Access Control High School

Paulo deSouza

Email: *********@********.***

Address: *** ****** ***** ***.

City: Baton Rouge

State: LA

Zip: 70808

Country: USA

Phone: 225-***-****

Skill Level: Experienced

Salary Range: $70,000

Willing to Relocate

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Paulo Augusto de Souza

*418 Stoney Creek Ave. * Baton Rouge, LA 70808

*ph: 225-***-**** * *********@********.***

OBJECTIVE

Seeking a position as a Storage or VMware engineer for an organization, where I can exhibit my strengths and enhance my skills

while striving for the growth and development of the organization.

PROFFESIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Systems Administrator, 2012 - Present

KPAQ Industries, LLC aaa St. Francisville, LA

aa Currently administrate 34 Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008 servers. This includes servers with Print Management, Active

Directory, Remote Desktop Services and IIS roles. Other servers support production, development and test

applications.

aa Manage MS clusters and VMware virtual servers. The VMware environment housing three physical ESXi hosts with

27 virtual servers.

aa Administrate an EMC VNXe with 3TB of 15K SAS drives.

aa Monitor and update moderately sized network environment with 28 HP Procurve and several LIU Fiber Boxes.

aa Replaced two routers and two PIXs with a single router with state full firewall improving and simplifying KPAQaaas

network frontend.

aa Manage multiple Barracuda appliances: WebFilter, SpamFilter, VPN/Firewall, Cudatel (VOIP system) and the

Barracuda Backup Appliance (Local and Cloud Storage).

aa Currently replacing old Citrix Metaframe 3.0 environment on Server 2000 and Server 2003 with virtual servers running

MS 2008 Remote Desktop Services.

Sr. Systems Administrator, 2011 aaa 2012

SIF Consultants of Louisiana - LUBA Workeraaas Compensation Baton Rouge, LA

aa Administrated over 45 windows servers, two IBM i5 iSeries mainframes running AS400, and two EMC NAS storage

devices running DART and FLARE operating systems (with a combined capacity of 20 terabytes).

aa Daily management of disaster recovery and high availability of the information technology infrastructure through the

use of backups and data replication to an off-site datacenter. Specifically EMC Replicator v2, IBM Mimix and

VMware SRM.

aa Supported two Cisco ASA5510 routers. Including multiple Cisco LAN-to-LAN IPsec tunnels, and the two associated

firewalls.

aa Planned, installed and configured VMware 5.0 Infrastructure. Migrating/Rebuilding 33 physical Windows 2003 servers

to 45 virtual machines running Windows 2008 R2.

aa Administrated several SQL servers. Created and executed T-SQL scripts, setup maintenance plans, ran database

shrinkage and log truncation. Experienced in restoring and migrating databases.

aa Supported three web servers and multiple websites. Both intranet and outward facing sites. Some sites using Microsoft

IIS and others using Apache Tomcat (JBOSS).

aa Managed two Microsoft Exchange Servers; 2007 and 2010 servers and their spam filtering software.

aa Responsible for support of basic Microsoft Windows network infrastructure: DNS and DHCP

aa Standardized the Active Directory Domain controlleraaas structure and group policies, migrated them to a 2008 R2

functional domain level.

aa Administrated 20 terabytes of NAS and SAN storage (Departmental file shares, server UNC backup file shares, block

level storage for VMware, and NFS file systems.) Replicated 200GB of data daily to a disaster recovery site.

aa Setup four FC SAN Cisco switches, JUMBO frames, port trunks and ether trunks to support the performance and

redundancy of the VMware ESXi host and EMC storage environments.

aa Created documentation to support projects and technical documents on each system, application and device in the data

center. This included diagrams of the network, VMware and storage environments.

aa Summary: Responsible for managing the server, network and storage environment. Including planning, purchasing,

installing, configuring and supporting a complex mix of applications, operating systems and hardware in an effort to

maintain 100% uptime and efficiency.

Remote Migration Technician, 2010 aaa 2011

Contract for Amedisys through Sparkhound Baton Rouge, LA

aa Worked for the single largest technology refresh in Baton Rouge history: 900 servers and 15000 tablets, laptops and

desktops.

aa Tasks included remote Windows Server 2008 Migrations and Team Lead of 50 personnel migrating

Desktops/Laptops/Tablets.

