SKILLS

SOFTWARE

WIN NT 4/2K/XP/2K3/2K8/Win7/Win8/2K12, VMware ESX 2.5/3.0x/4.x/5.x, VDI, Hyper-V 2K8/2K12, Exchange 4/5/2K/2K3/2K7/2K10/365/2K13, Citrix/Xen 4.x-6.5x, Office 95-2K10, Veeam Utilities, WinSCP, WSUS, SCOM, SCCM, Lotus Notes 4/5, Novell, McAfee, Tivoli, Trend, Solarwinds Orion , Oracle, UNIX, CentOS, Redhat 3/4/5 Linux, SQL Server 7/2K5/2K8/2K12, Netbackup/Backup Exec various versions , Acronis, etc.

HARDWARE

Numerous Cisco, HP, Dell, IBM servers Blades, UCS, 1U/2U/4U , 460/490/680 G1-G8, Poweredge 16x/17x/18x/19x/28x/29x/68x/etc./R-series,etc, Netapp SAN FAS , LeftHand 4000 series 4300/4500/etc SAN, Equallogic ISCSI SAN, EMC SAN CX300, 40, DMX2, DMX4, Celerra , HP EVA, Sonicwall Firewalls 1xxx series, 5500 series , multiple various makes/models of printers, all mfrs laptops/desktops, Cisco Switches/Routers, Sun, multiple tape drives units/robots/etc, HP Ultrium LTO Tape Drives, ML6000 Dell LTO3/4 Tape Drives, etc.

EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Architect/Sr. Server Admin

• VMware Architect/Design/Implementation : solely responsible for re-architecture of MLCI VMware Project, from planning stages to implementation to daily support, including disaster recovery, in 24x7 trader support environment creation of 4 ESX environments in total
• 300 virtual machine environment spread over two data centers
• HP servers, EMC DMX2/DMX4, MSA 2k/70, Cisco 65xx/9xxx switches
• Documentation of processes, procedures, run books, etc
• Third party application support of numerous trader applications Aurora,
• Other support included: Hyper-V, Red Hat 3/4/5, Active Directory, SharePoint, SQL, Project/Portfolio, Remedy, numerous proprietary applications, etc.

Confidential

Senior Consultant

• Senior Consultant for OEM Partner of VMware, Dell, Veeam, etc
• Exchange/Active Directory Upgrade Design/Implementation
• VMware Architecture/Design/Implementation
• SAN Architecture/Implementation/Etc. Equallogic, EMC, Lefthand, etc.

Confidential

Enterprise Infrastructure Manager

• Hands-on manager role as a 24/7 Enterprise Infrastructure Manager Administrator for a worldwide manufacturing/construction/resource company of 700 users, spread over 30 domestic and intl sites
• Manager of team of three technicians, server/network, day-to-day duties
• Documented entire operations systems into 300 page master document
• Plan/Implement DR site, run books of all 20 sites
• VMware conversion project: Plan and implement conversion of server farm of 60 physical servers into virtual server farm of 80 servers across 9 ESX 3.5 hosts in 2 locations.
• LeftHand SANIQ, EMC CX series, EMC NAS SAN support
• Administration of VMWare ESX 3.5, Ironport, Exchange 2003, Blackberry Server, SharePoint, SQL 2005, Active Directory, Trackit, WeldPro, McAfee EPO 8.5.x, Backup Exec, Acronis, WSUS
• Data Center buildout/management of OK data center/DR site.
• Devised/implemented disk-to-disk plan for backups

Confidential

Enterprise Administrator

• 24/7 Enterprise Administrator position for worldwide oil and gas resource company of 1400 users, remote and Onsite as needed support of data center in Dallas, remote sites in LA, OK, CO, Calgary, other sites
• Daily VMWare environment administration 5 ESX hosts with 70 VM servers installed on multiple C-class HP Blade servers.
• Daily Exchange 2003 administration, Teneros
• Blackberry Server admin support of Active Sync devices
• Backup Exec 10/11x Administrator
• Documentation of procedures and processes
• Deployment of WSUS company-wide, maintenance schedule, etc
• Daily Active Directory administration, creation/modification of GPOs, new users, maintenance, sites and services, split-brain DNS, etc

