SKILLS:

Cisco

Access Control List (ACL)

Cisco Hardware configuration: Bridge, Hub, Router, Switch, WAP

Cisco Nexus 7000 series experience

Cisco IOS Expertise

DNS, DHCP

Frame Relay configuration

NAT/PAT

Routing protocols: RIP, RIPv2, OSPF, EIGRP

TCP/IP, UDP

Wired and Wireless Networking

Hardware

Desktop / Notebook HW Expert

Desktop Assembly

Failure Analysis

PC Component Replacement/Upgrade

PC Performance Analysis

PC Performance Optimization

Operating System Installation

Juniper M/MX series experience

Linux/UNIX

RHEL Server Management & Installation

Package downloading, configuration, installation

Directory navigation, creation

Installation of Solaris OS

Installation of Ubuntu

Users, group, and permissions management through YaST

GRUB

LILO

Confidential

Azure

Certificate Authentication

DNS, DHCP

Group Policy Creation/Management

ForeFront 2010

SCCM 2007

SCOM 2007/2012

IIS, Advanced Firewall

Office365

PKI

Power Shell, Script creation

Security Policy Creation/Management

Visual Basic.Net

Windows Deployment Services

Windows Server 2K, 2K3, 2K8

Windows Active Directory, Federation Services

WSUS

Remote/Terminal Services

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Consultant

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Focus on Secured Infrastructure including Windows Platform On Premise technologies (Server 2003/2008/2012/2016 ), Exchange Server (2007/2010/2013/2016 ), Active Directory, Remote Access, PKI, Federation Services, and other Identity & Infrastructure technologies in the Confidential Product Line
• On premise and remote consulting. Project management duties include scheduling, Work Breakdown Schedule (WBS) creation/maintenance, Solution Alignment Workshops/Presentations, Technical documentation
• Additional focus on Confidential Azure Cloud Services including but not limited to: Azure IaaS (VMs, virtual networks, NSGs, UDRs, NVAs, ExpressRoute, S2S/P2S/Peering VPN connections, Application Gateway, Azure AD Connect, Application Proxy, load balancing, App Service, Azure SQL
• Scripting for clients included PowerShell scripts for Azure automation, deployment of Azure resources, Active Directory migration/deployment services, and other automation tasks as per needs of the client.
• Development of .json Azure ARM templates for environment deployment automation at requests of clients
• Mentoring of junior consultants on team
• Enterprise Projects
• Azure Hybrid Cloud - Focus of this project is to establish a hybrid connection to Confidential Azure via Azure IaaS VPN or ExpressRoute. This project would entail moving a workload, application, or system into Azure to introduce customers to the cloud model.
• Active Directory Deployment & Cross Migration - This project transforms an organizations directory architecture into one that is secured and management from the top down. Using Confidential MAP, CRM, and MDT tools, I lead a team to successfully develop and deploy a new AD DS structure and piloted users and computers/devices.
• Security hardening - Numerous times have I engaged in directory hardening sessions with clients. Using Confidential tools, I efficiently and expertly advise, plan, and deploy new GPOs, LAPS, and other policies and mechanisms into a vulnerable AD DS structure and ensure the client is secure from all identity threats

Senior Engineer

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Server remediation for applications being migrated into AWS VPC
• AWS administration and engineering.
• Office 365/Exchange 2013 environment administration & maintenance duties
• Troubleshooting of AD DS, GPO, and DNS issues.
• System/Design Change Request duties including script creation for administrative reports, performance analysis, environmental changes, new technology implementation.
• Cloud services ( Confidential RMS, InTune, and Azure) testing and proof of concept.
• Certificate Authority (CA) administration and maintenance.
• VMWare duties include administration, deployment, and maintenance of VM severs utilizing VMWare ESXi, vSphere, and vCenter applications.
• TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP configuration, maintenance, troubleshooting duties.
• Enterprise Projects
• Deployment of Confidential DirectAccess feature into enterprise environment. This included proof of concept to organization stake holders, leveraging of Confidential support, standing up of DA servers, deploying DirectAccess feature, and testing and post deployment tasks.
• PKI migration of ITA CA architecture into AWS VPC. This included proof of concept documentation, working with different groups to ensure seamless migration of all CA templates, private keys, and DB/Log data to new AWS Server 2012 instances. Performing of DB/Log backup, truncating, and migration of registry and all data to AWS instances. Post migration tasks included verification of certificate issuance, CRL publishing, and certificate revocation.
• Group policy consolidation. This entailed working with different network and engineering groups in order to maintain STIG and other Federal policy compliance. Work included gathering all GPO data and engineering a GPO solution to reduce the number of GPO’s a system or client machine had to process, grouping related GPO’s into one or fewer policies, testing in a non-production environment for errors or issues, and deploying the solution into the production environment.

