Kevin Kellner Email & Phone Number

Olathe, Ks, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

TBD - Let me get some time to fully wrap my arms around my role and responsibilities and I'll flesh this out.

Kansas City, Ks, Us

• Senior Systems Engineer providing engineering and Tier III technical systems support for small to medium sized businesses. • Physical, virtual and cloud server, storage and systems engineering client support. • Client account management assistance and sales engineering support to my team’s Technology Manager. • Team lead and mentor my team, currently 5 other systems engineers as well as systems engineers on other teams in the organization. • This is a client services organization for several hundred clients, where I provided client relationship building, management and technology consulting.

Tulsa, Oklahoma, Us

• Primary administrator and engineer of Peak’s cloud environments at 4 datacenters in the United States. • Physical, virtual and cloud server, storage and systems engineering client support. • Systems and network engineering, design and consultation. • Tier III systems support and sales engineering support. • This is a client services organization for several hundred clients, primarily public schools and libraries, State and Local governments and private sector business organizations.

Contract with Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) with the Department of Defense (DoD)• Design physical and virtual server farms and environments for many various systems for a wide range of federal government agencies in DISA datacenters all over the United States and in various locations around the world.• Design virtual systems around Citrix and VMware environment for large scale server farms and virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI).• Manage and/or support teams of engineers, systems administrators and support technicians in three datacenters in the United States for projects I’m involved with. • Interact with other enclave administrators and engineers to support and troubleshoot builds and incidents utilizing SharePoint and Remedy ticketing systems. • Implement security posture and scan for security vulnerabilities, maintaining DoD and DISA security baselines.

San Diego, Ca, Us

USMC-GDS account, MCEITS-KCITC. • Design and diagram functional network, including Email, File and Print services, client security, domain controllers and VMware environment for virtual servers. This started as a new bare-floor datacenter and Kevin’s task was to design the first network providing basic services for the first group coming into the facility to include the above services. • Designed the DMZ including firewall, VPN and core routing for the network, the server environments needed and build of material outlay for approval of the US Marines. Evolved to build and maintain Windows AD infrastructure for server, desktop and user environment. • Currently support LAN infrastructure from core router/PoP suite to departmental switches to servers and client workstations for both unclassified and classified enclaves, networks and administrate two VMware host server stacks for VDI to thin clients for desktop support and additional thick client workstations and two VMware VDI stacks used for terminal services. • Manage a team of systems administrators and desktop support technicians. • Interact with other enclave administrators and engineers to support and troubleshoot builds and incidents utilizing SharePoint and Remedy ticketing systems. • Implement security posture and scan for security vulnerabilities, maintaining DoD and USMC security baselines.

Contract with IBM - BNSF Topeka datacenter. • Build out of Windows based servers for server replacements at BNSF datacenter and server support of several other accounts. • Built current version Windows based servers and complete for various uses, such as SQL, Exchange, file, application or web servers. Server replacements included rack assembly, racking equipment, configuration and connectivity. • Built VMware ESX host servers, SAN and LAN connectivity and configuration. • Also responsible for hardware service support for all servers under his responsibility at the BNSF datacenter.• Assist Windows System Administrators in system administration for servers located in Dallas/Ft. Worth coop datacenter.

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• Build out of Windows based servers for server replacements at all company branches. • Built current version VMware host servers and migrate virtual machines on old VMware hosts to new servers. Build out of all virtual and physical servers and configure for web, db, file, backup, mirror and other specialized use servers throughout corporate IT enterprise. Virtual servers built around VMware 3.x ESX Server, this included an upgrade from 2.5.x to 3.0 then 3.2 on new servers and integrating it with an IBM SAN. • Installed and configured Cisco fiber switches to connect physical servers including VMware host servers, IBM SAN and IBM tape backup system creating inter-connect fiber fabric independent of LAN network. • Also responsible for tape backups through corporate enterprise administrating backup scheduling with Tivoli and Veritas BackupExec applications. • Also responsible for daily updates of all SQL databases for client account data and all websites data updates from branch database transfers to corporate SQL servers.

