OBJECTIVE To obtain an Information Technology position with a dynamic and progressive organization.

Willing to relocate for PERMANENT positions only Interested in PERMANENT positions ONLY. Please Do Not contact me for contract/contract-to-hire/temp/temp-to-hire positions Thank you

SUMMARY Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and Technology Specialist-MCSE,MCTS Microsoft Certified Information Technology Professional-MCITP Vmware Certified Professional-VCP Communicate equally well with technical and professional staff Expert trouble-shooter and problem solver and committed to customer satisfaction More than 11 Years experience with Microsoft Exchange server

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. IT Administrator

Work with virtualization technologies Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 and VMware ESX on Dell R series servers. Administer 3- Equilogic 6500 Sumo iSCSI SAN storage systems. Design, deploy and administer multi-site Microsoft Active Directory domains. Maintain Exchange 2010 in multi-site environment with DAG replication. Migrate 75 Exchange 2003 users from remote foreign office into existing Exchange 2010 infrastructure Deploy Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 2012 internal infrastructure and public Web servers. Design and implement Windows 2012 R2 DFS solution with replication for user home/profile directories. Provide daily support to staff while delivering excellent customer service. Monitor the health of critical systems and proactively take steps to ensure uptime. Edit monitoring of existing systems as well as those newly deployed for more efficient monitoring. Deploy Websense cloud-based internet security/web filter to restrict web browsing. Implement pilot Lync 2013 standard chat server deployment. Plan and migrate Righfax 9.4 server to new hardware. Upgrade Rightfax server to 10.5.

Sr. System/Network Administrator Deploy and administer new Dell/Equilogic iSCSI SAN in HQ with 24 Terabytes of storage space. Configure LUN snapshots in the new SAN for added layer of data preservation in case rollback is needed. Administer VMware 3.5 and 4.1 ESXi servers running Exchange 2010, Blackberry Enterprise server, and file servers attached to HP Storageworks FC SAN and new Dell/Equilogic iSCSI SAN. Deploy new ESXi 4.1 hosts. Completed migration from Exchange 2007 to new Exchange 2010 CAS,HT,and Mailbox servers with DAG to DR site for automatic failover from HQ. This included planning, hardware/software deployment and final testing. All exchange servers are running on VMware ESXi 4.1. Migrated about 400 mailboxes. Manage WSUS to provide Microsoft updates to clients and servers. Perform Windows server rebuilds, and maintenance as well as a pro-active daily check of event logs. Perform Active directory administration creating users and groups and checking domain controller replication. Monitor DFS replication between HQ and DR site. Re-configure DFS replication as needed for required storage upgrades. Upgrade and support 2X remote application server similar to Citrix in 4 sites. Administer firewalls across the enterprise. This includes creating IPSEC VPN tunnels between sites. Responsible for moving company server and network infrastructure to new building. Maintain and deploy Dell Poweredge servers. Maintain existing HP Proliant rack and blade servers.. Oversee and lead technical contact for AT T MPLS and bonded T1 circuit implementations for 4 corporate locations. Implement new wireless network infrastructure utilizing WDS for seemless in-house WAP connections with WPA2. Set up Solar winds toolkit for monitoring LAN switches/internet gateway bandwidth usage utilizing snmp. Deploy and administer SQL 2000/2005 database servers. Build new servers for Oracle DB upgrade/migration. Upgrade corporate HQ switch infrastructure to Cisco 1 GB switches. Diagnose ISP WAN connectivity issues with tracert,nslookup,and ICMP ping and report findings to ATT for resolution.

Network Engineer/Administrator System Engineer

Trained in Dell/EMC CX300,500,700 SAN systems at Dell Enterprise education facility. Maintain and upgrade Dell/EMC CX-700 and FC-4700 SANs including creating new luns and fiber-channelhard-disk replacement. Also zoning server HBAs to SAN fabric with Brocade and McData fiber switches.install Navisphere and Powerpath agents on Windows servers for HBA registration and failover support. Install Navisphere and Powerpath agents on Windows servers for HBA registration and failover support. Build new IIS cluster from scratch with Windows 2003 MSCS and shared SAN storage. Lead Exchange administrator for 1000 users in a multi-site messaging topology using Exchange 2000 Enterprise. This included clustered exchange servers in our main corporate office. Provided second level support to help desk for email issues. Setup Exchange 2007 test server and started to plan transition from Exchange 2000. Perform physical-to-virtual server test conversions to VMware ESX. Administer Trend Micro Anti-spam and Anti-virus software including configuration,upgrades, and patching. Research new Dell server hardware configurations and provide specifications for purchasing. Implement new Dell dual and quad processor servers and installation of Windows 2003 R2 32/64- bit operating systems for these servers. Implement Windows 2008 member servers. Provide support for about 130 Windows 2000/2003 servers for maximum uptime. Second level support for helpdesk personnel in all corporate locations. Responsible for local backups including importing/exporting library tapes and prepare for offsite storage. Backup software is Veritas Backup Exec 9.1. Architect and implement Blackberry Enterprise server migration from version 3.6 to 4.14. Assist in settingup new AD subnets,sites, and site-links for new corporate sites as they came online. Daily administration of Windows 2003 Active Directory. This includes creating users,groups, and group policies. Also includes checking for domain-controller replication between sites and adding/editing AD DNS entries. Work with WMWare VI3 in test enviroment and eventually integrate with production. Attended official VMware ESX 3.5/VC 2.5 training class. Set up a 3 host VMware DRS/HA cluster. Getting ready to convert production and infrastructure servers and will add more hosts to cluster as needed. Install,setup,and test Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 in test environment to backup/restore VMware files. Perform other assigned support duties on an as-needed basis.

