SUMMARY:

• Highly motivated Senior Technology Professional offering a unique array of skills and experience in Systems Engineering, with an expertise in Cloud migrations, Virtualization automation and Storage.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Microsoft Windows Server NT/ 95/98/2003/2008/2012/2016
• Microsoft Office
• Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7
• 8
• 10 Linux
• Unix
• VTC (Tandberg
• PolyCom
• Sony
• Aethra) Cisco PIX
• Juniper's Netscreen and Tipping Point devices
• BES 4.0/5.1
• HP
• DELL
• SUN servers
• IIS 5.0/6.0 web server
• FTP
• VMware ESX 2.0 - Vsphere 6.5
• EMC SAN
• NetApp NAS/SAN
• Blue Coat web proxy
• Juniper Netscreen SSG 550 Firewalls
• Brocade fiber switches
• Cisco MDS 9513 San switches
• Source Fire 3D
• Cisco IPS 4210
• Cisco Mars
• Cisco Security Manager
• Cisco switch 2948/2950/3550/4000/6509/13
• Cisco Router 2811/4700/7609
• Core Impact
• Cisco wireless 4402/2515 controller
• F5 Load balancer
• Cisco NAC
• Cisco ASA 5510
• Fluke VPM/APA/NFM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, DC

Sr. Network Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented a structured design process for creating hybrid cloud architectures to include on-premise resources, networks, security, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DaaS and XaaS architectures; leading the architects to iterate through design steps and tasks to identify dependencies and resolving design conflicts
• Implemented Amazon Web Services with High-Availability, Fault Tolerance, Scalability, Database Concepts by utilizing AWS EC2, EBS, S3, Glacier, Simple DB, Amazon RDS, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon SQS, IAM, and EMR plus other services
• Created network routes between different regions with AWS Route 53
• Configured S3 buckets with various life cycle policies to archive the infrequently accessed data to storage classes based on requirement
• Installed Workstation, Bootstrapped Nodes, wrote Recipes, and Cookbooks and uploaded them to Chef-server and managed AWS for EC2/S3 & ELB with Chef Cookbooks
• Used IAM to create network security groups (NSGs) to control inbound and outbound access to network interfaces (NICs), VMs and subnets
• Implemented high availability with Azure Classic and Azure Resource Manager deployment models
• Designed and configured Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, Azure network settings, DHCP address blocks, DNS settings, security policies and routing
• Utilized ASR (Azure Site Recovery), PowerShell and MVMC (Microsoft Virtual Machine Convertor) for on-premise to cloud migrations
• Monitored and analyzed security events and identify trends, attacks, and potential threats with ASA 5500-X and ASA 5585-X Series
• Installed and configured Palo Alto’s VM-50 to VM-700, PA-5000/PA-3000 series
• Identify malicious or anomalous activity based on event data from Palo Alto’s M-100 to M-500
• Enterprise system monitoring using Nagios wrote many custom checkpoints and created documentation.

