SUMMARY:

• Information Technology Specialist with over 20 years of experience in all aspects of systems, networking, cloud and software applications. Managed the design and implementation of numerous complicated, large scale projects. Led teams through highly successful system migrations and implementations. Driven to learn leading edge technologies and apply that knowledge to increase system reliability and efficiency, while decreasing operational costs. Wrote numerous scripts to automate OS, Active Directory, virtualization, and cloud administrative tasks to improve productivity and consistency.
• Automation of OS, hardware, and infrastructure (AD) updates, patches, and configuration changes utilizing PowerShell, BASH, and other languages.
• System consolidation through the use of various virtualization and cloud products: VMware, Citrix, Microsoft Hyper - V, and OpenStack.
• Design, testing, implementation, migration, administration, and consolidation of directory, messaging, database, and operating systems.
• Architecture and implementation of Active Directory and Active Directory Federated Services.
• Administration of AD including group policy deployment, low level ADSI modifications, migrations, and repairs.
• Deployment and administration of security, firewall and identity access management systems such as ForeFront UAG, TMG, and IM.
• Server builds and image creation on all versions of Windows Server including 2008 R2, 2012 R2, 2016, and various Linux distributions.
• Architected and implemented Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop infrastructures.
• Led Windows desktop and server migrations and deployments utilizing automated tools, writing scripts, building packages and creating images.
• Deployment, administration, and troubleshooting of Linux and UNIX systems.
• Project management of large scale projects achieving on time and under budget results.
• Design and implementation of clustered and high availability server and storage systems.
• Design and implementation of disaster recovery plans to ensure no productivity loss.
• Implementation of security standards.
• Management and administration of SAN, NAS, and iSCSI storage solutions.
• Implementation and administration of configuration management tools such as SCCM, PowerShell DSC, Chef, and Puppet.
• Deployment and administration of management, monitoring, and alerting systems.
• Cloud based solutions running on AWS, Azure, Office 365, and Google platforms.
• Testing and documentation of bleeding edge technologies.
• Architecture and development of multilayer, multi-tier applications.
• Design and development of web based and client based front ends, business tiers, and data tiers utilizing numerous technologies:
• Mobile Android development utilizing Mono for Android in C#.NET and the Android SDK platform and tools.
• Analyzing business processes, identifying potential improvements, then designing and developing creative software solutions to solve them.
• Design and development of .NET applications, VBScripts, and PowerShell scripts for automation of administration tasks.
• Security scanning, reporting, and patching of weak points in systems, applications, and networks.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating, Virtualization, and Cloud Systems: Windows NT Server 3.5 - NT 4.0, Windows Server 2000 - 2016, Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat, SUSE, AIX, Solaris, Novell, Citrix XenServer, VMware ESX - ESXi 5.x, VMware HA, VMware DRS, VMware vCenter, VMware vSphere, Citrix XenServer, Citrix XenApp, Citrix XenDesktop, OpenStack, Mint, Kali, Windows 3.0 - Windows 10, DOS.

Server Systems: MS Exchange 4.0 - 2013, MS SMS 1.2 - SCCM 2012 R2, SCOM, SCVVM, MS SQL 6.0 - 2014, MS ISA - UAG / TMG, MS SharePoint 2001 - 2013, MS BizTalk, MS Lync 2013, MS SBS, Oracle, MongoDB, MySQL, Hadoop, LDAP, Active Directory, IIS, Apache, Node.js, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt, DNS, WINS, DHCP, DFS.

Cloud Services: Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform.

Applications: Microsoft Office, Excel, Word, Access, Outlook, Visio, Project, Autodesk AutoCAD, Autodesk Sketch, Autodesk Inventor, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Sparx.

Development: C#, VB.NET, VBA, VSTO, ASP.NET, MVC, LINQ, Entity Framework, ADO.NET, MVVM, Azure, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, BootStrap, AngularJS, Express, PHP, Ruby on Rails, Perl, Heroku, AWS, GitHub, Agile.

Networking: Cisco, Checkpoint, F5 Networks, Citrix NetScaler, Subnetting, VLANs, Routing, Load Balancing, IPv4, IPv6, VPN, IPsec, DMZ, Firewall, RIP.

Storage: EMC, HP, NetAPP, SAN, NAS, DAS, Fiber channel, SCA, SCSI, iSCSI, SATA.

