Management Engineer

Sotirios Triantafillou

1-312-***-**** *******@*****.***

Summary

Senior Systems Engineer and Support Specialist with over 10 years

experience in project management, infrastructure engineering,

systems configuration, implementation, and virtualization

technologies. Providing Tier I,II,&III level support to end users

from administrators, operators, to front office and executives.

Working within a team or minimal supervision, a strong work ethic,

effective communicator, and a desire to exceed user expectations

is a must.

Project and Work Experience

Project Management Highlights

Procurement, infrastructure design, implementation, and

deployment; opened two support centers in India and one in China

for remote application development of Trade Desk applications

Planned, designed, and migrated field offices to new locations.

This included migrating and updating domain controllers and file

servers as well as end user PCs.

Managed a team of fourteen engineers to coordinate the

configuration and deployment of over 10,000 Dell workstations and

laptops. Tasks included designing the hardware deployment build

cycle of the media, creating software installation processes,

imaging processes, day to day activities, inventory management,

and asset tracking

Technical Expertise Highlights

Active Directory account administration and configuration. Group

Policy creation and implementation including policy development,

testing, and implementation.

Windows Operating Server and Workstation software installations,

system configurations, patch management, and maintenance

Scripting customized solutions in C#, VBA, Visual Basic Scripting

and shell scripting to automate processes and provide minimal end

user maintenance.

Specializing in User data and application settings management for

virtual desktop workstation platforms

Lead Software Distribution recovery agent for mock Disaster

Recovery scenarios in off site locations for SMS 2.0 and SMS 2003

software distribution systems

Design and implementation of migration scripts to migrate user

data and profiles for over 20,000 mixed Windows 9x, and NT 4.0

machines to Windows XP using the Altiris PCT client.

Developed and deployed a QA/ UAT process on virtual machines for

packaging and testing of software using WISE and SMS Installer

technologies

Employment History

Magnetar Capital LLC - 06/2008 to Present - Evanston IL.

Alternative asset investment firm providing technical support to

our traders in Evanston and overseas. Primary role is to

troubleshoot and resolve any issues that arise during trading hours

for our analysts and execution traders. Provide scripted solutions

to automate procedures, and server system administration and

desktop maintenance

Titan III Development - 09/2005 to Present - Park Ridge IL.

Consulting in business development and processes for land

acquisition, construction, and development of commercial real

estate. Primary responsibilities included: project management, land

acquisition processes, developing tools and indicators for

procurement and site locations

Citadel Investment Group LLC - 02/2005 to 09/2005 - Chicago IL.

Alternative asset investment firm. Windows Desktop Technical team

lead responsible for all Windows Desktops, configurations, software

packaging and distribution, administration, inventory, packaging,

and asset management to over 800 Windows XP clients and 600 servers

CNA Insurance - 02/2001 to 02/2005 - Chicago IL.

Commercial Insurance company. Technical team lead responsible for

all Intel software distribution, inventory, administration, and

asset management to over 15,000 Windows XP clients and 1,300

servers. Other areas of technical ownership include system

configurations, disaster recovery. Managing multiple environments

from developing, testing, to production systems

Software Spectrum - 12/1998 to 012/2000 - Chicago IL.

Consulting services with overall roles and responsibilities

included participating in the design and development of Microsoft

systems solutions to customer's enterprise wide server systems,

desktop systems and software distribution systems. Consulted

corporations such as: Motorola, State Farm, and Wards

Lucent Technologies - 03/1997 to 11/1998 - Ascot UK.

Microchip technologies company. Responsible for all the IT Systems

and End User Support for our UK, Sweden, France, and Denmark sites

Education - Technical Knowledge - Achievements

Loyola University of Chicago

Loyola Academy

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer + I

Participated and authored two chapters of "Special Edition:

Using Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server" by QUE Publishing

(Published Fall 2000) - http://safari.oreilly.com/078972278X

Software Distribution Implementation

http://www2.altiris.com/docs/sales/customerwins/SSCNA.pdf

Technology Proficiencies

Windows XP, Windows 9x, Windows 2000 Server Family, SQL & WQL

querying, Ghost, Altiris PCT Transplant Pro, SMS, Batch

Scripting, VBScripting, DNS, WINS, DHCP, Remote Desktop, Desktop

Virtualization, User Data and Profile migrations (USMT), large

scale migration and deployments, office migrations, software

troubleshooting, VPN, Active Directory user and group

management, Group Policy management, Microsoft Office product

family, Infrastructure design and implementation, change

management, desktop and lifecycle management, software life

cycle management, disaster recovery, upgrade planning and

execution, WSUS patch management, packaging with WISE and SMS

Installer, Blackberry handheld and server administration and

support, reporting, server configuration management,

documentation, resource management and more

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