SUMMARY:

Twenty - Five years of industry experience with consistently increasing skills and responsibilities in system / network management, performance management and system analysis and design. Proven ability to effectively analyze problems and provide timely solutions and to adapt quickly to new technologies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Terrace, FL

Engineer - Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed provisioning and activation of large circuits, from request to activation.
• Lead projects to integrate networks using large scale Network to Network Interfaces (NNIs).
• Worked with multiple internal managers and staff to meet circuit acquisition deadlines.
• Validate circuit data upon handoff to activation.
• Wrote reports and communicated with upper management on status of priority circuits.

Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• System Admin - Enterprise RHEL Linux and Windows 2008 R2 administration
• Managed over 1,000 VMs utilizing VMWARE Vcenter and hosted on HP-C7000s Gen 6, 7 and 8
• Managed Netapp storage volumes and mounts
• Provided on-call support for Confidential, VDMS2.0, EPE & Content Delivery Network (CDN) platforms
• Project lead for building VDMS network elements for RSYNC, SFTP, Signiant, Data Collector, Apigee,
• Leading efforts for remediation of over 1,700 IP security violations, providing reports to directorship.

Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Write triage scripts in order to improve Video on Demand ( Confidential ) team’s response to outages
• Provided Tier II system support for Video on Demand, FIOS menu & Ad Insertion platforms
• Provide technical support and status on technical bridges and executive reports
• Scheduled and performed critical maintenance work during the maintenance window
• Managed technical bridges for third party / vendor maintenance work,

Confidential, Clearwater, FL

Network Supervisor/Operations Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully configured and maintained 40 WIN2000 and WIN2003 Servers that supported over 300 local users and over 75 remote VPN users
• Efficiently managed hardware and software resources through diligent prioritization and planning in order to operate with nearly no budget for two years
• Supervised and trained new System Administrators and LAN support specialist with no degradation of service after all other IT staff members resigned upon finding other employment
• Responsible for all corporate networking hardware; Cisco routers & switches
• Responsible for two Cisco ASAs models 5505 & 5510
• Successfully drafted and tested IT disaster recovery plan

Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Maintained/Administered WIN2000, WIN2003 Servers and support software developers
• Managed software release process from development to testing, to staging and to production
• Resolved all network and hardware problems maintaining high network availability
• Administered over 100 SQL 2000/2005 databases for web server connectivity
• Provided a high degree of workstation availability by utilizing Ghost images
• Performed security audits on all corporate servers including SQL and other application servers
• Maintained all development code with Visual Source Safe and Team Foundation Server
• Successfully deployed code and configured IIS for over 40 client web sites in production and over 100 websites in the test and staging environment

Confidential, Key West, FL

Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Supported all areas of technology to include; project management, technology planning, webpage design and network troubleshooting and maintenance
• Managed entire district’s Anti-Virus solution with over 4,000 nodes
• Responsible for planning, implementation, setup and configuration of all servers, Exchange 5.5/2000, SQL 7.0/2000, IIS 5.0/6.0 services as well
• Administered over 40 Win2000 servers, Exchange 2000/2003, ISA 2000, SQL 2000, NT/Win2000 Clustering, Veritas Backup Exec 9.1, Compaq TL891 Mini Library, HP (NAS)
• Procured and implemented LAN infrastructure equipment with minimal disruption
• Configured DHCP scopes, DNS, WINS, Cisco VPN, Radius, Shiva

Confidential, Tallahassee, FL

UNIX System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for consolidating all acquired company’s technology resources, including all critical business data
• Administered corporate UNIX and NT servers, 200 PCs, and 300 remote nodes
• Administered and maintained remote access and Internet access solutions
• Wrote UNIX shell scripts to automate tasks and distribute data
• Supervised corporate helpdesk personnel, Exchange 5.5, LAN, WAN
• Provided support for PC/printer LAN connectivity issues (TCP/IP, IPX)

Confidential, Largo, Florida

Senior Computer Operator

Responsibilities:

• Controlled multi-mainframe, multi-platform computer systems
• SCO Unix, DG-UX, HP-UX, AIX, SGI, VAX, NT
• Developed software training plan and schedule for all city employees
• Trained personnel in use of all required software
• Provided technical support for various projects including the conversion of a large network from modem communications to satellite communications.

Confidential, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Computer Operator

Responsibilities:

• Controlled large scale, multi-mainframe computer system.