SUMMARY:

• Infrastructure Specialist and Sr. Windows Systems Administrator with over twenty years experience in server management, Project Management, application support and testing, systems and application migrations and virtualization.
• Team leader, desktop support and integration with in depth experience in widely varied IT environments.
• Successful in providing executive C level support for multiple organizations, client management relations from CEO, CFO level to end users.
• Problem solving abilities extending to such diverse industries as Healthcare, Energy Exploration and Production, Financial Services, Telecommunications, Sales, Federal and State Governments, Call Center Technical Support Management, Desktop break - fix support with extensive software, application and hardware support.
• Systems expert on multiple accounts, with focus in specialized applications support and systems migration.
• Designed and built million-dollar construction projects for 16 years, Proven people skills, adept at building teamwork, training, developing, motivating and mentoring employees. Consistently successfully demonstrated ability to learn and adapt quickly to virtually any product, work situation or environment.
• Sr. Windows Systems Engineer Migration Specialist Virtualization Specialist Cloud Support IT Manager Application Testing and Support Secret Clearance Project Manager Team Leader Technical Lead IT Business Analyst Exchange/O365 Administrator Client Relationship Champion

EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Systems Integration Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Consult with customer, sales and implementation team to bid, manage and fulfill infrastructure outsourcing contracts.
• Manage build and maintain VMware 5.1-5.5 ESX servers utilizing IBM SoftLayer Cloud Technologies, IBM PureFlex Systems and Dell Blades in a RHEL 6, 6.6 and Windows 2008R2/2012 environment.

Confidential, Broomfield, CO

Systems Administrator/Exchange-O365 Global Admin

Responsibilities:

• Migration/Integration planning and implementation,
• CenturyLink Cloud migration from one data center to another,
• AD Forest, DNS/DHCP integration and implementation in the cloud,
• Office365 migrations for two acquisitions, one from 2010 Exchange and the other from another 365 node to WhiteWave node.
• Domain function level uplift from 2003 to 2012 and various related tasks.

Confidential, Broomfield, CO

IT Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• O365/SAP/ILantis/ RBAC/Active Directory Integration
• Separated/Migrated Active Directory, DHCP, DNS into new Forrest and domains.
• Assisted with actions required in separating WhiteWave from parent company Dean Foods, breaking/removing Forrest and domain trusts.

Confidential, Bethesda, MD

Cloud Onboarding Project Manager/Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed onboarding processes for new customers migrating to Virtuestreams private cloud and FedRAMP certified Federal cloud..
• Assistance with migrating existing servers and/or applications to our state-of-the-art private Cloud Platform xStream to leverage benefits and security of our cloud infrastructure, or assist clients in the build out of new environments.
• Build Windows 2003/8 R2 and 2012 servers, RHEL and CentOS Linux servers on our VMware 4.x and 5.1 Tiered cluster infrastructure and provide appropriate data storage for special projects or applications or setting up a new R & D, Test and or QA environments.

Confidential, Louisville, CO

Sr. Systems Admin Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Exchange 2010, Forefront, DPM, VMware, Mobile Device Management AirWatch and MobileIron, CITRIX, SCCM 2007/2010, Server 2003, 2008R2, 20012, MS Project Server 2013 with SharePoint 2013 Project.
• Implemented MobileIron MDM solution for company’s 400+ iPhones and iPads - migrated from AirWatch to MobileIron.
• Upgraded Domain Controllers from 2003 to 2008 R2 in preparation for Domain Function Level Uplift from 2003 to 2008 R2 which was prerequisite for migration to Office 365 and Email integration/Federation with our European Branches.
• Implemented AWS storage for migration of Oracle data, and setup cloud integration testing for AWS servers and AD integration.
• JAMF/Casper Suite product evaluation and Server implementation. Testing for integration with SCCM 2012 to manage introduction of OS X MacBook Pro into our enterprise.

Confidential, Denver, CO

Exchange Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Vetting migration lists, verifying AD/Exchange attributes in two different domains to merge into new forest.

Confidential, Denver, CO

Sr. Systems Admin - Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Implement SEP (Symantec Endpoint Protection), Nagios Monitoring, TSM Backups on all servers
• Reorganize/Revamp all users into proper OU’s per RBAC roles, created and applied appropriate GPO’s per group
• Migrated servers to new network, and setup on backup network to optimize bandwidth and backup schedule

Confidential, Meridian, CO

Sr. Infrastructure Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Assist final stages of migration of approximately 7.5 K users from Lotus Notes to MS Exchange 2010
• Resolve issues with Windows 2003/2008 infrastructure, Lotus Notes/Domino, Sametime, Exchange 2010, Microsoft Lync, Binary Tree.

Confidential, Cleveland, OH

Migration Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Data Center Consolidation/Virtualization/Migration and Decommission Project
• 2,500 to 3,000 Windows 2000, 2003 and Linux servers.

Confidential, Golden, CO

IT Manager/Director

Responsibilities:

• Managing complete day to day IT operations for Energy Research/Technology Company.
• Windows Servers, workstations and Thin Clients, Apple systems, Network systems, Telephony
• Specialized oil and gas/Geological and Energy specific applications and scientific measuring instruments and applications.
• Supported multiple scientific, geological and energy specific applications - Bolo WellPoint Systems, IHS Petra, SCADA and many others.
• Total account management, licensing, renewals, hardware/software warranty and support and vendor management

Confidential, Englewood, CO

Software Engineer/Systems Migration Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Migrated all applications and data from Novell Netware 4.x, 5.x and 6.0 and a failing Hitachi data storage to Windows AD environment on NetApp storage.
• Worked closely with application managers, end users, database administrators and developers in determining these proprietary applications functionality, connectivity and interaction with the international environment here. Interactions include interface and cross connectivity with: Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2008, UNIX, CITRIX, Linux, Access databases, SQL and multiple versions of Oracle, McIntosh/Apple and a hosted Mainframe applications.

Confidential, Denver, CO

Network Engineer/Systems Migration Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of Active Directory
• NT4.0 to 2003/2008 server migration, upgrade and/or virtualization.
• Operations and applications upgrade, migration and virtualization and/or new equipment Windows 2003/2008 Servers to Federal Center.
• Moved to private 10-Dot network.
• Department of Revenue migration from Exchange 5.5, to Exchange 2003, then Exchange 2007 with Barracuda implementation.
• Blackberry server upgrade
• Member of infrastructure team tasked to create and implement DOR Disaster Recovery Plan.