IT Consultant/Infrastructure Engineer

Confidential, Rosslyn, VA

Responsibilities:

• VMI enterprise environments maintenance, troubleshooting, and implementation (VMware ESXi 5.xx, vSphere, vCloud, vMotion).
• Exchange 2010 environment administration & maintenance duties
• Staging lab activities including server builds and deployment (Server 2008, Exchange, RHEL, SCOM, SQL)
• Troubleshooting of AD DS, GPO, and DNS issues for Graham Holdings Corporation.
• System/Design Change Request duties including script creation for administrative reports, performance analysis, environmental changes, new technology implementation.
• Cloud services (Office365, Google E) testing and proof of concept.
• Certificate Authority (CA) development, implementation, and maintenance.
• Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) development, implementation, and maintenance
• VMWare duties include administration, deployment, and maintenance of VM severs utilizing VMWare ESXi, vSphere, and vCenter applications.
• TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP configuration, maintenance, troubleshooting duties.
• Enterprise Projects
• Development and implementation of Active Directory Federated Services (ADFS) in production environment on Windows Server 2012 Platform. This consisted of a centralized ADFS farm with 2 ADFS servers for SSO integration with OneLogin single sign on solution.
• Development and implementation of Windows Server 2012 Certificate Authority (CA). Primary basis for implementation is for LDAPS for Active Directory credential synchronization over Juniper MAG VPN appliance for remote users.
• OneLogin development and implementation in testing environment for Graham Holdings Corporate and Enterprise user base. OneLogin single sign on solution primarily deployed for SSO duties for Workday and GHCOnnect web applications.
• Development and deployment of Office365/Azure in Graham Holding test environment for proof of concept and evaluation purposes for upper management to take direction on cloud services for Confidential products. This included PowerShell scripting to export user AD DS data to csv format, a Cutover Exchange Migration (CEM) over a single weekend of test users (50) mailbox, calendar, contacts and task data to Office365 cloud environment. This included redirection of test domain mail flow via DNS provider MX record and obtaining publicly signed SSL cert from Verisgin.

Lead ADMA Operations Technician

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• VMI enterprise environments maintenance, troubleshooting, and implementation (VMware ESXi 5.xx, vSphere, vCloud, vMotion).
• Day to day management of HP Central Services Operations team
• Exchange 2007/2010 environment administration & maintenance duties
• Staging lab activities including server builds and deployment (Server 2008, Exchange, RHEL, SCOM, SQL)
• Troubleshooting of AD DS, GPO, and DNS issues for US Senate office clients
• System/Design Change Request duties including script creation for administrative reports, performance analysis, environmental changes, new technology implementation.
• Quest ActiveRoles Server, GPOAdmin administration and implementation.
• SQL Server replication, scheduled maintenances, and troubleshooting (BES, Confidential Lync 2010)
• SCCM experience in capturing OS images, deploying images and packages, and server administration.
• SCOM 2012 administration, responding to SCOM alerts for server level warnings/errors. Modifying SCOM notifications/settings per environment changes
• VMWare duties include administration, deployment, and maintenance of VM severs utilizing VMWare ESXi, vSphere, and vCloud Admin suite.
• TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP configuration, maintenance, troubleshooting duties.
• Enterprise Projects
• Conducted cross-forest migrations for US Senate Offices and Committees as well as Confidential from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 (server builds, prerequisites, data gathering, script creation, decommissioning tasks, database migrations, mailboxes/ILM migrations, public folder migration, CAS/HUB/Transport migration, BES 5.x upgrade, GoodMobile tasks, ForeFront 2010 implementation, knowledge base and procedural documentation creation, and post migration tasks).
• Conducted US Senate Office Forest to Enterprise Forest migrations (Quest Migration Manager 8.8; AD OU/Group/Object migration, site survey data gathering, script creation, GPO configuration, DC Trust creation, Computer & Server account migration, DNS configuration, Enterprise IM tasks, post migration tasks).
• Supported RIM Blackberry 10 Enterprise Implementation.
• Implemented Quest Active Roles Server upgrade from 6.7 to 6.8 (currently implementing upgrade to 6.9 in staging environment.)
• Supported OCS to Lync 2010 Migration for US Senate Offices and Committees.
• Currently performing Lync 2010 to Lync 2013 Migration in Staging Lab environment (Windows Server 2012 builds, DNS configuration, Lync 2013 software implementation, schema creation, decommissioning tasks, knowledge base and procedural documentation tasks, and post migration tasks).
• Instrumental in Disaster Recover and Failover procedure improvements (Script creation, Shared Administration Server failover procedure, database failover procedures).
• Development and deployment of Office365/Azure for Senate Confidential test environment for proof of concept and evaluation purposes for upper management to take direction on cloud services for Confidential products. This included Powershell scripting to export user data to csv file format, hybrid migration over a span of two weeks of test users (100) mailbox, calendar, contacts and task data to Office365 cloud environment. This included redirection of test domain mail flow via DNS provider MX record and obtaining publicly signed SSL cert from Verisgin, and ADFS server implementation.

