Hosea M. Kimethu

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EXPERIENCE

Fiserv, Inc., Senior Windows Engineer (Contractor), (February 2015 to Present).

Supporting Windows 2003, Windows 2008/R2, and Windows 2012/R2 in the development, QA, Certification, Performance Lab, and Production environments for new and existing products.

Currently in the process of a migration/upgrade from multiple Windows 2003 servers within multiple environments to a single to a Windows 2012R2 in order to deal with the windows 2003 End of Life.

Currently in the process of a migration/upgrade from Microsoft SQL 2008 /2008R2 to Microsoft SQL 2012R2 in order to deal with regulatory compliance / PCI issues tied to our Banking customers.

Building out Servers using an OSD (Operating System Deployment) process that relies on WDS (Windows Deployment Services), and SCCM 2012R2 for customizations and Delta patch deployments.

Created application and system road maps in order to leverage our enterprise agreements with vendors and take advantage of new technologies and methodology.

Creating SCCM deployment packages in order to deploy Windows updates and development Code drops across multiple regions in multiple datacenters.

Implementing Application Virtualization using SCCM Configuration Manager 2012 R2 in order to minimize licensing costs for Office 2013 across our offices in Europe.

Implementing an SCVMM 2012 R2 environment in order to extend the manageability of our Development and DMZ Hyper-V environments.

Upgrading SCCM/SCOM 2007 to SCCM/SCOM 2012/2012R2/2012R2 SP1 and upgrading OSD process to add Windows 8 / 8.1 / 10, and Windows Server 2012.

Redesigning our SCOM 2012 environment post upgrade in order to include in house PowerShell and VBScripts that perform log rotations in our Exchange 2013 DMZ environments.

Designing and deploying System Center Endpoint protection across the entire organization for Windows 7 / 8.1 clients.

Maintaining and deploying IIS applications on Windows 2008 IIS 7.0 and Windows 2008 IIS 7.5 Development, QA, Certification, Performance Lab, and Production/DR environments.

Maintaining and deploying IIS applications on Windows 2012 IIS 8.0 and Windows 2012 IIS 8.5 Development, QA, Certification, Performance Lab, and Production/DR environments.

Designing and deploying a Forefront Identity Management 2010 R2 (FIM) environment within the DMZ for self-service password management for external customers.

Support a Microsoft Exchange 2007 Standby Continuous Replication (SCR) cluster that supports our secure mail communication product and currently hosts 3000+ financial institutions.

Deployed Exchange 2013 eight-member DAG in our disaster recovery Data Center using a deployment package created with SCCM / PowerShell v. 4.0 scripts and configuration customizations

Designed, implemented, and supported a Microsoft Exchange 2013 eight-member DAG for production in our Global Datacenter (Atlanta) and an eight-member DAG in our Disaster Recovery Datacenter (Texas) with full replication.

Supporting two VMWare environments one running legacy vSphere 4.x and a newly constructed vSphere 5.5 that currently support approximately 10,000 VMware guests across approximately 35 datacenters

Performing data center migration testing and updating documentation for internal / public facing applications affecting our development, QA, Certification, Performance Lab, and production environments.

Upgraded domain controllers in 35 sites from Windows 2008r2 Server Active Directory forest to Windows 2012R2 Countrywide to support external facing applications as well as our MIM environment.

Helping in designing, and updating a disaster recovery plans for our internal and extranet Application environments.

Designing application authentication for internal application (MS SharePoint 2010) authentication using ADFS 2.0 from the internet for travelling business users.

Used WMI in conjunction with PowerShell in order to validate Zero-day patch deployment / installation for regulatory compliance on systems with PCI data.

Cox Enterprises, Inc., Senior Windows Systems Engineer (Contractor), (September 2010 to February 2015).

Supporting Windows 2003, Windows 2008/R2, Windows 2012 and Windows 2012R2 domain for development, QA, and Production environments for new and existing products

Designing and Implementing a migration plan for current Windows 2003/2008 IIS 6.0 / 7.0 .NET 2.0 – 3.0 applications and servers to Windows Server 2012R2 and IIS 8.5 on a .NET 3.5 – 4.5 Platform

Currently in the process of a migration/upgrade from multiple Windows 2003/2008 domains within multiple forests to a single to a Windows 2012R2 domain including updating nonfunctional GPO’s, and Logon scripts (PowerShell, VBScripts, and Batch).

On two sites in Costa Rica and Brazil, used Quest Migration Manager to Migrate Client machines, Servers, exchange mailboxes, and User accounts to our Global AD environment.

Created a migration plan along with Microsoft consulting services and migrated previous Microsoft Exchange 2003 installations across multiple domains and forests to a shared hosting model running Microsoft Exchange 2007.

