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Santa Clarita, Ca, Us

Burbank, California, Us

As a Project Manager and Microsoft Solutions Specialist manage an enterprise-class post-production environment that provides movie studio services to major clients, such as Netflix, Disney, and Sony. On a small budget, maximize our ROI by assuming additional roles: Active Directory Specialist, Lead Virtualization Architect, and PCI Specialist. As a proactive measure, performed multiple infrastructure and security upgrades where the scope and sensitivity of the project were at the highest level with zero room for downtime or loss of production. Rebuilt and migrated the virtualized environment from vSphere 5 to vShere 7 with zero downtime. Including system alerting, monitoring, and best practices. Completed ahead of schedule by using strong communications and a collaborative effort to push progress from every angle.

Mountain View, California, Us

PCI Contractor serving in multiple roles and duties to identify and remediate network and systems technical debt to meet & pass PCI compliance.- Served in a primary role that includes:- Identifying technical scope of PCI project; compliance deliverables, planning and deploying remediation solutions across production, development, and staging environments.- Developed SOPs to meet PCI security hardening requirements for data center, server operating system implementations and system maintenance.- Deployed TrustWave network security appliances into production environments to monitor and protect against security threats and vulnerabilities.- Architected and deployed security jump boxes to centralize system administration duties across multiple sites and minimize security risks.- Designed and deployed remediation solutions across Windows Server environment to create a secure and standardized baseline platform in compliance with PCI standards.- Deployed Windows System Update Server for Information security’s patching and maintaining of security systems.

Valencia, Ca, Us

Senior System Engineer for not-for-profit community hospital. Serving in multiple roles and duties to deliver high impact results across hospital’s IT infrastructure, and improve business IT experience, IT processes and desktop standardization.- Served in a primary role that includes:- Horizon View VDI technical lead, system architect, VDI chief deployment team leader/systems engineer. Providing technical resources in the deployment of hospital wide VDI implementation project. Serving as chief lead responsible for standardizing and validating the desktop endpoints for the deployment of the project. Lead architect in development and deployment of a standardize desktop user experience.- Active Directory lead engineer. Managing Group Policies, DNS, Health checks and Microsoft best practices.- Monitoring and maintaining Citrix server farm health and application updates on a daily basis.- Lead architect in upgrading and designing of AirWatch Mobile Device Management solution, providing business critical applications across mobile device platforms.- Ongoing deployment of software solution (AD Manager Plus) to audit, streamline and standardize the management of Active Directory and minimize security risks. This project will minimize the high volume of users whom have access to AD and provide an audit trail and standardize the provisioning of users’ accounts as employees are on-boarded.- Resolved Active Directory Group policy management issues dating back to 2008 that had been problematic across the user’s workstation experience and generated a high volume of user support requests.- Identified and provided a solution to DNS issue that was ongoing over the past nine months causing a high volume of support issues and impacting the Help Desk’s remote assistance capabilities.

Broomfield, Colorado, Us

Managed a client engagement for a global financial management company with $436 billion in assets under management. Developed a reputation for bringing positive energy and an attitude of “We can find a solution” to each and every technical challenge. Served in a primary role that included:- Support of a day-to-day backup environment of 30TBs of data across 7 global locations. - Production of IT security and audit reports, relating to every aspect of IT, networking, and security as part of a business compliance program. - Work as a Network Administrator across all verticals, e.g., email, Active Directory, storage, VMware, Storage (NetApp), Citrix, and SQL.  Supported a comprehensive disaster recovery (DR) program by designing for high-availability and maintainability. Delivered the important benefits of fault tolerance, failover, and workload balancing.- Managed the DR process with stellar results, passing annual audits with zero findings. - Conducted annual failovers of our large-scale production environment to maintain DR readiness for making all critical systems operational within an accelerated timeframe. Documented process to ensure it was easily understood and followed. Conducted vendor research, and selected Symantec’s 5330 appliances for upgrades to disk backup duplication appliances. Delivered results that:- Reduced footprints and associated costs of the production data center and DR environment.- Doubled backup performance, thus reducing the backup window for all company data.

