SUMMARY:

• Dedicated, results driven, Systems Administrator, IT and Network Engineering professional and "hands - on" Technical Manager with extensive infrastructure experience for both large Enterprise Network Support and the comprehensive demands of Small to Medium Business IT Operations and Solutions. Excellent reputation for diagnosing and delivering technology solutions on time and under budget. Proven expertise for improving system reliability and overall performance, ensuring data recovery and improving overall efficiencies.
• Comprehensive Infrastructure Design and Implementation.
• System and Network Administration
• Enterprise Platform Systems & Data Migration
• LAN / WAN Implementation and Support
• Hardware Configuration and Installation
• Security and Data Storage Analysis
• Email and Virtualization
• Backup and Disaster Recovery Planning
• Telecom: Upgrades, Configuration & Change Management
• Software Development Oversight
• Supervision of IT infrastructure rollouts and upgrades
• Excellent communication Skills
• Vendor negotiation and project management.
• Extensive Troubleshooting Skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

IT Management Applications: GFI Network Monitor and Languard Spiceworks NW monitor Change & Configuration Management Cisco Works, Solarwinds Orion, Remedy, Service Now Voyence & Entuity Network Editor Proteus IP management Observium network monitoring on LAMP stack Ticketing systems - Service Online, Remedy (Dell OPAS), OTRS

Networking: Cisco routers and switches including Nexus Cisco IOS, CatOS, NX - OS, Firewall OS Brocade Foundry Ironworks Tacacs+, aaa, MPLS, EIGRP, BGP, HSRP, STP, OSPF, VTP ISL, 802.1q, GRE and IPSEC, DTP, FEX, ntp, logging, trunking, VLAN, T1 multilink, QOS, snmp, access lists and more. F5 Load Balancers Foundry, Dell, Enterasys & Nortel Wifi controllers and access points, Air Magnet

Hardware: Sonciwall Sonicpoint WiFi installations Quantum tape autoloaders IQStor SAN FC and iSCSI disk arrays Dell MD3000 disk arrays Brocade FC switches Fax servers CPS out of band devices Shoretel and Mitel Voip systems Magstar tape libraries Video surveillance servers UPS

Security Technologies: Netscreen, Cisco Pix and ASA Sonicwall SOS & EOS Nortel Contivity VPN Cisco VPN Trend Micro AV, Norton AV McAfee ePO AV Sunbelt Vipre AV Core Impact RSA Two Factor Systems Cisco Span collector

Windows Server Technologies: Windows Server 2008, 2003 Active Directory DNS, DHCP, IAS, IIS, Radius Server 2008 NPS MS Authority Exchange 2003, 2007 Activesync for mobile devices Mac OSX domain joins to Active Directory Group Policy for Windows 7 desktop WSUS for updates RRA

Server Hardware: Dell servers: PE2950 HP/Compaq: ML - 330/350 HP and Dell blade chassis and servers Cisco switch blades IBM i5 and AS400

Server Applications: Blackberry BES JD Edwards World and Enterprise One Crystal Reports server SQL Server 2005 Sharepoint services Doubletake block disk replication Setup Suse and Ubuntu Linux servers Apache web server BackupExec VMWare ESXi 4 and 5

Cloud Technologies: Constellation CRM Zmanda and Jungledisk offsite backup Trend Micro Small Business AV Aerohive Wifi

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Brocade-Foundry and Cisco Networking implementation and maintenance in the OCDC and remote office locations. Also Nortel, Enterasys, and Cabletron network devices.Aruba wireless access points and controllers.
• Used Orion SolarWinds, Inmon, Ironworks, Remedy, Service Now and several other tools for monitoring and administration.
• Some NOC duty as well, dispatching tickets to other areas such as telecom and security.
• Remote site WAN maintenance, coordinating with TW and ATT.

Confidential

Network Engineer / IT Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Create new email domain on Exchange server and migrate external email screening to a new vendor
• Troubleshoot Dell switch and server hardware malfunctions and repair
• Setup new domain and Exchange users and repair email and domain profiles
• Repair Fiberchannel SAN malfunctions and survey all UPS systems for battery replacements

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Cisco physical and IOS configuration maintenance on numerous data center and remote office routers and switches
• On call F5 Load Balancer and Netscreen firewall troubleshooting
• Remote office device configuration auditing and fail over testing
• Data Center server ILO switch port audits and configuration
• Remote site secondary WAN circuit migration from ATT DS1 multilink and DS3 links to XO communications Metro Ethernet links, updating hardware, router interfaces and MPLS BGP configurations as needed.

Confidential

IT Consulting

Responsibilities:

• Installed and maintained loan origination, processing and loan document software.
• Deployed Windows infrastructure upgrade and remote access configuration.
• Contract Consultant on protecting Web Application with F5 Big IP devices.
• Contract to provide Design, Configuration and Integration of the IT infrastructure for new medical facility within tight budgetary constraints.

Confidential, San Bernardino

Network Engineer and Hands-On Technical Manager

Responsibilities:

• Saved over 20% on the hardware and software acquisitions.
• Saved over 50% on the company equipment and software products.
• Negotiated 50% cost reduction on new telecom contract.
• Introduced multi layered IT Security Plan which included external incoming and outgoing email filtering, network IPS, enterprise application security, gateway scanner and host based malware defense. In addition conducted IT security auditing to identify and correct problems and comply with CA Data Security Laws.

Confidential

IT Security Consultant / Network Engineering / Security Windows 2000

Responsibilities:

• Managed IT developers and engineers in providing solutions for corporate information needs using multiple Microsoft technologies.
• The group also provided IT and Network engineering support.
• Consistently demonstrated ability to manage IT projects on time and on budget.
• Saved the company a $50,000 investment on 12 Cisco wireless access points and over 250 wireless PC cards by upgrading the wireless network to Cisco LEAP authentication and dynamic WEP key change capabilities.
• Provided level 3 and 4 Cisco networking, tele-worker networking, Windows systems and Windows application support for the corporation.