Michael G. Email & Phone Number

Eustis, Fl, Us

Westport, Connecticut, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Camden, Nj, Us

Senior Infrastructure IT architect mainly responsible for Storage and Cloud systems. Responsible for defining storage & backup road maps for the organization. Managing vendors to deliver appropriate services at a reasonable rate. Designed and architected new storage environment refresh project. Reduced storage spend 250k+ in the last year. Platforms lead responsible to for disaster recovery planning and testing for all business DR systems. Responsible for AWS public facing infrastructure, from architecting new additions and services, to keeping the lights on. Defined new services including a Red Hat Linux offering to supplement current Windows and Unix offerings. Key technical resource in data center migration. Used to assist teams and projects to resolve tough technical issues, from VMware issues, web related challenges, scripts needed, application issues, and AD/DNS challenges to name a few.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Windows 2003 Active Directory (AD) technical lead and architect for commercial customer. Providing architecture and third level support for a large global AD implementation including design, automation, global polices, DNS, scripting, and disaster recovery. Solutioned AD authentication integration with third party applications including IBM TAM, Websphere, Weblogic, and AS400. Redesign and implementation of Microsoft PKI infrastructure to lessen complexity and ease AD integration with third party applications. Redesigned of DNS to centralize administration and reduce security risks. Scripted AD Domain Controller health checking, including replication, trusts, GPO’s applied, FSMO roles, and the overall health of a Domain Controller.

Ingelheim Am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate, De

Senior Windows Intel technical lead for a team consisting of 6 system administrators. Overseer for support for almost 400 Intel servers in an all FDA environment. Designed and implemented solutions for DFS, SID history cleanup, VMWare, and finalized implementation plan to perform file server migrations of more than 25 TB of data. Created, designed, and automated many activities with scripting including, server health checking, system auditing, SID history cleanup, AD DNS, and verifying data in Active Directory. Implemented multi-node metro-clustering consisting 5 64-bit Windows 2003 Storage Servers over 3 data centers. Assisted in legacy hardware system refreshes, Citrix farm upgrades, and VMWare migrations to VI3.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Windows 2003 Active Directory (AD) technical lead for commercial customer. Provided third level support for a large global AD implementation including design, automation, global polices, DNS, scripting, and disaster recovery. Microsoft MOM 2005 system administrator responsible for configuration, tuning, and alerting. Technical expert in VMWare ESX supporting a large environment of virtual machines, more than 80% of the supported Intel environment is virtualized, heavily using Virtual Center and VMotion. Created custom VMWare service console bash and perl scripts.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Provided second level support for Windows, Unix (Sun and AIX), Linux, load balancers (eND’s, Cisco LD’s/CSS’s, Altheon’s) and various middleware products (IIS, SMTP, Iplanet, Websphere, Apache, LDAP, etc…). This team of technical all stars was formed to create the building blocks to what is now a very successful Generalist team, supporting more than 250 servers, more than 20 load balancers, and 16 different commercial accounts in an intense e-business environment. Some of my responsibilities included security patching, scripting, documentation, server builds, problem management and change management. Assigned the Windows technical specialist role responsibilities encompassed coordinating Windows specific projects, including application upgrades and system security, and as an escalation path for technical issues.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Supplied level 3 technical support for Microsoft Windows (NT/2000/2003) systems in a web server farm consisting of more than 280 servers and 28 different commercial customers. Deemed the team “fire fighter” was engaged to resolve high pressure and the most complex issues. As the technical team lead my responsibilities entailed active directory/clustering/IIS configuration/implementation, disaster recoveries, escalation path for technical issues, scripting, automation, documentation, systems security, building, configuring and complex troubleshooting of servers. Have worked on projects including process automation, debugging system crashes, scripting server build process, scripting system health checking, architecting/costing of customer solutions and as a Windows subject matter expert on customer engagements.

Aalborg, Dk, Dk

Served as the lead site analyst for the gasoline.priceline.com website. Responsible for the overall health and accuracy of website transactions in very intense environment. Responsibilities included monitoring, load balancing, configuring, and troubleshooting more than 75 NT servers and monitoring 8+ Oracle databases. Utilized knowledge of website coding, database design/function/structure, IIS, MS Transaction Server, COM+, and network infrastructure. Development of homegrown tracking and monitoring tools to ensure site stability

New Haven, Ct, Us

Provided email administration on Exchange Server 5.5, Citrix server farm implementation, LAN administration, desktop image creation and standardization, software installations, testing, configuration, troubleshooting, network design, and WAN configuration. Also built and configured domain controllers, as well as performed minor cabling, created documentation, and provided user training.

Was the lead technician for the Windows NT 4.0 roll-out of more than 2,200 clients. Responsibilities included desktop and laptop image creation within a locked down environment, image control, automated installations, documented installation instructions/procedures, desktop support, and light LAN administration. Software installation, configuration, and testing of applications including MS Office, Lotus Notes, Citrix, and several custom applications. Built and supported several NT servers.