Erin Desko

Email: abpkbt@r.postjobfree.com

Address: * ******* ****

City: Binghamton

State: NY

Zip: 13901

Country: USA

Phone: 607-***-****

Skill Level: Experienced

Salary Range: $75,000

Willing to Relocate

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ERIN G. DESKO

OBJECTIVE

Seeking a career position utilizing my Information Technologies & Cloud computing skills. I offer exceptional Customer/Employee interaction, and am well versed in Process analysis and streamlining of processes, with an emphasis of efficiency and cost reduction.

EXPERIENCE

Chief Technology Officer/Network Administrator September 2009 - Current

BGMX Retail Solutions Inc. Vestal, NY

BGMX was designed as a Datacenter to host Oracle data bases for remote clients for ACH/Loyalty/EFT transactions for Grocery Stores/Gas stations/Convenience stores, with a 99.5%+ uptime.

Areas of responsibility:

* Chief Virtualization Architect

* Network Redundancy Design & Implementation

* PCI 2.0 & SAS 70 Auditing & Compliance

* Datacenter Design & Implementation-Cooling/Electrical

* Installation/Maintenance of ESXi 5.1 Servers/vCenter Server 5.1

* Internal Server security hardening

* Internal security auditing & external security Auditing-- Ambiron Trustwave, Nmap, Metasploit, Nessus Security Scanner

* Server Maintenance (Windows Server 2000/2003/2008)

* Resource Pool Configurations

* Load balancing

* Redundancy testing

* Security and Server Auditing for Clients

* VLAN implementation

* High-Availability & Co-Location Backup testing, Backup integrity verification

* Change Management Compliance

* Extensive Experience (3+years) in vSphere 4 +5, ESXi 4.1 + 5.1, installation, configuration, management, disaster recovery, distributed networking, P2V Migrations, vMotion, Storage vMotion, Veeam Backup/Replication/Deduplication

* Firewall installation/maintenance/security auditing-Sonicwall NSA & TZ Series

* Experience with Sonicwall, Juniper Networks Firewalls (3+ Years)

* Dell & Meraki Switch experience (3+ Years)

Systems Analyst/Network Administrator April 2007 - September 2009

Giant Markets Binghamton/Akel Warehouse, Johnson City, NY

Areas of Responsibility:

* Upkeep and maintenance of approximately 42 servers, 24 distributed throughout 12 stores, 18 between two offices (Windows Server 2000/2003/Gentoo Linux)

* Configuration of approximately 120+ business computer systems for security policies required by PCI DSS Compliance.

* Planning and implementation of network segregated VLANS for PCI DSS Compliance.

* Maintenance and repair of approximately 180 NCR POS terminals.

* Modernized companywide Loss Prevention reporting and archiving.

* Modernized repair log and tracking system via intranet web based trouble ticket system, reducing redundancy of multiple visits to locations and targeting problem areas.

* Installation of VOIP gateways and migration of stores to VOIP infrastructure, cutting down on necessary phone lines and monthly recurring costs.

Repair Technician/Onsite Technician September 2003 - June 2004

Red Barn Computers, Binghamton, NY

* Areas of Responsibility:

* Serviced customer computers for hardware failure

* Virus infections & removal, operating system errors

* New system builds, and upgrades

* Also serviced corporate accounts for all network, server and system errors.

* Largest project while employed was construction of multiple hundreds of dual processor computers for Cornell University science departments to run Linux in a distributed computing cluster.

EDUCATION

Industry Certifications

VMware VCP 4.0-July 2012

Sonicwall CSSA Certification-December 2010

MCSE-November 2004

Security + -- December 2001

Network + -- January 2000

A+ --August 1999

Additional Training

VMware Security Solution Fundamentals - June 2012

VMware vCenter Operations Manager Fundamentals - June 2012

VMware Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Design - June 2012

PCI Compliance 1.1, 2.0 Fundamentals & Best Practices

Computer Animation November 2005 - February 2007

Full Sail Real World Education, Winter Park, Florida

Studies included an accelerated compressed schedule, concept designs for pre-production of 3d animated items/characters. Courses continued to increase in complexity to the level of Animation studio quality work, along with Final Demo Reel.

Regents Diploma September 1994 - June 1998

Chenango Forks High School, Binghamton, NY

Publications:

Sonicwall Case Study-November 2010 http://sonicwal.com/us/2076_17279.html

Biz Tech Magazine-August 2011 http://www.biztechmagazine.com/article/2011/08/smart-firewalls-equal-smarter-security

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