Engineer Active Directory
Resume:
Tim Nelson
**** ** ******* ****** 206-***-****
Seattle, WA 98116 ******.****@*****.***
Education
●US Army Primary Leadership Development School - 1999
●Commvault Galaxy administrator course certification - 2006
●ADIC Scalar i2000 end user certification - 2005
●ADIC SAN Fundamentals course certification – 2005
Technical Skills
Cloud Experience- AWS/EC2 Web Services, Office 365, Rackspace VMware hosting
Software- Exchange Server, SolarWinds Orion, SQL Server 2008, Office 2012, Visio, Commvault,, Symantec Backup Exec & Antivirus, Trend Micro, Active Directory (group policy, FSMO roles, & replication)
Networking- Cisco ASA 5505 & 5510 ASA firewalls, Barracuda load balancers, Cisco, HP and Dell L2 switch management, LAN/WAN administration, load balancing and redundancy planning Mitel VoIP systems
Hardware- Tegile Disk Arrays, Dell PowerEdge and Powervault systems, & HP Proliant, servers. SAS and SATA RAID, EMC and Dell SAN & iSCSI platforms, ADIC/Quantum robotic and disk based backup system, Isilon NFS storage
Project Management – Experience planning and managing projects, including budgets and staff for installations and upgrades of Active Directory, VMware, Windows Server clustering, iSCSI enterprise storage, VoIP phone systems, and enterprise backup LTO tape, disk storage, and backup software
Professional Experience Weyerhaeuser (contract)
Systems Administrator July 2017 –Present
Administration of VMware ESX 6 clusters in multiple regions
Windows server deployments, Active Directory administration, & Commvault backups
Support for remote sites & other teams including network, applications and Citrix
Sr Systems Administrator Davita Healthcare (contract)
Universal Storage & Backup February 2017 – July 2017
●Performed Commvault administration, backups and data restores
●Isilon, NetApp, and IBM SVC SAN and NFS storage administration
●24x7 on-call participation
Sr. Systems Engineer Glu Mobile (reduction in force)
Information Technology November 2015 – November 2016
●Received outstanding performance review and bonus of 105% due to accomplishments
●Designed an iSCSI solution on a Dell MD3820i SAN to replace local VMware guest storage
●Managed and directed a project in Santa Clara, CA to consolidate six datacenter racks into two, saving the company approximately $10,000 per month
●Retired 45 physical servers by virtualization and consolidation
●Managed project to renew expired license and support contracts for Veritas backup software and upgrade every site to current version. Also added deduplication, synthetic full backups, and NAS hardware for disk backup methods
Systems Engineer II Corbis Images (defunct)
Information Technology December 2014 – October 2015
●Created project to upgrade multi forest Active Directory network to 2012 R2 Server
●Participated on 24x7 on call rotation supporting worldwide offices
●Active with virtualizing physical servers into multi-site VMware ESXi 5.5 - 6 environment
●Linux and Windows Server virtual server environment administration
●Maintained Solarwinds Orion server for alerts management and monitoring
Senior Systems Engineer/IT Manager Valant Medical Solutions (job outsourced)
Information Systems January 2013 – August 2014
●Managed entire LAN/WAN and server infrastructure including budgets supporting 70+/- users
●Designed and deployed SaaS internet facing SAN and SQL servers and Dell MD3000x SAN
●Converted Windows 2003 x86 physical systems to Microsoft Hyper-V 64bit 2008R2 servers
●Designed patch deployment system with Windows Server Update Services
●Planned and managed Mitel VoIP integration to replace Nortel PBX
●Designed new office infrastructure for corporate office expansion and relocation
●Created change-control policy and procedures covering every system in infrastructure
●Maintained AWS and EC2 D/R site and created persistent VPN tunnel linking the corporate office
●Designed terminal server farm for remote users to access file and application servers
Infrastructure Support NYK Logistics (Contract)
Windows Systems Engineer July 2011 – January 2013
●Administration and Tier III support of North American and global datacenters and hubs with 24x7 rotations
●Participated in regular VMware and Citrix upgrades and rollouts to domestic, European, and Asian datacenters
Information Systems Cairncross & Hempelmann Network Administrator October 2007 – May 2011
●Created and managed plan to replace CA ArcServe software with Commvault
●Devised and implemented plan for disk and tape backup with deduplication and LTO media
●Administered all aspects of law firm WAN, LAN, servers, EMC SAN, and WLAN
●Completed projects to upgrade email server to Exchange 2010
●Migrated VMware ESX 2.5 system to 4.1 with live-migration
●Maintained alerts and monitoring system & participated in 24x7 on call rotation
●Active in replacing legacy Nortel phone system to Mitel VoIP system
●Augmented Sonicwall VPN with Juniper VPN system installation
Information Systems Preston, Gates, and Ellis LLP
Network Administrator October 2004 – December, 2006
●Created and managed RFPs and projects to replace Scalar 1000 with a Scalar i2000 and HP Data Protector software with Commvault Galaxy
●Upgraded infrastructure hardware onsite in all domestic remote offices and three Asian locations
●Managed corporate backups and disaster-recovery plan in Seattle and all worldwide remote sites utilizing SCSI disk and SAN tape technology
Army National Guard 14th Engineer Battalion
Engineer Sergeant/Team Leader 1999-2003
US Army 14th Engineer Battalion Demolitions Engineer Specialist 1996-1999
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