SUMMARY:

• Proven IT professional with experience in hands on management and team leading
• Leverage 17+ years of experience in Information Technology - including 9 years of senior-level systems engineering in health care IT field - spanning IT infrastructure, system operations, service management, and disaster recovery.
• Exceptional abilities in project design and management with the organizational and supervisory skills to ensure success.
• Delegate and monitors work to meet and beat deadlines.
• Outstanding motivator and builder of teams. Work well in both team environment and individual assignments.
• Successful in meeting new technical challenges and finding solutions to meet the needs of customer.
• Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer: Messaging (MCSE + Messaging)
• VMware Certified Professional training

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior System Engineer

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Complete overseeing of the server environment, physical and virtual, Citrix, and EMC Storage Area Network.
• Provide lead engineering services for virtual and physical environment including planning for systems design, upgrade, maintenance, monitoring and support.
• Led design and rollout of robust and scalable systems for multiple hospital projects such as the Nurse Call/Hill-Rom, OneCall/Amtelco, Leica Microsystems for the hospital LAB, new security camera/DVR systems and storage data management for Online and Archive applications.
• Performed design, implementation, installation, upgrades and migration of EMC VNX storage for block and file.
• EMC Centera additional nodes expansion project for archiving PACS radiology and AGFA HeartLAB images.
• VMware vSphere upgrade project from 4.1 to 5.5 on UCS blade servers.
• Backup software upgrade to EMC Network to allow snapshots and fast recovery of virtual machines.

Senior System Engineer

Confidential, Silver Spring, MD

Responsibilities:

• As a member of VMware, Citrix, Active Directory and Exchange team, responsible for the day to day operation of Information Technology at the Confidential .
• Provide lead engineering services for virtual and physical environment including planning for systems design, upgrade, maintenance, monitoring and support.
• Involved with ongoing Exchange, EMC SourceOne Email archiving, VMware and Citrix upgrade projects.
• Cisco UCS Blade Servers installation and administration
• XenDesktop 7.5 installation, configuration and administration
• Microsoft Hyper-v 2012 R2 installation, configuration and administration

System Administration Windows

Confidential, Frederick, MD

Responsibilities:

• As a member of the SA group, responsible to cover the second shift for all tier 3 support related incidents for over 5000 servers in US and internationally around the world.
• Responsible for performing all after hours approved Change Requests.
• Installation and validation of VMware virtual and physical servers.
• Complete support related but not limited to VMware, Exchange, Active Directory and Windows terminal servers.
• Patching using Confidential Tivoli Big Fix and maintenance for physical and virtual servers.

Senior System Engineer

Confidential, Germantown, MD

Responsibilities:

• Successfully upgraded organization’s Windows 2003 Active Directory Domain, DNS and DHCP to Windows 2008 R2 functional level.
• Maintained multiple VM farms (test and production).
• NetApp Data ONTAP 7-mode Administration.
• Microsoft SQL clustering on VMware using Raw Device Mapping (RDM) on NetApp SAN.
• NetBackup Disk to Disk and Disk to Tape installation and configuration.

Wintel Architect

Confidential, Gaithersburg, MD

Responsibilities:

• Served as lead technical expert in overseeing the analysis, design, implementation and support of an enterprise-wide technical architecture based on business requirements and information technology strategies focusing on Information systems.
• Provided Technical Solution Design and architect (TSD) for various servers and storage projects with concentration on Wintel, AD/Exchange, Citrix and VM Ware architect in support of customer’s business objectives.
• Responsible for understanding customer needs, gathering business requirements, conducting high-level design, managing multiple projects, and working closely with customer and partners to deliver infrastructure solutions in support of customer’s business objectives. This includes responsibility for the oversight of design, build, test, and deployment of several projects simultaneously.
• Validate if an information systems or operational architecture meets technical requirements and specifications.
• Worked closely with security and IT Change Management (ITSM) departments to bring the solution to the steady-state infrastructure operations.

Senior Project Engineer

Confidential, McLean, VA

Responsibilities:

• As a project engineer, I was responsible for providing various types of services and supports to over 75 small and midsize businesses.
• Design and implement of various projects depended on the customer requirements.
• Provide on call rotation 24 x 7 NOC support and onsite services for our clients.

Senior Data Engineer

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

Responsibilities:

• Successfully upgraded organization’s Windows 2000 Active Directory Domain, DNS and DHCP to Windows 2003 R2 functional level.
• Implemented three identical datacenters based on VMware and XoSoft technologies for three various locations for automated replication and failover of Exchange, SQL, File servers and CITRIX presentation servers.
• Installed and configured network, storage, VMFS and NFS data store for the ESX Servers, installed Virtual Center servers, Deployed virtual machines by using templates,
• Used variety of security scan tools such as PGD, STIGS and Configured Soft to identify vulnerabilities and apply patches and updates.

Network Team Leader

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

Responsibilities:

• Manager responsible for supervising technical staff, managing day to day operation of all network, experienced in executing all phases of network management, software development life cycle, proven ability to determine customer needs, develop requirements, produce appropriate system designs, design implementation, Network Team Leader with hands-on experience in design and implementation, budgeting, interviews, purchasing hardware and software, training, projects, contractors, etc.

Senior Network Administrator

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, upgrade and manage, the company Active Directory structure to Windows 2003 and the messaging system which consisted of multiple SPAM filter servers, Mail Relay servers using Surfcontrol spam software, Exchange 2003 servers attached to EMC SAN Storage, OWA Exchange 2003 server sitting on perimeter Network using SSL for authentication with the back-end servers and EMC/Legato EmailXtender for Archiving/Indexing purposes.

Network Administrator

Confidential, Alexandria, Virginia

Responsibilities:

• Managed Windows 2000 Active Directory, multiple cluster Exchange 2000 servers in Fiber SAN environment, Exchange 5.5 servers, Windows 2000/NT operating Systems servers, maintained all Novell 5.0/5.1 servers, maintained User accounts on Novell, NT, Active Directory, VPN, maintained backup servers/STORAGETECH Libraries, etc.