Systems Administrator Resume Profile
NY
SUMMARY
Systems engineer with 10 years of experience in 24x7 enterprise systems environments. Knowledge of best practices for systems design, administration, backup, disaster recovery, storage area networks and network infrastructure. Solid industry experience in financial services, banking, insurance and entertainment.
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential
Consultant
- Managed technology contracts for Diamond Castle Holdings. Configured and supported Citrix Zen App 6.5, Blackberry BES 5, and Exchange 2010 and Email journaling for 30 users.
- Installed DR Site for business continuity in hosted cloud environment. Environment configured with site to site VPN for Active Directory as well as mirroring application and database servers using Arcserve HA replication software and SQL mirroring.
- Revamped computer room by re-organizing racks/servers/switches and cabling.
- Resolved server backups and email filtering issues.
Confidential
Systems Administrator
- Windows administrator on server team for 70 server environment in production NYC and DR sites New Jersey, and Boston . 5 member server team.
- Daily activities include monitoring environment using multiple tools including SCOM. Responsibilities included Active Directory administration, Exchange administration, and backups/restores.
- Projects included relocation and set up of remote offices, consolidation of multiple file servers onto NetApp, virtualizing physical legacy systems, software upgrades, technology audits, and responding to disasters such as power outages, fires, and hurricane damage.
Confidential
Senior Systems Engineer
- Systems and network administration in a startup environment owned by bank, managing over 200 Windows servers in New York, New Jersey and Singapore.
- Built NY colocation site and a business recovery sites with HP Blade servers.
- Administered EVA8000 SAN including zoning, allocating storage, upgrades and maintenance. Backup admin using HP Dataprotector. Utilized data replication DoubleTake and offsite backups with Iron Mountain.
- Worked in a team to build and support production VMware server farm, Citrix farm, and supporting business applications.
- Coordinated with SQL DBA group in piloting of GeoCluster and using Doubletake replication in POC hot site in New Jersey for disaster recovery.
- Junior role, configuring Cisco 6513 switches with HP Blade infrastructure.
- Helpdesk support of New York and Singapore site for day to day issues with email, Citrix, and Sharepoint. Escalation contact for application developers.
Confidential
Systems Administrator
- Managed Windows 2003 and RedHat Linux 3.0/4.0 servers server builds, backups, monitoring, SAN support, Email and application server support.
- TruSource was a retirement services company owned by UBOC at the time.
- Managed over 100 servers for high-traffic, distributed IIS 7, WebSphere 6, Citrix, RSA Server, AD, Exchange 2003 and enterprise application environments.
- Managed HP MSA8000 SAN and IBM Island SAN storage for IBM blades.
- System admin on migration of systems to WebSphere 6 and RedHat Enterprise Linux 4. Created build instructions, backup procedures and updated DR plans.
- Participated in yearly disaster recovery exercise in Las Vegas for SAS/70 audit.
- Assisted with Cisco switch and router upgrades and installations.
Confidential
Windows Systems Engineer
- Windows team that managed level 2 support over 4000 Windows servers. Worked on cross projects with system administrators for AIX and Sun servers. Responsible for system builds, backups, monitoring, storage and support.
- System admin to migrate from HP Storageworks to EMC SAN for Database clusters, coordinating with vendors, DBA group, and Storage team. Created procedures to update server security, system resource management, software installations, monitoring and process control.
- Piloted VMware ESX to consolidate and virtualize server environment. Worked with consultants for farm planning, design, and disaster recovery, deploying 300 virtual servers. Configured monitoring with Virtual Center.
- Installed and configured Tivoli Storage Manager clients to backup SAN attached servers. Coordinated with TSM group to create procedures for backups.
- In lab environment, installed 20-30 racks, cabling, and servers. Installed and tested patches and Veritas Backup Exec with Adic tape libraries.
Confidential
Quality Assurance Analyst
Created test plans, organized design requirements and tested a number of sports entertainment properties on the web, Sports Genius and Baseball Tracker.
Confidential
Quality Assurance Analyst
ABAS techonology group, maintained technology standards/software for audit. This included software development, testing, and distribution to 12,000 auditors.