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Vannuys, Ca

Oversee internal IT operations for $110M Wheels Financial Group(dba 800loanmart), Supported all corporate websites. Prepared and administered project and program. Developed business case, cost savings outline, and ROI forecasts for all projects. Maintained servers, network, and disaster recovery systems. Led all infrastructure repairs and upgrades. Managed compliance and IT security functions for Wheels Financial Group..• Achieved 99.999% system availability by designing and implementing Fireline, Telepacific, Cogent and Level5 with BGP, DMVPN and VPLS in both Corp and Colocation locations• Planned and led data center upgrade project that improve stability and uptime by replacing VMware environment systems with Cisco UCS Blades and site to site DR with storage replication and Zerto• Increased efficiency/security and uptime by implementing Physical and Virtual F5 Load Balancers with Imperva front-ending all external site.• Served as Project Lead on multi-VLAN switched network, Edge Router Upgrades, NOC management system, ISP migration, QOS, and VOip • Planned and led the migration of Firewalls to Paloalto Networks in HA mode, also added URL filtering and SSLvpn• Planned and led the migration of production SQL 2008 database server to new equipment and later VMware• Planned and led the migration old random storage to NETapp utilizing snapmirror data replication for datacenter redundancy then adding Pure Storage for all Production VM systems

Vannuys,Ca

Oversee internal IT operations for $90M Wheels Financial Group(dba 800loanmart), Supported all corporate websites. Prepared and administered project and program. Developed business case, cost savings outline, and ROI forecasts for all projects. Maintained servers, network, and disaster recovery systems. Led all infrastructure repairs and upgrades. Managed compliance and IT security functions for Wheels Financial Group..• Achieved 99.999% system availability by designing and implementing Fireline, Telepacific and Level5 BGP in both Corp and Colocation locations• Planned and led data center upgrade project that improve stability and uptime by replacing VMware environment systems with Cisco UCS Blades and site to site DR• Increased efficiency and uptime by implementing F5 Load Balancers.• Served as Project Lead on multi-VLAN switched network, Edge Router Upgrades, NOC management system, ISP migration, QOS, and VOip • Planned and led the migration of Firewalls to Paloalto Networks in HA mode, also added URL filtering with AD authentication.• Planned and led the migration of production SQL 2008 database server to new equipment.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Oversee internal IT operations for $1.2B Hankey Group, including several sub-companies. Supervised staff of five. Supported all corporate websites. Prepared and administered project and program budgets as large as $1M. Developed business case, cost savings outline, and ROI forecasts for all projects. Maintained servers, network, and disaster recovery systems. Led all infrastructure repairs and upgrades. Managed compliance and IT security functions for Hankey Group.• Improved productivity by migrating entire Hankey Group to SAN enterprise storage.• Achieved 99.999% system availability by designing and implementing three-tier web architecture.• Planned and led $1.5M data center upgrade project that improve stability and uptime by expanding from four-rack system to redundant 30-rack system in Microsoft environment.• Enhanced communications and network capabilities by migrating from laser system between multiple buildings to fiber optics. Procured all necessary city permits.• Increased efficiency and security by implementing Windows 2003 domain with Exchange, Project, SharePoint, and MSCRM. Also implemented Sprint and Cogent BGP.• Served as Project Lead on multi-VLAN switched network, HVAC and UPS, secure WiFi, Websense, NOC management system, ISP migration, QOS, RSA securities, and PCI compliance projects.• Reduced costs and improved productivity by introducing VMWare for virtualization.

Marina Del Rey,Ca

Led and carried out all infrastructure support and improvement for startup provider of state-of-the-art backup and recovery systems. Deployed multi-VLAN switched network. Managed IT security.• Established Lotus Notes environment and implemented NT4 servers. • Converted environment to multiple Windows 2000 Server domain with file sharing scripts, DNS, DHCP, DLT backup, firewalls, and antivirus protection.• Identified potential security gaps and implemented systems to protect SQL data.• Constructed MS Domain with Exchange, and integrated Lotus Notes and Exchange.• Enhanced productivity by designing collocation for web and DNS hosting.• Implemented backup / recovery by deploying Veritas Backup with five-week retention.• Maintained 100% system availability through effective UPS for all servers.• Designed new QA lab for testing of 15 servers and 100 client systems.

Santa Monica,Ca

Remained in position after acquisition of Exist Corp. by GlueCode. Performed systems and network engineering for startup infrastructure solutions provider. Member of eight-person team that designed, implemented, and maintained in-house hardware, networks, software, and operating systems. Served as Project Lead on multiple initiatives.• Played major role in design and implementation of in-house data center, two-tier Windows domain, and eight-server web server farm for load testing of software.• Built and installed network infrastructure, including DNS, WINS, DHCP, Active Directory, NIS, Samba, NFS, and Windows NT domains.• Improved efficiency by installing and managing Veritas backup system for UNIX and Windows.• Managed two collocation spaces (PacBell and ISI). Configured firewall security and installed VLANs.• Designed Windows Domain and Sun Servers for iPlanet software and supported development team in implementing custom iPlanet configurations.• Served as Project Lead for Exchange upgrade, MS Terminal Server 2000 implementation, and Samba-Active Directory integration initiatives.

Santa Monica,Ca

Managed network environment for B2B commerce site startup. Supported 50 users. Built email, file server, and DNS infrastructure. Provided support for prototype development.• Assisted with business development by presenting demonstrations to potential clients.• Increased efficiency by converting NT4 environment to Windows 2000 domain.• Enhanced security by deploying firewalls with VPN connectivity at three locations.• Migrated collocation spaces from East Cast to West Coast, and redeployed network infrastructure.• Managed T1 implementation as part of corporate building expansion project.• Improved productivity by migrating from Linux Sendmail to Exchange.