Senior Engineer Resume
SUMMARY:
- Over twenty years of experience designing, building, and administrating computer networks and systems with as many as 5000 users and 800 servers.
- Over fifteen years of Microsoft administration experience with both single, and multi - domain environments.
- Over ten years of Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, and some e-mail administration.
- I have five years of experience configuring Cisco routers, switches, and three years working with VMware, Hyper-V, and Citrix.
- I also have almost six years in a supervisory or lead capacity.
- I’m a US Army veteran, with an excellent work ethic, attitude, and personality who thrives on challenges and is always ready to learn new technologies.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Hardware: Exabyte Magnum 224 Tape Library, Dell 4500, 1500, 6500, 650F, 2850; Network Appliance 740 & FAS2040; Cisco 3600R, 7200R, 6500SW, 2950SW; HP DL 380 G5, HP MSA30
Software: Windows 2012, 2008, 2003, 2000, XP, Win7, TCPIP, DNS, DHCP, MS Office; Backup Exec & NetBackup, HP Open View; Altiris, Citrix Presentation Server, VMWare Workstation & ESXi Server, VMware Infrastructure & vSphere, Net IQ, SCOM, SolarWinds, WSUS, Remedy, McAfee
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential
Senior Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Detected and corrected Active Directory (AD) replication issues researched raising the AD domain functional level, and recycle bin activation.
- I reclaimed disk storage space by archiving and removing old user directories.
- I replaced IIS web site and computer certificates, updated DNS, DHCP settings, and researched VMWare settings and issues.
Confidential
Systems Administrator
Responsibilities:
- I oversaw fifty Microsoft 2003, 2008, and 2012 servers, approximately 1300 users over 13 sites the US and Europe.
- My responsibilities included data backups (Symantec, HP LiveVault Cloud), Active Directory administration and health, Group Policy, WSUS, and VPN Tunnels (Cisco ASA 5510, ASA5505, and Sonic Wall VPN Appliance).
- I built and upgraded virtual servers (VMWare and Microsoft) on HP and Dell platforms.
- I also installed and configured new applications, document network resources, and resolved top level systems based tickets. My duties included configuration of storage devices such as HP MSA and NETAPP to included aggr, vols, qtrees, & shares.
Confidential
Systems Engineer
Responsibilities:
- I corrected user accounts, setup users into the proper groups in AD and Floware for application menus.
- I also performed password resets, corrected scanner errors, and monitored the Windows Server 2003 systems for bottle necks, performance, and failures.
- I also performed SQL queries, backups (Netbackup), load system and application patches, and created trouble ticket for hardware malfunctions.
Confidential
Internet Software Systems Engineer
Responsibilities:
- I verified Enterprise Ticket Management System (ETMS) trouble ticket from customers and alerts from the SCOM server on everything from Active Directory, DNS, Exchange, SQL, VMware, IIS, and Windows 2008, 2003 and 2000 Servers.
- I analyzed problems, investigated causation, documented and recommend solutions, and took steps toward resolution.
- My duties also included scheduled work installing patches, software, and upgrades during non-production hours manually, and also using the SCCM server. We also checked customer data backups of to ensure the Netbackup ran correctly while troubleshooting errors, and re-running failed backups if needed.
Confidential
Security Engineer
Responsibilities:
- I ran DISA PGD scans on Windows 2000 and 2003 servers identifying vulnerabilities within the operating system and any loaded applications.
- I ensured the perceived vulnerabilities were valid and not false positives, researched unknown vulnerabilities that the scans could not detect on it’s own, then mitigated any validated vulnerability by either installing patches, editing group policy, editing the registry, or changing permissions and rights.