PROFESSIONAL GOAL

To obtain a position in leading Infrastructural architecting, engineering and support that will challenge my abilities and provide for continued growth and learning.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Enterprise Architect/Team Lead

• Architected, deployed and migrated EMC Clariion CX-340 and Celerra NS-480 storage units consisting of 28 physical Windows hosts and 1Pb of data to VNX2 5800 utilizing file/block-based migration methods.
• Designed, implemented and managed 6 Windows 2012 R2 File and 5 Windows 2012 R2 DFS servers to facilitate VNX migration.
• Architected, deployed and migrated 20 VMware ESX 4.x hosts onto 26 HP DL380p G8 servers consisting of ESXi 5.1 u1 platform utilizing HA, DRS, SVMotion and VMotion technologies.
• Designed, deployed and migrated 3 VMware ESXi 5.1 u1 hosts onto 12 Cisco UCS B200M3 blades consisting of ESXi 5.5 u2 platform utilizing HA, DRS, SVMotion and VMotion technologies.
• Developed, designed and deployed P2V conversion/consolidation efforts for 1 Virtual Center, 22 MS-SQL and 38 application related servers to reduce overall physical footprint and reduce power costs.
• Designed, deployed and upgraded the firmware on 4 Cisco MDS-9140 Fibre switches to reflect rev. 5.2 and 4 Brocade Connectrix DS-5300b Fibre switches to reflect rev. 7.02. to perform ISL integration between switches.
• Architected and migrated 5 Windows 2003 AD DCs to reflect 1 Windows 2008 R2 DS and 3 Windows 2012 DS servers consisting of 1 empty Forest Root Domain and 4 subdomains tree-model.
• Designed, developed and deployed SCOM 2012 R2 and VMware vCenter Operations Manager ver. 5.8 for system/health monitoring and capacity planning.
• Architected and prototyped Infoblox Trinzic 1420 DDI solution for a highly-available and secure method of DNSSEC, DHCP and IPAM to meet our DOD regulatory requirements.
• Designed and prototyped NetApp FAS2040 and Nimble CS240 storage solutions for our remote sites.
• Developed PowerShell scripts to automate manual administrative tasks.
• Supervised a staff of six System Administrators/Engineers to support environmental needs.

Confidential

Sr. Enterprise Architect

• Designed, implemented and managed a broad spectrum of SANs consisting of 1-EMC VNX2 5800, 1-EMC VNX2 7600, 2-IBM Storwize 7000s, 4-XIV 2812s, 2-DS8700s, 2-DS4800s and 6-HP EVA 8000s to establish LUNs, Storage Groups/Pools, LUN Masking utilizing 2 Brocade Silkworm 48K Fabric Directors via EMC UniSphere, XIV console, SSH cLI and PowerShell scripting to maintain the overall storage infrastructure.
• Architected and migrated EMC Symmetrix DMX 3000 consisting of 11 physical Windows hosts and 30Tbs of data to VNX2 5800/7600 arrays utilizing file/block-based migration methods.
• Architected, deployed and managed 32 VMware ESXi 5.0/5.1 u1 hosts onto 12 Cisco UCS B-series blades and 20 IBM X-series servers utilizing HA, DRS, SVMotion and VMotion technologies.
• Lead project and re-designing Exchange 2010 landscape to consist of 1 DAG with 8 Virtual MBX servers, 2 HUB/CAS roles and 1 Site resiliency for High-Availability.
• Developed PowerShell scripts to automate manual administrative tasks.
• Supervised a staff of eight System Administrators/Engineers to support environmental needs.