Embarq New Century Datacenter account. • Coordinated installations of complete server racks full of several varieties of servers as they were packed and shipped from other Sprint Datacenters to Embarq’s Datacenter insuring network and power cabling and core switching coding to port level to assure immediate go-live when servers arrived. • Oversaw datacenter cleanup of old network data cabling and electrical services and cabling, racks and other equipment.

Unity School of Christianity account. • Windows OS updates on Windows 2003 Server and Windows 2000 Advanced server enterprise of 54 servers. Server based application updates including SQL and project servers, phone interface workforce management db and other proprietary system applications. • Cable management for all servers and racks. • Assisted with project to upgrade enterprise backbone Cisco switches and routers and install EMC Clariion SAN. Installed and configured VMware host servers and create VMware environment utilizing SAN storage and building DR routine for failover. • Installed and configured Cisco fiber switches to connect physical servers including VMware host servers, EMC Clariion SAN and ADIC tape backup system creating inter-connect fiber fabric independent of LAN network. Backup operations/integration in the server farms with Veritas Enterprise BackupExec application. • Active directory administration. • Maintained LAN security, including virus scanning on entire enterprise, group policy administration and intrusion detection.

Remel Account. • Managed IP scope and domain name conversion project for Remel’s entire international network due to merger with another company. • Duties included changing Active Directory structure, DHCP scopes, DNS and WINS to reflect changes made to IP scopes and domain name conversion, changing IP addresses in many various devices, including Cisco switches and routers, servers, workstations, printers and other peripheral equipment. • Prior to beginning conversion project Kevin setup and configured new Domain Controller servers for the new Domain. Most of the servers were Windows 2000, two were Windows 2003, one was a NT4.0, two were UNIX and two Linux. • Was responsible for all of the Windows servers. • Contract was extended to assist with desktop support, a MPLS circuit conversion and two LAN room racks re-cabling and organization.

AMC Theatres Account. • Coordinated cutover projects and provided support for field technicians and engineers in digital theatre distribution system. • Setup SQL databases for each theatre and configured Win2K servers for each theatre location. • Coordinated, scheduled and then tested for Hughes satellite installations. • Project management for field installations. • Contract expired Sept. 30, 2004 but extended so Kevin could do major fiber and CAT5 rewiring and rack cabling organization at AMC’s biggest local theatre.

Delphi Account. • LAN administration for Windows 2000 Advanced Server, user connectivity to Intranet/Internet and network backbone through local LAN, internet/intranet network backbone. • Active Directory server and user policies implementation and administration. • Departmental and SQL 2000 server administration. • Limited SQL 2000 DBA. • Was responsible for installing and troubleshooting an assortment of production equipment connected to LAN, including RF R/W, barcode scanners, proximity sensors, printers and workstations. • Responsible for installing, troubleshooting and supporting a variety of Windows XP and 2000 workstations, including end-user and EDS proprietary applications and utilities. • Performed System hardware troubleshooting and repair.

TWA Consolidation-Sabre Account. • LAN administration for Windows NT and UNIX LAN/WAN, user connectivity to intranet/internet network backbone to local LAN and remote communications. • Client OS and application installation, configuration, troubleshooting and user training. • Legacy UNIX and Novell server migration to Windows NT and 2000 environments. • Was responsible for installing and troubleshooting Cisco switches and routers. • Performed system hardware troubleshooting and repair.

Sprint Server Consolidation Project. • Provided technical consulting to assist financial department to cost server design packets for consolidation project. As Kevin gathered data, he assembled it into Excel spreadsheets, designed Access databases to import data for analysis and reporting then proved cost saving analysis based on these facts. • This was a TDY assignment.

WorldCom/MCI Account. • LAN and server administration for Windows NT LAN, user connectivity to Intranet/Internet network backbone to local LAN and remote communications. • Travel to several WorldCom regional offices for TokenRing to Ethernet LAN infrastructure migrations. • Cisco, Bay networks and 3Com router, switches and hubs installation, troubleshooting and repair. • Client OS and application installation, configuration, troubleshooting and end user training. • Server, notebook workstations, desktop workstations and printer hardware troubleshooting and repair.

New York Life Account. • Provided IT solutions, software installation, systems and LAN network administration. • Provided user training for office and system applications.

As, Electronic Engineering

Electronic Engineering

Diploma, Electronics Theory

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