SUMMARY

• A hands on IT leader wif over 10 years of both technical and operational experience in all areas of IT infrastructure, systems engineering, information security, project management, enterprise product support, and systems programming.
• Excels in agile project management, scalable system design and implementation, and system integration across Microsoft and Linux based systems.
• He believes teh best I.T. solutions solve measurable business problems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 3.x/95/98/ME/7/8/8.1, Windows Server 2003/2008/2008 R2/2012/2012 R2/2016, Mac OS 9x/10x, Blackberry 6/7/10/Qnx,, RHEL/CentOS 6/7, Debian/Ubuntu 12.04 LTS/14/04 LTS/16.04 LTS

Virtualization: VMware ESXi 4.0/5.0/5.5/6.0, Hyper - V Server 2012/2012 R2, Oracle Virtual Box, Citrix XenApp, VMware Player, KVM

Storage: Nimble CASL, HP StoreVirtual, HP LeftHand, EMC VNX5400, Synology NAS, iSCSI (jumbo frames), FCoE

Networking: Cisco Nexus 5K, Cisco Fabric Interconnect 2.2.5(c), Cisco ASA 5500-X, f5 Big IP LTM, Cisco Meraki

Applications/Utilities: Microsoft Office 2007/2010/2013, Adobe Creative Suite, GIT, WordPress, BES Server, Norton/Symantec/ McAfee, Putty SSH, WMI, Lync, Domino Lotus Notes, Google Apps, Salesforce CRM, Csco ASA, Cisco IronPort, eFax, VMware Esx, Hyper-V

Concepts: Identity Management, Corporate Messaging, Network Security, Server Management, Routing and Switching, System Design and Analysis, Disaster Recovery, Database Administration, Incident Management, Requirements Gathering, Budgeting Planning, Private Cloud Implementation, Team Building, Process Improvement, Corporate I.T. Training, Middleware, CRM, IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, Vendor Management

Hardware: HP Proliant g6/g7/g8/g9, IBM M3/M4, Dell PowerEdge, Cisco UCS

Topologies: TCP/IP, UDP, PBX, DHCP, DNS, Telnet, Ethernet, PoE, SAN, DAS, POP, SMTP, IMAP, LAN, WAN, WLAN, NTP

Server Roles/Applications: File and Print Services, Hyper-V, WSUS, DNS, ADSI, Active, Exchange Server, IIS, Apache, NPS

Programming Languages/Frameworks: C/C++, Java, PowerShell, VB.net, Bash, Cshell, HTML 5, CSS 3, PHP, Coldfusion, JavaScript, JQuery, Mootols, Assembler, COBOL, JCL, SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Systems Engineer Technical Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Built out new primary colocation data - center wif redundant power, cooling, and less administrative overhead
• Migrated 93 enterprise applications to new datacenter wif 0% downtime, 2 systems wif 2 minutes off hours downtime
• Saved $30,000 opex savings per year and minimized SAN footprint by refreshing wif modern Nimble iSCSI platform. Migrated 90 TB of application workloads through storage vMotion, NFS/NTFS file copies
• Led infrastructure and application cutover of 93 branch offices/7 data-centers supporting business division responsible for 9 billion in sales. Provided DNS, Identity Management, DHCP, e-mail, and essential network level/customer facing services
• Designed and Implemented 2 tier Microsoft Public Key Infrastructure wif Kubernetes subordinate Certificate Authority
• Architected nationwide geo-routed DNS solution based on state location for fast forward and reverse lookup queries
• Implemented iSCSI jumbo frames reducing slow performance of ETL business operations
• Implemented f5 BIG IP virtual servers as reverse and forward web proxies to re-use public IP addresses and mitigate purchases for additional carrier circuits
• Achieved PCI compliance and web application HA through Layer 2/ Layer 7 application load balancing platforms - f5 BIG IP LTM/GTM, NGINX, and AWS Elastic Load Balancers
• Negotiated secure mail agreements wif investor banks using Exchange connectors
• Architected vCenter swing upgrade from 5.1/5.5 to 6.0 wif zero business downtime and no off-hours engineer assignments. Resulted in multi-site deployment
• Designed and implemented VMware distributed virtual switch design wif MPIO and LACP for high availability, greater storage throughput, and automated VLAN provisioning
• Overhauled Cisco UCS blade network, server, equipment policies. Stopped monthly production down outages, increased network throughput from 10 Gbps to 40 Gbps, and created LACP redundant uplinks
• Provided Disaster Recovery solutions supporting 15 minutes RPO/RTO using combination of VMware Virtual Data Protection backups, vSphere Replication, SAN replication, and Microsoft VSS
• Automated Active Directory synchronization, Organizational Unit structure, security group joins
• Onboarded all 3 rd party applications onto Single Sign On platform using ADFS 2.0/3.0 SAML, x509 certificates, and Active Directory 2012.
• Trained team on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS/CentOS 7 server administration supporting company shift to FOSS
• Overhauled private WIFI autantication wif Network Policy servers (RADIUS). Provided autantication, accounting, and auditing
• Automated backups, load balancing, and failover of 220 DHCP scopes/VLANs across 2 on premise datacenters and AWS regions
• Provided load balanced multi-datacenter SMTP service, relaying up to 500,000 messages daily over TLS to Office 365
• Automated IIS and Apache web server deployments
• Automated VMware and AWS elastic block storage snapshot backup, rotate, and delete schedules of critical business applications
• Managed 600 EC2 instances (servers) across 2 AWS Virtual Private Clouds
• Managed MySQL 5.5, Maria DB, and MS SQL DB clusters
• Administered Cisco ASA 5500X firewall
• Managed consolidation of 2 data-centers leading to $300,000 annual opex savings
• Reduced legacy application outages by converting aging rack mount servers to virtual machines using VMware P2V conversions

