Technical Expertise Operating Systems - MS 2K / XP / 7 / 8
- Apple OS 7 / 8 / 9 / X
- Cisco IOS
- DOS
- Novell 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8
- MS NT4 / 2K / 2K3 / 2K8
- Linux RedHat / Suse
- VMWare ESX 2 /3 / 4 / 5
- AIX / Unix
Server Applications BMC Software Remedy Citrix Metaframe 1.8 / XP / Presentation / XenApp Nfuse DameWare Development DNTU Dantz Retrospect eEye Digital Security Retina Scan IBM CMIntegrator Director HNIDA ITM-IBM Tivoli Monitoring JRE-Java Runtime Manage Now SDD-SubSysDeviceDriver SCM-SecComplienceMngr SRM-ServerResourceMngr TEM-TivoliEndpoint Mngr TSM-Tivoli Storage Mngr TPMOS-Provisioning Mngr Microsoft Active Directory ClassServer Exchange 5 / 5.5 / 2K / 2K3 DHCP Manager DNS Manager IIS 5 / 6 / 7 MBSA Clustered Servers Project Server 2K2 / 2K3 Sharepoint 2K / 2K3 SQL 7/2K/ 2K5/ 2K8 Software Update Services SMS-System Mgmt Server SCCM-Sys Ctr Config Mgr Terminal Server VisualStudio.NET VSS-Volume Shadow Copy Netscape Enterprise Server Open source GIT Apache .NET nuke PE Builder Six apart movable type Symantec PQ V2i Ghost 32 Anti Virus Client Srvr Vantive Corporation Vantive Veritas BackupExec NetbackUp VMware Workstation ESX Server VMotion Virtual Center Desktop Applications Adobe Audition Go Live FrameMaker Illustrator PageMaker Photoshop Premier Streamline Authorware Director Dreamweaver Flash Fireworks Freehand RoboHelp Alentum EditPro Apple FinalCut Pro iMovie QuickTime Pro AutoDesk AutoCAD Barebones Software BBEdit Claris FilemakerPro Coda Music Technology Finale Corel Bryce Painter WordPerfect Curious Labs Poser E.S.R.I Arc View Diehl Graphsoft ArchiCAD IBM Lotus Smart Suite Lotus Notes SameTime Inspiration Software Inspiration Kidspiration Microsoft Office Suite Project Visio Visual Studio.NET Network Associates Virus Scan Peachtree Software Peachtree Accounting Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus Qarbon ViewletBuilder Quark QuarkXpress Symantec Drive Image Pro Partition Magic Sonic Foundry Acid- Sound Forge Vegas Video TechSmith Snagit Camtasia Studio Hardware 3Com VoIP Phones / NBX 100 NICs 3Ware SATA Raid Controllers Adaptec SCSI Raid Controllers Apple Computer Macs / iMacs / G3 / G4 Xserver G5 BroadCom NICs / NIC Teaming Cisco Routers Managed Switches DSL Routers Compaq ProLiant Servers Dell Laptops / PCs PowerEdge Servers HP Net Servers Printers / Jet directs ProCurve switches Scanners IBM IBM Tape Libraries x series Servers x355, x346, x366, x445, x460, x460 MXE, x3650, x3650M2, x3850 Servers Blade Center Servers SCSI /SATA Raid SAN SVC Intel NICs / NIC Teams Pentium / Xenon CPUs QLogic Fiber HBA's SonicWall Firewalls SuperMicro Servers Intel ServerWorks chipset Toshiba Laptops / Tablet PCs Protocols - DHCP
- DNS
- FTP
- HTTP
- IPX
- IMAP
- LDAP
- NNTP
- NTP
- POP
- PPP
- SMTP
- SNMP
- SSH
- TCP-IP
- Telnet
- WAP
- xDSL
Scripting Languages - Apple Script
- DOS Batch
- Java Script
- Perl
- VBScript
- PowerShell
Programming Languages - Basic
- Java
- HTML
- CSS
- SQL
- Visual Basic
- XML
- RSS
| Objective - To join a company that is astutely adapting to change and deploying innovative information technologies in an enterprise computing environment.
- To collaborate with other self-motivated creative problem solvers who emphasize teamwork and are genuinely dedicated to realizing the shared vision and mission of the organization.
Summary of Qualifications - Comprehensive understanding of installation, migration and administration of Microsoft Windows Servers NT4, 2000, 2K3 and 2008 excellent knowledge of Active Directory design, implementation and support in large enterprise computing environments.
