Robert Edmiston Email & Phone Number

Kansas, United States

Clay Center, KS

Teleworker

• IIS Engineer managing over 100 IIS servers using versions 6.0 through 8.0.
• Supported as many as twenty-five web based applications.
• Consulted project teams in migrating financial applications to new upgraded environments.
• Supported many application developers and advised them on standards and options ensuring compliance with bank policy.
• Ensured compliance with proper change management for production changes.
• Engineered RepliWeb deployment and automation services for each application. Created and maintained approximately 2,000 individual jobs, most of which executed scripts.

Louisville, Kentucky Area

• IIS Administrator for Louisville Metro Government responsible for maintaining and growing an environment consisting of thirty-seven total IIS 6.0 servers that includes one SharePoint 2003 server, seven MOSS 2007.
• Worked as a liaison with the Enterprise Architecture Group for needs of Active Directory, networking, security, ISA Reverse Proxy.
• Established high availability for the city’s award winning public website.
• Cleaned up what began as a chaotic environment.o Established standards including the first standard web server build for Louisville Metro.o Cleaned up existing configurations

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Senior responsibilities include overseeing one colleague and delegating tasks appropriately while ensuring the integrity of fourteen IIS servers. These servers are a combination of IIS 5.0 and IIS 6.0.
• Responsible for proposal and implementation of a new IIS 6.0 architecture that emphasizes high availability.o The development and staging servers ran VMware Server and hosted guests dedicated to specific applications..
• Identified problem areas and recommended methods of resolution to mitigate and prevent potential issues.
• Support web developers in regard to their IIS applications and recommend solutions as needed. Forty of these applications were ASP.NET applications.
• Extensive documentation of current environment and new infrastructure.
• Implemented RepliWeb as a robust replacement for the old robocopy solution.

Greater Detroit Area

• Migration of 200 legacy IIS applications to new secure IIS 6 Server Farm. Manually searched all code for hard coded server references and non-standard UserID’s. Converted Access databases to SQL where appropriate and.
• Installation, testing, and support of IIS Based COTS Applications.
• Established an advanced build for IIS 6.0 with a concise build document.
• Developed a procedure for quick recovery from disaster. This procedure consisted of five VBScripts to back up the IIS Metabase, export the configuration for each virtual server, back up the registry key for all DSN’s.
• Supported web developers in troubleshooting applications and recommended solutions.
• Participated in a project where mNotes was implemented which allowed end users to send and receive Lotus Notes email from their PDA’s. Wireless communications were a large part of this project and also included working.

• High-level support of Internet Information Server, Web Security and functionality, MS SQL 7.0/2000 management, SQL development, documentation, and MS Site Server, Troubleshooting, Client Support.
• Supported a large environment of web servers that grew from less than fifty servers to 300 servers over a span of three years and eight months.
• Participated in the planning and implementation of a WebTrends Reporting Center used for tracking web site traffic statistics. Developed technical documents for outlining standard procedures and then was the primary.
• Completed large amounts of Regulatory documentation for validation of systems as required by the Food and Drug Administration.
• Worked with developers and departmental managers to gather requirements and develop sound business solutions for new projects and then coordinate and carry out the implementation.
• Assisted developers in troubleshooting web sites. Normally, this was a matter of helping the developers recover from errors or memory leaks. This was usually remedied by cycling or killing and restarting IIS related.