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Texas, United States

East Greenbush, New York, Us

Chadds Ford, Pa, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Worked on the Azure Rapid Response Team-NetworkingL100 and L200 certified by Microsoft.I am proficient with these Azure technologies: • Worked with customers to help in configuring and troubleshooting VNET issues (subnets and security groups). • VNET Peering troubleshooting connectivity and configuration issues. • VPN (site-to-site and client-side)troubleshooting connectivity issues on several types of customer connections. • Load Balancer troubleshooting experience on the software load balancer both network and https. • Routing and UDR experience with user defined routing and connectivity. • SNAT/NAT Experienced with source Nat and customers NAT configuration and troubleshooting issues. • Gateways(VPN /ExpressRoute) Experienced with BGP configuration to the Microsoft edge.

Maintained Cisco switches and wireless LAN controllers.Worked to get VXRails network online.Administered Windows servers 2012,2016 and 2019 on a VMWare ESXi environment.Maintained AD and DNS for the network .Installed and maintained CrowdStrike EDR, along with Carbon Black EDR.Rubrik backup software and appliance experience.Worked with Solarwinds and KACE K1000 systems.Performed Linux administration as needed.

Worked with Proofpoint, Firemon and Qualys security productsAssisted in maintaining the Palo Alto firewalls.Reviewed security logs and alerts as needed.Maintained wireless LAN network.Laid off June 18th of this year.

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

Network and AD workMaintained HP Switches.Installed network IPS for security.Monitored the network using various tools

Installed Nagios for Lan and Citrix monitoring for VM's.Maintained switches and other networking equipment for remote sites.Worked with Active Directory and Citrix system.

Tulsa, Ok, Us

Installation, planning, administration and troubleshooting of Windows 2012r2 and Windows 2008 and Windows 2003 Active Directory Domains.Installation, planning, administration and troubleshooting of a Windows 2008 and Windows 2012 r2 Hyper-V hosts.Installation and administration of with Nimble SAN appliances.Installation, planning, and administration with Unitrends Enterprise Backup Appliance.Installation and monitoring using Symantec Endpoint Protection.Installation and monitoring of Dell KACE K-1000 network management appliance.Installation, planning, monitoring experience using Nagios in a Linux and Windows environment.Establishing other monitoring benchmarks using various management tools in a Linux environment.Install, Plan and monitor Red Hat Linux 6.5 in both a virtual and physical environment. Monitoring and configuration experience using Brocade switches.

Tulsa, Ok, Us

Administration and troubleshooting of Windows 2012 r2 and Windows 2008 Active Directory Domains.Administration and troubleshooting of a Windows 2008 and Windows 2012 r2 Hyper-V hosts.Experience with Nimble SAN appliances.Experience with Unitrends Enterprise Backup Appliance.Installation and monitoring using Symantec Endpoint Protection.Installation and monitoring of Dell KACE K-1000 network management appliance.Monitoring experience using Nagios in a Linux environment.Establishing other monitoring benchmarks using various management tools in a Linux environment.Install and monitor Red Hat Linux 6.5 in both a virtual and physical environment.Experience using Brocade switches.

Administration and troubleshooting of Windows Server 2012 and 2008 Active Directory Domains.Administration and troubleshooting of SonicWALL Firewalls.Administration and troubleshooting of Ruckus Wireless Access Points.Troubleshoot and deploy Group Policy Objects for customers.Experience with desktop technologies and Windows 7, Windows 8.Experience with Symantec Endpoint Protection and Backup Exec.Experience with Cisco small business switches.Hyper-V experience on Windows Server 2012VMWare experience on small to medium environments

Fort Worth, Tx, Us

Configure, manage and maintain Cisco 3750 switch campus network.Administer campus network through Solar Winds management software.Setup and maintain Cisco 1841 routers for satellite offices.Help administer DNS services through InfoBlox appliances.Troubleshoot and manage Aruba access points locally and at remote offices.Administration of LAN, WAN and Telephone circuits through onsite troubleshooting and vendor interaction.Ability to troubleshoot network issues through the use of Wireshark, Snort and NMap

Configure, manage and maintain networks with 35(Windows 2003 and 2008) domain servers both virtual and physical. Managed over 350 XP and Windows 7 workstations.Designed and maintain ISA 2004 and 2006 Firewalls for the court system which create a sophisticated/successful court documentation server security program.Setup Cisco routers and PIX firewall enhancing point of presence for e-file transmissions.Implemented Barracuda web-content filter security appliances controlling spam along with open source intrusion detection security tools such as Snort IDS and Wireshark.Developed TCP/IP network and installed/maintain servers, workstations, peripherals.Troubleshoot/resolve all necessary network or security issues and train/assist users throughout the organization when required to ensure smooth seamless operations.Ensure all federal, state, and local regulatory compliance.Liaison between all other departments and physical locations as needed.Proficient in Linux Servers and Administration (Centos and Ubuntu).KACE Appliance support in both imaging and inventory.Code Green appliance for Deep Packet Inspection security.Enterasys switch configuration and support.

Bachelor’S Degree, Bachelor Of Science Degree In Information Technology

Certificate Of Completion, Cybersecurity-System Administration Certificate Program

Ccna

Associate'S Degree, Electronics

Cisco Networking Academy, Cisco

Cybersecurity-Digital Forensics Certificate Program, Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity-Digital Forensics Certificate Program, Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity-Systems Administration Certificate Program, Cybersecurity