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Hickory, North Carolina, Us

Denver, Co, Us

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

Advanced Video Engineer II- Break-Fix monitoring and maintenance of video systems and equipment. Member of a 24x7x365 Video Support Center Systems Break/Fix team monitors and troubleshoots and resolves hardware/software/connectivity issues that occur with System Control servers, back office servers and billing systems, programing, video content servers, streamers, encoders that provide Streaming and Live Television broadcasting, IP Video, Switched Digital and Video-On-Demand programing that bring Charters vast array of video services into customers’ homes. From Satellite acquisition to customer Settop boxes and everything in between, VOD, SDV, and the applications that run on them along with several thousands of servers and devices that bring the customer the best experience possible in the cable industry.

Plano, Texas, Us

NTT DATA Consulting & Systems Integration (Formerly Dell Services/C&SI) February 2016 - April 2017Systems Integration Consultant, C&SI (Consulting & Systems Integration) Consult with customer, sales and implementation team to manage and fulfill infrastructure outsourcing contracts.• Xcel Energy – Exchange 2010 to 2013 Upgrade Project • Amita Health Systems (Alexian Brothers Health/Adventist Health) – AD and Application merger/integration• Graphic Packaging Inc. – Exchange 2010 to O365/Exchange 2016 Hybrid migration planning, Virtualization & consolidation projects• MKS Instruments – Lotus Notes to Exchange 2013 migration

Arlington, Va, Us

US Department of Defense -DoD GPS II Project (Secret Clearance) Windows Systems Integration* Application Testing / Integration / Support (Geologics)

Denver, Co, Us

Migration of over 12,000 domestic and international user accounts/29,000 AD objects from Exchange 2010 to MS O365 hybrid environment.(TekSystems)

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Macy's Account: • Manage build and maintain VMware 5.1-5.5 ESX servers utilizing IBM SoftLayer Cloud Technologies, IBM PureFlex Systems and Dell Blades in an RHEL 6, 6.6 and Windows 2008R2/2012 environment.

Paris, Fr

Project: Migration/Integration planning and implementation for two acqusitions, Cloud migration, AD domain function uplift, DNS/DHCP integration and Office365 administration migration and implementation for acquisitions. (TEKsystems)

Paris, Fr

Project: Windows AD/365/Azure/ILantis/SAP RBAC mapping and integrationMigrated AD services and functions (DHCP/DNS etc.) assisting with actions separating WhiteWave from parent company, breaking Forrest and domain trusts. (TEKsystems)

Mclean, Virginia, Us

Project: • Managed onboarding processes migrating new customers to our private cloud and FedRAMP certified Federal cloud..• Customer assistance in migrating existing servers and/or applications to our state-of-the-art private Cloud Platform xStream to leverage the benefits and security of our cloud infrastructure, or assist clients in the build out of new environments.Software-as-a-Service - Platform-as-a-Service - Infrastructure-as-a-Service hosting ERP and SAP.Build out Windows 2003 R2, 2008 R2 and 2012 servers, RHEL and CentOS Linux servers on our VMware 4.x and 5.1 Tiered cluster infrastructure and provide appropriate data storage for customer special projects or applications or setting up a new R & D, Test and or QA environments.(Staff IT Enterprises)

Louisville, Co, Us

Sr. Windows Systems Administrator- Data Center systems infrastructure steady state support.• Exchange 2010, Forefront, DPM, VMware, Mobile Device Management AirWatch and MobileIron, CITRIX , SCCM 2007/2010, Server 2003, 2008R2, 20012, MS Project Server 2013 with SharePoint 2013 Project.• Implemented MobileIron MDM solution for company’s 400+ iPhones and migrated from AirWatch to MobileIron.• Setup pilot program for BYOD for iPhones, iPads and MacBook Pro, and Android phones/tablets.• Developed and began implemented plan for DC upgrade/Domain Function Level Uplift from 2003 to 2008 in anticipation of migration to Office 365 and Email integration with our European Branches.• Setup AWS storage for migration of all Oracle data for support, and began setup for cloud integration testing for AWS servers and AD integration.• JAMF/Casper Suite product evaluation and Server implementation. Testing for integration with SCCM 2012 to manage introduction of OS X MacBook Pro into our enterprise.• Implemented FourWinds Content Manager/Player system for company billboard services.HP Hardware, H.P SAN Storage, Windows Server 2003 and 2008R2, 2012, VSphere 4& 5/ESX3,VMware View, vCenter Protect, Symantec Endpoint Protection, Trend Micro, Exchange 2010, MS Forefront Protection 2010, DPM, CITRIX, SCCM 2007 and 2012, Shavilik Protect

Morrisville, North Carolina, Us

Project: Continental / United Airlines Email merger/migration to Hosted Exchange* Vetting premigration mailbox lists scheduled for migration and merger for all necessary AD/Email attributes in each of the existing domains to be migrated to the new domain.* Verifying previous nights migration of mailboxes and associated BlackBerry accounts and resolve any issues.

