SUMMARY

• Accomplished IT Management Professional, offering a unique combination of leadership, technical, and people skills, exercised in small to enterprise-sized environments. Quick study, assimilates, and conveys new and evolving technologies.
• Organization / Leadership High level of skill in planning, coordinating, project management and motivating people successfully to complete clearly defined objectives. Skilled in staff selection, supervision, training, budgeting, and interdepartmental liaison. A highly organized, detail-oriented individual, effective with all levels of management and staff.

EXPERIENCE

Confidential

System Administrator II - Tek Systems Contractor

• Perform Day to day support of Windows 2008/2012, AIX, Linux, VMWare and Backup environments.
• Maintain and administer the AIX 6.1 system with patch upgrades.
• Maintain the EMC Avamar, EMC Networker and EMC Data Domain backup environment.
• Maintain the Linux environment for different application projects.
• Manage and deploy Virtual machines within the VM environment.
• Design and present the proposed Disaster recovery recommendations.
• Perform POC of new SAN solutions and the necessary RIO/TCO for the anticipated deployment of the new SAN solution.

Confidential

Network / Event Management SME - VisionIT Contractor

To research and document customers network connectivity to the HP network including all servers, switches, firewalls, NAT translations, etc. , in order to successfully migrate the client to the HP SRA application as well as properly documenting the network environment. Install, Configure and Document event triggers for each of the clients systems that are being supported under the SRA application and managed by HP.

Confidential

System Administrator - Contractor

• Perform day to day support of the VMware 5.5 infrastructure and windows 2008 active directory environment, including but not limited to Exchange 2010/2013, Lync 2010/2013, Backups, File servers, SAN's, Phones Avaya and any other applicable application in production.
• Took their current Arc Serve and Veeam backup environment and re-architecture it to meet HIPAA compliance
• Project management lead on the Disaster Recovery/Business continuity project.
• Implemented an Exchange 2010 DAG with an upgrade to 2013.
• Managed MS Lync 2010 and upgraded to 2013.
• Overhauled their Active directory infrastructure and group policies.
• Upgrade the VMware environment from 5.1 to 5.5

Confidential

Sr. Network Engineer - Contractor

• Develop the necessary documentation and infrastructure to enable Xogenous to become HIPAA/Sarbanes Oxley certified along with a disaster recovery plan. Architected a fully redundant virtualized environment Including switches, storage and cabling with 99.99 uptime using VMware 5.1. Implemented a Federated exchange 2010 email environment for their current and future clients, residing on Microsoft Windows 2008. Created a backup strategy to accommodate all clients and provided project guidance for client projects.
• Designed and Implemented a VMware HA/clustered environment, utilizing Brocade 10G switches.
• Project manage client migration projects to the cloud.
• Designed and implemented the IBM SAN storage solution.
• Implement and Configure Sonic wall firewalls.
• Designed and implemented the backup strategy and Disaster recovery procedures.

Confidential

EMC Contractor

Implement, configure and optimize Maersk's backup infrastructure utilizing EMC Networker and Data Domain.

Confidential

Sys. Admin, Data Center Operations, Security, Telephony, SQL Lead

• Perform day to day support of the data center servers, including but not limited to Windows 2000, 2003, 2008, Linux and AIX. Managed the Exchange 2007/2010 along with the EMC CX400 storage environment. Design and document the data center infrastructure to comply with HIPPA PCI regulations. Manage all daily on-site and off-site backups.
• I ran three major projects as well as re-architecting major infrastructure components while providing documentation.
• Proposed and project managed migration off our old Avaya phone switch in our remote office's to our VOIP ShoreTel phone system at the main facility saving the organization 428,000 annually.
• Project managed a multimillion dollar McKesson clinical project HEMM, PHS and HSM .
• Overhauled their backup infrastructure away from tapes to storage on disk using EMC Data Domain with proper retention using EMC Networker and Avamar.
• Deployed and utilized HP Open view to replace nagios monitoring.
• Established an offsite DR site for the organization.
• Architected their windows 2008 server environment, migrated their existing windows 2003 servers to windows 2008, raised the domain level from 2003 to 2008 and re-designed their Active directory structure as well as group polices.
• Deployed a redundant email encryption/spam system using Cisco's Ironport.
• Deployed email archiving using Quest's Archive Manager.
• Architected and deployed a 2 tier VMware 4.1 redundant environment, using SAN Storage and currently handling 70 production systems. One tier using SATA drives and the other using Fiber drives.
• Architected and migrated off of the existing Exchange 2007 system to a fully redundant exchange 2010 system which also incorporates our DR site.

