Qualifications

• Over 10 years of experience in IT with over six years as a Windows Systems Administrator and more than seven years in Disaster Recovery.
• United States Navy Veteran.
• Experienced in supporting end users, managing projects, supervising 15 technicians, troubleshooting in the field, and installing servers and SANs.
• Projects include managing the installation of over 300 servers, 150 routers/switches, and 6000 workstations.
• Skilled in building and leading teams. Direct, focused, and results-oriented, but also flexible, considerate, and tactful. Communicated effectively with technicians and senior management. Persuasive communication skills.

Technical Skills:

• Software: McAfee ePO, PCI DSS compliant, Symantec NetBackup 4.5.x to 7.5.x, Symantec OpsCenter 7.5.x, Symantec Enterprise Vault EV , Symantec Open Storage OST , Symantec BackupExec 10.x, Altiris, Retina, Active Directory, Microsoft Office, Exchange, SAP, SharPoint, SQL, SCCM, Solarwins, and ESXi 5.x.
• Operating Systems: Windows 2008 Enterprise Server, Windows 2003 Enterprise Server, Windows 2000 Enterprise Server, and UNIX AIX, Linux, Sun, Solaris .
• Hardware: IBM TS3500 Tape Library , MSL 5026 and 5052 Tape Library , ESL 630 Tape Library , Dell Server, HP Servers, EMC Data Domain DD510 , and VM EXSi.

Employers

Confidential

Windows System Engineer Contract

• As a Windows System Engineer, I'm working on a project to transition and upgrade Government old IT systems to a new network of VMs running Windows 2012 Enterprise server. This is done by using an Assured Compliance Assessment Solution ACAS scan, which has replaced the Retina scan for the Department of Defense DOD . Before I make any changes to a system, I run a snapshot of the system from vSphere. Other tools that I use are listed below.
• Assured Compliance Assessment Solution ACAS
• Lotus iNotes 8.5.X
• Windows 7 Enterprise
• Windows 8.1 Pro
• Windows 2003, 2008, 2012 Enterprise Servers
• VPN, Cisco Any Connect
• Remedy

Confidential

Senior Windows System Administrator Contract

• I was given the responsibility as the McAfee Administrator. It was my job to convert HPS's four thousand systems from Trend Micro to McAfee and its applications to make HPS compliant with PCI Data Security Standers. I used McAfee's ePO to deploy the McAfee agent and the McAfee Anti-Virus application to servers, workstations and laptops, both physical and virtual. I was also working on a number of McAfee AES 256 bit Encryptions applications that we could use to encrypt data. One application that I was working on was the McAfee File and Removable Media Protection FRP .
• Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard PCI DSS
• ePolicy Orchestrator ePO 5.1.X Tier 3
• MOVE AV agentless 3.0.X Tier 3
• Virus Scan Enterprise VSE 8.8.X Tier 3
• McAfee Agent 4.8.X Tier 3
• File and Removable Media Protection FRP 4.3.X Tier 3
• Vmware ESXi Tier 2
• Windows 2008 and 2012 Enterprise Tier 2
• Office 2013
• Cyber-Ark 7.2.x Tier 2

Confidential

Symantec NetBackup Administrator Contract

• As the Symantec NetBackup Administrator it was my job to get the clients backups under control. At the start of my contract, the client had a failure rate of over 70 percent. By the end of the contract I had them down to less than one percent.
• Supported over 700 Server over twenty locations on two networks and four domains.
• Windows System Administrator 2003 and 2008 Enterprise Network Tier 2
• ESXi VMware 5.X Tier 1
• Microsoft Cluster Tier 1
• Upgraded their NetBackup from 7.1 to 7.5 Tier 3
• Backed up over 700 servers, over twenty locations, two different networks, and four domains.
• Disaster Recovery using EMC Data Domains DD510 , using Deduplication, Replication, and Symantec Open Storage OST . Tier 2
• Created a number of SOP's for Process Improvement Tier 3
• SCCM, Solarwins, SharePoint Tier 1

Confidential

Senior NetBackup Engineer Contract

As Symantec NetBackup Administrator it was my job to get their backups under control. The client was running their backups on a Linux platform, backing up to an IBM tape library with a disaster recovery site outside of the Washington DC area. The client had a number of systems that were not in the backup rotation, a number of jobs failing, and a number of tape drive that where offline.

• Supported over Four hundred Plus Servers
• Windows System Administrator 2003 Tier 2
• Unix System Admin Tier 1
• NetBackup 7.1 Engineer: Tier 3
• Supported an IBM Tape Library with over 6 thousand taped and 12 tape drives. Tier 3
• Manage the Disaster Recovery for the Library of Congress to an off-site location. Tier 3
• Improved the Process for their backups and replication.

Confidential

Symantec Enterprise Vault EV Consultant Contract

• Symantec Enterprise Vault Tier 2
• Windows System Administrator 2003 Enterprise Tier 2
• Microsoft Cluster Tier 1
• Symantec Cluster Tier 1

Confidential

Symantec NetBackup Administrator Contract

• After three months of waiting for the government to complete my paper work so I put my hands on their system, I move on.
• Windows System Administrator 2003 and 2008 Enterprise Tier 2
• Microsoft Cluster Tier 1
• Symantec Cluster Tier 1
• NetBackup 6.5 Engineer Tier 3

Confidential

SAP Administrator Storage and Recovery Specialist

• I came on board as the Symantec NetBackup Administrator. Over the five years with Boeing, I migrated their Symantec NetBackups from version 4.5 to 6.5. I edited the scripts to backup the SAP databases, ran restore at an offsite location for a disaster recovery test. I also supported other departments if they had any problems with their backups.
• Supported Over one hundred Servers
• Windows System Administrator 2003 Enterprise Tier 2
• Microsoft Cluster Tier 1
• Microsoft Patches WSUS Tier 2
• NetBackup 4.5 to 6.5 Engineer: SAP Tier 3
• Disaster Recovery Tier 3
• Process Improvements
• SAP
• Backup Exec Tier 2

Confidential

Systems Administrator

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Systems Analyst

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Microsoft Systems Engineer

Confidential

Field Engineer Project Manager

• Managed the installation of over 300 servers, 150 routers/switches, and 6000 workstations.
• Supervised up to fifteen specialists.
• Analyzed and interpreted complex concepts.
• Worked effectively with multiple vendors by providing clear leadership and direction.
• Remained on location to oversee the daily administration security, backups, AD, documentation, Outlook, event viewer and provide a turnover of system to onsite management at that time.