OBJECTIVE: To operate in an environment where I can utilize my skills and talents as a professional computer internetwork administrator/engineer and desktop hardware technician.

Skillset:

Cisco:
9+ years of Advanced Cisco Router, Switch, Firewall, VPN Concentrator, Clean Access, Wireless AP experience.
Configuration of VTP, VLANs, UDLD, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, IGRP, RIP, MPLS, DLSw, GRE Routing, Access Lists, QoS, Troubleshooting, Monitoring and Maintenance.
Advanced configuration of Cisco 2500/2600/4000/7000/12008/2900/3750/6509
Advanced troubleshooting of data circuits such as OS3, OC-12, OC-48, OC-128, DS0, DS3, Point to Mux, ATM, SMDS, T1, Frame Relay, ISDN circuits.

Firewalls:
10+ years of advanced configuration and troubleshooting the following network security devices:

• Cisco Secure PIX 506/515/525/535 Firewalls
• WatchGuard Firebox 700/1000/Edge/x500
• Nokia IP 250 using CheckPoint Firewall-1
• SonicWall VPN/TZ series
• Cisco ASA 5505/5510/5520 Adaptive Security Appliance

Usage Access Lists, Port Forwarding, Analysis of data packets, prevention of DoS(Denial of Service) Attacks, Filter Multicast, Filter NaT Redirection, Proxy Server, Websense Content Filtering, VPN, VPN Pass-thru, Network Access Restrictions.

Microsoft Active Directory:
10+ years of Administering Microsoft Networks/Technologies. Advanced configuration of Domain Controllers, AD Replication, Group Policies, Sites, FSMO Role Management.

Microsoft Exchange Server:
10+ years Advanced management of mailboxes, Mailbox Recipient Policies, Clustering, Load Balancing, information store maintenance, Front-End Server, Hub Transport setup and configuration, OWA. Performed many major Exchange Server Migrations/Upgrades.

SUN OS/Linux Administration:
4+ years of solid network troubleshooting in SUN/Linux environment.
Managing user accounts/permissions, CRON jobs, BASH shell scripts, DNS, Kernel Upgrades/patches, Apache/Tomcat management/troubleshooting. Remote Administration using ssh/TightVNC utilities.

Citrix Metaframe Presentation Server:
9+ years of Citrix Metaframe Server Farm Administration, monitoring, maintenance.
Rolled out many enterprise Citrix Farms consisting of Citrix Metaframe Presentation Server 4.0/4.5/XPe/XPa.
Management of Citrix Server Licensing, Printer Management, Client Drive Mappings, Policies, ICA Sessions
Maintaining Citrix Zones, Datastore, & Localhost cache using various tools such as:

• dsmaint
• dscheck
• chfarm
• driveremap
• cltprint
• altaddr
• aiesetup
• enablelb
• icaport
• imaport
• query

VMWare:
6+ years of solid administration of VMWare ESX Hosts using VMWare Infrastructure Client, VMotion, VmWare Converter(P2V).

Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2000/6.5/7.0:
9+ years solid administration of SQL Server for Database backend support for various applications.
Managing and maintaining databases.
Troubleshooting indexing problems with databases and database repair.

Microsoft IIS Server 6.0/5.0/4.0:
9+ years solid administration of IIS Server for Website and FTP maintenance.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Montgomery, AL Jan 2007-May 2009
Network Planning Engineer/Architect

• Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Management and maintenance.
• Management of major enterprise IT projects
• Currently working on PMP Certification(member of PMI)-Member of PMI and Montgomery Chapter
• Project Planning and Phase Management
• Project Scheduling and Implementation
• Enterprise Project Roll-Outs
• Project Team Scheduling
• Creation of Technical Design Documentation
• Cisco Advanced Router and Switch Configuration
• Cisco Catalyst 4500, 6500 Series
• Cisco ASA 5501, 5520 Series
• Cisco Aironet 1252 Series
• Cisco VPN 3000 Series Concentrator
• Qos, MPLS, Access Lists, Traffic Policy Management
• BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, IGRP, RIP 1& 2
• Active Directory Maintenance and Replication Expertise
• Visio Diagram Creation
• Network Security Management
• Nortel Contivity Series VPN Concentrators
• Citrix Metaframe Presentation Server 4.5
• Citrix Datacollector, Local Host Cache, DataStore Management
• Citrix Server Farm Network Load Balancing
• Windows Server 2003 Distributed File System
• FreeNAS Network Attached Storage
• ReadyNAS Network File Sharing
• HTTP File Server 1.6 Web Network File Sharing
• IBM DASD(Directly Attached Storage Device) for File sharing
• Management of Network File Shares and Security
• P2P Network File Sharing/Hosting
• Citrix Provisioning Server 4.5 for DataCenters and Desktops
• Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 SP1 and 2000 for mainly monitoring and reporting for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and 2000 and Active Server Directories in a vast enterprise environment.
• Microsoft Group Policy Management
• Microsoft Operations Manager Workgroup Edition
• Network Intrusion Detection Systems(MD5)
• QuickBooks Pro Premier/Config/Networking(Client/Server)
• Peachtree Accounting Software Configuration/Networking
• Check Mate Accounting Software Configuration
• SQL 2005 Clustering.
• Management of Cisco Catalyst LAN Switches
• VMWare ESX Server Management
• Linux and Microsoft Active Directory Administration
• Remedy/Microsoft Project Server for project documentation

Side/Consulting Projects: Date: 2001 Confidential, (4 month consulting project)

• Worked as a Senior Engineer/Architect in Major Token Ring/IPX/SPX to TCP/IP AD Environment
• Major Conversion of 10,000+ user mailbox/messaging Novell GroupWise to Exchange Server 2003
• Smooth movement of all 10,000 mailboxes
• Fairly smooth conversion from Novell e-Directory environment to Active Directory
• GroupWise to Outlook
• Nortel 8000 Series Token-Ring Concentrators to Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches
• Vantive Ticketing System to Remedy AR

Confidential, Atlanta, GA Jan 2005-Dec 2006
Network Engineer

• Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Management and maintenance.
• Management and troubleshooting of network printers.
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
• Cisco Advanced Router and Switch Configuration
• Active Directory Maintenance and Replication Expertise
• Macromedia Flex
• Citrix Metaframe Presentation Server 4.0
• Nortel Contivity Series VPN Concentrators
• Nortel Baystack Switches and Routers
• Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 SP1 and 2000 for mainly monitoring and reporting for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and 2000 and Active Server Directories in a vast enterprise environment.
• Microsoft Group Policy Management
• Microsoft Operations Manager Workgroup Edition
• Network Intrusion Detection Systems(MD5)
• QuickBooks Pro Premier/Config/Networking(Client Server)
• Peachtree Accounting Software Configuration/Networking
• Check Mate Accounting Software Configuration
• Server clustering for redundancy and reliability.
• Management of Cisco Catalyst LAN Switches

SAP R/3 technical support for General Ledger, Account Payable/Receivable and Month-End tasks SAP R/3 Administration on Windows Server 2000 Platform for FICO, HR, MM, and SD

• Roll-out and deployment of laptops and PCs
• Windows Server 2003 Distributed File System
• FreeNAS Network Attached Storage
• ReadyNAS Network File Sharing
• HTTP File Server 1.6 Web Network File Sharing
• IBM DASD(Directly Attached Storage Device) for File sharing
• Management of Network File Shares and Security
• P2P Network File Sharing/Hosting
• Project Planning and Phase Management
• Project Scheduling and Implementation
• Enterprise Project Roll-Outs
• Project Team Scheduling
• Cisco and Microsoft Training Experience(4 years)
• Blackberry Enterprise Server 3.6 for Microsoft Exchange Server-handling and accounts PIN generation and blackberry synchronizations issues resolution
• Creating and maintaining images on network using GHOST Enterprise and Altiris
• Cisco VPN setup and configuration on 3000 series Concentrators
• Management of Cisco Aironet Wireless Access Point and Microsoft Certificates for Security and Access
• Management and maintenance of Citrix Metaframe Presentation Servers
• Management of McAfee Virus Scan Server and Anti-SPAM for Email
• Setup and management of networked digital sender for end user scanning and email
• Management of network GPO (Group Policy Objects) for access and security of overall network.
• DNS Server management on Server 2003
• Remote end user assistance via REAL VNC, DameWare, and Microsoft Remote Desktop and management of Server 2003 Terminal Servers
• Management of Cisco Core Switch-Router Catalyst 6509
• IDS(Intrusion Detection System) management and policies
• Traffic policing of network traffic for efficiency, QoS (Quality of Service) and reliability.
• Switch-Router failover management for redundancy
• Spyware protection
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, SharePoint Portal Server 2003 config and management, File and Print Server management.

