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Florida, United States

Jacksonville, Florida Area

Develop and implement an infrastructure strategy that keeps the company safe, secure, stable, and compliant while providing value to both end users and business processes.

Jacksonville, Florida Area

• Architect for Enterprise Integration dedicated to an Enterprise Client which requires true 24x7x365 uptime.
• Leads new initiatives and projects: Identifying best placement for systems based off of resources, licensing, performing system sizing, creating best practices, standards, and policies, identifying requirements and.
• Consulting Enterprise and mid-market accounts with IT Technological Roadmaps.
• Troubleshooting complex problems and determining the root cause.
• Lead for the infrastructure, design, documentation, and implementation of an enterprise-wide, multi-tier, critical application environment. Including the assessment of required infrastructure, licensing, along with.
• Implemented HP BladeSystem c7000 with Cisco MDS and Catalyst interconnects and HP ProLiant blades to support a Microsoft Windows 2008 R2, SQL 2008 failover cluster and additional Citrix XenApp blades.

Jacksonville, Florida Area

• Accepted role for managing an Enterprise account and associated teams while the position was in the process of being refilled.
• Continued fulfilling the role of Enterprise Architect during this period.

• Environment overview: Managed and designed for an enterprise environment consisting 750 physical & 250 virtual servers, three AD domains made-up of over 600 Domain Controllers. 5,000 corporate & 12,000 retail users.
• Researched, designed, and implemented a Server Load-Balancer (SLB) using a Brocade ServerIron to replace the F5 Big-IPs. Changed the current infrastructure to support GSLB between three sites. Coordinating between.
• Researched, designed, implemented, and documented a Geographically Dispersed Cluster (GDC) utilizing Windows Server 2003 R2 Failover Clustering in a Majority Node Set (MNS) configuration. Consolidated several File.
• Responsible for replicating EMC SAN Storage via host-based replication to secondary DR site utilizing Unisys SafeGuard Replication Appliances.
• Researched, designed, and documented Microsoft AD DR and Fail-over processes. This involved helping locate the best GC & FSMO placements. Setting up stand-by FSMO role-holders and the Forest Root PDC Emulator.
• Involved with Disaster Recovery planning for secondary and tertiary sites in areas such as MS AD, SAN Replication, File Cluster Replication, and other misc. systems.

• Cleaned-up and restructured the Active Directory DNS & WINS environment. This included upgrading to a 2003 Domain Functional Level, replacing NT 4.0 WINS with 2003 WINS, removing NT 4.0 DNS Servers, and simplifying the.
• Began as a Technical Programmer in Technical Open Systems and helped design and implement Cybermation, an enterprise scheduling solution.
• As a Technical Programmer, I supported a multitude of systems, including F5 Big-IP, Cyclone, Matra TLog Trickle and Archive, OutlookSoft/EAP, PMC2000, PowerCenter, ShrinkTrax, AD, DNS, WINS, as well as advising other.

• Helped start the consulting division at CXP which became a major profit-center for the company.
• Maintained servers and workstations by way of trouble-shooting as well as security and upgrades. Secured networks from security risks and viruses and have recovered networks that were attacked by hackers or engulfed in.
• Main consultant for majority of the client’s networks and systems. Configured multiple WAN/LAN VPN connections via hardware (routers) and software solutions through multiple firewalls (routers/proxies).
• Maintained several client Networks, Servers and Workstations. This includes updates, security as well as Firewalls, hardware and applications. This also includes Wireless Configs, Security (for Internet / Wireless.
• Designed and Implemented Secure Wireless WAN Connection between two Credit Unions using Two Cisco Aironet’s secured through Two Cisco PIX’s with a 3DES Encryption VPN Tunnel.
• Lead Systems Engineer Migrating a Windows NT 4.0 Domain to a Windows 2000 AD Domain onto new servers.

• Started working for an ISP (CyberXpress) in the technical field. Main responsibilities started out being Technical Support/Help Desk and Website design. This also included going out to a client’s location and.