Virtualization Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the engineering of various aspects of both physical and cloud hosted data center infrastructures, which included network, compute, storage, platform and middle-ware
• Lead detailed infrastructure design of large and complex internal projects collaborating with IT stakeholders, service owners and partners
• Created and maintain technical standards, procedures and documentation in partnership with services partners as needed
• Implemented Amazon Web Services with High-Availability, Fault Tolerance, Scalability, Database Concepts by utilizing AWS EC2, EBS, S3, Glacier, Simple DB, Amazon RDS, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon SQS, IAM, and EMR plus other services
• Transitioned AWS infrastructure from EC2-Classic to VPC, overhauled AWS accounts and groups to follow latest security best practices (IAM), reduced AWS costs by over 30% by utilizing Life Cycle Management
• Architect a management POD that runs on vSphere 6.5 and also leveraged VMware NSX for micro segmentation purposes and outside service mapping.
• Networking within the management POD powered by NSX in full VXLAN backing mode. Security is provided by NSX Distributed firewall; natively for E-W traffic and through Palo Alto integration for N-S traffic
• Configured ingress and egress traffic with Arista 7050S as service leafs and Arista 7280QR as spine switches
• Architecture, procurement, build, and administration of 6248 series Cisco Unified Computing System’s (UCS) for audio/video encoding farms
• Design a vSAN environment composed of Lenovo 3550 servers that were in a vSAN datastore
• RAID 6 erasure coding with several cache and capacity disks
• Architecture, design, install, configured VMware ESXi, host within VI3, vSphere 4,vSphere 5 and vSphere 6.5 environments
• ESX management vSphere: Installation, Network design and configuration, HA, DPM and DRS cluster configurations, Fibre Channel SAN storage technologies, Virtual Center management, Patch management using Update Manager,
• Installation of ESX server and creation of VMs and install different guest OS Linux and Windows
• Installation of PSC appliances (PSCA) with High availability configuration of multiple PSCA and F5 load balancer
• Installation of vCenter Server appliances (VCSA) with (HA) Basic or Advance cluster solutions
• Configured Clusters for the ESXi hosts and created Anti-Affinity rules in the DRS to either keep the VMs together or separate them on ESXi hosts.
• Updating ESX host’s using VMware Update manager.
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines.
• P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter.
• Working on VMware clustering like HA and DRS clusters using VC.
• Working on Migration concepts like VMotion and cold migration, Storage VMotion
• Creating Virtual Distributed switches and Standard Switches
• Add some basic vRealize post-provisioning workflows using static parameters, that can perform actions (i.e. installing and or executing additional software or configurations) on the provisioned VM
• Implemented and administered Windows Server, IIS, SharePoint and SQL Server.
• Configured and documented Microsoft Failover Clustering for SQL Servers using physical disk and RDM’s
• Provision and Administer Hyper-V hosts, Guest OS with SCVMM 2012 SP1
• Implemented WSUS and Shavlik Pro for managing patches for windows servers
• Used NFS, CIFS, VMFS, FCoE, FC and iSCSI protocols for multi-vendor SAN and NAS arrays

System Architect

Responsibilities:

• In depth experience with Cloud methodologies (IAAS, MAAS, PAAS, SAAS, XAAS) automation, orchestration, cost frameworks, trends and industry-leading private/public/hybrid cloud vendor offerings
• Design and implementation experience with Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Simple DB, Amazon RDS, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon SQS, and other services of the AWS family
• Implemented AWS High-Availability, Fault Tolerance, Scalability, Database Concepts, System and software architecture, Security, IT Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Internet technologies and interoperability
• Used AWS Route53 for web based applications and websites
• AWS monitoring with CloudWatch
• Architecture, design, install, configured VMware vRealize suite, ESXi, host within VI3, vSphere 4,vSphere 5 and vSphere 6 environments
• Design Disaster Recovery solution based VMware Site Recovery Manager
• ESX management vSphere: Installation, Network design and configuration, HA, DPM and DRS cluster configurations, Fibre Channel SAN storage technologies, Virtual Center management, Patch management using Update Manager
• Installation of ESX server and creation of VMs and install different guest OS
• Installation of VC server and Installing Virtual center components
• Updating ESX host’s using VMware Update manager
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates
• P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter
• Working on VMware clustering like HA and DRS clusters using VC
• Working on Migration concepts like VMotion and cold migration, Storage VMotion
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates
• Creating Virtual Distributed switches and Standard Switches
• Add basic vRA\ vRO post-provisioning workflows using static parameters, that can perform actions (i.e. installing and or executing additional software or configurations) on the provisioned VM
• Implemented and administered Windows Server, IIS, SharePoint, SQL Server
• Managed technical services of Windows network infrastructure, including Active Directory, Group Policy, SCCM and SMS
• Shavlik HFNetChkPro and Microsoft’s WSUS were used also
• Provision and Administer Hyper-V hosts, Guest OS with SCVMM 2012 SP1
• Configured nodes and network devices to a F5 and NetScaler load balancers also CAG appliance
• +15 years designing, implementing, migrating, supporting and administering Citrix (XP, 3.0, 4.0, 4.5, 5.0, 6.0), Access Gateway, Password Manager, Provisioning Server, Edgesight) and Terminal Servers. Migrate farms from Citrix Metaframe XP and Citrix Presentation Server 4.x to Citrix XenApp 5.0 and 6.0
• Design and implementation experience with Amazon Services such as EC2 and S3buckets
• Experience in release engineering with Cloud Foundry and BOSH in large scale distributed services
• Automate administrative tasks with Python
• Experience in Implementation of SAN and NAS environments using FC, FCoE, iSCSI Protocols and NFS and CIFS Protocols on EMC VNX,VNX2 and CLARIION, VMAX systems
• Configuration of Cisco Nexus 2k, 4k, 5k and 7k switches
• Configured Virtual SANs (VSANs), basic and enhanced zoning, Node Port Virtualization (NPV), Node Port Identifier Virtualization (NPIV), Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), Fiber-channel (FC) and multihop FCoE on Cisco Nexus 5548
• Deploy and configured and maintained Cisco 3750X IP Services switch
• Installed, Configured and maintained Cisco Nexus 7004 datacenter core routers
• Installed, Configured and maintained Cisco Nexus 2248 Fabric Extenders
• Installed, Configured and maintained Cisco B200 M3 blade servers
• Deploy and configured Cisco C200 Rackmount servers
• Configuration of EMC DCA and VCE solutions.
• Automate administrative tasks with Python and Perl
• Build and deploy new services using Chef
• Monitor and tune production MySQL servers
• Monitor and tune production Green Plum clusters
• Installation and configuration of AIX, Solaris and other Linux distros
• Administration of RHEL 5,6,7 and Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.4 which includes installation, testing, tuning, upgrading and loading patches, troubleshooting server issues
• Developed the scripts to push patches, files and maintain configuration drift through the Puppet tool
• Deployed advanced monitoring (using SNMP, Pivotal Tracker, Nagios and Zenoss, Zabbix) to production, development, and QA environments to ensure maximum uptime and availability

