Kent S. Email & Phone Number

Palm Beach, Fl

Virtual OfficeCloud Computing, SaaS, NAS, SANTelecommunication/Network Engineer, VoIP, LAN, WAN, VPNWeb Design

• Review, Validation and Planning Citrix Deployment in a SAP environment for the Navy.• Exchange 2007 and 2003 Cluster and Active Directory Design, Implementation and Education.• Citrix Server Farm Setup and Application Deployment.• ICA Session tuning for High Latency Remote Connections.• SAN Design, Deployment, and Consolidation for several research firms.• Data Center Build out including Network, Storage and Business Continuity Planning.• Wireless LAN setup and security in SOHO and warehouse environments.• Small Business Server setup for Remote Office Messaging and Collaboration.• Case File, Document management Solutions for Law Firms and other Small Offices.• SQL Cluster design and Implementation for high availability and scalability.• SAN Design and Deployment for Virtual Server Consolidation projects using VMWare. • Solution Architect re-designing Disaster Recovery Plan for Navy ERP Pilot Project using SAP.

IP Networks, Systems Security and Monitoring, Messaging and Collaboration solutions Design, Implementation and Administration, as well as Storage Solutions, Implementation, Replication and Support.

Palm Beach, FL• Citrix and Windows Systems Architect.• Designed and Implemented Domain and Exchange Consolidation and Migration.• Managed Operations Staff responsible for multiple Data Centers.• Designed and Deployed Group Policies and Login Scripts on the Citrix MF Environment.• Deployed Citrix Secure Gateway and Nfuse, designed a High availability solution using network appliances to load balance the web site, gateway and ticketing systems.• Wrote the new domain security policy to using migration to implement new standards.• Using WhatsUp Gold and several home grown application alerted the NOC before failures became critical, improving recovery and minimizing or eliminating outages.• Migrated over one terabyte of user and systems data from Symmetrix to Clariion Storage.• Consolidated four data centers into one in order to reduce office space costs.• Using Radware application switches improved performance and reliability of multiple web based applications.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida • Technical Lead for Server Operations.• Built and Deployed new Backup Solution for SQL, Exchange and File Servers.• Monitored, supported and diagnosed an environment consisting of 300 plus Servers.• Implemented Citrix’s Business Continuity Plan using an EMC Symmetrix SAN.• Implemented several MetaFrame Farm Upgrades (MF 1.0, 1.8 to XP).• Supported Several Application deployments on the MF Farms (New and Upgrades).• Deployed SAP and Vantive on MF to support a growing International user environment.• Managed and maintained the MF Environment including System Policies and Scripts.

Boca Raton, FL• Managed a group of five technicians for several projects related to infrastructure support. • Maintained contracts and inventories for client corporations.• Administered the NT and Novell implementations during NT migrations.• Troubleshot both software and hardware applications.• Organized the setup of new user deployments for client companies.

Stationed on the USS Saratoga CV-60• Served during the Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm/Shield)• Designed and managed the division’s personnel and inventory databases.• Team lead for the rapid response fire team.