Denver, Co - Colorado, Us

Project: Systems and Domain Migration, network upgrade, VMware ESX and EXi upgrade and server virtualization* SEP: Symantec Endpoint Protection Installation or upgrade on all existing servers* Installation and configuration of Nagios Monitoring on all servers.* Assisted Network and desktop teams in network closet upgrades accross to entire campus* Deploy departmental printers and accessibility on new switches via GPO.* Reorganizing AD structure moving users into defined OU''s* Create and implement appropriate group policies and permissions.* Work with application and instrument owners to migrate, decommission and or virtualize servers* Install new servers, migrate existing servers to new segregated network * Install and configure TSM - Tivoli Storage Management for systems backup (Quantix)

Redmond, Washington, Us

* Lotus Notes to Exchange 2010 migration utilizing BinaryTree* Contracted as Microsoft resource to facilitate and expedite completion of migration

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Project: Migration and merger: PNC Bank - merger of acquisition - National Cities BankPhase 1:* Migration, Consolidation, P-2-V Virtualization and/or OS Upgrade or new deployment or retirement of 1,500 windows and Linux servers.* Conducted phone inventory, investigation and meetings with stake holders, process owners, application managers and product specialists to strategize and schedule the migration of their systems to new data center/OS upgrade/and/or virtualization or retirement/sunsetting of their assets.Phase 2: Migrate, upgrade, virtualize or retire or 2,000 to 2,500 servers over the next 2 years.(Prosource Solutions)

Midland, Texas, Us

Sr. Systems Administrator | LUCA Technologies* Managed all technical systems for small energy technology company and laboratory* Windows 2003 and 2008 Exchange 2010 Environment on Dell servers and SAN and VMware ESX and EXi hosts.* Energy Applications - Bolo, Petra and multiple laboratory applications* Mobile Device Management - iPhone, iPad, MacBook Pro and Air, BYOD

Lexington, Ma, Us

Project: * Migration: Novell to Windows AD. Identify and migrate all data and applications from Novell/eDirectory environment on failing Hitachi SAN to a Windows AD environment on NetApp Storage.* Systems Optimization Project: Identify all supporting servers for applications that comprise the companies Top 14 revenue producing products and make applications Five Nines availability. (TEKsystems)

Denver, Co, Us

Migration and Upgrade Project: * Migrate all state systems and data from NT4 Domain to Windows 2003 AD structure.* Consolidate and virtualize servers where possible. * Migration: Exchange 5.5 to 2003 then Exchange 2007.* Asssist network team in migration to new 10. network* Migrate State Lottery website from NT 4.0 to Windows 2003 Server(D.R.C./TEKsystems)

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Project: TCIM POC - Proof of Concept\- IBM Financial Systems•Windows Systems specialist for team tasked with planning, testing and initial deployment for federally mandated implementation of TCIM (Tivoli Compliance Insight Manager) security reporting system for logging and reporting all privileged access to any IBM financial services customer servers.• Primary Account Focus – American Express - 2000 Windows servers

New York, Us

ABM Industries Incorporated merger with Belize International Business Companies* Upgrade and implementation of TIM (Tivoli Identity Management) upgrade to iTIM* iTIM management of privileged access accounts for AD, Unix, Linus and Mainframe systems* AD clean up from merger of Belize International Business Companies into A.B.M.(IBM Employee)

Tulsa, Oklahoma, Us

Data Center Upgrade Migration and Management* Migrate and replace all hardware on IBM hardware in Denver Data Center* Migrate/Upgrade NT 4.0 and 2000 Servers databases and applications to Windows 2003 R2.* Migrate all Databases and Applications: Work with application and product owners, developers, vendors and DBA's and desktop technicians to migrate and test on 2003 Server and SAN maintain and verify business continuity. (most energy applications not yet certified on Windows 2003) * Built: MS Exchange and SQL cluster servers, SCADA servers, ESX servers to host Windows, Unix and Linux OS's and virtualize and consolidated servers where possible.* Installed: IBM SAN, Brocade Ethernet switches, and ICSI storage AIX / TSM Server with 1 tray SAN for TSM to SAN-2-Tape Silo backups Cisco switches for Network team and RedHat 5.0 server with special HD video card.* Windows specialist for successful DR exercised for PeopleSoft and ERP.

Greenwood Village, Co, Us

Data Center upgrade hardware, OS and applications* Install and configure new IBM systems* Work with developers and vendors to migrate NT 4.0 applications to Server 2003* Install and configure Citrix servers in farm, publish applications, and load balance.* Proof of concept implementation of early version 1.5 of VMware for test and development* Use of VMware P2V technology to move servers as part of merger/acquisitions that systems were to aged or unstable to physically move.

Sacramento, California, Us

State of California - Child Wellfare Services / Case Management ServicesProject Manager / Team Lead / Technical Lead Migrate and consolidate 500+ OS2 Warp servers to 400 Windows 2000 Active Directory servers.Duration: 22 weekend migration with no customer interuption.* Managed project and 25 Systems Administrators and developers.(IBM Employee)

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

* Direct interface with Lucent CIO team, VP's Executive VP's and Business Unit managers* Helped facilitate spinoff of Lucent from AT&T and AVAYA and other spinoff's* Multiple Projects Managed: Migration to Exchange, Y2K Remediation, Windows 3.11 to 95 migration

IBM Desktop Support Team Lead / Project Manager • Managed Desktop Support team of 25-35 tier II and III technicians supporting over 3,000 end users on multiple platforms and operating systems for Lucent Technologies south Denver campus and 30 remote locations.• Worked with developers, engineering, Lucent VP’s and upper management planning and implementing multiple projects

• Managed Desktop Support team of 25-35 tier II and III technicians supporting over 3,000 end users on multiple platforms and operating systems for Lucent Technologies south Denver campus and 30 remote locations.• Worked with developers, engineering, Lucent VP’s and upper management planning and implementing multiple projects

Memphis, Tn, Us

* Managed FedEx Call center support handeling all incoming calls* Helped pioneer FedEx first website and package tracking

Managed team for Technical Training and Apple Computer Sales

Pre-Medicine - Biology/Chemistry Major

Cism, Computer Information Systems Management

High School Diploma, General Education