Network Engineer
A privately held, 4-year old cellular tower company, which owns over 8900 master lease agreements on cell phone tower sites, and is currently the 4th largest cell phone tower company in; Develop and execute IT system infrastructure design plan to include the usage of blade servers and storage area networking. Provide analysis of phone and data circuit utilization and develop plan to transition systems to alternate carrier Metroethernet network. Administer infrastructure environment, including network switches, routers, firewalls, servers, and desktops. Supervise IT help desk team members on day-to-day support tasks and transitional projects. Work in conjunction with various vendors to achieve project goals. Prepare budgetKey accomplishments:Assist in more than doubling the size of the company in two years through IT systems growth Establish disaster recovery site; and prepared disaster recovery plan and proceduresSuccessfully deploy hybrid virtualized infrastructure environmentCoordinate IT systems move in conjunction with office moveCoordinate and implement infrastructure migration from hosted collocation environment; Successfully migrated environment from Windows 2000 with Microsoft Exchange 5.5 to Windows 2003 with Exchange 2003Establish remote access policies and procedures for use with Cisco VPN concentrator and Access Control serverTechnologies Used DailyWindows Server 2008/2003/2000, Windows XP/Vista, EMC Clarion CX300/AX100, McData Spherion storage switches, Cisco Switches, Cisco routers, Cisco ASA/PIX firewall, Dell Poweredge servers, HP Proliant servers, Microsoft Exchange 2003, Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005, Microsoft ISA Server, Barracuda Spam firewall, Blue Coat spyware firewall, Trend Micro NeatSuite Antivirus, Symantec BackupExec, Microsoft Hosted Exchange at Frontbridge, Nortel Meridian phone system, VMWare ESX 2.5/3.0, VMWare Infrastructure Manager, Evault backup solutions, Blackberry Enterprise server, Doubletake Replication