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA Dec 2001-Jan 2005
Senior Network Architect

• Served on Engineering team in troubleshooting internet circuit problems for wide range of customers with Frame Relay, T1, SMDS, ATM, HiBACK, ATM LANE circuits.
• Circuit Provisioning/Test-and-Turn-up
• Implementation Manager of Circuits
• WISE Windows Installer Application Packaging
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
• Microsoft IIS 5.0, 6.0 Administration
• Apache
• PHP
• MySQL
• Debian Linux Web Servers
• Red Hat Linux Administration
• Citrix Metaframe XPe Administration with HEAVY Nfuse 1.7 usage
• REMEDY Ticketing System usage and management of work ticket requests
• Active Directory Management and administration for DNS, WINS, Printers, Static DHCP Mapping, and domain management
• Expertise in pinpointing circuit issues of jitter, latency, failed connectivity, degraded performance, routing failures.
• Blackberry Enterprise Server for Exchange Server 2000
• Imaging and Testing of PCs prior to full-scale deployment.
• Deployment experience of PCs using SMS, GHOST Enterprise, Altiris
• Windows Server 2003 Distributed File System
• FreeNAS Network Attached Storage
• ReadyNAS Network File Sharing
• Management of SAP R/3 release 4.70 on Windows 2000 Advanced Server
• SAP R/3 support for General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable
• SAP R/3 Administration on Windows Server 2000 Platform for FICO, HR, MM, and SD
• HTTP File Server 1.6 Web Network File Sharing
• IBM DASD(Directly Attached Storage Device) for File sharing
• Management of Network File Shares and Security
• P2P Network file Sharing/Hosting
• Project Planning and Phase Management
• Project Scheduling and Implementation
• Enterprise Project Roll-Outs
• Project Team Scheduling
• Microsoft Exchange 2003 Administration and Management(Well versed in Novell GroupWise)
• HP OpenView and MRTG Network/WAN Management
• Network Capacity Planning for efficient and seamless migrations(10 years)
• IBM Tivoli for Desktop Software Deployment and Upgrades and Asset Management tracking of all equipment for company security
• DNS request entries of A-Records, CNAME Records, MX Records, PTR Records, NS Records, SOA Records, and creation of entire DNS zone files (including zone file transfers, DNS cutovers, etc.)
• EXPERT DNS and Circuit Troubleshooter and EXCELLENT CUSTOMER SERVICE SKILLS.
• IP Subnetting EXPERT
• CISCO Frame Relay, ATM, Traffic Management EXPERT.
• Well-versed in VPN Network setup and configuration(8 years)
• RF(Wireless) 802.11 LAN/WAN setup and configuration(3 years)
• Backup Engineer for ASRC dept when short-staffed and ASRC employees were on vacation.
• Managed engineering team of 8 people in day-to-day operations.
• Technical Writer for entire DNS/ASRC Department for all Internet circuits(Frame Relay, ISDN, HiBACK, ATM LANE, SMDS, T1, OC3, OC12, OC48, OC192, DS3 Circuits)-9 years))
• Novell GroupWise to Exchange 2003 Migration
• Microsoft Office 2003(Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, InfoPath)

