SUMMARY

• 10+ years using VMWare, vRealize Suite, Veeam - latest versions
• 10 + years of experience with Tier-2 LINUX/UNIX System Administration on Sun Solaris 2.10/2.9/2.8/2.7/2.6 , HP-UX, AIX, Debian, Cent OS, Red-Hat Enterprise Linux.
• 10 + years of experience with Tier-2 WINDOWS System Administration on Windows Server 2003,2008 Std., 2008 R2, 2012 2012 R2 2016 . PC O/S Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1., 10.
• Expert in setting up servers on UNIX, System Administration in Production & Development (24x7) environment, user & security administration, backup & recovery and maintenance of various activities.
• Experience with Sun Solaris 10 features like Containers, Branded Confidential, SMF and knowledge of ZFS and Dtrace.
• Experience with the installation of Veritas Cluster Server 4.x and design, implementation of High Availability.
• Installation and administration of Veritas Volume Manager 3.5, 4.x,5.0,6,6.5 Solaris Volume Manager and Logical Volume Manager with the implementation of RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60 and 100 .
• Experienced with Vm ware and vCenter 5.5,6, 6.0, 6.5,6.7 and HyperV. Veeam 8.0,9.0,9.5
• Experience with backup and recovery using Veeam 6,6.5,8,9.0, 9.5 Veritas Netbackup 4.5, 5, on Adic Tape Library.
• Experience in Solaris upgrade to Solaris 10 from prior versions like Solaris 8, 9 using live upgrade.
• Responsible for installation, administration, maintenance, monitoring, upgrade, and performance tuning of all UNIX operating systems.
• Package and Patch administration including implementation of DST packages
• Involved in performance analysis of system resources like CPU, Memory, and I/O devices and implementing necessary changes in the servers both OS and hardware based on the analysis for better server performance.
• Handled Kernel Turning to improve Operating system and application performance.
• Experienced with naming services.
• Expertise in planning and building secured systems and hardening of servers in Solaris like NIS, DNS, DHCP Server and sharing services like Apache and Samba..
• Create and maintain SHELL scripts and programs on all platforms for automation, tuning and monitoring.
• Manage and support UNIX servers like SUN Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and Linux REDHAT OS that runs Oracle databases and Netbackup enterprise.
• Experience and knowledge in SAN(All HP and Dell-EMC-VMAX, Equallogic ELASTIC models), LVM, tape library, Send mail, FTP, SSH, TCP/IP, Apache, SMF, ZFS, SUN Virtual Container and zoning technology.
• Experience and knowledge in All HP and Dell server models including Blade servers.
• Maintain storage and enterprise backup procedure and processes. (SAN, Tape, Cloud)
• Responsible for maintaining security on all UNIX system for regulatory compliance.
• Conduct systems analysis, configuration management and develops improvements for systems software performance, availability and reliability.
• Provide technical assistance to IT support including DBA, application users, developers, project managers, business users and internal IT staff.
• Sound knowledge of Oracle 10g on Sun Solaris, HP-UNIX, Linux and Windows XP,2003.
• Involved in various stages of testing (Black Box, White Box, Unit, System, Integration, and User Acceptance Test).
• A good team player with excellent communication, management, analytical, verbal & writing skills.
• Flexible enough to work in a variety of environments & capable to take up new tasks as I am self motivated & quick learner.
• Lab tested new versions/configs using custom Kickstart install of Linux/Unix Servers for production environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating systems: Unix, Sun Solaris 2.x /6/7/8/9/10, RHEL 2.1/3/4/5, HP-UX, IBM-AIX, Linux-Debian,Cent-OS,RedHat,Suse,Ubuntu,Citrix/Terminal Server, Novell 6.5 and Windows 7,8,8.1/2008 R2/2012./Vista/NT/XP/2003/2000/9X.,2012,2012 R2,Windows 7, Windows 10, 2016 server OS.

Hardware: Sun Microsystems E10K, SPARC 5 - 20, Sun Ultra 5, 10, 30 and 60 workstations, Sun Ultra I and II, SAN based storage experience includes EMC Symmetrix 8830, Hitachi Data Systems, SPARCSTORAGE UNIPACK, MULTIPACK and LIBRARY. A1000, D1000 and A3500 Raid manager (rm6) based storage, Various Intel-based X86 PCs and Servers, Cisco switches/ Routers - 1900 and 2900, 1600, 2600, 3600, and 2500 series, Eicon X.25/SNA Connectivity cards, Periphonics Interactive Voice recognition systems, Lantronx Print servers, Xylogics.,Adic Tape Library. Dell & HP PC’s, networking, and servers, SAN. Cisco firewalls and switches.

