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Lewes, De, Us

Ada, Ok, Us

The Sr Systems Engineer provides technical guidance and direction in support of the day-to-day operations for Network Operations, Communications and Technical Support of the IT Department of the Chickasaw Nation Division of Commerce. This position provides leadership and direction with the installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of malfunctions with computer hardware and software.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

As a Customer Service/Sales associate I provide fast, friendly service by actively seeking out customers to assess their needs and provide assistance. I have an emphasis on department and product knowledge, providing information on product features, and knowing related items to sell an entire project. While in this position I know how to greet, qualify, recommend and close every customer in their department, and know how to handle basics in adjacent departments.I've maintained the in-stock condition of assigned areas, and ensure that it is clean, shoppable, and safe.I have the responsibility of providing a safe working and shopping environment by following all safety policies & standards, completing specified safety training, immediately correcting hazards & unsafe conditions or reporting conditions to the Manager On Duty, and working safely as not to endanger themselves, co-workers, vendors, or customers. I have worked in cooperation with their Department Supervisor and other associates in their department as well as other departments. Specific store departments may include Building Materials, Décor, Electrical, Flooring, Garden, Hardware, Kitchen & Bath, Lumber, Millwork, Paint, Plumbing and Tool Rental. The Customer Service/Sales position types may include Department Sales, Lead Generator, Pro Account Sales, Sales Specialist, Special Services, and Customer Order Specialist.

Tulsa, Oklahoma, Us

• Installation, Upgrade and Management of enterprise versions of VMWare 6.7 and higher. • Design and Implementation of Data Protection Solutions on Dell/EMC/Avamar. • Worked with general LAN/WAN and server technologies. • Contributed to design of network architecture, integration, and installation. • Monitor and maintain technologies implemented and managed Orion Software • Experience with PowerEdge MX7000 Enclosures and PowerEdge MX760C Servers • Experience with PowerStore, VXRail 7.0.xxx, VxRail P570F, VxRail E660F, VxRail P670F, VxRail E560F • Design, installation and management of server hardware and PowerEdge FC640, PowerEdge R650xs, PowerEdge M640 (VRTX), PowerEdge R450, PowerEdge R640,R750 vSAN Ready Node. • General server knowledge is required, including the following: Windows Server 2008-2022, Microsoft Exchange 2016, Active Directory, VMware. • Designed, planned and migration of infrastructure to Public Cloud Services (AWS/Azure/GCP), Aruba Wireless, Checkpoint Firewalls . • Familiarity with LAN/WAN and multiplatform environments. • Experience with Ivanti Service Desk and/or other service desk application implementation, maintenance, and support.

Took a 8 months off my career to focus on personal and professional development. Over the duration of the period, I managed to:Update my VMware SkillsWork on Cloud CertificationsAttended various technological and profressional workshops and seminars.

Millsboro, Delaware, Us

Responsible for design, implementation, and management of all server infrastructure both physical and virtual, as well as all corporate storage and data integrity requirements needs by the company. In addition • Manage a team of two full time engineers, three contractor engineers and several interns.• Responsible for all support and vendor management of Windows 2019-2022 Server, Redhat Linux, Solaris x86, VMWare, Oracle Virtualization, Pure Storage and NetApp.• Manage all storage and virtualization infrastructure including VMWare, Oracle x86 Virtualization (OVM), Oracle LDOMs,• Responsible for all installation, support, maintenance, and vendor management of and all Physical Servers with related storage.• Team is responsible for design, implementation, and management of all server infrastructure both physical and virtual, as well as all corporate storage and data integrity requirements by the company.• Manage two headquarter datacenters plus four plant related datacenters along with 15 smaller datacenter/server closets at remote locations.• Responsible for all datacenter maintenance and support, including APC UPS, Generac Generator, and In-Row cooling equipment.• Work with executive management on virtualization and storage budgets and strategic planning.• Controlled an average departmental budget of 1.5m annually.

Millsboro, Delaware, Us

Responsible all for design, implementation, and management of all server infrastructure both physical and virtual, as well as all corporate storage and data integrity requirements need by the company.• Designed and Implemented NetBackup Appliance upgrades to Veritas Flex Appliances to migrate from using LTO tapes for off-site data to cloud based off-site storage.• Performed On-Tap Upgrades of NetApp Appliances quarterly.• Migrated all NetApp NFS/CIFS storage appliance to Pure Storage 32GB fiber channel flash Appliances.• Maintained vendor support for along with installation and maintenance of: NetApp FAS2750 (15 PB of Storage), NetApp AFF C250 (1.2PB of storage), Pure Storage FlashArray//X70 (420TB Raw Storage), Pure Storage FlashArray//X50 (120TB Raw Storage), Pure Storage FlashArray//X20 (1.2PB of storage)• Implemented migration VMWare 6.5 environment to VMWare 7.03.• Designed and Planned VMWare 7.x upgrade to VMware 8.0• Managed Power, Space and Cooling for seven company datacenters across three states.• Performed forklift upgrade of entire Cisco UCS B Series hardware to Cisco X Series• Maintained and Supported Oracle Sparc hardware and assisted Oracle Engineer with operating system updates and maintenance.• Managed and scheduled datacenter preventative maintenance on APC UPS, Generators, and cooling systems.• Managed and performed regular maintenance on all physical and virtual servers including all Windows, Linux based systems.• Designed, Implemented and managed VMWare (ESXi Hosts, VCenter/VSphere) environment both with and without VMWare vSAN and NSX.• Managed and operated a multi-node VMware / V-center and Hyper-V Clusters utilizing Cisco UCS B Series and C Series Blade Centers and HP C7000 Blade Centers.

