TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• VMware Workstation Server, ESXi 4.x and 5.x, vSphere 4.x, 5.x, vCenter 4.x, 5.x.
• SAN Administration with EMC Clariion CX - 10 and Compaq RA-4100 array via Fibre Channel, NetApp FAS2040 with NFS, HP AIO 1200 and 18 00 running Windows Storage Server for iSCSI.
• Installation, configuration and support for Windows, Linux and Solaris Operating systems.
• Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft FrontPage, UltraBac (Backup Software), PCAnywhere, Ghost Server, Altiris, Acronis, Backup Exec 2010 and 2012, Veeam backup.
• Cisco Catalyst 2900, 2950-48, 3550, 3750, 4500, 6500 Switches and Cisco 800, 1600, 1750, 2600 Routers, Linksys and SonicWALL Routers/Firewalls, Citrix XenApp and Presentation Server.
• Cisco Load Balancers CSS 11501, 11503, 11506, CSM.
• F5 Big IP LTM v 10.x, 11.x
• MySQL, PostgreSQL 8.3, MS SQL 2000, 2005 and 2008, 2012.
• Understanding and some knowledge such as installation, configuration and troubleshooting of Reuters applications such as Reuters 3000 Xtra Suite 4.5 and 5.0, Reuters Station 8.2, Reuters Plus 6.09, Reuters Messaging and Dealing 3000. RMDS (Reuters Market Data Systems), Triarch Network and DecNet.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Miami, FL

IT Solution provider

Responsibilities:

• Provide IT consulting for various clients on contract basis.
• Deployment administration and maintenance of SAN and NAS solutions.
• Deployment, administration and maintenance of Windows and Linux based servers.
• Deployment of scripts in bash and/or PowerShell to accomplish deployment or maintenance tasks.
• Deployment administration and maintenance of Networking devices such as Cisco Switches and Routers.
• Deployment, administration and maintenance of products such as MS SQL, MS Exchange, IIS, Active Directory, Apache, MySQL.
• Deployment, administration and maintenance of VMware products such as VCenter, VSphere and ESXi Hypervisor.
• Monitoring and Troubleshooting with tools like Opsview and Nagios.

Confidential, Miami, FL

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administration and Maintenance of Netapp Storage devices in multiple locations.
• Administration and Maintenance local hardware in Miami and Doral Datacenters, Netapp FAS 8040 filers running 8.3.1 (Performed Upgrade from 8.2.1) and 1610 Netapp Cluster Switches.
• Standarized volume and aggreagates utilization and autogrow policies.
• Designed, installed configured and perform maintenance and administration of netapp monitoring tools such as OnCommand Unified Manager, 5.2, 6.2, 6.3. OnCOmmand Performance Manager 1.1 and 2.0, OnCOmmand WorkFLow Automator 3.0 and 3.,1.
• Administration and Maintenance of Windows and Linux Servers used for managing and monitoring Netapp Devices.
• Perform site to site data migrations.
• Developed Powershell scripts to find missing acl on shared migrated folders.
• Scripted some of the day to day tasks on creating home directories for users with bash.
• Responsible for upgrades of Operating systems and firmware of all systems managed.
• Train and Mentor less senior staff.

Confidential, Miami, FL

Senior Systems/Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administration and maintenance of Quest Migration Manager Tool for the Confidential domain and new acquisitions.
• Perform site migrations (Users, Mailboxes, and Computers) from acquired domain to the Confidential domain.
• Ensure users from the acquired domain have correct permissions and profiles once migrated.
• Ensure mail sync is correct between the acquired domain and the Confidential domain, export/import user’s mailbox manually if needed after a user’s migration.
• Administration of Active Directory and Exchange Infrastructure. Creation of public folders, distribution groups and dynamic distribution groups as needed.
• Prepare virtual servers hosts with VMware ESXi 5.5 with any VMs needed for new offices migrated.
• Configure Cisco 2900 routers, Catalyst 2960 switches and Aironet WAPs to send to each site being migrated.
• Assign network blocks to offices that are being migrated.
• Add new devices onto Solarwinds Orion infrastructure for monitoring.