Confidential, Atlanta, GA Sept 2000-Dec 2001
Senior Network Architect/Team Lead

• Assistant Manager and Senior Network Architect over “Research and Development” dept. This department was responsible for deciding what networking equipment the company would implement in their strategic POP (Points of Presence) locations.
• Large “Greenfield” environment where I performed a lot of lab testing of various LAN/WAN equipment.
• Made recommendations to the Director as to which equipment should be used in our POP (Points of Presence) locations worldwide.
• CISCO Router 12008 GSR(Gigabit Switch Router) setup and configuration for OC3/OC-12/OC-48/STM-1 for high-speed WAN packet switching and Packet-Over-Synchronous Optical Network(SONET) connections; BGP 4 Peering.
• CISCO VPN 3000 Series VPN Concentrator setup and configuration(6 years)
• RiverStone RS 8000/8600 Layer 2 & 3 Switch-Router setup and configuration for non-blocking, wire-speed Layer-2(switching), Layer-3(routing) and Layer-4(application) switching; Routing OSPF, BGP 2, 3, 4, VLAN Trunking; Port Mirroring; BGP Peering.
• IXIA 1600 Traffic Generator/Analyzer setup and configuration for OSPF and BGP WAN traffic analysis; setup for packet over SONET, Gigabit, and 10/100 Ethernet; GUI configuration.
• ADTECH AX/4000 Traffic Generator and Analyzer- setup and configuration for OSPF and BGP WAN traffic analysis; setup for packet over SONET, Gigabit, and 10/100 Ethernet; GUI configuration, ATM, OC-3/12/48.
• EXTREME Blackdiamond 6808 Core switch setup and configuration for OSPF, MPLS Edge Routing (PoS) and BGP4, policy-based QoS including prioritization, bandwidth management and congestion control, Gigabit Ethernet/OC-12/48/Fast Ethernet configuration; BGP Peering.
• JUNIPER M20 Internet Backbone Router/Switch setup and configuration for OSPF and BGP4 WAN routing; bandwidth and traffic management; Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) setup for traffic engineering and monitoring IP infrastructure; BGP Peering.
• LUCENT AP1000 Access Point Router setup and configuration for OSPF routing and BGP 4 Peering; policy writing for WAN traffic management; CLI and GUI setup.
• Visio 2000 WAN Design- Use of Visio 2000 to create complex WAN designs
• Nortel Baystack 450/Accelar 1000-1200/8000-8600 Switch-Router- Advanced configuration and setup of OSPF routing.
• RF(Wireless 802.11) Access Point setup and configuration
• WAN Capacity Planning for Point-to-MultiPoint Frame Relay Network
• Maintenance and configuration of CISCO VPN Concentrators for secure remote access
• Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint,
• Microsoft Visio 2000

Confidential, Kennesaw, GA April 2000-September 2000

IT Manager (LAN/WAN)

• Replacement manager for company’s IT Data Network Department.
• Managed company’s entire dept (local and remote). IT Department consisted of 35+ employees.
• Large Data Center environment with Exchange, Citrix, and Sharepoint Server Farm.
• Remote Administration of Servers in Farm
• CISCO Router 1005/2500/2505/2610/3600/4700/7000 Series setup, configuration, monitoring; RIP/IGRP/EIGRP/BGP-4/eBGP/iBGP/EGP; Network Addressing, IP Subnetting expert; TCP/IP-TCP, UDP, DNS, IP, ARP, FTP, SMTP, POP3, ICMP, RIP,OSPF, HTTP, SPX; Network Security-IP ACCESS LISTS- Standard, Extended, SAP; FRAME RELAY monitoring-IP, DECnet, AppleTalk, XNS, Novell IPX, CLNS, ISO, Banyan Vines, Transparent Bridging; FECN/BECN ; X.25, LAPB, NRM, ARM, ABM; MPLS, IS-IS.
• CISCO Catalyst 3000, 4000, 5000 Series setup, configuration; LAN Segmentation expert to increase bandwidth; Inter-Switch Link and IEEE 802.1Q VLAN Trunking, BPX/MGX Switching
• Blackberry Enterprise Server for Exchange
• Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 for monitoring Exchange Server 200 events
• ISDN BRI/PRI Troubleshooting and monitoring; RAS implementation; Dial-On-Demand Routing
• Microsoft SNA Administrator, Citrix Metaframe XPe and Nfuse Configuration and Setup, IBM Tivoli for software deployment and hardware/software tracking across an enterprise
• WAN Design, LAN Capacity Planning ; LAN/WAN HelpDesk
• Suretrak 3.0, Constructware, IBM Client Access, Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 ,Microsoft Active Directory for Windows 2000 deployment and implementation, Microsoft Terminal Server, ProLog, Norton Anti-Virus Corporate Edition/2000/5.0, GHOST 5.1, AT& T Global Dialer, MS Office 2000/97, Microsoft SMS 2.0, Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Enterprise Edition, CheckPoint VPN Configuration.
• Red Hat Linux Network, FileSystem, and user Administration; Kernel Compiling, X Window System, Apache, Linux Routing, IPCHAINS, DHCP, SAMBA, NIS Client/Server, Squid Proxy Server, PAM and INETD Configuration; Versions 5.2, 6.0, 6.1.

