwood City, CA

Sr Active Directory Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Okta SaaS Single Sign-On implementation and administration
• Domain upgrade from Windows Server 2012 R2 to Windows Server 2016
• Implemented Okta and DUO Dual Factor Authentication
• Office 365 integration and administration
• Migrate Dirsync to Azure AD Connect
• Organizational email domain name change
• Build and Administer AWS Servers and Cloud infrastructure
• Infrastructure as Code
• Develop runbooks to deploy infrastructure in Azure and AWS using Azure Automation
• Developed PowerShell Desired State solution to ensure server compliance in AWS and Azure using Azure Automation
• PowerShell Script Development
• Automate AWS Backups an Snapshots
• User automation and workflows
• Server automation
• Nutanix Installation and Administration
• Sr. Active Directory Administrator
• Sr. Exchange Administrator - Office 365

Confidential, Port Hueneme, CA

Active Directory and VMWare SR. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design and support infrastructure for 3 vSphere systems for classified and unclassified environments
• Upgrade vSphere systems from version 5.1 to 5.5
• Develop Powershell scripts for system management and automation
• Design and implement SCOM 2012 R2 in unclassified and classified systems
• Support and management of HP EVA SAN and 3PAR SAN

Confidential, San Diego, CA

NetIQ IDM and PowerShell Consultant

Responsibilities:

• 100-hour project to identify and correct issues in Active Directory driver that were causing provisioning failures.
• Develop PowerShell scripts to automate locating and correcting accounts with provisioning issues.
• Develop fixes to NetIQ IDM drivers to prevent reoccurrence of the provisioning issue

Confidential

Lead Microsoft Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead team of 2 local resources and 4 offshore resources in Active Directory Forest Consolidation Project and R2 Forest upgrade for Dole Food Company.
• O365 Migration Projects

Confidential, Long Beach, CA

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Negotiated VOIP and Business internet contracts with multiple vendors to save customers money
• Exchange 2013, Lync 2013, SharePoint 2013, Office 365 hybrid integration
• Used Quest/Dell OnDemand Migration for Email tool to migrate to Exchange 2013 and Office 365
• Used Veem Explorer for Exchange to migrate email accounts to Office 365
• Performed Office 365 implementations and migrations for multiple customers
• GroupWise 8 to Exchange 2013 migration
• Net IQ Proof of Concept Identity Management 4.02 design and implementation - Long Beach Unified School District
• Designed and implemented cloud based disaster recovery solutions
• Eversync Disk to Disk Backup Appliance installation and configuration - Bellflower Unified School District and Long Beach Unified School District vSphere ESXi Impementation and Support ver 4.1 - 5.5 including vCenter Web Appliance
• HP c7000 BladeSystem Installation and Configuration
• Managed Dell, Xiotech, IBM SANS
• Implemented and managed NAS and iSCSI systems
• Custom built Linux NFS Storage clusters
• Built virtual storage arrays using local storage using VSA software
• Juniper - Netscreen Firewall configuration and support.

Confidential, Westlake Village, CA

Sr. Architect

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement NetIQ Single Sign-On Solution.
• Design and implement NetIQ Access Management/Provisioning Solution.
• Developed ASP.Net web application using Entity Framework Code First for HR Portal used for user provisioning/deprovisioning

Confidential, Irvine, CA

SR Active Directory Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Support Novell to AD migration project
• Enterprise level Active Directory support and administration
• Developed PowerShell scripts to automate AD functions and query HR database to automate user group assignments

Confidential, Carson, CA

Sr. Microsoft Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Top tier support for global 2008 Active Directory system
• Managed production and 9 development AD forests
• Developed PowerShell scripts to maintain user and OU synchronization of 9 development and staging forests
• Participated in planning phase of Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 upgrade
• Hardened Windows and Linux servers to comply with DoD policy
• Investigated and resolved security vulnerabilities identified by vulnerability scans
• Ensured Windows system security settings are in line with best practices and DoD standards
• Designed GPO’s and scripts for desktop and server management

