SUMMARY

• Experienced IT Systems Engineer with proven experience supporting large and mid size IT infrastructures, supporting on - prem, hybrid, and cloud operations; skilled in the latest infrastructure and cloud technologies.
• Proven track record of success deploying high-end computer systems supporting strategic IT solutions.
• Strong infrastructure background with excellent results deploying Virtualization, Storage and Servers in Data Center installations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: HP/Dell/Cisco servers and HP and Cisco UCS Blades servers. Converged UCS with 6000 series fabric interconnects deployed as a FLEXPOD with NetApp storage. Next generation HCI hardware systems Nutanix and Rubrik. Storage systems, HP storage MSA 1000 SAN with Fibre channel hubs, MSA 2012 I-SCSI, NetApp (FAS 2040/2050, 4020/4080 3200, 6080, 6200 filers, with NFS, I-SCSI, FCOE. DataDomain 640/2500, Dell Equalogic 6000 series, EMC CLARiion. Network Hardware,, F5 Networks Big IP web load balancer, Cisco Catalyst Switches (2924, 5509, 6509), Cisco PIX 520 Firewalls, Nokia Firewalls. DLT Auto loaders, KVM switches, APC UPS & Symetra, Fax boards.

Operating Systems: Operating Systems Microsoft Windows Server family, 2003/2008R2/2012/2016,Windows Workstation family, Windows XP/Windows 7/8/10, Netware 4.x, familiarity with UNIX, Linux (RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu).

Software: VMware vSphere ESX 5/5.1/5.5/6.0, Virtual Center, VMware workstation and Fusion, VMware VROPS and LogInsight (vRealize suite), VMware View/Horizon VDI, Citrix Metaframe XenApp 4.5, Zerto DR/BC, Microsoft product family, Office 365, SQL server 2008/2012 (clustered),Sharepoint,Visio, Exchange, SMS/SCCM, terminal server, ISA firewall, WINS, DNS, DHCP, IIS, MS-Trusts, AV solutions, McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator, Trend Micro, Netshield 4.5, Virus Scan Enterprise 7.0., 7.1, 8.0i, Network Monitoring Software, What’s Up, Pingdom, Site Scope, HP OpenView, Server Monitoring, HP Insight Manager (SIM), Dell Open Manager, NT SysInternal tools, Backup solutions, Backup Exec, Veeam, NetBackup, Avamar, DDBoost, DataDomain, Rubrik, HelpDesk., Ghost 7.5, 8.0. CheckPoint Firewall-1, VPN Software, RSA Verisign SSL, PKI, PGP, PrinterLogic., Cloud AWS & Azure, Crashplan, OwnBackup, Backupify

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Cambridge, MA

Responsibilities:

• Senior Microsoft and Storage Engineer, responsible for corporate infrastructure for leading mid-size research company with over 1,500 users and 10+ offices nationwide and 10 offices worldwide.
• Support company datacenters of 100+ physical servers running VMware ESX 5/6 on Cisco FLEXPOD, UCS Blades and NetApp storage supporting servers running various Microsoft and Linux Operating systems.
• Reduced DataCenter footprint from 3 racks 90U+ into 4U with 20+% performance gain by replacing UCS Flexpod with Nutanix HCI. Recommend, Designed and Implement the solution.
• Replaced EMC Avamar/DataDomain backup with HCI Rubrik, reducing footprint, increased performance with reduced VMstun, plus adding off-site replication for DR/BC into AWS cloud.
• Increased company infrastructure uptime 99%+ while incorporating various DR/BC tools like Zerto, Nutanix, Rubrik, NetApp Syncmirror. Planned, Documented,Tested and Implemented corporate infrastructure DR/BC
• Managed and upgraded Active Directory environment to 2016. Added ADFS/AAD sync to support Office 365
• Reduced 2nd tier printing support calls to zero By replacing Microsoft printing with PrinterLogic

Confidential, Cambridge, MA

Senior Systems Manager

Responsibilities:

