Technical Engineer Windows Operations Resume Blaine, MN - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Engineering solutions for technical challenges since 2009. I discovered my love for software development during my time as an IT Systems Engineer, when it became clear that the more architectural aspects of technology were the strengths I wanted to develop the most. Taking ideas and turning them into functional, elegant applications is my mission.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Technical Engineer Windows Operations

Confidential

Assists vendors and internal departments with Windows server hosted service migrations and upgrades
Ensures security policy compliance for the Windows environment by performing Operating System patching and application modernizations
Maintains infrastructure equipment inventory and manages hardware life - cycle
Performs data center management, including cable organization and hardware installation
Provides troubleshooting and advanced analysis of requests within the Windows R2 environment

Windows Systems Administrator

Confidential, LA

Architects and manages the Active Directory environment for a multi-site hierarchy
Assists in the architectural development and deployment of new installations and solutions in an ever-expanding VMware environment within a continuous improvement organization
Automates administrative tasks in AD, Office 365, Exchange Online and VMware with the use of PowerShell and PowerCLI
Designs and implements software deployments, updates, OSD and systems management solutions with the use of SCCM
Develops, installs, recommends purchases, implementations and configuration of Microsoft technologies and Infrastructure systems
Oversees the administration and operation of the physical server, telephony, networking and storage infrastructure, in data centers and offices geographically located around the country
Researches, evaluates and recommends new technologies to meet business requirements and contributes to long-range planning for systems evolution
Supports, upgrades and maintains media and broadcast related Microsoft servers and applications that are critical to the operation of the Confidential automation and play to air systems in a 24x7x365 environment

SIS Systems Administrator

Confidential, Blaine, MN

Assists with the testing and deployment of internal operations tools; contributes to increased customer service and efficient product delivery
Configures and installs a customer-purchased web application, and dependent software, to remote-access servers and maintains the internal system requirements for continued software delivery and use at the largest American-owned Student Information System provider
Executes timely XML code changes and Apache Tomcat upgrades to ensure continued functionality of the web application during a continuous product development cycle
Manages client database backup tasks through use of an internally-built tool; processes requested database restores and ensures the availability of client data
P TECHNICAL SKILLS JavaScript/ES6 jQuery/AJAX MongoDB Express.js AngularJS Node.js HTML CSS RESTful APIs Git/GitHub AWS Storage (S3, Glacier) Template Engines PostgreSQL Ruby on Rails PowerShell App-V Enterprise Microsoft Technologies VMware Windows Server 20002012 R2 Azure AD erforms SQL server database management, including any necessary script modification and execution

IT Systems Specialist

Confidential

Assisted with the assignment and upkeep of user security rights and mailing distribution groups in Active Directory
Configured communications equipment and user/device profiles in the software-based callprocessing system utilized by the company (Cisco Unified CM)
Identified and repaired network-related issues using a network access control appliance
Performed installation, configuration, and maintenance of various hardware and software on both user workstations and data center servers
Planned, designed, built, tested and deployed SCCM 2012 infrastructure corporate-wide; created and deployed software packages, SCEP definitions, and Windows updates
Provided both live and remote-access technical support; repaired and maintained the software, hardware and network infrastructure used by the company's 400+ employees
Served as the Help Desk team lead and managed the issue queue in the IT case system (JIRA)