Confidential

Lead Sr. Systems Specialist

• Designed, upgraded and deployed 1 Windows 2008 AD Forest FRD to Windows 2008 R2 FRD consisting of 2 Directory Services/DNS servers with multiple-tree model consisting of 8 Directory Services servers with one-way trust/bi-direction trusts and 2 RODCs based in perimeter.
• Architected and managed Active Directory Services consisting of 12 DC/DNS servers running Kerberos authentication in a multi-site model supporting 50000 users with 130 GPOs, 6 DFS roles, 2 Certificate Authority servers, 2 Threat Management Gateways, 1 ForeFront Identity Manager, and 400 application servers.
• Lead project and re-built 8 Windows 2008 R2 AD DC server-cores to full-blown Windows 2008 R2 DCs to provide 3 System Administrators the ability to perform tasks via the Administrative GUIs.
• Designed, developed and migrated 1 Windows 2008 R2 server-core DHCP/WINS services to 2 Windows Server 2012 Highly-available DHCP consisting of 685 scopes.
• Architected and implemented 2 Virtual Identity Servers VIS to flatten-LDAP structure utilizing SSO and two-factor authentication methods.
• Lead project and architected Exchange 2010 solution consisting of 1 DAG, 2 CAS, 2 HUB and 3 MBX servers.
• Developed and migrated 280 Blackberry users onto BES 5.03 mr7 for Exchange 2010 lifecycle.
• Designed and deployed 3 Cisco UCS B-series 5108 chassis in remote Datacenters consisting of 7 B440s and 10 B230s to condense the hardware footprint and reduce power consumption.
• Architected and implemented VMware Update Manager 5.1 to automate the upgrade of VMware tools, Hardware versions, and vAppliances across 680 virtual guests.
• Architected, deployed and managed 28 VMware ESXi 5.1 u1 servers onto Cisco UCS B-series and IBM BladeCenter X-series class blades utilizing HA, DRS, SVMotion and VMotion technologies.
• Designed, implemented and managed NetApp N-Series storage arrays consisting of 2-5300s, 2-6060s, 8-6240s, establishing LUNs, Initiators groups, WWNs, LUN Masking utilizing OnCommand Mgmt., SSH cLI and PowerShell scripting.
• Upgraded the firmware on NetApp N-Series 5300/6240 arrays to reflect OnTap v. 8.1-7mode, Cisco MDS-9140 Fibre switches to reflect rev. 5.2 1b and Cisco UCS B-Series Core/Blades to reflect v. 2.0 4b .
• Lead project and designed secondary failover Datacenter utilizing EMC VMAX storage, EMC V-PLEX architecture, Cisco Nexus 1000v, Cisco Nexus 1100, Virtual Security Gateway and VMware 5.1 technologies.
• Architected, deployed and managed VMware Operations Manager v.5 to monitor VI, develop custom Dashboards for Operations/Upper Mgmt. and provide capacity planning reports.
• Designed and deployed 3 WSUS 3.0 sp1 servers onto Windows 2008R2 to conform to SOX/HIPPA regulatory compliance.
• Provided Technology Roadmaps, Technical Direction and Platform Capacity planning for Upper Management.
• Supervised a staff of seven System Administrators/Engineers to facilitate administrative tasks and support environmental needs.

Confidential

Team Leader/Sr. Network/System Engineer

• Architected and upgraded 16 Windows 2003 AD DCs to reflect Windows 2008 R2 native-mode consisting of 1 empty Forest Root Domain and 3 subdomains tree-model.
• Designed, decommissioned, and consolidated 26 Windows 2003 AD DCs to standalone Windows 2003 server roles.
• Architected, migrated and decommissioned 2 legacy Windows NT 4.0 Domains, 2 legacy Exchange 5.5 back-end servers, 2 Exchange 5.5. Front-end servers, consisting of 2000 user/computer objects.
• Designed and managed EMC VMAX 20K utilizing SRDF for synchronous replication to remote datacenter.
• Developed and implemented EMC VMAX 20K consisting of 200TBs of storage utilizing Performance Optimizer to generate workload reports and Time Finder to replicate LUNs across SPs.
• Architected, deployed and supported 3 VMware ESX 4.1 u2 servers onto Cisco UCS B-series class blades utilizing HA, DRS, SVMotion and VMotion technologies.
• Designed and deployed 2 Cisco UCS B-series chassis in remote Datacenters to alleviate the need of physical hardware and power consumption.
• Architected and managed 2 Cisco MDS 9148 Fabric switches consisting of 135 end-point devices.
• Upgraded the firmware on 2 Cisco MDS 9148 Fabric switches and Cisco UCS B-series blades to current levels.
• Designed and implemented automating the Windows 7 desktop image build to rollout massive workstations utilizing WDS.
• Provided Upper Management with Exchange 2003/2007 database sizes/users, AD logins, Outlook cached clients and various Public Folder reports to streamline the Exchange 2007 upgrade transition.
• Developed PowerShell scripts to automate manual administrative tasks.
• Responsible for a staff of five Helpdesk/System Administrators to support environmental needs.

