Systems Resume
Summary: More than 14 years of experience as an IT Professional. Self motivated, able to work independently and as a team member to meet operational deadlines. Function well in high pressure atmosphere. Adapt easily to new concepts and responsibilities. Developed interpersonal skills, having dealt with a diversity of professionals and clients.
Technical Skills:
Operating System: Windows x32 - x R2 - 2008 R2 Hyper - V VMware ESX Server 2.5 – 3.0 – 3.5 – 4.0 Red Hat Enterprise x32 – x64 – 3.0 – 4-0 – 5.0 Citrix XenApp Server 4.0 – 5.0.
Hardware: IBM Servers x 55 – x3950 – IBM Blade Center LS42- 7902 HP ProLiant ML & DL 700 Series ProLiant HP Blade
System c-Class - Dell PowerEdge Server – 2850 – QLogic HBA’s Emulex HBA’s. HP MSA G2 SAN.
Applications: MS Clustering - Exchange Server 5.5 Beta System Center Data Protection Manager R2 - 2010 Beta –
MS NLB – System Center Operations Manager R2 – SQL 2008 - Blackberry Enterprise Server 4.0 – 4.1 – 5.0 VMware Vcenter -2.0 – 2.5 – 4.0 – Symantec Enterprise Vault – 6.0 -7.0 Netback up -4.0 – 5.0 – 6.0 -6.5 –Citrix Presentation Server - 3.0 – 4.0 4.5 – MS Outlook Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.00 Quest MessageStats – 5.0 – 6.1 Quest ActiveRoles Server – Veritas Storage Foundation. Vfoglight – 5.0 – 6.0 SMS 2003SP3
Experience:
Confidential Orlando, FL 33526
Systems Analyst
- 24/7 Intel on-site steady state support for Disney Orlando Data Center.
- Supporting Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008 and Microsoft Windows Cluster Servers.
- Provide Intel server technical support, hardware support and system administration.
- Includes support for more than 3500 servers running Windows/Linux/VMware/Netware, Citrix MPS 3.0, 4.0, 4.5 server operating systems and associated products location in Disney Orlando 2 Datacenters.
- Deployed and supported VMware vCenter Server 4.0 and ESX Servers 4.0 Clusters for Test and Production.
- Clustering ESX hosts to achieve high availability and distributed resource scheduling.
- Provisioning new virtual machines based on templates for fast and largescale deployment.
- Creating change requests (RFC’s) obtain approvals, and represent change at CAB meetings.
- Monitoring ESX server statistics setup Alarm and scheduled task management.
- Providing in-depth, complex problem resolution skills and in-depth system.
- Monitoring to catcher system performance.
- Deployed and supported DPM (Microsoft System Data Protection Manager 2007).
- Deployed and supported MSCOM 2007 (Microsoft System Operations Manager).
- Provide disaster recovery, maintenance, technical planning, & upgrades of OS software as well as other software products required by the customer.
- Maintain hardware configurations, respond to trouble tickets, and adhere to all standards & processes.
- Supported Windows 2003 Terminal Server Licensing servers.
Confidential Raleigh, NC 27610
Operations System Specialist
- Working with a team of six consultants to consolidate North Carolina Agencies in house Servers to a Centralize location call ITS Eastern Data Center and The WDC (Western Data Center).
- Deployed HP Proliant DL585 G2 Dual-Core Servers with 64 Gig of Ram, 8 CPUs, dual HBA cards, and dual quad-Nics for Vlans connective for all VMware ESX 3.0.2 hosts, IBM System x3755 Six-Core AMD Opteron X64 64-GIG of Ram.
- Working with other team members and the Engineer Department Stood up eight ESX 3.0.2 Servers and eight clusters for Production and Four ESX Hosts for the DR and Test environment.
- Clustering ESX hosts to achieve high availability and distributed resource scheduling.
- Monitoring ESX server statistics setup Alarm and scheduled task management.
- Provisioning new virtual machines based on templates for fast and large-scale deployment.
- Deployed and configure DFS and IPSec for the Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention Department File Servers Shared Folders.
- Using ACU to configure MSA500 G2 controller to use SSP (Selective Storage Presentation) for two separate servers to share one TB LUN, 500 GB each.
- Using VMware Converter 3.0.3 and Stagequest ShadowProtect to converter physical servers to Vms and refresh old hardware with new hardware.
- Using Netgear TBReady NAS to catcher all remote servers images.
- Using ITAM tools to discovery the Agency network, computers, and Applications.
- Updated all Agencies File and Print Servers, firmware and BIOS software.
- Supporting Microsoft Windows W2k3, W2k8 and W2k server SQL Clusters, Citrix MPS 4.0, 4.5 Servers Farms.
- Supported Windows 2003 Terminal Server Licensing servers.
Confidential Raleigh, NC 27654
Exchange Server Engineer
- Transition 3500 Mailboxes and 130 Public Folders from Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2007 SP1.
- Deployed a new 2003 Active Directory Domain Controller and transfer all FSMO Roles.
- Deployed a new Dell PowerEdge bit server and configure Intelligent Platform Management Software.Interface (IPMI) 1.5 for remote management.
