SUMMARY:

To procure employment in the I.T. profession demonstrating skills in hardware, organization, and teamwork. Acquire the opportunity to strive in the technology industry advancing my knowledge of migration and troubleshooting skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Gilbert, AZ

Principal Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Perform as a System Administrator for a classified government contract
• Maintain smooth operation of multi - user computer systems, including coordination with network, software, and system engineers, PC desktop technicians, project managers, end users, and customer and IT management.
• Analyze internal or external customer requirements and determine equipment and software requirements for solutions.
• Test new releases of products to ensure compatibility and minimize user impact.
• Create and maintain user and computer accounts and modify file permissions and security access lists.
• Interact, meet, discuss, and troubleshoot issues with vendors; evaluate vendor products, services, and suggestions.
• Works under minimal direction and independently determines and develops approach to solutions.
• Make recommendations to purchase hardware, software, system components.
• Develop and document technical processes and procedures as needed.
• Provide technical input for security documentation to Computer Security.
• Provide backup and recovery services; manage file systems and disk space; manage virus protection on a routine basis.

Confidential, Gilbert, AZ

Senior Solutions Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Supported Client projects and Worked on AWS EC2, IAM, S3, EBS, Elastic Load balancer (ELB), auto scaling group services. Interacted with client teams to understand client deployment requests.
• Coordinate with the Development, Database Administration, QA, and IT Operations teams to ensure there are no resource conflicts.
• Worked closely with Project Managers to understand a code/configuration release scope and how to confirm a release was successful.
• Proficient in AWS services like VPC, EC2, S3, ELB, AutoScalingGroups (ASG), EBS, RDS, IAM, CloudFormation, Route 53, CloudWatch, CloudFront, CloudTrail.
• Experienced in creating multiple VPC’s and public, private subnets as per requirement and distributed them as groups into various availability zones of the VPC.
• Used security groups, network ACL’s, internet gateways and route tables to ensure a secure zone for organization in AWS public cloud.
• Created and configured elastic load balancers and auto scaling groups to distribute the traffic and to have a cost efficient, fault tolerant and highly available environment.
• Created S3 buckets in the AWS environment to store files, sometimes which are required to serve static content for a web application.
• Maintained the monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers using Cloud Watch service.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Work with Information Assurance team providing systems administration support for classified programs.
• Collaborate with other IT personnel to perform systems administration tasks in both classified and unclassified environments.
• Preform standard SA duties in classified areas, such as building workstations & servers, patching systems, hardening systems, access provisioning, Active Directory tasks, networking, hardening systems using STIGs and DOD's Secure Host Baseline other classified SA duties.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Ensure servers and/or workstations data integrity through evaluating, implementing, and managing appropriate software and hardware solutions.
• Supporting media management through internal methods and procedures or through offsite storage and retrieval services.
• Making system images and performing a restore, using Acronis or other imaging tools.
• Configuring and improving desktop developer workstations to run a full range of developer tools on a single workstation.
• Recommend and implement system enhancements that will improve the performance and reliability of the system including installing, upgrading/patching, monitoring, problem resolution, and configuration management.
• Document technical processes and procedures as needed.

Confidential, Ashburn, VA

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Red hat Linux Enterprise 6 and RHN Satellite server 5.
• Manage operating system configuration, maintenance, patching, and troubleshooting.
• Optimize physical and virtual systems and system capacity analysis and planning.
• Oversee testing and implementation of software, systems, and data networks.
• Coordinate and monitors simulation testing across all platforms.
• Plan and execute installation and configuration of Linux and Windows systems in the datacenter.

Confidential, Springfield, VA

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Provide system administration and database administration in building and supporting the infrastructure for complex applications, including Web services and Web based applications that provide for robust database interaction.
• Install Virtual/Physical Centos Linux servers and workstations.
• Apply knowledge of Windows virtual desktop environments and Linux computer operating system configuration, system level programming, and computer security and accreditation needs.
• Advise staff and client on administrative policies and procedures, technical problems, priorities, and methods.

Confidential, Springfield, VA

IT Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Configure and install network equipment on local area networks at Confidential .
• Train Department of State IT personnel in all associated hardware and software and provide them with systems documentation.
• Installation and Migration of Virtual Management and Host Servers (VMware), Domain Controllers (Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 2008), Member Servers (Microsoft Windows Server 2003), Exchange Servers (Microsoft Exchange 2003).
• Set up of Workstations
• Provided technical solutions for other routine to complex network installations.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for maintenance, daily operations and troubleshooting of 3 large Navy and USMC virtual sites with over 65 ESX servers and 500 Virtual Machine clients.
• On call duty 24/7 on rotational basis.
• Maintain/rebuild Windows 2000/2003 Standard/Enterprise servers.
• Load server operating systems on new servers.
• Active directory server account creation, Maintenance and GPO’s.
• Install hot fixes and security patched on both new and production servers.
• Participate in new server projects and deployments.
• Install and configure VMware ESX servers/Workstations in the Enterprise (Virtualization project).
• Trouble shoots Server issues.
• Software installations and Enterprise network monitoring.

Confidential, Miami, FL

System Administrator/ Desktop Support

Responsibilities:

• Monitor, operate and maintain hardware, software, and networks for the Confidential .
• Perform first line of support for service interruptions such as printer routings, power outages wiring problems, and malfunctioning services.
• Maintain disaster recovery procedures for LAN and related equipment/software.
• Upgrade, modify and replace hardware, software and network components.
• Perform system backup and recovery.
• Create and maintain user login identification information and login scripts.
• Monitor system performance, gather data, and prepare management reports.
• Audit hardware/software inventory to ensure their integrity as well as licensing compliance.