Summary

Accomplished information technology professional offering over 20 years of experience developing and executing IT strategies that support and promote organizational growth through utilization of emerging technologies. Extensive experience leading operations for Information Technology and Information Security within diverse range of industries. Result-oriented professional, recognized for taking on major initiatives, adapting to rapidly changing environments and resolving mission critical issues to ensure bottom line success.

Qualification Highlights

• Strong IT acumen with 20 years of hands on experience
• Enterprise systems design, planning and integration skills
• Strategic technology planning and assessment
• Team development, mentoring and instruction
• Executive leadership and communication

Experience:

Confidential

Director of IT Engineering and Information Security

• Leading a team of IT engineers supporting 7/24 Data center and Call center operations. Managing network security.Reporting to COO.
• Acting as Security Officer responsible for identifying security threads, prepare and enforce security policies, research and implement security solutions to protect all network systems and the data hosted on them.

Confidential

Network Systems Manager /DataCenter Manager

• Leaded a team of engineers supporting 7/24 Data center operations.
• Provided support and ASP services for the users in 20 TIG branches and to multiple TIG clients.
• Planned activities for the data center operations and implementation, including data retention, system architecture and general technology guidelines.
• Provided technical expertise for complex operational related issues and maintained the stability of daily operations.
• Implemented best practice security principals to secure private information from unauthorized access.
• Provided high-level enterprise support: resolve problems and answer questions related to the data center operations, contact vendor support when necessary to resolve problems and/or outages.
• Worked with branch managers to identify business needs and provide technical solutions.
• Presented technical challenges and solutionsto improve data center efficiency to the senior management.
• Designed and implemented security solutions and systems migration to TIG clients.
• Implemented network monitoring tools to ensure network performance and efficiency.
• Developed strong team relationships between data center engineers.

Confidential

TIG network infrastructure

• Modified network configuration, upgradedCisco and Enterasys routing and switching hardware to achieve better network performance and minimize network downtime.
• Designed and implemented security policies based on best practices.
• Designed and implemented an Anti-Spam solution decreasing spam messages delivered to users mailboxes with 90 .
• Planned and implemented OS migration to Windows 2003 and Exchange 2003.
• Implemented WSUS patch management server.
• Designed and implemented EMC cx500 SAN solution.
• Implemented IBM Blade center.
• Planed and implemented migration from Citrix Metaframe XP/FR3 to Citrix Presentation server 3.0. Upgraded Citrix farm to Presentation server 4.0.
• Replaced company Cisco PIX 520 firewall with Cisco ASA 5520 with IPS modules.
• Implemanted McAfee IntruShield intrusion prevention system, Confidential and Entercept.
• Implemented Overland REO 9000 disk to disk to tape backup solution.

Confidential

Senior Network Administrator

• Replaced the old network equipment, MICOM Marathon bridges connected with 56k leased line between USA and Mexico, with CISCO 2610 routers connected with T1 leased line.
• Installed a CISCO 1720 router with T1 leased line to Internet, and Firewall on it /Feature Pack 1/.
• Modified the LAN network structure replacing 10 Mbps HP Hubs with 10/100 Mbps HP ProCurve 2224 switches.
• Installed manageable Switches HP ProCurve 2424 in main points of the network and with this converted the old non-manageable network to manageable.
• Planned and implemented VLANs on HP ProCurve 2424 switches.
• Installed multiple NT/2000 servers COMPAQ Proliant 370 .
• . Designed and implemented MS Exchange 5.5 server COMPAQ Proliant 370 .
• Implemented a CITRIX Metaframe 1.8 on NT 4.0 Terminal edition COMPAQ Proliant 2500 .
• Performed migration to CITRIX Metaframe XP. Installed Feature release 1.
• Performed variety of modifications and upgrades to the old NT servers.
• Migrated users from Office 97 to Office 2000.
• Installed Veritas BackuExec, McAfee Antivirus software, McAfee GroupShield, Arcana Scheduler, SurfControl, HP Top Tools, Sniffer, WRQ Reflection and variety of client software.
• Responsible for installation, configuration and administration of all servers and network devices located in companies branches in USA and Mexico.

Confidential

Founder and President

• Managed a team of engineers, planning, implementing and supporting LAN and WAN Network Systems for the company's clients.
• Planned and implemented LAN/WAN networks for schools, private companies and the government institutions.
• Worked with NT 4.0 file/print Servers, MS BackOffice Servers, MS Exchange 5.0/5.5, MS Proxy 2.0, Cisco Routers, Switches CISCO,HP , Bridges and Hubs HP, 3Com and variety of devices made in Asia .
• Worked with DHCP, WINS, DNS, TCP/IP, SMTP, SNMP.
• Assembled PC's and Servers and sold them to the public and private sector.

Confidential

HARDWARE ENGINEER

• Worked in a team of hardware engineers developing new PC hardware.
• Worked on multi-processor Transputer graphic controller.
• PCB design with REDAC and ORCAD software.
• Testing and troubleshooting PCB boards.

Technical Summary:

Cisco 1600-7200 routers, Cisco Catalyst 1900-6500 switches,Cisco ASA 5500 with IPS modules, Cisco PIX506-525 Firewalls, Cisco3000 VPN concentrator, FORCE 10 switches, Enterasys routers and switches, HP switches, 3COM switches, LAN/WAN, TCP/IP, RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, VLAN, STP, Cisco MARS, Cisco Clean Access NAC , Cisco Works, SOPHOS Endpoint security, SOPHOS Secure Gateway, VMware ESXi, VMware Virtual Center, VMware View, Windows 2008/2003/2000/7/XP/NT4/98/95/3.xx, Active Directory, LDAP, DNS, DHCP, WINS, HW RAID, SW RAID, Microsoft Exchange 2010/2007/2003/2000/5.5, MS SQL, MS ISA, WSUS, MS IIS, MS Office 2010/2007/2003/XP/2000/97, CITRIX Presentation Server 3.0/4.0, CITRIX Metaframe XP/1.8, McAfee, Symantec SGS Firewall, Symantec VPN and Anti-virus solutions, DELL Compellent SC-8000, EMC Source One,EMC Disk Xtender, EMC ClariionCx series, EMC DMX, EMC Clariion CX4-960, EMC Celerra NS40 , EMC Centera, EMC Avamar, Dell Compellent, BackupExec, Overland REO disk to disk backup solutions, HP Compaq and DELL Hardware.