PROFILE

An accomplished professional able to perform effectively where detail orientation and time considerations are essential. More than 15 years experience in the with computer industry and managing high profile projects. A strong communicator with effective interpersonal skills that allow solid rapport with individuals at all levels. Capable of maintaining a consistent high level of performance dealing with people, products and services that require organizational and time-management abilities

TECHNICAL OVERVIEW

• SOFTWARE: Veritas Storage Replicator, VMware, NetIQ, Arcserve, Backup Exec versions 7 - 9, Colorado Tape Backup, Disk quota for NT, Octopus for NT, Lotus Notes, Ms-Office Professional, Norton Ghost, Norton Utilities, PC-Anyware and others.
• OPERATING SYS: Windows NT Server 3.51, 4.0, 2000 and 2003, Windows Terminal Server 4.0, 2000, Windows NT Workstation 4.0, 2000 and XP, Novell 3.12
• HARDWARE: IBM and Compaq File Servers, PCI, ISA, EISA, IDE, SCSI, RAID Hardware, IBM Laptops / desktops and compatibles, Ethernet, Token Ring, HP LaserJet's, Epson Family printers, Hayes family of modems, Conner, Quantum, Western Digital hard disks and CD-ROMs and others.
• CLIENT SERVER: Citrix XPe, CPS4, CPS4.5
• SKILLS: Active Directory Multi-Site / Multi-Domain , Group Policy Objects, Citrix Presentation Server 3, 4 4.5, Citrix Load Balancing, Citrix architecture and administration, Kixstart, FTP, HTTP, HTML, DFS, DHCP, WINS, DNS, SMPT, SNMP, IIS, IAS, Oracle ODBC, Arcserve Backup Administration, Veritas Backup Exec Administration, File Net Administration, Compaq Insight Manager, NetIQ SNMP/systems monitoring , remote management, Exchange 5.5 administration, VMWare Workstation, ESX, GSX 3.0 4.0

CAREER HISTORY

Confidential

IT / CITRIX IT SPECIALIST

• Project lead and manager for multiple outside clients to implement new system wide Citrix architecture
• Citrix farm administrator 40 server farm Technical support, upgrades, trouble shooting and support.
• Imaging, OS upgrades, patches, security hot-fix's, Service packs.
• Multi Domain Active Directory administration and architecture.
• Server and Systems migration / consolidation as required.
• IIS, DHCP, WINS, DNS, Citrix CSG, Citrix XPe Administration
• Research and Development for new technology and process's
• Performed daily senior system administrator tasks, monitoring servers and log analysis

ACCOMPLISHMENT SUMMARY:

• Project lead for OU and GPO Architecture within the IBM Domain utilizing policies for all Application, File and Print servers.
• Migrated seven IBM sites totaling 4,500 objects to new Active Directory Architecture without incident.
• Project lead for new Active Directory Architecture for IBM.com domain leveraging GPO's for all OU's.
• Project Lead and actively participated in the migration of the South SDC from NT4 to Windows 2000. This includes the migration from an NT4 domain to our AD infrastructure Multwin .
• Initiated and actively participated in the implementation of VMware to support development. This allowed us the flexibility to quickly bring up a server or environment for testing.
• Designed and implemented SQL maintenance schedules for 8 databases on two production servers.
• Implemented Citrix resource manager to track and notify SA's when server issues arise related to Citrix.
• Supported the IBM HQ Treasury Citrix farm of 18 Citrix servers in a multi zone environment. Twelve servers were in Armonk and six in Dublin.
• Work on a project with VCO India to build a test farm on location in India as member servers in our farm in Fishkill NY.

Confidential

SR SYSTEMS and CITRIX ADMINISTRATOR

• Technical support, administration, upgrades, trouble shooting and overall support for 130 NT servers.
• Software and hardware upgrades, Network and Server Problem analyses.
• OS upgrades, patches, security hot-fix's, Service packs.
• User account creation and general maintenance.
• Active Directory administration including OU and GPO activity .
• On-Call
• Server and Systems migration / consolidation as required.
• Systems and Project support for Development, Production and DBA's.
• On and off site Corporate Web / FTP site support for content and OS 5 IIS Web servers, 3 FTP servers .
• Vendor liaison for Compaq, Digital, Microsoft, Vartas and Citrix.
• DFS, ISA, IIS, DHCP, WINS, DNS, Citrix CSG, Citrix XPE Administration
• Application Systems support, Xcellenet dial-in file transfer system, Ceridian Payroll, Domain backup administration, Active Directory Administration, Actuate Reporting Administration,
• Citrix farm administrator 8 server farm and support for 120 published applications
• IIS web site support for 5 enterprise web servers

ACCOMPLISHMENT SUMMARY:

• Merged 102 applications from Two Novell servers and one NT 4 server to one centralized NT 2000 Server.
• Centralized backup operations for all domain servers and procedures implementing a new Compaq ML530 hardware configuration utilizing a StorageTek L40 4 head tape library system. This reduced backup times by 40 .
• Installed Compaq Insight agents on all 130 servers for notification of hardware failures.
• Migrated a multi server Web site from a facility located in NJ to Elmsford NY.
• Merged three 70 gig NT file servers containing user data files to one new Compaq ML570 250 gig enterprise server.
• Migrated 2 Citrix 1.8 farms in different subnets into single XP farm using ZONES
• Centralized backups for 6 outer office locations leveraging Veritas Storage Replicator / file replication service. This also allowed this centralized location to be a fail over site for each office.
• Leveraging the use of VMWare, completed disaster recovery testing for the NYC location, recovered 12 servers with 370 gig of data on 4 servers Exchange, File print and SQL .

