SUMMARY

• Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with 30+ years’ experience in W2K3/W2K8/W2012/W2016/2019, VMware 1 to current Administration and Design, hardware installation / support in environments as large as 1700 servers and tens of thousands of users. Extensive background includes: Active Directory, VMware, Network Installation, Troubleshooting, Clustering, Problem Resolution, External & Internal Customer Service, Systems Integration, COOP/ Disaster Recovery, Process Documentation/Improvement, Documentation, Scripting and some Terminal Servers / Citrix.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows NT 3.1, through Windows 2019, VMware

Virtualization: Vshpere, Vmotion, Storage Vmotion, Vmware HA, Some Microsoft HyperV

Networking: AD, WINS, DNS, DHCP, Windows Core, VPN, VMWare, Citrix, Patching

Protocols: TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, RDP, PCoIP, PPP, ect…

Hardware: HP, Dell, IBM, EMC (VNX/NS), HP Storage (MSA)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and maintained Windows 3.51/4.0/2k3/2k3/2k 8/2012/2016/2019 Active Directory Domains, Group Policy Administration
• Supported 6000+ users and 600+ Windows 2k3 and 2k19 in a VMware and bare metal environment
• Organized the process and current implementation of the 2k3 to 2k19 migration which includes physical to virtual migrations
• Designed, built and documented (HP) blade frame infrastructure to support 600+ VMware guests and 160 hosts.
• Built and supported server environments in a physical and virtual environment using VMWare, Vsphere, Vmotion, HA, and Storage Vmotion.
• Experience in the maintenance and configuration of EMC VNX and NS series storage Area Networks using Fiber Channel, to include NAS head/CIFS shares, and zoning of brocade switches
• Maintained EMC SAN Fiber Channel environment including provisioning and troubleshooting
• Patch Management in a large corporate environment using WSUS/HFNETCHECK
• Extensive experience with Windows core services; DNS, WINS, DHCP, Pack and Farm Clustering
• Created Technical Documentation and Engineering/Operational processes in the Windows Engineering and operations Support environments
• Supporting the Unix/Linux team in the implementation of Redhat Linux on the VMware environment
• Running the team to move to a windows 2k19 platform to include process and implementation documentation and security standards.

Confidential

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• I was the Sr. Engineer in the engineering team for all windows core technologies for all of Confidential ’s sites thought the world, which included our enterprise Active Directory, DNS, DHCP implementations.
• Responsible for our VMware environment as well as our entire SQL farm running on a technology called Polly Serve.

Confidential

Network Manager

Responsibilities:

• I managed a team of 6 responsible for; Wintel, Active Directory, Email, LAN / Wan and Citrix and VMware.
• I was a hands - on manager directly responsible for Active Directory, Patching (HfNetChk), Network Physics (Network Analyzer), Sophos Anti-Virus, Barracuda (Web Filter). Citrix farm and SoftGrid and VMware My team was responsible for all Wintel servers (220 Plus), network connectivity both LAN and WAN connectivity (170 plus sites) VMware, Citrix Farm and email.
• Responsible for writing all scripts for our environment to include system monitoring, web monitoring, Active Directory monitoring, VMware Monitoring and inventory gathering.

Confidential

Wintel Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• As the Wintel team lead, I was responsible for the over sight of 14 engineers on the Wintel team.
• As a team we were responsible for over 1700 Wintel servers to include patching, on call, support and maintenance.
• We also were in the process of migrating legacy systems to VMware on HP blade frame systems.

Confidential

Systems Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the technical management of the OASD Reserve Affairs’ classified and unclassified computer and network systems, which includes monitoring, maintenance, troubleshooting, connectivity, software distribution, migration, security, and documentation.
• Review system logs and maintain performance.
• Troubleshoot system and network issues, provide level 3 help desk support.
• Ensure connectivity to various services (internet, email, file and print, terminal services, custom applications).
• Plan and implement hardware and software upgrades.
• Prepare and execute system and network migration strategies.
• Administer and maintain the Reserve Affairs’ AD environment, firewalls, Web Sites, SMS server, anti-virus servers, security, migrations, and the development network.
• Administer the Reserve Affairs production and test servers.

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Diagnosed server configurations to improve over all server performance.
• Standardized practice to facilitate higher degree of manageability.
• Reengineered system processes to provide more efficient delivery and reporting.
• Implemented scripting to alleviate need for human intervention.
• Part of design team for info structure and domain model to increase system performance.
• Developed back-up and restore process to improve data recovery.
• Instituted security policies to provide higher degree of system security.
• Maintained Exchange, Oracle, terminal server and IIS servers to support production environment.

Confidential

Senior Data Center Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured server hardware and software.
• Migrated mail system to Exchange to support standardization and Outlook Web Access (OWA). Introduced SLA program to help manage end user expectations.
• Designed hardware configuration to support 7/24 SLA.
• Designed domain server model to support multiple sights.
• Reengineered product delivery design to provide higher degree of product delivery and performance. Provided systems integration design to support development process and change management.
• Developed back-up and restore procedures and SLAs to provide data integrity.
• Pioneered disaster recovery plan to ensure minimal down time due to disaster.
• Managed vendor relations to provide efficient hardware and software procurement.