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Paulo Augusto de Souza

*418 Stoney Creek Ave. * Baton Rouge, LA 70808

*ph: 225-***-**** * *********@********.***

Access Control/Desktop Services Team Lead 2009 aaa 2010

Baton Rouge General Health System Baton Rouge, LA

aa Worked to stabilize an Access Control Management environment by leading that department to reduce its overall

workload, streamline ID creation, and 100% completion rate of ID creation for new hires, internal transfers and

terminations.

aa Implemented software solutions to database ID Management information for the current user environment of the

General Health System.

aa Provided root cause analysis to the Desktop Services and Access Control departments to reduce its incoming rate of

work.

aa Supervised the implementation of Desktop Support Tools for Imaging, Software Distribution, Software Patching and

Asset Tracking.

aa Wrote SQL reports within Altiris to extract accurate asset information from its database.

IS Support Analyst, IS Training Specialist 2005 - 2009

Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System Baton Rouge, LA

aa Provided end user technical support through a helpdesk hotline diagnosing problems and resolving situations by using

Incident Management methods. Analyzed and interpreted IT Helpdesk processes toward identifying ways of improving

incident management.

aa Supported many forms of hardware such as laptops, scanners, tablets, handhelds, mobile phones, printers, desktops,

cart systems, computer peripherals and network equipment such as hubs/switches, jet directs and hardware VPN.

aa Worked with internal and external parties to organize the various components necessary to initiate, plan, execute, and

close projects.

aa Implemented and standardized new hardware that simplifies customer processes, fortifies IT infrastructure, and meets

business goals by reducing costs.

aa Develop, organized and presented training and development methodologies and programs for the FMOLHS

Information Services. Identified training and development needs, and monitored effectiveness of those programs.

Web Page Designer 1997-2003

Freelance Baton Rouge, LA

aa Created websites for online video entertainment communities and for local businesses in Baton Rouge

aa Designed graphics, logos and animation for websites. Responsible for daily website operations.

aa Implemented processes for posting content to the website. Ensured web site quality, performance and reliability.

SKILLS

aa Operating System Platforms: Microsoft Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows Mobile CE 2003,

WM5, WM6, Windows Server 2003/2008 *R2, Linux/Unix, ESXi Kernel, DART and FLARE.

aa Application Platforms and Appliances: Exchange 2007/2010, SQL 2000/2005/2008, Websense Web Filter, Vipre

Exchange Spam Filter, Barracuda Web Filter, Spam Filter, VPN/Firewall, Cudatel (VOIP system) and the Barracuda

Backup Appliance (Local and Cloud Storage), Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), SOTI MobiControl

(Centralized PDA Administration)

aa Expert at troubleshooting, configuring, and securing desktop and server operating systems. Also skilled in managing

software updates, security patching, distribution, remote tools and client/server troubleshooting.

aa Creating standard global Windows OS images using Microsoft provided tools: sysprep, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit,

GHOST, Altiris Deployment Server and VMware templates.

aa VMware: VMware vSphere and vCenter 3.0, 4.1, 5.0 and Site Recovery Manager 5.0

aa Network: Cisco ASA5500 Series Routers/PIX, Cisco Catalyst and HP ProCurve switches, Cisco IOS commands, IPsec

Tunneling and site to site WAAS configuration. Experience with VPN L2L tunnels, port trunks, VLAN, access rules,

and NAT configurations.

aa Capable of administrating, creating and troubleshooting Windows 2008/2003/2000 Server Group Policy Objects,

Computer/User Objects, and raising domain functional levels.

aa Storage: EMC NS20, NX4 and VNXe. Can easily navigate Unisphere and Celerra/CLARiiON commands via SSH.

Understands RAID configurations, drive types/speeds and when to use them, SAN/ NAS configurations. Can configure

Data Movers as well as create Ether trunks, Replication via Replicator V.2, able to create CIFS, iSCSI LUNs and NFS

data stores. Has setup LUN masking to support FC configurations with VMware.

aa Web Design: Macromedia Dreamweaver 1.2, Adobe Photoshop suites and Adobe Captivate. Understanding of web

programming languages such as Java Script, HTML, CSS and XHTML.

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Paulo Augusto de Souza

*418 Stoney Creek Ave. * Baton Rouge, LA 70808

*ph: 225-***-**** * *********@********.***

EDUCATION

High School Diploma Robert E. Lee High School Baton Rouge, LA

PROFFESIONAL TRAINING

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.0] - 2012

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