Currently in the process of a migration from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 / 2013 in our private cloud environment

Integration of Azure and Amazon Web Services in order to extend public facing web applications running on Apache and IIS for scalability and extension of development and test environments.

Supporting a Patch link environment for patch deployments to servers within a development, QA, and Production environments.

Designing, implementing, and supporting Active/Passive Microsoft SQL 2008/R2 and 2012/R2 Clusters that support in house and public facing mission critical databases.

Designing, implementing, and supporting multi-node Windows 2003 NLB Web clusters that run mission websites in development, QA, and production environments.

Designing, implementing, and supporting Staging, and Production IIS Web Clusters running .NET Framework 4.0 / 4.5 for Radio / Newspaper business divisions.

Created application and system road maps in order to leverage our enterprise agreements with vendors and take advantage of new technologies and methodologies.

Migrating existing SMS 2.0 installations at remote sites to a centralized SCCM 2012 for application deployments.

Deploying SCOM 2012 and SCOM 2012 R2 to support server monitoring and script integration for our Domain controllers in Development, QA, Staging, and Production environments.

Performing capacity planning for VMware ESX server for development, and QA environments hosting applications, websites, and SQL 2008/R2 / 2012/R2 multi-node clusters.

Performing end of life planning for VMware ESX server for development, and QA environments hosting applications, websites and SQL 2008 / 2012 clusters.

Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining VMware ESX / ESXi clusters on HP and Dell Hardware.

Performed Upgrade from VMware ESX 3.5 to VMware ESX 4.1.0 and 5.5 Update 1 sin a clustered environment.

Designed, Implemented, and supported a Windows 2008R2/Windows 2012 Terminal Server application farm within a VMware ESXi cluster.

Created a process for maintaining, deploying, and patching/updating VMWare Server Templates for Windows Server 2008/2008 R2/2012/2012 R2.

Created a migration plan for Sites and document repositories and TFS shares that existed on a Windows 2008 R2 SharePoint 2007 architecture to a Windows 2012 R2 and SharePoint 2013 SP1 environment on a VMWare ESXi 5.5 architecture

Supporting and maintaining internal .NET Framework 3.0/3.5 Staging and Production environment farms.

Designed, Configured and deployed SharePoint 2013 application cluster used by multiple tax business units and encompassing multiple SharePoint custom applications running on a .NET 3.5/4.0 platform.

Designed, Configured and Deployed a Windows Server 2012 R2 deployment services environment for physical server builds (Windows Server 2008/2008R2/ 2012 and 2012 R2) as well as customized Windows 7/8/8.1 images for the client deployment services team.

Ernst & Young, Infrastructure Engineer (Contractor), (June 2006 to September 2010).

Supporting Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 domain for development, QA, and staging environments for new and existing products

Developed and implemented a migration/upgrade path from a Windows 2003 domain to a Windows 2008 domain including updating nonfunctional GPO’s, and Logon scripts.

Supporting and SMS 2.0 environment for patch deployment to servers and workstations in the development, QA, and staging environments.

Maintaining existing SMS 2.0 installations and packaging patches for monthly patch deployments to servers in our global data centers.

Creating an upgrade plan for our SMS 2.0 environment to SCCM 2003 and later SCCM 2007 R2 for our production environment.

Deploying SCCM 2007 R2 to support server patching and application installation packaging for the hosted Development, QA, Staging environments both in our regional and global datacenters.

Designing, implementing, and supporting Active/Passive Microsoft SQL 2000 and 2005 Clusters that support in house mission critical databases.

Designing, implementing, and supporting multi-node Windows 2003 NLB Web clusters that run mission websites in development, QA, staging, and production environments.

Created application and system road maps in order to leverage our enterprise agreements with vendors and take advantage of new technologies and methodologies.

Performing capacity planning for VMWare ESX server for development, and QA environments hosting websites and SQL 2000 / 2005 clusters.

Maintaining and deploying IIS applications on Windows 2003 IIS 6.0 and Windows 2008 IIS 7.0 Development, QA, Staging, and Production environments.

Performed Upgrade from VMware ESX 2.5, 3.0 to VMware ESX 3.5 in a clustered environment.

Helping in designing, and updating a disaster recovery plans for our internal Tax Application environments.

Performed data center migration testing and documentation affecting our development, QA, staging, and production environments and mission critical applications.

Designed, Configured and deployed SharePoint 2007 custom application used by Tax professionals in 92 countries.

State of Georgia, (Department of Driver Services), Senior Network Engineer (Contractor), (Feb 2005 to June 2006).

