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Herndon, Virginia, United States

Reston, VA

• Managed multi-site datacenters including large lab with 1200+ systems
• Performed multiple datacenter migrations in effort to consolidate sites saving the organization over $200,000 in operating costs
• Managed IT equipment budget exceeding $1.2 million
• Designed, negotiated price, and purchased several million dollars of equipment for development and testing use
• Worked with internal teams for product documentation, product marketing, and product design
• Designed, implemented, and maintained several layer 2 networks and well as firewalls for multiple large-scale labs. Devices included Dell Force 10 networks 1 gig, 10 gig, and 40 gig network switches of both copper and.

• Acted as team lead of infrastructure support team for 200 employee company with 7 regional offices world-wide.
• Implemented redundant Cisco ASA firewalls at HQ and installed and configured Cisco ASAs in each regional office with Site to Site VPN to HQ.
• Reconfigured Exchange 2010 into HA configuration with DAG cluster
• Administrated Backupexec for all system backups, added Direct Attached Storage as well as iSCSI Cybernetics Storage and implemented deduplication.
• Restructured and secured Active Directory and implemented group polices for computer configuration automation
• Configured read only domain controllers in each regional office and migrated all regional office users, computers, and email into core AD and Exchange systems

• Provided primary support on Information Services Infrastructure Team for 300 + windows servers, primarily IBM hardware
• IBM Tivoli Storage Manager administrator. Support multi-site backups of critical servers as well as disaster recovery and off-site storage of tapes
• Provided support for Exchange implementation with doubltake replication to disaster recovery site. Tier 3 level support for 1000+ user instance
• Implemented and tuned Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) system to monitor 300+ servers at 6 separate sites
• Performed security audits using Microsoft Baseline Analyzer and Nessus Scanner
• Active Directory Administrator for multi domain forest with 1000+ user

• Enterprise Administrator of Microsoft Active Directory Forest for the education network for the state of Delaware. Designed and implemented multi-domain forest consisting of 165 sites, 190 domain controllers, and.
• Enterprise Exchange Admin of Delaware education network. Maintained Exchange servers that provided core SMTP services for Delaware educational network
• Primary firewall administrator of Delaware Education Network to protect 129,000+ users. Configured Juniper NetScreen firewalls in High Availability cluster, migrated all rules from previous Checkpoint firewall, and.
• Implemented and managed VMware 3.5 Cluster with EMC CX SAN to consolidate physical servers. Migrated to vSphere 4 and expanded and maintained cluster
• Provided secondary support for 3000+ layer 2 switches
• Maintained central Commvault backup for critical servers

• Provided primary support for windows servers as well as engineered new systems for state agencies. Met with state agencies to gather their requirements and create a system design document for the proposed system. This.
• Noted systems that I worked on include the Payroll and Human resources system for the State of Delaware (PHRST), the Delaware state portal (www.delware.gov), DNREC eGOV (egov.dnrec.delaware.gov), and Legislative.

• Provided primary windows support of existing servers and secondary support for all Unix systems, 100+ servers total. OS’s included Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, HP Unix 10 and 11, Red Hat 7, and Sun Solaris.
• Support for Lotus Domino R4, R5, and R6.
• Configured and monitored backup software including Veritas backup Exec, Veritas NetBackup, and Windows NT Backup.
• Audited servers for security holes and patched + secured servers as needed. Provide windows security training to staff.

• Provided hardware and software desktop support for entire organization with 180+ users.
• Primary support for Lotus Domino R4 and R5 servers that housed the Legislative Tracking system, governor tracking system, and elections campaign finance tracking system.