Active Directory Engineer
Resume:
Résumé for:
Nathaniel Smith, Jr.
Ridley Park, PA 19078
E-mail ************@*******.***
CAREER OBJECTIVE:
To gain a Senior Server Engineering/Administration position where I can utilize my experience, especially on the WINTEL platform, and knowledge of new technology and the industry to efficiently and effectively do my job.
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES:
I am team orientated (but work just as well alone), well organized, attentive to detail, goal orientated, shirtsleeve, get it done sort, that believes with proper fore thought, anything is possible. I have extensive support and training background; along with entrepreneurial, managerial and supervisory experience.
LATEST ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
During my time in this field I have architected, designed, and implemented solutions for new systems, Active Directory,
Migrations, Consolidations, Disaster Recovery, Rollouts, Patching, and Data Center Moves at many of my contracts;
always using a virtual environment (VMWare or HyperV) to build Proof of Concept models.
MDT Technical: Working with the eBusiness Design and Architecture Platform Team, Designed and Build out the
an Instance of System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) and administer a Segment of the Corporate System Center
Configuration Manager (SCCM); both are 2012 R2 monitoring a 90% virtual environment. Working with the Active
Directory team to resolve long standing problems.
Working with both Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard, Enterprise, and Data Center, and 2012 R2 Essentials Servers in
design and implementation of Direct Access and VPN.
Private Contracts: Managed AWS Cloud Services; Microsoft Platform Engineer primarily System Center 2012;
in particular SCOM and SCCM 2012 for Desktop OS migration (XP to Windows 7), patch management and Symantec
Endpoint Protection; Active Directory restructuring, consolidation, and migration (2003 to 2008). Direct Access to
provide VPN access, and RRAS for routing and site to site access.
Becker Staffing: SME to Planet Payment for review, tuning, and tweaking of SCOM 2007 R2 used to monitor their
global network, and design and implement upgrade/new installation of System Center 2012 for SCCM and SCOM.
Brandywine Technology: SME to Phoenix Contact for health check, tweak and tuning of SCCM and SCCM 2007 R2.
Concertive: SME to Keystone Mercy Helath Plan for NetBackUp, working with HP, setup of Data Domain backup and
recovery solution.
Mindteck, Inc.: Assign through HP to PEPSICO as SME for VMWare ESX 3.5 with Virtual Center Console 2.5 with a
600 TB HP EVA SAN to house virtual servers and MS Active Directory for the establishment of a lab Environment, and
global Migration and Consolidation of 5,000+ Servers (DC, Exchange, File, Print, SQL and Oracle), along with
mentoring junior team members.
Senior Windows Management Engineer at TAC Worldwide/John Hancock Insurance: Microsoft Operations Manager
(MOM 2005), Systems Management Server (SMS 2003 + ITMU), HP’s Insight Manager (HIS), HP Open View (HPOV)
HP’s Rapid Deployment Pack (RDP), and Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition (SAV 10.1).
Lead Migration Engineer at Quintech Resources/Sovereign Bank: HP’s Rapid Deployment Pack – Software used to
build, configure, and deploy HP Servers and Blade Systems (DC, Exchange, File & Print (ALL 2000 TO 2003)), and HP
Insight Manager for alerts and monitoring. HP DL360 and DL380 Series Servers, and BL25e Blade System were used.
Network Configuration Manager at ACS Government Services Group/Lockheed Martin Government Group
Served on team that went from conceptual design to implementing a regional NOC’s for the Air Force Reserve
Command and investigated .net services for ease of command wide communications. Also, on team that designed
and deployed SMS, BlueCoat Proxy and Cache Devices throughout the Command and 2000 to 2003 Exchange
Migration.
Management Experience:
2005 to Present – Project lead and/or SME and/or Project Manager where I have had from 3 to 30 engineers under me on various contracts.
2000 to 2005 – Configuration Manager – had an 8 person staff that oversaw the network for an Air Force Reserve Base.
