SUMMARY:

• Top - notch troubleshooter who keeps abreast of new and emerging trends and best practices and consistently seeks ways to introduce efficiencies through technology. True team player, works well independently or in a collaborative team environment and enjoys finding innovative solutions to complex networking or system performance issues. Poised to integrate valuable technical expertise and high-level project management/communication skills into a dynamic role for a forward-thinking organization.
• AWS Cloud
• Active Directory Administration
• Global Network Monitoring
• Security
• Server Virtualization
• Infrastructure Enhancements
• Change Management
• Documentation
• High Performance Storage
• Led DataRobot deployment in AWS from planning to project completion.
• Led Rubrik backup solution deployment, then later optimized its cloud archiving to save cloud storage costs.
• Overhauled vSphere environment, upgraded to 7.0, implemented DRS and HA.
• 1 of 2 key engineers for Conair migrating to Office 365 from on premise email.
• Deployed and supported new Extreme Wifi for Conair warehouse logistical operations.
• Led P2V conversion at the Port Authority of NY & NJ.
• Doubled the vSphere 4.1 infrastructure at inVentiv to eventually support 1000+ VMs.
• Co-managed the entire telecom, network, and systems infrastructure for 350-seat, multi-national organization as one of three technology resources at Confidential .

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

O/S: Microsoft Windows Server up to 2022, Windows 11 and back, DOS, Linux

Software: Server & Desktop Virtualization: Vmware vSphere ESXi 7.0 - 3.5; Server Management: Server Clustering, MS SQL, Microsoft Exchange 2010/2016/Exchange Online (Office 365), Powershell with M365; EDR: TrendMicro Apex One, Symantec & Sophos; Security/Performance Monitoring & Administration: Active Directory, SolarWinds, WhatsUp Gold, PageR, OpenNMS, Remedy TrackIT/TRAC Ticketing Systems, CommVault, Rubrik; Productivity: MS Office O 365/2016/2013

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential / New York, NY

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Lead AWS admin for the company, achieving the following:
• DataRobot implementation (both POC and Prod in their own accounts) utilizing CloudFormation.
• Established AWS policy to separate workloads in their own AWS accounts.
• Established consolidated billing to a master payer account utilizing Control Tower, Organizations and SSO landing pad.
• Consolidated multiple site-to-site VPN tunnels into a single Transit Gateway.
• Tightened AWS security utilizing Security Hub, Cloud Watch, Inspector, Shield and WAF.
• Reduced company monthly costs using Trusted Advisor, Rightsizing recommendations and Savings Plans.
• Redesigned vSphere environment into 2 clusters in 2 locations which now properly utilize vMotion, DRS and HA.
• Implemented Rubrik CDM and Polaris, which now backs up all VMs, CIF shares, M365 (email, Teams and SharePoint) and AWS EC2 and RDS instances. Those backups archive in either Azure or AWS cloud storage (normal storage and then age out to archive storage to reduce costs).
• Led Active Directory cleanup, including designing new OU structure, reviewing GPOs, refreshing every DC to 2019, and updating DNS to replicate properly.
• Built and configured an HA Solarwinds monitoring solution using SAM, NPM, NCM, NTA, IPAM and DPA.
• Helped maintain, troubleshoot and optimize existing M365 tenant to include rolling out MFA (coupled with Duo) for whole company. Also designed and wrote OneDrive security company policy.

Confidential, NJ

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Assisted maintenance of 3 different vCenters.
• Filled in with any Active Directory work that needed done.
• Performed daily backup off-site & on-site tape swapping.

Confidential, NJ

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Upgraded VMware vCenter from v5.5 to 6.7 (and all versions in-between) without issue.
• Rolled out Solarwinds with the intentions of replacing SCOM alerting.
• Maintaining NetApp SAN which is being used half for backups and half for VMware shared storage.
• Took on the Project Manager / Engineer role for an Office 365 rollout for the entire company.
• Troubleshot and remediated any problems with the VMware cluster in East Windsor and acted as a technical resource if other admins throughout the company had a VMware issue.
• Became the VMware SME and was tasked with creating standardization to be used across the entire company.
• Researched and implemented a cheaper VMware license solution (Remote Office, Branch Office) which was put in use by smaller satellite locations.
• Worked closely with the director of security to implement and replace their current security management system. This entailed intrusion detection, vulnerability scanning (and remediation to maintain PCI compliance), and log management.
• Troubleshot, fixed, redesigned and replaced pieces of their warehouse RF system. This is a barcode scanning system which it used for warehouse logistics. We upgraded and redesigned the RADIUS server, performing WIFI authentication under tight change control windows.

Confidential / Jersey City, NJ

VMWare SME / Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Identifying servers which qualify for EOL designation by crunching raw data from an internal inventory system.
• Interviewing system owners and stakeholders to determine the fate of their systems’ servers.
• Calculated current VMWare infrastructure capacity and evaluated EOL hardware performance to adhere to rigid agency capacity planning rules.
• Overhauled and took ownership of the VMWare lab environment. This included the following:
• Replaced the older VMWare hosts with newer server models.
• Migrated all VMs off of local host storage onto IBM fiber optic shared SAN storage.
• Clustered new VMWare hosts to take advantage of DRS & HA technologies.
• Administered any new requests related to the VMWare lab environment, including managing frequently used snapshots on a set of testing designated VMs.
• Recommended future growth hardware purchases to further expand lab cluster.

Confidential, NJ

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Expanded backup storage capacity by over 60% with the installation and testing of four additional drives in the tape library and SAN storage upgrade.
• Built and maintain/troubleshoot virtualization infrastructure in a vSphere 4.1 & 5.0 environment with three virtual centers that house 100 hosts and over 1000 virtual machines.
• Contribute to sound change management and document control procedures with clear, concise, and consistently updated documentation in a challenging and complex environment.
• Maintain data center operations in line with industry best practices, deploying regular upgrades and hardware refreshes and conducting routine reviews of cabling, labeling, racking, and overall data center conditions.

Confidential / New York, NY

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Planned and led implementation/rollout of physical-to-virtual (P2V) conversion; virtualized 20 servers and housed the entire VMware ESX 3.5 cluster on an IBM Blade center.
• Protected the entire infrastructure in the event of extended power outage or other natural disaster with the installation of an enterprise UPS system; project involved in-depth logistics and planning due to limited space availability in NYC headquarters.