Summary

Goal-oriented, hardworking, and analytical Sr. Systems Engineer with more than eight years progressive experience managing and administrating large Enterprise IT systems seeking new position. Strong breadth and depth of IT knowledge / expertise in network engineering / systems administration. Skilled at managing and leading IT teams as well as working with various vendors. Proven record of implementing new technologies software and hardware and troubleshooting / problem-solving range of issues. Skilled at overseeing technical projects, working with diverse, cross-functional teams and ensuring deadlines and budgetary constraints are met.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Manager of Infrastructure / Architect

• Lead, supervised and managed infrastructure team and provided cutting edge technology mentorship
• Re-Designed Corp/ Data Center Architecture using VSPEX Technology. Juniper, HP, Cisco UCS,EMC,VMware including Juniper MX5 / Cisco ASR1K / Nexus 5K / ASA Firewall X series / EMC VNX 5K, VMAX10K / UCS B series / HP Proliant Gen8 / FusionIO SSD's
• Configured and managed overall components of the data center including routers switches, servers, Virtual Machines, firewalls, and storage arrays .
• Managed multiple vendors and service providers by building strong relationships with them.
• Key Achievement: Successfully negotiated global datacenter / service contracts and virtualized to reduce the IT expense by 1million annually. CapEX increase / OpEX decrease
• Planned, introduced and implemented virtualization technology to the company by fully migrating physical server environment to a virtual one.
• Designed, deployed, and managed multiple data center facilities across the globe. Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Frankfurt, Sao Paulo
• Designed Integration Support, managed and deployed Windows 2003/2008/ Linux Operating System. Active directory : LDAP integration, 150 user support design over WAN
• Mitigated DDos attacks recurring to multiple data centers by in-house DDos mitigation system and Cloud Based BGP ProxyDDOS solution

Confidential

Sr. Operation Engineer Network Engineering

• Managed team of network engineers to ensure a lean operations center with applications, systems and network monitoring capabilities.
• Worked with FlexPod environment UCS, Netapp, VMware in a fault tolerant / high availability data center. Responsible for system architecture including deploying / configuring Nexus 7K, 5K's using MPLS / BGP / OSPF / VRRP / VPC and 802.11AD.
• Juniper SRX series 3600's 650's using redundant Ethernet. Boot from San environment using UCS, Netapp storage and MDS9000 San switches and multiple UCS Pods.
• Responsible for the delivery of Game patches and updates as well as deployment automation using Chef.
• Managed and deployed Windows 2008 / CentOs / Ubuntu operating systems.
• Supported 18/7 NOC shift morning through midnight to ensure quality of infrastructure and platform delivery.
• Applied coding, security, or network architectural background to work with team and vendors to produce custom tools to monitor, analyze, isolate, and resolve potential incidents faster and simpler.

Confidential

Systems Administrator - Assistant Manager

• Provided corporate vendor management of security, server, and network products such as Cisco Switches / Routers, Dell Servers, IBM Storage and top player IPS security products.
• Acted as on-call Incident Manger responsible for resolving server /network issues that affected customers' game and website functionality.
• Successfully negotiated data center, ISP, content delivery, and network contracts.
• Designed, implemented, configured, and administrated 120 Dell servers for corporate gaming clients in the U.S., Latin America, and Europe.
• Designed, implemented, configured, and administrated Cisco 6509-E, 3750G, 2960 switches to provide Layer3 routing / L2 switching and Cisco ASA5550, 5540, 5520, 5510 firewall to support the gaming clients. Used IBM DS3400 iSCSI SAN as consolidated backup unit.
• Administered Microsoft SharePoint services and provided quarterly network vulnerability scans to meet the PCI compliance regulation.
• Administration of Microsoft Windows 2003/2008R2 Active Directory, GPO, WSUS, Terminal Server, MSSQL2005 , Linux Ubuntu, Fedora12, CentOS PHP, Apache, MYSQL and VMware.
• Implemented, configured, and administered ESX 4.0i, VSphere mass-email to end users by using SMTP protocol email marketing . Used intrusion-prevention system administration to prevent distributed-denial of service attacks. Employed firewalls to prevent Trojan, Spyware, virus and more.
• Supervised and supported Local LAN desktop and office support of 50 employees.

Confidential

Network Engineer

• Implemented and integrated local area network LAN solutions including installation, configuration, integration of servers, switches and various networking devices.
• Assisted in network design, handling 2nd-level escalation support and client relations management.

Confidential

Network Operations Engineer

• Provided frame relay, ISDN, T1, T3, DS1, DS3 line services to corporate clients in the continental U.S., Latin America, Europe and Asia.
• Responsible for LAN/WAN infrastructure support including Cisco routers, switches and Dell servers.