Confidential, Miami, FL

Sr. Systems/Network Engineer Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage of all IT infrastructure 24/7 availability, onsite and offsite, Including storage, network and security devices, printers, scanners, and servers.
• Ensure software, firmware and security patches are updated on the IT infrastructure.
• Management of Active Directory Servers, Exchange 2010 Server, file servers, SQL Servers, IIS and SharePoint Servers, and Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains.
• Designed, installed, configured and performed maintenance and administration of all VMware ESXi 5.5 Hosts, Implemented virtualization on the IT Infrastructure.
• Implemented SUSE Linux virtual server to act as monitoring systems.
• Implemented Nagios Monitoring system to keep active 24/7 health checks on all IT devices.
• Redesigned the network standardizing hostnames, IP addresses ranges, etc.
• Redesigned the Help Desk Ticket process to reduce the number of tickets by 50% per month.
• Manage external IT vendors, software licenses and cloud - based services like Exchange Online Protection in office 365.
• Manage backup procedures with Acronis Backup and Recovery and Symantec Backup Exec.
• Manage three staff members including a Jr. Systems Administrator/Helpdesk, overseas IT staff located in South America and a Microsoft Dynamics Developer.
• Created a powershell script to show me reports of Exchange User large mailboxes.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administration and maintenance of all VMware infrastructure, onsite and offsite Infrastructure.
• Administration and maintenance of all Windows 2003/2008 Servers in NYC and London. Including standalone servers and clusters.
• Administration of Active Directory Servers, Exchange 2003 Servers, file servers, SQL Servers, IIS Web Servers.
• Ensure all servers have latest software, firmware and security patches.
• Administration of Citrix XenApp 6.5 Servers.
• Implemented Altiris Deployment Solution to deploy and manage HP Thin Clients and Sao Pablo, clients connect to the Citrix XenApp farm.
• Manage all hardware and resources availability, Including EMC Clariion SAN and all HP Servers and Blade Centers chassis (C3000- C7000).
• Administration of BlueCoat Firewall farm.
• Mentored Jr. Systems Administrator.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Systems/Network Engineer Lead

Responsibilities:

• Designed, installed, configured and performed maintenance and administration of all Microsoft Windows Servers ( 2000-2003-2008-2012), including standalone servers and clusters. With products such as MS SQL, IIS, LYNC, OCS, LCS, SharePoint, WSUS, Active Directory, Exchange.
• Designed, installed, configured and performed maintenance and administration of all Suse, Red Hat and Solaris Servers, including standalone servers and clusters. With products such as MySQL, Apache, Corosync, OpenAIS, Pacemaker, Heartbeat, OpenFire deployment via KickStart Server. Package management and deployment via Puppet and Chef.
• Designed, installed, configured and performed maintenance and administration of all VMware ESXi with vSphere 4 and 5 Server, workstation servers and clusters. Designed share storage and network for vMotion ESXi Servers. Create all VM templates and base VM images to use in all virtual environments.
• Implemented upgrade plan from vCenter 4 to 5.
• Administration of Citrix Presentation server 4.5 to manage tools for connectivity to firewall farms and tools to connect to test beds.
• Designed, installed, configured and performed administration of NAS and SAN Storage devices. EMC Clariion CX3-10 running via FC and I-SCSI, NetApp FAS2040 via NFS, HP X1800 and HP AiO 1200 running Windows Storage Server MS I-SCSI.
• Created and maintain scripts in Perl and VMware CLI for log rotation, old backup deletion and VM’s deployment.
• Implemented Reuters Messaging Disaster Recovery Site. Completed proofs of concepts, design, and documentation, worked closely with the architecture team and development team to implement the design on all of Reuters Messaging environments (Development, QA, Pre-Production and Production). Intersite firewall configurations, Replicated Active Directory, proprietary applications, SQL Databases. Involved in all the hardware and software ordering to build the Disaster Recovery environments.
• Managed all hardware and resources availability in the NYC datacenter. Work with development and testing teams to coordinate environments and resources usage.
• Manage purchases and quotes with hardware vendors for upgrades and improvements of the NYC and Bangkok Datacenters.
• Coordinate with external teams and stakeholders all NYC datacenter activities.
• Responsible of keeping all servers and networking devices in the NYC datacenter with latest software, firmware and security patches.
• Designed, installed, configured and performed maintenance and administration of all networking devices including switches, routers, load balancers, fibre channel switches and hubs. Cisco Catalyst 40 00 and 65 00, Cisco Routers 2600, Cisco Content Switch Services CSS 11 501 and 11 503, Alteon 180 and 18 0e Load Balancers, Cisco 6500 CSM Content Switch Module for load balancing, F5 Big IP LTM.
• Designed, installed, configured and performed maintenance and administration of all internal and external facing firewalls, Checkpoint Secure Platform NG45, NG55 and NG65.
• Designed, installed, configured and performed maintenance and administration of Server Imaging Processes for all servers using GSS 2.0.
• Designed, Installed, configured and performed maintenance and administration for SharePoint, Jira and Confluence products.
• Managed external vendors for hardware and software purchases with yearly and project based budget.
• Manage and mentor Jr. Systems/Network Engineers.
• Created scripts in VMWare CLI with Powershell to deploy multiple virtual machines.

