Design and implement various Microsoft infrastructure solutionsImplement and design Microsoft Active Directory 2003/2008 Forests and domainsDesigned Server 2008 Distributed File System solutionsTicketing/Self-Service Portal System Center Service Manger 2012 Automation utilizing System Center Orchestrator 2012VmWare ESX integration with System Center Orchestrator and Service Manager 2012

Provide Subject Matter Expert (Level IV) support to 2000+ users and 50+ technicians in a Microsoft 2003/2008, Exchange 2003/2007 environment. This supports a 24x7x365 customer in field-based hostile areas.Design and configure fully redundant server consolidation packages leveraging VMware ESX Server 3.5 and Equallogic shared storage This supports a 24x7x365 customer in field-based hostile areas.Identify and Troubleshoot customer issues related to DNS, WINS, DHCP which impacted Mission operations. Assisted in planning and implementation of Group Policy to 20+ field sites to ensure standardization with server and desktop settings. This significantly reduced down time as a direct result of human error. Provided direct and indirect management /administration for these hostile based sites.Provide training to 50+ technicians on utilization of the NetIQ Directory Resource Administrator (DRA) toolset, and aided in the development of views for Role-Based-Access to leverage Least-Privileged access best practices.

Configure and design Rapid Deployment Packages, which needed to be in place and fully operational in less than 72 hours. These packages contained Windows 2008 Enterprise Domain Controllers, Exchange 2003 Servers, File Share Servers, Application Servers for both COTS and GOTS packages, and backup capabilities.Configuration and installation of Brocade switches for IC community customers in order to setup HP Product Solutions related to SAN, LUN Presentation, and Disk Management best practices.Provide maintenance and support on the entire product line of HP Proliant servers. In addition, Mr. Valentine has an extensive knowledge of HP P-Class and C-Class Blade Systems During this time, Mr. Valentine worked with HP-UX OS on HP integrity servers.Offline firmware and software management upgrades to maintain supported versions of software and hardware revisions on HP Storage /Server Product LinesConfiguration and Management of Storage Arrays to include Dell Equallogic, HP EVA, and HP StorageWorks XP. This was done to implement Polyserve Clustered File System on Red Hat Linux and Windows Server 2003 Operating Systems.Installed and configured DHCP \ PXE Servers, for remote deployment of client operating systems to HP Blade Center using Altiris.Troubleshooting fiber channel communication problems between storage and hosts using HP SAN Manager and Brocade software tool sets.Assisted customer on implementation of HP and Microsoft best practices for specific OS and hardware integration with HP Proliant servers.

During Mr. Valentine’s enlistment in the U.S. Army Reserves, he was deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. His responsibilities included the creation and management the in-theater Hospital network. This network supported over 100 staff members, in a Windows 2000 server and Windows XP environment.