1997 to 2000 – Network Manager for Medical Imaging firm. Oversaw staff of 6.
1993 to 1997 – Support Services Supervisor – Managed the help desk and software testing.
EXPERIENCE:
LiquidHub (Contracted to MMA MarketLink)
King of Prussia, PA April 2017 to December 1st, 2017
Senior Windows Systems Engineer/Project Lead:
Migration of Legacy 2003 Servers to Server 2012 R2. This included Application, SQL (2014), and IIS (8.5) Servers. Moved websites and worked with Developers to ensure no loss of functionality of websites. Worked with AD and ADFS to assure proper Grouping, SSO, GPOs, and to assure easy transition to AWS. Completed implementation of Office 365 environment. This is a 95% virtual environment using ESX 6.XX host. Using PowerShell scripting to automate repetitive tasks. And created a Certificate Server to assure security for websites. Documentation is important for ITIL and audit compliance.
Entech (Contracted to BarclayCardUS)
Wilmington, DE July 2016 to March 2017
Senior Windows Systems Engineer/Project Lead
Automate control of HP Integrated Lights Out (ILO) devices through PowerShell and the HP CMDlets package for Windows Servers and Shell scripts via SSH for Linux Servers. Identifying, firmware upgrade, NT Authentication, and modifying local users on the ILOs were the major duties. Working with Active Directory, QIP (DNS), CyberArk, VMWare and System Center Suite 2012 R2 (mainly SCOM, SCCM, and SCORCH), and design PoC for hybrid migration to AWS were secondary assignments.
MDT Technical (Contracted to Comcast Corp.)
Philadelphia, PA March 2015 to July 2016
Solutions Architect/Senior Windows Engineer
Working with the eBusiness Design and Architecture Platform Team, Designed and Build out an Instance of System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) and administer a Segment of the Corporate System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM); both are 2012 R2 .Investigate emerging technologies for integration into current environment. Automation (PowerShell Scripting) of server builds and application installation. Scripting to test builds for connectivity to predesignated firewall access. Working with the Active Directory team to resolve long standing problems. Lead migration to MS SQL 2014. Create documentation to meet the Company’s ITIL standards. Provide tier one, two and three support for Windows Servers; mainly 2012 R2 (90% of which were virtual Guests on ESX 5.X) and F5 load balancers.
Private Contracts
(Through IDMWorks) January 2013 to February 2015
Senior Windows Systems Engineer/Project Lead
Design and implementation of Direct Access and VPN on Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard and 2012 R2 Essentials Servers. Work on Statement of Work preparation for estimates on work to be done. Lead implementation of 3 2008 R2 Data Center Servers (Application, IIS, and SQL) and ‘Train the Trainer’ for Rackwise DCIM X. Manage Weekly Status Meetings. Documentation leading to best practices. Lead on several projects for Active Directory 2008 Restructuring and Consolidation, System Center 2012 (SCCM (4) for Windows 7 deployment; SCOM (2) for network device monitoring; SCORCH and SCVMM), and Symantic Endpoint Protection. Lead Projects for Active Directory and ADFS Migration and Consolidation (4), and AWS Migration (2). Lead for in house project to develop total data center fingerprinting methodology and application, and maintained company’s AWS services. Lead project evaluating Network Accessibility and Reliability where Windows Clustering, Citrix Netscaler and VSphere High Availability were in use, along with all router, switches, F5 load Balancers and Firewall/Proxy equipment.
Becker Staffing (Contracted to Planet Payment)
New Castle, DE November 2011 to December 2012
Senior Windows Systems Engineer/Project Lead
Phase II: Plan and design installation for the rest of Microsoft’s System Center Suite 2012 starting with SCCM.