Confidential

Chief Information Technology Specialist

• Architected and deployed 1 Exchange 2007 CCR cluster consisting of 2 Exchange CAS and 2 Hub Transport Exchange servers supporting 250 users.
• Architected and implemented Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 with SQL 2008 back-end to monitor AD, IIS, Exchange 2003/2007, Service Level Dashboard 2.0, BizTalk, GPO, WINS and Citrix technologies.
• Designed and managed 4 EMC CX4, 4 Complement SC8000 and 2 EqualLogic PS6110 storage arrays consisting of 400TBs to load-balance the workload to support entire infrastructure.
• Developed and implemented conversion from V2P VMware Virtual Center v4.1 to provide access to VMware vSphere 4.1 environment.
• Designed and implemented Juniper SRX240 firewall utilizing NATs, VPN, and IDS technologies for remote sites.
• Provided Upper Management with Exchange 2003/2007 database sizes/users, AD logins, Outlook cached clients and various Public Folder reports to streamline the Exchange 2007 upgrade transition.

Confidential

IT Manager/Sr. Infrastructure Engineer

• Designed and implemented Cisco ASA 5505/5510 routers and Cisco 3524/3550-XL switches for 15 remote offices to support LAN/WAN networks.
• Architected and deployed 2 Palo Alto PA2000 appliances to secure URL filtering, IPS/IDS and application control.
• Architected, deployed and supported 3 VMware ESX/ESXi 3.54/vSphere 4.0 servers, 2 Exchange 2007 servers, 3 Citrix Metaframe farms, 1 WSUS 3.0, Sophos Anti-virus, 1 Barracuda Anti-spam, 2 Symantec Backup-Exec 10.x servers, 4 Windows 2003 Active Directory DC's and 150 customers.
• Deployed and supported Hitachi AMS 2100 Storage to provision LUNs, WWNs and HBAs for physical/virtual servers consisting of 2 fabrics.
• Architected and deployed XioTech Emprise 7000 consisting of 25TBs of storage to support VI.
• Designed, implemented and managed 2 Cisco MDS 9124 Fabric switches for zoning.
• Developed and deployed Juniper SRX650 routers and EX4200 switches to transition from Cisco infrastructure.
• Architected and deployed Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 supporting 20 Windows 2003/2008 servers consisting of Windows SQL 2000/2005, IIS 6.0/7/0, AD 2003/2008, Exchange 2007, BizTalk and DNS.
• Developed Powershell/VBS/WMI scripting to automate manual administrative.
• Responsible for a staff of two Desktop Administrators to support environmental needs.

