SUMMARY:

• IT Professional with over 19 years of experience in Systems Administration and Engineering with hands - on technical knowledge of network, Operating Systems and Applications.
• Experience is supplemented with VMware Certified Professional 5 - Data Center Virtualization VCP5DC, VMware Certified Professional 6 - Network Virtualization VCP-NV, VCP6-DTM
• Cisco Data Center (CCNA), CCNP Novell Master CNE and Microsoft Certified System Engineer s and has computer management skills and expertise in network technology support
• Working towards ensuring continued to keep at the forefront of industry.
• Has been consistently recognized by management for working successfully toward assigned objectives and can adapt to various schedules and conditions in order to meet the established target dates and work completion time frames.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

OPERATING SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY: Microsoft Server OS 2016, 2012r2, 2008r2, 2008, 2003, 2000, NT 4 server, Netware 6.5, 5, RedHat CentOS, Ubuntu, SUSE, Sun Solaris, Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 10, VMWARE ESXi, Hyper V and Mac OS.

HARDWARE & TOPOLOGIES: Token Ring, Ethernet, Bay 2715, 3Com Superstack Ethernet Hubs/Repeaters, Nortel Network Bay Stack 420, Dell power connect 5324, Smart UPS, Thomas Conrad (TC4047)/IBM Intelligent Token Ring Hubs, AS Switch 224T, Cisco Router, 1600, 1700, CoreBuilder 5000, Shiva Lanrover, DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, NDS, FTP, Telnet, PPP, VPN, Esoft ThreatWall and Instagate Pro, NFS, CIF and SSH, FalconStore SAN, IBM Director, IBM, HP, Dell, Cisco UCS Blade Center, Fabric Interconnect, Netscaler load balancers

APPLICATIONS: Microsoft SQL Server 2016, 2008 and 2005. Microsoft Exchange 2010, 2007, 2003, 5.5, GroupWise v5.x, cc:Mail, cc:Mail Mobile, MS-Office 2013, 2010, 2007, 2003, XP, BNA, ProSystems, RIA, Caseware, Ghost Pro, Partition Magic, MDT, PC Anywhere, VNC, Telemagic, APG and Zenworks, GoSystem Suite, Tomcat, Apache, Adobe CS5 Suite SCCM, NetApp, Nimble, Pure Storage, Imprivata, Cisco Unified Computing System Manager.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Maintain a highly available Windows and Linux environment for an aggressive and dynamic business.
• SAN Administration - Manage, Monitor and recommend Performance improvements for SAN environments.
• Deploy, Maintain and Optimize VMware clusters.
• Responsible of server administration, troubleshooting, capacity planning, and disaster recovery planning.
• Administer, maintain, develop and implement procedures for ensuring the performance, scalability, and security of the infrastructure.
• Ensure projects are completed within SLA agreements, technical timelines, and at or under budget.
• Provide thought leadership and system architecture and design expertise.
• Responsible for creating technical project plans and meeting project deliverables on-time and on-budget.
• Work with various 3rd - party providers such as VMware, Cisco, Nimble, Pure, Zerto Veeam and HP.
• Responsible for all facets of Data Center Operations including design, implementation, monitoring, and communications.
• Work closely with the multiples constituents including customers solutions, production support, as well as network, security, desktop support, and systems administrators to optimize the systems and related components.
• Responsible for incoming new projects and provide Tier III support to NOC. Include Installation, configuration, management, troubleshooting, recommendation, documentation, and day to day operational support of production and pilot environment, including Wintel, Linux, VMware Virtualization, HyperV, NetApp, EMC, Nimble and Pure Storage, Veeam, Zerto and Cisco Unified Communication Manager (CallManager).

