OBJECTIVE:

Seeking opportunities in all types of System Engineering, Architecture and Administration positions which will allow me to provide solutions for your virtual & physical networks, domain forests, farms and all types of clusters

PROFILE:

• Over 19 years of cross - platform experience in systems architecture, engineering. VMWare hybrid, Hyper V hybrid as well as physical environments.
• Cisco HCI - UCS, Dell HCI vxBlock’s and Dell Chassis M1000’s deployments and migrations holding between 3 to 5 vCenters, (multi-locations-Stretch Clustering) 40 to 100 hosts, and between 1000 to 5000 VM’s
• Expert in LAN/WAN/VPN/VoIP design and deployments, and administration in enterprise environments - including large data centers and network support call centers, spanning several different industries. eCOM, Medical, .GOV, Financial
• Proven work experience as an IT Manager/Director

AREAS OF STRONG TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

• Microsoft Windows Server (Win2000 through Windows Server 2019)
• Active Directory, DNS
• PowerShell, VB scripts, and C# utilities (ask about latest creations)
• SharePoint Infrastructure: installing, configuring, programming, maintaining, upgrading and managing a SharePoint farms
• SolarWinds (SAM) monitoring servers and network
• Microsoft Exchange 2003 to 2016)
• Microsoft SQL Server (2000 through 2019)
• VM Ware ESX6.5, and Hyper V 8, 12, & 16
• IIS, Tomcat, Apache, and SharePoint. performance, optimization, security and troubleshooting excellent interpersonal skills - able to communicate with both business users and technical staff, team player, calm under high pressure situations, detail oriented, quick learner and self-starter, enjoy learning new things, not afraid of a challenge, great sense of humor

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Windows Server 2019-2000-Ent
• Linux, Centos & Redhat
• Cisco UCS Hyper-Flex M5-240C
• Hyper Convergence
• Dell V-Block EMC(HCX)
• Dell M1000 Chassis/Blade’s
• Dell 7xx 9xx PowerEdge
• Citrix NetScaler load balancers
• SonicWALL/Cisco VPN Appliances
• PowerShellVB Scrips
• MS Orch. Runbooks
• MSSQL 2000-2016
• SharePoint 2000-2016
• MS Exchange2013 - 2000
• WSUS,SCCM,VMM
• NanoServer
• MS Visual Studio 2017-2015
• C#
• ADUC,ADSS,DNS,ADDS,GPO
• LDAP,MS Network Controllers
• Automation Scripting for AD
• VMWare vCenter 6.5 Ent
• Hyper V Virtualization (VMM)
• PROTOCOLS/Net Appliances
• DNS.DHCP,VoIP,IPSec,PPP,PPTP
• NAT, RIP, RIP2, BGP, SMTP, SNMP, POP3, SMTP, SSH, SSL, FTP, Telnet. SonicWALL Firewalls,Cisco Firewalls & Switches, Barracuda

EXPERIENCE:

Senior VMWare Engineer

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities:

• Hired to design, buy, then deploy Cisco UCS HCI vCenters then migrate vCenter from ageing hardware and old version of vCenter
• Primary role is to now maintain these new vCenter’s totaling 7 clusters and 1300 VM’s of various configurations
• Secondary role is building servers & templates using: VRA (VMware), VMM (Microsoft Hyper-V, PS scripts, (VB-Scripts with PS) physical remote builds via iDRAC, (Dell 740) and SQL server Microsoft Cluster servers.
• Create/Restore VM’s using snapshots for customers daily. Upgrading vSphere software
• Keeping vCenter distributed network switches current with our physical network and updating Active Directory Sites & Services accordingly.
• Build DHCP servers as we expand throughout the area in new buildings and locations.
• Troubleshoot all network / server WAN connection issues for entire build team covering multi-offices world wide
• Create all DNS records, AD objects needed for every server build, cluster created.
• Create new PS scripts for the Automation Team for various automation tasks.
• Ticket system: Service Now
• Patch server: Manage Engine, SCCM
• Hyper Visors: VMWare, (Azure Hybrid, Service Management Portal), VMWare ESX6.5, 6.0
• Monitoring servers: SolarWinds, PRTG