System Architect /IT Security Liaison Officer

Responsibilities:

• Security Incident handling, SIEM (ESEM) using RSA Envision/ArcSight products
• Experience in Network Intrusion detection/Intrusion Prevention System and Firewalls
• Experience in Implementing & managing Symantec Data Loss Prevention
• Deployment of NAC - Network Access Control System. Knowledge in Proxy
• Possess in depth expertise in analysis, implementation, troubleshooting and documentation
• Experience with regulatory compliance audits such as FIPS, PCI, SOX, ISO 17799
• Followed the Security guidelines of HIPAA /PCI/IEEE/NIST/ DISA STIGs and STAGs
• Configured and managed Barracuda web filter, Nessus, Qualys scanner
• Deployed advanced monitoring (using SNMP, Remedy, Heat, Nagios and Spiceworks) to production, development, and QA environments to ensure maximum uptime and availability
• Architecture, design, install, configure VMware ESXi, host within VI3, vSphere 4,vSphere 5 and vSphere 6 environments with vRealize.
• Design and manage VCenter and VMware View VDI network of over 50 thin client nodes
• Design Disaster Recovery solution based VMware Site Recovery Manager
• ESX management vSphere: Installation, Network design and configuration, HA, DPM and DRS cluster configurations, Fibre Channel SAN storage technologies, Virtual Center management, Patch management using Update Manager
• Experience in advanced VMWare technologies like Storage VMotion
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows NT, 2000, 2003, 2008, and 2012 as well as Linux servers from VMware, Hyper-V, Xen and legacy hardware using VMware Converter, Platespin and Xosoft
• Knowledge on ADFS Claim rules, Multiple Domain Federation of ADFS with Office 365 cloud and Dir. Synchronizations
• Ability to write scripts (e.g. PowerShell)
• Hands on experience with tier 1 storage vendors (NetApp, DELL,)
• Configured and documented MSCS clustering for SQL Servers using physical disk and RDM’s
• Configuring User Profiles, Creating local and Global Groups, Managing Account and Domain Controllers
• Sharing Folders, Planning and Assigning NTFS Permissions
• Implementing Windows Terminal Services by Installing Remote Desktop Services
• Detailed design and implementation of SCCM 2012 R2
• R Windows 7, Windows 8.1 via SCCM using OSD/MDT
• Package Creation and Distribution via SMS / SCCM 2012

