SUMMARY

• Career experience supporting Splunk installations as an Administrator. Extensive career experience supporting Windows and Linux servers and PCs in an enterprise environment, both physical and virtual through both VMWare and Hyper - V. Network Administrator, Systems Administrator, SAN administrator and technician experience with all Windows OS. RedHat Enterprise Linux administrator, including Sendmail, Splunk and BIND.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Splunk
• Windows Server
• RedHat Enterprise Linux
• VMWare
• HyperV
• SAN
• Lefthand Storage
• FIBER/FIBRE
• BIND
• Vintela LDAP services
• Sendmail
• Exchange Server
• Powershell Scripting
• Active Directory
• IIS administration
• Merak Mail Server
• Splunk
• HPNA
• Advanced MSSQL
• Crystal Reports Data reporting
• Microsoft Access
• Citrix Metaframe
• Dell BigIP
• Rack and Stack
• Linux Shell Scripting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Englewood, CO

Senior Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Personally saved the company $2.5 million, with $450k yearly savings
• Assisted customers with ingest requests
• Responsible for installation and maintenance of Test environment
• Assisted with management of over 100 apps
• Daily deployment of applications to Search Head Cluster
• Managed over 2000 LDAP linked access accounts
• Managed and assisted with enterprise upgrade to 6.6.9 and 7.2.9.1
• Day to day monitoring and upkeep of all servers related to Splunk installations

Confidential, Englewood, CO

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Migrated 800+ RDS network share profiles to new storage
• Rebuilt Qualisys server cluster
• Dealt with storage outage and server recovery
• Administered 300+ AD, Cisco ACS and VPN accounts
• Identified DNS point of failure for cross-domain authentication
• Assisted in planning roadmap for domain merger
• Day to day monitoring and upkeep of 50 servers and over 200 network devices
• Administered an HPNA installation with over 200 network devices

Confidential, Denver, CO

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administered and migrated Splunk monitoring solution
• Implemented MailArchiva solution for client management team
• Built several OpenStack virtual pre-test labs for code testers
• Built VMware labs for code testing
• Assisted in implementing Chef solution for AdDelivery and Wholesale teams
• Executed Kencast migration for new content satellite pitching

Confidential, Denver, CO

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Execute system monitoring, management and configuration management via Tivoli Endpoint Management. Personally responsible for adding and deploying fixlets and templates.
• Proactively publish preventative maintenance packages to servers world-wide
• Provide comprehensive Windows systems administration and operations at every level of life cycle- build, deploy, configure, support
• Implement tests of new hardware and software
• Responsible for managing and maintaining all HP Lefthand storage units, including all storage presentation, troubleshooting, rebuilding, and vendor interaction
• Personally responsible for deploying a clustered FTPS solution across 20+ environments, 60+ machines
• Migrated a full Vmware (ESX 5.0) environment and all related storage off 1st Gen Lefthand to new Lefthand
• Rebuilt/migrated Exchange 2007 install, re-configured users, policies, and mailboxes
• Assisted in testing Solarwinds for potential monitoring use

Confidential, Denver, CO

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing and maintaining all CE4 Team servers, Hardware through OS.
• Approximately 365 servers per Sysadmin, ~2000 total for our team
• Physical servers via HP iLO 2.0
• Virtual servers via VMWare (ESXi 5.0)
• Windows, Redhat, AIX and Solaris platform installations
• Commvault backup monitoring, implementation and restoration
• Deployment and troubleshooting of all system updates and upgrades via Bigfix
• Tier 2 level proactive ownership of servers via Remedy Portal, according to SLA
• Bigfix fixlet creation and implementation
• Extensive Business Resumption Testing
• Utilized Solarwinds from a consumer alert side

Confidential, Kansas City, MO

Senior Multidisciplinary Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for rolling out Splunk into new domain structure, creating custom indexes to allow for security roles for customers
• Responsible for managing and maintaining all Application Layer (Tier 3) processes for Confidential OnLine and related Confidential applications
• Deployment and troubleshooting of all Application Layer system updates and upgrades
• Monitor servers at a Tier 3 level, suggest and implement improvements to systems in relation to Application Layer Support
• Manage and maintain LDAP services in Cognos and Weblogic to support the Confidential reporting services
• Assist in monthly patching cycles, ensuring that all Application Layer services are brought down cleanly and brought back up safely

Confidential, Kansas City, MO

Server Administrator/Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing and maintaining the edge BIND DNS servers for one of the federal government’s largest wide-area networks.
• Unboxing, configuration, deployment, and ownership of hardware server solutions
• Virtualization of servers via ESX, and maintenance of said VMWare servers
• Manged and maintained SCCM, hosted on said Hyper V environment
• Maintained Men and Mice interface console for primary split-DNS solution of BIND and Active Directory
• Configured and maintained SendMail servers that assist in delivery to one of Microsoft’s largest BPOS installations
• Installed, staged and deployed RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 servers into the environment as required
• Responsible for 2 server room’s upkeep and support
• Configured and maintained HP and NetApp SAN, backup fabric and related Fiber
• MSA series of storage applications 1000/5000/8100
• Backup administrator for NetApp hardware and LUN configuration
• Installed, configured and troubleshoot Vintela on Linux servers to allow Single Sign In with Active Directory
• Installed and configured Netbackup for data restoration solutions
• Assisted Tier 2 team with troubleshooting Windows DNS, Active Directory, and Sites and Services problems as it relates to higher level network infrastructure

Confidential, Enterprise, AL

Systems/Database Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Provided expertise in System administration, site and database management for CAFRS system.
• Responsible for installing and maintaining operating system software for Windows and Redhat Linux servers.
• Served as subject matter expert for all networking software and operating systems used in the Fort Rucker Command Center.
• Performed domain infrastructure support actions and made recommendations for future software and hardware procurement or changes.
• Managed the Microsoft Internet Information Servers, SAN/NAS File Share servers, and MSSQL servers.
• Configured and maintained Network Load Balancing cluster on Server 2008.
• Configured and maintained Oracle cluster on Redhat Linux.
• Deployed and maintained MOM2005 monitoring across all supported servers.
• Setup Server hardware load balancing to optimize server resource usage.
• Created a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) including disaster recovery process, procedures and data recovery/restoration.
• Recommended network design and engineering improvements.
• Developed and implemented a preventive maintenance plan by monitoring the network regularly using network sniffer software.
• Managed and installed certificates for TSL and SSL on IIS as required.
• Created IIS Server cluster for redundancy and server resource optimization.
• Created user network shared folders and updated directory services.

Confidential, Montgomery, AL

Desktop Services Technician

Responsibilities:

• Brought team up to speed on current PC troubleshooting techniques
• Team is responsible for PC, network and printer support for 55 local and remote bank locations in Central Alabama
• Team is responsible for PC and printer support for 400 office users located in the Montgomery area
• Assisted in year-long PC refresh to update systems according to budget
• Helped Network team in Birmingham by being the hands-on technician for new branches and for branch network equipment moves
• Recycled hundreds of pieces of equipment, going through inventory and marking items for throw/reuse