Work as a network and systems administrator, providing secure and reliable solutions and services for clients across multiple industries.  Designed, configured, managed, and updated Active Directory infrastructure, including:• Upgrading environment to Active Directory 2008.• Designing and implementing corporate AD Security Policies and Group Policies in compliance with industry standards.• Automating Active Directory MSI Office deployments.• Identifying and troubleshooting key Active Directory performance issues, including DNS issues, File Replication Service issues, Domain Controller performance, logon failures, Active Directory replication failures, etc.  Hands-on experience troubleshooting a wide range of systems administration issues in Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 Active Directory. Thoroughly experienced with MS SQL, MS SCOM, WUS, SharePoint, Microsoft Forefront, Info Path, and IIS.• Implemented, managed, and monitored enterprise Windows infrastructure for effective 24-hour, “one-stop” technical support. Installed, configured, and hardened Windows infrastructure to reduce attack surface. • Monitored application servers, and analyzed, designed, implemented, and maintained applications.  Planned, tested, and migrated clients from MS Exchange 2003 to MS Exchange 2007. Integrated Symantec Backup Exec “back solutions” for data and MS Exchange setups. Conducted assessment of existing Windows infrastructures and proposed solutions after a comprehensive evaluation of business requirements.

Inglewood, Ca, Us

Managed full scope of IT operations (3-member team) for 5-star health spa with 400+ remote users at 10 locations, including motivating team to deliver top performance. Played an active role in recommending projects, managing budgets, researching and purchasing technology, and setting project priorities.  Designed and executed Windows 2003 Active Directory migration to Active Directory 2008; including server migrations to Windows Server 2008. Implemented and managed AD Group Policies across corporate network. Spearheaded migration of corporate data into a document management system (MS Office SharePoint Server 2007) to improve document sharing, with index search capabilities. Focused team on maintaining high-quality service, while scaling back IT costs. • Planned, designed, and led virtualization of infrastructure, utilizing MS Virtual Server; eliminated frequent crashes during peak, high-volume traffic for a business-critical online application.• Implemented System Center Operations Manager 2007 to help maintain virtual server’s environment and support server infrastructure. • Deployed remote desktop services to more than 400 users to reduce licensing and hardware cost. Implemented business contingency plan to ensure uninterrupted services, in alignment with business goals.• Automatically monitored system / network performance, with the goal to improve service delivery through ongoing tuning and optimization.• Designed and implemented a network failover connection to prevent service interruptions.  Supported VoIP and data communications. Responsible for WAN network, Windows 2003/2008 Active Directory, MS Exchange 2007, BlackBerry Enterprise Server, Microsoft Forefront, email spam filtering, Symantec Backup Exec, and Cisco switches/routers.

Led 7-member team to provide reliable and secure network and system support for 500+ users. Fostered a positive work environment based on accountability, ongoing coaching, and hands-on leadership. Responsible for establishing, managing, and controlling Service Level Agreements (SLAs).• Spearheaded project to increase system uptime performance to 99% to meet strict SLAs for County Counsel’s office. • Created proposal for recommended improvements, and gained approval for an integrated Microsoft Exchange cluster solution to achieve scalability, reliability, and fault tolerance for email system. • Planned, managed, and executed projects with tight delivery schedules, including:• Design and build of a new server room, as well as server purchases, server OS back-end upgrade, and server room relocation. Conducted capacity planning to scale network resources with forecasted projects.• Enterprise-wide roll out of 500 desktop computers, over 3 locations, including physical move, desktop imaging, rigorous testing throughout, and working closely with vendor on evaluating hardware.• Established a company practice for creating and distributing a standardized desktop image. • Worked with outsourced developers to integrate and roll out a customized, Word macro package for legal staff. • Led multiple WAN MS 2000 Active Directory migrations to 2003 AD.• Instituted disaster recovery plans that incorporated hardware redundancy and data mirroring across WAN to a second facility for server restoration in case of emergency.• Coordinated implementation, planning, and office-wide roll out of a content management system (iManage) for indexing, searching, importing, and sharing office documents.• Executed a performance strategy to increase email uptime by clustering MS Exchange 2007. • Implemented and supported Exchange 2007, BlackBerry Enterprise Server, Symantec Antivirus, Brightmail Antispam, Veritas Backup Exec and MS Terminal Server, and Windows 2003 Active Directory.

Performed network and systems administration activities, including backups and restores, end-user technical support, user account and password management, and performance monitoring and tuning.- Championed early use of a remote management solution to improve responsiveness to user issues, with a significant reduction in travel time and expenses.- Took initiative to provide first-time documentation of network resources and procedures.

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