OBJECTIVE:

• To obtain a challenging position within the technology / services industry, bringing with me excellent technical & customer service skills to the end user and leadership experience to my peers.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Windows Server 2008/2012/2016/2019 , OSX, Solaris and Linux operating systems
• TCP/IP, JunOS, IOS (Cisco), AD(Active Directory), DHCP, VMWare, Citrix, ESX, DNS, RAS, SNMP, iSCSI, ADFS, MFA, LDAP, VPN, SMTP, SMB (Samba), VLAN, SAN, BGP,OSPF, VoIP, IPSec, PPTP/GRE and RAID
• Cisco, Juniper, Sonicwall, Sophos, Fortinet, Ubiquiti, Meraki routers/firewalls, HP / Aruba / Cisco switches, Networked Printers, Ethernet, FDDI, Wi - Fi and 10Gig-E topologies networks, file /print / backup /database / web / mail / application servers, running Windows, Linux, and Solaris
• Disaster Recovery / SQL / AD / VPN / Virtualization w/ dedicated and hybrid on premise environments
• Hybrid and On Premise Exchange deployments and migrations
• DSL / VPN / DS3 / Cable / Fiber / CAT5/6 / MPLS / SD-WAN
• Shell scripting with BASH / Powershell
• Installation, deployment and support of Microsoft IIS / Sun / Apache web servers / LAMP stack
• Enterprise backups for UNIX / Linux / Windows / OSX hosts using Veritas, Legato/Networker, and Commvault Simpana / Datto / Shadow Protect / Axcient / Veeam

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Systems / Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Numerous Hybrid & Cloud deployments of Exchange / O365 / Skype for Business and Azure cloud environments
• Physical to Virtual (P2V) projects for midsize and large corporate and government clients running both Hyper-V and VMWare
• Network upgrades primarily on Cisco / HP / Aruba / Juniper networking stacks
• Multi-Site enterprise Wi-Fi implementations using Ubiquiti hardware and cloud controllers
• Project lead on Solarwinds deployments for large government entities
• Project lead on ADFS and MFA implementations
• Project lead on O365 and AD domain migrations for local government municipalities, on premise and to Azure
• Create and present hand off documentation and training for staff and IT personnel
• Support of Citrix ADC / Virtual Apps & Desktops / Citrix Gateway
• Maintain corporate knowledge base for numerous clients using Sharepoint and Connectwise

Confidential

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Supported 20+ clients in Sacramento/Bay Area for national MSP
• Usage of Connectwise, Labtech, Kaseya for day to day client management and support
• Mobile device management deployments for Android / iOS with Sophos technology
• Network engineer for client upgrades using Sonicwall / Sophos / Cisco / Ubiquiti / Meraki Hardware
• Onsite and remote level 2/3 systems administration
• Strong focus on high availability for client operations at the server and network level
• Datto backups / restores (file / server and bare metal / virtual)
• Deployed numerous Hyper-V and VMWare environments
• Implemented and designed cloud migrations to Office 365 from on premise Exchange

Confidential

Sr. Systems & Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Exchange email migrations from on premise Exchange servers to both public and private clouds utilizing both Hyper-V and VMWare. Back end technologies were the Office 365 cloud primarily using Hybrid and Cutover Exchange methods
• Network deployments for international law firms based in the US and Singapore. This was deployed using Cisco ASA firewalls
• 500 node migrations from Windows 2000/2003 domain to a pure 2008 R2 domain, in the process of the transition Citrix was migrated to be on a pure Terminal Services platform
• VoIP deployments using Allworx, Toshiba, and Cisco technologies
• Site to Site VPN tunnel configurations using Cisco ASA firewall h/w to both public and private clouds from numerous customer locations based in the US
• Public & Private cloud deployments within Rackspace & Datapipe datacenters. Mirrored replication of these clouds using VMware
• Linux deployed Gluster DFS / Hadoop HDFS for file share / MySQL redundancy, hosting 100’s of vHosts on an Apache based engine
• Dell/EqualLogic SAN Storage rollouts with auto-replication for a 200+TB media asset repository
• Solaris 8 UNIX Sendmail to Microsoft Exchange conversion project involving 250+ mailboxes, Barracuda spam filtering hardware, and sysadmin training
• P2V (Physical to Virtual) migrations for legacy applications utilizing both VMware and Hyper-V

Confidential

Sr. Systems & Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of Systems Administrators, Network Administrators, Analysts, Support Engineers, DBAs while serving/mentoring as the top tier lead point for all technical related issues in a global enterprise running Windows / OSX & Linux operating systems
• Responsible for growth management / education and annual reviews for my team
• Helped build a growing company from a single rack location to a 25 rack global enterprise keeping projects on time and within budget
• Implemented best practices while designing a worldwide secure IPsec meshed network using Juniper / Cisco routers and firewalls. Internally re-worked the entire network from a single VLAN to a multiple VLAN environment utilizing QoS and ACL's where necessary to achieve optimal security and performance
• Key individual in working with all business units and departments for yearly budgetary projects and initiatives.
• Crafted relationships with external vendors to keep our capital and operating expenses within set limits
• Designed and supported a legacy Sprint Protege migration to a Toshiba CIX VoIP infrastructure all the while maintaining 100% uptime for our two high volume technical support teams
• Performed both Redhat linux / Windows 2008 conversions to & from various source code repositories SVN & Perforce
• Created and maintained Disaster Recovery documentation
• Integrated 3 other company acquisitions and all of their legacy hardware/software needs including source code repositories, CRM databases (Goldmine, Salesforce, Sage CRM), mail systems (both Linux Sendmail and Windows Exchange)
• Architect and deployed an enterprise grade Xirrus Wi-Fi environment, keeping security in mind with 802.1x authentication
• Designed and implemented multiple physical to virtual systems for legacy applications and for utilizing hardware resources to their maximum potential. Performed both with Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware hypervisors
• Created a vast storage library for video assets utilizing Equalogic and Dell SAN hardware