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Boise, ID, US

Senior Release Management Lead for UCS, Dell, Pure, Brocade, Vxrack, Cohesity and VMware with over 1300 Hosts on 30 VCSAs.Plan release cycles, coordinate release content, define Level of Effort & dependencies between teams.Lead a team responsible for the hardware replacement, patching, updating, security & compliance remediation, monitoring, & reporting of.

Responsibilities include managing, patching, security & compliance remediation, updating Active Directory, Group Policy, VMware, Exchange, Domain Controllers, DNS/DHCP servers, Web Servers (IIS), Security servers, SQL servers, File servers, RDS HA.Designed Shavlik patching solution. Upgraded servers in the environment from Server 2003 to Server 2008, then.

San Francisco, CA

Handled all AD, GPO, Exchange, VMware, Storage, Backup, & DR design responsibilities as well as patching and security updates. Designed Disaster Recovery solution & testing plan. Upgraded AD Schema & Exchange to latest versions. Designed & Managed Veeam backup & replication solution. Installed, maintained & upgraded EMC VNX's at local and DR site. Reduced.

Boise, Idaho

Member of an Engineer team responsible for designing & supporting Juniper Networks VMware infrastructure, Storage infrastructure, Citrix servers, Domain Controllers, AD, DNS on Infoblox. Managed backups, patching, & migrations of 130 storage servers totaling 13+ Petabytes across various vendors including NetApp, EMC, Hitachi, & HP. Managed a 50+ Infobox.

Architect for data center design of 100+ C-Class HP blades with HP EVA SAN storage for VMware ESXi environment. Configured ESXi VM Clustering/Failover/vMotion (versions 3.5 – 4.1). Setup, patched, & monitored an Enterprise level lab hosting multiple replicas of clients environments for testing printer driver updates scaled to handle up to 10,000 active.

Lead of 5 other admins/engineers. Handled consulting & design of clients data centers including server layout, cabling, ensuring adequate power & cooling. In charge of setting up process flow & SOP’s. Designed, managed & documented deployment of Linux Primary Domain Controllers. 50+ user Google Apps deployments. Advanced the company service offerings from.

6 month contract.iGel & thin client administration. Managed Services company hosting services like Active Directory, Exchange, Postini spam filtering, Terminal Services & Web Servers. Updated & Patched VMware ESX environment hosting clients servers. Migrated clients from Desktops to Thin Clients & VMware virtual workstations. Setup Nagios server for.

Responsible for setting up process flow & SOP’s. Managed co-located data center & the design of new clients data centers. Responsible for migrating Domain Controllers from Server 2003 to Server 2008 & Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007. Install, configure, & maintain Windows AD & Exchange 07 Servers, Windows Web Servers, Windows File Servers, Linux Web.

Coordinate, schedule & oversee projects. Install, configure, & maintain servers for mission critical applications & services. Migrated from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007. Provided fail-over & monitoring capabilities for mission critical applications. Configured Linux DMZs/Gateways for application & network security. Setup site-to-site VPN’s. Responsible.