• Senior Systems Manager, responsible for corporate infrastructure for 1 billion dollar company with over 4,500 users and 90+ offices nationwide and 15 offices worldwide.
• Support company datacenter of 300 physical servers running Microsoft 2003 and 2008 servers on HP Proliant and Dell servers and blades and support 80 remote servers running various applications and for file and print.
• Designed and Implemented a new state of the art datacenter focusing on virtualization using VMware Vsphere technologies, ESXi 4.1 and Virtual Center with Cisco UCS and HP Blades and NetApp storage systems using FCOE, I-SCSI, NFS and CIFS protocols on 10GB Ethernet.
• Configured 300+ virtual servers for production, stage and development teams. Setup up resource pools for resource management with DRS and configure HA and affinity rules. Used Vmotion and Storage Vmotion to move and balance workloads on ESX system hosts.
• Managed NetApp storage for ESX and Virtual machines and SQL 2008 R2 server clusters. Setup RDM LUNs for VM’s with LUNs greater than 2TB. Managed Snap Manager for VMware for VM backups.
• Designed and implemented a new VDI infrastructure with VMware View 4.0/4.5 using F5 load balancers.
• Implemented and configured Microsoft clusters (server 2003 & 2008) for file and print and for SQL servers (2005 & 2008) using best practices for performance and redundancy.
• Implemented a number of monitoring technologies to keep track of various infrastructure systems, including HP Systems Insight Manager and Dell OpenManage for server hardware, What’s Up for network and server outages, VFoglight for Vmware, NetApp Ops Mgr for storage, profiler for Backup Exec backups.
• Implemented Citrix infrastructure for remote user access using XenApp 4.5 and Citrix Access Gateways
• Implemented BIG IP (F5) for load balancing web and Oracle traffic and for SSL redirection and termination. Created I-Rules when needed. Used Microsoft Application center for software and application distribution.
• Managed DMZ infrastructure servers for Active Directory, IIS, FTP, SQL, and other engineering applications.
• Implemented a Windows 2003/2008 High Performance Compute (HPC) cluster for modeling applications.
• Manage a SMS 2003 multi site infrastructure of 3,600 desktops and servers for Microsoft security patches and software distribution in conjunction with WSUS server. Implemented Afaria for PDA/Cell phone management.
• Support E-Room and Sharepoint groupware applications for remote users, both customers and end-users.
• Implemented RADIUS (IAS) authentication to secure dial-up and VPN infrastructure. Setup RSA Secure ID for two factor authentication. Implemented PKI infrastructure and setup Kerberos authentication with servers.
• Implemented McAfee ePolicy to manage virus infrastructure of over 3,500 desktops and servers.
• Implemented Microsoft ISA 2004 firewall for application layer security and OWA access.

Confidential, Waltham, MA

National Infrastructure Manager

Responsibilities:

• Promoted to National Infrastructure Manager, responsible for corporate infrastructure for $100 million company with 600 users and 12 offices nation wide and 5 offices worldwide.
• Managed an 8 member infrastructure team responsible for internal desktop, server, network, messaging and security. The team consisted of senior network and messaging engineers and a team of end-user engineers.
• Managed a WAN 400K project to inter-connect 12 nation wide and 5 worldwide offices. The project consisted of using Uunet managed VPN and Internet backbone with Checkpoint Firewall-1 firewalls. Remote VPN access to corporate network via dial-up with Radius authentication, DSL and cable modems.
• Implemented corporate help desk and systems to track support calls, inventory and build up a knowledge base.
• Prepared million dollars IT budgets for senior management.
• Managed 250+ Internet Domain Names, including registration and DNS.

Confidential

Network Manager

Responsibilities:

• Promoted to Network Manager, responsible for corporate infrastructure and hosted data center at Exodus.
• Solely responsible for managing the entire corporate IS infrastructure, including Internet connectivity via T1/T3’s, Mail systems (POP3), DNS, WINS &DHCP, Backups, Fax Server, WinFrame and NT servers.
• Architect Data Center Operations for 99+% Uptime (data center consisted of network tier, web/application tier, database tier on a private network) Database was MSSQL 7.0 in Active/Active MS cluster.
• Deploy Web Farms, Clustered Compaq MSSQL Servers, RA 8000 Raid Array Disk Storage and Network Appliance storage at 4-cage set in Exodus Hosting Center.
• System administration and performance monitoring of IIS 4.0 web and SQL 7.0 servers.
• Provide system design and support development for 300K corporate datacenter relocation project.