SUMMARY:

To be given the intellectual freedom to collaborate and apply the knowledge and leadership gained over a 19 year career in systems engineering to strengthen and prepare the companies infrastructure to be agile and flexible to meet the demands and vision for the future.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Microsoft Exchange / / 2013 Active Directory / 2008 R2 / 2012 R2 / 2016 Microsoft SQL / 2008 R2 Windows Server / 2008 R2/ 2012 R2 / 2016 VMware 4.x/5.x Veeam Enterprise Backups ExaGrid Backup Appliance Quest Active Roles Server (ARS) DNS / DHCP / DFS / PKI Infrastructure Systems Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Systems Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) Project Management PowerShell Management Architecture / Design / Implementation / Support Azure NetIQ Directory and Resource Allocator O365

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

Active Directory Admin

Responsibilities:

• Manage and troubleshoot Tier 2 level tickets involving Active Directory, O365, MyID, NetIQ Directory and Resource Allocator and many other Enterprise Application systems.
• Manage ticket queue for Cyber Security team ensuring all tickets are resolved within the SLAs defined, and the associated resolution steps are documented and communicated to the user in a timely manner.
• Create documentation for the team to outline new policies or procedures to ensure consistency across the enterprise by having defined standards.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Lead engineer for the overhaul of the Group Policy infrastructure to consolidate and simplify the existing GPOs and settings to minimize the footprint and allow for easier management and less administrative overhead.
• In addition. the implementation of Advanced Group Policy Management to provide a more robust audit and tracking system with associated approval workflows to ensure all changes are documented and adhere to SOX compliance.
• Assist senior level engineers with operational outages that are escalated to the Tier 3 team and resolve accordingly ensuring minimal downtime to the business groups and company.
• Participate in team meetings to review open tickets and common issues to analysis potential root causes and implement the remediation steps needed to resolve the issue.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Lead Active Directory engineer responsible for the implementation and design of Group Policies (GPOs), DFS, PKI Infrastructure, Internal and External DNS infrastructure.
• Upgraded the internal 2 tier PKI infrastructure from issuing s of is SHA1 to SHA256 to adhere to the new industry standard.
• Upgraded the external DNS infrastructure from Windows 2008 R2 to Windows 2012 R2. This task was accomplished by exporting and importing all DNS namespace configurations along with re - IP the new Windows 2012 R2 servers to reflect the same IPs as the old 2008 servers for faster external name server resolution.
• Installed and designed the ExaGrid infrastructure that was used to house all backups within Cheniere. Setup cross site replication of the data after de-duplication has taken place to ensure we are able to restore data in a disaster recovery scenario.
• Adhered to Change Control policies to ensure all changes were properly documented and discussed to the Change Board.
• Automated bulk changes within Active Directory by utilizing built-in scripts along with customized scripts using the Quest ARS application.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Active Directory Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Tasked with building an Active Directory 2008 R2 lab that mirrors the production environment by utilizing VMware cloning that gathers the full configurations and settings that closely match the end user experience.
• Lead engineer for planning the rollout and migration plan for upgrading the Active Directory environment from 2008 R2 to AD 2012 R2. This also included identifying communication plans to notify key individuals from specific teams that will need to be involved to ensure no outages happen in those respective areas.
• Responsible for identifying tasks and establishing milestones as a team to ensure consistency and promote an active proactive nature.
• Key player in the company split that included key responsibilities in designing and implementing a new company forest and establishing a forest trust.
• In addition, the DFS, Group Policy, DNS, AD groups, OUs, etc. were implemented ensuring the overall change from users moving from one environment to a newly created environment minimizing downtime to the end user.
• PowerShell scripts were utilized via a catalog of scripts that were tested and have passed peer review to automate large changes in the environment.
• Created new servers based on standard VMWare templates and attached the EMC storage LUNs provided by the Storage team to the newly created virtual machines.
• Member of the advisory team that provided oversight and subject matter expertise for all infrastructure related changes. This helped to ensure all leads from each team were aware of all the major infrastructure changes which would promote peer review.

Confidential, Austin, TX

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements and provided designs that best adhered to the standards and requirements set forth.
• Developed risk assessments and corresponding remediation plans to any architectural changes proposed for the environment before approval was granted to execute.
• Expertise in managing complex projects that encompass processes, procedures, technology and application owners along with the allocation of resource time and utilization.
• Responsible for the overall analysis of the scope documents, risk profiles, and corresponding financials to help ensure the business was getting the best value for the proposed change.
• Applied expert level knowledge of the processes, technologies, and support in the business areas that communicated the need for further enhancements.

