Blake Farrell Email & Phone Number

United States

Greater St. Louis Area

Greater St. Louis Area

St. Louis, Mo

Carlyle, Illinois

- Primary duties were to be the Lead Level 3 Systems and Network Administrator- Sole Citrix System Administrator for two Citrix Environments with over 40 servers- Daily administration of over 250 empowered Citrix Users accessing 150+ applications- Developed and maintained four Citrix NetScalers Virtual Appliances supporting 65 load balancing configurations and two Citrix Gateways- Lead administrator to migrate/upgrade Windows 2008 Forest and Domain Function Level to Windows 2012 enhancing 10 Active Directory Domain Controllers - Supported Windows Active Directory for approximately 400 User Accounts- Regularly created and/or revamped physical and virtual Windows Servers using various versions (2008, 2012 and 2016)- Routinely monitored, identified and repaired issues to 15 Hyper-V Hosts and over 200 Virtual Machines- Addressed performance and functional issues of backend storage devices such as EqualLogic, NetApp and Tegile, providing operation disk space for all Virtual Machines- Senior Administrator of over 200 Virtual Private Network Systems/Connects covering the Midwest using FortiNet (60), CradlePoint (120) and Cisco Routers (60), which included design, planning, installation and daily administration- Instrumental for establishing and maintaining Internet Services for over 200 Remote Locations using MPLS, DSL, Cable, Fixed Wireless or Cellular Services- Established a Video Surveillance System utilizing over 90 camera, 15 recording devices and data storage for over 20 remote locations- Singlehandedly designed, implemented, monitored and maintained the entire Enterprise Data Protection Systems for over 200 servers using Dell AppAssure and Rapid Recovery Back/Recovery software.- Designed and maintained the company’s Disaster Recovery Plan and Practices using Dell AppAssure and RapidRecovery - Successfully Achieved ITIL Foundation Certification - Installed and Administered AeroHive Wireless Access Points in over 45 locations

Town & Country, Mo

- Level 3 technical support for Windows Servers managing normal operations of over 3,300 Windows Servers and related network components- Communicate operational malfunctions and remedy actions taken to repair servers to clients in an extremely prompt and efficient manner- Responsible, as a team of Engineers, to maintain sustainable 99.999% operational status of dozens of Egenera BladeFrame devices for thousands of clients worldwide- Constructively configured, reconfigured and updated hundreds of VMWare Virtual Machines utilizing Windows and Linux Operating Systems.- Extensive hours working, supporting and configuring F5 and Inkra Load Balancers to support thousands of Client Servers, typically for SQL and Web Site operations- Supportive in the successful operational status of Savvis Backend Network using Cisco Routers and Switches

St. Peters, Mo

- Consult, develop system interfaces, install, train, and troubleshoot PC Networks, Document Imaging Systems, and E-Commerce Web Solutions- Entrusted as sole representative of NISC to visit, implement, train and manage over 150 networked and non-networked client computer systems nation wide

Scott Afb, Il

- Influential Division Leader, responsible for dozens enlisted and civilian personal including annual evaluation reporting for 4 branches of military services and three contractor companies- Senior Network Administrator with 20 subordinate LAN Administrators- Revolutionized problem tracking, reporting and resolution software enabling the department to increase command readiness and rapid response- Procurement Manager, responsible for ordering automated data processing equipment and maintaining over $1,000,000 annual budget - Constructively developed multiple e-mail system operations to support almost instantaneous delivery of flag officers for all military services required for real world crisis situations to be handles efficiently and affectively

Lead acoustic sensor operator flying P-3 Orion aircraft around the world, protecting America and it's citizens from all enemies foreign and domestic.VP-9 1994-1989CPW-10 1989-1992VP-22 1992-1994