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OBJECTIVE
I am qualified by 12 years of experience in the various computer disciplines and have strong experience with server and networking technologies in many heterogeneous environments. My objective is to demonstrate teamwork, responsibility and accountability with my team members.
I also ensure that I stay abreast of current IT technology and industry trends which are relevant to my position.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Peoples Energy Production
Transitional Network Engineer/Systems Administrator
Houston, TX from 7/2007-2/2008 (Contract to Perm)
Company was acquired by El Paso Corporation with 90% employee attrition as of 2-1-08. No contractors were retained. I was brought on board to facilitate the sale by Itegrys Corp of People's Energy Production and to decouple the systems from Itegrys Corporation. .I was the sole People's Energy Production technical staff to facilitate the migration after the company was sold for 875 million.

* Management of approximately 20 servers in 3 company offices including Active Directory, VERITAS Backup exec, Excalibur, Production Access, DVR/Security, UNIdata Excalibur databases, Microsoft SQL 2005, Citrix Presentation Server, and Geographix. This also included hardware/software for all servers, desktops, laptops, network applications, routers/switches.
* Technical liaison and lead to El Paso Corporation staff following completion of the sale. Migrate approximately 20 terabytes of user data, account migration, email migration to El Paso exchange servers, Cisco VPN tunnels and T-1's to El Paso facilities.
* Systems administrator for approximately 100 users. My role included the functionality of IT Manager, Desktop support, Network Administrator, and Application support - desktops, laptops, network applications, routers/switches.
* Application support for Excalibur land/accounting/production revenue, GeoGraphix's ARIES RMS\ GESXplorer\SeisVision\PRIZM, Hummingbird BI/Query, Cygnet electronic meter reading, Cognos Data Beacon, Eagle regulatory forms, Epsilon risk management, IHS Energy, PI/Dwights, OPUS record inventory system, Production Access, SAP R/3, and Peoplesoft.

MKM Engineers, Inc.
PIKA International Inc
Manager of Information Systems
Houston, TX from 1/2002-7/2007
(MKM Engineers restructured for a move to Kuwait)

* Managed Information Technology for an international engineering company with 12 offices.
* Development of geophysical technology services for risk-assessment of Federal land - direct result: increased company revenues from 16 million to 48 million in less than 3 years. 2 million directly from Geophysical.
* Managed and stayed within annual budget of $500,000.00 for hardware, software, and technology services.
* Job expansion to include the role of Network Administrator - I purchased, configured, implemented and maintained 16 dual processor RAID servers, all routers, managed switches, tape drives, disk arrays, NAS devices, enterprise printers, copiers, digital senders, wireless access points, high voltage UPS systems, long range wireless bridges and plotters.
* Managed and developed a team of 3 full time employees, resulted in promotion for 1 and enhanced responsibilities for the other 2.
* Developed all policies and procedures for IT products, services, and usage, brought 99.9% uptime and unsurpassed network reliability.
* Implemented an inter-office wide area network (WAN) utilizing triple DES encryption. This system offered corporate network services to 9 remote offices worldwide including Microsoft Exchange, Citrix, Microsoft Project Server, Share point Portal access, Remote printer to plotters, and voice-over IP to our international employees.
* Supported over 160 workstations and laptops in a Windows 2000/XP professional environment.
* Managed 16 Dell power edge servers running MS Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Windows Server 2003, Veritas Backup Exec, MS SQL server, Timberline, ADP/HR Office, Pervasive, Trend Micro, Scriptlogic,
Desktop Authority, Remote Administrator, RADIUS,
* Developed KIX scripts for logons, pushed service packs, updates, and applications. Managed corporate wide
anti-virus systems. Created service level agreements and implemented trouble ticket tracking, asset management systems, inventory control, KVM over IP, issue knowledge bases, and JAVA-based remote control of any workstation or server in the enterprise at no expense to the company.
* Responsible for the management and daily backup of 1.6 terabytes of data within 7 offices.
* Created print pooling system to accommodate monthly report printing exceeding 250,000 pages per month.
* Developed 24/7 remote monitoring system for the U.S. Department of Defense - comprised of 7 solar powered, encrypted pan/tilt/zoom wireless cameras to secure unexploded ordinance (hand and 40 mm grenades and land mines) from civilians.

