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Madison, Wi, Us

Sun Prairie

Baraboo, Wisconsin

• Implemented SaaS SPAM and Archiving software• Built out and configured VSphere 6.7 for our UK office• Migrated old VM’s off of old hardware onto our new hardware• Work on the yearly Budget • Work on Level 3 helpdesk tickets• Maintain SPAM filtering and email throughput• Administer Exchange 2010• Work on bigger projects having to do with the improvement of the infrastructure• Quoting out and working with Dell on vxRail• Mobile phone purchasing and deployment• Active Directory Administration

Sun Prairie, Wisconsin

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Work on high end projects for the BU• Daily status of team projects and report to status to manager• Work with other Sr's on how to better develop our teams for coverage and our own growth as a team• Work to implement our Cherry Hill data center processes into our Madison Data Center processes.• Vmware Administration and upgrading our hardware and software• Lead my team to work together to complete the work and projects assigned. Offer my help when needed.• Front of the line for our NAS migration to new Storage array

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Administration of 4 Domains containing 400 plus servers, Upgrade OS to server 2008 R2/2012 R2 in each environment.• Active Directory administration for each domain• DNS assignments and DMZ IP’s assigned to each server based on current VLAN• Worked with Networking team to secure Firewall• Group Policy Management and assignment• Linux Administration for proxy and monitoring server (Red Hat and Ubuntu)• Daily projects assigned• Web server upgrades and user access via IIS 7• Administer SharePoint 2007 documents and users setup• Application server builds and application installs• Monitor services daily using XYMON for reporting purposes• SSL certificates for any server that talks outside of the DMZ• Maintained all certificates through SharePoint• Remedy tickets created and utilized for Root Certs and Trusted Certs• Lead Administrator on MDaemon email server• Created groups and user accounts• Maintained logs on all 3 mail servers• Generated list for Technical documentation for our clients• Monitoring and Proxy Administration• All servers and services as well as CPU monitored daily through Big Brother (Xymon)• All flagged IP’s and URL’s are entered into Squid Proxy server rule set• WSUS administration and Monthly patching to all systems• Created VMware Templates for deployment of servers, fixed hardened security issues when needed• Daily monitoring of Symantec NetBackup System• Restarted any failed jobs• Swapped out tapes when needed• Created Policy’s for backup jobs• Upgrade software and tape drive – worked with HP for install

Associate'S Degree, Computers

Diploma, General Studies