Confidential

Consultant Sr. Active Directory/Messaging Migration Engineer

• Lead project, architected and migrated existing Windows Exchange 2003 to 8 Exchange 2007 CCR servers consisting of 4 Exchange CAS and 4 Hub Transport Exchange servers supporting 10000 users.
• Architected and migrated over 25000 Active Directory/Exchange 5.5/2000/2003 users from remote Windows NT4.0/2000/2003 Active Directory forests to 6 Clustered Exchange 2003 Back-end servers for continued growth and stability utilizing Quest Migration Manager v. 8.3 supporting 130000 Outlook user base.
• Developed Powershell/VBS/ADSI/WMI scripting to automate manual administrative tasks against LDAP/Exchange.
• Lead project, architected, upgraded and migrated existing Windows Exchange 2003 to 2 Exchange 2007 CCR servers consisting of 2 Exchange CAS and 2 Hub Transport Exchange server supporting 5000 users.
• Architected and implemented Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 Console with SQL 2005 back-end to monitor AD, IIS and Exchange technologies.
• Administrated and supported 40000 Active Directory users security access, permissions, 140 GPO's, 70 AD DC's, 1000 Application servers, 4 Blackberry Enterprise Servers and 60 remote sites.
• Architected and implemented 4 VMWare ESX 3.x Hosts onto EMC Clariion CX3 to P2V 40 servers.
• Architected and implemented 12 Windows Software Update Services 3.0 servers running IIS 6.0 to distribute Microsoft critical related patches to entire Windows Enterprise for SOX compliancy.
• Designed and deployed Windows 2003 ADS to automate Windows 2003 server installations.
• Configured and deployed Cisco ASA 5540 firewall rules, NATs, ACLs and VPN tunnels to support remote branch sites.
• Supervising a staff of twenty-five System Administrators to support administrative tasks and migration efforts.

Confidential

Messaging Team Leader/Sr. Systems Engineer

• Designed and implemented 2 Ironport Load-balanced c350 Anti-spam appliances to alleviate soliciting email.
• Architected, configured, upgraded and deployed 2 Cisco 11501 Content Services Switches for Load-balancing and 2 F5Bip IP LTM's to Load-balance 6 Exchange 2003 OWA front-end servers.
• Lead project, architected, upgraded and migrated existing Windows Exchange 2003 to 2 Exchange 2007 CCR servers consisting of 2 Exchange CAS and 2 Hub Transport Exchange server supporting 3000 users.
• Architected and deployed 12 Windows Clustered Exchange 2003 servers on HP EVA12000 SAN.
• Designed and deployed 4 Windows Exchange 2003 OWA front-end servers consisting of Windows Mobile Access to support 400 users.
• Architected and implemented 2 VMware ESX 3.0 Hosts onto EMC Clariion CX3 to P2V 60 servers.
• Deployed 2 BES 4.1.2 servers to load-balance the existing environment and prepare for continued growth.
• Architected and migrated over 18000 Active Directory/Exchange users from remote Windows 2000 Active Directory forests to 5 Clustered Exchange 2003 Back-end servers for continued growth and stability utilizing Quest Migration Manager v. 4.1.
• Architected and implemented Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 Console with SQL 2005 back-end to monitor BizTalk, AD, IIS, SQL and Exchange technologies.
• Designed, configured and implemented Quest Spotlight on Exchange/Active Directory onto 35 Windows Enterprise Domain Controllers and 16 Exchange clustered/standalone servers to ensure the stability/performances of our high available Windows systems.
• Supported and maintained 38000 users, 20 Exchange 2003 Clustered servers, 20 Windows DC's, 5 Blackberry Enterprise Servers, 2 Ironport Anti-spam devices, 4 Veritas NetBackup 6.5 Media servers, 1 LCS 2005 server and 2 SCOM servers.
• Designed, implemented and configured 6 Quest products consisting of Spotlight on AD/Exchange, Password Manager, Message Stats, Reporter and Archive Manager.
• Developed PowerShell/ADSI/VBS/WSH and Batch-line scripting to automate manual administrative tasks.
• Supervised a staff of six System Administrators to facilitate administrative tasks and support environmental needs.

