Resume of Systems Architect

Title
Systems Architect

Primary Skills
Accomplished Systems Engineer (MCSE, MCP+I) with 10+ years of experience in design and network management

Location
US-CA-San Diego

Posted
Jun-20-07

OBJECTIVE
Seeking a position as a Sr. Data Center Engineer and/or Systems Architect

SUMMARY
Experience with Wide and Local Area Networks, Exchange Administration, Veritas NetBackup Administration, Infrastructure Management, Fiber Channel, SATA, and iSCSI SANs, Networked Servers, Hardware and Software support.

QUALIFICATIONS
* Accomplished Systems Engineer (MCSE, MCP+I) with over 10 years of diversified experience including design and management of large Microsoft server networks on secure LAN and WAN Infrastructure
* Extensive experience installing, configuring and managing Microsoft serverproducts and applications
* Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills, able to resolve technicalchallenges and provide creative solutions in high pressure production environments
* Continuously upgrading skills and increasing knowledge base to remain current inMicrosoft server, application and inter-networking technologies
* In-depth knowledge and experience with Microsoft Software as a Microsoft GoldPartner
* Received commendations for GroupWise to Exchange migration for a large localhospital, network support file and printer service migration, and from a Naval client for applying CPR to a client
* Management of teams: during a site upgrade at a nearby pharmaceutical company,Hewlett Packard?s Data Center in Rancho Bernardo, and the Staff, Systems, and budgets of Choice 2000 On-line School? Migration of 7000+ desktops from a Novell to an Active Directory environment, andautomated the migration in such a way to migrate an entire site in one day
* Founded California's 61st Charter School, the entirely computerized Choice 2000 On-line School.

EXPERIENCE
SYSTEMS ARCHITECT - Jan. 2006 to Present
Merrill Lynch, Hopewell, NJ
Designed Infrastructure for Centralized Desktop and Server Management.
Implemented Centralized Software deployment system utilizing third party software and in-house developed interface.
Developed contingency plan and implemented Virtual Environment to test and ease transition to Merrill's new international financial desktop interface.
Software packaging and deployment for International and Merrill U.S. Banking.

SR. NETWORK ENGINEER/DATA CENTER MANAGER - Dec. 2003 to Dec. 2005
LeapWireless/Cricket Communications, San Diego, CA
Design network infrastructures for 9th Largest National Cellular Wireless provider.
Managed 200+ Windows 2000 and 2003 servers at two Sites.
Managed 5 EMC and Hitachi SANs.
Used EMC NaviStor; Hitachi DAMP, Veritas Storage Foundation, and DMP.
Charged with all Backups using Veritas' NetBackup Enterprise.
Developed and Managed Hierarchal Storage Plan D2D2T
Migration of site from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003.
Charged with implementation and enforcement of Change Management Process.

SR. NETWORK ENGINEER/SYSTEM ARCHITECT - Feb. 2002 to Dec. 2003
InterKnowlogy LLC, Carlsbad, CA
Engineer and design networks as a Microsoft Gold Partner.
Designed network infrastructure for National BroadBand Wireless network.
Developed Microsoft's "no-touch" 802.1x client and MS Provisioning Server.
Deploy and manage CommNet Kiosks for MS TechEd 2003, and PDC 2003.
Alpha and beta test applications for Microsoft, Consera, and NBB.

MIGRATION ENGINEER - Feb. 2002 to Oct. 2002
Sharp Medical/Data Center, Aero Dr. San Diego, CA
Migration of 4000+ GroupWise Clients to Exchange 2000? Migration mechanics of 7000 Workstations from Novell to Microsoft AD environment.
Maintenance and optimization of Active Directory Software: Terminal Server. Exchange 2000, Novell GroupWise Maintenance tools, Active Directory. ZEN, LDIFDE and CSVFDE Import/Export Utilities; Script Logic; AutoIT Scripting Software.

SR. SYSTEMS ENGINEER - Feb. 2001 to Apr. 2002
INDUS Technology, San Diego, CA
Charged with Setting up and connecting Navy Contractor to Naval Spawars Facility by a T-1 connection.
Repair of company's Exchange 5.5 mail server, and upgrade to Exchange 2000.
Repair and reconfigure of Corporate Servers, Web servers, and FTP server.
Charged with network security practices, installation of VPN circuit.