Virtualization Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architecture, design, install, configure VMware ESX, ESXi, within VI3, vSphere 4 and vSphere 5 environments with Virtual Center management, Lab Manager, vCloud Director, VCAC, VCO
• Consolidated Backup, DRS, HA, DPM, vMotion Administrated client environment consisting of 1000+ Esxi hosts and 10000+ Virtual Machines
• Experience with VMware Data Recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), vCenter Operations Manager, Horizon Workspace, Horizon Mirage, ThinApp and VMware View desktop virtualization infrastructure (VDI)
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows NT, 2000, 2003, 2008, and 2012 as well as Linux servers from VMware, Hyper-V, Xen and legacy hardware using VMware Converter, Platespin and Double take
• Experience with architecture, implementation and administration of IBM XIV storage arrays
• Hands on experience in iSCSI, NFS, and FC, FCOE, switching, and zoning
• Customize layer 2 and layer 3 networking between VMware, networking components and storage for high availability and maximum performance
• Configuration of Cisco MDS 9506, 9513 Cisco Nexus 2k, 5k and 7k switches
• Develops strategies to manage the frequency of appropriate support of upgrade packages, patches (VUM)
• Configured firewalls at application level using VShield
• Configured and documented MSCS clustering for SQL Servers using physical disk and RDM’s
• Experience with 3rd party solutions in VMware environments including Veeam, Zerto, EMC Replication Manager, Symantec, TrendMicro
• Installed, configured & administered Windows 2008 R2 SP1 Enterprise Server. Creating User Accounts
• Knowledge on ADFS Claim rules, Multiple Domain Federation of ADFS with Office 365 cloud and Dir. Synchronizations
• Configuring User Profiles, Creating local and Global Groups, Managing Account and Domain Controllers
• Created/updated and pushed domain group policy objects (GPO’s)
• Used PowerShell, vSphere CLI, Power GUI, vSphere power CLI and AutoIT for scripting
• Sharing Folders, Planning and Assigning NTFS Permissions. Implementing Windows Terminal Services by Installing Remote Desktop Services, Terminal services Clients &Connecting to Terminal Servers
• Bridged WAN links to DC's and forced replication in Active Directory.
• Created/managed scopes and leases on DHCP servers and Infoblox appliance
• Created new DNS records and subnets/cleared cache memory on DNS servers
• Used WSUS, BigFix, and Patchlink to deploy patches to Servers/Workstations
• Responsible for hardware integration of I/O modules (NICs, HBAs, VICs, CNAs)
• Configuration of IP KVM’s and outer band management cards (iLo, CIMC, Drac, iRMC, RSA)
• Followed the Security guidelines of PCI/IEEE/NIST/HIPAA/ DISA STIGs and STAGs

