Adam Sampson Email & Phone Number

Orlando, Fl, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

Part of a team of engineers that design, implement, and maintain highly complex multi-tier infrastructure solutions spanning multiple global datacenters. We deliver world class technology services for 1000+ lawyers (and an additional 1000+ support staff) in 14 offices spread across 5 countries.Day to day technologies include:Compute: Cisco UCS, HPE, NutanixStorage: Pure, HPE, NetAppBackups: VeeamNetworking: Cisco (IP & FC), VMware NSXVirtualization (Datacenter & VDI): VMware, Citrix, Hyper-VDR: VMware Site Recovery Manager, Veeam, NutanixAutomation: Ansible, vRealize, Powershell, Bash

Newcastle Upon Tyne, Gb

Responsibilities Included:• Reported directly to the VP of IT• Lead technical architect for all enterprise IT projects• Responsible for all IT budgeting / purchasing & vendor management• Management of the following:o 100+ physical and 200+ virtual servers in multiple datacenters, averaging “five nines” 99.999% uptime – 5.26 minutes of downtime per yearo Multiple VMware ESXi / vCenter clusters & VMware Site Recovery Managero Multiple EMC VNX SANs & EMC Recoverpoint to enable replication between datacenters and allow for full production failover capabilitieso F5 Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Global Traffic Manager (GTM) load balancers to ensure maximum availability of production services across datacenterso IIS 7 based Web Farmso Windows Sever 2003/2008/2012 serverso SQL Server 2008 / 2012o A myriad of Cisco networking hardware including switches, routers, firewalls and VPN deviceso Network connectivity between datacenters and offices including Point to Point, MPLS, T1/T3 & Fibero Cisco Callmanager (CUCM) VoIP Infrastructure & Unified Contact Center Express (UCCX) based Call Center & Zoom CallRec call & screen recording for datacenter agentso Multi-site Active Directory forest, at a functional level of Windows Server 2012o Exchange 2010 with a multi-site Database Availability Group (DAG) to ensure high availabilityo MailMarshal SMTP Gatewayo Webmarshal Proxy Servero XMedius Fax Servero RSA SecurID authentication devices for remote userso Patch management & OS deployment for desktop & servers, utilizing Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and System Center Configuration Manager 2012 (SCCM)o Enterprise wide monitoring and alerting via System Center Operations Manager 2012 (SCOM)• Day to day maintenance tasks utilizing Powershell & other tools• Supported Development team in identifying IT infrastructure needs for projects• Supervised the internal help desk