SUMMARY:

• Highly experienced technical professional with a record of developing and supporting successful IT projects and solutions incorporating a wide range of applications and technologies. Consistently recognized and recruited by leading consultancies and corporations to help improve organizational effectiveness and efficiency through personal contribution.
• Extensive and diverse experience in planning, budgeting, building and managing IT organizations and projects. A record of s in planning, developing and managing large projects and reducing costs and improving profits by continually consolidating services and improving performance with the use of strong communications and analytical skills.
• Technically savvy and a quick study in emerging technology, able to quickly assess and utilize the appropriate response to meet the specific needs of the business requirement at hand. A welcome addition to any team, ready, willing and able to function in any role necessary to ensure project success and on time project delivery.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• VMware ESXi v6.0 Hyper - V 2008/2012 ADFS v3.0/SAASVMware and LeftHand SAN Trained A+ and Network+ Certified SAS /SCL VB-Script JavaScript
• HTML ASP SQL MS SQL 2k/2k5/2k8 Tivoli remote desktop management and scripting Windows 2008/R2 & 2003 Server x32/x64
• Windows 7 x32/x64/Vista/XP/2000 SuSE Linux Windows NT 4.0 Workstation/Server Windows 3.1/95/98/ME DOS DNS DHCP Group Policy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Systems Adinistrator

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities:

• Network services are not dependent on Windows Domain-Controller Servers
• Network port/IP management addressed through IPAM
• IPAM, through SNMP information tracks MAC-to-Port switch connections
• Server/Workstation Patching
• Server/Workstation Software Deployment
• Server/Workstation Hardware & Software Inventory/Compliance
• Not satisfied with simply providing simple ‘dumb’ network-shares to network storage
• Implemented MS Windows GPO-Based Folder Redirerection Equivelent for Mac clients
• All work on Macs are synced with network share & backed-up nightly, resulting in 0 data-loss

Confidential

Senior ADFS Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Sole ADFS admin with Windows 2012 R2/ADFS v3.0 experience (as well as general 2012 R2 OS experience)
• Designed/implemented ADFS v3.0 infrastructure identical to current production environment using vCloud Director, comprising 22 servers, in under 2 weeks
• Mapped and documented differences in Home Realm Discovery, Login-page customization, etc. for benefit analysis and migration process planning.
• Responsible for configuring new Internal/External applications for access by over 200,000 individuals concurrently
• Over 30 groups/applications awaiting large-scale implementation
• Team will eventually migrate over 300 existing applications away from SiteMinder (Symantec) to ADFS

Confidential

Senior IT Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS v2.0) providing transparent Single Sign-On capabilities for all employees to several applications including Cornerstone, SalesForce, Concur Travel & Expense and Workday applications. Upgraded to AD FS v2.1 using Windows 2012 Server.
• Implemented Microsoft Lync 2013 Communications Server/Client, enabling MS Office integrated IM and presentation-sharing capabilities. Extremely effective for resolving issues on call-center floors and provides instant information-sharing capabilities for management.
• Upgraded our Domain to 2012 Native Mode from 2003 environment, including a remote site in MN.
• Implemented Hyper-V 2012 (v3) cluster of four Dell PowerEdge 620 servers (nodes) with 96GB RAM/each.
• Researched, identified and implemented Alienvault network PCI security monitoring, required by credit-card companies.
• Led implemention of new NetApp SAN in support of Hyper-V 2012, Exchange 2013, increased centralized storage, and CIFS file-sharing, including SnapManager backup technology.
• Migrating 80+ Production virtual machines currently on 2008 Hyper-V cluster to 8-host CISCO UCS blades running VMware v5.5.

Confidential

Senior IT Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented a VMware PowerCLI script to execute snapshots, backups, and file-copying to a network-attached iSCSI NAS device to prevent human error, for separate Staging and Production environments.
• Test-runs of all scripts in both environments were fully executed from start-to-finish and timed to establish a reliable target-window of operations well ahead of mock-run date..
• Four (4) unique copies of the script (targeting separate SAN LUNs/Hosts) were executed concurrently to achieve maxiumum efficiency; the previously calculated window of 32-hours was reduced to 8 hours.
• Copying of MS SQL/Oracle database backup files and data-files to the NAS device were performed concurrently with vSphere processes using a file synchronization application providing maximum efficiencies. iSCSI NAS device purchased to specifications I recommended; Configured with RAID-10 and AES256-bit encryption at the RAID volume level to protect HIPAA data. An external USB device containing the encryption ‘key’ is required to mount encrypted volume.

Confidential

Senior IT Systems Engineer Orem, UT/Remote

Responsibilities:

• each server thereby significantly increasing efficiences throughout and providing redundancy.
• Developed several proposals for the relocation of hosted services based in Israel, New Zeland and California to UT, where they will be hosted in a commercial co-location facility with associated infrastructure redundancy.
• Implemented full ‘live’ monitoring/alerting for standard servers, ESXi v4.1 hosts, and EC2 Cloud instances using Nagios within first two weeks of employment, without any prior knowledge of Nagios and minimal knowledge of Linux operating systems.
• Maintain 24/7 on-call to ensure uninterrupted operation of all services globally.

Confidential

Senior IT Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Assumed operational duties of existing on-site Windows IT Manager of 10 years, so he could assume role as National Windows Systems Operations Manager for Ingenix/United Health Technology.
• Administer/Manage 6x National Production data-centers encompassing over 2,000 Windows 2000, 2003, 2008 and 2008-R2 physical/virtual servers supporting over 96,000 United Health Group employees and customers globally.
• Implement new projects enhancing business processes and capabilities while following strict ITIL complianceto ensure absolute change-control practices are followed.
• Analyze and resolve operational issues at all levels to ensure near 100% 24/7/365 availability of all systemsthroughout our expansive infrastructure.
• Deploy and re-designate local and remote physical/virtual servers by performing bare-metal OS deployments.

Confidential

Senior IT Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Created dual-site, 100+% redundant topology and configuration of 4x ESX host servers to ensure uninterrupted city operations for less than ½ costs of simple replacement of servers in old infrastructure.
• Designed IBM AIX Server replacement for 7-year-old HP-UX server hosting critical Police records system.
• Designed near real-time Continuous Data Protection system to replace out-moded Backup System.
• Migrated entire domain from 2000 Mixed Mode to 2008 Native Mode.

Confidential

Windows System Administrator II

Responsibilities:

• Frequent modifications to sub-systems including SCSI backplanes, RAID controllers, system boards and multi-tiered firmware require immediate addressing to ensure testing is accomplished on Intel-approved platforms.
• Manage and maintain approximately 1,600 PC desktop systems including various models from Dell, Gateway and clones in our software testing Laboratory.

Confidential

IT Specialist Forensics Examiner

Responsibilities:

• Performed more than 22 examinations on a large Internet Fraud case. Examinations/results were reviewed and certified accurate by a fully certified FBI Special Agent/Forensic Examiner.
• Fully trained at the FBI Academy, Quantico, Virginia on the correct use of forensic tools, equipment, techniques and procedures.

Confidential

Systems/Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Sole individual to take the initiative to learn Tivoli scripting, fully automating directorate-wide and targeted software installation and remote desktop configuration.
• Implemented the configuration of new systems hardware/operating systems/software to conform to Air Force, base, and directorate policies.
• Considered an expert in all hardware/software operations and resolving interoperability problems.