RDBMS: Oracle 10g/9i/8i/7.3/7, MS SQL Server 2005/2000, MS Access 7.0.

Data Modeling: Erwin 4.0/3.5.5, Rational Rose 2005/2002, MS Visio

DB & other Tools: Toad, SQL* Plus, SQL*Loader, AutoSys, Test Director 8.0, Quality Center, SQL Navigator, Visual Source Safe (VSS), Clear Case, Clear Quest.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Menands,NY

Senior Network & Systems Administrator Engineer

Responsibilities:

• System Administrator for two office locations in Menands and Clifton Park, New York housing approx. 500 hundred employees. Datacenter consists of about 4,000 Windows and 2,000 Linux serves total that include 8,000 VMware virtual machines.
• Responsible for Install and configuring SCCM plus deploying OS on all network devices for our two offices and assisted on our worldwide corporate network
• Leading and assisting Tears -2 technicians as needed at both offices.
• Work on multiple projects for corporate headquarters in Auburn, WA with corporate administrator privileges that is the main datacenter for work wide offices.
• I was asked to travel to corporate for a week to help with a major virus infection taking down much of the Test and Dev network servers and then asked to stay an additional week with written accommodations from the CEO for my assistance.
• Helped redesign and replace hardware and install/configure replacement equipment for EOL hardware.
• Creating and Maintaining network diagrams using Visio.
• Scripting using PowerShell, VB Script, bash, Python
• Automation/Configuration management tools, VoIP - Cisco UCCX and Unity, Linux/Unix management using line tools, LAN/WAN using routing/routed protocols, MPLS and iSCSI SANs, Netbackup, JBoss, IIS, Dynamics CRM, Dynamics AX, Sharepoint.
• VMWare/vCenter 5.5-6.7, Hypervisor, Veeam 9.0-9.5, Datto cloud backups, Microsoft Exchange 2010,2013,2016, Office 365 including performing migrations, MySQL, Oracle 9,10, Windows 2008 R2,2012 R2,2016,2019 server, Windows 7/10, All Microsoft office suites, Linux Redhat/Debian/CentOs, Sophos, McAfee AV/EDR, Amazon cloud AWS, Microsoft Azure including Ethereum Consortium Blockchain, Ethereum Studio, Parity Ethereum Proof of Authority MessageLabs/Symantec cloud, Barracuda, Mail Protector,
• Hardware administration includes Dell EqualLogic SANS, servers, HP, SANS, servers, Cisco switches/firewalls, Meraki, SonicWALL.
• Proficient in Veeam Availably Suite, VeeamOne, Veeam Cloud Connect v.7.0 -v9.5 for both VMWare VSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V.
• Proficient in VBlock infrastructure.
• Proficient in all current Cisco ASA’s, switches, routers
• Proficient in older and all modern HP and Dell and Lenovo servers,SAN’s. Including spec. requirements assembly and configure of HP/Dell servers with OS.

Confidential, Menands,NY

Senior Systems Administrator/Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Utilized SCCM on all our managed service customers. Responsible for Installing and configuring SCCM plus deploying OS on network devices
• Provide Senior Level System Administration to all of our business managed service customers entire datacenters mainly running VMWare, vRealize Suite, Veeam-latest versions including such networking software and hardware patches, firmware upgrades, licenses, setup/troubleshoot remote VPN, Site to site VPN
• Customer environment’s include Meraki/Cisco switches, firewalls, VMWare/vCenter 5.5-6.7, Hypervisor, Veeam 9.0-9.5, Datto cloud backups, Microsoft Exchange 2010,2013,2016, Office 365 including performing migrations, MySQL, Oracle 9,10, Windows 2008 R2,2012 R2,2016 server, Windows 7/10, All Microsoft office suites, Linux Redhat/Debian/CentOs, Sophos, Amazon cloud AWS, Microsoft Azure including Ethereum Consortium Blockchain, Ethereum Studio, Parity Ethereum Proof of Authority MessageLabs/Symantec cloud, Barracuda, Mail Protector, Customers various proprietary software.
• Internal engineering applications/tools include Autotask, N-able, Confluence, Jira, Screen Connect
• Hardware administration includes Dell EqualLogic SANS, servers, HP, SANS, servers, Cisco switches/firewalls, Meraki, SonicWALL
• Perform as a remote Senior escalation engineer and mentor for Tier 1 and Tier2 engineers
• Act as project lead on business customer projects ranging from component replacement to complete network design
• Monitor queues for new tickets and respond within service level agreements
• Perform systems administration proactively and in response to alerts for our business customers
• Provide basic training to end users for various software and platforms
• Documentation of all activities with customers and on systems for billing and reference
• Interact with sales associates/business customers with network design options for partial/complete datacenter upgrades
• Identify ways within managed customer sites to improve performance and reliability