DEPLOYMENT ENGINEER/TEAM LEAD - Oct. 2001 to Jan. 2002
Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals Research Institute, La Jolla, CA
Migrated deployment of 300+ desktops, workstations, and servers to Windows 2000.? Managed five network engineers. Management of three other migration engineers.? Coordinate between J&J, Compaq, IBM, Avenade, and Altaris on Process and Methodology. Hardware: IBM Notebooks: ThinkPad 600e, T-20, T-21 and MPro Workstations. Software: Microsoft's USMT Migration tool, Ghost 6.5 and 7. Office 2000

SR. SYSTEMS ENGINEER/TEAM LEAD - May 2000 to Jan. 2001
Hewlett Packard, Rancho Bernardo, CA
Supervised 100+ Servers (Windows NT & 2000) for HP's Data Center.? Manager of systems engineers, network engineers, and Lotus Notes administrators.? Improved HP's Incident Management Process and virus emergency procedures.? Responsible for Weekly and Monthly Metrics, Weekly meetings with HP Client, Quarterly Report, and Administration of Supplemental Statements of Work contracts.

CHIEF NETWORK ENGINEER - Feb. 2000 to May 2000
APW - Electronic Solutions, Poway, CA
Installed, or maintained nine NT and two Novell servers.
Supported 250+ Windows 95, 98 PCs, and NT 4.0 Workstations.
Charged with administration of network and Lotus Domino and Notes Servers.
Oversaw Lotus Notes Migration and OverQuota installation.

NETWORK ENGINEER - Oct. 1998 to Feb. 2000
Hitachi Home Electronics America, Otay Mesa, CA, USA
Charged with improvement of network systems at both US and Mexico corporate locations. Installed, and maintained eleven NT 4 and seven Novell 4 servers.
Supported 500+ Windows 95, 98 PCs, and NT 4.0 Workstations.
Charged with optimizing network performance and network security.
Developed and documented Y2k certification procedures.

SENIOR SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR - Oct. 1997 to Jul. 1998
PWC (S.D. Naval Station and North Island Air Station), San Diego, CA
Sr. Systems Administrator on two bases with 2500 workstations.
Charged with five Novell 3.x & 4.x Servers.
Installed and maintained the first two NT servers on base.
Personally responsible for 50+ NT 4.0 Workstations, 200+ Windows 3.xx & 95 PCs.

PC AND MACINTOSH SUPPORT SPECIALIST, WEB PAGE DESIGNER - Jun. 1997 to Oct. 1997
Alpha1 Corporation, Temecula, CA
On call desktop support for a local ISP (Internet Service Provider


NETWORK SYSTEMS ENGINEER/ADMINISTRATOR - 1994 to 1996
Choice 2000 Charter School, Perris, CA
Founded the nation's first completely on-line public charter school. (accredited 1995)
Charged with staff management, systems administration, budget, curriculum, and software development.

CHEMISTRY & PHYSICS HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER - 1989 to 1994
High School, Riverside County, CA

PROJECT MANAGER - 1986 to 1989
Allen Water and Wastewater Engineering, Inc, Mt. Pleasant, IA

EDUCATION
NetBackup 5.x five day course. Veritas, San Jose, CA - 2005

MS Exchange Admin five day course. Horizon, San Diego, CA - 2004

Unix Admin Training. University Of California, Riverside, CA - 1993

B.S. Geology, Iowa State University - 1986

B.A. Chemistry, Augustana College - 1989



SUMMARY
Microsoft Certified (MCP, MCP+I, & MCSE)