Build Master (Consultant)

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities:

• Primary role was building servers using: VRA (VMware), VMM (Microsoft Hyper-V, PS scripts, (VB-Scripts with PS) physical remote builds via iDRAC, (Dell 740) and SQL server Microsoft Cluster servers.
• Create/Restore VM’s using snapshots for customers daily. Upgrading vSphere software, tagging down VLANs on new Port Groups
• Troubleshoot all network / server connection issues for entire build team
• Create all DNS records, AD objects needed for every server build, cluster created.
• Create new PS scripts for the Automation Team for various automation tasks.
• Ticket system: Service Now
• Patch server: Manage Engine
• Hyper Visors: VMM, (Azure On-Prem Service Management Portal), VMWare ESX6.5
• Monitoring servers: SolarWinds

Virtualization Windows Engineer

Confidential, Greenville, NC

Responsibilities:

• Build, install & maintain Windows servers for various infrastructure roles to support enterprise mail, MSSQL, APPS, SharePoint, IIS, SCCM farms/domains
• Maintain Windows Servers for updates and compliance
• Verify and Test daily backups
• Verify and test monthly Failovers to DR location
• Submit monthly technology improvement plans
• Regular upgrades on all Virtualization software (VMWare esx6.5)
• Regular upgrades on all storage software (Dell EMC/vBlock
• Weekly team meetings yesterday/today/tomorrow planning
• Migrate SCCM farm from 2012 to 2016
• Automate any/all infrastructure/app/utility servers using: PS Scripting, VB Scripting, C# scripts

Director of IT Infrastructure - Consultant

Confidential, North Carolina

Responsibilities:

• Maintain Microsoft Windows networks & cloud servers and appliances for developers and production environment for entire WAN/LAN as well as all client sites via site-to-site VPN tunnels (PPTP) Troubleshoot all Cloud and WAN VPN connections for in house network as well as all client networks.
• Design and deploy multiple Virtual Hosts using VMWare and Microsoft Hyper V, with Microsoft Hyper V HOST Replication.
• Using Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager 2012 to generate MS SQL (SRS) reports for daily briefings with managers and other staff on the health of cloud environments
• Integrated Operations Manager and Virtual Machine Manager and ran daily health reports using SQL Server (SRS) service to be presented in weekly reports of all our cloud servers.
• Create & Maintain database indexes and prune unnecessary data to optimize database space and performance.
• Maintain all management packs and rollups for MSSQL, as well as other custom system software
• Automated the creation, monitoring, and deployment of resources in our environment using MS System Center Orchestrator 2012
• Design, deploy and support multi-domain, enterprise level Microsoft environment for a large development firm and its hosted customers.
• Design, setup, and maintain disaster recovery plan for all mission critical servers.
• Design and deployment of SharePoint farms, Windows forests and Microsoft Exchange 2007, 2010, MS 2008 Servers
• Maintain VoIP phone switch (Altigen) for in house communications.
• Migrate DSL system to T1. Maintain PRI network for VoIP system
• Automated daily processes through PowerShell and some VBScript
• Leveraging the following technologies:
• Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager 2012, Hyper-V, VMWare, SQL Server, SharePoint 2010 and 2013, Windows 2008 and Windows 2012, Exchange 2010-2013.

Systems Administrator

Confidential, Torrance, California

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for maintaining MSSQL SERVER 2003 Servers, network equipment, routers, edge switches
• Migrate office from Unix to Microsoft Windows servers
• Create daily MSSQL reports for our managers and other tech staff.
• Install configure admin and support MS Exchange 2003/2007
• Migration from a standard DSL circuit to T1 circuit
• Setup SQL Reporting Services for external clients as needed.
• Routine MSSQL, IIS, SharePoint server software setup, maintenance and backups.
• Designed and built SonicWALL VPN for President of company, and sales force for remote access to SQL/SharePoint servers. Setup VPN bridge between two office buildings.