Professional Summary

10 years of cross platform Linux/Windows/Mac experience with a focus on system administration. Holding multiple industry certifications and an active Top Secret SCI clearance. Possesses superb communication/collaboration skills, with the ability to convey complex subjects to individuals at all levels and has an unquenchable thirst for learning new things.

Professional Experience

Systems Engineer II

• Appointed Information System Security Officer for MITs largest classified project
• Architected and built multiple classified infrastructures from the ground up in various mixed environments that required various services including OpenLDAP, DNS, DHCP, Samba, NFS, NTP, RDP, NoMachine NX etc
• Designed and networked 10Gbe backend network to segregate virtual machine and iSCSI traffic increasing network performance and eliminating latency
• Clustered built and administered unclassified virtual infrastructure eliminating single points of failure while providing both physical and virtual redundancy
• Configured Red Hat Satellite Server to centralize patch management and improve configuration management both of which increased the security and integrity of all administered systems
• Performed data migration and consolidation for numerous localized data stores to centralized SAN data pools
• Implemented multiple network and hardware monitoring solutions to better grasp health, status and traffic issues including and utilizing Nagios, MRTG, SNMP etc.
• Configured and implemented dual backup solution utilizing Veeam for disk-to-disk as well as a Quantum i40 Scaler for tape archival purposes documented backup policy and procedures for both

Confidential

Senior Systems Administrator

• Built and Configured multiple Domain Controllers using and including Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, IIS 6/7 and Group Policy on both Windows Server 2003 2008 R2 in numerous mixed environments
• Single handedly upgraded existing development virtual infrastructure from ESX 4.x to ESXi 5.0 designed, defined, and documented policies and procedures for end user utilization
• Configured NIS, NFS, Samba and SSH servers utilizing all versions and variants of Fedora, RHEL, and CentOS
• Built new Windows 2008 R2 SharePoint 2007 server/database/farm and successfully imported pre-existing classified data and databases to increase user performance and efficiency on new hardware
• Architected, networked, and virtualized numerous labs, eliminating single points of failure while providing 99.999 uptime via physical redundancy, Fault Tolerance, vMotion, load balancing, High Availability etc.
• Lead virtualization initiative on a deployed project to simulate and test integration of external customer VM's while centrally managing them, with revenue in the millions
• Acted as VMware/Virtualization SME for multiple Massachusetts sites and served as a Level 2/3 escalation point for classified/unclassified tickets in addition to mentoring junior level staff
• Performed successful migration of small lab, 50 users from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007
• Designed, maintained and implemented IT infrastructures in countless classified and unclassified environments from small, single node systems to large, complex, heterogeneous file systems and networks within the constraints of NISPOM Chapter 8, DCID 6/3, and JAFAN 6/3
• Received two 'Spot Awards' for exceptional service/support and going 'above and beyond' the call of duty

Confidential

Systems Administrator

• Implemented Shavlik Netchk as a patch management and antivirus solution to ensure endpoint protection
• Built an in-house instant messaging server and skinned a custom client to enhance and standardize communication and collaboration tools with our global colleagues
• Created an open source PXE boot imaging solution/server for end user workstations and laptops
• Seamlessly migrated 20 production servers from ESX to ESXi, to bring company into licensing compliance
• Built Nagios server to monitor network nodes, services, temperature probes, servers etc., to alert if any issues arise, to be proactive not reactive
• Implemented an internal global web conferencing desktop collaboration utility to enhance communication
• Built 5TB Openfiler NAS to alleviate I/O congestion for development virtual machines

Confidential

Systems Administrator Associate

• Provided PC, Mac and Blackberry support to 400 clients as well as remote support to 20 users
• Built configured and networked RHEL 5 / 6 Linux servers in multiple classified labs
• Sanitized contaminated laptops and blackberries following strict DoD standards
• Assisted in creation and implementation of Windows/Linux dual boot laptop encryption process
• Solely provided executive and director level Mac support
• Managed Subversion SVN permissions and ACL's on dozens of unclassified repositories
• Active member of Security Operations team

Confidential

Systems Administrator

• Managed / Maintained Symantec Anti-Virus server including 150 clients
• Cataloged created software licensing inventory system using Filemaker Pro to confirm EULA compliance
• Managed Avaya Intuity Audix telephony/voicemail systems as well as Blackberry Enterprise Server BES , policies, client devices and upgrades
• Administered daily client and server backups utilizing both EMC Retrospect and Commvault Simpana
• Supervised multiple help desk interns to provide support to end users
• Configured Windows Server Update Services WSUS through group policy to keep clients patched secure
• Received commendation from senior management for performance and technological abilities

Confidential

Tier 1 2 Support Engineer

Confidential

Internship with LAN Administrator

Technical Skills

• Hardware: IBM X series, HP Proliants, Dell R series, Dell Equallogics SAN, Digiliant, NetApp FASs, Juniper EXs
• Operating Systems: Windows 7, XP, Windows Server 2003 2008, OS X Tiger , Ubuntu 9 , Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 5 , Fedora Core 11 , Microsoft Exchange 2003 2007, SharePoint WSS 3.0, 2007, 2010 Virtualization: VMware ESXi, ESX, vSphere, vCenter, Workstation, Parallels Desktop Server, Veeam Backup Networking / Protocols: TCP / IP, SMTP, DHCP, DNS, VPN, FTP, SSH, SCP, NIS, VNC, LDAP, SMB, iSCSI