Confidential

SR SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

• Technical support, administration, upgrades, trouble shooting and overall support for 55 NT servers.
• Software and hardware upgrades, Network and Server Problem diagnosis.
• Terminal Server support and administration Citrix
• Domain Server implementation leader
• FileNet Imaging system Administrator
• Year 2000 Project member
• NetIQ / Comapq Insight Manager system monitor
• DHCP, WINS, DNS Administration

ACCOMPLISHMENT SUMMARY:

• Upgraded all domain controller's to support Windows 2000 Active Directory implementation
• Upgraded 24 domain member servers from NT4 to Windows 2000
• Upgraded 10 remote offices with new server hardware and Windows 2000 operating system
• Merged 78 applications, mainframe printing and Windows 3.1 client support to one centralized NT Server.
• Centralized emergency recovery information for 55 NT servers via remote AT commands using Rdisk. This includes 5 remote offices located in Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Portland and Costa Mesa.
• Centralized backup operations for all domain servers using new HP tape library and Cheyenne Arcserve 2000 over fiber network with 96 tape / 7 drive tape library, Compaq DL380 dual 866 MHz processor server. This reduced backup times from 11 hrs to 3 hrs and supports the entire infrastructure from one central point
• Setup server monitoring system using NetIQ to monitor 55 servers overall health and aspects of each server for process's, services, up or down status and capturing historical data on each for graph reporting 223 scripts in all .
• Rolled out Compaq Insight agents to all 55 server and setup insight management server with web support for access of current server status via Intranet.
• Upgraded 325 workstations based on version query to latest Mcafee release via login script.
• Devised and implemented disaster recovery standards for FileNet imaging system.
• Standardized all SQL servers to perform file dump backup to support disaster recovery.
• Upgraded FileNet imaging system to support inbound faxing for remote office locations
• Installed FileNet DART utility to support disaster recover for cache backup
• Moved an AS/400 system from Stamford to Norwalk office without incident
• Upgraded five SQL servers from SQL 7 to SQL 2000

Confidential

SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

• Technical support, administration, upgrades, trouble shooting and overall hardware / software recommendations for 45 NT4.0 servers and 800 NT Workstations.
• Server Evaluations, Load software releases, Network Problem diagnosis and hardware upgrades.
• Software / hardware procurement and compliance.
• International user support for 120 remote Terminal Server users, on call 7 / 24
• Citrix Administration / Load Balancing for 3 servers and 25 applications.
• Year 2000 Project Leader

ACCOMPLISHMENT SUMMARY:

• Active participation, planning and implementation in the conversion from Novell to Windows NT at five remote office locations with a total of 10 Novell servers and 5 Novell servers based in headquarters.
• Successfully migrated 120 users from Win-frame server 3.51 to Terminal Server 4.0
• Implemented workstation scan of hardware and software via login script to evaluate Y2K compliance.
• Successfully analyzed 35 NT servers and upgraded NOS and applications to conform to Year 2000 requirements.

Confidential

SR. SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

• Technical support, administration, upgrades and trouble shooting of NT4.0 servers.
• Workstation and LAN trouble shooting, Workstation installations, and overall hardware and software recommendations and support for Five NT 4.0 servers and 120 client workstations.
• Server Evaluations, Load software releases, Network Problem diagnosis and hardware upgrades.
• Responsible for technical support, configuration, peripherals, software upgrades, and hardware upgrades.
• Support for NT 4.0, Windows 95 and all Ms-Windows applications.
• Maintain and upgrade client computer systems and images laptop and desktop systems.
• International user support for 40 remote users, on call 7 / 24
• Global Technical support for new GE Capital business acquisitions and conversions.

ACCOMPLISHMENT SUMMARY:

• Planned, managed, and implemented the conversion from Novell to Windows NT 4.0 on five servers.
• Implemented Windows 95 network login scripts to automatically inventory all workstations each month
• Planned and managed the Notes Server evaluation and change implementation resulting in an extremely stable Notes environment and a 100 increase in internet mail connectivity.
• Planned and managed the implementation of Windows 95 roll out to 100 users

Confidential LAN ADMINISTRATOR / SYSTEMS SPECIALEST

• Provided phone support for WAN, LAN and Remote Dial Up Access to worldwide client base of 2,000
• Administration of client Servers Novell 3.x, 4.x, NT 3 and NT 4
• Client support for desktop systems of Windows 95, Windows 3.x
• Provided technical assistance for IBM mainframes, network administration, trouble shooting and configuration management for TCP/IP and IPX networks.