SUMMARY:

Continue utilizing my acquired skill sets, including that of a WINTEL MCSE and Junior Citrix CCA in a position of hi - level responsibility, primarily providing Infrastructure Support on Windows 2003/07/08/12 Server and Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 through XenApp/Server 7.5 administration, LAN administration including DHCP/DNS, TCP/IP troubleshooting, Server builds/support and hardening/Remediation,3rd level desktop support including Windows XP/Vista and Windows 7/8/10 in Enterprise class environments, where precise communication skills and customer service are essential. Available immediately for contract or contract to hire needs since recently concluding 7- year TexasAirStateGuard reserve role.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

OPERATING SYSTEMS: Windows 2000/03/07/08/12 Server & desktop, Novell 4x /5x, Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10, Citrix MetaFrame, Presentation Server 4.5 through XenApp/Server 7.5 Nfuse/XP and MS Terminal Server. Light LINUX and UNIX shell scripting. Light Exchange and Windows PowerShell scripting.

MISCELLANEOUS: 802.11x wireless LAN adapters. Disaster recovery modeling. Exchange 5.5, Exchange Server 2003, 2007, 2010, Blackberry, Confidential Proliant/COMPAQ G2/G3/G4/G5 blades, DELL Poweredge Servers, CA BrightStor, LiveVault Backup, I365 Backup, Seagate and Veritas Netbackup Enterprise Backup Software and DAT/DLT tape drives. 10/100/1000 Ethernet, Ghost, PowerQuest, Altiris disk imaging. SONICWALL SOHO Firewall implementation, I.R./Prognosis network monitoring solutions, AVT-RightFax. COMPAQ Insight Manager 7.0, NSI DoubleTake. Win2K, Active Directory, Remedy, CA, and iTil standards ticketing systems. McAfee ePo and Intrusion prevention systems. RiverBed-Steelhead-RedGranite Wan accelerator. Nessus and Catalyst Vulnerability Tools. Anti-virus, security, hot fix, Patching and Server hardening. Light PowerShell usage. Microsoft Active Directory Migration Services (ADMS).

WORK HISTORY:

Confidential, FORT WORTH, TX

SYSTEMS ENGINEER/CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• performing Server Audit remediation efforts/Shares consolidations, Active Directory user and desktop migrations into VMWARE desktops with use of MS ADMS (Active Directory Migration Services) as well as Malware removal on Global Windows platforms.

Confidential, GREEN BAY, WI

SYSTEMS ENGINEER/CONTRACTOR

Responsibilities:

• Contracted for a nationally known healthcare provider performing typical needs of an Enterprise class 24x7 data center.
• Including Physical and Virtual Server builds. Confidential Gen8 server racking and cabling.
• Level 2/3 Service now ticket remediation and CommVault Tape Backup & Confidential Storage Works NAS Management.
• Secondary Citrix 7.1 administration.

Confidential, GRAND PRARIE, TX

STAFF SERGEANT

Responsibilities:

• I concluded my final local deployment mission for Governor Perry's Operation Strong Safety where I assisted in the setup and installation of Data Systems installation and operation for the Tactical Operations Center.

Confidential, HOUSTON, TX

INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR

Responsibilities:

• Independently contracted for a small Texas based Oil and Gas Petroleum exploration company with interests and operations and Montana installing an I.P. Camera/DVR/Remote surveillance system which included design and application of a private Mesh point to point MWAN utilizing UNBIQUITY product solutions.

Confidential, FORT WORTH, TX

COMPUTER CONTRACTOR

Responsibilities:

• Concluded a Server Hardening/Remediation project utilizing reports generated from Nessus and Catalyst Vulnerability scanning reporting Tools to assist become FTC compliant.

Confidential, DALLAS, TX

SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR/CONTRACTOR

Responsibilities:

• Concluded a 3-month contract which extended to 13 months as a L2 Windows Server Support administrator for a remote infrastructure data center provider in the healthcare industry.
• Duties included day to day Exchange Server 2010 administration, Active Directory management of user/group access, Server Shares and health monitoring, ComVault, Network Backup, Spam prevention, and secondary Citrix 4.5/5.0/6.0 support

Confidential, HOUSTON, TX

INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR

Responsibilities:

• Provided ongoing Remote I.T. Server and Desktop support to a small Texas based Oil and Gas Petroleum Exploration Company, after having implemented a Sarbanes-Oxley compliant Windows 2008 R2 Standard Server and Windows-7 desktop Operating System upgrades.

Confidential, DALLAS, TX

SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR/CONTRACTOR

Responsibilities:

• Contracted to provide Remote Infrastructure Support for a mid-size Citrix PS4.5 Farm environment migration growing to roughly 100 Presentation Servers and applications across two geographical separated Data Centers.
• Primarily supporting the Citrix Server Farm Core services through monitoring, troubleshooting and response and secondarily providing L3 assistance to the Citrix Help Desk staff when needed for connectivity and application issues involving the migrated thin client desktop and Wyse terminal users community while monitoring Server Health and performance and availability.

Confidential, ARLINGTON, TX

CITRIX ADMINISTRATOR/CONTRACTOR

Responsibilities:

• performing day to day support, and migration from Metaframe XPe to PS 4.0 in a mixed VMWARE and clustered hosted environment.
• Secondary Windows and VMWARE ESX Server 3 support and Confidential Proliant, COMPAQ G2/G3/G4 blade build out, Replistor-Octopus replication upgrade, Tier 3 Server maintenance and application support.

Confidential, ARLINGTON, TX

SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Performed 24x7 Confidential /DELL Server maintenance and build outs according to established change control procedures in a mixed Windows/Citrix environment consisting of Dell and Confidential Proliant Servers and G3/G4 Blade Servers.

Confidential, IRVING, TX

COMPUTER CONTRACTOR

Responsibilities:

• Contracted as a temporary primary onsite CITRIX ADMINISTRATOR position while the permanent Citrix Administrator was on temporary leave of absence.
• Supported on-going maintenance of platform hardware and software hosting a 12 Server Citrix XPe farm atop of Windows 2000 and 2003 Confidential Proliant, Compaq G3/G4 Servers.

Confidential, IRVING, TX

COMPUTER CONTRACTOR

Responsibilities:

• Repeat engagement performing duties similar to previous, that of providing temporary assistance to the I.T Department in Server Builds and tear downs, and Windows Systems Administration in a Mixed mode NT Server 4.0/Win2000 Confidential Proliant, Compaq G2/G3 Server Environment.
• Build outs included Server Lock-down and patching as prescribed by the CITI product development team, additionally included targeted 3rd Level desktop support as part of their conversion from an Microsoft Windows NT Domain based environment to AD.

Confidential, ARLINGTON, TX

CONSULTANT

Responsibilities:

• Duties entailed performing support of the Server Farm while the existing Administrator was off tasked.
• This included daily monitoring of the Data Collector CMC. Citrix Load balancing management. Serving as the single primary point of contact for the Confidential loan processors/underwriter and all other users.
• Secondarily, performed Win2003 Sever build-outs on Dell Poweredge Blade Servers.