SUMMARY:

• IT Professional with over 20 years of experience with heavy Citrix, VMWare and Microsoft involvement.
• Qualified technical requirements for Proof of Concepts, RFIs and RFP for technical projects.
• Extensive knowledge in deploying VMWare, Microsoft and Citrix products from the ground up.
• Costs benefit analysis of projects for Corporate Executive Team as well as affiliates and partners.
• Experienced in Financial Services, Healthcare, Law Firm and Telecommunications industries.
• Six years’ experience as a Microsoft Certified Trainer delivering technical content to IT professionals at all levels.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: EMC Recoverpoint, Citrix Edgesight for Testing and Load balancin, Netscaler, Kaspersky Security Center 10.0, Symantec Backup Exec, Symantec Endpoint Protection, Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange, Trend Micro ScanMail, Microsoft SCCM, WSUS, IIS, DNS, DHCP, WINS, DFS, Active Directory Group Policies, Microsoft WinPE, PXE Imaging tools, Acronis Disk Imaging Systems, Powershell scripting, Wyse Thin Client.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

VMWare and Windows Engineer

Confidential, White Plains, NY

Responsibilities:

• Deployed VMWare 5.5 Infrastructure to remote Confidential offices.
• Consolidated over 400 reverse DNS zones down to 50 reverse DNS Zones.
• Active Directory Hardening, administration and maintenance.
• Deployment of Trend InterScan Web Security Virtual Appliance.

Virtualization Engineer

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Deployed VMWare 5.5 Infrastructure running on Cisco UCS for NYC Engineering and Quality Assurance Labs.
• Developed and testing materials for Cisco UCS Service Profiles and Templates.
• VMWare Site Recovery Manager documentation and deployment for disaster recovery orchestration of Virtual Machines that reside on protected Hitachi HDS storage. Trained and mentored Platform Operations team on recovery operations.
• Citrix Netscaler and Storefront remote access testing and documentation as a candidate for VPN replacement.
• Microsoft SCCM deployment for NYC Environment.
• Developed Operations Staff materials for Cisco, VMWare, Citrix and Microsoft Technologies.

Systems Engineer

Confidential, Purchase, NY

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded end - to-end overhaul of virtualization environment, planning, designing, and documenting new infrastructure to in corporate upgraded software, new/refurbished hardware, highly available network/fiber links, and optimized storage.
• Achieved 90% virtualization; reduced datacenter rack footprint by 75% by virtualizing 250+ physical servers.
• Completed installation, cabling, and labeling of four server racks and subsequent migration of ESXi hosts running on Cisco UCS blades with EMC VNX storage.
• Optimized VMware and EMC stability, and recoverability through roll out of disaster recovery VMware site, Recoverpoint replication jobs, and Recoverpoint backups.
• Enhanced monitoring and performance management using Dell Foglight, ControlUP, Active Experts to increase access to real-time information about virtual and physical machines.
• Consolidated 18 Antivirus management servers to one single Kapersky Security Center 10.0. Deployed antivirus to over 2000 endpoints including Security for Virtualization for VMWare and Citrix Xenapp.
• Active Directory Migration from for our network with 19 sites and reduced number of domain controllers from 42 to 30 saving licensing, hardware and support costs.
• Microsoft Exchange migration with site fault tolerance and disaster recovery.
• Amazon AWS configuration and management for Confidential t portal and public website for Corporate and Regional Practices.

Field Systems Engineer

Confidential, Stamford, CT

Responsibilities:

• Installation, security and maintenance of high availability trading, accounting and messaging environments built on a Windows 2008 AD integrated platform.
• Upgraded clients from Backup Exec 10.x to 2012.
• VMWare build and infrastructure upgrades.
• XenDesktop deployments for our clients.
• Upgraded clients from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010.

Regional Systems Support Specialist

Confidential, Hawthorne, NY

Responsibilities:

• Liaison between Corporate IT and NYC Regional Market Executives and Directors.
• Installation, support and maintenance for all regional servers, including MS Exchange 2003, 2010 MS SQL 2005, Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 and XenApp Server 6.0, DHCP, DNS, VMWare and Microsoft file and print services.
• Automated Windows 7 deployment to 300 workstations via SCCM, WINPE and PXE imaging tools.
• Migrated NYC Market from Microsoft Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010.
• Upgraded Regional Citrix Farm from Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 to XenApp Server 6.0.
• Cisco Call Manager and Unity configuration for 16 Regional Network locations. Configured Calling Search Space and Partitions to reduce unnecessary toll calls and well as E911.
• Deployed SQL 2005 for Regional Engineering Department, creating permanent local network utilization database saving company over one million dollars.
• Deployed Microsoft SCCM to NYC market reducing time needed to update/patch workstations and servers.
• Developed program for 15 Retail Managers on all IT Equipment and procedures.
• Documented complete network configuration as well as troubleshooting and breakfix instructions.
• Implemented VMWare ESX Server for HR and RF Engineering team to host legacy applications to overcome OS Migration Issues.

Network Administrator and PC Consultant

Confidential, New York

Responsibilities:

• Maintenance, updating and troubleshooting of Windows computers for home users. Installation and upgrade of Server operating systems to Windows 2003.

Technical Trainer

Confidential, White Plains, NY

Responsibilities:

• Delivered Microsoft Official Curriculum as well as A+ and Linux instruction in a Classroom setting at Certified Technical Centers. Topics included Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000, DNS, DHCP, WINS, Active Directory, Group Policy Objects, Routing and Remote Access, ISA Server, Exchange Server, Deploying Microsoft Office XP and 2003.