Wintel Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Manage and configured four Data Centers running VMware Vsphere 4.x, 5.x enterprise network of 53 ESXi servers and over 1000 VM's
• Configured and manage Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 Hyper V servers and VM’s
• Installed, configured & administered Windows 2008 R2 SP1 Enterprise Server. Creating User Accounts
• Configuring User Profiles, Creating local and Global Groups, Managing Account and Domain Controllers
• Sharing Folders, Planning and Assigning NTFS Permissions
• Implementing Windows Terminal Services by Installing Remote Desktop Services
• Monitored Active Directory replication with Replmon
• Bridged WAN links to DC's and forced replication in Active Directory
• Created/managed scopes and leases on DHCP servers
• Created/updated and pushed group policies
• Created new DNS records and subnets/cleared cache memory on DNS servers
• Troubleshot connectivity problems on the LAN/WAN
• Managed configured thresholds and application pools on IIS 5.0/6.0 web servers
• Performed SQL backups and restores on databases and added permissions
• Created and configured clusters using MS cluster administration and Fujitsu Prime Cluster
• Configured and created clusters using Symantec Storage Foundation / VERITAS Cluster
• Used WSUS to deploy patches to Servers/Workstations
• Manage network operating systems such as Linux, UNIX, and MAC environments
• Followed the Security guidelines of IEEE/NIST/HIPAA
• Used HP Insight Manager and Open View to monitor hardware problems on the serve
• Managed user's workstations using MacAfee endpoint protection (ePO)
• Deploy and manage Fujitsu, DELL, Cisco UCS, HP and IBM rack mount and blade servers
• Configuration of IP KVM’s and outer band management cards (iLo, CIMC, Drac, iRMC, RSA)
• Responsible for the installation, configuration, migration of NetApp FAS3020C Filers
• Configured and manage NetApp (FAS2200 - FAS6200) and V-Series (V3220 - V6290) Data Ontap 8.x- 7 mode and C mode providing fault tolerance with NetApp Snapmirror, Sanpshots and Snapmanager

Senior Platform Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Virtustream is the leading Enterprise Class Cloud solution provider. xStream™ is Virtustream's Enterprise Class Cloud solution allowing both mission-critical legacy and web-scale applications to run in the cloud—whether Hosted, Managed or Hybrid
• Responsible for architecture, design, engineering and management of large scale, multi-site, multi-tenant enterprise class cloud platform based state-of-the-art virtualization, server and storage technologies
• Expertise in design and development of self-service Cloud portals
• Experience deploying & supporting IAAS, MAAS, PAAS, SAAS and SAP\HANA in a cloud environment
• Develop system management, monitoring and operations strategy for virtualization and servers to maximize uptime and meet agreed upon SLAs
• Manage cloud platform performance and capacity, mine data from various sources, formulate analysis and provide scalability recommendations to resolve any performance and capacity issues
• Provide platform update management strategy leadership to the platform operations teams and assist in complex system and patch updates
• Manage and configured VMware Vsphere 4.x and Vsphere 5.x enterprise network over 400 ESXi servers and over 5,000 VM's
• Configured vCenter Linked Mode for London, Saudi Arabia, Virginia and California data centers
• Design and implementation experience with VMware, vCloud suite of products
• Design and manage VCenter and VMware View VDI network of over 600 thin client nodes.
• Design Disaster Recovery solution based VMware Site Recovery Manager
• ESX management vSphere: Installation, Network design and configuration, HA, DPM and DRS cluster configurations, Fibre Channel SAN storage technologies, Virtual Center management, Patch management using Update Manager, P2V, V2P and V2V migrations using VMware Converter Enterprise
• Experience in advanced VMWare technologies like Storage VMotion
• Manage and deployed Cisco UCS (C260-C460) and IBM (3650-3690) servers
• Responsible for hardware integration of I/O modules (NICs, HBAs, VICs), motherboards, and enclosure management subsystem components including preliminary vendor investigation, qualification, manufacturing readiness, debug, system/software integration, and failure analysis
• Ability to write scripts (e.g. PowerShell)
• Hands on experience with tier 1 storage vendors (NetApp, DELL,)
• Configured and manage NetApp (FAS2200 - FAS6200) and V-Series (V3220 - V6290) Data Ontap 8.x- 7 mode and C mode providing fault tolerance with NetApp Snapmirror, Sanpshots and Snapmanager
• Compellent SAN experience in administering, creating volumes, replication and replays
• Recognized as a Subject Matter Expert in FCoE, FC, NFS, CIFS, iSCSI protocols
• Configure and managed Cisco Nexus 7k, 5k, 2k switches set trunk ports, switch ports and VLANS
• Lead design, deployment, and maintenance of a broad range of Microsoft technologies including: Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008, 2008 R2; Exchange Server 2003 & 2007; SharePoint Server 2003, 2007, 2010; Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004, 2006; SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008; Windows Server Update Services (WSUS); DNS; WINS; DHCP; Active Directory; Group Policy Design and Implementation; IIS; and Terminal Services Gateway, Remote Desktop Services.
• Deployment of Unix and Linux systems and services (Solaris, Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, CentOS)
• Deployed advanced monitoring (using SNMP, Nimsoft, Remedy, Heat, Nagios and Zenoss) to production, development, and QA environments to ensure maximum uptime and availability