Enron Energy Corporation
Executive Information Systems Manager
Direct support for the Enron President and Vice Presidents
Houston, TX from 8/2001-12/2001 (parted as one of the 5,000 layoffs on 12-3-01)
* Maintained all computer systems, applications network printers and peripherals for Enron Executive Team.
* Trained executives on over 60 available applications.
* Management of passwords, shares, data migrations, and exchange accounts.
* Managed 11 Compaq Proliant servers and all server hardware, switches, RAID, and network devices.
* Responsible for all backups, account creation/management, Microsoft Exchange account administration.
* Provided Level 3 desktop/last line hardware and software support for 100 executive members.
* SMS Package deployment for various proprietary applications.
* Promoted to Executive Support within first month of supporting 300 clients.
* Integral role in migration from Windows NT to Windows 2000 and from Lotus notes 4.6 to Microsoft Outlook.
* IBM AS/400 support for remote Portland Power Systems

Merrill Lynch- Investment Banking Division
Systems Manager
Houston, Texas 4/2001-8-2001 (4 month contract)
* Managed 11 Compaq Proliant servers and all server hardware.
* Responsible for all backups, Account creation/management, Microsoft Exchange account administration.
* Managed all PBX equipment, accounts and voicemail systems.
* Provided desktop/last line hardware and software support for 70 executives and bankers workstations/laptops/blackberry's.
* SMS Package deployment for 60 proprietary banking applications.

Renaissance Cruises Inc.
Information Systems Manager- 3 Stripe Senior Deck Officer
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 1/2001-4/2001 (4 month contract)
I did not renew because of apparent impending Renaissance bankruptcy.
I traveled onboard through 26 Countries located throughout Asia, The Persian Gulf, The Middle East, Northern Africa, The Mediterranean, and Southern Europe.

* On call 24/7, supported over 120 workstations, 60 POS systems, 85 printers, and 16 servers onboard an active cruise ship of 384 Officers, staff, and crew as well as 650+ passengers/cruise.
* Daily backups, server maintenance, user rights, account creation and network printer creation.
* Creation and maintenance of Lotus notes email server, all email accounts and the Internet proxy.
* Supported Deck and Engine critical computer systems -Navigation, Ballast, Radar, and Engine Control.
* Additional day-to-day tasks as the Systems Administrator, Desktop Support, Help Desk, and Trainer.
* Maintenance of all corporate databases, menu and systems maintenance for all POS systems.
* Dry dock gutting of the majority of systems onboard., managed team of 3 during the removal of retired equipment, installed over $300,000 of equipment in under 3 weeks.
* Responsible for UNIX Folio compilation of $1,000,000+ as well as shipboard charge data, archival and transmission to base office.

Enron Energy Corporation
Executive Information Systems Manager
Direct support for the Enron President and Vice Presidents
Houston, TX from 8/2000-1/2001 (6 Month Contract)
(Same position/responsibilities as above-mentioned position)

Walter P. Moore and Associates-Structural and Civil Engineering
Office Systems Manager
Houston, TX from 11/98-5/2000 (Indefinite Contract)
(Condensed for Length, Details available upon request.)

* Exclusive desktop and network management for 250 clients in 6 branch offices.
* SMS package deployment, Network and Exchange account Administration
* Sole support for accounting, payroll and human resources applications.