Phase I: Review, clean up, tune, and tweak (using PowerShell) SCOM 2007 R2. Administer SCOM to monitor the global network (Windows and RedHat Linux servers and network devices) while mentoring existing staff. POC project for AWS Migration. Review existing Citrix environment (XenApps 5.0) to customize monitoring of Citrix farm and with an eye to upgrading to XenApps 6.0. Design and implement the installation of System Center 2012. Document existing SCOM environment, and all changes.
Brandywine Technology (Contracted to Nortec/Phoenix Contact)
Middletown, PA August 2010 to November 2011
Senior Windows Systems Engineer/Project Lead
Design and implement global installation of SCCM 2007 with High Availability using Windows Clustering. Build desktop images of Windows 7 for deployment across multi- vendor platforms and deployment of Office 2010. Here I used VMWare as my lab environment to make sure nothing on the network would “break”, then migrated to the production network. I also used VMWare to P2V the workstation, push a fresh load of Windows 7, then draw back the files and packages previously on the workstation. I also mentored the permanent staff and compiled ITIL compliant documentation. Design and document an installation of SCOM 2007. Review existing Citrix environment (XenApps 5.0) to customize monitoring of Citrix farm. Walk through and mentor existing staff for implementation.
Concertive (Contracted to Keystone Mercy Health Plan)
Philadelphia, PA April 2010 to July 2010
Senior Windows Systems Engineer/Project Lead
Provide a health check on backup environment (Symantec NetBackUp and Enterprise Vault 8/9 on Windows and Unix Servers and appliances); investigated and corrected problems to better improve Netbackup system for reliability, performance and flexibility. Migrate NetBackUp from 6.5 to 7.0 and working with HP, went to a Data Domain solution. Design and implement Symantec EndPoint Protection, with High Availability using Windows Clustering and RRAS for site to site connectivity, for Servers and Workstations. Mentoring existing staff in proper execution of backup jobs and policies. Created virtual (VMware) systems, using Plate Spin Power Converter (P2V) for testing and as back-out plan. Created documentation for ITIL compliance.
Gentechpgh, Inc. (Contracted to Fedex, Inc.)
Coraopolis, PA April 2009 to March, 2010
Senior Windows Systems Engineer/Project Lead
Participated as lead engineer on a project contract to migrate from HP Openview 7.5 to OpenView Operations Manager 8.1 for the monitoring of the FEDEX Ground global network (Windows and Linux servers and network devices), in a total HP hardware environment; investigated and corrected all current setting, alerts, and policies; setting outage schedules, back-out planning, project documentation and staff training. Also served on VMWare team as well as the WINTEL security and the change management committees, and deployed and trained existing staff on SCCM 2007/2010 using ACS for report generation to deploy Windows 7, software installation, and patch management. Create test Citrix environment (XenApps 5.0) for feasibility study to install of XenDesktop.. Created documentation for ITIL compliance.
Mindteck, Inc. (Contracted to HP/Pepsico.)
Enola, PA March 2008 to March 2009
Senior Windows Engineer/Windows Team Lead
SME for VMWare 3.5 (Console 2.5) to facilitate Global migration for Pepsico. Reviewed and redesigned and deployed, test lab, test software, and methodology to find the most secure and effective way of carrying out the global migration. Use both Acronis Echo Imaging and Plate Spin Power Converter for imaging and conversion to VM servers along with ADMT, and RRAS for site to site connectivity. Setup and configure a 600 TB HP EVA SAN to house virtual servers. Technical responsibility for 4 team members onshore, and 10 team members offshore with setting work schedules and assignments; providing tier 4 support for VMWare and Windows Servers, mentoring, and workload coordination. I handled all problem and special/high impact servers. I also served on the Change Committee using OVSD. As a secondary function, I worked with the DR team and Symantec’s Net Backup and Enterprise Vault as final back out planning, and move mail boxes.
Pomeroy Solutions (Contracted to Home Depot)
Philadelphia, PA – Region January 2008 to March 2008
Refresh Technician – Ongoing part-time project replacing all store Wintel computer systems including Servers, workstations and printers, assuring connectivity and functionality (handling root cause for problem and/or incidents).