Confidential

Consultant Sr. Systems/Network/Exchange Engineer

• Re-architected Exchange 2003 Storage Groups/Mailstore Databases and Active Directory OU structure for optimal performance, load balancing and granular GPO security management.
• Designed and migrated 4000 Exchange users over to 3 Exchange 2003 Clustered Back-end servers for continued growth.
• Architected and upgraded Blackberry Enterprise Server 4.04 from MSDE to BES 4.1 and MS-SQL 2000 backend.
• Architected and implemented 10 VMware ESX 2.54 Virtual servers onto HP Compaq DL 380's.
• Upgraded all Quest product line consisting of Active Roles Server, Password Manager, AD Recovery Manager, Group Policy Manager, Spotlight on AD/Exchange, Message Stats, Reporter and Archive Manager.
• Architected and administrated 22 AD Remote Sites, 25 DC's and 8 Exchange 2003 mixed-Clustered servers.
• Architected, configured and implemented Quest Spotlight on Exchange/Active Directory onto 8 Exchange 2003 Clustered servers and 22 Windows Domain Controllers.
• Designed, configured and deployed Cisco ASA 5520/PIX 515e/525 firewall rules, translations, VPN access/tunnels and failover to support Corporate, remote branch offices and LOBs.
• Architected and migrated 7500 Exchange end-users over to 2 Clustered Exchange 2003 Virtual servers utilizing 4 Storage groups and 20 mailstores for better performance, load-balancing and optimization.
• Designed and configured Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Console/Management Packs for AD, DNS, Exchange, FRS, IIS, BizTalk and DFS for Microsoft specific application monitoring.
• Lead project, designed and deployed 5 Exchange 2003 backend-messaging servers in an Active Directory 2003 environment supporting 7500 users.
• Re-architected and implemented 2 Exchange Outlook Web Access OWA front-end servers for 10000 end users to access email over the internet from any web browser.
• Designed and deployed Exchange 2003 RPC over HTTPS to support 7500 end-users so email is accessible over the internet via Outlook 2003 client. .
• Administrated, supported and maintained 10 Exchange Messaging Servers 5.5/2000/2003, 50 Windows Server 2000/2003 Active Directory Domain Controllers running on Windows NT/2000/2003 in a mixed mode environment and 2 Blackberry Enterprise Servers running 4.04 with MS-SQL 2000 back-end.
• Implemented, administrated and configured 20 VMware ESX 2.51 Virtual Servers onto HP Compaq DL 380's.
• Responsible for a staff of six Desktop/System Administrators to support environmental needs.

Confidential

Team Leader/Sr. Architect

• Architected and migrated 4 Exchange 5.5 Servers from an IBM Netfinity 5500M20 to a Compaq ML 530 running Exchange 2000.
• Lead project, architected and upgraded Primary Windows NT 4.0 Domain Controller to Windows 2000 Server with Active Directory 2000.
• Architected and implemented a backup SAN solution over fibre via Veritas Backup Exec 8.x/9.x consisting of ADIC Scalar 1000 library with AIT2 Tape Technology.
• Administrated and maintained Windows 2000/2003 environment, IIS 5.0, DDNS, WINS, DHCP and RAS servers in a multi-site environment Primary in WB and Secondary servers in NY .
• Designed and migrated 4 Windows 2000 file servers to an EMC Clariion Storage System for external data storage.
• Deployed, administrated, fine-tuned, sized, backups, recovery, security, maintenance plans and upgrades of Microsoft SQL 7.0/2000 databases for various applications and departments.
• Responsible for a staff of eighteen consisting of System, Desktop and Helpdesk Technicians.

Confidential

Supervisor/Technical Specialist

• Architected, configured, supported and deployed Computer Associates UniCenter 2.x monitoring software into heterogeneous environments consisting of Unix, Linux, Windows, Mainframe network operating systems and various networking hardware devices.
• Integrated heterogeneous environment consisting of Novell Netware 4.x and Windows NT 4.x Servers in a 1000 user environment.
• Designed, developed, configured and maintained 40 AIX 3.x and Solaris 7.x Backup, Anti-virus, Monitoring, IDS, IPS and Database servers for Computer Associates 3rd party in-house developed applications for POC.
• Responsible for a staff of twenty Helpdesk Technicians to support CA-Applications for external clients.

