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Manage and sustain web farms consisting of over 300 servers in both primary and DR locations for 24/7 access.Perform upgrade of Cold Fusion 5 to Cold Fusion 8 on all servers, work with development to obtain maximum performance settings.Build, review and deploy all weekly code changes across enterprise platform.Oversee and execute web portion of yearly DR fail-over tests.Provide training and documentation to new Level 1 support group.Assist clients worldwide with access issues ranging from new production URL setups, to QA and UAT site testing, to configuring and passing SSL certificates from within their custom applications. Implemented Monitoring solution for all internal and external sites that imitates customer experience and provide early warning of any concerns to provide a pro-active response.

Design and maintained a multi-location Server Farm consisting of over 200 servers in a Microsoft environment.Worked with senior management to design, plan and successfully deploy a $1.5 Million data center; a $750k disaster recovery site in Herndon VA.Created and implemented all front and back-end SQL standalone and clustered servers for mission critical applications in both primary and DR data center locations.Successfully designed and deployed enterprise messaging solution for 2000 + users. Design consisted of a 9 server fibre based clustered backend w/2+ terabytes of data. Integrate custom J-Boss application with Apache Tomcat for Https access. Document and deliver needed steps and processes of integration to product developer.Designed and implemented entire fibre network with full redundant paths for 7 clusters and central data distribution locations for the Boca Raton and data center.Deploy EMC Email Extender into production environment resulting in the ability to utilize message stubbing, archival of all inbound and outbound email and generate reports of individual activity.Implemented and designed zero downtime migration of Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2003. During this process some mailbox sizes totaling over 600GB were moved to Exchange 2003.Re-designed enterprise-wide Windows 2003 Terminal Server farm of 200+ nodes. Created regional and load balancing pools for 1500+ users. Created and designed roaming profiles across 6 dedicated profile servers with document redirection for all users via use of Group Policies.Managed, designed and implemented migration from Blackberry 3.6 to 4.1 for 500 users with zero interruption in service. Maintained and updated all Blackberry devices with remote application and update pushes.Successfully designed and built out complete failover solution located in Virginia consisting of over 100 application and data servers using custom DNS scripts, snap shots and NSI Double Take.

Provided support and resolved issues with all corporate intranet and internet pages.Designed and introduced corporate imaging solution for deploying all server and desktops in multiple operation centers.Set-up Real-time monitoring of production and DR servers for early warning of any system related problems. Managed expectations of Senior Management concerning present and future IT requirements Supervised the efforts of 10 other engineers and technicians in 6 operations centers located in CA, KS, FL,Assisted all departments in front and back office application inter-operability Created documentation via MS Power Point, Visio, Word and Excel for presentations to Senior Management. Prepare guidelines and trouble shooting steps for Service Desk, Technicians and Engineering team.

Serviced a variety of business needs and computer applications for small to medium sized companies in the tri-county regionDesigned and implemented turnkey business systems and applications.Upgraded, maintained, and remotely administered customers' solutions.

Installed and serviced cable modems and acted as a contractor for Comcast CableManaged book of independent businessOversaw efforts of two direct reports