SUMMARY

• Team oriented Lead Systems Admin/Architect with fourteen years of professional IT experience that included 24/7 support of all Windows server infrastructure and technologies within multiple complex trading environments (Prop and Direct), high profile web properties and a web startup which hosted more than 500 rich media sites across North America receiving over 190 million page views per month.
• A significant amount of project based work and coordination of IT resources and personal across multiple departments and product verticals. Strong communication skills, leadership qualities, and attention to detail in high availability environments have been central to all positions held.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: Compaq/HP - Server Models DL580, DL38X, DL36X, BL20p, BL20c, and BL40p (G1-G9), BLc7000 Blades & Enclosure, BL460 (G1-G9), BL465c (G1-G9), BL685c (G1-G6) Dell - Various Servers (across all hardware) and Workstations including Dimension, Optiplex, Precision and PowerEdge 2850, R610, R620, R630 Storage - SAN EVA5000, 6100, 8100, RA4100 Array, MSA1000 Array, Qlogic & Emulex HBA, EMC SAN platform, NetApp FAS2220 filerNetwork - Cisco 2960 Stackable

Platforms: Windows NT 4.0 Server & Workstation, Windows 2000 Server & Workstation, Windows 2003 Server, Windows Server 2008 (R2) - Core & Base, Windows Server 2012, Windows XP Professional, Windows 7, Windows Server 2012, VMWare ESX Server & Virtual Center (3.0-5.5), Limited Redhat Linux, CentOS Linux, Cisco iOS

Technologies and Software: Active Directory, Samba, DFS, DFSR, MS Exchange 2000 & 2003 & 2008 R2, MS SQL, MS IIS 5.0 & 6.0 & 7.0, Microsoft Sharepoint, Microsoft Clustering, File & Print Services, Altiris Deployment Solutions and Patch Management, Ironmail, Great Plains, HelpSTAR, TCP/IP, PXE, Sniffer, Backup Exec, MS Terminal Services, Trend Antivirus, Sophos Antivirus, HP Insight Manager, Solarwinds, Bindview, RSA Server, Outlook Web Access, Norton Ghost, DNS, DHCP, ProactiveNet (Monitoring), Microsoft Operations Manager, Windows SCOM R2, Hyper-V, Salesforce, F5 BigIP LTM software, Microsoft Virtualization Manager, Wireshark, Fiddler, asp.NET, Power Shell Scripting, Akamai configuration and implementation, PRTG, Arcserve, Solarwinds, Spiceworks, Netapp Data ONTAP 8.0+, NFS, CIFS, EMC Networker (backup software)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Windows Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead Windows Engineer supporting all windows servers (virtual and physical) in a complex trading environment which includes back office, trading and third party windows applications. (more detail as needed regarding hardware and implementations due to NDA)
• Lead a project responsible for streamlining Windows environment and consolidating server infrastructure. This includes merging existing systems and moving smaller trading operations to a virtualized platform. Consolidation of domain controllers, active directory objects, file resources/permissions and anything windows related to slim down over - engineered footprint. Net effect was reduced overhead and cost of department operations.
• Expanded VMWare footprint as a means to consolidate existing and obsolete hardware. 100+ servers were turned down, consolidated and/or removed from service during my tenure at TMG.
• Lead and completed project to upgrade/consolidate accounting infrastructure (Great Plains) along with satisfying business continuity requirements. This included moving accounting data and infrastructure into the cloud along with upgrading existing software to current release.
• Spec’d out and built all server infrastructures for fully functional remote office in Europe. This included hardware recommendations, implementation, and eventual turn up of all resources critical to trading functionality.
• Implemented backend storage infrastructure (NetApp Filer) for market data capture system and analytics.
• Lead a project for testing and eventual replacement of all trading desktop hardware; this includes spec recommendations, vendor approval, latency testing, and software compatibility. End goal is the implementation of a standard piece of hardware across all trading desks in the company to simplify and streamline support.
• Broadening responsibilities that include Linux server implementation, administration and build process implementation. This included assuming responsibilities outside of my scope of knowledge and learning/assuming administrative duties of new environments and applications.
• Leading a project that includes ongoing prep, research and eventual implementation of Windows server 2012 across the backend trading environment. This included upgrades of DNS, DHCP, Active Directory and MS SQL.

