Overview

Senior Systems Engineer with 15 years experience in production systems design, implementations, and training other individuals in their use. I have a distinguished customer service, and mentoring record that is valued by superiors, and peers.

Professional experience

Confidential

Team Lead

• Implemented Solution Support strategy for Cisco Datacenter Solutions Support:
• Subject Matter Expert in Sap HANA:
• Supported: Flexpod, Vblock, UCS, Nexus, UCS - Director, Hadoop, Openstack,
• On boarded SAP HANA, UCS Director, Hadoop, and Openstack into TAC

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Senior Systems Engineer

• Designed and implemented the following systems and environments
• SQL Server 2008R2: 1 8 node, 2 - 6 node, 2 4 node production clusters, and 20 2 node development clusters. Annual savings 300,000
• VMware 4.1: 40 Hosts, 4 vCenter servers, migrated 150 physical servers to the virtual platform.
• Active Directory: 4 - 2008, 5 2008R2, Domains. 4 2000 to 2003R2, and 2 2008 to 2008R2 Migrations.
• Datacenter Builds: 1Datacenter in Raleigh, 1 in London. Focusing on the Microsoft infrastructure, I remotely deployed 2003R2, and 2008 operating systems. Configured bothdomains, trust relationships, users, rights, clusters, and all group policies. I also installed all SQL 2005, and 2000 clusters.
• Supported and Maintained the following software and hardware
• VMware: 3.5 to 4.1, vCenter 2.5 to 4.1, 26 ESX hosts 600 guests
• Microsoft: Windows 2000, 2003, 2003r2, 2008, 2008R2, and 7. SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008, 2008R2
• EMC: CX700, CX340, CX380, CX4240, and EVA.
• Brocade: switch stuff
• HP: 360G3-G7, 380G3-G7, 580G3-G5

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Lead Systems Analyst

• Team Lead for implementing Microsoft, Citrix, and VMware solutions.
• Server Consolidation: I deployed multi node file and SQL clusters to a centralized datacenter for the purpose of migrating access databases to SQL, standalone app servers to VMware, and departmental data to file clusters, all of which were stored on desktops across multiple sites.
• System Arc:
• . Worked with internal departments to gather app requirements, and departmental budgets to in order to architect systems into the existing enterprise. Lead Microsoft SAN/Disaster Recovery engineer, my duties included design, documentation, implementation, pilot, staging testing, and go live of all scalable systems such as File, SQL, Exchange 8 node clusters and web systems. Incident management, documentation, Project Management, SCOM Deployment. I have a keen technical ability to quickly and effectively resolve system crises to minimize production downtime.

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer/Lead Citrix Administrator

Maintain Implement MS solutions for our customer environment. Work with network engineering to trouble shoot network issues that rise in the multiple network architecture. Active Directory configuration, Citrix Metaframe XP design and support along with Citrix Nfuse web portal. Support and schedule MS SQL server backups. Firewall 1 administration. Design and implementation of Windows 2000 disaster recovery methods using Veritas Net backup. Train level 1 support how to trouble shoot and the functionality of Citrix XP and Nfuse.

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Manager/ Lead Network Administrator

Management of IT Employees gave evaluations, promotions, and managed shifts

Manage all Systems in a production environment. Support 7 Citrix Terminal Servers, 4 SQL 7.0 Database servers. 5 standard servers a combination of NT4 and NT5 Operating Systems used for backup, file servers, and web servers. I advised and train management how to implement policies and procedures for error handling. Monitor and address system issues utilizing performance monitoring. Implemented Citrix 1.8 farm, and published encrypted desktops. Coordinate with Development on all testing of new applications. Maintain and designed the corporate backup strategy.

Confidential

Network specialist

As Lead desktop support technician with experience working in enterprise networks, I was given the task of implementing an imaging process. I researched, tested, and implemented Ghost while documenting the process. Managed and assigned trouble tickets to team members while mentoring the less experienced.

Confidential

Network specialist / PC Tech

Configure, support, and set up all Windows 98 laptops, and NT desktops. Novell 4.11configuration and administration. Configuration of Microsoft NT4.0 print, file and web servers. Installing networking printers over the wan, creating user id's granting access to files and objects on the network, configuring DHCP for remote offices and training rooms. RAS setup, created custom program neighborhood install.

Hardware

Cisco UCS, Nexus

NETAPP

EMC

Flexpod

Vblock

HP

IBM

Windows NT4 2012

Software

MSSQL Ver 7-10

Linux,

Vmware - VCP

Sap HANA

UCS - Director

Nexus

Compute Management software

MSSQL

Anti Virus

3rd party support agents

Virtulization

Additional Information

Started a fundraiser and raised 30,00 in a month so a friends daughter, could get cochlear implants, as she is deaf, and the insurance they has denied the surgery.

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