SUMMARY:

• The Information Technology industry is changing quickly and advancing the boundaries of the world that we know.
• As much as it is changing, many things are also remaining the same.
• As a deeply dedicated individual with exceptional technical abilities and expertise in various areas such as extremely high analytical skills, process refinement and solutions orientation; my vast experience allows me to help you navigate through and to make those technology changes that are necessary, a very tangible and manageable part of your technology experience.
• Windows OS Desktops from 3.x to present; Windows OS Server systems from NT3.5 to present; MS Clustering and NLB Technologies; MS IIS Administration 4.0 to 8.5; MS Active Directory Administration, Design and GPO Administration, Scripting and backup/restoration; Microsoft DNS, WINS, DHCP, DFS, DFSr; MS SQL 6.5 - 2014 Administration including Biztalk and Reporting; MS Exchange Enterprise Design and Administration including some 2007; IPSwitch IMail Servers; MS Powershell, Power GUI; MS Terminal Server with RDP, Citrix, VNC, SSH; MS Office and Office 365/Azure.
• VMWare - GSX, VMS2.0, Workstation, ESX, ESXi, Converter, VMotion, VC3/4/5/6, Vsphere.
• Some UNIX/Linux & minor UNIX/Linux Client/Server Applications on Solaris and Debian variants, minor Redhat, CentOS; Minor Apache Web-server; Zend Server - PHP Support; ISC BIND DNS; Open/Star/LibreOffice.
• Minor C#.NET, VB.Net, Powershell-Scripting/Troubleshooting.
• GFI Languard; GFI Network Server Monitor; GFI MailEssentials/MailSecurity; GFI FAXMaker 12-14.
• NSI Double-Take; Solarwinds; Infoblox; WebSense.
• Blackberry Enterprise Server.
• Rightfax/Cantata Fax server.
• Minor Citrix XenApp and MetaFrame Presentation server;
• Novell 4.1x/3.x Experience.
• Various Systems Management Ware; NetIQ, SCOM; MS MOM.
• Various Help Desk Systems and Management; PPM/RegPro.
• Various Anti-Spyware and Anti-Virus technologies.
• Nexpose 7.
• System and Network Architecture Design, Implementation, Troubleshooting, Analysis & Administration.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: HP/CPQ Server and Desktop Systems; IBM Server and Desktop Systems; Dell Server and Desktop Systems; HP/Cisco/Tiara-Tasman/Nortel Routers; HP/Linksys/Netgear/Cisco Switchgear. HP/CPQ Fiber/iSCSI Storage Networks; HP NAS; Juniper DX; F5 BIG IP/3DNS/SSL/Load Balancers. Juniper/Netscreen/Cisco/Dlink/SonicWall Security Firewall; IDS-IDP devices;SSL VPN Devices; Cisco/Linksys/Dlink/NetGear Wireless systems.

Backup systems: MS Backup, CA ArcServe & Veritas Backup Exec; Most SyTOS systems. Backup Power Systems. Inter-Tel Axxess and 5000 series Administration.

HEAT Servicing tools: CA ServiceDesk tools.

EMPLOYMENT:

Confidential, Garland, Texas

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Currently handling the facilities computer systems and internet access systems.
• Also handling facilities management for HVAC, Electrical, and other miscellaneous as required to keep systems and facility functional.

Confidential, Dallas,Texas

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working with the best and brightest people to be the best health system providing unparalleled excellence in healthcare for people.
• My responsibilities included WINTEL Computer and server systems oversight, deployment and troubleshooting.
• This also entailed software and application deployment, Active Directory management, GPO, Certificates Public and private, DHCP, DNS, VMware and Hyper-V oversight and deployment, hardware.
• This was a semi-Architect role with much project time in planning, deployment, obsolescence of retiring software platforms and establishing new.
• Supported doctor and specialist interfacing and full on-call rotations.

Confidential, Irving, Texas

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• I was responsible for meeting required project time-lines for deploying hosted client environments.
• I provided support for Windows Server-2003,2008, 2008E2,2012R2, ESX/ESXi, HP7000 Enclosures/Blades and Active Directory support for all hosted client environments in the entire Enterprise.
• Active Directory Design and Administration with GPO creation and AD changes as required by change procedures and process.
• Heavy DFS/DFSr deployments and administration in hosted client environments.
• DNS, WINS, DHCP, IPAM, Related infrastructure services. Assist and support other departments with design implementation of hosted client infrastructure, including Active Directory integration.
• Work within company processes to bring new designs and changes to the Enterprise.
• Heavy Powershell scripting for Windows VMware deployment for hosted clients and Active Directory Management as necessary to facilitate Enterprise Infosec processes and procedures.
• Support project design and implementation. System and process documentation.

