SUMMARY

• Hands on IT professional with proven technical expertise in a career spanning over 25 years on the job in computer/network environments with a college degree.
• Thirteen years of management expertise in Information Technology.
• A self - starter seeking innovation who accepts no less than getting the job done.
• Systems Administration & Engineering
• Network Administration & Engineering
• Migrations - O365, Exchange, Hybrid & Domain Level,
• Routers, Switches & Firewalls - CLI - GUI
• MS Exchange - Lotus Notes - BlackBerry
• Hypervisors - Vmware ESX & ESXi, HyperV, Xen,
• Cloud - Azure & AWS
• Security - EP - ESET - CheckPoint - Nessus
• Desktop Support & Troubleshooting
• Storage Planning, iSCSI, SAN, NAS
• Project Lead - Project Planner
• Disaster Recovery Planning

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: MS Windows, Linux, Unix, AppleOS, iOS, GoogleOS

Servers: MS Windows Server, MS Exchange, VM, DataCenter

Protocols: TCP/IP, ACP, DHCP, DNS, VTP, DNS, HTTP, HTTPS, SNTP, BGP, OSPF, VoIP, STP

Tools: RSAT, MMC, Solarwinds, Nagios, iStumber, Wireshark, SCCM, OP5, NETFLOW

Cloud: Azure, AWS, ZENDESK, VERITIS

Firewalls: CISCO, WATCHGUARD, SONICWALL, FORTIGATE, PALOALTO, BARRACUDA

Virtualization: Hyper-V, VMWare (VSphere, ESX, ESXi), Oracle VM, Citrix XenServer, KVM

Scripting: PowerShell, JavaScript, Python, METAL, JMP, SCADA, MODBUS, PLC, GPIO

Configuration Management Tools: DSC, Chef, ANSIBLE, DEVOPS, PUPPET, SCCM, SMS, MMC, RSAT, WSUS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Network Administrator Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Assess Security Issues and Devise Project Patching for Security Issues throughout all 5 plant and facilities sites.
• All 5 sites Azure/Office 365/MS Dynamic AX security issues resolved via Microsoft SCCM.

Confidential

Network/Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Hired on a 5-month contract assignment to roll-out and standardize the US and Canada 12 site Data Centers.
• Migrated from Fortinet to Cisco, VMWare ESXi to Hyper-V, and local segmented LAN to corporate SD-WAN & MPLS.
• All 12 sites email migration to Azure/Office 365 from Hybrid, Staged, Cutover, IMAP, PST Import, to LN & Groupwise.

Confidential

Help Desk Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Hired on a 4-month contract assignment to migrate Windows 7/8.1 to Windows 10, Windows Server 2012 R2 to 2019.
• Windows Migration from Windows 7/8.1 to Windows 10, Microsoft SCCM Server 2016; PC System/Thin Client setups; MS/AD Server 2016/Exchange install/setup with HyperV Config.

Confidential

IT Manager/Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Hurricane Harvey re-design, constructing, installing, and managing the following but not limited to: power & grid systems, server racks, KVMs controls; Dell servers installed & backups (Tape / Digital NAS/Imaging/Remote Storage; Windows Ad.Svr. 2k3/2016, MS Exchange 2k3/2k7, Linux, Unix, Pix, PeachTree Accounting, AutoDesk, AutoCAD 2012, SCADA, PMAC Interfaces, Biometrics & Time clock systems, Compact Flash/Windows PE boot systems.
• 8+ years’ experience in a Technical Lead capacity, in designing and developing a perimeter and endpoint security infrastructure and developing procedures defining their use to meet business requirements.
• 8+ years’ combined experience integrating border Firewalls/Switches, Layer2-3/Application/HyperV/ERP/CRM/MS Dynamic AX
• Segmentation Firewall Policy/Administration, Load Balancer, Cloud Security for IaaS/PaaS/SaaS, DoS, Log/Monitoring correlation and/or Data Packet Inspection.
• Designed, installed, maintain, both company IT systems; store and rotate their tape backups for long term off-site services. I wrote and maintain both company IT manuals for compliance to City of Houston/OSHA/Safety Training.
• Developed and maintain both company IT manuals for compliance to City of Houston/OSHA/Safety Training.

Confidential

IT Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managing 4 office locations throughout Texas/Washington for T&H comprising of 485 employees that included engineers, business development group, HR, and sales & technical personnel. Writing and approving companywide IT policies, SWOT & procedures for all management, staff, & user personnel; develop disaster recovery and failover systems for minimal downtime.
• I.E. During Hurricane IKE, Confidential & Hill suffered complete site losses and home office destruction due to its Gulf Coast region location. In my foresight, having primary & key server systems and backups rerouted to a secure T1 location for user logins and email. Developed and supervised the complete rebuild of 3 T&H site infrastructure locations. I oversaw building re-construction for all internal Power, Security, IT Systems as well as insurance claims for IT Business Systems loss.
• 2+ years’ combined experience related to Hypervisor, DNS, Identity/RBAC and Directory Services, MFA, IDS/IPS, Virtual Private Network, DMZ, Encryption (At Rest/In Transit), Application Stacks/Service Connectors, Storage Architecture/Networks and/or Computer/User Least Privilege.
• Attended corporate weekly meetings with detailed logs and minutes. Through my management & supervision T&H suffered no downtime or loss of business revenue. T&H utilizes 20 Dell/HP servers and several hundred notebooks & workstations.
• Incorporating Windows 2008/R2, HyperV, SBS08/11, Enterprise, Data Center, an Exchange Cluster, SharePoint, CRM, SQL, Oracle, IIS, PowerShell, NAS & SAN systems, Symantec Corp AV/MS, Veritas Backup systems and VMware systems; managed AutoCAD systems, SmartPlant PDS, AccPac, Microstation, AspenTech, KBase, IVI Security Surveillance Systems, BlackBerry Server & devices.
• Remote Training, HP Procurve VoIP/Mitel systems (POE), VLAN’s, and Cisco/Palo Alto Watchguard/Juniper firewalls.
• Experience in designing and integrating device vulnerability scanning, securing systems, software, certificate authority, two-factor authentication, patching, Security Information and/or Event Management.