SUMMARY:

Experienced Network/System Administrator with expertise in server, desktop, mobile, wireless and network support and operations. Strengths include having a short learning curve, broad base of technical proficiency, 19+ years of expertise in information technology and ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a team environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software proficiency: MS Office Suite, Remedy Ticketing System, Visio, Norton Enterprise Antivirus, Sophos Enterprise AV and web management, IBM AS/400 client, What’s Up Gold, Quest Foglight, Tripwire, Symantec NetBackup, AirWave monitoring, Kiwi syslog daemon, Altiris Helpdesk & Deployment Solutions, VNC, RDP and remote management tools, Nagios, Zabbix, Magento, Nginx, NewRelic, Splunk, Graylog...

System expertise: Confidential IOS CLI, Windows 3.1 to 10, Windows Server NT 4.0 - 2016, Microsoft Exchange 2007 - 2013, MS SQL Server 2005 - 2016, Unix (Solaris10), MySQL Server, Linux Distributions (Redhat, Centos, Suse, Ubuntu, Debian based), AS/400, Novell 5.X, Macintosh OS X, VMWare 5.5 ESX Server, HP Blade Servers, HP 3Par SAN, Aruba Wireless, SAN, AeroScout RFID, Ruckus Wireless, Sonicwall, Confidential ASA, Watchguard, Ubiquiti, Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, Confidential, FTP, SSH, Bash Scripting, PowerShell ...

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Onsite System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• In a HP Blade server and HP 3Par SAN with VMWare esx hosts. Linux system administration with Magento eCommerce, NGinx web server, Zimbra email implementation and migration from squirrelmail. Various other server vm’s with Centos and Ubuntu OS. Also Windows servers with AD.
• Ubiquity wireless and switch installations and configurations.
• Sonicwall UTM firewalls were used primarily at their clients.
• Many legacy systems clients had we supported.
• Azure cloud services and Office 365

Confidential, Salt Lake City, Utah

Senior Technical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Network Implementation, Design and support for remote and local networks using various network devices. Watchguard firewall appliances
• System Administration and implementation of Windows Server 2012 r2 Failover Hyper-V clustering
• Linux Centos and Ubuntu Administration. Serving various functions specific to clients
• Windows Server 2003, 2008 and 2012 Administration. Serving Primary Domain Controller, Primary DNS, MS SQL Servers, Connectwise and Labtech RMM.
• Major project for SA International, moving and converting to VM several servers from NJ to the C7 location in Utah. And building a DR Site for them is in progress.

Confidential, Bountiful, Utah

System Administrator / Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Network Implementation, Design and support for remote and local networks using Confidential Hardware, phasing out Sonicwall and misc. hardware. Confidential scope allocated by Confidential Appliances.
• System Administration and implementation of VMWare ESX server on Dell and Confidential Hardware and best practices with a Drobo SAN.
• Security monitoring and policy implementation. Using Active Directory, Group policy, Sophos AV and Web filtering appliance.
• Linux Centos and Ubuntu Administration.
• Windows Server Administration. Serving Primary Domain Controller, Primary DNS, Exchange Server, MS SQL 2005 and 2012 Servers
• Implemented new install of Exchange 2013 on Server 2012 r2 VM
• Migration of 294 Mailboxes from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2013

Confidential, Salt Lake City, Utah

Global Network Operations Center Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Global NOC 3rd Tier support for an international company.
• Scope of support includes network support from the circuit to the end user includes supporting Confidential, HP, SMC, Ruckus and Meru devices.
• Linux based Head End Processor that manages the devices.
• IPTV and Video on demand support.
• Primary switch scope of work: VLAN structure on various switch devices to ensure proper traffic flow.
• Primary Confidential router scope of work: NAT pools for VPN connectivity and Confidential pools for proper LAN functionality. Verify Router configuration for tunnels and routes were present for proper WAN communication

Confidential, Las Vegas, Nevada

Computer Technical Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Contract End user desktop support with Xerox ACS at Mandalay Bay Casino.
• Support all end user devices including PC, Printers, Infogenesis Terminals, NSB Retail POS Terminals, Table Manager and over 100 apps.

Confidential, Las Vegas, Nevada

Network Operations Technical Support

Responsibilities:

• Support 2000+ network VOD devices.
• Role in after hour weekend technician dispatch.
• Nagios monitoring for over 3000 properties.
• Confidential switch vlan configuration and troubleshooting

Confidential, Las Vegas, Nevada

Operations Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Supporting Windows 2003 and 2008, Solaris Unix, VMWare ESX Servers, NetAPP SAN
• Confidential, Foundry, Juniper Radius and Firewall, Aruba and Aeroscout for network control
• Applications depending on Jboss, Apache, MS SQL 2005, Exchange 2007 and MySQL services.
• AD, DNS and Confidential services run from Microsoft Server 2008