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Senior Systems Administrator Resume Profile

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Morristown, NJ

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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