SUMMARY:

• An accomplished IT professional with over 20 years of comprehensive experience in complex environments. Highly knowledgeable in all IT areas as well as business principles and processes. A team - oriented, self directed, thorough and reliable professional. Able to develop strong customer relationships at all levels, both internal and external, by providing creative solutions and problem solving proficiency.
• Network Administration
• Data Center Operations
• Organizational Planning
• Microsoft Active Directory
• VMware Virtualization/Horizon & App Volume
• Cloud Computing (AWS/Azure/O365)
• Leadership
• Cisco UCS
• Strategic Planning
• Citrix Virtualization
• EMC/Compellent SAN/VSAN/Nutanix
• Linux Administration

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Centennial, CO

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Member of the Systems Administration and Engineering team responsible for technical services for several credit unions. Responsibilities include but not limited to multiple server platforms and Operating Systems, Backup/Recovery and replication, Storage, cloud management and migration, Virtualization, networking, messaging and collaboration, disaster recovery/business continuity, EMM/MDM with Intune and Workspace ONE, and security for several financial institutions and credit unions.
• Build, design, administer and architect 100+ Linux and Windows servers.
• Projects include: Citrix Cloud migration, Azure migration (SQL, WSUS, ADFS and financial application servers)
• Upgrades to vSphere, Zerto, Windows Server, migrating Ivanti Enterprise Manager into Group Policy, VMware/ESXi, Thycotic service account audits.
• Hardware refresh of Bank Branch hardware (ESXi Hosts and Silver Peak SD-WAN devices).
• Manage/Administer Active Directory, Office 365, vSphere 6.7 - 7.0, Azure, Pure storage, SQL, IIS and Web services.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Sr. Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Member of Data Center Infrastructure team. Managed and was project lead for several Nutanix and VMware Projects within a large multisite enterprise environment.
• Nutanix projects included AOS, firmware & Prism upgrades. Encryption on the Nutanix clusters. Migrating nodes between clusters. Adding & removing nodes to and from clusters.
• Enable vSphere virtual machine encryption within several of the vCenter clusters.
• Migration of vRealize Operations (vROPS), Log Insight and Skyline to cloud operations.
• Enabled predictive DRS in all 5 vCenters
• Configured reporting, policies and dashboards in vRealize Operations.
• Provisioned storage on Pure and XtremIO all flash arrays for customers.
• Backup solutions and replication with Rubrik and Zerto for Nutanix and vSphere.

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Sr. Storage/Virtualization Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the day-to-day administration and architecture of the VMware environment (6.0, 6.5 & 6.7, VROPS) Storage environment (EMC Unity, VNX, Data Domain) and backup environment (Veeam).
• Maintained the operation of multiple VMware environments including a multi-tenant private cloud environment
• Set up and archiving of virtual lab environments.
• Monitor the environment for utilization and capacity planning. design and set up of both the cloud environment and the laboratory configurations.
• Conducted in-depth technical reviews of new and existing IT systems in order to identify the appropriate mitigation strategies required to bring these systems into compliance with National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) policy and industry guidelines.

Contractor/Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshoots hardware, software, and basic networking issues for Microsoft Windows servers and clients.
• Monitors and supports Active Directory, including users and computer provisioning, policies, and architecture.
• Monitors and supports VMWare environment, including users and computer provisioning, storage, configuration, and updates.

Contractor/Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead Engineer on several projects related to the opening of the new White Oak Hospital
• Building, maintaining, and troubleshooting all Servers which reside on a Windows Platform
• Servings as a technical expert in situations where customers seek server platform, Active Directory and Virtualization guidance
• Management of ADFS, DNS, ADCS, DFS, File Services, IIS, and Windows Application server roles
• Provide administration and support on over 150 SQL Server instances in multiple data centers
• Work with solutions architects to create and maintain project artifacts, to include: project scope, charters, work breakdown structure, timelines, cost estimates, and status reports
• Troubleshoot issues during project go-live and operationally, as required
• Migrated Windows Active Directory 2012 Domain to 2016 Domain
• Managed all Active Directory services after migration
• Maintained, provisioned, and updated (as needed) Confidential EqualLogic iSCSI SAN
• Implemented and designed Barracuda Hybrid Cloud/On-premise backup solution
• Coordinated purchasing with appropriate vendors while continuously tracking licensing requirements and renewing and adjusting when necessary
• Recommended and implement new solutions to replace or improve existing infrastructure
• Administers Hyper-V and VMware environments through consistently patching, performing new VM builds (as needed-Linux and Windows Servers), migrating, and maintaining storage and resource allotment
• Coordinated the implementation of projects by effectively managing deadlines, resources, and objectives within

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Systems Engineer & Architect

Responsibilities:

• 3 node ESXi/vSphere 6.0 VSAN
• SonicWALL NSA 2500 High Availability perimeter devices.
• Configure SonicWALL firewall rules, SSL VPN for remote access and SonicPoint deployment for WiFi.
• 20+ Windows 2012/2016 Virtual Servers including Domain Controllers, Database Servers, Web and Application servers.
• Synology NAS iSCSI backup solution via Symantec BackupExec.
• Setup Windows 2016 single site domain-- ADDS, ADFS, Group policies, DHCP, RDS.
• Configured Office365 environment integrated with on-premise directory services.
• Setup User/group Accounts for AD and Office 365 synchronized with Azure AD Connect.
• Architect Azure cloud services and virtual machines for SQL deployments.
• Setup Passler PRTG for monitoring and reporting.
• Collaborated with SECOM to implement a Brivo Access Control Eagle Eye Network security solution.

Confidential

Senior Systems Administrator/Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for KeyImpact infrastructure in multi-site MPLS environment with 500+ seats.
• Upgraded organizations vSphere environment from 4.1 to 5.5 to 6.0
• Managed, monitored, and maintained legacy fibre channel EMC AX4 SAN as well as several NAS devices.
• Performed day to day Office 365 administrative tasks.
• Managed and restructured the Active Directory environment for several trusted and non-trusted domains.
• Performed upgrade of the Backup infrastructure which included the Symantec backup software as well as the iSCSI NAS storage devices.
• Administered SonicWALL perimeter appliances at 60+ small satellite sites—including configuring SSL VPN, SonicPoints, access rules and firmware upgrades.
• Created point-to-point IPSEC VPN with vendors for phone and internet traffic failover at the company’s primary sites.
• Built and administered VMware Horizon 6.1 test environment integrated with Airwatch, Workspace One and App Volumes.
• Configure ADFS load balancing for SSO with Azure Active Directory tools.

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing and designing VMware 5.1 and 5.5 as well as Hyper-V environment.
• Migrated legacy applications into AWS VPC and EC2 cloud Iaas environment.
• Build and maintain Confidential Compellent, EMC VNX and XtremIO flash storage arrays.
• Implemented and managed AWS cloud IaaS solution for internal legacy systems and applications.
• Fibre Channel switch configuration.
• Configure new Cisco UCS cluster, including blade servers, fabric interconnect and fabric extenders.
• Implemented CIFS migration from physical file servers to unified NAS storage.

Confidential, Reston, VA

Senior Systems Engineer/Team Lead

Sr. Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the consultation, design and support for Appassure backup, replication and recovery solution.
• Consulted in the implementation of customers disaster recovery/business continuity solutions.
• Handle escalated customer issues unresolved at previous tiers.
• Educated junior support engineers in network, server, storage, virtualization and other technologies.
• Built and maintained internal testing engineer environment, consisting of VMWare vSphere 5.1 and Hyper-V 2012 clusters.
• Troubleshoot and resolve customers Active Directory issues in order stabilize Appassure environment.
• Xendesktop Virtual Desktop Infrastructure components (Provisioning Server, Edgesight, Web Interface, Desktop Delivery Controller) and associated agents for clients.
• Designed, built, supported, maintained and upgraded Xenapp environments and supported applications for clients.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Supported, maintained and upgraded a complicated network that consist of over 300 workstations and 300 servers and span two sites.
• Responsible for the implementation of a two-year VMware virtualization solution to the company that enabled Campbell to virtualize over 85% of its server hardware.
• Responsible for implementing and supporting a Fibre Channel Compellent Storage Area Network solution for both the production and disaster recovery environment.
• Managed Active Directory, Group Policies and all other Windows administration tasks (DNS, DHCP, WINS, SQL, IIS).
• Administrator of messaging and collaboration services.
• Performed migration of Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010, including several third-party components

Confidential

LAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Maintained all servers, workstations and multifunction printers.
• Implemented a storage resource management solution using Astrum Storcast.
• Designed a rotational backup scheme for the LAN using an HP DAT Drive, ArcServe 2000, and its associated open file agents.
• Responsible for maintaining the antivirus domain using Inoculan/InoculateIT.
• Trained junior analysts in the use of the Virtual Private Networking (VPN) and Norton Ghost imaging software.
• Evaluated and recommended hardware and software for the Social Security Administration end-user community.
• Assisted with the dissemination of information including, providing technical reviews on equipment and software; installation and configuration instructions; and various technical tips and techniques.
• Supported and arranged product demos, technical briefings, and programs.

Confidential

Junior Systems Engineer and Curriculum Developer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, created and edited Windows 2000 labs for students MCSE .
• Performed the center’s upgrade from Windows NT to a Windows 2000 environment and setting up the active directory structure.