Responsible for local Business LAN, Distributed Controls System (DCS) LAN, Lab LAN, and Tier 2 client support for 60+ employees located in plant

Contractor for Marathon Petroleum Corporation IT systems

Responsible for the Microsoft Windows/UNIX/Linux Server architecture for Bally Technologies worldwide enterprise network. Specific responsibilities include developing, implementing, and supporting the systems architecture that offers multiple scalable, high performing, fault tolerant, secure operation in the data center.Manages a VMWare ESX 5 site with over 500 virtual machines in production and development arenasLead engineer for converting physical servers to Virtual servers: Saved over $100K in hardware costsAdministers an Enterprise Microsoft SQL cluster with 8 nodes housing of 100 production database.Engineer responsible for maintaining all UNIX/Linux production and development serversAdministrator of NetApp Network Area Storage (NAS) housing over 170 Tb of storage. Project lead for upgrading our Enterprise SharePoint site from SharePoint 2.0 to MOSS 2010. Implemented use of SNMP alert monitoring for all servers using Dell OpenManage software.Responsible for backing up all servers in enterprise using Commvault backup software.Implemented Blade servers, NAS attached, to optimize performance of applications and efficiency with power and space utilization.Assists Network Managers with daily tasks on Cisco routers/switches throughout enterprise.Built Solarwinds Orion NPM server solution and assisted Network technicians in configuration of software.

Directly built, managed, maintained, and administered 12 UNIX Solaris 8 servers, 24 Windows 2000/2003 Servers, and 360 Windows 2000 Professional workstations in a military training environment.Designed and built an Active Directory 2003 forest to be used for military weapons systems. Created documentation defining roles of users and groups to be built to control access to all data on the network and location of workstations on floor layout.Implemented a Symantec Ghost Server to ease in the build of client machines and servers.Built a Windows Systems Management Server 2003 site to administer all workstations on the network.Implemented use of Network Attached Storage (NAS) NetApp filer to centralize all data to one location with future plans of purchasing a second NetApp Filer to perform mirroring and therefore putting a disaster recovery plan into place.Administered radio frequency transmission systems and data link systems enabling communications between aircraft and local workstations through use of VOIP technology.

Managed installation, configuration and maintenance of TS/SCI network. Configured $150K server testing area mirroring live network that facilitated risk-free training, upgrade compatibility testing, and security lockdown testing.Recovered data from primary Exchange server which suffered fatal hardware errors. Rebuilt failed server then restored 36 GB of crucial messaging traffic.Planned and implemented migration from Windows 2000 Print server to new Hewlett Packard printer appliance moving 34 printers in the process and greatly increasing quality of service to customers.Researched and implemented tape backup solution using Veritas Backup Exec. Increased storage capacity by 200% (2 TB) and ensured more reliable consistent backups.Created Share Point for a 500 GB store of imagery for use with Falcon View Intel application. Oversaw 23 systems administrators with responsibility of maintaining and configuring Windows servers and client workstations.Performed routine security compliance inspections, advisor directly to United States Air Forces Europe (USAFE) Special Security Office (SSO) on network security policies.Used Symantec Ghost to create a standard desktop image that eased administrative strain on trying to maintain different workstation configurations. Image became standard for whole network.

Responsible for administration, operation and maintenance of 30 classified and 60 unclassified network servers in a Windows NT 4.0 Server environment while providing service to over 13,000 users.Engineered test bed which served as a training platform for exchange, back ups, and Windows NT server administration. Also tested and implemented numerous network/system solution projects. Designed site server configuration and documentation. Documents were later used to bring online email/file servers that would be attached to an EMC SAN storage device.Maintained DNS tables to ensure proper routing for email and accuracy of intranet/internet web browsing along with numerous applications that were solely reliant on proper host entries.Transitioned 60 servers to new EMC SAN storage device with minimal mission impact gaining a total of 35 TB to be divided between servers that were mirrored to off site location for disaster recovery.Managed 26 Microsoft Exchange 5.5 servers including 4 at off site locations performing routine maintenance, database management, performance tuning, and auditing.