SUMMARY

• Information Technology Professional for twelve years
• Technical focus toward infrastructure and related technologies and applications including: virtualization, high - availability planning, clustering, security, disaster recovery, and networking
• Extensive virtualization experience supporting business-critical deployments of clustered vSphere in conjunction with numerous Storage Area Network platforms
• Creation of backup and disaster recovery planning and procedures
• Ability to manage simultaneous workloads with competing prioritization
• Sound critical thinking for choices which may affect the whole of an organization
• Selection of Infrastructure software and hardware products that support the whole of an organization
• Coordination with staff for deployments, maintenance, migrations, and training
• Good experience maintaining time-lines of project goals and accurate budget projections
• Excellent problem resolution skills targeting issues from physical layers through application layers
• Creation of concise documentation of complex concepts and topologies
• Management of VAR & Vendor relations. Definition of project scope and requirements
• Working knowledge of HIPAA, PCI, and SOX compliance, with some exposure to JSOX
• Software and Licensing Compliance across inter-vendor requirements: Microsoft, VMware, Oracle
• Collaborative planning in day to day functions to meet best outcomes for the business
• Automates Business Processes whenever feasible for time savings or reduction of human error

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Infrastructure: sizing, setup, and planning, high-availability, clustering, and fail-over, distributed systems

Virtualization: Server Virtualization with VMware vSphere, ESX, vCenter, HA Clustering, related sub-components

Software Defined Storage: with Datacore SANmelody, and Synchronous Mirroring arrays

Networking: Cisco (Catalyst, ASA, WCS, WLC, CCM) Sonicwall, PFsense, FreeBSD, Linux (Ubuntu, Red Hat)

Experience with: VLAN Tagging, PVLANS, Etherchannel, LACP, STP, 802.11, QOS, VOIP, VOIP over 802.11 w with multi-floor deployment, VPN, Trunking, Load Balancing

Backup and Disaster Recovery Planning with: EMC Avamar, CommVault, vRanger, VMware vDR

Operating Systems: Windows NT - 2012 R2, AIX, Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu), FreeBSD, other

Server Platforms: HP ProLiant DL580 G7, DL380 G6, DL380 G5 Dell PowerEdge R720

Infrastructure Applications: Active Directory, LDAP, LDAPS, Exchange, SQL, DNS, DHCP, BIND, Apache, WSUS, NAS (SMB 3.0/CIFS/Celerra), DFS, DFS-R, Symantec (SAVCE, SEPM, Web Gateway), ZixMail, Blackberry Enterprise Server, SSL Certificates, Checkpoint (Meta-IP, Pointsec FDE), Sharepoint, Citrix MetaFrame, Citrix XenApp 5.0, Cisco IronPort

Monitoring: Netflow, SNMP, WMI, Solarwinds, Paessler PRTG, ELK Stack, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Wireshark

Coding: Proficient BASH ; Intermediate Powershell, VBScript, TSQL, Unix Shell ; Beginner Ruby, Python

Data Manipulation / Schemas: JSON, XML, CSV

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design and maintenance of numerous infrastructure systems supporting 300 corporate end-users who in turn manage payroll and business functions for end users and talent
• Primary Supported systems include: VMware vSphere, EMC VNX SAN, Cisco MDS 9148, EMC Avamar, RSA SecurID, Microsoft Infrastructure (Active Directory, SQL, Exchange), Citrix Xenapp 5.0, Sysloging ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, NX-Log), Solarwinds Orion, Infoblox, Cisco Ironport, Paessler PRTG
• Secondary Supported Systems: Cisco ASA Firewall, Cisco ACE Load balancer, general Network malise
• Collaborative Support: F5 load balancer migration, Oracle PeopleSoft Environment 8.8, Oracle Database 11g R2, overall network security and performance troubleshooting.
• Systems Capacity Planning and Budgetary Guidance
• License Management (successful audits of Microsoft and VMware from systems)
• Automation of work-flow processes through batch and application script (much sftp related), powershell
• Championed extending virtualization use: Syslogging necessity, enhancement of overall IT security
• Monitor systems and network for availability
• Platform Migrations:
• Migrate vSphere onto new cluster; Implement Distributed Switch
• Migrate EMC Symmetrix DMX-4 SAN and Celerra to VNX5500v1
• Collaborate HP Data Protector & vRanger to EMC Avamar Grid
• Collaborate for Migration of Cisco ACE to F5 LTM 7 APM
• Collaborate proof of concept for Migration from Xenapp 5.0 to Xenapp 7.6
• Design for Oracle Database Migration
• Design for Microsoft Exchange 2007 to Microsoft Exchange 2013 Migration
• Design for Microsoft SQL 2005 to Microsoft SQL 2014

Confidential, Minnetonka, MN

IT Architecture Consultant / Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Project work primarily involved migrating systems of previously acquired companies into UHG datacenters with updated systems design to account for UHG standards of availability and serviceability
• Review software systems flows and design and size appropriate infrastructure for the client's needs
• Plan Systems for scalability and high-availability across geographically dispersed datacenters
• Peer-Review planning of others infrastructure designs
• Document and create hardware topology of complex systems with visio and excel
• Specify in detail system requirements, and delegate the provisioning of resources
• F5 VIP's, AIX LPAR's, Websphere Application Servers, Virtual Machines, Physical Machines, etc
• Work with clients to determine and resolve performance related issue

Confidential, MN

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Leadership role supporting 1100 users, 1000 workstations, 180 servers across 8 site
• Final support level group as the primary expert in most infrastructure specific applications and hardware, with a secondary role for numerous unlisted business-centric applications
• Maintain aggregate system uptime in execs of 99.999% excluding planned maintenance
• Mentor and train staff in the use, support, and troubleshooting of systems
• Documentation design choices and topological views of complex environments
• Manage support contracts and licensing for designated systems and products
• Member of IT Security Team to address concerns, conducts audits, recommendations, implementations
• Championed heavy Server and Storage virtualization within the organization resulting in significant savings with higher availabilities and redundancies
• Scripting changes to servers, desktops, deployments utilizing BAT, Powershell, VBS, TSQL, BASH
• Disaster Recovery Planning and Backup Systems setup and Maintenance.
• Monitoring and trending systems and networking data through WMI, SNMP with various tools
• Server selection, Setup, Maintenance primarily HP ProLiant, experience with Dell, and IBM
• Infrastructure Design, Migrations, Overhauls including VMware, SAN, Network, and Subsystems