San Diego, California, Us

Responsible for and subject matter expert of virtualization technologies to develop, deploy, test and support our complex Software Defined Networks for SATCOM Ground Systems.• Developed complete understanding and expertise of our SDN based Satellite Ground platform.• Work with customers to ensure they are leveraging the product and achieving success.• Deriving and disseminating best practices that help drive customer adoption of our platform.• Triage and respond to customer support requests.• Setup and maintain test environments to facilitate customer issue replication and use case testing.• Configure our platform to comply with customer objectives and operational constraints.• Provided product feedback to product development team based on customer experiences.• Provided to support development of third-party integrations.• Implemented Red Hat OpenStack 16.1 lab environment for Customer Success team with a 11 node cluster, with 100 TB of storage.• Designed and implemented on premise Customer Success Lab Infrastructure utilizing PFSense Firewalls, Netgear Enterprise Switches, and Dell R640 Servers for DevOps team use.• Designed and Implemented Debian – Nagios Based lab monitoring of servers, switches, firewalls, and PDU using device plug-in and bash scripts.• Designed and Implemented AWS and Azure Customer Success Labs for both DevOps and Sales teams.• Documented and tested Kratos products in OpenStack environments for client use case.• Managed Customer Success lab infrastructure and spares inventory.• Deployed OpenStack Pack-stack on ESXi/Vcenter & CentOS KVM, AWS and Azure Environments• Design and Implemented Ansible and Ansible Playbooks on ESXi/Vcenter & CentOS KVM, AWS and Azure Environments.

Demonstrated hands on management style in the development and implementations of strategic plans to insure company growth. Strong organizational and communication skills with the ability to independently plan and manage diverse business relationships. • Lead operational and strategic direction regarding services and operational management and long-term planning.• Implemented a market-driven business strategy, resulting in increased sales.• Increased productivity while reducing capital expense and operational costs by 25%• Oversaw development of marketing of client services and solution.• Led the deployment of Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services infrastructure for customer businesses, which included leading cross-functional teams to execute enterprise projects.• Conducted regular meetings with team leaders to audit activity and productivity.• Managed day-to-day operations of two company locations and resolved customer complaints.• Managed several co-location vendor relationships and service-level agreements of vendors.• Develop and accomplish short-term goals and long-term objectives that further the company's growth.• Defined enterprise vision and technology roadmaps for a cloud-first organization.• Managed the planning and delivery of IT services to enterprise customers including data management, user services, network administration, and change management initiatives to improve organizational effectiveness.• Ensuring the security of the organization's data and compliance with relevant laws and regulations.• Lead digital transformation initiatives to improve business processes and customer experiences.• Fostered innovation by exploring and implementing new technologies that can provide a competitive advantage.

El Paso, Texas, Us

Subject matter expert particularly for Privileged Access Management capabilities, including familiarity with Just-in-Time privileged account access.• Ensured IAM solutions designed, engineered, and deployed are in alignment with security architecture and strategy, and support the organization’s policies and standards. • Integrated and aligned the IAM strategy with an overall program focused on establishing a zero-trust approach to security.• Coordinate activities with a team consisting of external resources and other partners to implement and maintain IAM security tools and ensure they are functioning properly.• Created technical designs, recommended configurations, and drawings necessary to design, implement and deploy current and future state security capabilities.• Designed and Implemented Automated Process to Add New Users to Active Directory via PowerShell Scripts and scheduled tasks.• Designed and Implemented Automated Process to Exit New Users from Active Directory as well as export existed user's OneDrive data and Exchange PST files, place them in a network share, set permissions so exited user's manager had access to exported data utilizing PowerShell Scripts and scheduled tasks.• Implemented Active Directory Migration from a “.COM” domain to a “.GOV” Domain.• Designed and Implemented Automated Process to change username, when requested via ticketing system (ServiceNow) utilizing PowerShell scripts and scheduled tasks.• Rolled out Microsoft 365 Office Licensing via Okta, along with maintained SSO/SAML integration with applications and Okta.

Colorado Springs, Colorado, Us

A Senior System Administrator with professional experience, specializing in Windows, Linux, Solaris, Azure and AWS, Agile methodology, technical project management, and IT services. • Lead administrator to implemented on-premise Exchange 2007 migration to Office 356 Exchange On-line to provide a hybrid Exchange environment.• Designed and Implemented plan for Migration of On-Premises Windows 2012 Active Directory to Azure Active Directory.• Installed Maintained all Windows 2012 Active Directory and Application physical and virtual servers.• Developed and implemented Windows SCCM patching infrastructure and scheduling.• Coordinated with Backup Administrator for ensuring entire Windows environment was regularly backed up and off-site copies were made available.