Confidential, AL 1997-Apr 2000
Windows NT Server 4.0 Network Administrator/Desktop Support Manager
First Major CSC Project,Confidential,
The purpose of this particular project was to create and roll-out an autonomous system for more efficient and centralized communication. Assisted the head Cisco Routing Engineer along with a Team of six other Cisco and Network Engineers in the rollout of two CISCO 7513Core Routers using the "eBGP" routing protocol to connect Brown & Root\'s autonomous system to Fairmont\'s autonomous system.

Confidential, Interdomain consolidation project
Served on same team of six Cisco and Network Engineers in rollout of one CISCO 7500 router using iBGP protocol to better manage company\'s existing interdomain and also give them faster access to the "cloud".

Confidential, Simple WAN upgrade-
Rapid growth of main office in Mobile, AL called for a WAN connectivity upgrade from a regular CISCO 2610 access level router to a more robust CISCO 4700 router using OSPF routing protocol.

• Designed and setup OSPF internetwork for Mobile and neighboring offices in a hierarchy of areas.
• Designated the Mobile office LAN as area 0.0.0.0(The Backbone)
• Administers 300+ user Windows NT Single Master Domain Network
• Installation and Management of SAP R/3
• SAP R/3 Administration on Windows Server 2000 Platform for FICO, HR, MM, and SD
• Troubleshooting and configuration in RAID 5 fault tolerance, domain trust, DNS/WINS, Netware to NT Migration, system registry repair, DHCP, browser services, ARC naming convention, RAS, computer/host name resolution, directory replication, Gateway Services for Netware, profiles and policies, BDC to PDC upgrade, file-level security in NTFS, TCP/IP, NetBEUI, NWLink, IPX/SPX, NDIS, SMB, UNIX Print Server, Novell Netware Administration, WAN monitoring, ATM, 3Com hubs, Switches, Cisco Routers, FDDI, FTP, Firewall
• Citrix Metaframe 1.8 Administration
• Setup and administration of Microsoft Exchange 5.5, IIS v4.0, Proxy Server, SAP R3.
• Configure and troubleshoot Microsoft SQL Server, Prism, and Oracle DBA, Microsoft SMS (Systems Management Server).
• REMEDY Ticketing System for Trouble Requests
• Microstation and Silicon Graphics CAD Applications.
• DOS, Windows 3.X, Windows95/98, Windows NT 3.X, 4.0, Windows 2000 Professional/Server Beta 3, Microsoft Backoffice.

Confidential, Birmingham, AL 1995-1997
Desktop PC Technician/Junior Network Administrator

• Duties were to maintain, troubleshoot, and repair all IBM-compatible and specialized Silicon Graphics UNIX PC, CAD NT Workstations, and Honeywell IGSE non-standard PCs.
• Junior Novell Netware Systems Administrator.
• Novell GroupWise Administration

Confidential, AL 1994-1995
PC Hardware Technician/Asst. Novell Netware Administrator

• Assisted Chief Novell Netware Engineer in the maintenance, upkeep, and configuration of 200+ user network.
• GroupWise configuration and Administration
• Technical Writing
• VPN/Remote Access setup and administration

Confidential, Fort Jackson, SC 1991-1994
Microsoft LAN Manager/SCO UNIX Administration Trainee
Trained under expert MS LAN Manager Engineer and UNIX Administrator in USA DENTAC/MEDDAC UNIT for Moncrief Army Hospital and 4 local Dental Clinics on Unix Administration and WAN engineering.

EDUCATION:
Cisco Certified Network Associate

• CCNA 2.0
• CCNP (2001)

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer

• Certificate (Windows NT Server 4.0, Enterprise, Networking Essentials, NT Workstation 4.0, Windows 98, TCP/IP, Exchange Server 5.5 -MCSE NT
• Advanced Diploma