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White Plains, New York, United States

• Project Management - Plan and organize district-wide technology initiatives. Identify testing environment needs, technology infrastructure resource needs, and technology staffing needs for successful project implementation and completion. Supervise project team members to ensure all assigned tasks are being completed accurately and efficiently.• Mitigated both internal and external risks by employing proactive identification system and utilizing extensive knowledge of network security logs. • Hands-on management of a 10,000+ user, 18 site network infrastructure, and network security operations consisting of enterprise switching and routing using Cisco Networks products, Fortinet and Cisco Meraki Wireless, and Policy Manager. Fortinet Fortigate, Fortianalyzer, and FortiEDR (Ensilo), FortiNac, and other Security Appliances. • FortiClient Endpoint security & FortiEDR Admin - Monitor and manage PCs and servers to ensure receipt of latest ransomware, malware, and antivirus definitions. Patch PCs where vulnerabilities or threats are found.• Leveraged FortiNac - network access control solution that provides visibility, control, and automated response for everything that connects to the network, enhancing the security fabric. • Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity - Project Manager of district's Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Plan. Documentation is updated continually as hardware infrastructure & network infrastructure change, as team members change, as the equipment is updated, and as the steps needed change for each scenario.• In-depth knowledge of Active Directory, group policy and preferences, Microsoft Exchange, file servers, and networking. Working knowledge of virtualization technologies, SANs, VPNs, DFS, and Linux• Leveraged Graylog to Monitor & Manage servers and appliances events logs. Integrated Graylog alerts and tigers into our helpdesk platform so team members can handle the events in a timely manner.• Deploying Cloud Servers in AWS

• In-depth knowledge of Active Directory, group policy and preferences, Microsoft Exchange, file servers, and networking. Working knowledge of virtualization technologies, SANs, VPNs, DFS, and Linux• Backup Admin - Backup critical data for district to cloud backup and to offsite SAN for disaster recovery.• System Admin – Manage Active Directory user accounts, deploy new software applications, and conduct routine server maintenance of both physical servers and virtual servers. Maintenance includes software upgrades, patch deployment, and server migrations.• Windows Update Server Management - field test new Microsoft updates in test environment before updates deploy. Approve updates and deploy district wide to PCs. Troubleshoot and resolve problems as needed with PCs not communicating with WSUS.• Records Management - Maintain records of inventory of devices, including servers, PCs, laptops, and Chromebooks currently deployed. Maintain a database of software licensed and deployed on county owned devices to ensure software license compliance.• Systems Technician – Troubleshoot, maintained, and repaired 1,600 +/- networked computers in six schools.• Project Management - Managed project team in the removal of PC’s scheduled to be replaced and in the rollout of new PC’s and removal PC’s being taken offline. Project tasks included building an image for new devices, planning the details of removal and replacement, imaging of new devices, and making final network and adjustments as needed for new devices.• Responsible for analysis, administration and support of VMWare Horizon View VDI, thin clients, and other VDI-related technology.• Created VDI Golden Images• Successfully configured View Security servers in DMZ and paired them with the Connection servers and responsible for troubleshooting issues regarding replication errors for connection servers

Yorktown Center School District

Stationed at Yorktown Central School District as the Lead Engineer. My Daily duties included Managing all helpdesk tickets for the High School and District Office users as well as covering the other 3 schools as needed. Managed 2 other team members as well as providing them with level 2/3 support. Other Task and Project included:-Designed & Implemented Central Backup Solutions Symantec Backup Exec and then latter Barracuda Networks Appliances. -Designed & Implemented Server upgrade from Windows Server 2003 to 2008R2 & 2012R2. Upgraded around 30 servers while moving them from a physical server to virtual. Saving the District money and resources. -Created and Deployed workstation images for XP and 7 based on the district's needs. This including special builds for programing Dept's. - Migrated District Email system about 600 users from Novel to Exchange and then to Gmail. - Deploy Lightspeed's Email archive system for all exchange users.-Deployed District wide Web Filtering using Lightspeed system web filer.

Stormville, New York, United States

Active Directory servers design, configure, deployment and testing Designed, tested, and deployed Group Policy architectureMaintaining networks, cable management, and databasesProvide up-to-date documentation on network policiesWindows Server Update Service rolloutsInstallation and Maintaining of projectors and whiteboards

I was responsible for day to day support of 3 elementary schools. I worked on the NT4 to Active directory conversation. I built and maintained the district wide backup system. We where the first in Putnum to use virtual tapes(hard drives).