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Responsible for providing consulting and contract services on IT Security issues to Fortune 500 clients.• Served as Security System Administrator for Marathon Oil Corporation supporting and troubleshooting Bluecoat andCredant appliance configurations.• Created installation and implementation methodologies for Websense Gateway Servers to support demanding customerbases, which included Devon Energy, Baker Hughes and others.• Project managed the post-sales installation of software and hardware supporting Fortinet, SonicWall, Symphonics,Qradar, BlueCoat, Checkpoint, Credant, and Websense applications.• Managed and implemented disaster recovery and high profile security events.

Houston, Texas Area

Served as Security System Administrator through BSSI, to Wipro for Marathon Oil Corporation supporting and troubleshooting Bluecoat, Credant, and RSA DLP configurations.

Started as an Exchange Consultant. Hired as a Systems Administrator. Became the Director of Information Technology in 2009.

Level 2 NOC working 12.5hr shifts providing support for HPUX and NT BackupsWorked on backups and restores using HP Data Protector for over 6000 serversWorked with Oracle, SAP, Exchange, and files system backups and restoresWorked with SAN Storage systems.

Level 1 NOC working 12hr shifts providing support for HPUX and LinuxMaintaining over 2000 servers all across the worldWoking with remote management tools to solve over 75% of all problemsWorking with multiple groups to solve issues across the enterprise

Tier 2 NOC working 12hr shifts providing support for NT4 Server and Enterprise, Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server, and Windows 2003 Server in the ADMaintaining over 3000 HP and Dell servers all across the worldWorking with remote management tools to solve over 75% of all problemsWorking with multiple groups to solve issues across the enterpriseWorked with Ghost multicast deployment server

Sr. Network Administrator/Engineer for Web3000 Technical Operations

Promoted to Sr. Network Engineer on a 167,000 user system testing W2K Active Directory on a real world ISPConsulted and worked with the team that redesigned and implemented a new network design of the ISP using W2K in 72hrsTroubleshot and repaired the W2K operating system and Active Directory domain structure in a dynamic environment with a minimal amount of downtimeWas on call 24/7 for server and network outages, problems, and related issuesWorked with the Beta News servers to get them running on W2K in 24hrsConfigured Extreme Summit2 and Summit4 routersWorked on the current security systems for the Internet connection including Firewall 1 and ISS Real Secure.Worked with Microsoft Network Monitor to isolate and correct network routing and packet problemsBuilt the machines used in windows2000test.com .net and .orgDid security scans of network attacks during the security testsProud to say that the site NEVER got hackedWas kept on a part time basis as a consultant to my replacements for two months after leaving7/1998-7/1999 Microsoft Redmond, WALearned on the fly with the latest in technology from MicrosoftLearned and worked with a wide variety of third party enterprise server applications on W2KHelped others with Windows 2000 Active Directory domain configurations and setup of network simulationsBuilt and maintained the image server for three teamsBuilt and configured Dell PowerEdge 2300, 4300, 6300, and 6350 class servers running Windows 2000 Helped others with configuration and installation of third party server applicationsInstalled and configured debuggers for W2KInstalled and configured Alpha Ultimate Workstations and 7000 Class Digital servers with Windows 2000