SUMMARY

• Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert in Server Infrastructure looking for companies that want to save costs by consolidating their servers with Hyper - V and utilizing
• Microsoft's I-SCSI Target servers to create a highly available and inexpensive shared storage subsystem.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Active Directory 2003-2012R2
• AD Certificate Services
• Windows Deployment Services (WDS)
• Windows Failover Clusters
• Windows NLB Clusters
• Microsoft Hyper-V Server
• Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers
• Dell PowerVault Tower Servers
• HP D3700 Enclosure
• HP StorageWorks Autoloader
• HP Proliant Rack Mount Servers
• PowerShell Scripting
• RAID Technology
• NAT / PAT Translation
• Exchange Sever 2010, 2007, 2003, 5.5
• Sendmail for NT Server
• Microsoft DHCP / DNS Servers
• Microsoft Remote Access/VPN Server
• Microsoft NPS / RADIUS Server

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Principal Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Earned a Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) Server Infrastructure certification.
• Created multi-domain, multi-forest Active Directory environments for testing software functionality across multiple domains and forests.
• Infrastructure environments included Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2012 builds.
• Designed and created clustered storage subsystem using storage spaces, Windows Server 2012 I-SCSI Targets, HP D3700 Enclosures, and HP Proliant Rack Servers on a separate gigabit backbone.
• Designed and implemented clustered Hyper-V environment for highly available server applications. Planning included gathering data, fulfilling requirements (business, software, hardware, and security), Visio designs, pricing, and project timelines.
• Researched, built, and analyzed Remote Desktop Services.
• Engineered and implemented server builds for the Hyper-V and physical server infrastructure.
• Redesigned the active directory organizational unit structure, group policy and administered active directory.
• Designed, implemented, and administered Windows Server Update Services (updates, reports, planning, scheduling).

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Wintel Project Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Engineered server builds for the Windows server environment (Hyper-V, VMware, and physical) and oversaw those projects through the corporate environment to completion and hand off to application owners.
• Server builds were all Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2012.
• Developed Microsoft Public Key Infrastructure (Root Enterprise/Subordinate) for distribution of certificates
• For each project, gathered and validated business requirements, completed pre-installation checklists (including step-by-step documentation), provided Visio diagram of systems, labor cost estimates, and completed test plans and quality assurance tests.
• Attended Pre-Installation Checklist meetings twice a week which consisted of approximately 20 engineers from all teams to approve servers builds before handing off specifications to the build team.
• Attended Pre-Installation Checklist meetings as the Capacity Planning approver and as an engineer submitting my server build specifications for attendees to view and approve.
• Consistently managed 10-15 Wintel projects, which included up to 10 servers each, by creating MS Project documents with high level tasks related to each projects completion.
• Created and managed group policy objects in Active Directory for each server build project, including security filtering, settings, precedence, and importing group policy objects.
• Lead project meetings with application owners, IT members from multiple teams, and external vendors.
• Analyzed and resolved level 3 help desk incidents either alone or with other team members and vendors.
• Managed capacity planning analysis (Storage, Memory, and CPU) for the Wintel server environment, approval of resources, and resource allocation for the VMware server infrastructure.
• Monitored all Wintel servers for capacity availability (SAN Storage, Memory, and CPU).
• Analyzed and approved all SAN storage for the VMware and Hyper-V environment.
• Kept a cumulative chart of capacity resources by collecting data from vCenter Operations Manager, Windows Performance Monitor, VMWare vCenter Server, and SCOM.
• Added new LUNs to the virtual environment when necessary.
• Planned and engineered the refresh of existing servers, which included upgrading to Windows Server 2008, newer designs, hardware, virtualization, and server application versions.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Exchange Engineer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Maintain the day-to-day operations of the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 environment on Windows 2003/2008 servers with Active Directory and IIS, including updates, analyses and recommendations, encryption (ZixMail), troubleshooting, planning mail flow redirection, and resolving escalated Exchange Server helpdesk tickets.
• Setup server and users for Pop3/iMap implementations, analyzed event logs, tracked emails sent and received, added and removed rules on Microsoft Forefront gateway servers, monitored email gateway, and resolved email flow non delivery issues.