Hardware: HP,  Dell, Cisco UCS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Senior Systems Engineer

• Deployed new Active Directory and DNS infrastructures to facilitate data center separations.
• Migrated and deployed Windows, Linux, VMware and Citrix servers as well as AD and DNS infrastructures.
• Wrote PowerShell scripts to remediate Active Directory transition issues and automate AD administrative tasks.
• Selectively migrated existing AD group policies and deployed new policies based on customer requirements.
• Utilized ADSI Edit to correct migrated AD objects to work in new environments.
• Built and configured new VMware vCenter environments and migrated existing hosts to new data centers.
• Built new servers to transition current environments of thousands of servers and applications into new data centers.
• Created hardened images for deployment of virtual machines in vCenter environments.
• Wrote custom PowerShell and BASH scripts to help facilitate the automation of numerous administrative tasks.
• Wrote custom PowerCLI scripts to automate vCenter tasks.
• Installed and configured numerous Confidential management and monitoring tools.
• Provided top tier support diagnosing issues related to all aspects of a data center transition.
• Customers ranged from food and beverage, oil and gas, financial, and military industries.
• Received ITAR security clearance for government work.

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Senior Systems Specialist

• Implemented VMware vSphere 5.0.
• Automated VMware systems utilizing PowerCLI, vSphere CLI, and custom software accessing VMware API’s.
• Implemented Citrix XenServer 5.6 and Citrix XenApp 6.0.
• Designed and Deployed Citrix XenDesktop 7.6 VDI infrastructure.
• Created a pilot test utilizing Qubes OS.
• Active Directory migration from Windows 2003 and 2008 to 2012.
• Led teams through server migrations from Windows 2003 and 2008 to 2012.
• Designed and Deployed Windows 2012 R2 infrastructure including, AD, DNS, Exchange 2013, Lync 2013, SCCM 2012, and SharePoint 2012.
• Managed system configurations utilizing PowerShell DSC, Puppet, and Chef.
• Wrote PowerShell, PowerShell DSC, and VBScripts to automate tasks and configurations.
• Implementation and Management of Active Directory.
• Deployed Windows 2008 Server running SharePoint 2007.
• Created SharePoint site using both the designer and custom programming.
• Deployed Windows 2008 Server running SharePoint 2010 on AWS EC2.
• Migrated SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010.
• Migrated SharePoint 2007 and 2010 to 2013.
• Designed and built Linux based multimedia distribution system.
• Designed and deployed SCCM.
• Built Ruby on Rails applications utilizing MySQL, JavaScript, JQuery, AngularJS, BootStrap, Heroku, LDAP, and utilized GitHub for source control.
• Built Android applications utilizing Mono for Android.
• Built Android utility applications utilizing the Android SDK and SDK Tools.
• Compiled Android kernel object files to enable CIFS connections from a mobile platform.
• Developed Android applications utilizing both Linux and Windows platforms.
• Wrote Microsoft Word and Excel toolbar plug-ins using VSTO.
• Diagnosed and repaired Ruby on Rails application errors.

Confidential, Hartford

Windows Engineer / Exchange SME - Expert Consultant

• Reviewed and revised technical architectural documentation and performed a successful migration of a highly visible, multi-site, clustered Exchange 2003 to load balanced, clustered, H, Exchange 2010 infrastructure.
• Migrated Windows 2003 servers to Windows 2008 and 2008 R2.
• Migrated Active Directory Domain Controllers from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008 R2.
• Built an Exchange 2010 HA system in a VMware HA and DRS environment.
• Designed and built a pilot to test the lift of shift of the data.
• Built and configured Microsoft UAG/TMG server in the DMZ to handle web connectivity and to provide the client with a portal for their employees.
• Built Intel based Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 servers following a strict build process.
• Collected server evidence to ensure and validate build process was followed precisely.
• Built a new VMware vCenter system and transitioned all existing hosts over for management.
• Provided top level support to various extended teams to help resolve issues spanning multiple technologies.
• Wrote PowerShell, VB, and batch scripts to resolve issues and increase the build processes speed while improving reliability and accuracy.
• Built and configured numerous servers to host various healthcare applications.
• Wrote scripts to repair global file and folder security issues.
• Diagnosed and repaired DNS and AD issues.

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Technical Specialist

• Developed web based reporting application to facilitate the creation of custom reports by end users. Provided dynamic access to various data sources. Utilized various technologies, such as C#.NET, ADO.Net, Data Entities, MSSQL, Oracle, Web Services, XML, XSLT, multithreading, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax, and CSS.
• Wrote Microsoft Word and Excel toolbar plug-ins using VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office).
• Developed VBA SQL applications to automate Excel worksheet and pivot table generation
• Developed .Net application to automate Visio diagram creation from backend databases.
• Developed multithreaded applications providing fast data retrieval from various hardware devices.
• Wrote technical documentation detailing the uses and implementation architecture of VMware and Citrix.
• Reviewed and advised teams on technical solution diagrams.
• Created Visio templates used for architecture design diagrams.
• Generated hardware inventory and capacity planning reports from SAP hosted data.
• Worked with application teams to gather requirements based on application criticality designation.
• Worked with outsourcing partners to provided infrastructure and application data.