• Maintenance of Microsoft Windows server, hardware, and operating system, including deployments, hardware migrations and system upgrades in a 24x7x365 high availability global environment. • Capacity planning of server environment. • Documentation and new technology research as required.• Monitoring, deployment, and automation using tools such as Solar Winds, Data Dog, PDQ, and Jenkins.• Second/Third-level Help Desk ticket resolution for a 24x7x365 operation.• Security hardening (CIS) and patch management leveraging Ivanti Patch• Perform activities related to the day-to-day administration and maintenance of Microsoft Windows 2016/2019/2022 in physical, virtual, and cloud-based server environments.• Perform installations, upgrades, backups, configuration changes, and patching of secure, high-performing/high-availability Microsoft systems leveraging automation practices wherever possible. • Collaborates with appropriate teams regarding problems with and capabilities of Microsoft systems. Assists with architecture and planning the server infrastructure using new technologies.

Administer, support, maintain, and update technologies including Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, VMWare Horizon, VMWare vSphere, Veeam Backup and Recovery, Microsoft Office 365, and mobile technologies. Provide support for WAN, LAN, routers, switches, and firewalls. Provide support for Wireless LAN’s, VOIP, MS Teams voice and video. Design, test, and implement new technologies and policies within the network to provide improved business intelligence and streamline current processes. Support and Administer Qualys, Sentinel One, Cisco Umbrella and Cisco Duo.

Lead IT staff and resources in accordance with IT business plan specific to IT operations [ on-prem and on cloud ], governance and significant life-cycle upgrade projects and consolidation program. For projects: Plan and manage scope, schedule, and budgetary estimate for defined deliverables in accordance with IT project management standards. For operations/application maintenance: Plan and manage to define service level agreements at agreed upon budgets.· Establish, maintain, and enhance relationships with business and IT, Business, vendors and Facilities partners. Communicate status to key stakeholders on a regular basis.Working in tandem with our technical team to identify and implement the most optimal on-prem and cloud-based solutions for the company.· Orchestrating and automating on-prem and cloud-based platforms throughout the company.· Managing on-prem and cloud environments in accordance with company security guidelines.· Educating teams on the implementation of new cloud-based initiatives, providing associated training as required.· Strong awareness of networking and internet protocols, including TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP, HTTP and distributed networks.· Capability to migrate on-premises workload to service providers on the cloud.· Excellent communication and organizational skills, and the ability to stay focused on completing tasks and meeting goals within a busy workspace.· Build strong working relationships across multiple disciplines and teams, driving influence across the organization to ensure coordinated work completion on time.· Act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders; ensures the efficiency of cloud requests and manage cloud projects; create Cloud documentation of technical implementation plans; and transition to Cloud Operations for steady state support· Expert understanding of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plan

Fully supporting, configuring, maintaining, and upgrading corporate networks and servers.Responsible for proactive monitoring and management of all infrastructure systems, including Networking, Servers, Storage, Virtualization, and cloud workloads, such as O365.Comprehensive documentation of existing and future Network infrastructure.Deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot multi-domain Windows Server environments (2008/2012/2016/2019).Monitors the performance of computer systems and networks, and coordinates computer network access and use.Resolves escalated issues from the Help Desk.Document, track, and monitor changes to ensure proper resolution.Provide on-call and\or after hours support as needed.Performs other related duties as assigned or described by company policy.Proven experience in networking, routing & routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, RIP), switching, VLANS, wireless access point configuration, DMZ and RADIUS authentication.

Responsible for the technical design, planning, implementation, and the highest level of performance tuning and recovery procedures for mission critical enterprise systems. Serves as a technical expert in the area of system administration for complex operating systems. Recommend the redesign and configuration of operating systems and system applications. Investigates and analyzes feasibility of system requirements and develops system specifications. Identifies methods, solutions, and provides project leadership and management in order to provide a high level of service to the customers of the department. Maintain company Sharp Point Site. Maintain our Word Press websites. Implemented new NAS and Veeam solutions for disaster and recovery for companies. Manage our firewall and network. Use Powershell to change or edit itmes in 365. Update and Maintain our VMware ESI host.

Support and Maintain Retirement Clients. Create and perform Disaster Recovery planning for State Retirement systems. Currently supporting two datacenters as we move to another data center location.

Integral IT team member providing network support and administration of 150+ end users and maintenance of 45+ servers in local and remote networks (LAN/WAN); including daily back-ups; user account permissions maintenance; network virus inoculation strategies; file/print/terminal server monitoring; repair and configuration of connectivity issues; manage help desk.Implemented CommVault backup solution to consolidate three separate backup systemsTrained LAN Team on backup and restoration and maintenance of CommVault backup solutionIntroduced email archiving as a company wide solution via Live Office for Exchange 2007 serverTrained all end users on use and best practices for email archiving Live Office SolutionEnhanced BlackBerry Enterprise server (BES) by applying an upgrade from 4.2 to 5.0Maintained BlackBerry Enterprise server (BES) by facilitating IT policies and setup of new devicesDesigned and implemented electronic forms to replace current paper forms for Human Resources using SharePoint 2007 and InfoPath 2007Integrated acquired company's email into Exchange server 2007 and transitioned printers/workstations onto network (LAN/WAN)Maintained and administered group policies and Windows updates using Microsoft Group Policy and WSUSMigrated VMWare ESX 3.5 host to VMWare ESX 4.0Design, implement, and administer all company SharePoint sitesAssist business areas with SharePoint site objectives and workflows

for HP Enterprise Services Served as a system administrator for HP Enterprise Services Government division maintaining 500+ production servers and 800+ end users on a local and remote network (LAN/WAN). Administered support for JAVA based retirement system (PERS) by supporting and implementing WebSphere 5.0-6.1 and managing deployment of development releases utilizing the environment promotion processes and procedures.Managed and maintained Exchange server cluster for 800+ usersMonitored Exchange cluster services and maintained exchange updates and service reliabilityImplemented SharePoint Services 3.0 to create first company SharePoint siteBuilt Dell workstations/Laptops for 800+ end usersThis includes Ghosting/imaging and configuration of network access and software profile for each individual end userMigrated Data Center and all servers to new locationTransition of tape drives, SAN, and network including the install of racks, servers, switches and running KVM cable.Configured WebSphere application server to host JAVA web based applicationManaged the Deployment of JAVA web based application to WebSphere application serverObtain packaged EARS from SVN repository software and push them to WebSpherePerform Application System and regression Testing to confirm deployment success before promotion to another environment.Created and maintained JAVA status pages to monitor current state/status of various environments hosted locally and remotely.Designed, implemented, and maintained WebSphere production environment for Nebraska Retirement Systems

for Newpros communications Served as a system administrator maintaining 15+ servers in a cross-platform environment; this includes Windows, Novell, and support of PBX phone system. Maintained and provided troubleshooting of workstation/laptops for 80+ end users including network accessibility and Printer/shared resources support.Upgraded NEC phone system to Vodavi phone system for 80+ end usersConfigured phone settings and Voice Mail settings for usersMigrated Novell 5.1 servers to Windows 2003Implemented Exchange 2003 Server