SUMMARY:

• Twenty years of experience in the Information Systems Technology field.
• With a robust background, as a Confidential s Administrator and Network Systems Administrator; while at the Confidential LLP: Confidential & Confidential: and Confidential of NY & NJ, I managed and administered Network environments; consisting of over Ten Thousand network devices, wireless networks, VoIP systems, and mobile devices; spread across North America and Europe.
• I’ve configured network VLANs on layer 3 switches: configured switch port security: configured switches for Virtual Private Network (VPN) access and configured network devices for specified VLAN access. With my Confidential s administration, I have possessed expertise with the following technologies:

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cisco Routers: 850, 1700, 2901, 3825, Aironet 3502i (wireless)

Cisco Switches: 1950, 2950, 3550, 3750, 6500

Routing Protocols: RIP, EIGRP, IGMP, OSPF and BGP

Telco: Frame Relay, PPP, MPLS, DSL

Cisco Technologies: CiscoWorks, Cisco UCS, Quality of Service (QoS), VPN, NAT, Wireless

Network management: SolarWinds, HP OpenView, EMC Ionix

Network Systems: VMware vSphere 4.x & 5.x environments, Citrix XenApp & Pres. Server

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Cisco Administrator and Network Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Standardize and implement VLAN scheme on Cisco Catalyst 3750x switches; Create different VLAN groups for specified users and devices connecting to the production network; Configured switches for 11 Times Square building, during a major company move.
• Scheduling and management of IOS system updates of all Cisco switches and routers in the New York offices as well as the remote offices spread across North America.
• Responsible for configuring switch - port security on production network switches, in regards to adding new devices as well as guest devices to the production network.
• Spearhead the troubleshooting of routing and switch communication issues and network outages. Work closely with major communication vendors (Verizon, AT&T, Reliance, etc.)
• Manage and administer Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) and VMware virtual environments, across North America and Europe; Spearhead troubleshooting of Cisco UCS unit, in regard to hardware and system failures; Build and manage virtual servers, also migrate virtual servers from Physical to Virtual (P to V) configurations.
• Maintain Citrix environment, which consists of offices located in North America and Europe, for hundreds of remote users; Publish applications on Citrix servers; Troubleshoot user connection issues and Citrix printing issues.
• Maintain Blackberry Enterprise server and Microsoft Outlook environment, which consisted of hundreds of email and Blackberry device users.

Confidential, Union, NJ

Citrix Administrator and Senior LAN Consultant (short-term contract)

Responsibilities:

• Assist in project management of Citrix upgrade of 50+ Citrix Presentation Servers; an upgrade from 4.0 to Presentation Server 4.5.
• Implemented over 50 developmental and over 20 production VM servers using VMware ESX 3.5 & vCenter 2.5.
• Perform system maintenance on over 65 Microsoft servers (Win. 2000, 2003 & 2008) which consisted of software patching, iLo firmware updates and hardware (firmware) updates.
• Update Antivirus versions and definition files on over 65 Microsoft servers (Win. 2000, 2003 & 2008).
• Assist in the upgrade of Symantec NetBackup environment from 5.1 to 6.5. Managed month-end backups along with year-end backups of major production servers.
• Implementation of 64 bit servers in production environment.

Confidential, New Jersey New York, NY

Citrix Administrator and Senior LAN Consultant (contract)

Responsibilities:

• Improve the client experience and reliability of remote connections, for more than 3000 remote users by creating multi zone Citrix environments with several Citrix farms implemented.
• Improved Citrix users’ remote experience by modifying Published applications, published content and implementing several client policies.
• Develop Citrix server dependability by implementing an alerting system that helped monitor server hardware and software 24 hours a day.
• Improved server management for over 300 Microsoft servers by implementing Group policies.
• Maintained servers by improving monthly maintenance using PatchLink centralized patching solution for over 300 Microsoft servers (Win. 2000, 2003 & 2008).
• Modify the Citrix server build process; which allowed the re-build of a failed Citrix server, and have it back online and in production in less than 8 hours.
• Enhance the performance of EMC storage systems performance. Configure LUN and RAID configurations for several departments throughout Confidential . Also maintained the hardware for the SAN controllers.
• Conducted multiple network projects to implement network management strategies, server hardware and software Alerting solutions, as well as applications. Also, conducted many project meeting with major vendors as well as status meetings for Port Authority management staff.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior LAN Consultant (contract)

Responsibilities:

• Streamlined the Novell GroupWise Email system for the entire corporation, which consisted of over 20,000 user accounts. I developed strategies to improve the performance and consistency of the corporate email system.
• Developed and Implemented the Enterprise backup solution; which consisted of 20 hospitals and remote facilities throughout New York City. I implemented Veritas NetBackup Enterprise solution to backup all remote facilities across the WAN.
• Project manager of a major Novell Netware upgrade project; which I upgrade every facility’s Novell server’s Operating System and their Novell Groupwise email system version.
• Conduct project meetings and maintained relationships with several high profile vendors; Novell, Microsoft, Dell, and Symantec. My responsibility consisted of finalizing network equipment, server hardware, server software and pricing.
• Conduct monthly status and project change management meetings with HHC management staff for each hospital and facility.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Systems Engineer/Consultant (contract)

Responsibilities:

• Project management on several network implementation projects for several mid-sized companies across the New York City area.
• Assumed the responsibility of MIS director for several organizations; meeting with vendors: making decisions on which network products to purchase: ordering the proper network equipment: Maintained relationships with several vendors and client relationships.
• Streamlined network administration process for several firms. Implemented remote management solutions which saved the clients time and money by troubleshooting issues remotely.
• The client list for Confidential consisted of clients such as:
• Interscope Records
• Bad Boy Entertainment
• Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC)
• Mad Stone Films
• All Metro Health Service
• Blue Rock Advertising