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Portland, OR, US

Salem, Oregon, US

• Designed and created new Domain for the agency creation as a new state agency
• Migrated M365 users, mailbox and online data from out of the Oregon State Police agency into new agency servers and directory
• Stood up complete PKI environment and implemented into all security measures
• Stood up SCCM system, co managed with Intune, utilized for imaging, application deployment and Windows updates
• Created and implemented Microsoft Always On VPN Infrastructure for all clients.

• Responsible for the lifecycle of highly specialized tools within Intels MFG process
• Worked with ServiceNow ticketing software to complete tickets
• IBM BigFix, SCOM, SCCM, HP OneView, used in management of these systems
• Created DNS, IP management, Wiki updates, AD Accounts, SailPoint role access
• Switch management – port configuration, vlan setup, documentation

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Microsoft specialist in a specialized Cloud group within Nike
• Responsible for all aspects of license maintenance for 50+ applications
• Developing Azure replacement of old license designs
• Migration of on-premise datacenter servers to Azure cloud

Hillsboro, OR, US

• Primary responsibilities towards security. Implemented MFA on all staff members for secure access to all sensitive applications and data.
• Creation of Incident Response Plans for various situation specific incidents.
• Migrated to a Hybrid environment allowing distance learning throughout the district
• Created Azure Virtual Desktop environment for CTE classes across district
• Migrated to Azure AD for all outside IdP
• Management of Infrastructure to include, VMWare, Active Directory, DNS, Storage (SAN/Cloud)

San Diego, CA, US

• Primary VMWare and Windows administrator (VMWare 6.5 / Windows 2016)o 400+ Servers 1500+ Windows Endpoints (Win7, Win10)
• Heavily involved in training Junior Admins
• Implemented SCCM – Current Branch installations in environmento Imaging, Software Deployments, Software Updating, Cloud Management Gateway
• Implemented CyberArk Password Management Solution
• Administration of Nessus scanning for HIPPA compliance management
• Performed an entire refresh of certificate management/PKI solution

Los Angeles, California, US

· Primary Engineer for all Servers both Windows & Linux· Utilized VMWare ESXi 5.5 with a migration to 6.5 involving HA Clustering· Designed, planned, implemented, and maintained SCCM 2016 across organization· Responsible for PCI compliance across the entire Organization; Detecting, Documenting, & Resolution· Designed, built out, and maintained lab.

San Diego, CA, US

• Responsible for maintaining a detailed documentation on all data center networking equipment
• Completed updates of all networking equipment in data centers
• Designed, built and maintained VMWare ESXi lab environment for data center engineers
• Assisted in setup and testing of all new equipment and software for the data centers
• Performed regularly scheduled security audits within the datacenter

Anchorage, AK, US

• Managed Service Provider, a large number of clients in a wide variety of configurations
• Majority of clients utilizing either VMWare or Hyper-V Virtualization
• Large WSUS projects involving statewide organizations, 100’s of locations thru out the state
• Implemented a statewide PKI project for the state, configuring integration with several state partners
• Provided setup and support to very remote locations
• Windows environments, supporting both server and desktop machines

 As a member of a team of technicians that oversaw a base of 200+ customers with networks in varying sizes. Client networks ranged in sizes from that of a few desktop computers to large multi-forest, multi-domain networks with large geographical separations. In this role I performed an amazing amount of different tasks as the varying sizes of client.

San Diego, CA, US

• Designed, implemented, and administered multi-site Active Directory with 5500+ nodes and users
• Migration of 4500+ users from CCMail to Exchange 2000 - DNS administrator of 30 zones with over 2000+ records
• Administered DHCP with 20 separate scopes, including DDNS
• Successfully designed, documented and administered several disaster recovery plans
• Continually gathered responsibilities and provided support for other engineers
• Created security documentation and procedures for incidentsCompleted migration of over a dozen domains into the LPL forest from company acquisitions

Washington, DC, US

 March 1999 Information Systems Technician 2nd Class – Pay Grade E-5Senior Administrator of three separate networks; Unclassified (NT/Unix)-12 servers, 500 pc’s of mixed NT/2000, 1500+ users. Secret (NT/Unix) -12 servers, 200 pc of mixed NT/2000/Unix, 500+ users. Top Secret (NT/2000/Unix) – 8 servers, 30 pc’s of mixed NT/2000/Unix, 50 users.- Senior.

Education record

High School Diploma