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San Jose

been assisting in the operation of a global 24/7 IT support and infrastructure team who support the headquarters office in Cambridge, and 40 satellite offices Worldwide. Responsible supporting a global VMware vSphere 6.5 Linked vCenter server environment of 100 hosts and 25 Data Centers. Assist in the support of migrating Data Centers, an Office 365 / Exchange 2016 hybrid environment, Azure AD, Azure DSC and Microsoft Identity Manger. Managing a large Active Directory forest supporting 135 Domain Controllers running Windows 2012R2 and 2016 Server Core. Auditing, identifying and implementing changes to remediate problems involving replication permissions, DHCP / DNS record registration permissions issues in the forest zone, Lingering Object removal, managing certificates and Certificate Services ADCS, Advanced Group Policy management AGPM, troubleshooting SCCM deployment issues, resolving forest time issues and general directory cleanup. Managing O365 Hybrid Exchange 2013 environment, troubleshooting and upgraded to Exchange CU13. Discovering and remediating DNS issues, resolution, diagnostic reporting, sniffing DNS traffic to identify areas of problem or interest with managing Proteus BlueCat Networks load balanced global DNS environment. Implemented a suffix search order policy set for the 4 regions, managing certificate creation and installation. Identifying and resolving Domain Controller configuration issues. Deploying Windows 2016 Server Core Domain Controllers using Azure DSC runbook. Processing Requests, incidents and changes in Service Now. San Jose office building and data center move. Active Directory Windows 2008R2 Domain Controller and child domain decommission.

Watsonville, Ca

At West Marine, I lead a small team which oversaw and managed the server environment. Roughly 500 servers 99 percent virtual running, Windows , VMware ESXi and Centos in multiple environments from QA, INT/Dev, Staging and Production and E-commerce. I have 20 years of experience supporting servers and networks, software applications, Active Directory, environment troubleshooting, system and network security professional, email environments, deployment, firewalls, VPN’s routers and switching and storage. I am able to support abroad range of storage and virtualization technologies, and have the ability to support and maintain them in corporate, production and enterprise e-commerce environments. • Lead administrator for the largest retailer of water life products West Marine Products Inc. with over 400 stores nationwide.• Planning and preparation for an Active directory forest migration, upgrade and domain restructuring. • Documented and resolved 80 problem areas in configuration.• Built new environment for migration to including, a Windows 2012 Active Directory including root and child domains, 21 domain controllers, new PKI infrastructure, Multi site Exchange environment with Dag replication and two SCCM primary sites.• Migrated, duplicated or re-created all domain configurations for forest domain migration including, GPO policies, DNS structure, DHCP scopes, Certificate Services, DC's to the new environment. • Installed and configured Quest / Dell migration manager suite• Responsible for property email Microsoft Exchange 2013 DAG, Sendmail, Postfix and Barracuda • Shared responsibility for VMware vSphere5.5 administration, patching and remediation.• Shared responsibility DELL EMC Clarion and EMC Unity FC Storage administration.• Oversaw server backup and backup replication using Dell EMC Avamar and Data Domain.• Responsible Active Directory infrastructure including 45 Domain Controllers

Remote, San Francisco, Salt Lake City

Contracting for Seagate working in the Mergers and Acquisitions Department assisting with the project planning and execution pertaining to the Merger and Acquisition of Evault, Inc. My duties included the following:• EVault Active Directory Integration and Migration Project - Myself, another administrator and a PMO planned and executed the migration of Evault Inc. Corporate Active Directory, servers workstations users, IP address space and data center's to the Seagate network.• The Re-IP of 7 Production Data Centers and equipment off conflict IP space for Seagate and Evault’s private networks. Standard Hardware in the Data Center's were, Cisco routers and switches, Juniper Firewalls, APC UPS, VMware ESXi cluster’s with Prod Backup VM’s running on EMC Isolon storage arrays.• Identify issues and resolving issues with the ADMT migration script.• 2008R2 to AD 2012 production forest upgrade.• Responsible for Corporate and Production A D including 60 Domain controllers across four forests.• Responsible for Active Directory account management/bulk modification.• Configured a domain forest trust connecting Evault corporate to ad.seagate.com.• Responsible for building the new A D domain infrastructure for the production network.• Office 365 migration from the cloud to On-Premise Exchange for 200 expiring mail users.• Managed Exchange 2010 hybrid environment and server backups• InfoBlox Secure DNS & DHCP appliance migration from Microsoft Active Directory DNS and DHCP.

Watsonville

San Jose

Centralized Corporate Backups for Headquarters, China and India development sites in Windows and UNIX environment.Responsible for Bridgehead Exchange 2003 front and back end mail environment for Headquarters, India and China.Microsoft Live Communication Server 2005 administration with 3rd party PBX integration.Maintain Cisco routing and switching FW Lan & Wan. Managed MPLS Network to India and China.Configure and manage Juniper SA2000 SSLVPN’s with RSA Secure ID authentication in HQ, China and India.Intermediate Redhat and Sun Solaris administration.Maintain Network Operations Console/NOC.Responsible for supporting 200 users systems and applications.