Confidential, Lake Katrine, NY

Senior I.T./Systems Administrator/Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Install and configuring SCCM plus deploying OS on all network devices for our two offices and assisted on our worldwide corporate network
• I setup/configured/maintained a Realize stack setup for all our VMs to manage/test all the software applications that the software developers/engineers created. I managed these applications from the Dev stage to testing stage to Production stage for each tolling site. I had administrative access to tolling customers, specifically to NYS Thruway Authority using vRealize within AWS Microsoft Exchange/Office 365 hybrid cloud using Azure to implement and manage their production environments that run all the tolling hardware using vRealize Automation(vRA) and vRealize Orchestrator(vRO) for internal software design and webserver maintenance.
• Implement/manage Amazon cloud AWS, Microsoft Azure including Ethereum Consortium Blockchain, Ethereum Studio, Parity Ethereum Proof of Authority MessageLabs/Symantec cloud
• Senior system Administration for our two data center environments (Main Office, Test Site), Responsible for corporate network migration with some admin access to assist with corporate issues.
• Installed/Configured SolidWorks 2016,2017,2018 server for in-house software programming engineers. Maintained and updated server SolidWorks server.
• Design of network configurations for road side network tolling systems.
• System administration of 1000+ Windows OS based systems and 500+ Linux OS based servers that include 4,000 VMware virtual machines
• HP Performance Manager (HPPM)
• Configure/Install of network devices such as Cisco/HP switches, Cisco/HP routers, Cisco/HP firewalls
• Designed IT and network equipment for customer projects
• Documentation of IT and network configuration in office and customer projects
• Was granted corporate administration rights in Vienna. Performed daily administration for worldwide corporate network including user administration tasks.
• Proficient in VMware vSphere ESXI, vCloud, Hyper-Converged Infrastructure v5.0 - v6.5.
• Proficient in Veeam Availably Suite, VeeamOne, Veeam Cloud Connect v.7.0 -v9.5 for both VMWare VSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V.
• Proficient in VBlock infrastructure.
• Proficient in all current Cisco ASA’s, switches, routers
• Proficient in older and all modern HP and Dell and Lenovo servers,SAN’s. Including spec. requirements assembly and configure of HP/Dell servers with OS.
• Knowledge of admin of CrashPlan backup
• Managed backups(SAN), tape rotations and cloud backups.
• Provided technical support to troubleshoot server and desktop computer hardware and software related issues
• Performed physical installation of rack-based server/computer systems at our offices and at customer premises.
• Setup, configuration and troubleshooting of Ethernet and Serial based hardware devices
• Setup, configuration and maintenance of VPN services for remote access to the office and connectivity to clients
• Provided technical Support to Computer based systems in customer premises
• Provided project deliverable documentation
• Install, configure, support and troubleshoot Microsoft Server 2012/2016 web and application servers within a VMWare environment.
• Manage the IIS web server and Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS).
• Support application software tools such as OBIEE and TFS.
• Install, configure, support and troubleshoot Unix/Linus operating system hosting Oracle 11g database
• Provided prototyping and proof of concept efforts Make use of Configuration and Change Management tools to track changes in development and production systems
• Provided the identification, specification and pricing of computer system components to meet performance and pricing requirements
• Reading wiring plans for electrical, network, and communications systems
• Implement, troubleshoot, and support systems including components, computing platforms and network components
• Contributed to test plan development for system, network, and component performance
• Performed system deployment planning and execution
• Run routine maintenance checks on computer and network equipment
• Monitor/Troubleshoot/Upgrades of two internal data centers
• Installed/Configured corporate network migration hardware/software