Dupont Corporation
Team Lead PC/LAN NT Support
Houston, Texas 7/98-11/98 (4 Month Contract) (Condensed for Length, Details available upon request.)
* Provided Level III support for 14 Dupont sites and over 40,000 employees in our region.
* Provided maintenance of all user accounts NT 4.0 and Novell 3.x, network privileges, and network printers.
* Reassignment of desktop level trouble tickets using Remedy to 70+ desktop support teams

Waukesha-Pearce Industries Inc.
Asst. Network Administrator/Desktop Support Team Lead
Houston, Texas 4/97 to 7/98 (Condensed for Length, Details available upon request.)
* Assisted the Network Administrator in maintaining a 13 city WAN running both Novell and NT.
* Built and configured hundreds of PC's as well as directed a company rollout and migration to 95 and NT.

Matrixx Marketing Inc.
Team Lead Technician
Houston, Texas 4/96-4/97 (1 Year Contract) (Condensed for Length, Details available upon request.)
* Supervised 8 Technical support individuals and provided last line support for these technicians.
* Achieved 2nd place out of 600 co-workers for customer satisfaction in my third week with the company.

Education/Certifications
Microsoft Certified Professional Houston, Texas 1998
Certificates/Course Work
Windows 2000 Server Advanced
Microsoft SQL Server 2000
Veritas Backup Exec 9.x
Novell Netware
Scheduled Course Work
Exam 70-291: Implementing, Managing, and maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment.
Exam 70-228: Installing, Configuring, and administering Microsoft SQL 2000 Enterprise Edition.
Exam 70-294: Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows 2003 AD Infrastructure
Exam 70-229: Designing and Implementing databases with Microsoft SQL server Enterprise Edition.
Texas State Technical College - 1992
Computer Sciences

Addl. Hardware:
All PC and server components, CPU's, motherboards, etc.., RAID controllers, Managed and Unmanaged Ethernet switches, Cisco routers, hubs, fiber, CAT cabling, printer, RIP servers, HP digital senders, high volume copier/printers, NAS devices, wireless directional antennas, Cisco aironet wireless bridges, wireless access points, long range Ethernet repeaters, satellite data communications (C band), KVM and KVMOIP, PocketPC, Palm, RIM Blackberry, Laptops, Tablet PC, T-1 equipment, DSL/Cable routers, Fluke diagnostics,. Biometric security authentication devices, SecurID authentication. DoD grade encryption systems.
Non-linear digital video editing. Large array plasma and TFT screen configuration. High voltage UPS systems.

Addl Applications Windows 2003 Server standard enterprise, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, SQL 2000 Server, Exchange 2000 Server, Exchange 2000 Enterprise Server, , SMS Server, IIS Server, Microsoft Exchange 5.5, Exchange 2000 Enterprise, Exchange 2003 Enterprise, Computer Associates Arcserve, Novell Veritas Backup-exec 7-9x, Script logic 3.x-5.1, Oracle 8.x, Desktop Authority 5x, HRoffice, ADP PC Payroll, Crystal Reports 8.0, BST EI, Excalibur land/accounting/production revenue, GeoGraphix's ARIES RMS, GESXplorer, SeisVision, PRIZM, Hummingbird BI/Query, Cygnet electronic meter reading, Cognos Data Beacon, Eagle regulatory forms, Epsilon risk management, IHS Energy, PI/Dwights, OPUS record inventory system, Production Access, SAP R/3, Peoplesoft, Timberline Accounting, Timberline Payroll, Timberline Estimating, QuickBooks Complete Accounting, Peachtree 8.0, Outlook Web Access, Microsoft Terminal Services, Pervasive SQL, Cisco PIX, Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Track-IT helpdesk/asset management, GFI Mail Essentials anti-spam 10x, GFI Fax maker, Microsoft Project Server 2002, Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Server, Microsoft Office 97,2000,XP,2003, Ghost drive imaging applications, Heavy use of Remedy Helpdesk, Lotus Notes 4.x-5.x, Batch scripting and Macro authoring. AutoCAD 2000-2005, Citrix MetaFrame, Microsoft Project97-2003, Microsoft Team Services, Xtend Connect remote Palm Pilot connectivity, RIM Blackberry. Enterprise APC UPS monitoring, Bentley Microstation, Arcview, Trimble, Symantec Enterprise Vault.

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