Accomplished Systems Engineer with a comprehensive background in orchestrating data center migrations to hybrid cloud environments. Recognized for optimization of VMWare environment, bolstering network security, and optimizing system performance, leading to marked improvements in application deployment speed, system efficiency, and user satisfaction.• Reviewed Design Documents provided by client on existing VMWare/VCenter Cluster environment and developed plan to upgrade and add capacity to current virtualization infrastructure.• Reviewed current virtualized application servers and file servers, made recommendations to provide redundancy and HA reliability to existing applications and data.• Guided on-premises team to upgrade and improve their VMWare environments by implementing recommendations and optimizations.

Colorado Springs, Co, Us

Network engineer with support experience in ISP, enterprise, and cloud networking. • Performed general network engineering, configuring Dell server and associated switches.• Assisted network administrators with support during new installations and troubleshooting during outages.• Maintained network documentation and diagrams as network evolved.• Developed Customer Hosting Proposals and Designs for client hosted solutions.• Building of Windows 2016 based hosting solutions for the Insurance Risk management industry.• Implemented Vendor Security Risk Management process and documentation.• Performed network risk assessments as required.• Maintained ISP Customer side routers (Cisco ASR)

New Milford, Nj, Us

Over 15 years of experience as a System Administrator offering hands-on expertise in developing secure solutions and automating processes to drive organizational success. • Team leader for a team of five Systems Administrators/Engineers.• Successfully managed user accounts, passwords, user privileges, and access controls while creating and installing network hardware to ensure a reliable, optimized network infrastructure. • Effectively documented all activities, reducing IT technical support tickets and successfully migrating 1500 user accounts across two domains with a 99.9% uptime.• Managed and operated a multi-node VMware / V-center and Hyper-V Clusters utilizing Cisco UCS B Series and C Series Blade Centers and HP C7000 Blade Centers.• Administered approximately 1500 Windows 2012 thru Windows 2019 Server Datacenter Edition and Redhat Linux 7 Servers on standalone physical blade servers in both HP C7000 and Cisco UCS Blade hardware.• Managed approximately 1500, Windows 2012-2019 Windows VMWare VMs, along with 500 to 1000 Linux (CentOS an Redhat Linux) VMs and approximately 300 Solaris x86 VM.• Installed and maintained 40 to 50 Oracle M3000 & M8000 Sparc Servers• Installed, managed, and provisioned fiber channel storage from four EMC VNX (4 PB of Storage), six Hitachi VSP arrays (9 PB of storage) and 4 HPE XP-7 Storage Array (24PB, 65TB Flash Storage)• Managed and operating eight Brocade X6-8 Director Fiber Channel Storage switches (8GB and 16GB)• Moderate experience with Bash Scripting and PowerShell Scripting.• Engineered, implemented, and managed Windows 2016 Commvault Backup Solutions with Site-to-Site Replication• Implemented and managed four NetBackup Appliances (Veritas NetBackup™ 5240 Appliance) for on-premises backup with site-to-site replication.• Implemented and managed two CommVault Backup and one EMC Networker Backup environments.• Implemented and managed 3000 Node VMWare Clusters.

IT system engineer with experience designing, implementing, and maintaining complex IT infrastructures while ensuring optimal performance and security. • Migrated Windows and Linux based infrastructures to a virtualized environment, reducing infrastructure costs by $18.5K+ and improving scalability.• Performed installation and maintenance of all HP C7000 Blade Center environments, along with migrating physical rack mount environments to blade center environments.• Aided with Day-to-Day system administration of Windows, Linux, Solaris/Oracle, and AS-400 Mainframe systems as required.• Company was eventually merged into Verizon Wireless.

Oversaw the IT operations for a regional transportation company with over $400 thousand in assets, including IT infrastructure, ERP, and cybersecurity.• Developed technology plans for the development of a new vehicle management and maintenance platform to improve the customer experience and lower vehicle maintenance costs.• Coordinated with the corporate vice president, the chief operating officer, and the CEO to plan and execute a company-wide technology transformation to automate business processes.• Built a successful engineering and systems operations teams from the ground up, recruit talent, provide mentorship, and establish a work culture centered on accountability.• Identified technology trends, develop overarching strategy, and provide recommendations to senior leadership to enhance the IT organization.• Developed and responsible for implementing the overall IT strategy in alignment with the organization's goals and objectives.• Overseeing the management of IT resources and budget to ensure cost-effective and efficient operations.• Managed the IT infrastructure, including networks, data centers, and cloud services, to ensure high availability and performance.• Responsible for directing the development and maintenance of enterprise software applications to support business functions.• Built and maintained relationships with vendors, partners, and other external stakeholders.• Leading and developing the IT team, including hiring, training, and performance management.• Collaborating with other C-level executives to align IT initiatives with business strategies and objectives.• Reporting to the CEO on IT performance, risks, and opportunities.• Ensuring business continuity and disaster recovery plans are in place and effective.

Coursework Toward A Bachelor And Masters Of Management Information Systems (Mis)

General Education & Computer Science, Computer Science