Senior\Lead Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Manage and configured VMware Vsphere 3.x, 4.x, 5.x enterprise network of 25 ESX, ESXi servers and over 200 VM's
• Design and manage VCenter and VMware View VDI network of over 30 thin client nodes
• Configured nodes and network devices to a F5 and NetScaler load balancers also CAG appliance
• +15 years designing, implementing, migrating, supporting and administering Citrix (XP, 3.0, 4.0, 4.5, 5.0, 6.0), Access Gateway, Password Manager, Provisioning Server, Edgesight) and Terminal Servers. Migrate farms from Citrix Metaframe XP and Citrix Presentation Server 4.x to Citrix XenApp 5.0 and 6.0
• Connected Site to Site VPN's on routers and firewalls
• Performed test on the smart jacks and DSU/CSU's
• Configured Vlans and VTP on Cisco switches
• Configured and manage Cisco UCS
• Configured Virtual Port Channel Technology
• Configured Cisco Routers using MPLS /GLBP /OSPF/BGP /EIGRP/HRSP
• Configured NAT/PAT on routers and Firewalls
• Configured sub interfaces on Cisco routers
• Configured Spanning ports/Trunk ports and Network taps on switches
• Configured MDS 9509/9513 Cisco Fiber San switches
• Installed, configured & administered Windows 2008 R2 SP1 Enterprise Server. Creating User Accounts, Configuring User Profiles, Creating local and Global Groups, Managing Account and Domain Controllers.
• Sharing Folders, Planning and Assigning NTFS Permissions. Implementing Windows Terminal Services by Installing Remote Desktop Services, Terminal services Clients &Connecting to Terminal Servers
• Monitored Active Directory replication with Spotlight on Active Directory and Replmon
• Bridged WAN links to DC's and forced replication in Active Directory
• Created/managed scopes and leases on DHCP servers
• Created/updated and pushed group policies
• Created new DNS records and subnets/cleared cache memory on DNS servers
• Troubleshot connectivity problems on the LAN/WAN
• Managed configured thresholds and application pools on IIS 5.0/6.0 web servers
• Deployed and Manage MS Exchange 5.5, 2003, 2007, 2010
• Performed mailbox migrations for over 2000 users
• Managed/monitored exchange servers using Spotlight on Exchange
• Installed and configured RIM (BES) Blackberry Exchange Servers
• Performed SQL backups and restores on databases and added permissions
• Deployed/ Configured Barracuda and Iron Mail spam appliance for monitoring spam
• Created and configured clusters using MS cluster administration
• Configured and created clusters using Symantec Storage Foundation 5.1 / VERITAS Cluster
• Monitored/managed the Brocade switches
• Managed and Configured HP EVA 3000 SAN
• Configured and Managed EMC CLARiiON CX300 NAS/SAN using Navishpere/PowerPath
• Managed and Configured NetApp 3020 NAS/SAN
• Detailed design and implementation of SCCM 2007 R2
• Installed Windows 7, Windows XP via SCCM using OSD/MDT
• Package Creation and Distribution via SMS / SCCM 2007
• Used WSUS, BigFix, and Patchlink to deploy patches to Servers/Workstations.
• Manage network operating systems such as Linux, UNIX, and MAC environments
• Followed the Security guidelines of IEEE/NIST/HIPAA
• Used HP Insight Manager and Open View to monitor hardware problems on the servers
• Monitored alerts from US Cert/Microsoft & SANS
• Managed check point firewall logs using check point tracker
• Configured/managed Site to Site VPN using IPSEC & SSL
• Managed user's workstations using Symantec endpoint protection (SEP)
• Pushed new definitions viruses to workstation/servers using Symantec Antivirus console
• Monitored and managed web sites/URL's visited by using Blue Coat web proxy web filtering
• Managed/configured rules on multiple Net screen firewalls using juniper NSM appliance
• Configure Cisco wireless controller to manage/detect AP's and wireless users
• Used Ecase/Helix FTK to probe computers for forensics evidence
• Deployed Cisco IDS/IPS & Source Fire IPS/sensors through-out the network for inline and passive mode
• Used Qualysguard/Nessus to scan routers/switches/servers/workstations and firewalls for vulnerabilities
• Used MOM/Solar Winds/What's up gold
• Installed and Configured Fluke’s VPM/APA/NFM to monitor network and collect server data
• Identified need for and managed data center expansion including procurement, implementation and rollout of new physical plant utilizing APC In-Row Cooling; APC Power Distribution (PDU); APC Symmetra UPS; APC InfraStruXure Central; NetBotz environmental monitoring modules