HARDWARE

NetApp Storage FAS2020/n-Series 5300/6060/6240s, EMC VMAX 20K, EMC Symmetrix DMX 3000, VNX2 5800/Celerra CX700/NS480 Storage arrays, EMC Clariion CX340, IBM XIV 2812/DS8700/DS4800/Storwize 7K, HP EVA 8K/12K, Hitachi AMS 2100, Xiotech Emprise 7K, Cisco UCS B-series B230-440 blades, Dell Poweredge Servers 1750-2950 R900's, Compaq Proliant Servers DL/ML 360/380s 580/980s, HP Storage Works MSA 1000, IBM Netfinity and e-Servers, ADIC Scalar 1K/2K Tape Library, Dell PowerVault ML6010, NetGear NAS 4200, Juniper SA2500 VPN Concentrator, Palo Alto 2000, Brocade Silkworm 48K Directors, Cisco PIX 515e, Cisco ASA 5505/5510, Cisco MDS 9100/9400 fiber switch, Cisco 3524/3550/3560/4500 switches, Juniper EX2200/4200 switch, Juniper SRX100/210/240/650 router/firewall, Cisco Wi-Fi AP1242, Barracuda Antispam 400, Cisco Ironport c350, Dell/Gateway/IBM/HP Laptops, Hard drives IDE/EDIE/SCSI/SATA/SAS/Fiber, HP/Xerox Printers, Standard Ethernet Hubs, Standard Fax Modems, Standard Tape Backup Subsystems DDS2/3, DLT/SDLT, AIT2/3, LTO2/LTO3/LTO4 , and Standard CD-ROMS.

SOFTWARE

PC/MS-DOS 6.22, Windows NT 3.5x/4.0 Server/WS, Windows 2000/2003/2008/2012/2012R2 Server/Workstation, Windows XP, Vista/Windows 7 Enterprise, Active Directory 2000/2003/2008/2012, Novell Intranetware 4.x, Solaris 8.x/9.x, EMC-UniSphere/NaviSphere, Powerpath, MS-Exchange 5.5/2000/2003/2007/2010, MS-SQL Server 7.0/2000/2005/2008, EMC Replication Manager SE, VMware ESX 2.51/4.1, ESXi 3.54/vSphere 4.0/5.x, vCenter 3.x-5.x, Vizioncore vRanger 4.5, ForeFront Identity Manager 2010, Blackberry Enterprise Server 4.x-5.03mr7, Microsoft Operations Manager 2005, System Center Operations Manager 2007, SharePoint 2010, CA-UniCenter 2.x, Quest products Active Roles Server, Password Manager, AD Recovery Manager, Group Policy Manager, Spotlight on AD/Exchange, Message Stats, Reporter, Archive Manager , Websense Web filter,, GFI Mail Essentials, Track-IT 4.x/5.x/6.x, KIX Start, Windows Batch Scripting, PowerShell/VBS/WSH/ADSI scripting, Partition Magic 4.x/5.x, LapLink 2000, Ghost 5.x, Hyena 5.x/6.x, Veritas NetBackup 5.1MP4/6.5, Veritas Backup Exec 4.x/2010, ARCserve 6.x, Inoculan/IT Anti-Virus, RP32, PC Anywhere, Control IT 5.0, Symantec NAV 9.x, Symantec Mail Essentials 4.5/5.x, Postini Message Center, Zephyr Passport Web to Host 2004/2007, Trend Micro A.V. Suite Scanmail 7.0, ServerProtect 5.58, OfficeScan 7.3 , Compaq Insight Manager 8.x, Internet Explorer 8.0, Netscape Navigator, Crystal Reports, PC Applications MS Office XP/2007/2010 , Windows Support tools, Resource kits, PS tools