SUMMARY

• Managed Technical teams the last 4 years with up to 9 direct reports
• Managed an IT budgeting process along with Vendor management
• Designed and Implemented Active Directory 2008 and 2012 for large enterprise environments
• Implemented Exchange 2010, 2007, 2003, 2000 and 5.5 Enterprise e - mail systems
• Managed and supported Office 365 environments
• Implemented and supported multiple VMWare solutions
• Understand and worked at a high level with SAN and NAS Storage products including EMC and NetAPP products
• Troubleshooting to isolate and diagnose common IT issue. Hardware, software problems including TCP/IP, DHCP, WINS, DNS, routing and replications issues
• Supported all major server hardware, Dell, HP and Cisco server platforms
• Worked with multiple vendor products from Dell, HP Cisco, VMware, EMC, Trend Micro, Microsoft, Rubrik and others
• Worked for a Fortune 500 company that grew by acquisitions
• Used ADMT and PowerShell scripts to migrate AD accounts and Exchange mailboxes to a default domain

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Lead Engineer/ Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manger of eight System Engineers or Desktop Engineers
• Worked to Migrate workloads to the MS Azure cloud
• Responsible to keep two on-prem datacenters up and running 24/7. Worked with all vendors supporting the Generator, UPS, HVAC and security systems
• Supported the MS Hybrid AD Domain, multiple DC’s and DNS servers, on-prem and cloud
• Supported multiple GPO’s to enforce security policies
• Worked with Akami Control Center supporting public DNS and SSL certificates
• Worked with Sendgrid for enterprise SMTP
• Supported over 2000 Guest VM’s, Windows based servers and Linux servers in multiple datacenters and the Azure cloud, 95% virtualized
• Installed and configured VMware ESX Server 6.5 currently supporting over 60 ESXI host in two data centers on Cisco, Dell and Super Micro servers
• Using VCenter environment supporting DRS and HA, configured DVS networking and storage environments.
• Supported all EMC Arrays, VNIX, XIO, and Isilon
• Supported the Rubrik backup solution for day to day backup and long-term data retention into Azure Blob storage
• Helped with networking support. The management and operation of all networking was remote

Confidential

Lead Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Supported over 3000 Guest VM’s, Windows based servers and Linux servers in multiple datacenters, 90% virtualized
• Installed and configured VMware ESX Server 6.5 currently supporting over 95 ESXI host in two data centers
• Designed and implemented multiple Distributed Virtual Switches for 10gb and 1gb 6.5 ESXI environment
• Using VCenter in link mode to manage the environment, over 12 VMWare clusters sharing resources, environment supports DRS and HA
• Designed and built out a VMware View environment designed to support 1500 users. Strategy included Apex 2800 cards and NVidia GPU cards to support graphics
• Built out a VMWare SRM environment, supporting a disaster recovery solution for RTS
• Worked with VMWare VROPS application for VMware monitoring used to actively monitor day to day operations of the virtual infrastructure
• Have used the following tools VMware convertor and Doubletake for Physicals to Virtual (P2V) conversions
• Managed the data centers for RTS and determined where equipment would be placed in the cage/rack. Worked with all vendors to confirm all required services were in place to support the all hardware
• Managed day to day data center operations, supported new growth and end of life management of all hardware
• Created and deployed a Hypervisor AV solution using NSX and Trend Micro Deep Security. Worked with Trend Micro to build out a Deep Security solution to protect our server environment virtual and physical
• Worked extensively with Dell Hardware: Dell R840, R820, R740, R710 and R610 Servers, and Thin Clients for VDI solution.
• Worked with Service Now application, an ITEL solution supporting incidents and change management

Confidential

Sr. System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Sr. System Engineer for Confidential for the past 5 years
• Supported IIS servers and associated dependencies
• Re-architected smtp mail flow for all Reliance smtp domains. Reliance now uses MS Forefront for mail security; all mail was then routed to a dedicated bridgehead server
• Working knowledge of VB scripts and PowerShell
• Supported journaling and archiving using Quest Archive Manager
• Have been the lead System Engineer in a AD 2008/Exchange 2010 migration project
• Supported a 5 forest, 7 domains AD environments including DNS, DHCP, DFS and Group Policy (GPOs), collapsed the environment to 3 domains.
• Supported all e-mail related systems including Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2010 e-mail gateway servers (4500 mailboxes) approximately 50-75k messages a day. Environment consisted of 5 Exchange Orgs and 24 Smtp domain
• Managed Mobile Mail systems, including BES and MS Mobile services