Confidential, Plano, Texas

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for oversight of Active Directory in 11 Domains and 9 Forests and over 25,000 total user accounts.
• As a member of the Enterprise Information Systems team, I was responsible for providing Server and Active Directory support for the entire Enterprise.
• Assist and support other departments with design implementation in the Infrastructure and with Active Directory integration.
• These include SQL, IIS, SPN and delegation implementations.
• Work within change processes to drive new design and changes to the Enterprise.
• Heavy Powershell script development and execution for Active Directory Management as necessary to facilitate Enterprise processes and procedures.
• Active Directory GPO creation, modifications, deletions and assignments as required by change procedures.
• Support project design and implementation.
• Change Board Compliance, Audit compliance and remediation.

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for providing product support for development and deployment of insurance software in multiple environments from development to endpoint production.
• Responsible for providing IT support for the Dallas office.
• Assist Hartford IT with design implementation of network in the Dallas office and working hand in hand with IT to troubleshoot and resolve IT issues in the Dallas office.
• Responsible for local AD user accounts and service accounts for systems and users in branch office AD replication configuration.
• Responsible for oversight of the server base in the Dallas office for software development, storage, virtualization and SQL systems.
• Implement virtualization via VMWare and Hyper-v for development and client facing environments. Creation of scripts and scripting techniques for software deployments and for MSSQL script deployments.
• Support of MSSQL 2005 and 2008 servers and databases. Support for Zend Server for PHP on IIS 6.5 through 7.5.
• Definitive implementation and IIS support for client facing SaaS hosting.
• Responsible for documentation creation regarding deployment of software.
• Support developers with development solutions such as Visual Studio 2005, 2008 and 2010.
• Build script support with FinalBuilder and Nant Compiler from code sourced in SVN and TFS.
• Process refinement, troubleshooting and solutions engagement.

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

Senior Systems Administrator/Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided design, integration and managed support for MS Exchange, MS SQL6.5 -SQL2005, IIS web client- server applications and complex Windows 2000/2003/2008
• High Availability server infrastructure. Provided support for a large user base of internal, external and remote users.
• Designed and administered remote access capabilities via SSL VPN and RDP.
• Managed IT budget, maximized savings for the IT department while maintaining an exceptional level of service. Maintained desktop systems running Windows XP Professional, Vista, MS Office 2003/2007, other COTS and proprietary software.
• Heavy design and implementation of Active Directory infrastructure including multi-domain/tier/forest and FSMO roles.
• Active directory Integration for Exchange, IIS, SQL systems for user/application access control and security.
• Responsible for all areas of soft infrastructure such as work order, requisition, inventory, hardware resource acquisition, licensing as well as InterNIC domain registration, SSL certificates and DNS.
• Designed and administered multiple data centers and their environmental systems.
• Administered network security infrastructure including firewalls, IDS/IDP, various anti-spyware, mal-ware, anti-virus, email and web filtering and forensics.
• Orchestrated migration of two companies into one viable merged organization.
• Managed developmental systems budget - maximized savings for developers, while maintaining acceptable levels of service and testability of new software and systems.
• Monitored all systems to ensure acceptable levels of service to internal and external users.
• Maintained acceptable SLA system up-time requirements.
• Administered Inter-Tel Axxess and 5000 Series telephone systems.

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

Systems Administrator/Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided design, integration and managed support for MS Exchange, MS SQL6.5 -SQL2005, IIS web client server applications and complex Windows 2000/2003
• High Availability server infrastructure.
• Managed daily operations for multiple clients running *NIX, Windows NT through 2003 server and Novell based systems with Windows 98, NT, and 2000 clients and MAC.
• Design and implementation of Active Directory infrastructure including multi-domain/tier/forest and FSMO roles.
• Active directory integration for Exchange, IIS, SQL systems for user/application access control and security.
• Administered desktop PC’s running various Windows OS, various Office Suites including Open Office Suite, COTS and proprietary software.
• Managed network security infrastructure including firewalls, IDS/IDP various anti-spyware, mal-ware and antivirus, email and web filtering and forensics.
• Cabling, including Cat5e, Cat6, and fiber connections.Administered data center environmental systems. Orchestrated migrations from Novell to MS Windows Server environments.
• Responsible for research, acquisition, and configuration of new network and server hardware systems for the various client environments.
• Administered developmental systems maintaining acceptable levels of service and testability of new software and systems within both client and base environments.
• Monitored client systems to ensure acceptable service levels via SLA to those clients.
• Administered remote access capabilities via MS VPN, RDP and Citrix.