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Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Washington D.C.

VMware and Microsoft engineer for many top-priority company projects, directly working across teams with networking, storage, and client verticals to achieve results.Consolidated acquired product line into a primary datacenter, resulting in substantial savings over the lifecycle of the product by eliminating redundant datacenters.Aided architectural design and implementation of new globally hosted product offering.Advised migration of I.T.’s legacy infrastructure to next generation cloud platform.Created many automation scripts for VMWare using PowerCLI & PowerShell for day-to-day administrationAssisted with implementation of next generation internal cloud platform

Washington, Dc

Washington, Dc

Lead Microsoft / OS X engineer for IT – supporting approximately 2,500 users in a global corporation, hundreds of Windows servers, and serving as Tier 3 escalation point for issues while working to continuously improve infrastructure.Documented and implemented upgrade to a native 2008R2 Active Directory domain functional level. Upgraded Live Communicator Server (LCS) 2005 infrastructure to Office Communication Server (OCS) 2007R2Assisted with day-to-day operations of Exchange 2007 environmentDesigned custom PowerShell scripts to manage AD objects, and create distribution lists and alias creation during M&A activityDesigned infrastructure for imaging, authentication, and DFS access for Mac OS X platformImplemented Altiris Deployment Solution cutting Windows desktop deployment times from days to minutes, while also facilitating remote package deployment. Scripted Dell OMSA, PERC. Controller, and disk firmware updates on hundreds of serversAutomated provisioning of VMs, diagnosed performance issues, and assisted with day-to-day operations of ESXi infrastructureImplemented Avocent DS View for a consolidated KVM platformAssisted with deploying of network equipment, maintenance of switch configuration, and firewall changes

As Sr. Windows Administrator for Computer Science department, increased security, automation, and efficiency of infrastructure while also leading several new projects to completion. Responsible for deployment, testing, patching, and security for over 500 desktops, and around 2 dozen Windows servers.Provided day-to-day maintenance of Exchange infrastructure, and upgraded Exchange 2003 infrastructure to 2007Upgraded Active Directory domain functional level from 2003 to 2008Rebuilt and optimized Altiris DS server- lab re-image jobs reduced from days to hoursCreated hardware independent image for hardware and automated all software installationsUpgraded approximately 500 client machines to Vista and approximately two-dozen servers to Server 2008Implemented Bit Locker disk encryption for Vista clients to mitigate loss/theft of devicesSetup WSUS for patching of client and server machinesParticipated in Anti-Malware RFP and assisted College of Engineering in management client initiative planning

Responsible for 20+ Windows Servers, Organizational Solaris Web servers, and 500 clients machinesHired and supervised a student tech-support staff of 10Managed a project refurbishing nearly 2,000 machines saving the department approximately $20KUpgraded Windows 2000 Servers to 2003, and implemented SMS 2003 system for remote administrationRepackaged 3rd-party software into MSIs for remote deploymentDeveloped custom GPOs to improve client managementStrengthened security for the campus police and HR departmentsManaged project to move all desktops to centralized AD while migrating Windows 2000 guests to XPModified 3rd party software to work in least privileged environmentClean FBI Background check

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Bs, Computer Science