- Configured Raid 5 and Partition all drives accordingly.
- Installed Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 x64-bit OS.
- Installed and configure Exchange 2007 SP1 and Exchange Server’s Roles.
- Deployed Exchange Best Practices Analyzer to check the state of the Legacy Exchange Server and Exchange 2007 Server Readiness Check.
- Installed Anti-span and Antiviruses and Backup Software.
- Deployed and supported GFI MailSecurity for Exchange SMTP v 10.0.2008 .
- Deployed and supported GFI MailArchiver x64 for Exchange 2007 SP1.
- Installed SQL2005 SP2 and created the GFI MailArchiver Databases.
- Secured the Exchange 2007 SP1 Client Access Server (CAS) using a 3rrd party Subject alternative name (SAN) certificate.
- Deploying GFI MailArchiver Outlook cconnector using Group Policy.
- Creating a new Journal Rule and Enable Journaling.
- Monitoring Exchange Server Using Microsoft System Center Operations Manage 2007.
- Using Microsoft DPM 2007 SP1 to backup Exchange Storage SG\'s and Exchange DB\'s and to restore them.
- Implementation and administration Blackberry Enterprise Server 4.1.
- Decommission Exchange 2003 Server and Removed Exchange 2003 objects from AD using the ADSI Edit tool.
- Supported GFI FAXmaker for Exchange.
Confidential Cary, NC 27654
Exchange 2003/2007 Administrator
- Transition 1200 Mailboxes, 100 Public folders to Exchange 2007 SP1 Ent.Ed Single Copy Cluster (SCC) from Exchange 2003 STD Ed.
- Using HP Smart Start CD x64 to Build 2 HP DL385 G2 x64 bit server for SCC Cluster for Mailbox role 1 for the other 3 Exchange server roles.
- Setting the LUNs Alignment offset on the Exchange Cluster Drives.
- Install Windows Server bit R2 SP2, ran Setup /PS to extend the Schmea, then PrepareAD and PrepareDomain.
- Deployed Exchange Best Practices Analyzer to check the state of Legacy Exchange Server and Exchange 2007 Server Readiness Check.
- Setup and Configure Third Party High Availability and Disaster Recovery using XOsoft WansynHA for the Microsoft Exchange 2007 SP1 Environment.
- Creating Storage Groups, Exchange Databases and the database Maintenance Schedule.
- Created an A-record for Autodiscovery and MX-record for Exchange 2007 server.
- Secured an Exchange 2007 SP1 Client Access Server (CAS) using a 3rrd party Subject alternative name (SAN) certificate.
- Deploying Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange, and Netback 6.0 agent.
- Provided 24/7 support for all supported Server’s hardware and Apps.
- Decommission Exchange 2003 Server and Removed Exchange 2003 objects from AD using the ADSI Edit tool.
- Setup Disaster Recovery to an off site Replica VM Servers for Exchange, Blackberry, SQL, and Oracle databases using CA XOsoft Replication software.
- Provided 24/7 support for all supported Server’s hardware and Apps.
- Deployed and supported 3 Citrix MPS 4.0 Servers.
- Deployed and supported Vmware ESX 3.0.2 Servers and VI 2.0 server.
- Upgraded Blackberry Enterprise Server 4.0 to 4.1 to accommodate RIM supported devices like, Blackberry Curve 8300, and the Blackberry Pearl 8100.
- RightFax Server supported and Ontrack PowerControls for Exchange.
Confidential Lakeland, FL 33837
Sr. Exchange Server SME
- Supported 2 front-end NLB OWA servers and 2 back-end Active/Passive Exchange 2003 clusters.
- Troubleshooting the performance of the Exchange Cluster environment using Exchange Best Practice Analyzer and Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant.
- Checking the configured to make sure that the most current firmware and software is installed on all the Servers.
- Prepared project plan to add a third node to the existing cluster environment to 2 Active nodes and one Passive, increasing SAN spindles form 40 to 56.
- Using Diskpart Alignment offset for the Exchange Clusters LUNs.
- Upgraded Blackberry ES 4.0 to 4.1 to accommodate the supported RIM devices.
- Pushing out policy to have all RIM compliance devices setup a 4-digit pin past code.
- Managing 12 Exchange stores and there online and offline Maintenances Schedule.
- Deployed and Manager Tools like, Quest Exchange MessageStats for Reporting, Analysis Tool for messaging and Ontrack Powertools for mailbox recovery.
- Supporting and Manager CA Wansync, Replicating all the Exchange, SQL Databases to an off site Exchange Replica Server for total Disaster Recovery.
- Supported Symantec LiveState Recovery for OWA servers.
- Maintain up-to-date patches over the hold Exchange environment.
- Supported Cisco IronPort Antispam filtering.
Confidential Wilmington, DE
Microsoft System Engineer
Confidential USA
Microsoft System Engineer
Confidential Voorhees, NJ 08092
Exchange Server 2000/2003 System Analyst
Confidential Newark, DE
Exchange (SME) / NT System Analyst
Confidential Horsham, PA
Exchange 4.0/5.5 Administrator 9