TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Skills: Windows Server 2012, 2008, 2003, 2000, Azure, Active Directory, Azure Powershell, Powershell 3.0, IIS 5, 6 and 7, SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008, VMware Lab Manager 4.0, VMware VCenter 4.0, 5.0, VMware ESXi 5, Azure, SCCM, SCVMM, SCOM, Exchange Server 2003, 2007, Sharepoint, Networking, Symantec Backup Exec 9 - 12, T-SQL, Nessus, Windows CMD scripting, ISA Server 2006, ITIL

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Davis, CA

Senior Systems Architect/Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• I work with Azure, VMWare, Windows Server, IIS, Active Directory, Exchange Server, SQL Server, and Sharepoint among other server technologies.
• I plan systems architecture for clients that which includes planning for Azure servers, VMWare hosts, Citrix, server OS, server software (such as Exchange Server, SQL Server and Sharepoint), and hardware.
• I am an architect for all technologies I work with at Confidential, and also a systems engineer for all technologies and provide a last tier of support for all of those technologies.
• A recent RFP proposal I wrote for a large retirement home in Sacramento is a complete server based software solution for automating all aspects of a retirement home.
• The core technologies include Azure, VMWare, Windows Server and SQL Server.
• I planned all the architecture, did the systems design and planned for implementation, future support and training.
• Sections of the document I wrote included Vendor Profile, Technical and Functional Reqs, Editable Tech and Functional Reqs, Implementation and Support, Software Support, Training, Service Levels, Security, Backup and Redundancy and Pricing.
• The document contains 150 points showing what the software will do for the end client.
• The proposal was worth over $200,000 and is under consideration by the client.
• I also do similar proposals for governments. I work with the President on planning smaller project deployments of Azure, Windows Server, Exchange Server, and Small Business Server.
• I work with Azure, provisioning and configuring new VM’s. I work 100% remotely on a part time basis.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Azure Lead

Responsibilities:

• Evaluated Confidential computing security documents including DFARS, ITAR and many others, and provided direction and recommendations to architects for design of a government cloud.
• Assisted the Program Manager with technical requirements and training development.
• Provided high level technical assistance and advice to Active Directory administrators regarding administration and fixing replication issues.
• Developed computing security policies for architects and all future users of the government cloud.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Windows Architect

Responsibilities:

• Assisted management in pursuing business development opportunities by applying my skills as an architect to a bid.
• I designed a vendor team with specific roles and requirements and provided innovative solutions and ideas that put their bid above the rest.
• The assistance I provided was all related to Confidential Windows Server including Powershell, Confidential System Center Operations Manager, and Confidential System Center Configuration Manager.

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

Senior CRM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Consulted with Confidential ’s hosted CRM service to help resolve high level CRM issues, and SQL Server issues.

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Azure Windows Engineer

Responsibilities:

• I worked for Azure and was the first person to follow a process where I would use a script to automatically setup a host with 8 VM’s that were created by pulling images that were about to go to production.
• I would then run Nessus scans on the OS images to test patching compliance. I compiled the data into reports that were in an Excel spreadsheet.
• I was the first one to follow this process and I documented everything so that it could be reproduced by others.
• I used Powershell 3.0 in the process of doing my work.

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• I supported a variety of proprietary applications which use technologies like IIS 6.0, FTP, Rightfax, Confidential Message queues in Windows Server and others.
• I provisioned new VM’s in VMWare and did P2V conversions.
• I also administered Active Directory in our four production domains including security groups.
• I wrote documentation for our recent VMWare 5 upgrade and for our Citrix upgrade.
• I also got iLO working with LDAP access on our HP production servers.
• We practiced the ITIL approach to IT Service Management, and so for example, when making any changes to production servers I created RFC’s and Work Orders.
• I took the on call rotation once a month for a week.

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Senior Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• I worked on site at Confidential and supported about 12 applications that leverage technologies including Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 R2, IIS 7.5, CRM, and Sharepoint, RSA Archer, and Apptio. Some of these applications use SANs.
• I did deployments of these applications and wrote documentation for them which I post on TFS. I created infrastructure requests such as DNS/WINS changes, and VIP requests.
• I handled all monitoring of these applications with SCOM and performed patching.
• We used internal ticketing systems for break/fix issues, used the ITIL ticketing system for infrastructure requests, and TFS for sprint related tasks.
• Most of my work was on production servers.

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Built out new environments and individual developer VMs using VMware Lab Manager 4.0. Maintained and troubleshooted VMs using VMware VCenter 4.0.
• Environments ran on Windows Server 2003, SQL Server 2005 and utilized IIS with heavy manual configuration.
• The VMs ran on a SAN. As part of environment buildouts I analyzed and edited scripts written in VBscript which is used for the automated portion of the buildout. We used Accurev for source control and configuration management.
• I also supported and troubleshooted existing environments we have already built out and supported various internal websites, tested tools and troubleshooted network related issues involving test lab VMs. Additionally I maintained our DNS infrastructure and worked on tickets related to active directory.
• I was heavily involved in building out our performance and stage environments.

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Build Engineer

Responsibilities:

• With an infrastructure focus.
• I created and managed Windows Server 2008 and 2003 VM’s and physical servers.
• I troubleshooted SQL Server 2008 issues related to the build system.
• I used SCVMM and Hyper-V to manage VM’s.
• I built out VM hosts and customized web servers on Windows Server 2008 and IIS7.
• I troubleshooted network and hardware issues and made recommendations as to hardware additions.