SUMMARY

• Highly qualified and well developed Systems Administrator & Engineer with extensive project experience that excels at leading cross - functional teams and coordination.
• An Infrastructure expert with more than 20 years of experience in Technology and data centers covering design, implementation, and administration, specializing in "High Availability" designs, implementing techniques such as clusters, load balancers, smart DNS, scripting and enterprise schedulers.
• Providing solutions oriented with planning, engineering and implementation of systems in direct support of the targeted business objectives and needs implementing current technologies such as Virtualization, Hyper-Convergence, Disaster Recovery, Systems Monitoring and continual Patch Management.
• Professional, logical, forthright thinker able to provide effective solutions
• Capable of objective analysis and making decisions based on business constraints
• Able to clearly articulate intricate technical problems and solutions in business terms
• Coach, mentor and lead personnel within a technical team environment.
• Lead through positive attitude, ownership, delegation, knowledge and teamwork
• Experience in Windows Server Design, Administration, Installation and Maintenance
• Engineering complete turn-key solutions from front-end DNS & Load Balancing to backend SQL clusters.
• Design, implement, and troubleshoot VMware ESX server, VMware Vcenter (virtual center), Horizon View VDI, HyperV, and supporting technologies such as V-Motion, HA, DRS, Affinity Rules
• System monitoring suites, such as Solarwinds and System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
• Server Migrations, such as Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Migrations from Datacenter to Datacenter
• Experienced in Patching and Config Management suites (SMS, SCCM, Altiris, LanDesk)
• Active Directory design and administration, user management, GPO design and rollout
• Skype/Lync 2010/2013 Server design and configuration including IM and Presence, Edge Services, Meeting and Collaboration as well as mobile device integration
• Microsoft Exchange implementation, upgrade, administration, maintenance and disaster recovery
• Cisco ACE hardware load balancing configuration of Hundreds of Web sites and URLs for HA
• HAProxy load balancing and SSL Termination for servers for HA
• Cisco GSS Hardware configuration for GSLB DNS
• PowerDNS / PowerGSLB configuration and maintenance for GSLB DNS
• Skilled in Powershell scripting
• Experienced in Project Management, Service Desk & Change Management (Service Now) and ITIL Skilled in TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS and network troubleshooting (Wireshark captures, port tests)
• Experienced in Storage Systems such as Compellent, Lefthand, NetApp SANs
• Microsoft EA, SA and EAP license tracking and contract management
• SQL Server implementations and configuration including multi-node SQL clustering
• Technical recommendations, establish administrative standards and process improvements
• Implementation of Change Management procedures and adherence
• Advanced knowledge of Server Implementations and Patch Management for Windows Servers
• Experience with Installation and Maintenance of Cisco, HP and Dell servers
• Proficient in Mobile Device Management (MDM) & BYOD device configurations (iOS, Android, Blackberry) Experience in LAN & WAN infrastructure
• Years of Hardware, Software Applications, and OS troubleshooting and maintenance Vendor management skills for infrastructure troubleshooting and maintenance Experience with router and switch (Cisco and Dell) installation and configuration Experienced in Firewall configuration (Sonicwall, Checkpoint)
• Experienced in Enterprise Scheduling Suites (Tidal)
• Experienced in Electronic Documentation and Tracking (Racktables, Confluence, Jira, GitHub) Experienced as a DBA with SQL Databases and Custom Reports and Query Generation (SSRS)
• Software Testing, Development, Documentation and Analysis Experience in Kanban/Agile/Scrum Methodologies

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Systems Engineer II

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Large Datacenter enterprise administration and installation of VM Servers (HyperV and VMWare)
• Design & Administration of Load Balancing, GSLB DNS, Server Redundancy and Server Clustering
• Active Directory maintenance and customization (Accounts/GPOs/OUs) with scripting
• Powershell scripting to automate processes
• Experienced in Compellant Storage Array & NetApp Storage Array
• Design & Implementation of SCCM (System Center)
• Implementation of Nutanix Hyperconverged Hardware
• Administration of SCOM
• Administration of Large VMWare Horizon View (VDI) Virtual Desktops and Pools
• Cloud systems & MCP (AWS / Dimension Data)

Systems Administrator III

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• L 2014 - 2016 arge (3000+) Datacenter enterprise administration and installation of Servers and VMs
• Experience with Load Balancing, GSLB DNS, Server Redundancy and Server Clustering
• Active Directory and GPO planning, implementation, and maintenance
• Engineered Microsoft Exchange capacity expansion, implementation and maintenance
• Engineered Microsoft Lync implementation, expansion and maintenance
• Powershell scripting to automate processes and monitoring/reporting
• Administration of SolarWinds for monitoring performance and alert configurations
• Datacenter migrations (server migration, data migration and pre/post monitoring)
• Active Directory planning, implementation, and maintenance

DBA/Systems Analyst/Specialist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• SQL Database optimization and normalization for large enterprise systems (SQL 2000-2012)
• Data analysis and custom report generation with Business Intelligence Developer Visual Studio
• Creation of on-demand graphical dashboards indicating live representation of data analysis
• Active Directory planning, implementation, and maintenance
• Windows Server installations, configuration, change/patch management and administration
• Installation and maintenance of Cisco Routers and Switches
• Monitoring of network performance and alert configurations
• Coordination of circuit installation and troubleshooting with vendors (ATT, Sprint, etc.)
• Protocols and TCP/IP subnet/address scheme design and maintenance
• Firewall configuration, maintenance and change management (auditing and compliance)
• Experienced in Project and vendor management for technical projects and infrastructure
• VMWare systems administration
• Management and configuration of 1000+ workstations and mobile devices
• HTML and Intranet design and maintenance, including CMS systems
• Software Testing, Implementation and Deployment
• Troubleshooting Windows workstations (hardware and software), including patch management
• Establishing and maintaining software standards and standardized operating systems
• Installation, replacement, and staging/logistical deployment of equipment (workstations, servers, peripherals/printers)
• Service management (Help Desk) experience using IT support ticketing systems

Information Technology Specialist,

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Windows and Novell Server administration, including Active Directory
• Managed workstation standards and standardized drive imaging for deployments
• Maintained TCP/IP networking including DHCP, DNS and static addressing
• Worked with vendors to coordinate installations, asset management, and equipment removal
• Installation and management of servers and LAN infrastructure
• Troubleshooting of infrastructure and management of 1000+ workstations/servers
• Linux administration for website, email and DNS