PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Research Germantown, MD

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provide VMware configuration, maintenance, and architecture support to teh US Department of Energy Office of teh CIO (OCIO).
• dis environment consists of over 170 ESXi hosts and 2100 virtual machines.
• Maintain list of assets owned by teh virtualization group in order to mitigate software vulnerabilities on those assets.
• Provide secondary backup administrator responsibilities for virtual machine backup and restore.
• Administer and maintain VMware vRealize Operations Manager (vROPS) environment.
• dis environment provides proactive and predictive capacity planning and reporting for teh virtual infrastructure.
• Administer teh HyTrust application which provides increased security and reporting for teh virtual infrastructure.
• Configure hardware assets to forward logs to central syslog server.

Confidential, Arlington, VA

System Administrator Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provide VMware configuration, maintenance, and architecture support for teh Confidential Confidential Technology Agency ( Confidential ).
• dis environment consists of over 100 VMware ESXi hosts, and over 1200 virtual machines.

Confidential, Gaithersburg, MD

Senior Server Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Maintain EMC VNX and VNXe in addition to Confidential XIV storage systems.
• These systems are used to provide storage for both teh production and test environments.
• Maintained a VMware 5.1 environment utilizing ESXi and vCenter.
• Administered and maintained several multi - site Windows 2008 Active Directory domains.

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

Server Administrator III

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented a VMware 4.1 environment utilizing ESXi and vCenter dat currently contains 16 hosts and over 130 virtual machines.
• dis virtualization effort TEMPhas dramatically reduced power consumption and environmental loads.
• Created project plan for VMware upgrade from version 4.1 to version 5.1.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and maintained a Microsoft Exchange 2010 environment to replace teh existing GroupWise email system consisting of over 1000 user mailboxes.
• Responsible for teh design, migration plan, and implementation schedule.
• Migrated file services from a Novell platform to a Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 platform utilizing Quest migration tools to perform both migrations which resulted in successful outcomes.
• Administered and maintained a Windows 2003/2008 Active Directory domain.
• Installed and maintained EMC VNX and VNXe storage systems.
• These systems are used to provide storage for both teh production and test environments.
• Installed and maintained an EMC Data Domain deduplication device.
• dis device is used as a storage repository for both test and production backup jobs.
• Lead responsibilities for teh printer replacement project.
• A total of 38 existing printers were replaced wif 19 new printers.
• Additionally, 13 copiers were retired, since teh copy functionality is included wif teh new printers.
• As a result of dis replacement, building floor space and power consumption were reduced considerably.

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Lead, Systems Services

Responsibilities:

• Manage teh daily workload of four systems engineers.
• Develop project schedule and Capital budget to support teh schedule.
• Assign resources to projects as necessary.
• Participate in project meetings wif vendors, internal, and external customers.
• Arrange hardware and software upgrades to minimize impact to end users.
• Develop server hardware and software quotes based on specifications provided by software vendors.
• Initiate procurement process of server hardware and software. Install, configure, and maintain Windows2000/2003 and NetWare 5.1/6.5 servers. Utilized VMware ESX server to consolidate 35+ Windows and Novell servers.
• Designed and implemented patch and asset management systems for Windows devices.

Confidential, McLean, VA

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead engineer on Windows2000 Professional desktop migration.
• Responsible for teh coordination of work performed by four Level me/II technicians during teh migration.
• Teh migration was completed wifin seven months, wif approximately 800 workstations being upgraded or replaced.
• Administered and maintained a Windows NT domain.
• Utilized Novell ZENworks for workstation inventory, software distribution, and remote control.
• Ensured adequate magnetic tape backups were performed.
• Implemented and maintained Novell Distributed Print Services (NDPS).

Confidential, Bethesda, MD

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed migration from Novell NetWare 3.1x to 4.11.
• Assisted in workstation upgrade from Windows3.1 to Windows95.
• Ensured Year 2000 compliance for hardware and software assets.
• Assist help desk staff wif end user support issues as requested.

Confidential, Bethesda, MD

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Assist in teh administration of a 1000 user Novell NetWare 4.1 network at teh Confidential Institutes of Health ( Confidential ).
• Maintain network hardware and software.
• Provide network connectivity for Confidential PC and Confidential computers.

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Designed a 100 user Novell NetWare 4.1 Local Area Network (LAN).
• Developed network hardware and software requirements.
• Installed cabling and associated hardware.
• Integrated teh LAN into teh corporate Wide Area Network (WAN).
• Ensured software license compliance.
• Troubleshoot problems wif workstations and application software.
• Responsible for inventory and accountability of hardware and software assets.

Confidential

Marine Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for development and maintenance of computer programs used to monitor test completion status.
• Develop technical illustrations included in test procedures.