SUMMARY

• Sr. Window Systems Engineer with over 10 year’s progressive experience in network engineering, implementation, system design and development.
• Combine strong analytical, troubleshooting and technical acumen with solid leadership and team - building skills to consistently deliver productive technological solutions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Hardware - Compaq, Dell, and HP PC’s and laptops; Dell 350, 1650, 1750, 2650, and 6650; Compaq DL Proliant servers and HP BLc7000, HP Proliant BL480c(BLADES); PDA (Blackberry, Handspring, and Palm Pilot); Sun Solaris; Cisco router 7505; GSR 1008 Cat 5000/2820; Wideband Mux; Ascend Max; Nortel passport switches; Lucent modems; Alcatel TP; Newbridge switch; Precision 100 MC/SC
• Software - MS Office 97, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007 and 2010; Adobe Acrobat; McAfee Anti Virus; Norton Anti Virus; Remedy Software; Vantive client; CTTS; Citrix; Avaya Communication; HP Open View; Master Diagnostic; Master Analyst; and Cabletron Spectrum; Symantec Ghost; Trinity and Entrust; Microsoft Operations Manager 2000; SMS 2003; BlackBerry Enterprise 3.6, 4.1 and 5.0; E-Policy 3.5; SUS; Exchange 2000/2003 and 2007; Net IQ MailMarshal; Netjunction 5.2; Enterprise SQL 2000, Enterprise SQL 2005; BizFlow; Webtrends; Cardiff; Ecora 3.6; F5 BIG-IP Kernel 4.5.12, Quest Migration Manager, Citrix Secure Gateway, Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 - 4.5, Xenapp Server, Secure Gateway Server; Enterprise Backup Exec 12D; Virtual Infrastructure 3.x, VI4 / VirtualCenter 2.0, 2.5 and 4.0
• Operating Systems - MS Windows NT/2000, XP Professional, Windows Vista and Windows 7; Windows NT/ 2000/2003/2008 ; ESX 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0; Novell NetWare 4.11, 5.1, and 6.0
• SAN- NETAPP FAS3020
• Security Tools - McAfee Foundstone Enterprise FS100

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Tyson’s Corner, VA

Responsibilities:

• Design solutions to accomplish the task in a manner that is compatible with the Aberdeen Proving Ground legacy environment and their Information Technology policies
• Designed, Implemented and documented ESX servers and VMware
• Develop the operational and technical procedures to allow applications to be migrated from stand alone physical servers to consolidated virtualized servers
• Develop an application migration plans for the remaining application that need to be migrated to the data center being implemented in the APG IPN
• Document all of the technical and operational steps necessary for a successful application migration Migrate C4ISR applications as part of a proof of concept to the data center being implemented in the APG IPN
• Update the procedures based on actual experience and the lessons learned of the migration to enable future migrations by the Government
• Review server characteristics being utilized and provision an equal number of system cores, memory and storage to support each of the individual 200 applications
• Coordinate and schedule all activities with Government personnel to enable a transfer of knowledge
• Assist the Government in transitioning applications and files from the remote environment to the newly contractor furnished system

Responsibilities:

• Lead a staff of 9 System Administrators
• Proactively work with application monitoring resources to ensure service/system security.
• Follow and support in place incident and change management processes.
• Document best practices and operational procedures.
• Support Active Directory in a multi-domain environment
• Perform Microsoft Windows 2003 system administration, installation, upgrades, patching, tuning, and troubleshooting
• SANS and NAS administration, installation, upgrades, tuning, and troubleshooting
• Backup Exec administration, installation, upgrades, tuning, and troubleshooting
• Symantec End Protection administration, installation, upgrades, tuning, and troubleshooting.
• Application server administration, installation, upgrades, tuning, and troubleshooting
• Print Server administration, installation, upgrades, tuning, and troubleshooting
• DNS Server administration, installation, upgrades, tuning, and troubleshooting
• Write concise, accurate and readable technical documentation and reports
• Configure Cisco routers (7206VXR and 2611) and switches (Catalyst 3560, 4507) on a GB Ethernet network.
• Monitoring network and systems to alert anyone of potential problems
• Implement network and system devices

Confidential,, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Technical project leadership, requirement gathering and management skills
• Maintain and troubleshoot a Windows 2003 Server in an Active Directory environment; utilize advanced troubleshooting skills and resolve computer and network problems in a timely manner
• Develop and update documentation for a MS Windows Server production and development environment
• Regularly patch servers in the test lab and verify stability before deploying to the production environment
• Perform the building of Windows 2003 Domain Controllers and domain member server
• Support Exchange 2003 Server environment
• Design, Implement and document ESX servers and VMware,
• Create and maintain VM template
• Configured DRS, HA and VMotion
• Design, Implement and document Citrix farm Solution, publish applications

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of engineers in the mail, data, and user migration of the Novell NDS 5.x and Exchange 2000 environment to Windows 2003/Exchange 20003 to include approximately 2000 desktops
• Routinely determine the types of tests (e.g. users, groups, files, and folder permissions) to be used and any success criteria for the tests; created a test lab for design and migration testing
• Execute network design and implementation
• Maintain and troubleshoot a Windows 2003 Server in an Active Directory environment; utilize advanced troubleshooting skills and resolve computer and network problems in a timely manner
• Develop and update documentation for a MS Windows Server production and development environment
• Regularly patch servers in the test lab and verify stability before deploying to the production environment

Sr. Systems Engineer,

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of engineers in the mail, data, and user migration of the Novell NDS 5.x and GroupWise 6.0 environment to Windows 2000/Exchange 2000 to include approximately 900 desktops
• Senior level Lead for a migration from Windows 2000/Exchange 2000 to Windows 2003/ Exchange 2003
• Developed and updated documentation for a MS Windows 2000 Server production and development environment
• Designed, built, and deployed Advanced Windows 2000/Windows 2003 servers using Dell Open Manage
• Tested applications and monitoring tools in a development environment
• Patched servers in a test lab to ensure stability before deploying to the production environment
• Assisted end users with dial-up connections via Remote Network Access using TCP/IP protocols and utilizing VPN technology
• Provided desktop assistance and for users when necessary
• Regularly installed the Trinity/Entrust application
• Configured Entrust for user’s to digitally sign and encrypt/decrypt mail
• Provided Trinity administration to users with log in problems
• Performed testing and provided documentation on installation and troubleshooting procedures (compiled and analyzed results)
• Coordinated tests with vendors and provided and information to users in PKI concepts, usage, and policy

Confidential, Gaithersburg, MD

Responsibilities:

• Built Windows 2000 Domain Controllers and domain members
• Installed and configured DNS, WINS, and DHCP Servers
• Created and edited group policies in the Domain Controllers and Domain
• Performed installation, configuration, and maintenance of SQL; installation, configuration, and maintenance of E-Policy, SUS, and Mail Marshal
• Provided administration, configuration, and maintenance of MS Exchange 2000
• Performed back-end maintenance that included checking server logs for errors, disk size, and CPU performance
• Built and installed new PCs including loading software and configuring network settings
• Relocated PCs from one office to another; changed network settings as necessary
• Upgraded PCs - hardware and operating systems
• Provided Level 1, 2, and 3 support for personal computer hardware, LAN problems, software, and operating systems