Confidential

Sr. Network Engineer

• Perform day to day administration of the Windows 2000/2003 server environment, including MS Exchange 2003, MS SQL 2005 and other corporate applications.
• Perform the administration of the LAN/WAN while maintaining all corporate computers, LAN/WAN and telecommunication systems on a daily basis while racking and stacking systems as well as running cabling and labeling. Created a reliable disaster recovery scheme.
• Redesigned their Citrix Presentation server farm 4.0 of 3 systems to accommodate 200 users to meet industry standard.
• Architected and deployed a wireless 802.11g compliant WAN infrastructure utilizing Cisco Aironet devices throughout 22 locations within Northern Nevada to create a personal meshed wireless network.
• Setup and configured a new Cisco ASA5200 firewall to replace there previous legacy firewall.
• Redesigned their Windows Active Directory structure to conform to Microsoft best practices, utilizing group policies for greater security and administration.
• Implemented VMware ESX 3.5 to 4 host systems. At this time I needed to create VCB scripts in order to perform both system and Virtual backups.
• Built a Windows update server for automatic deployment of security updates.
• Created a 3 tier spam protection that helped eliminate the 3 million of pieces of spam that we received every month.
• Setup a VLAN environment to segment the 2 primary companies that we supported.

Confidential

Network Administrator

• Perform day-to-day end user support while re-architecting the backend infrastructure.
• Migrated from Windows NT 4 to 2003 Server edition with Active Directory.
• Configured and supported ISA as our firewall with VPN access
• Deployed a Citrix XP and NFuse solution to support our sales force and remote office's Sir Lanka
• Automated our web order Electronic Catalog process via VB of encryption decryption of our web orders.
• Migrated from I-mail to exchange 2000, Installed Configured ISA Firewall.
• Documented new process's and server builds.
• Setup Oracle to MS SQL DB Replication via Internet VPN connection

Confidential

Director of Information Technology

• Conceptual, organizational and budgetary responsibility for the development of the corporate Infrastructure. Maintained all corporate computers, LAN/WAN and telecommunication systems on a daily basis. Generated web usage and tape backup reports for executive management. Trained employees on newly deployed technology. Performed database administrations and maintenance regularly. Verified all clinical and regulatory information was backed up and stored off site daily.
• Coordinated and facilitated the move of the IT department from Northern California to Southern California.
• Generated a strategic plan to migrate from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2000.
• Incorporated an Active Directory environment for enhanced security and manageability.
• Migrated them from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000.
• Migrated them from Great Plains 5.5 to MS Great Plains 6.0.
• Implemented a new Disaster Recovery procedure with increased efficiency and reliability.
• Specified, implemented and trained staff on the new VPN-RADIUS system that reduced costs of remote access by up to 85 .

Confidential

Manager of Hosting

• Worked for a fast paced Southern California ISP. I lead a team of 21 highly professional individuals that designed and deployed new products for our customers. My responsibilities included designing, implementing and documentation of custom customer e-commerce environments. To design, document and train employees on new product offerings to increase our market share.
• Provide level 3 technical support 7/24.
• Designed, implemented and documented Epoch's new Active Directory / LDAP infrastructure, enabling us to roll out a managed hosting environment for Unix Windows 2000 while reducing administrative costs by 27 .
• Successfully led implementation of a complex remote installation server that increased data center technicians efficiency building customer e-commerce systems, while allowing data center technicians to deploy both Windows and Unix based systems.
• Successfully migrated from Net Appliances to an EMC Celerra/Symmetric SAN and NAS environment for both our shared and dedicated customers within each data center LA, CA to Dallas. TX
• Migrated from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000

Technical Skills