Confidential

Senior Server Administrator/Lead

• 24/7 Senior Server Administrator position for worldwide energy company
• Daily VMware administration of ESX3 environment
• Daily Exchange 2003 administration
• Daily Equallogic SAN admin, Citrix administration
• Daily Active Directory administration, Creation/Modification of GPOs
• Blackberry Server admin for 1k users, Verizon Push admin
• Develop policies/procedures, maintenance schedule for all servers
• Admin/Maintenance of HP Blades C-Class , HP G5 servers, Dell servers

Confidential

Senior Server Administrator/Lead

• 24/7 Sr Server Administrator position for worldwide aviation company
• Daily Exchange 2003 administration
• Daily VMware administration
• VMware Project: Implement/design VMware rollout, converting most of server farm to VMware ESX environment on HP C-class blade servers.
• Daily Active Directory administration, Creation/Modification of GPOs, new users, maintenance, etc
• Blackberry Server administration for nearly 300 users
• Admin/Maintenance of HP Blades C-Class , G5 servers and Dell servers.
• Among other systems administered : Ironport, Proofpoint, Citrix, EVA

Confidential

Sr. Server Administrator / Server Team Lead

• 24/7 Server Team Lead position, average of 90 hrs/week
• Setup of 9 remote sites for large expansion over 800 growth in 6mths
• Daily Exchange 2003 admin/buildout, Added 36 Mail stores, added front end mail server, secondary exchange server
• Virtualization consolidation project - Converted existing 70 physical server farm to ESX VMware over 12 HP 380G5 servers.
• Daily Active Directory administration, creation of GPOs, new users, maintenance, etc. Raised Forest/domain trust to Win2k3 Native
• Daily Maintenance of EMC SAN CX300 upgraded to a CX3-40 , 40TB
• Blackberry Server administration. Upgrade to version 4.1. Increased users from 20 to over 160 in 6mths.
• Conversion project of Symantec Virusscan to Trend Officescan, succeeding with less than 1 failure rates company-wide
• Implemented WSUS across entire network
• Completed Proofpoint SNMP Gateway enhancements/config, filtering 3 mil mail monthly, blocking 2.1 Million spam/virus emails monthly
• Planned/implemented Acronis Backup Server for business continuity/DR
• Configured/maintained Backup Exec 10d
• Completed Enterprise Citrix Farm implementation from MS Terminal Services to 8-server Citrix Farm, including 3 of the servers as Virtual Citrix servers, all running on HP BL20 Blades.
• Implemented NICE recording software for call tracking purposes
• Upgraded c.Support system to 4.x, maintained, etc. Integrated RightAnswers for Self-help for users
• Led the team in closed tickets for entire tenure
• Created test network and test lab for application testing
• Planned/implemented process and procedures
• Conversion from WhatsUP Gold to Solarwinds Orion 8
• Rebuilt Support Team 11 people , filled in as Team Lead for Desktop Support and Server Team

Confidential

Server Administrator / Project Manager

• Built/configured 75 virtual servers using VMware 2.5 including domain controllers, DNS servers, various application and file servers
• Built/configured one of the first recorded VMware WSUS servers
• Data Center relocation from Pearland to Houston 45day timeframe
• Project Manager to remediate all of NRG Corporate servers using WSUS
• Configured/maintained two Netapp FAS920c Filers including snapshots, Snapdrive, clustering, etc.
• Configured and maintained daily backups using Veritas Netbackup 5.1MP4. Re-engineered policies for maximum throughput, improving backups from 40 success rates to 99 success rates.
• Installed/configured Trend Micro Officescan Server to 900 clients
• Configured/maintained Acronis Enterprise Server backup on 200 servers.