IT Contractor

Confidential, Batavia, IL

Responsibilities:

• Developed plan to migrate over 3,000 users from Lotus Notes and SUN Messaging system to Exchange Server 2007. Created a virtual environment using VMware to demonstrate the data migration path from the two disparate email systems into Exchange Server 2007.
• Used Microsoft Office auto-profile creation tools to automatically create custom profiles for users upon login including home server, customized profile name, and other settings.
• Developed menu-driven Winbatch program to automatically migrate contacts and calendar information into Exchange from Outlook Express and Windows Messaging on each client.
• Developed menu-driven Powershell/VB script that allowed service desk technicians to create mailboxes for users by entering the user’s account name in a popup box. The script was activated by double-clicking an icon on the technician’s desktop, and automatically concatenated the first name, middle initial, and last name from AD for the mailbox display name. The script automatically added a mailbox for a user to a set of 4 databases in a round-robin fashion and kept track of the databases and logged each event.
• Setup Remote Desktop Services for St. Anthony Hospital, which included two Terminal Services servers in a Windows Server 2008 R2 failover cluster using a Node and File Share Majority quorum.
• Used Group Policy to lock down applications in both terminal server nodes, and setup RemoteApp in the users Start menu, Remote Desktop, and Remote Desktop Web Access in a secured manner.
• Installed and used SCOM for purposes of monitoring, troubleshooting, and updating Exchange Server 2007, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2003 server environment.

Confidential, South Barrington, IL

Responsibilities:

• Created and managed Group Policy Objects, precedence ordering, and security filtering. Moved Active Directory objects to OU for removal at a later date.
• Migrated users from Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2007.
• Created and maintained Exchange Server 2007 CCR Clustered environment, which included configuring fail-over policies, monitoring status of cluster, adding recipients (users, resources, distribution groups).
• Converted three branches from Windows Server 2003 workgroup mode to Active Directory domain mode with three Active Directory sites replicating data from domain controllers.
• Created system of roaming profiles with Windows Server 2003 and Active Directory.
• Created menu-driven Winbatch program that automatically converted existing workgroup computers to domain mode, including user profiles and all MS Office settings (Outlook, Word, Desktop, etc.).
• Planned and implemented network cutovers for the El Paso School District schools (elementary, middle, high, and magnet schools). A typical school had 25-35 switches, 15-20 wireless access points, 10-20 trunk rooms, and one multi-layer core switch. (Entire network encompassed 110,000+ connections.)
• Network was made up of over 1,200 Intel Servers (Windows 2003 and Windows 2008).
• Planning included IP subnet addressing schemes, port and trunk room counts, patch panels, aerial assessments, cabling, equipment, network diagrams, switch configurations, VLAN port variations, trunk links, documentation, and more.

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

Manager of Information Technology

Responsibilities:

• Managed IT Department in a fast paced law firm with the help of four technicians, a trainer, an assistant, and a $1.3 million dollar annual budget.
• Responsible for hiring staff, salary structure, distribution of projects and oversight, and staff development.
• Restructured and maintained network infrastructure from a hub based network to a Cisco switched based network with VLANs using 3500, 2950, and 4000 series switches.
• Reconfigured all configurations on Novell 4.11, SQL 6.5, NT servers and clients to remove latency when users loaded DocsOpen, manipulated, and saved information across the network (Latency was reduced from 30 seconds to 2 seconds for opening the applications and a split-second latency upon saving or opening documents across the network).
• Expanded computer department by merging adjacent office spaces and redesigning server room and Engineer work spaces (floors, rack mounts, power, walls, shelving, T1s, DSL Lines, RAS lines, ceilings, desks, chairs, temperature controls, UPS, etc.).
• Directly responsible for the hands-on design and administration of the messaging system which included four Exchange servers, a spam filter server (Mail-Gate), mail relay hosts (Sendmail for NT), gateway anti-virus server (Symantec Gateway), External DNS and internal DNS servers, and remote web access (OWA).
• Built and maintained firewall and security policy using Checkpoint 4.0 through NG-AI for several years.
• Created fault tolerant internet access by adding a second internet line, then using BGP (ASN GKNET) with a Cisco 2600 series router to auto switch over in case one ISP line failed (never failed - 5+ years).
• Created demilitarized zone and created rule base on firewalls to provide protection from outside.
• Setup internal/external DNS, DHCP, and printing system on Windows Server 2003 network.
• Planned, organized, and coordinated software upgrades, enterprise installations, and desktop roll-outs
• Researched, evaluated, and recommended new technology for company growth.
• Wrote Winbatch script to automate install of Citrix client on all laptop computers.
• Developed Confidential ’s backup system from a tape backup system to a SAN on a gigabit backbone.
• Met with technology committee members to determine backup and restore policies
• Created a system of archiving tapes for several years by boxing up tapes with software, licenses, tape drives, adapters, and documentation with accurate and tested restore times.
• Installed Dell servers from scratch including the RAID configurations, tape libraries, and backup software.
• Dell Power Vault Servers were backed up using Symantec Backup Exec with a 22 terabyte capacity tape library/autoloader.

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois;May 1996 to April 1998

IS Technical Consultant II

Responsibilities:

• Administered 300+ user Novell LAN/WAN for Supreme and Appellate Court by adding users, groups, mappings, shares, purging volumes, fine tuning performance settings, backing up and restoring volumes on Novell Netware 3.12 and 4.11 servers.
• Managed mass installations, developed standard desktop configurations, and evaluated software/hardware purchases for the Courts Judges, Secretaries, and Clerks.
• Troubleshooted hardware/software calls from Appellate and Supreme Court.
• Installed network printers, print servers, queues, and captured and redirected print data.
• Determined software and hardware needs to add departments on the LAN/WAN, which included additional wall sockets, cabling, network cards, servers, hubs, routers, and licenses.
• Installed, configured, and maintained Novell CDROM Server libraries for purposes of research by Judges, Law Clerks, Secretaries, and Mandatory Arbitration.
• Installed new hubs to the current network infrastructure and documented ports and connects.

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

Office Services Supervisor

Responsibilities:

• Converted environment from DOS to WIN by installing, configuring, and upgrading operating systems, word processors, spreadsheets, databases, and graphic programs
• Administered 150+ user Novell network by installing users, software, hardware, archiving, and performing regular system maintenance.
• Restructured printing system from scratch using Windows for Workgroups and HP Jet Direct.
• Standardized software and configurations on desktops, laptops, and servers.
• Created 20 page WordPerfect macro that, from a 70+ page ASCII file, automatically completed 90% of the beautification of statistical tables for clients using proportional fonts (e.g., automatically centered tables, lined up columns, removed unwanted columns, added all fonts to tables, removed unwanted rows, converted tables from spaces to tabular form, added percent signs to 1st number in columns if needed, etc.).
• Distributed workload to a staff of 9 Secretaries, Assistants, and Word Processors.
• Purchased computers, software, modems, chip upgrades, network cards, hard drives.
• Handled negotiation of maintenance contracts and maintenance on all equipment.
• Provided training and troubleshooting WordPerfect 6.0, Lotus, Excel, Harvard Graphics, MS Word, Q&A Database, and dBase IV for Windows.
• Constructed, managed and programmed databases for data entry, duplicate entry, mass mail-outs (i.e., labels, letters, envelopes), and on-going information summary reports.
• Typed and proofread questionnaires, reports, memos, letters, legal forms, instruction manuals, and composed graphics from statistics.