Confidential, Austin, TX

Lead Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed the role of Lead Engineer responsible for maintenance, support, design and implementation of Active Directory 2008 R2, Exchange 2010 SP2, SQL 2005/2008, SharePoint, VMware 4.1, EMC NS-120 SAN and Dell Blade Chassis
• Lead engineer/architect responsible for transitioning the current Exchange 2003 SP2 environment to Exchange 2010 SP1. The Exchange 2010 SP1 environment consists of a dispersed DAG between 2 data centers with 3 mailboxes servers. Each of the data centers contained a CAS and HUB server along with another datacenter holding CAS and HUB server for resiliency spread across 3 data centers in total.
• Lead engineer/architect responsible for upgrading the current Windows 2003 domain controllers to Windows 2008 R2. Each site was supplemented with 2 Windows 2008 R2 domain controllers for intra-site redundancy and high availability. The Active Directory domain and forest functional levels were raised to Windows 2008 R2 and the recycle bin was thus activated.

Senior Sales Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided pre-sales engineering support to customers that needed advice or help to implement solutions that would increase their overall awareness of outages but also provided high availability to ensure communication would still be routed to the proper engineers.
• Expert level knowledge of Confidential products ranging from NPM, APM, NCM, UDT, SEUM, IPSLA, LEM and Net flow.
• Responsible for making configuration changes on any network device to enable the NNM system to start collecting flow data (Net flow, Flow, SFlow, and IPFIX).
• Proficient in gathering the customer’s needs and goals by analyzing their infra structure to build a monitoring system that is not only highly available but is able to handle an outage.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Senior Messaging Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed and provided support for the Exchange 2003 environment that consisted of 20 mailbox servers, 6 bridgehead servers and 2 public folder servers spread across 3 regions (US, EMEA, APAC).
• Managed, designed and provided support for the Windows Server 2003 Active Directory environment consisting of 1 forest and 2 child domains with a total of 32 Domain Controllers spread across three regions (US, EMEA, APAC).
• Lead architect for the regionalization project that consolidated all U.S. based Exchange 2003 servers into a lights-out data center. This consolidation was designed to replace the current Exchange 2003 environment with Exchange 2007.
• The Exchange 2007 design was comprised of 4 highly available Single Copy Clusters (SCC) in the regional data center utilizing Standby Continuous Replication (SCR) to standby nodes in the backup data center to achieve full disaster recovery.
• Lead architect for the regionalization project that transitioned the Active Directory environment from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008.
• Utilized PowerShell commands to automate the common administrative tasks including the creation/deletion of mailboxes, modifying mailbox settings, managing storage groups and mailbox database management along with several other everyday tasks.
• Re-designed the overall replication strategy for the existing Active Directory 2003 environment by deploying multiple hub and spoke sites per region. This ultimately provided a high availability solution that eliminated the single point of failure that existed.
• Lead architect for the redesign of the Exchange 2003 mail routing scheme by taking advantage of a regional model by deploying multiple bridgehead servers in each region to allow for mail to be sent from any region individually.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Exchange / Active Directory Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the daily maintenance and operational stability of the Chicago Public School infrastructure consisting of Active Directory 2003 and Exchange 2003.
• Managed, designed and provided support for the Exchange environment that contained 12 back-end clustered mailbox servers, 6 loads balanced OWA servers and 3 bridgehead servers. Managed, designed and provided support for the Active Directory environment consisting of 3 Root level domains that provided directory services to administrative and instructional staff including students, principals and teachers.
• Ensured that Active Directory and the Exchange environment were up to date with all critical updates and definitions for Office Scan, Scan Mail and Operating Systems.

Confidential, Austin, TX

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead engineer for Active Directory environment consisting of 4 forests, 6 domains, and 70+ Domain Controllers. Duties included managing a team of 4 engineers to develop Active Directory corporate standards, design, administration and support, and implementation of AD tools.
• Created logical and physical designs of projects consisting of infrastructure upgrades, rollouts and operational stability. This also included working with various application teams to develop an environment that would suit their applications for stability and future growth.
• Senior System Engineer on the Windows Server team that focuses on ways to improve IT related processes and procedures.
• Provided Tier 3 support for over 2000+ Windows based server Assisted with the engineering and deployment of new server hardware including Dell PowerEdge, Dell PowerEdge Blade servers, HP ProLiant servers, HP Integrity servers and HP ProLiant Blades using image-based technology.
• Responsible for interviewing, and mentoring Tier 3 support staff as well as operations support staff