Web Application Support Administrator and Network Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration and maintenance of LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) environment servers. Using Fedora and Red Hat AS 4.
• Administration of Access Control List of customer’s domains and users for the Mars application.
• Worked with infrastructure and architecture team designing hardware environment.
• Designed and developed Security Policies on the ECF environment servers.
• Designed and developed scripts with shell scripting for daily backups of home directories, web servers and databases on all servers.
• Designed and developed antivirus scanning solution for file uploading in PHP. Also determinate which files could be uploaded by the application, and which files presented a hazard to our servers.
• Designed and developed Mars Mail System using Linux environment with Postfix, SpamAssassin, AMaViS and ClamAV as a mail system with antivirus checking and spam filtering.
• Supported and helped contributors of the Mars Project at the Help Desk Support level.
• Supported and helped the QA Team, writing and developing test cases and scripts.
• Developed and wrote regression test scripts to give to the testing team to test the application’s monthly releases. Supported testing processes, help and support for the testing team.
• Developed the process on how the monthly releases were put in place on the servers, after the development team delivered the monthly source codes in PHP.
• Worked Closely with Product Managers to set up demos for customers, acting as pre-sales engineer.

Technical Support and Systems Administrator Assistant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Migration from servers with Windows 2000 to 2003 on all services such as File Server, Backup Server, DNS, DHCP, Wins, Web Server, Ghost 7.5 and Ghost 8.3.
• Keep Ghost Server up to date. Update Ghost Images with patches and updates. Including Microsoft and Reuters’ products hot fixes, updates and patches.
• Networking administration, Cisco Routers, Cisco Switches.
• Weekly backups with UltraBac Enterprise Edition.
• Reuter’s products installation on servers and workstations.
• Help Desk Support to Confidential Trainers.
• Act as technical resource for internal trainers, consultant resources, and program sponsors to ensure smooth running events.
• Assist trainers with program format conversions.
• Provide on-call support to Trainers who need assistance or system issues troubleshooting during standard course delivery hours.
• Coordinate plans, activities, and system setup/support/tear-down schedules with trainers, management, and training administration.
• Set-up, troubleshoot and maintain workstations for classes and staff users of all training facilities (perform H/W and S/W troubleshooting & upgrades).
• Provide support and guidance to technical training support staff for all core-training facilities to ensure operational efficiency.
• Assist and back-up training staff in the setup and support of systems for classes delivered in other Reuters training facilities.
• Keep training rooms up-to-date with class calendar.
• Sending Ghost Images depending on the class on schedule.
• Coordinate inventory and warranties for Reuters Training computers.

Confidential, Staten Island, NY

Network Technician Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed groups of network technicians to resolve day-to-day data center projects such as installation of new server equipment, removals of decommissioned server equipment, or swaps of live server equipment.
• Provided infrastructure connectivity between frames and cabinets using Category 3, 5e, 6 UTP cable, coaxial cable, multi-mode and single -mode 12 and 24 strands, UTP cable termination, punch down patch panels, coaxial BNC termination.
• Patching circuits between network interconnectivity devices and servers from the cabinet though the frames, copper and fiber connections.
• Installation of network devices such as Cisco Switches, Cisco Routers, KVM Switches, etc.
• Managed connections and equipment removals with teams of 20 - 40 technicians for the data center.
• Managed trace connections between servers and network connectivity devices from end-to-end.

Confidential, Oceanside, NY

IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Desktop and server support (Mac’s and PC’s via phone, remotely, off-site, onsite).
• Hardware and software support.
• Installation and configuration of home LAN’s and/or WLAN’s and small business LAN’s and/or WLAN’s. Networking and structured cabling and wiring in-home and small business.
• Installation of Linux, Windows 2000 and 2003 Servers, with services such as DHCP, DNS, fax servers.
• Acted as sales engineer in multiple occasions to increase company revenue.