Confidential Implement Dell AX100 SAN with redundant dual fibre connections and configure SAN disk pools/virtual disks. Troubleshoot and resolve local and remote Dell servers running Windows 2000/2003. Support 45 to 50 servers total with 20-25 app/fileservers in 7 remote locations. Provide technical support for about 500 total users in HQ, regional, and satellite offices combined. Fine tune, document, and standardize monitoring of all corporate enterprise servers with NetIQ. Assist in providing technical support for Windows 2000/XP clients with Office 2003.

Windows System Engineer Implementation of CA Brightstor backup routine regimin with StorageTek tape library to backup production and development SQL server,DFS fileserver, and Exchange 2003 servers. Create new hire user active directory accounts and emailboxes as directed by Human Resources. Create user's home directories on the DFS file server and set appropriate permissions. Disable terminated/resigned user active directory accounts as directed by Human Resources. Setup additional Windows 2003 HP server and install active directory to create domain controller for deployment in new infrastructure co-location. Windows NT 4.0 server network OS conversion to Windows 2000/Active directory. Active directory administration of objects in a Windows 2000 native-mode domain. Install and configure additional Dell 2500 and 2600 servers for infrastructure expansion. Administer Veritas Backup Exec 9.1 for daily backups,restores and disaster recovery. Implement and administer NAS disk storage unit for SAN-similar disk-to-disk backup solution. Implement internal DNS servers and upgrade DHCP server for active directory. Build Exchange 2000 server to upgrade current infrastructure messaging solution. Migrated POP3 Outlook/Outlook Express clients to Exchange 2000. Install and configure GFI Mail essentials anti-spam software. Troubleshoot, and resolve network topology problems. Upgrade Windows NT 4.0 print servers to Windows 2000. Daily administration of Watchguard firewall/VPN. Implement new Watchguard FW for second internet link. Create disaster recovery disk images with Symantec ghost 7.5 enterprise edition. Build and implement Red Hat Linux layer 2 bridge/firewall. Upgrade TrackIt 5.0 to 6.0. Set up equipment auditing for tracking/license compliance. Request and verify public DNS record changes for email delivery following ISP switchover. Replace and partially re-configure Cisco 1601 router for frame relay/internet interface link change.

System Engineer Setup and configure Windows 2000/NT 4.0 servers in Fast Ethernet and Gigabyte network topologies.This included internal,production, and development environments. End user support and account/security setup and administration. Implement Windows NT Workstation,Windows 2000 Professional,Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, and Office 2000 for end users. Strong experience with RAID 1 and RAID 5 SCSI Dell PowerEdge disk arrays for fault tolerance. Resolve daily WINS,DNS, and DHCP problems.Setup redundancy for these services on other Windows NT servers. Set up and configure Windows 2000 HP Jetadmin print server with 35 networked HP print devices. Install and configure Microsoft IIS 4.0/5.0 servers and install/update customer supplied application code. Install and configure Secure Socket Layer SSL . Setup and Configure NT 4.0 Terminal Server and Windows 2000 Terminal services for Citrix services. Solid Dell single and quad CPU server and workstation hardware experience. Citrix Metaframe 1.8 installation and support on Windows terminal servers/services. Exchange 5.5 installation,administration,and mailbox migrations to new servers. Assist in setting up Dell Power-Vault disk arrays in clusters with Microsoft Clustering service. Assist in setting up Dell Power-Vault disk arrays in clusters with Microsoft Clustering service. Involved in Windows 2000 server parallel processing project with 1,000 1U servers. Interfaced SCSI tape carousels and HP reel to reel tape drives to WindowsNT and 2000 backup up servers which I had built and configured. Administer Windows 2000 Active Directory including creating users,groups, and group policies. Set up Active-directory on Windows 2000 Advanced Server with DCPROMO. Install, configure, and administer SMS 2.0 on high end Dell server for HW/SW inventory, SW package publication,and desktop remote control.

Confidential Provide technical support for user problems on Windows '95/'98 platforms with Microsoft exchange, web browsers, and Office '97 on NT, and Netware operating systems. NT Workstation specialist. Set Nt 4.0 Workstation PC's perform security checks and configuration with systems policies. Install and configure IBM client access for AS/400 mainframe access Handle deployment of new Dell PCs' with the use of images and cloning software as well as manual loading and configuring of software.Provide anti-virus expertise. Familiar with SMS 2.0. in test environment. Windows NT 4.0 installation and administration on Compaq 5500 and 6000 models as well as clones. Support and troubleshoot daily WINS,DHCP and DNS issuses.Also support Token-ring and Fast Ethernet switch and cabling problems. Seagate Veritas backup and restores.