Confidential

Senior Systems Administrator - Team Lead & Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead engineer that designed and implemented core technologies and architecture for content management and hosting platform for over 500 rich media sites. Architectural decisions include hardware choices (network/server/SAN), software choices (OS/3rd party tools), virtualization considerations, and peripheral operational requirements (datacenter/power/DR).
• Team Leadership responsibilities which include coordination of resources and team members directly related to future products in the pipeline for release. Direct input into management decisions regarding team members and department direction through high level management meetings and employee reviews.
• Achieved significant scalability on a Microsoft ASP.NET code base using IIS as a web platform that accommodated the growth of a hosted solution that currently serves/hosts 500+ low, medium, and high traffic websites culminating in combined traffic that currently exceeds 190+ million page views per month.
• Met or exceeded 99.5% mandated customer web site availability requirements during a 4 year period. 24/7 support and maintenance of QA, development and production environments which include extensive on-call response and high-level troubleshooting.
• Implementation and support of all production hardware and software including HP c-series blade systems, HP EVA SAN storage (and switches), F5 load balanced devices and Cisco networking equipment. Base operating systems and technologies include Windows 2003/2008, Windows Clustering, hyper-v virtualization, Windows SQL 2005, Active Directory/Group Policy, IIS 6.0/7.0/7.5, ASP.net and advanced web hosting solutions.
• Direct input on product design structures and cost analysis impact on our platform.
• Significant project based work that included process documentation and planning for deployment of web builds into multiple environments across a variety of hardware, ensuring consistency during each phase. Hardware procurement and budget recommendations integrated into all project based IT work.
• Implementation and support of companywide development/staging hardware systems and operating systems. Once again this included detailed specifications; project planning, coordination and deployment to create the foundation of what our development staff currently uses.
• Administration and implementation of robust content caching through Akamai.
• Deep experience in Microsoft technologies from both an architectural, practical and security function within the datacenter and the company as a whole. In addition, a fundamental understanding of other operating systems and technologies which include networking equipment (Cisco), VMware, Linux, UNIX, Network architectures and datacenter function and process.
• Currently overseeing, implementing, planning new architecture/upgrade of current Windows 2003/2008 servers for our content management and hosted website platform; concentration on upgrading to IIS 7.0/7.5, expansion of our storage capabilities and client offerings, consolidation with Hyper-V virtualization, transitioning to SQL 2008 and a fundamental shift in the division and compartmentalization of our different applications to accommodate global scalability across multiple datacenters.

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• 24/7 support and maintenance of QA, development and production environments.
• Advised and implemented new design and re-architecture of Windows 2003 infrastructure for Confidential .com vertical; concentration on active directory, group security, server virtualization/consolidation with VMware 3.0, transition to SQL 2005 and EMC SAN migration.
• Project based work that included deployment of web template builds into multiple environments, ensuring consistency during each phase of the auditable process.
• Administration of current Windows 2003 active directory domain and group policy implementation.

Confidential

Network Administrator/Senior Windows Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Part of a team providing 24/7 support for all Windows NT/2000/2003 server infrastructure. Significant execution and project planning associated with hardware refresh and upgrades.
• Upgraded all Windows server systems to 2003
• Active Directory administration that included, but was not limited to account configuration, group policy creation and implementation, printing, logon script creation and overall domain administration (200+ servers)
• Designed and implemented server configurations (OS builds) as needed by CHX staff and in-house developers, these software configurations include Microsoft Exchange, SQL 2000, IIS, Sharepoint, Clustering (Exchange, IIS & SQL), DFS, Print and File services
• DMZ implementation and administration (WWW, FTP, SQL, DNS)
• Responsible for the coordination of people and resources for the completion of projects for the trading floor and corporate environments. Implementation of VMWare Virtualization across front end trading engine.
• Documented architecture and procedures associated with Windows servers