Confidential, Tivoli, NY

Systems Administrator/Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead on building and managing heterogeneous, hybrid cloud vRealize infrastructure for 1000s of VMs using vRealize Automation(vRA) and vRealize Orchestrator(vRO) for internal software design and webserver maintenance.
• Maintained, Managed system administration for internal network. Cisco Routers (2000, 3000 series, ASA 5500 series), 300 Windows servers and 200 Linux servers. O/S includes Windows 2003, 2008R2, 2012 2012 R2. Linux Debian, Cent OS, ReHat, Ubuntu. Performed Windows and Linux server patches and updates. Purchase, configure install SSL certificate in Linux and Windows servers. Using Veeam perform backup and restoration of virtual machines. Manage, maintain HP SANs(P2000, MSA2040) Dell Equal Logic SAN PS4000XV and ReadyNAS.
• System administration of 2000+ Windows OS based systems and 1000+ Linux OS based systems plus 1000 VMware virtual machines
• Deployed the release of new technologies as well as designs, installs, configures, maintains and performs system integration testing of PC/server operating systems, related utilities and hardware
• Troubleshoot and resolved issues with onsite fixed point wireless internet network. Monitored network using monitoring station. Performed radio maintenance and upgrades.
• Performed tier-2 and tier-3 consumer and business phone and email support for hosted services including websites, DNS, active directory, email (including Imail, Open Exchange, ZImbra, Exchange 2007, 2010). Ability to work onsite or remotely.
• Responsible for troubleshooting server problems as reported by users.
• Researches, evaluates and recommends software and hardware products.
• Provided new hardware specifications to users based on application need
• Projects includes install, setup and configuring of a Debian Linux based Zimbra Email collaboration server. Setup on a Vmware 5.5 server. ESXi / VCenter
• Support Web access and electronic messaging services and maintains a secure systems environment.
• Projects include performing a email migration from Imail to ZImbra.
• Projects include performing a email migration from Open Exchange to ZImbra.
• Projects include performing a email migration from Exchange 2007 to ZImbra.
• Install, manage consumer and business customer’s data backups using StoreGrid.
• Performed website design/updates for business customers.
• Troubleshot and resolved issues for our managed services customers.
• Utilized Autotask as a ticketing system.

Confidential, Albany, NY

Owner/Operator

Responsibilities:

• Acted as an IT consultant for designing various local businesses. Purchasing pc’s/servers/switches including installation and setup. Pc’s and servers,wifi,AP, including Dell and HP. Switches included Cisco, Netgear, Adtran.
• Maintained business websites updates, development and design. Including online selling forums website design for auctions.
• Operated online electronics sales/service business. Including self designed websites and eBay, Ioffer, Ebid, Ecrater. Performed electronic repairs shipped into us, repaired then shipped back.
• Setup distributorships with manufacturers. Authorized reseller. Including Rigol, Cerwin Vega, Austin Air, Eminence, Parts Express.
• Designed and maintained multiple websites.
• Performed all accounting functions (billable and payables) for business.

Confidential

Service/Support On-Site Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for on-site installation, implementation, maintenance and repair of company and multi-vendor systems solutions which may include hardware, software and networking products as well as operating systems Windows 2000/2003, IBM AIX.
• Proactively responded to potential equipment issues to prevent unplanned interruption of customers' business. Delivered fully integrated solutions, which includes peripherals, servers, communications, operating systems and applications software.
• Installed and optimize hardware/software/network products and configurations at customer sites.
• Diagnose and resolved product performance problems. Performs maintenance and repair services.
• Provided software service, pre-sales, post-sales or service delivery support and solve various business systems and applications problems for remote or local accounts, on standard, specialized or complex systems.
• Ensured customer satisfaction by advising customers on preventive maintenance and configurations, which may impact product performance.
• Served as an internal resource on technical issues. Trained other field engineers and customers.
• Calibrated equipment on-site for large volume customers.
• Delivered on-site hardware support service to large enterprise and commercial customers, install, configure and repaired systems, networks, servers and peripherals.

  Account manager in a 24/7 environment.

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

Senior Computer Technician

Responsibilities:

• Service manager for 2 local store locations. In charge of 4 employees each.
• Have been offered 4 separate regional east coast Service Operating Supervisor positions by Corporate Headquarters.
• Consulted with clients and identified necessary upgrades and troubleshoot and serviced Confidential computer systems. Serviced and upgraded 1000’s of pc’s.
• Operated and maintained AS-400.
• Efficiently provided telephone and in-person customer service in Service and sales departments.
• Provided technical support to sales staff and with customers in the Confidential store.
• Custom designed CD driver in HTML format for Confidential Computer product line
• Maintained and upgraded Windows N.T./2000 & Novell servers, I.T/I.S. systems and sale floor demonstration systems.