SUMMARY:

Seeking to help organizations navigate through their AD Infrastructure challenges as a Systems Engineer while utilizing years of technical and analytical problem solving skills. I am experienced in systems, network security and analysis using various methodologies, tools, and best practices to remediate security risk for business continuity.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• WinNT/2K/XP/Vista/7
• Win Server 2K 03/2008/2008 r2/2012r2
• SCCM07
• SCOM12
• VEEAM
• V - Center
• VMware ESXi 5
• VSphere 5.5 & 6
• Infoblox
• IPAM
• .Net
• SharePoint
• Active Directory
• TCP/IP
• IIS
• DNS
• Confidential
• LDAP
• LACP
• Hypervisors
• ITIL
• SMS/SIEM
• Project
• Citrix
• RDP
• SEP
• SEPM
• Solar Winds Orion
• Remedy
• Veritas
• NetWrix AD Auditor
• NetApps
• PowerShell

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Systems Engineer/Architect/Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing, setup, building, configuring, Windows 2012r2 Servers for 2003 EOL
• Deployed 200+ Physical & 500 Hyper-V Virtual Machines using 2012R2.
• Patched, updated, and continued to setup group policies changed user group permissions based on corporate requirements.
• Ran PowerShell scripts to help speed up configuration of server builds.
• Interfaced with Stakeholders to gather information, document and design systems that would enhance business processes and requirements.
• Coordinated project task for deployment of servers into production while decommissioning EOL servers.
• Performed Infrastructure Engineering /Administration maintenance tasks while analyzing root causes issues via logs and other tools and scripts.
• Participated in testing of systems for new processes, applications and implement process improvements.
• Performed data migrations, OS upgrades, core software installations, tuning and server hardening, Clustering, DRP and HA.
• Performed LACP configuring and coordinated Network Teaming for Switch Ports.
• Setup/decommissioned servers, setup monitoring of servers on network using Solar winds, SCOM, CMDB.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Sr. Operating Systems Analyst/Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Member of a 38-man global team supporting 29,000 Microsoft physical and virtual HP servers and blades.
• Responsible for server systems patching, application updating while maintaining systems and security compliance.
• Monitored processes while troubleshooting issues to repair systems.
• Followed change management guidelines and documented all results.
• Applied VB and PowerShell scripts to help perform job processes.
• Managed Wintel Servers 2003/2008/2012 and Active Directory support within those systems.
• Utilized V-Center processes and analysis on VMWare ESX Consoles to perform duties.
• Documented all actions and participate in weekly meetings with findings, brainstorming and lessons learned along with making recommendations.

Confidential, Chanhassen, MN

Network Engineer / Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for installing and configuring 900 Apple IOS PDA’s at 25 Confidential Stores.

Confidential, Rochester, MN

Sr. Systems Engineer/Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Technical expertise in network security knowledge, to include VPN, Firewall, network monitoring, intrusion detection, web server security, and wireless security
• Met with Sr. level management and stakeholders to understand project constraints and expectations.
• Recommended security controls and configurations in a complex system infrastructure.
• Developed overall project scope, plans, deliverables, and lifecycles with project objectives.
• Created task list to maintain project timelines, schedules and continuously monitor progress.
• Redefined operational plans to meet and fulfill business needs, standards and frameworks within the enterprise to reduce vulnerabilities.
• Responsible for organizing analysis, creating design of processes to test systems and help identify security vulnerabilities and issues.
• Provided leadership when working with stakeholders to remediate groups, OU’s for security improvements.
• Queried AD Domain services with PowerShell & VB scripts on 6000 Wintel Servers.
• Performed troubleshooting of issues at the LAN, WAN levels with DNS packet level debugging.
• Packet-level behavioral familiarity and troubleshooting of issues at the LAN, WAN levels with most major TCP/IP protocols (DNS, SMTP, HTTP, BGP, OSPF, LDAP, IMAP, SSH, FTP, KRB5, Confidential )
• Monitored BMC Remedy systems for issues while making recommendations and taking ownership or elevating tickets when necessary.
• Documented change control processes, created reports, flow charts to help support solutions from service assessments.
• Documented all findings, results, conclusions, solutions and reported at management/stakeholder meetings.
• Proven experience implementing and administering Enterprise Random Password Manager for systems, servers and related networks.
• Created new compliance and policy standards all geared to mitigate security risk, audits and vulnerabilities
• Trained and helped implement strategic and complex highly visible program initiatives that serve to support prime directives.
• Trained users on administration of systems, consulted with departmental stakeholders, managers, engineers to create better processes for future stability and scalability.

Confidential

Systems Engineer/Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performed strong customer service interfacing while maintaining break/fix repairs of POS equipment.
• Diagnosed hardware and researched software Vendor solutions.
• Ordered and tracked system parts on AMI and installation of systems.
• Provided hands-on system support, analyzing and mediation of switches and routers, PBX phones, systems and POS Registers.
• Imaged and refreshed PC’s to standard builds and performed application deployment and configuration of systems while maintaining 300+ registers both locally and remotely.

Confidential

Network Engineer/Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Tore down and setup 1500 workstations.
• Pulled LAN cables, terminated ends and tested connectivity.
• Upgraded handheld scanners, signature pads on 800 registers at 10 stores.
• Performed routine diagnostic testing, troubleshooting and installation of PC workstations, registers, printers with break/fix analysis.