- Extensive experience with installation and administration of VMWare ESX 2.5, 3.5 and 4.0 Servers, Virtual Center, Vsphere and VMotion. Comprehensive understanding of deploying Microsoft Windows Guest Operating Systems
- Significant skills and knowledge of installation, migration and administration of Citrix Metaframe, Presentation and XenApp Server Farms including Web Client deployments
- Exceptional abilities with installing and supporting web enabled applications including site development, programming and relational database design projects
- Outstanding teacher skilled at training computer users in best practices and the effective use of computers and software applications
- Capable Microsoft Exchange administrator experience with installation and migration of 5.0, 5.5, 2000 and 2003
- Wide raging experience with Microsoft Clustering and Microsoft SQL 2000, 2005 and 2008
- Experience with administrating Cisco switches and routers campus WAN Network deployments including administrating VoIP Phone system
- Seasoned on-call support professional with multi-location, multi-client Enterprise environments deploying and supporting thousands servers, virtual servers and server farms in Enterprise Data Centers across the US.
- Expert knowledge and skills at hardware and software troubleshooting
- Self-motivated, organized detail-oriented and service-minded with strong presentation, training and communication skills.
- Aggressively maintains cutting edge knowledge of emerging technologies, comfortable working with changing technological needs and requirements.
Professional Experience Confidential Senior Systems Administrator - Senior Windows and Vmware Systems Administration
- Excellent written and oral communication with both customers and team members
- Independent thinking and motivation effective teaming with others.
- Problem Determination/Troubleshooting.
- Successful working with multiple teams in matrix environment
Confidential - Watercolor Portrait, Landscape and Abstract artist Originals and Glicee Archive prints.
- 14ners Project: ongoing effort to paint all 52 of the Colorado mountains and / or peaks that have an elevation more than 14,000 feet above sea level
Home School Educator /Online Learning Developer - Provide instruction, support and guidance managing the learning process, for my daughter's Mara F Weber online and home school education
- Development of Moodle Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment e-learning modules utilizing Oracle VM VirtualBox formerly Sun VirtualBox
Confidential Windows, UNIX, LINUX VMWare Systems Administrator - Systems Administrator dedicated to the American Express Data Center 2015 initiative to consolidate Server Services in a new world-class data facility in Greensburough, North Carolina. Preparing Widows standalone and Virtual Servers in Phoenix and Minneapolis for redeployment to the new facility and / or disposal.
- Create and execute asset management Service Requests to document the lifecycle status of servers being decommissioned or redeployed.
- Update Tivoli automated monitoring of servers for severs being redeployed or decommissioned.
- Monitor and resolve IMR's Problem tickets for the Global Team.
- Create and execute CMR's Change Management Requests adhering to change windows, representing change requests to IBM and AMEX approvers and attending CAB meetings when required.
- EMC Control Center client installation and client repair for UNIX / Windows Servers. Stream lined the existing CMD line process utilizing scripting. Brought client deployment from 70 to >86 by identifying and eliminating decommission servers which showed up in the reports provided to AMEX as not reporting and additionally reconfiguring misconfigured clients to point to the correct Control Center
- Created process documentation of IBM Boulder Data Center BDC for deployment and removal of Servers located on the IBM Boulder campus.
- Created and managed a new TSRM Queue IBM internal change / incident / problem management tool specific for American Express managing user and changes specific to the BDC
- Create work orders and space plan requests to engage AT T Network team and hardware planning resources
Confidential ITCS104 Security Compliance Engineer - Create procedures and documentation of Security compliance to IBM ITCS104 security Standard for Servers and Network Devices at Allegany Ballistic Lab at the Rocket Center Data Center in West Virginia
- Installation and Administration of Tivoli Endpoint Manager TEM aka BigFix providing programming of fixlets and analysis content
- Create automated and manual health checks to documents IBM audit compliance leveraging TEM, Nessus and Solarwinds Software
Confidential VMWare Systems Engineer - Physical to Virtual P2V Server conversion to VMWare ESXi 4.1
- Virtual to Virtual Server Conversion from ESX 3.5 to ESXi 4.1
- Create documentation of P2V process
- RCA Root Cause Analysis of outage to 11 ESX 3.5 Servers guest's Windows Servers identifying downgraded Emulex HBA firmware which prevented the failover of the Servers to fabric B when fabric A configuration was removed.
Confidential Windows Servers, Active Directory and VMWare Administrator - Build and support Microsoft 2003 and 2008 x86 and 64 bit OS for the Xcel energy account in Colorado
- Expert knowledge of configuration and management x Series IBM servers
- OnCall rotation 24/7 Problem and Change management production support
- Responsible for maintaining GSD331 Security Compliance, maintaining MS Security Patches
- Problem and Change management utilizing BMC Remedy Systems.
- Support of VMWare ESX 3.5and 4.0 Vsphere Infrastructure Virtual Center
- In collaboration with Evolving Solutions installed turnkey migration of File
- and Print AD Domain controller with EMC DataDomain deduplication backup solution at Xcel Energy Service Centers Grand Junction, Pueblo, Boulder, Table Mountain, Golden, Ft Collins NW, SW, SE Denver and Power Plants Zuni, Ft St Vrain, Valmont including new 72' Rack, APC-UPS, IBM KVM and enterprise class x3650M2 utilizing Veritas Net BackUp media server.
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