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Indianapolis, Indiana Area

Indianapolis, Indiana

West Lafayettte, Indiana

Maintain, upgrade, and deploy IT infrastructure necessary for departmental administration tasks, scientific research, and teaching needs. Developed and maintained all IT services including: -Redundant ESX 4.0 hosts and iSCSI storage utilized by 20+ departments-File and print services (Samba, NFS, Windows SMB/CIFS, DFS, CUPS)-Machine and subnet firewall services (iptables/ipset, Windows firewall service)-Active Directory, Group Policy and SCCM management-Network Services (Windows and Linux DHCP services, VLAN switching, Linux firewalls and routing)-Web services (Apache, Joomla, SharePoint 2007 & 2010)Serve as primary point of contact for end users through Best Practical Request Tracker, personal contact, and phone as necessary. Ensure all departmental computing resources are available and perform preventative maintenance and upgrades as necessary.Key contributions:*Migrated physical Solaris 5.9, RHEL3, RHEL4, and Windows Server 2003 hosts to new virtual environment (VMware ESX4.0) and to common platforms of RHEL5 and Windows *Server 2008*Deployed CFEngine 3.x and a Kickstart to reduce time required to provision and configure Linux servers and workstations; also enforces desired state configuration management.*Supported end users including the Dean of Science, department heads, administrative staff, academic advisors, teaching and research faculty, and graduate students.*Collaborated with university wide Smart Computing initiative to leverage strategic sourcing and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager deployment. *Implemented centralized SCCM, Active Directory, and Group Policy services to create a hands-off desktop deployment process, including a scripted network based Windows 7 installation, security patching and policy settings, and all software installation.*Upgraded all systems from Windows XP SP2 to XP SP3, and then later to Windows 7, and Windows 7 SP1.

Carmel Indiana

Provided phone and email support for remote electronic monitoring of utility consumption. Assisted with field installations of monitoring equipment. Set up local Windows 2003 SBS server, and local/remote Windows XP clients.