SUMMARY

• Senior IT Analyst with strong Microsoft background and extensive experience in many aspects of Information Technology, pursuing a leadership career. Skilled at design, programming, research, planning, analysis, building creative environments and managing projects to success.
• Windows Server Certified Professional. Check Point security.
• Web Development Certified Professional.
• JavaScript Development Certified Professional.
• Also trained in several other areas based on Microsoft technology.
• Over 20 years of experience in a Client/Server Microsoft Windows environment with Internet technology.
• Extensive experience in research, systems integration, capacity planning, design, policy and standards development, software licensing, inventory, automation, recovery, security analysis and testing.
• TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, remote access, VPN, Security Information and Event Management, EventSentry, Netwrix, Desktop Authority, Active Administrator, Security Explorer, Enterprise Reporter, PrimalScript, Visual Studio, VBA (MS Access programming), VBScript, PowerShell, other scripting, Microsoft Share Point, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Exchange Server, Symantec technologies and products.
• Endpoint administration, recovery management, security management, virtualization, storage management, server backup technologies and products, electronic faxing solutions, printing and scanning.
• Strong experience in installation and troubleshooting of all major hardware in the client and server area.
• Over 18 years of web developer experience; proficient in JavaScript, HTML, Cascading Style Sheets, XML, Internet Information Server, SQL Server, Adobe PhotoShop and other digital photo management technologies.
• Developed and maintained the first company web site for Confidential .
• Innovative, detail oriented, dependable, self - starter, flexible, efficient, takes ownership for responsibilities, able to communicate and interact successfully with all levels of individuals both internal and external.
• Shares knowledge and ideas that help promote individual, team, and company growth.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Visual Basic
• Visual Basic .NET
• Scripting Windows Administration Tasks
• Internet Information Server
• JavaScript
• XML
• Web Security
• Exchange Server.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Washington, DC

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Primary analyst involved in all Information Technology research, development and deployment of solutions.
• Top level contributor/specialist. Provided consultation for complex projects and systems integration.
• Responsible for researching, evaluating, and implementing all new technologies, development tools, and software products to enhance the functionality of systems and network.
• Lead systems technician overseeing many tasks and projects for small systems team.
• Managed several IT projects and finalized them successfully.
• Member of the hiring team for the IT Department, developed technical questions and reviewed candidates resumes; played important role in the final hiring decision.
• Designed, installed and managed the company Windows 2012 R2 Active Directory Domain with Windows 2012 R2 and Windows 2008 R2 servers, Windows 7 and Windows 10 workstations, Microsoft Exchange Server, Internet Information Server, SQL Servers, Oracle, Hyper-V virtualization, Check Point Firewall, Symantec and more.
• Experience with Microsoft Licensing.
• Contact technician for Microsoft technologies; experience with account and license management for other software.
• Managed assets inventory scanning and reporting.
• Performed retention management.
• Performed capacity planning, involved in process of research to purchase systems.
• Developed policies, procedures and techniques that minimize support costs and total cost of ownership.
• Developed and implemented system and user policies to maintain compliance with industry security and optimization standards.
• Developed and implemented automated installation of operating systems and software.
• Built solutions to automate daily network processes.
• Solutions based on scripting, programming and project development.
• Primary disaster recovery engineer.
• Installed and configured online recovery solution.
• Performed several DR tests with successful recovery, both physical and virtual.
• Installed, configured and administered the company firewall solution with Check Point Firewall software.
• Implemented site-to-site and remote user connectivity to the company network via VPN.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all network and Internet security.
• Leveraged various security tools to monitor security infrastructure and identify security threats.
• Installed, configured and deployed endpoint security throughout the organization with Symantec.
• Performed all domain migrations throughout the years, from Windows NT through all versions up to Windows 2012 R2.
• Developed procedures to automate systems migrations.
• Installed, configured and managed the company internal and external e-mail solution and performed all migrations and recovery of the Exchange Server throughout the years.
• Installed and deployed the company interactive desktop management solution - Desktop Authority.
• Designed all elements of desktop administration to streamline several aspects of the desktop experience.
• Installed and configured the company enterprise faxing solution and enterprise network scanning and printing solution.
• Installed and configured the company backup solution - Arcserve. Designed backup rotation plan.
• Installed, designed and configured storage management solutions including HP SAN and EMC 2 .
• Installed and configured Microsoft Share Point server.
• Installed, configured and implemented the company systems mass deployment solution with Symantec Ghost.
• Worked with relational databases including SQL Server and developed several Microsoft Access Databases and Visual Basic programs.
• Between 2000 - 2015 - installed and developed, administered and programmed the first company Web Site for Confidential, FTP site and Intranet site, along with the company web server with Internet Information Server in a Microsoft Windows environment.
• In charge of the company Web Site structure with regards to graphics type, color, fonts, tables, forms design and frame design, buttons, toolbars, scripts, applets.
• Designed, created and implemented all graphic images for the company Web Site.
• Under self-initiative, developed Intranet Site for the IT department with remote access to all user PCs and to server-centralized printer management software.
• Implemented database connectivity into Intranet Site and dynamically built ASP pages providing information such as: user details, computers and peripherals status, parts order status, software documentation, etc.
• Extensive experience with hardware and software installation, upgrades, troubleshooting and employee training.

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Systems/Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managed and maintained the company network on Windows platform with e-mail, Internet, remote access, electronic faxing and backup.
• Performed all hardware and software installation, upgrades, troubleshooting and employee training.
• Installed, configured and maintained Internet access on several workstations and responsible for Internet search of updates, upgrades and patches for our software and hardware.
• On call for troubleshooting hardware and software related problems for 25 workstations as well as solving computer and peripheral related problems.
• Wrote scripts to run maintenance programs and to automatically update databases, developed macros.
• Designed styles and templates for Microsoft Office to be used by the company employees.
• Performed registry editing on workstations and over the network.
• Designed and programmed database applications in Microsoft Access.
• In charge of developing and maintaining the master documents, templates, forms and stationery.

Confidential

Owner

Responsibilities:

• Music and media import / market business.
• Performed inventory, asset management, and hardware and software installation, upgrades, troubleshooting.
• Performed buying, trading and selling, budget analysis and built profit.