OTHER EXPERIENCE
Hardware:
3 Com hubs and switches; ADIC Scalar 100 Tape Library; Adtran CSU/DSU; Brocade Silkworm Fiber channel switches. ; Cisco 2501, 2601, & 2620 Routers; Cisco 2900, 2629, and 6509 Gigabit Switches; Cisco 4000, 5000 Switches; Cisco CSS Switches; Cisco PIX devices; Cisco Wireless Access Points; Compaq DL Series & Proliant Servers; DELL, HP, IBM and Compaq, Gateway servers.; EMC SAN (CX300, CX500, & CX700); Fluke network analyzer ,; Foundry Load Balancing Switches; Frame Relay, Ethernet, TCP/IP.; Galacticomm BBS Serial Port extenders; Gigabit FX, 100/10 Base-T Cat5 and fiber cable; High capacity HP tape jukebox. ; Hitachi Thunder 9500 SATA SAN; HP 4000 switch; HP printers and Print Servers; HP RS6 RS8 and RS12 drive arrays in RAID 5 & 5+0 ; Linksys BESFR41 DSL Router and Print Servers; Linksys Routers; Macintosh hardware; McData Fiber channel switches.; MRV Optiswitch 400-Master; Netopia R-7100c & R-9100 routers; Netscape Intranet Server; Overland Tape Library Neo 2000; RAID 0,1,1+0, 5 Controller & Hard Drives; Remote Access VPN Appliances & Accererators; RIB and RSA remote Administrator boards; RSA security server.; SANRAD iSCSI SAN. ; Seagate DLT Tape backups.; Vernier 802.11b/g/n Wireless Security appliance

Software:
Wise Installer; Windows 2008, 2003, XP, NT4&3.51, 2000, 98, 95, 3.11 & ME; WebTrends; Web design and HTML programming; VNC; VMWare GSX & ESX and Microsoft VS 2005; V-LAN Tags; Veritas Storage Foundation; Veritas Net Backup 4.5-5.x; Veritas DMP.; Terminal Server/Remote Desktop; Terminal emulators; telnet; TCP/IP v6 & v4; TCP/IP and IPX; Symantec AntiVirus Corporate edition (7.6); SQL 2000 SP3; SharePoint Portal Server 2003; Secure Copy; RPC over HTTP(s); RoboCopy; RIP 2&1; Repliweb; Remotely Possible; Relavis' Over Quota 4.6 Business Application; Quota Server; Project 2000; PhotoShop 3; PCAnywhere; Partition Magic 3-5; Paint Shop Pro; OSPF; Oracle VNC; Office 2000 & XP. Navy (Spawar) CDI Common Desktop Interface; Novell GroupWise 5; Norton2000; Norton Anti-Virus and Norton Utilities; NIC Teaming; Network Monitoring Software packages. ; network address (IP & ARP) scanner; NetWare 3.X and 4.X.; Netscape. ; Microsoft Visio 2003 & 2002 & 2000 Ent.; Microsoft Virtual Server; Microsoft Virtual Server; Microsoft Terminal Server/Remote Desktop (Admin & App Modes); Microsoft TechNet; Microsoft SUS SP1; Microsoft Office System 2007, 2003, XP, 2000,97-SR2; Microsoft MOM 2000 SP1; Microsoft Exchange 5.5; Microsoft Exchange 2003, 2000, & 5.5; Microsoft Clustering & NLB; Microsoft App Center 2000 SP2; Microsoft ADS & RIS; Microsoft Active Directory; ManageX Server Monitoring Software; Lotus's Domino 4.6.5a and 5.0.2a (Notes); Lotus's CCMail; Legato Net-Worker Backup; ISA 2000 & 2004; InVirtus Optimizer 2.5.; Internet Explorer; IBM AS-400 terminal emulation Client ; Hyper studio; HP OpenVue Suite; HEAT 3.6; Global Group Management software and ; Ghost Pro disk imaging and Partition Magic disk imaging; FTP; extensive use of network monitor; Exchange 5.5 & 2000; eTrust; Double-Take High Availability Server Software; DNS; DHCP; CRM 2003; ClarisWorks (Mac and PC); Citrix 1.6/1.7; Cisco ConfigMaker and Cisco Works Software.; Candle's Intelliwatch Pinnacle 99 Notes Monitoring software; CA Unicenter DSM R4 &R11; BGP Routing; Backup Exec & ArcServe 6.x; Axent's ESM Security Software; ArcServe 6.x; 802.1q & x & p; 802.11a,b,&g.

Certifications
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