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configured video editing software: Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas
• Manage Video Telephone Conference codecs (Tandberg, Polycom, Sony, Aethra)
• Monitored trouble tickets using Touch Paper software application
• The System/Network administrator for my division
• Troubleshot connectivity problems on the LAN/WAN
• Managed the users and servers using Active Directory
• Assisted remote users by using Remote desktop connection
• Configured managed/unmanaged Cisco switches/routers
• Deployed/configured/managed Cisco IDS's
• Reimaged configured and setup new PC's and servers by using Acronis
• Managed/monitored Exchange 5.5 /2000 servers
• Restored & backed up files and data to tapes using VERITAS NET Backup
• Performed NDMP backups to Adic pathlight (VTL) and NetApp near store SANS
• Handled hardware and printer problems for Dell and other venders
• Performed server tests using NetDiag/DCDiag
• Supervised 3 lower level staff members
• A member of the Infrastructure team.
• Configured sub interfaces on Cisco routers
• Implemented, maintained, and monitor virus protection using Symantec antivirus
• Monitored the network traffic on the firewall
• Worked in a Data center environment using HP CIM monitoring tool
• Assisted remote access users in the Cisco VPN concentrator
• Patched & performed maintenance on 200 File/ Print windows 2003 and 2008 servers
• Configured and setup blackberries
• Security Manager for my division

Computer Specialist (LAN/Technician)

Responsibilities:

• Configured routers, switches and servers.
• Monitored the network for bottleneck and performance logs and alerts using SNMP.
• Installed and configured Active directory using DCPROMO
• Installed and configured DNS, DHCP, WINS, servers
• Deployed Snort IDS's & updated snort rules on a Linux Platform Provided network security and monitored the firewalls/snort boxes
• Configured and assigned static and dynamic TCP/IP addresses to windows servers
• Troubleshot printer issues, replaced printer supplies, installed and configured local & network printers
• Scheduled and performed backups & recovery of loss & corrupt data
• Provided administrative support, reset passwords, modified, and created local & domain user accounts
• Provided support to users in a help desk environment
• Provided minor repair of PCs and printers
• Troubleshot LAN/WAN connectivity issues

Computer Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Architecture, design, install, configure VMware GSX server series
• Deploy and configured VMware Workstation
• SQL database/QMF/TSO/DTSO
• Maintained poise in handling problems
• Configured and Installed PC's and Laptops
• Maintained the production servers
• Installed, Configured, Managed, printers and network printer
• Responsible for creating spreadsheets
• Installations/cancellations of accounts
• Monitored the network. Generated reports and queries using Excel
• Wrote queries using
• Updated data entries via telephone and e-mail
• Created/monitored and closed tickets using the Remedy tracking system
• Configuring workstations at field sites and configured VPN access
• Provided 1St & 2nd Tier support to local Users
• Reimaged configured and setup new PC's and servers by using Symantec Ghost

IT Support Specialist (Internship) Upper

Responsibilities:

• Configured and Installed PC's and Laptops
• Maintained the production servers
• Installed, configured, managed local printers and network printers
• Installations/cancellations of accounts
• Updated data entries via telephone and e-mail
• Created/monitored and closed tickets
• Provided 1St & 2nd Tier support to local Users