Confidential

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Data Center responsible for the maintenance and support of 7,000 multi system heterogonous network. Provide Installation, configuration, management, documentation, and day to day operational support of production technology equipment that includes Wintel, Linux, VMware Virtualization and NetApp Storage.
• Maintain Active Directory, File share, Printers, VMware, VMware View, SCCM, DNS, DHCP and NetApp. Responsible for Windows, Red Hat Servers and ESXi Hosts, including the addition and decommission of new/old technology. Troubleshooting network problems, configuration of network services, stay-up-to-date with patches for Windows, Linux and ESXi hosts, Cisco UCS and provide level III user support.
• Responsible for NetApp & PureStorage adding and deleting Volume and Luns. Configuring and troubleshooting SnapMirror, performing daily health check to monitor the usage of LUN, Aggregate and volume utilization,configuring and troubleshooting SnapVault, SnapMirror performing Deduplication for the volumes, Volume resize, Aggregate disk add, LUN resize, and disk encryption. Resolving the hardware issues in co-ordination with NetApp.
• Responsible for Cisco UCS Chassis, Servers, Fabric interconnects, including addition of new Chassis and Blades, performing and monitors daily health check for faults, alarms and status. Create server pools, policies, and Server Templates, apply service profiles to servers, configure/create/troubleshoot uplink ports, port channels, VLANs decommission blades. Apply firmware update. Also work with standalone HP server. Assist PC Support on their roll out project Create maintenance documentation for all the Servers and application.
• Responsible for vSphere Enterprise plus infrastructure 4 - 6, including adding and deleting hosts, Managing Users, Groups, Permissions, and Roles, Setting Up and Monitoring Performance Statistics and Resource Maps, Managing Tasks, Events, and Alarms. Install/Configure/create/troubleshoot: ESX, vCenter, Connection, Security, and Composer Servers. cluster, Data storage, Host agent, Remote CLI, Alarms, VDP, VMotion, P2V, vSphere client, Storage, VMware HA, VMware DRS, FT, VMware Update Manager, vShield Endpoint, vSphere Data Protection, operations Manager, SRM, VMware Converter, Standard Switch, Distributed Switch, Resource pools, Datastores, Networks, Folders, Inventory, Scheduled tasks, Logs, Snapshots, Templates, and Host Profiles,

Confidential

Sr. Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Maintenance and support of a 15,000 multi system heterogonous network. Provide Installation, configuration, management, documentation, and day to day operational support of production technology equipment that includes Wintel, Linux, Solaris and Virtualization and SAN Storage Platforms Reporting directly to Systems Director.
• Install and configured SharePoint 2010 Farm at Seton Hall University (production and test environment). Mange SharePoint site rights, permissions, copy/move and troubleshoot. Create sites, forms, and help end users.
• Work with development team on customizing templates for the University.
• Maintain Active Directory 2008, DFS File share, Printers, SharePoint-2010 and SCCM Responsible for Windows 2008, Red Hat Servers and VMware Servers, including the addition and deletion of users and groups.
• Troubleshooting network problems, configuration of network services, stay-up-to-date with patches for Windows, 2000/2003/2008 and provide level III user support.
• Responsible for SAN (IPStore) adding and deleting Node and Luns. Responsible for the hardware on all the blade and standalone server. Create new standard secure hardened image using CIS Benchmarks for windows 2003 and 2008 servers. Assist PC Support on their roll out project as Sr. Systems Support. Prepare weekly technical report for project accomplished and project to be accomplished. Create maintenance documentation for all the Servers.
• Installed and configured single forest and 3 domain controller and Setup Active directory, SharePoint Server 2010, DFS file share
• Printer Server and migrated 2000 printers and 3000 file share groups from Novell to Windows 2008 and provide appropriate access to each share. Set up exchange 2007 and Project Server 2007
• IBM Systems Management Server and VMware ESX Servers. Installed and configured Open SSH on Netware 6.5, NFS link between Netware 6.5 to Windows 2003 and RH Linux Server, iPrint server
• Zenworks 7 Desktop Managements. Installed and configured Open Enterprise SUSE Linux 9, iFolder 3 Enterprise server.