Cloud/Messaging Systems Team Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Deployed Spiceworks based network monitoring and asset management solution
• Deployed Microsoft Lync to 500+ loan processors for overhaul of national training
• DNS solution composed of Active Directory integrated DNS zones, BIND DNS servers, and AWS Route 53
• Migrated Cisco IronPort email firewall rules to Exchange Online transport mail flow rules
• Automated DFS namespace, security group permissions, and quarterly audit reports
• Reduced (5-30 second page loads reduced to 1 second) in company Resource Center noledge base by tuning SharePoint application cache and applying best practices

Systems Support Southeastern Regional Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• escalation point between for 25 sales branches in 5 states
• Saved $16,000 monthly by replacing consultants wif in house I.T. services
• Saved company $40,000/yr wif highly available DHCP and AD integrated DNS
• Executed hardware refreshes and assessed desktop infrastructures during acquisitions
• Cross managed 5 regional teams as stand in national IT Manager during interim periods
• Built Windows 7 and Server 2008/2012 images for faster deployments
• Administered Citrix XenApp VDI environment

Contract Web Solutions Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed and ecommerce websites using WordPress as a CMS frontend powered by Linux Apache MySQL PHP stack
• Tuned Apache web servers and mod rewrite rules
• Developed barcode scanning mobile app using Blackberry Webworks
• Configured Windows Server 2003/2008 Microsoft terminal services servers
• Deployed virtual machines in ESXi 4.0 (Windows, XP/Vista/7 and Ubuntu)
• Active Directory Sites and Services remediation and support
• Re-wrote Network Information Store intranet site responsible for thousands of business rules comprising Discover’s merchant & acquirer payment network
• Ported Coldfusion/WebSphere web pages to Linux Apache MySQL PHP 5.* stack
• Partnered directly wif Director and VP business stakeholders to reach production ready deliverables wifin 30-day SDLC cycles

Director of IT

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Reduced trouble tickets by installing TCP/IP networked printers
• Maintained Windows Server 2003 file and print servers, Deployed software patches, assisted wif Active Directory Sites and Domain Services configuration and design,
• Executed LDAP queries for reporting and Active Directory identity management
• Documented and supported in house CMS
• Hosted and managed event marketing intranet microsites
• Rapid workstation deployments wif Norton Ghost imaging
• Installed WiFi network using Linksys and Dlink routers wif WEP

Webmaster/Information Technology Director

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Maintained Microsoft Exchange 2003, Blackberry BES server, Lotus Domino
• Migrated from Novell Netware to Active Directory 2003/Wintel infrastructure backbone
• Wrote macros and excel formulas to assist budgeting committees in meeting fiscal goals
• Installed Windows XP, Vista, and Ubuntu application patches/packages
• Designed and implemented department's marketing and intranet websites