Regional IT Engineer

Confidential, McLean, Virginia

Responsibilities:

• PC/Apple hardware repair, troubleshooting, installation
• Custom Windows deployments
• Server administration and installation (Server 2003, 2008, Web Server, RHEL)
• Intermediate Linux (RHEL) server administration ranging from CPU load, Memory usage, disk space, file/folder/user permission settings, server clustering, and standing up virtual RHEL servers.
• Network device installations, setup (HP, Confidential, Cisco, Juniper)
• Rack installation of servers, network appliances, cabling (Ethernet & Fiber)
• Mobile device administration
• Failure analysis of high priority field hardware/software issues
• Project management
• Enterprise Projects
• Supported Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 migration of pilot Enterprise Forests
• Supported Migration from Server 2003 to Server 2008&/R2 for pilot servers
• Implemented Confidential Store/Rack Mobile POS devices and Aruba Access Points (Side Load of Mobile Iron Mobile software to devices, Aruba AP installation, configuration, DNS configuration, TCP/IP configuration, Mobile Iron configuration)
• Two Confidential Rack Store Server room installations (Rack server installs, network appliance installs, ESXi Server setup, HP iLO procedures for installing base Server 2008 images to POS/FP/Administration servers, patch cabling, DNS/DHCP/Routing implementation, Store Forest/Domain creation, Store POS/PC image implementation via SCCM 2007, GPO configuration, AD OU/Group/Object creation, procedural documentation tasks, post installation tasks)

Test Analyst Engineer

Confidential, Miami, Florida

Responsibilities:

• Application and Automation Development
• Custom Windows deployments
• Server configuration and installation (Server 2003/2008, RHEL, Ubuntu) using physical servers as well as Vmware hypervisor (4.0.x).
• Administration, via Vmware vCenter software, lab environment virtual servers to simulate Confidential production line. Tasks included physical to virtual server migrations, virtual server configuration, virtual network topology configuration, LUN/Storage creation and administration.
• Day to day Linux BASH command line usage administering Red Hat, Ubuntu servers. Tasks included server performance monitoring (CPU/Memory/Disk/LAN), server clustering, stand up of Linux virtual servers, and patch upgrades.
• SQL database maintenance duties and troubleshooting
• Software analysis
• Test environment server configuration and administration, Server 2003/2008
• Failure analysis of high priority field hardware/software issues
• Rack installation for lab environment (Network appliances, Servers, patch cabling)
• Solaris exposure including basic troubleshooting, downloading of packages, configuration and installing of repository packages.
• Enterprise Projects
• Conducted migration of Lab server environment from Server 2003 to Server 2008.
• Implemented Exchange 2007 architecture to Lab environment.

Product Development Technician

Confidential, Miami, Florida

Responsibilities:

• Validation of hardware and software components
• Test plan management
• Server configuration and installation (Server 2003/2008, RHEL, Ubuntu) using physical servers as well as Vmware hypervisor (4.0.x).
• Administration, via Vmware vCenter software, lab environment virtual servers to simulate Confidential production line.
• Tasks included physical to virtual server migrations, virtual server configuration, virtual network
• Day to day Linux BASH command line usage administering Red Hat, Ubuntu servers. Tasks included server performance monitoring (CPU/Memory/Disk/LAN), stand up of Linux virtual servers, and patch upgrades.
• Troubleshooting and evaluating new hardware
• Creation of Engineering Validation and Evaluation forms
• Specialist in CPU and GPU Over-Clocking
• Development of Standard Operating Procedures for manufacturing staff
• Writing technical documentation for Manufacturing and Product Development

Store Manager

Confidential, Miami, Florida

Responsibilities:

• Information technology responsibilities for this position included but not limited to POS/PC setup, image with company image, DNS, DHCP configuration, AD domain creation, domain controller build, Outlook WebMail implementation, multi store setup, cabling, working with central office NOC to synchronize POS and PC data, PC/data security implementations, knowledge base and procedural document creation.
• Other duties included managing store personnel, inventory control, sales quota adherence, merchandising, cash handling, reporting, and scheduling.

Assistant Store Manager

Confidential, Miami, Florida

Responsibilities:

• Information technology responsibilities for this position included but not limited to POS/PC maintenance, coordination with company central IT groups for DNS, DHCP, and networking configuration.
• Active Directory maintenance for PCs, image installation, Outlook 2003 setup and implementation.
• Other duties for this position included managing store personnel, sale of Confidential products and services, inventory duties, heavy cash handling, merchandising, scheduling, store reporting, conducting monthly team and sale meetings.