AV IT Engineer Resume Dayton, OH - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Five years of A/V Installation and 20 years of experience in system administration, network engineering, and design in the government services area and Datacenter operations.
A strong background in customer support, cutting edge technologies, and providing cross - functional support spanning a wide range of technologies

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Ability to work with programmers to install and troubleshoot basic room control systems, with a solid technical grasp of the installation for complex control systems
Strong knowledge of the range of Crestron equipment and Toolbox software
Advanced Knowledge of Networking, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, and analog (POTS) phone systems
Strong understanding of audio/video and data signal flow.
Experience reading and interpreting wiring diagrams, schematics, blueprints, and cad drawing
Skilled in AV equipment (Crestron, Extron, Biamp, Polycom, Cisco etc.)
Experiences in cable termination at device or in rack to include crimping Category cable and soldering

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Dayton, OH

AV IT Engineer

Responsibilities:

Responsible for the installation, integration, configuration, operation and maintenance of audio, video, and telecommunications products.
Lead teams of up to 8 members for all phases of the installation and integration while coordinating with other trades and the clients to ensure project success for multiple projects ranging from $5,000 to $3 million.
Provided onsite service to troubleshoot and repair issues with existing AV systems as well as scheduled service.
Write and submit status updates of project documenting progress as well as new and outstanding issues as well while providing a plan of action to solve the issues.
Installation team lead for customers including Confidential, Confidential, Confidential Financial, Confidential University and others

Confidential, Dayton, OH

Consulting Engineer

Responsibilities:

Provided on Call and on-site support for numerous small to midsize businesses covering workstations, retail locations, servers and infrastructure.
Responsible for design, installation, and maintenance of numerous retail locations in the Midwest region.
Lead consultant responsible for VMWare upgrades and installations.
Assisted with corporate merger cutover of numerous retail locations to include, cabling, installation and management of point of sale systems, phone systems, audio systems, and networking equipment.

Confidential, Dayton, OH

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

Confidential Global Server Refresh contract responsible for upgrading all remaining Windows 2000 and 2003 servers to Windows 2008 R2 or Windows 2012. Build out of all new servers in the project and migration of the applications. Migrated over 400 web servers and web applications from IIS 5 to IIS 7.5.
Helped Virtualize over 250 Windows servers to help consolidate underutilized servers.
Helped identify unused servers and removed them from inventory

Confidential, Bellevue WA

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

VMware Lead engineer responsible for managing, maintaining and deployments of an Enterprise VMware environment with over 20 ESX servers and 500 Virtual machines in 2 Datacenters. Upgraded the environment from ESX 2.5 / 3.0 to vSphere 4 to vSphere 5.
San Administrator Responsible for managing and maintaining over 800 Terabytes of storage and multiple SAN fabrics connecting to over 500 servers.
Helped Migrate all servers and data from Hitachi USP to a Hitachi VSP storage solution.
Lead engineer responsible for build out of 2000 square foot of TIER-3 Datacenter used for production, testing, and disaster recovery while working with a geographically dispersed team to help manage and configure equipment in remote datacenter locations.
Responsible for the asset management, maintenance, installation, and Configuration of new hardware, software, and operating systems to include HP blade servers, Sun and HP rack mount servers, SAN and NAS equipment, Network infrastructure and equipment, and cabling.
Created and maintained documentation for environment, followed existing organizational processes and created and modified processes as necessary.
Assured compliance with the existing change control procedure to ensure all work was completed correctly and documented thoroughly.