Confidential

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Upgraded from Novell 5, Windows NT Server to Windows 2003 server. Designed, set-up and installed Terminal Windows 2003, File share, Exchange 2003
• Application Server, set-up Active Directory 2003, DNS, DHCP, migration all client computer from windows NT & 2000 to Windows XP Professional on all workstations.
• Responsible for the maintenance and support of a 150-user network spanning three sites.
• Maintained Novell 5.x, NT 4 and Exchange Servers including the addition and deletion of users, troubleshooting network problems, configuration of network services and general user support.
• In charge of the deployment and management of Zen Works/NAL. Established firm standards for hardware/software. Assist in the deployment of standards for migration of old data. (On-line storage). Develop and deploy hardware and software audit procedures.
• In charge of the deployment and continued maintenance of the standard directory structure on all file Servers. Managed key components of the software deployment process. Designed, set-up and installed Citrix Metaframe NT Terminal Server for the Marden Harrison & Kreuter CPAs.

Confidential

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the maintenance and support of a 1500 user network in the northern region. In charge of the deployment and management of Zen Works/NAL within the region.
• Report directly to the Director of MIS in the northern region. Implement technical of existing and new hire IT staff within northern region. Provided lights out computer room coverage. Provided level 1 file server outage coverage and assist the Disaster Recover Team as needed. Assisted in deployment of quarterly CD’s for local IT staff with the latest client/software updates. Assisted with any hardware/software related issues within the region.
• Help in establishing firm standards for hardware/software. Ensure compliance with Firm’s IT processes and policies. In charge of the deployment and continued maintenance of the standard directory structure on all file Servers within region. Assisted in the deployment of standardized Netware Groups and field technology staff with file system rights in all containers within region. Managed key components of the software deployment process.
• Assisted in deployment of the next generation workstation OS and configuration. Assisted in the deployment of standards for migration of old data. (On-line storage). Provided high-level technical assistance with any major application issue. Provided weekly status reports. Assisted local IT Specialists in developing and maintaining local office infrastructure technical documentation. Developed and deploy hardware and software audit procedures. Assisted in the development of reports for field technology specialist. Maintained Novell 5.x, NT 4 servers.

Confidential

Jr. Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the maintenance and support of a 300-user network spanning eight sites. Maintained Novell and NT Servers including the addition and deletion of users, troubleshooting network problems, configuration of network services (printers, Shiva modem shares) and general user support. Designed, set-up and installed two Windows NT Server networks for the Maintenance Department. Serviced and maintained 2,000-user cc: Mail Post-office and its routine maintenance. Troubleshooting router and remote access problems.
• Set-up and installed new computer systems. Provided technical support for Windows for Workgroups 3.11, Windows 95, Windows NT Workstation, Microsoft Office 95-97, WordPerfect 5.1 and 6.1; cc:Mail, cc:Mail Mobile, Internet Explorer 3.1 and 4.0, Antivirus Software, and proprietary park service programs. Installed hardware including printers, modems, sound cards, hard-drives, memory, motherboard replacements and other devices. Prepared monthly technical service reports for distribution to all employees.

Confidential, NY

Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Provided support for 500 Node NetWare 3.1x, 4.1 Network and Windows NT. Maintained PC Hardware/Software. Installed TC4045 Token Ring/3Com 3cSX9 Cards, Hard Drives
• Floppy Drives, SVGA card, Modems, CD-ROM drives, SCSI Cards, IDE controller Cards. Configured new PCs and connect them to the network. Answered Help Desk over the phone.
• Installed and provided user software support for MS and WP programs. Resolved printing problems over the network and local printing problems.

Confidential

Computer Lab Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Tutored in C and C++. Prepared college students for general math and the CUNY assessment test. Configure new PCs and connecting them to the network and running Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Microsoft Office 95 and Office 97, Borland C++.

Confidential

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for running day-to-day operations. Trained new employees to use a computer for Word Processing