Craig Loo Email & Phone Number

• Projects
• Build and maintain the Datacenter infrastructure that supports the NY office. Includes building VMWare cluster, Nimble storage, Citrix VDA environment. Hardware includes Dell servers, Nimble storage, HPE Moonshot.
• Responsible for entire office move and build out. Project manager dealing with vendors, building management and obtaining services and products for new office.Responsibilities
• Build and administer Microsoft windows infrastructure in NY. Build Domain Controllers, file, print servers.
• Built Citrix environment; VDA with Hosted Desktop Infrastructure (HDI).
• Administer and maintain NY office and Datacenter which includes all IT related issues.

• Support, maintain, build and upgrade existing server environments comprising of VMware and Microsoft Server 2012R2.
• Support companies in the financial industry including hedge funds and private equity companies.
• Administer Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, DFS, Sites, Group Policy Management, virtualization and backups.
• Administer Microsoft Exchange on premise, multi-tenant and Office 365 environments.
• Implement security and best practices for clients using two-factor authentication, group policies and permissions.
• Create PowerShell scripts to administer and support clients.

• Support entire NY office users, hardware and software including market data, video conferencing and various applications.
• Implement, manage, monitor, and maintain operating systems, hardware, application services, and server-based applications. This includes installing, configuring, patching, upgrading, maintaining, and troubleshooting as.
• Build and maintain servers as needed on site and cloud hosted environments.
• Administer Active Directory including DNS, DHCP, Sites, and Group Policy Management.
• Administer Exchange and Office 365, Windows 2012 servers including Hyper-V.

• Server Application Support
• Administer and support servers hosted in VCE VBlock with VMWare ESXi 5.5, Cisco UCS Servers and EMC VMAX storage using VMWare VCenter, Cisco UCS Manger and EMC Unisphere.
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates.
• Create PowerShell scripts and automated reports to manage systems and applications.
• Administer and maintain Microsoft Exchange servers, mailboxes and public folders.
• Provided Active Directory administration, which include maintaining users, groups and other objects; create Trust Relations and create DNS forwarding lookup zones.

• Supported 400+ desktop clients and applications including Bloomberg and Microsoft Office.
• Build machines using Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) Operating System Deployment (OSD) and deployed applications through SCCM for Windows 7.
• Support remote users with Citrix XenApps, XenDesktops, Blackberries, Good for Enterprise and RSA SecureID.
• Create Powershell scripts that are used by Level 1 and Level 2 IT departments.

• Sole IT person who supported the NY office of all technology needs including support of PCs, servers, telecommunication, firewall administration, remote support and video conferencing.
• Built and maintained Windows 2008, VMware ESXi, Blackberry Enterprise and Citrix Servers.
• Provided Active Directory Administration, which included creating/deleting users, groups and other objects; created GPOs for software installations and policies; created DHCP scopes, leases, and reservations; generated.
• Microsoft Exchange 2010 - Migrated mailboxes and public folders from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010; created mailboxes, public folders; administered and maintained exchange server.
• Administered Juniper firewalls; set up policies, services and Mapped IPs (MIP).
• Provided remote support including Citrix servers, Xenapp published applications, Remote Desktop and Terminal Servers.

• System Administrator for Microsoft Servers, Microsoft Exchange, Unix, Citrix and many applications that are used throughout the company. Created and maintained all user accounts, groups, directories and permissions for.
• Responsible for Active Directory Administration, which included creating/deleting users, groups and other objects; created GPOs for software installations and policies; created DHCP scopes, leases, reservations.
• Primary support for the President of company and senior executives with their technical needs.
• Installed and maintained PCs and laptops at homes and travel for senior executives. Connected to company using T1 connections, VPN through Sonicwall routers and Citrix.
• Built and maintained Microsoft Windows 2003 servers and Windows XP workstations.
• Managed the system support department, which consisted of seven people, which supported primarily the trading floor as well as the entire New York office.

Mba, Finance

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