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Sr. IT Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Sr. Active Directory 2008 Engineer for Heath Services Administration
• Architect enterprise Active Directory infrastructure in challenging and political environment
• SharePoint 2007 administration and migration to new enterprise Active Directory
• Ensured that Windows and Linux servers were hardened to DHS policy and SANS best practice recommendations
• Investigate port requirements of each solution and prepared security requirements documentation for security review portion of change control
• Investigated and resolved security vulnerabilities
• Migrated Enterprise Applications documentation and procedures to SharePoint to simplify management of documents
• Migration of 50+ Xen Servers to VMware system for VMware standardization project
• Developed system design for Citrix XenServer virtualization system and virtualized over 50 Windows and Linux servers
• Identity Management Phase II project - Integrate LA County CWTAPPS system into Identity Management system - Developed JDBC connector to SQL view to populate Human Resources staging directory
• SQL/MySQL server support
• Developed bash scripts to automate Linux server fault recovery
• Wrote, designed and produced server build documentation to enable critical systems to be rebuilt by other engineers in the future without requiring a high skill set
• Consulted customers, visited workplaces and conducted surveys to determine present and future IT needs
• Trained System Administrators in operational support of IT systems
• Worked with other engineers, systems analysts, programmers, technicians, scientists and top-level managers in the design, testing and evaluation of systems
• Visited vendors, attended conferences and and studied technical journals to keep up with changes in technology
• Identified areas of operation that need design improvements to improve performance and fault tolerance such as web applications, LDAP authentication systems and Directory synchronization

Confidential, Ridgecrest, CA

Sr. Microsoft Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Supported Active Directory for Advanced Weapons Laboratory
• Deployed Group Policies to automate desktop and server management
• Performed Retna scans on servers to assess security vulnerabilities
• Deployed Microsoft Systems Operations Manager 2007
• Centralized Windows Server Security logs to SQL 2005 database for external auditing
• Wrote VB Scripts to automate common administrative functions
• Implemented New ArcServe 10.5 and HP Tape Library system

Confidential

IT Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Integration of TAM and WebSphere with IDM Identity Vault
• GroupWise 6.5 to 7.0.2 upgrade of 25,000+ user system
• Several IDM 3.0 and 3.5 projects- Active Directory, JDBC, GroupWise, eDirectory, Text Delimited drivers.
• Developed Business Processes for successful implementation of Identity Vault in complex distributed environment with multiple business units
• VMware Virtualization, IBM, Dell and HP SAN implementations supporting multiple OS's
• SLES 10 XEN virtualization of Windows and SLES servers
• Implementation of Oracle RAC 10 cluster
• HIPAA Business Solutions Implementation
• Apache, IIS, Tomcat application implementation and support
• Wrote bash scripts to automate Linux error/crash recovery for apache/tomcat web applications
• Implemented Several email spam/virus filters and secure messaging for HIPAA compliance
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Version 8-10 Application and Web Servers

Confidential, Columbia, SC

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Netware/Windows solution implementation for several
• Desktop Management system implementation several
• Redesigned Confidential System from 44 servers throughout district to centralized system using 8 blade servers and 6 rack servers at district office

Confidential, New York, NY and Chicago, IL

Operations Supervisor

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for highest possible uptime for Eastern and Central region of US in Global mixed email system covering multiple business units
• Global GroupWise/Exchange/Notes Email System support and projects
• Lead migration from GroupWise 6.0 - 6.5 in US
• Assisted global administrators in resolving GroupWise issues
• Supervisor of Confidential and Exchange System Support

West Virginia Confidential, Morgantown, WV

Assistant Director

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for highest possible uptime for Confidential email system covering multiple departments and schools
• Network/GroupWise system management of 5000 user system
• Project Manager for SAN implementation and migration project published

Confidential, Troy, MI

Global Email Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided level 3 email/network support to Global Administrators
• Global Project planning and implementation
• Global Infrastructure design and implementation
• Developed reliable disaster recovery system
• Maintained secure/encrypted email communications both internally and with partner corporations