The Latimer Group (Contracted to McGraw-Hill Companies):
New York, NY June 2007 to December 2007
Senior Windows Engineer/Global Operations & Infrastructure (GO&I)/Project Lead
Six month project upgrading 700 Wintel servers to Symantec 10.1.5 including bringing up 3 Symantec CE servers, with High Availability using Windows Clustering; and short term Project Manager for Symantec project; setting outage schedules, team schedules, back-out planning; in place and new server upgrades to Windows 2003 including Class B Blade Servers with HBA connection to SAN; Active Directory maintenance; SME to design and implementing VMWare ESX 3.0, 3.02 and 3.5 with Plate Spin Power Converter in a test lab environment. I also lead the implementation of SCCM and SCOM 2007 using ACS for report generation, and served on the Change Committee and performed root analysis for any problems or incidents.
TAC Worldwide (Contracted to John Hancock Insurance)
Boston, MA February 2007 to June 2007
Senior Windows Management Engineer/Global Server Team
Serving as Senior Windows Engineer, the tuning and tweaking of MOM 2005, HIS, Active Directory, and SMS 2003 (using KixCripting and WSH; including WSUS and ITMU), then architecting a pilot program of the Final beta of SCCM AND SCOM using ACS for report generation, with High Availability using Windows Clustering; were the main function of this position. Server builds, imaging (both Ghost and Altiris (RDP)), and tier 4 support were secondary functions (all on Wintel platforms). Working with Project Managers and often serving as a Project Manager where various Projects were taken from design to production.
DePaul and Associates (Contracted to Alcoa, Corp)
Alco Technical Center, PA November 2006 to February 2007
SMS Administrator for North America/Project Lead
Serving as part of Global SMS Team to design and implement ITMU (migrating from WSUS), also reconfiguring Active Directory. Designed pilot for MOM. Also served on the Global Information Server Team managing Wintel platforms. Completely using Windows 2003 Serves (IBM X Series Hardware including Blade Systems), with High Availability using Windows Clustering; and the Global Informational Services Team supporting client requests using Remedy Help Desk Tickets. Also served with the North American VM Ware services team.
Quintech Resources (Contracted with Sovereign Bank Corp)
Reading, PA July 2005 to October 2006
Lead Migration Engineer
Design and implement migration of 1200+ Wintel Servers from NT to Active Directory and Windows 2003 along with SQL Databases and Exchange 5,5 to 2003. Installing and redesigning the use of HP Openview. Lead on the HP Blade Systems conversion using Blades connected to SANs using HBAs, to take the place of many of the production Servers. Design and Implementation of Citrix Presentation Manager 4. Use HP Rapid Deployment Pack to build, configure, deploy and manage Blade Systems, SME for implementing VMWare ESX with Plate Spin Power Converter in a LAB environment and building of cluster servers for Exchange 2003. SMS 2003 (using KixCripting and WSH), and WSUS Administration. Worked with the Fair Isaac packages along with policies adhering to SOX. Evaluate and implement changes to the Recovery Plan using Veritas NetBackup and Enterprise Messaging Management. Provided tier 4 Server Support, workload coordination and mentoring for junior administrators.
The Computer Merchant LTD (Contract with Computer Science Corporation/Westinghouse Corp)
Monroeville, PA November 2004 to June 2005
Senior Management Information Specialist:
Project Management to design the implementation of the migration to SMS 2003R3 (using KixCripting and WSH), along with associated SQL Server and databases. Active Directory, GPO and WSUS administration on Wintel platforms.
Rollout of Cisco Security Agent; McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise and E Policy Orchestrator, and using VMWare ESX in a Wintel LAB environment. Implementation of File Server disaster recovery plan using Veritas Backup Exec. Along with
Workstation Configuration (Loadset) Administration and Tier 3 Help Desk Support. Design and implemented Final Beta of MOM pilot program. Participate on Network and Server Teams as needed.
