Engineer Network

C. Edward Middlebrooks, Jr.

Address:

** ******** **.

Rochester, NH

03867

Contact Information:

(Tel) 603-***-****

**************@*****.***

Virtualization

Specialist

Conversant, productive and trainable IT professional with 18 years of notable success in systems requirements definition, resource pooling, secure system planning, deployment and articulation. Able to train, lead, motivate and produce on-time projects to specifications as well as be lead and work successfully with teams. Hands on experience working with Nutanix, VMware, Citrix and Microsoft products and technologies and stays abreast of more efficient and productive methods for enhancing ROI.

Areas of Expertise

Virtual and Physical Network Design

Thin Provisioning / VDI / HA / DRS / VMotion

Network Systems Security

Data Storage Systems

Asset Management

Policy Planning / Implementation

Contingency Planning

PCI Compliancy

Team and Project Leadership

Data Integrity / Disaster Recovery

Technical Specifications Development

Business Process Consulting and Integration

Technical Proficiencies

Nutanix Hyperconvergence (AHV)

AT&T Flexware

VMware ESX Server 3.5-6.0 (Console based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Citrix Xenapp and Xen Desktop, Windows 2000 – 2012

Fortinet Fortigate, Juniper Firewall and VPN Products, Nitro Security IPS/IDS/ESS, Q1Labs Radar

Liquidware Profile Unity and Flexapp

Azure and AWS Public Cloud infrastructure

Proficient at Group Policy setup, and troubleshooting

Switching and routing utilizing 802.1Q VLANs, ACLs

Exchange 2003 – 2013, Outlook Anywhere/ RPC over HTTPS

Microsoft Active Directory and Group Policy Management, RIS, IIS and Tomcat

Cybernetics, EqualLogic, Compellent, Lefthand SAN experience

Vulnerability scanning for PCI compliancies

VoIP (Voice Over IP) using H.323 and SIP protocols

Experience

Jan ’15 – Dec 18

Anvil International

Senior Network Engineer – Exeter, NH

Decided on, engineered, implemented and supported hyperconverged 10 node compute cluster utilizing Nutanix

Migrated the entire MPLS environment to AT&T Flexware across the enterprise

Migrated email to consolidated platform in Exchange 2010 utilizing AD trusts to maintain existing authentication

Implemented Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp to overcome issues with application upgrades and maintenance causing issues with our ERP system

Migrated and built and entirely new server and network infrastructure including new vLans for broadcast isolation for faster network response

Created design for High Availability networking utilizing OSPF over BGP networks

Feb ‘11 – Nov 14

Daystar Computer Services

Senior Network Engineer – Newington, NH

Introduced UTM solutions to the company, began standardizing on Fortinet security platforms and trained a team of 20 technicians on topics such as security, network infrastructure, vlans, routing, QoS and design strategies

Introduced vmware and SAN storage solutions to create scalability and agility

Designed and implemented multiple vmware solutions including Dell Blade servers

SQL Database server setup and troubleshooting

Managed Linux boxes for key government client.

projects for enterprise clientele from new vmware server builds on new or existing architecture, to email platform migrations

Principal Office365 deployment and migration engineer

C. Edward Middlebrooks, Jr.

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Oct ‘09 – Jan ‘11

Global Relief Technologies

Senior Systems Administrator – Portsmouth, NH

Implemented new server and networking environment for Raytheon scalability contract

Increased real time monitoring of all server and networking devices with instant notification

Designed and Implemented new backup strategies for multiple environments to allow faster restore times. Revised and updated Disaster Recovery backup plans utilizing HAL independent network based disk imaging techniques

Overcame network bandwidth issue by changing drop switch to layer 3 capable switch

Principally managed over 15 customer environments

Jun ‘09 – Sep ‘09

Southern New Hampshire Medical Center

Systems Administrator – Contractor on Behalf of Robert Half Technology – Nashua, NH

Installed, Moved and maintained Dell servers and racks

Implemented new infrastructure inventory software

Setup trial of Acronis to show quick backup and redeploy scenarios for criticality

Worked with Applications analyst to determine requirements for moving SharePoint services database to standardized SQL server

Solved vMotion issue in ESX between processors of different types returning application cluster to a high availability state

Addressed issue with Application cluster communicating with database cluster during core switch cut over avoiding unnecessary downtime due to vLan traversal

Oct ‘08 – Apr ‘09

Turbotek Computer Corp.

Systems Administrator – Manchester, NH

Installed, and maintained servers, racks and networking equipment with monitoring

Consult with customers on Virtualization options as needed

Setup Terminal Servers for VDI benefits

Setup Secure VPN tunnels and remote management solutions

Define VLANs and configure HP Procurve and Cisco switches, PIX and Sonicwall Firewalls

May ‘08 – Aug ‘08

PC Connection, Inc.

Systems Administrator – Contractor on behalf of Robert Half Technology – Merrimack, NH

Installed and managed IBM X Series Servers with IBM Director

Created ESX server templates for easy deployment of servers

Trained on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Troubleshot issues with Exchange 2003, ISA 2004, F5 Load Balancer

Fixed Tape rotation issue with BRU Backup for Mac OS X

Oct ‘07 – March‘08

Colby Sawyer College

Systems/ Network Administrator – Contractor on behalf of Robert Half Technology – New London, NH

Managed all server, maintenance, update patching and software based security strategies

Optimized and configured Citrix Presentation Server and VMware ESX 3 (RHEL).

Performed client/server database system upgrades and other database administration tasks.

Responsible for the operation of college backup systems using VERITAS Backup Exec, Cybernetics Virtual Tape Array (HSTC) and Acronis True Image.

Created and maintained systems documentation; compiled a Networking library in SharePoint

Implemented Q1Labs Radar for passive network analysis of Layer 7 and sflow data

Configured Nitro ESS IDS/IPS for network monitoring

Troubleshot HP Procurve Networking switches and configurations, VLAN management, and network security with 802.1X standards and Network Access Control

May ‘05 – Oct ‘07

Eon Digital Solutions, LLC.

Network Administrator – Glen Burnie, Maryland

Hosting and server maintenance with SWSoft Virtuozzo, VMWare ESX Server (RHEL)

Initiated Technology rollout from Windows Server 2000 to Microsoft SBS 2003.

Defined and implemented user accounts and security groups. Created secure remote access connections to local resources based on Remote Web Workplace, VPN and RPC over HTTP through ISA2004

Implemented Contingency Plan for disaster recovery in the event of fire, theft, severe weather and other catastrophes utilizing Offsite Backups, Quick workstation redeployments with RIS, Disk Imaging and Remote Wipe of Pocket PC devices

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