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Indianapolis, In, Us

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Stratascale, an SHI company, brings together the benefits of three decades’ experience of delivering the very best technologies with a fresh consultative approach to designing, delivering and supporting the technology you need to transform your business. We call it Digital Agility.

Carmel, In

Carmel, In

Carmel, Indiana, United States

Carmel, Indiana

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

A senior level engineer in a consulting role tasked with providing customers with infrastructure virtualization, desktop virtualization, storage, and backup solutions. Other roles include pre-sales, planning, design, implementation, and support services.

A systems integration advisor for Dell installing and configuring storage systems for global enterprise customers. Primarily focusing on Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage implementations used in conjunction with large infrastructure platforms to include Active Directory and VMware.Key Achievements:Design, implement and troubleshoot Dell|EMC CLARiiON and Celerra storage arraysImplement Dell|EqualLogic PS series storage arraysDesign replication strategies for customers using Replication Manager, Celerra Replicator and EqualLogic replicatorInstall and configure various Ethernet switching technologies including Dell PowerConnect and CiscoInstall and Configure Brocade, Cisco, and McData Fibre Channel switching hardwareDesign and install VMware infrastructure environmentsIntegrate NAS hardware into existing Microsoft, VMware, and Linux environmentsPioneered the first installations of Citrix Provisioning server for Dell customersHand selected to install the first NX series Celerra devices for Dell customersMember of the Networking practice responsible for setting installation standards for Ethernet switching and array setup and creation of best practice documents for use in the field.

Served in the Indiana Army National Guard as an infantryman and was put on Active Duty in January 2003 to participate in the initial US movement into Iraq to carry out Operation Iraqi Freedom.Key Achievements:Member of first National Guard unit to enter Iraq and participate in ground combat operationsSecured border between Iraq and Kuwait preventing illegal transfer of weapons between countriesAssistant gunner for M240B machine gun

Administered the central network systems for the city of Indianapolis. Network consisted of Novell Netware servers and Groupwise mail systems. Assisted with the migration over to Active Directory and Exchange environments.

Kuwait

Active Directory AdministratorEnterprise level administrator operating and maintaining the DoD network of more than 15,000 users, 150 domain controllers, and spanning 3 countries in hostile Middle East territories.Key Achievements:Top tier support for many physical sites in Southwest Asia DoD networkAided in migration from Windows 2000 to 2003 environment as well as the migration of Exchange 5.5 to Exchange Server 2003Worked under strict security policies to protect the integrity of data that resided on secure military systemsSubject matter expert on Dell PowerEdge 1750, 1850, 2650, 2850 and various PowerVault serversMaintained over 200 Windows server machines spanning several dozen physical locationsAssisted in high level infrastructure design and system implementationRolled out system updates using SUS, WSUS and eventually using Microsoft SMS Server

I was responsible for the entire Southwest Asia secure and nonsecure networks for the US Army. The Active Directory network spanned 5 countries in the Middle East.

Incoming and outgoing call center Supervisor with 3 direct report technicians. Handled Level 1 service calls from end users as well as escalated major outages reported to Level 2 and Level 3 engineers within the company.Key Achievements:Manage internal network infrastructure using Cisco networking equipment and Windows 2000 Active Directory environment (50+users)Consistently exceed set SLA's for large corporate accountSkills in Lotus Notes R5 and R6, MS Outlook/Exchange, Citrix Metaframe, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS

Merrillville, Indiana

My main responsibilities included providing tier 1 help desk support for companies such as RR Donnelly publishing and Culligan water systems.

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