ACS Government Services Group/Lockheed Martin Government Group (Employee)
Pittsburgh ARS, PA April 2000 to October 2004
Network Configuration Manager /Team Leader:
The Configuration Manager is responsible for all Wintel computers on the network (MS 2003 Wintel Servers w/Active Directory and GPO, along with XP workstations), specializing in the adherence to Security and Vulnerability methods as
dictated by the Department of Defense, Trusted Facilities Manual. Design and implement Disaster Recovery Plan using Veritas Backup Exec and KVault Software, SMS 2003 (using KixCripting and WSH), WSUS and Exchange 2000/2003 configuration, implementation and administration. This includes the evaluation, testing and integration of new technology, methodologies, capacity planning and technical support in order to ensure optimum system integrity and volume response, ie; evaluation of VMWare’s ESX for use in lab and production environment, with High Availability using Windows Clustering; and served as Head of the Help desk and provided Tier 3 support. Instituted the use of Symantec's Ghost to create images to standardize distribution of all workstations for ease of support, and Symantec's Antivirus Corporate Edition Server to provide virus protected for the members, annual reviews, setting work schedules and assignments; mentoring and provide general leadership and direction. Secondary responsibilities included the day-to-day management and maintenance of the content delivery networking equipment including proxies, reverse proxies, content switching, SSL termination and other Internet technologies including the management all SSL certificates and External DNS services, which included Cisco LAN/WAN equipment, TCP/IP Management, Internet Access and Firewall products.
Intelligent Imaging, Inc./ Quintiles Transnational Corp. (Employee)
Plymouth Meeting, PA September 1997 to March 2000
Network Manager/Senior Network Engineer:
Directly lead a Department of 5 (with budgetary responsibility as well as the purchase of equipment and services), reporting to the Director of Informational Services (USA). Had indirect responsibility for 28 sites in the Eastern US, controlling of approximately 200 NT Wintel servers for Domain Controllers, DHCP, DNS, Cluster, Terminal, SMS, and Exchange (only for legacy purposes), with about 9500 users. There were 4 IIS Wintel servers in 3 different Sites are up
and running and 10 SQL and Terminal Wintel servers running various things from Citrix Metaframe and PeopleSoft applications to CA Unicenter TNG and SMS. Served as Tier 3 support for server and workstation problems. Served on the global Systems & Technology Service Management Committee to develop technology and applications strategy. The position was eliminated through Corporate consolidation.
Elektroson, Inc
San Jose, CA July1993 to August 1997
Support Services Supervisor:
Served as Software Alpha testing for company product; Alpha and Beta testing for Microsoft/Elektroson, joint venture, for Windows NT 5.0 (then Cairo, now Windows 2000) Wintel Platform; and Unix System Administrator – Server and
workstation – for program development and testing by setting up RAS servers for VPN access (both in the US and Netherlands), primarily SUN Solaris/OS & 5 other flavors. Created and managed customer technical support center. Windows NT Administrator converting from Netware 3.12 to Windows NT 3.51. Participate in design of original company web site (Apache). Use Linux servers for a firewall.
US Department of Housing
Philadelphia, PA January 1990 to July 1993
Consultant:
Participated in a team that Beta test Database program written by Price-Waterhouse for fund
tracking and the loading of historic information, Installed entire new network (Switches, hubs,
Servers and workstations), trained local HUD staff, and served as help desk.
Aileron Data Systems, Inc
Philadelphia, PA June1986 to January 1990
Partner/Accounting System Specialist:
Survey customer needs, Design system including networking, Install system including software,
Train client personnel, Document system and training.
Accounting positions prior to 1980.
COMPUTER SKILLS:
HARDWARE:
Servers – Wintel - Dell PowerEdge series; IBM E-Servers; Compaq ProLiant, ProLiant DL and ML series and
Blade Servers
Sun Enterprise 250 and 450 Servers.
