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Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

• Currently supporting all 3rd level administration, management and incidents as the senior systems engineer of Active Directory.Managing group policies, logon scripts, patch management, and antivirus.Work closely with related teams for seamless support of applications and networking for continuity working with storage and back-up teams. Previously worked with MS Exchange 2010, Unified Messaging, Instant Messaging Lync , SharePoint, Symantec Enterprise Vault as well as the lead engineer for the electronic fax environment using RightFax 9.4. The environment consists of the datacenter and DR locations. Was directly involved with Exchange migration with vendor including eradication of .pst fileswhich were migrated to the enterprise vault for legal and compliance. Also, monitor and manage trouble ticket queue ensuring SLA's are met on a timely basis.
• Major accomplishment to date was during the post hurricane disaster recovery ensuring all systems were up and running with little to no down time, which was successful. Recommendations that were put in place are still in effect today.

Confidential

Server Integration Consultant

• Senior server consultant on short term contract for the merger between Dewey Ballantine LLP and LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene MacRae LLP, two of the world's largest law firms.
• Created multiple types of Windows 2003 Enterprise server builds in standalone and clustered modes. Performed various types of RAID configurations 1, 5, 10 , optimization of the servers based on application, file/print, or AD Migration.
• Trained junior network and datacenter engineers on procedures

Confidential

Lead Microsoft Windows Systems Engineer

• Promoted to Lead Microsoft Windows Systems Engineer of the Windows Infrastructure Team and have ownership and responsibility for the Global Corporate Windows server environment including and not limited to Active Directory, Group Policies, Design, FRS, DNS, DHCP, Patch Management, Anti Virus, and Logon Scripts for over 80 locations across North America consisting of over 250 servers. Assisted management with cutting costs on physical hardware purchases. Including data center savings in space and related costs by implementing IBM Blade Center solution with SAN connected VMWare to consolidate Windows as well as decommission legacy hardware. Currently, responsible for the design and maintenance of Global Corporate Active Directory
• Migration of resources to Active Directory from legacy systems. Involved in planning and implementing the Exchange 2007 implementation project. Other main responsibilities included ownership of standard company desktop and server images as well as Symantec AV for the Enterprise. Responsible for selecting and specifying server and desktop hardware for company standards. Also tested Windows Vista and image creation process.Major accomplishment to date was repairing and re-designing the severely crippled Windows 2000 Enterprise.

Microsoft Windows Systems Administrator

Confidential

Systems Administration responsible for daily support of over 250 servers including over 100 domain controllers across 100 sites in North America. Building Windows 2000 Enterprise servers for production environment. Building and designing desktop environment images. Writing automated scripts for build process and responsible for documentation of build process. Hardware platforms include IBM eSeries and xSeries servers. Support, manage and design Active Directory Services as well. Saved overall support costs and Helpdesk calls by repairing a severely malfunctioning Active Directory environment.

Confidential

Microsoft Windows Server Consultant

Short term assignment building Windows 2000 / 2003 Enterprise servers for production environment. Building Windows servers on VMWare sessions, standalone servers and IBM BladeCenter servers. Including writing automated scripts for build process and responsible for documentation for build process. Hardware platforms include IBM eSeries and xSeries servers, IBM Blade Center servers and VMware.

Confidential

IT Systems Consultant

• Systems Administration and Management on a Lab Client/Server team. Performing level 3 support of NT / 2000 enterprise network, including servers and workstations, building custom NT server and NT/XP workstation images, deploying applications remotely, maintaining servers in an enterprise domain, NT systems administration, network, LAN, WAN administration. Support and administering current Active Directory environment including support group policies for Win2000/2003/XP environment. Deploying JPMC OneDesk servers and Win XP workstations via Ghost in Integration/UAT test lab environment to ready deployment into production. Also, supporting, building, and troubleshooting Win XP desktop systems via automated builds. Managing, supporting and deploying Win XP security patches including anti-virus signatures. Current environment in currently in progress of migrating to a Win 2000/2003 server I Win XP desktop environment. Application support on WinXPincluding batch/shell scripting. Server support on Win2000 builds via Ghost with batch/shell scripting. Server hardware included Dell 6500 series and IBM a and x Series servers.
• NT / 2000 Server installs and configuration in an Enterprise NT domain.
• NT / 2000 / XP installs and configuration.
• Unix NCR server support
• Maintained and developed documentation for setup, configuration and procedures
• Security patch / anti-virus signature administration.
• NT Policies Active Directory l Group Policies support
• Reduced manual tasks through automated scripts.
• NT/2000 and Network Administration