SUMMARY

• To obtain a position where I can use my skills as a Senior Systems Administrator/Engineer, knowledge and experience of network infrastructure, design, and security.
• As well as my experience with administrating and infrastructure design of Windows 2000/2003/2008/2012/2016 Active Directory, IIS, Exchange, SQL servers, VMware ESX Clusters, Citrix farms and Cisco, Juniper routing.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Senior Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• IT lead / project manager for the IT support team and the network administration of 47 locations spanning from New England to North Carolina encompassing 900 users and 700 distribution routes.
• Developed disaster recovery measures, maintained backups (tape and virtual), provided support for Microsoft Windows Server administration and SAN storage.
• Provided support in the data center and provided essential resolution of all requests, issues and problems.
• Perform infrastructure maintenance, monitoring, and troubleshooting of VPN devices, routers, switches and other network devices as well as administering network servers such as production servers, test servers, firewalls, proxy (DMZ) servers, mail gateways, Anti - spam/Anti-Virus Appliance and managing the wide and local area voice and data network by securing access to resources, maintaining equipment and monitoring network performance.
• Also performed network management e.g. WAN Administration, LAN Administration, Remote Access Administration and administration of regional network Internet, SSLVPN, and regional remote locations using VPN.
• The other functions of a senior network administrator include network troubleshooting, incident handling and recording, review, enhancement and documentation of network design and maintenance of network documentation.

Confidential, York, PA

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement and administered corporate networks using Microsoft Windows 2003 or 2008 environments, Cisco ASA's, Hyper-V, and VMWare ESX technologies.
• Oversaw the technology management of multiple clients spanning from manufacturing corporations to doctor's associations including clients that needed to be Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant.
• Assisted in the design and implementation of Microsoft SharePoint sites for internal and external usage.

Confidential, Cookeville, TN

Network Administrator, IT Infrastructure

Responsibilities:

• Primarily in change of Windows 2003 Active Directory, Exchange 2003, SQL 2005, IIS, Linux and VMware ESX Cluster administration on the corporate 50+ server/500+ user multi-domain environment as well as administrated our external spam filtering services.
• I wrote many of the company’s IT policies for domain user and Exchange administration as well as played a key role in designing the infrastructure and implementation for bringing the Oreck.com e-commerce website servers in house.
• In case of emergency, I was also the backup Network Engineer for our Cisco routers and WAN connectivity.
• Was responsible for monthly Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant scans of the e-commerce web servers.

Confidential, Knoxville, TN

IT Manager/Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managed and administrated the northern section of a 27 office doctors association; extensive experience and understanding of HIPAA guidelines and regulations for data networks.
• I was tasked to support the redesign of the physical infrastructure along with configurations of Juniper, Cisco and Meru routers, and migration of the domain servers from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003 Active Directory.
• Also assisted in the implementation and administration of a Citrix Metaframe farm used for the delivery of medical applications to client workstations and the administration of IIS, Exchange and SQL 2000/2005 servers.
• I was also responsible for the completion of monthly maintenance checklists and weekly backup solutions.

Confidential, Oak Ridge, TN

Implementation Specialist/Trainer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with designing & implementing our client/server based application used for local, regional & federal emergency management; extensive experience and understanding of NIMS guidelines; setup & administered Windows 2000, 2003, IIS & SQL Servers; beta tested and troubleshot issues with our design team; wrote technical manuals for our software; taught user & administrative level classes about our software.

Confidential

VP

Responsibilities:

• Administrated Microsoft Active Directory user, computer and location objects; including the design and implementation of a new multi-location, multi-server domain
• Managed an Information and Communication Technology department with helpdesk personnel and network engineers charged with supporting 50+ servers, 900+ users and 700+ delivery routes with remote devices
• Administrated Microsoft Exchange with multiple Exchange severs in the domain
• Responsible for backups of company data, Active Directory, Exchange and SQL databases
• Implemented and administrated multi-server VMware ESX Cluster versions 3.1through 6.5 with full Vmotion, DRS and redundant failover between servers
• Wrote corporate IT domain user and Exchange policies
• Tasked with the creation and administration of Group Policies using Microsoft Group Policy Editor and Script Logic’s Desktop Authority
• Tasked with creating a unified logon script for all Domain Users referencing multiple class objects
• Administrated corporate antivirus and spam filtering for the domain and Microsoft Exchange Servers; experienced with Barracuda, Symantec, Trend Micro, Spam Soap, Postini and Surf Control
• Played an active role in the design, implementation and administration of high profile, high volume e-commerce infrastructure which included load distribution of multiple web server front ends with Microsoft SQL Clustering back end, monthly scans for being Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant and web server patching/reconfiguring to meet PCI DSS compliance
• Played an active role in the design, implementation and administration of Microsoft Exchange 2003, 2008, 2013 and 2016; including backups of data stores, administration and regulation of user mailbox accounts
• Played an active roles in migrations from Microsoft Active Directory
• Played an active roles in migrations from Microsoft Exchange 2000 to 2003, Microsoft Exchange 2003 to 2007, Microsoft Exchange 2007 to 2013 and Microsoft Exchange 2013 to 2016
• Wrote and maintained firewall rules, polices and security which included full external IP ranges NAT’ed to internal servers
• Tasked with collecting network data for the purpose of creating company wide network baselines and rules for network traffic bottlenecks
• 300+ user mixed Active Directory and Linux domain with physical international locations.