It Technical Architect - Cloud Resume
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Springfield, IL
SUMMARY
- Experienced IT Project Leader with broad network engineering and systems administration knowledge.
- A valued self - starter and team player with multiple Microsoft/CompTIA certifications and outstanding communication/training skills including content in five technical books.
- Bringing over 20 years of hands-on experience in project management, application and database design/development, server/desktop support, technology management, and problem solving across different areas.
- With education in application and system development, PMI project management, systems lifecycle management, ITIL, infrastructure analysis and design, and overall technology management.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Amazon Web Services
- Communication, Organization, and Team Building
- Active Directory Management and Scripting
- Powershell and Visual Basic Scripting
- Windows Server 2019 - 4.0
- Windows 10 / 8 / 7 / Vista / XP / 2000 / NT 4.0
- VMWare ESXi/vSphere 5/6 / View
- Windows Hyper-V
- Visual Basic.NET / C# / VB 6
- NetApp SAN / FCoE / iSCSI
- SQL Server 2014 - 7.0
- Exchange Server 2013 - 5.5
- Microsoft Office 2016 - 2000
- Microsoft Project 2013 - 2003
- Microsoft Visio 2013 - 2003
- C / C++ / Microsoft Visual C++
- System Center Configuration Manager
- RedHat Linux, Ubuntu, SUSE Linux, OpenBSD
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Springfield IL
IT Technical Architect - Cloud
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for partnering with internal stakeholders and providing strategic, technical leadership, ensuring that all cloud solutions and architecture adhere to industry best-practices for scalability, maintainability, usability, performance, security, and portability of infrastructure and systems.
- Designs, deploys and oversees the implementation and integration of systems for cloud-based infrastructure and has responsibility for relationship management for cloud vendors, including monitoring SLA's and tracking performance, troubleshooting and reporting.
- Translates business needs into technical systems solutions and integrates hardware, software and network interfaces to form a system and recommends products that will evolve the organization's technical infrastructure.
IT Manager, Distributed Services Engineering
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Information Technology management for the Confidential Distributed Systems Engineering group covering infrastructure services including servers, storage systems, networking and telephony with 10 engineers. Managed projects, personnel and budget. Management of Windows, VMware, and Storage infrastructure systems.
- Microsoft server operations, Active Directory, Exchange, SCCM. Disaster Recovery standards and management. Security vulnerability identification and compliance management.
- Project management, personnel management. Managed and prioritized team work items, quarterly performance reviews, development plans, status updates and system metrics to senior leadership. Provided coordination between other Horace Man information technology teams.
- Provided management of implementation of managed service providers including CenturyLink and Amazon Web services
- Participated in Emerging Leaders and Performance Management training, including Inside-Out coaching, 7 Effective Habits, and business simulations
- Developed processes, procedures and standards for Distributed Systems Engineering infrastructure.
- Managed remediation and documentation of audit findings
- Documentation of network infrastructure
- Provided VMWare, Windows, and Storage management and engineering
Senior Network Engineer/Team Lead
Confidental
Responsibilities:
- Provided Storage Area Network management and engineering for Netapp 3270 and 2554 and Nimble CS500 storage arrays, providing block level storage via iSCSI to Cisco UCS chassis and blade servers for VMware infrastructure, file level storage via CIFS, and WORM storage via NetApp SnapLock.
- Managed backup services via vRanger and NetApp snapshots, with replication to disaster recovery site via NetApp SnapMirror
- Windows server and infrastructure management, installation of virtual and physical systems into Confidential infrastructure
- VMware infrastructure management using vSphere client and PowerCLI scripts
- Management of server backups with vRanger and NetApp snapshots
- Documentation of network infrastructure and processes with Microsoft Visio, OneNote and SharePoint
- Project management and team leadership
Confidential, Riverton IL
Director of Technology
Responsibilities:
- Design and implementation of new Cisco switching/routing infrastructure in the district, new Cisco wireless controllers and access points, and ASA security appliances
- Rebalancing VMWare server load using vMotion
- Managing virtual datacenter environment for servers and important workstations on VMWare vSphere environment running on Cisco 1st generation UCS servers and EMC Storage Area Network connected via iSCSI
- Implementation of server backups with Buffalo Terastation
- Configuration of network monitoring using Solarwinds monitoring
- Documentation of network infrastructure and systems with Microsoft Visio and MediaWiki server
- Project management with Asana
Confidential, Springfield IL
Network Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Managing virtual datacenter environment for servers and VDI workstations consisting of VMWare vSphere on Cisco UCS blade systems and NetApp SAN connected via FCoE
- Installation and management of Cisco Voice-over-IP (VOIP) system, including Unified Communications Manager (CallManager), Unity Voicemail and Contact Center. Implementation of UCCX application for conference calls
- Development of Active Directory scripts to automate user and computer management
- Installation and management of Cisco networking devices including Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) firewalls, Identity Services Engine (ISE) policy manager, Nexus switches and routers
- Installation and management of WAN virtualization between branches and operations center
- Installation of Certificate Services in domain
- Upgrade of Microsoft domain to Windows 2008 R2 functionality
- Installation of Microsoft Network Policy Server (NPS) to support RADIUS authentication and configuration of Cisco equipment to authenticate against NPS
- Installation and management of Windows servers, Active Directory, Group Policy, System Center Configuration Manager, RADIUS authentication services, certificate services, Solarwinds network performance monitor, MailGate and Mobile Iron email security
- Installation and support of disaster recovery site including Continuous Data Protection implementation of VMWare and NetApp replication.
- Project management with Microsoft Project and Asana
Confidential, Springfield IL
System Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Exchange 2010 migration for staff and student email to Office 365. Developed Exchange scripts to automate email management and monitoring
- Implemented Blackboard Connect alert system with Active Directory synchronization to online alert management system accounts
- Managed migrations to Cisco Wireless Control System, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2
- Managed Windows 2008 Active Directory domain
- Completed implementation of Microsoft Sharepoint 2010
- Designed and implemented System Center Configuration Manager 2010, System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 and Hyper-V host and guest servers
- Performed project planning and budgeting, server maintenance, monitoring, and upgrades, desktop configuration and upgrades
- Developed scripts and applications to automate monitoring, management, and problem resolution