Summary

• Possess over 15years of experience as IT professional by either managing or engineering large to medium scale enterprises. Also have extensive hands-on experience deploying, maintaining and troubleshooting advanced enterprise network infrastructures with heterogeneous topologies, networks and datacenters with mixed operating systems

Technical Skills

Operating Systems/Enterprise Servers: VMware ESX Server 5.x, Exchange 2010, Citrix XenApp 4.5, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.2, RHEL5, OES 6.5 with eDirectory8.x MS SQL Server 2003, Windows 2008 R2/2012, Cisco IOS 12.x, Blackberry Enterprise Server 4.1, SharePoint 2013

Software/Tools: Virtual Infrastructure Client 5.x, VMware HA, VMotion, VM Clustering, P2V, Exchange 2010 Management console, IIS 6, SRM 4.1, Apache 2, EMC PowerPath, Commvault Galaxy 7.0, Oracle, NFS, Netbackup, Active Directory 2003, Cisco Device Manager, Assentor, Track-IT v.7.x, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Office Suite 2010, NDPS, WINS, , Exchange, WSUS 3.0, Solarwinds

Hardware: Cisco UCS 5100 series, NetApp FAS3140 and 2050, Dell R710 and R810, EMC CX3-80 SAN Array, Dell MD3000i, Compaq and HP server series, SonicWall ESA and NSA series, Cisco routers and switches 6509,4500 Switches and 2800 routers , Cisco Aironet 1400 Wireless Bridge, IBM I Series systems, AS/400 systems, Brocade 5300 fibre channel switch, Cisco Pix 515E, ASA 5520

Networking: TCP/IP v4 and v6, BGP, EIGRP, SNMP, SMTP, VoIP, RIP, OSPF, MPLS, VPN, DNS, DHCP, WINS, SSH

Professional Experience

Senior Systems Engineer

Confidential

• Design, implement and maintain enterprise network infrastructure for entire corporation including co-located datacenters both in Sungard and Telehouse
• Implement and maintain tier-1 client-facing eDiscovery applications such as Clearwell eDiscovery and Ipro eCapture
• Manage and secure mission critical infrastructure design and implement disaster recovery and business continuity methods for these systems
• Manage and enforce the continuation of security standards such as ISMS ISO 27001:2005
• Implemented and maintained corporate CRM applications
• Architected and deployed SharePoint 2013 for corporate collaboration
• Manage and troubleshoot Exchange 2010 e-mail system in clustered server environment
• Deploy corporate document management solution for enterprise
• Provide day to day support of co-located facility and back-up co-located facility
• Train and mentor junior and senior staff on IT and corporate-wide standards

Manager

Confidential

• Managed team of 5 Engineers, facilitated knowledge transferring and sharing
• Prioritized and managed workloads for IT engineers
• Architected and managed network infrastructure for entire Havas Media North America infrastructure
• Planned and designed disaster recovery plan execute and test DR plan quarterly for predictable results
• Designed, implemented and administered virtual datacenters for primary and co-located facility for Havas Media and sister divisions
• Implemented and managed Netapp san storage systems for Havas North and South American datacenters
• Troubleshot virtual infrastructure or storage related issues optimize infrastructure for industry best practices

Manager

Confidential

• Managed team of 4 Engineers and prioritized workloads and key projects
• Designed and implemented multiple VMWare datacenters P2V our physical servers to the virtual infrastructure cluster
• Configured VMWare HA clustering for multiple datacenters for failover capability
• Implemented and maintain maintenance procedures that included scheduled snapshots and installing monthly patch release updates
• Troubleshot network related issues related to the port groups within the virtual switch
• Deployed and maintained Linux environment for open source applications such as MySql and Apache
• Performed backups and restores for corporate websites as well as SQL databases
• Maintain, administer and troubleshoot Active directory 2003/2008 server clusters
• Administer and maintain current Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 server clusters migrate mailboxes from Exchange 2003 to the 2007 clusters
• Troubleshoot DHCP, DNS and WINS related issues within Active directory and eDirectory systems
• Manage the implementation and maintenance of back office business systems like CRM, CMS and other ERP systems
• Oversee daily operations within company's managed hosting site and monitor on-going incidents work with NOC on these incidents
• Plan the migration of our Midtown datacenter to AT T co-location

Senior Network Administrator

Confidential

• Implemented and manage ESX hosts within multiple datacenters
• Configured, deployed and maintained HA clusters and scheduled tasks within VMWare
• Troubleshot performance and networking issues related to virtual servers within the VM clusters
• Deployed and administered Active Directory within Windows 2000 and 2003 environment
• Implemented and administered group policy changes as well as directory structures, rights and security
• Troubleshot domain controller issues promote and demote primary domain controllers
• Configured and troubleshot DNS, TCP/IP, DHCP and WINS issues

Network Administrator

Confidential

• Implemented and maintained Netware and Windows servers for a 4,000 end-user network
• Maintained patching levels for new and current Windows and Netware server deployments
• Implemented and maintain Group Policies within Active directory
• Configured and deployed DNS, DHCP and WINS troubleshoot problems related to these services
• Supervised and trained network technicians assist them in resolving daily issues funneled through the helpdesk