EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,
                                                                                                                                                Oct 2011 – Present

• Assessed current virtual infrastructure and implemented company standards for the virtual infrastructure
• Upgraded infrastructure to ESXi 5 utilizing Enterprise plus
• Calculating cost for license upgrade and find ways to dramatically reduce costs
• Lead Engineer to various projects including various hybrid cloud solutions
• Implemented standardization of gold builds and VM deployment
• Testing new technology’s that would benefit the infrastructure including Chef, Partner programs, and various automation and ticketing systems

Confidential,
Lead Engineer of virtual systems   NY                                     Feb. 2011 – Oct

• Designed virtual infrastructure datacenters for the United Stated, Asia as well as Europe
• Design and architecture to convert ESX host to ESXi 4.1
• Create standard cli scripts to view and report infrastructure health
• Designed and migrated ESX hosts to boot from flash cards
• Designed and implemented Citrix upgrade from 4.5 to 5
• Design and arctecture of company\'s online purchases to be encrypted via RSA appliances
• Analyze current virtual infrastructure and plan for future growth including VDI implementation

Confidential,
consultant                                                                                              July2010-Feb. 2011

• Assessed VMware and Citrix\'s  infrastructure and made recommendations on how to improve production environment
• Implemented recommendations which applied to datacenters, host, and vm level as well as an upgrade of virtual center
• Implemented VM Heartbeat server(s)

Confidential,
Consultant                                                                                                                                         May 2010– July 2010

• Lead Engineer for VDI infrastructure
• Citrix DDC, XenDesktop Provisioning server, Netscaler, Xenapp, Xen Server, Edgesight, and VMware ESX for the hypervisor
• GPO configuration and redirection of various attributes
• Local and remote access with multi factor authentication
• Security exceptions and antivirus exclusions

Confidential,
 Systems Engineer                                                                                            Aug 2007– May 2010

• Architect and lead Engineer of VMware Site Recovery Manager for advanced high availability for core servers, DMZ, server environment and DR locations in a virtual environment
• Led VMware ESX3.5 /i upgrade to ESX 4 /i. With a subsequent upgrade to upgrade 1
• Configured Virtual Centers in linked mode utilizing Enterprise license
• Virtual migration of companies entire infrastructure 200+ servers reduce to less than 20 physical boxes with various tools including P2V
• Advanced troubleshooting and advanced configuration of Citrix and VMware environment via SSH / command line
• Virtual infrastructure utilizing Distributed Resource Scheduler, High Availability, as well as Fault Tolerance
• Architect and lead Engineer for Citrix infrastructure including 4.5, Xenapp 5 and Edge Sight server
• Constructed company’s protocol for deploying Published Applications for  online / offline and streaming profiles utilizing Citrix, VMWare
• Architect and lead Engineer of Citrix Repeaters and Netscalers for an active / active infrastructure
• Led upgrade from Presentation Server 4 to Citrix Xenapp 4.5 using Windows 2003, and subsequent migration to Citrix Xenapp 5 with Windows 2008
• Completed Citrix Xenapp 5 with Windows 2008 training course
• Completed VMware vshpere 4 training and certification
• Architect for company’s virtual infrastructure utilizing VMware, Citrix
• Architect of the company’s multi layer highly-virtualized disaster recovery including data center migration for the company’s 200 remote global offices and over 4,000 users
• Administrator of  the following: Linux servers, SQL 2000/ 2005 / 2008, C.A. Arc backup server, Proxy servers / ISA,  IIS / Apache web servers, proprietary application servers, IBM and 3Parr SAN, virtual private networks to remote locations, Lotus 8.5 and Blackberry Exchange Server, Active Directory utilizing GPO’s and scripting
• Maintained remote access with Citrix SSL and RSA key fob architecture (multi-factor authentication)
• Designed, tested, and implemented disaster recovery and patch management procedures
• Maintained mission critical servers and executive support
• Official company trainer for all employees on Thin Client usage and connectivity

Confidential,
Systems Engineer                                                                  Jan 2007 – Aug 2007

• Lead Engineer for virtual infrastructure utilizing ESX 2
• Lead Engineer for virtual infrastructure and Citrix infrastructure
• Project leader for designing, testing and implementing multi-clustered domain and Exchange 2007 topology architecture
• Administrator for Windows and Linux servers
• Administrated domain controllers, SQL and web servers
• Maintained production and mission critical servers for constant uptime
• Administrator for over 300 servers dispersed over 7 locations
• Led the firm’s security testing, network analysis and intrusion detection

Confidential,

 Senior Network Engineer                                                                                                                      2004 – Jan 2007

• Implemented access control, pass card and biometric security
• Install and administrator for Linux servers
• Administered remote access, group policies and network permissions
• Upgraded and migrated MS and Novell infrastructures
• Administered Exchange 2003 and Blackberry Exchange Server
• Upgraded and migrated MS and Novell infrastructures
• Provided troubleshooting support for email, network and routing configurations
• Installed Windows 2000 and 2003 servers with Active Directory

Confidential,
 Coordinator                                                                                                                                                  2001 - 2004

• Administrator for Citrix environment
• Migrated NDS trees with Novell server
• Monitored daily backups of critical data

Confidential,
 Network Engineer                                                                                                                                         1999 - 2000

• Installed switches, routers and wireless Cisco antennas
• Tested wireless network attenuation and T1 connections
• Provided troubleshooting  of routers via Telnet and console access

Confidential,
Network Specialist                                                                                                                                         1998 - 2000

• Installed and supported Windows 2000 Active Directory based network
• Designed and hosted client websites
• Customized computers to specific alterations

EXPERTISE:

Licenses, Windows, Office, Acronis, Ghost, various Anti Virus, Novell 4.x, 5.x,  SQL, Veritas / CA ARC Server, Blackberry Exchange Server, Raid x, Remote Access, Citrix Meta Frame, Exchange 5.5-2007, Lotus Notes 5 – 8.5, Spam Assassin, Biometrics, Proxies, Snort (IDS), Web Filtering, Kronos, Scripting, Roaming profiles, RSA, Wyse, MOM, Data Deduplication, VMWare , Patch management

• Hardware: Firewalls, Routers, Switches, HP / Dell / IBM Servers, IBM Blades, IBM & 3Parr Sans, DVRs and Security Systems, Raid, Wyse Thin Clients, Riverbed, Data Domain

• Languages: VBScript, JavaScript, HTML, Ruby

EDUCATION / CERTIFICATION:

VMware Certified Professional 4 VCP
Currently pursuing CEH v7 (Certified Ethical Hacker)

                                                                                                                                                                 Expected Jan 2014
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science/Psychology

                                                                                                               Dec 2010
Associates, Social Science

                                                                              Jul 2000 – Dec 2001
HTML, Java Script, VBS Script, MSCD and Oracle

                                                                             Aug 1998 – Feb 2000
C.N.A. Certified Novell 4.11, Computer Technician, Microsoft Certified System Engineer

ACHIEVEMENTS:

Recipient of New York’s Award for Excellence for work with the Autistic community

Emergency Medical Technician

Certified Professional Rescuer