Network Devices – MetaStor 24 TB External SCSI Storage Array; Dell PowerVault 220S External SCSI
Storage Array, Dell/EMC NS500G NAS gateway, and Maxtor series NAS, Clariion’s
Symmetrix Storage Array
StorageTek’s L5000 with expansion to 130 TB DLT Tape Storage Library, StorageTek
L-40 Tape Library, TimberWolf 9740 tape library, and Qualstar TLS 4660 8 TB ATI Tape
Library.
BlueCoat Cache/Proxy Server Device
HP EVA Series SAN, Print Server Devices, Network Printer and Multifunction Devices.
Networking – Cisco – Routers – 2500, 4500 (with Supervisor Engine V-10GE for layer 3 V-LANs) and 6500 (with
Supervisor Engine and Voice over IP Cards) Series, and the 7206.
Switches – Most Layer II, Layer III, and IP 6 ready.
Hubs – Most Series
OPERATING SYSTEMS:
Server – Windows NT (from 3.50): 2000 (Standard and Advanced); 2003 (Standard, Advanced and Enterprise); 2008
(Standard, Data Center and Enterprise); SUN Solaris 2.51 to 2.8; Linux (Redhat) 3.0 to 6.51
Server Applications – Microsoft – Exchange 5.5 to 2003, SMS/SCCM, MOM/SCOM, System Center 2012, SQLthru 2008, IIS thru 7, Most Symantec Products, McAfee EPO, Citrix Presentation Server 4, XenApps 5,
XenDesktop 4 & 5, Rackwise, Centrify
Networking – Cisco IOS up to 12.3; Novell & Netware 3.0 thru 4.11; LANtastic 6.0+
Network Health – Cisco Works; HP Open View; HP Lights Out; Dell’s Open Manager; Big Brother, Sailpoint and Quest
One Identity Management
Virtualization – VMWare: ESX, VCenter, VSphere: Hyper-V
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: Familiar with Perl, Visual Basic 2.0+, KixCripting 1.5 + and Powershell 1.0 +.
EDUCATION:
Marycrest College
Toledo, OH 1971
Computer Learning Center
Philadelphia, PA and San Jose, CA
Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE) 1995
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) 1998
Microsoft Certified System Engineer 2000 (MCSE 2000) 2000
Air Force Reserve Command Training Center
Robins AFB, GA. and Kessler AFB, MS; for certification to Air Force Standards.
Microsoft lead training Exchange 5.5 Administrating 2000
Microsoft lead training Windows 2000 Server and Workstation 2000
Microsoft lead training Remote Access Services 2000
Microsoft and Air Force lead training to Instruct in Windows 2000 2000
Microsoft lead training SMS 2.0 2000
AIR Force lead training Veritas Backup Exec 8.0 2001
AIR Force lead training kVault Software 2001
Microsoft lead training MOM 2000 2001
NSA lead training Network Security 2001
Cisco lead training Router and Switch Administrating 2002
Air Force lead training KixTart and KixCripting 2002
Microsoft lead training Windows XP Administrating 2002
Microsoft lead training Server 2003 Administrating 2003
VM Ware lead training VMWare-VitualCenter 1.0 and ESX 2.X 2003
Symantec lead training in Veritas and AntiVirus suite 2003
Hewlett Packard lead training Open View Suite 2004
Microsoft lead training SMS 2003 2004
Microsoft lead training Exchange 2003 2004
Hewlett Packard lead training on Class B and C Blade Servers 2006
VM Ware training in VMWare-VirtualCenter 2.5 and ESX 3.5 2008
Hewlett Packard lead training in HP Open Manager 2009
Continuing Education Credit – Dell/Quest – Quest One Identity Management
Understanding the Security Boundaries and Risks of Multiple
Domains, Forests and Trust Relationships 2013
6 Steps to Classifying Your Data 2013
APT Confidential: 14 Lessons Learned from Real Attacks 2013
Rackwise lead training on DCIM X 2013
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