SUMMARY

• Effective at aligning business objectives by accurately assessing issues and architecting appropriate solutions.
• Armed with outstanding abilities in designing, implementing, and supporting diverse technologies.
• Expert at resolving complex IT challenges and issues through in - depth business analysis
• Produced measurable improvements in business efficiency and successful attainment of organizational goals.
• Possess extraordinary Team leading abilities, and special sensitivity to cross cultural staff and cost containment efforts.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential,Fort Washington,PA

Senior Project Engineer

• Designed and implemented projects for clients, including virtual environments, server, network, storage area network (SAN), hybrid environments encompassing multiple layers of technology and platforms
• Identify and resolve escalated client I.T. issues for MSP corporate clients of the firm.
• Led the company’s successful business evolution into larger and more complex projects for significant clients
• Directed and performed multiple Microsoft Azure\Office 365 migrations, hybrid deployments and failover implementations for clients
• Spearheaded Client’s infrastructure migrations into ITS branded “NearCloud” MSP environment. These migrations consisted of extremely custom applications base with varied remote access deployments.

Confidential,Trevose, PA

Senior Systems Engineer

• Directed the architecture VMware server clusters to ensure proper functionality and performance
• Oversaw and maintained more than 500 host virtual environment and conducted fiber storage area network (SAN) fabric upgrades into EMC VNX SANs
• Leveraged expertise in Active Directory design to implement a Windows 2012 domain conversion project that converted servers and services from 2003/2008 Windows Servers
• Completed the installation of vSphere 6.0 infrastructure upgrade at several data centers
• Performed network functionality support and upgrades; including site-to-site DR development based on vSphere replication and multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) /virtual private networks (VPN) wide area network (WAN); as well as Avamar backup implementation and multi-site replication
• Implemented VMware horizon desktop environment; managed the remote data center build up project; and carried out daily trouble shooting and service ticket handling for the corporate infrastructure

Confidential,Newtown, PA

Director of Technology

• Oversaw all facets of corporate and client technology implementation, planning, and systems engineering
• Supervised IT staff of 20-25 engineers, including service desk, NOC, field engineers, and systems/network engineers
• Led corporate project management and implementation, while simultaneously maintaining internal IT infrastructure and systems.
• Served as the primary resource for the entire life cycle of data center construction and maintenance both onsite and remote, with responsibilities for providing direct services to large and small clients
• Managed client WAN implementations, analyzed and architected network designs and oversaw new installations
• Acted as top level internal resource to clients providing current enterprise Lan/Wan architectural concepts and standard best practices
• Administered and designed suitable I.T. environments that are regulatory compliant with regulatory Payment Card Industry (PCI), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) standards and securities

Confidential,Philadelphia, PA

Manager - Network and Infrastructure

• led company expansion into six new business locations including international sites spanning multiple continents.
• Conceptualized and established the Windows 2012 domain, Exchange 2010, Citrix Xenapp 6.5 cluster, and VMware ESXI environment on EMC fiber SAN
• Took charge of the new fiber-based WAN with converged services as well as testing and documenting the site-to-site failover and disaster recovery scenarios between primary locations
• Completed the migration of mobile users from Blackberry to Exchange and Active Synch messaging platforms.
• Implemented creative and cost effective cloud based firewall solution centralized on MPLS WAN with 4G failover of remote offices
• Developed cloud based Phone routing system for site to site failover of phone calls using virtual VoIP router.

Confidential,Philadelphia, PA

Manager - Network and Technical Support

• Spearheaded the conversion of the entire data center from standalone servers into a comprehensive VMware environment
• Developed a cost and operationally effective implementation of a 24/7 total uptime scenarios with redundancy and as well as the migration to VMware platform
• Utilized backup exec and offsite replication in employing an effective VMware level back up strategy
• Developed and Implemented a domain migration from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008 R2 Domain; Exchange 2003 and 2007 to Exchange 2010; as well as the Windows 7 migration from Windows XP and Windows 2000
• Implemented Dell Kace systems for total patch management, software distribution, and machine imaging. Developed and maintained a workable and effective computer lifecycle inventory
• Enhanced client side security by applying domain-level policies
• Analyzed Existing legacy point-to-point and VPN tunnel WAN for a modern MPLS cloud based WAN network
• Provided oversight to the performance of 8-person IT staff while handling services, projects, and IT directives

Confidential, Broomall, PA

Senior Network Engineer | Systems Manager | Network Engineer

• Performed extensive planning, execution, and relocation of the Rader Co. datacenter from Alpharetta, Georgia to Woodruff, South Carolina with 0% downtime to users by leading the migration of the following:
• Citrix farm from Rader domain to JeffreyRader domain
• Encompix ERP system into JeffreyRader Windows 2003 domain
• Email migration from Lotus Notes to Exchange
• Consolidation of all user accounts, data, and remain applications to existing 2003 domain
• Relocated multi-state datacenter without a single man day of service outage. Consolidation of 6 locations into the expanded datacenter
• Conducted systematic assessment of data and network infrastructure needs of and due diligence reviews of both parties.Integrated multinational remote sites at Vancouver, Montreal Canada and Stockholm Sweden, into one MPLS based WAN
• Increased overall performance of data and apps by eliminating various networking conflicts by subnetting and VLAN concept implementation.
• Implemented bridgehead servers at each remote location and simplified the network load.