Designed, planned and implemented a Windows 2003 the domain and Exchange 2003 migration

Designed and implemented an environment with Quest Migration Tools to facilitate object migrations (User / Computer accounts, File Servers, and Exchange Mailboxes) to Georgia Department of Revenue Infrastructure.

Designed, Configured and supported and SMS 2003 SP1 server deployment to support and deploy 500+ users at 60+ locations.

Designed Server Specific websites to work in conjunction with VBScripts, and report server service statistics, diagnostic information through a web interface.

Designed, implemented, and supported an Active/Passive Microsoft Exchange 2003 Cluster (back-end) with a two NLB cluster for Outlook web access (front-end).

Designed, implemented, and supported an Active/Passive Microsoft SQL 2000 Cluster that supported 45 mission critical databases.

Helped design a fully redundant WWW and SMTP DMZ infrastructure with dual homed servers, Nokia firewalls, and Cisco routers using HSRP and switches.

Designed, implemented, and supported two Windows 2003 NLB Web clusters that run mission critical state websites.

Developed server side VBScripts to aid in the migration of users at remote locations throughout the state of Georgia

Maintained a 20+ Windows 2003 Server Active Directory forest Statewide to support roughly 500+ users.

Performed capacity planning for our internal Windows 2003 Infrastructure, Exchange 2003, and SMS 2003 SP1 implementations and our Windows 2003 DMZ deployments.

Supported and administered the deployment of client computers to 60+ remote driver services sites.

Helped implement and support the development of Scripts and In house administration tasks and to automate the delivery of applications.

Helped in designing, and updating a disaster recovery plan for our Network Infrastructure and Active Directory Sites.

Upgraded a Microsoft Windows 2000 / Microsoft Exchange 5.5 to Microsoft Windows 2003 / Microsoft Exchange 2003 as a standalone relay server in a DMZ.

Cox Enterprises, Inc, (Manheim Auctions), Network Administrator (Contractor), (Apr 2004 to June 2006).

Supported and administered the deployment of servers to 80+ remote sites.

Developed server side VBScripts to aid in deployment of Servers to remote locations throughout the US

Deployed Quest Migration Manager to Migrate Client machines, Servers, exchange mailboxes, and User accounts to our Shared Services AD environment from a subsidiary in Puerto Rico.

Designed Server Specific websites to work in conjunction with VBScripts, and report server service statistics, diagnostic information through a web interface.

Performed Capacity Planning for the Windows 2000 & 2003 Infrastructure for the deployment team.

Developed a common Workstation image with automation scripts for deployment to 80+ remote sites

Helped implement and support the development of Scripts and In house administration tasks and to automate the delivery of applications.

Maintained a 150+ Windows 2003 Server Active Directory forest Countrywide to support roughly 10,000+ users.

Helped in designing and updated disaster recovery plan for our Datacenters and Active Directory Sites.

Tested the upgrade path from Microsoft Windows / Microsoft Exchange 5.5 to Microsoft Windows 2003 / Microsoft Exchange 2003 within the corporate HQ.

Supported and deployed Cisco routers and switches to remote auctions

Supported the migration from Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Domain to a Microsoft Windows 2003 Active Directory environment.

Configured and supported SNA Server connectivity for remote braches from IBM mainframe.

Bank of America, Systems Integration Manager (Contractor), (Nov 2003 to Apr 2004).

Supported and administered the deployment of workstations to 3500+ remote sites.

Developed server side VBScripts to aid in deployment of Servers to Branches throughout the US

Designed Server Specific websites to work in conjunction with VBScripts, and report server service statistics, diagnostic information through a web interface.

Performed Capacity Planning for the Windows / Exchange 2003 Infrastructure for the deployment team.

Oversaw helpdesk operations in troubleshooting Windows 2000 Servers and 2000/XP Workstations.

Helped implement and support the development of Scripts and In house applications to automate the delivery of applications.

Supported and trained operation engineers to deploy software packages to individual satellite offices.

Maintained a 1000+ Windows 2000 Server Active Directory forest Countrywide to support roughly 50,000+ users.

Helped in designing and updated disaster recovery plan for our Datacenters and Active Directory Sites.

Tested future deployment upgrade of Windows 2000 Server active directory schema to Windows 2003 Active Directory services.

Upgraded Exchange 5.5 / 2000 to Exchange 2003 within Bank of America infrastructure.

Upgraded Microsoft Windows 2000 Active Directory Domains to Single Windows 2003 Active Directory Forest.

Configured and supported SNA Server connectivity for remote braches from IBM mainframe.

Orbital Computers, Inc., I.T. Manager, (Dec 2000 to Nov 2003).

In charge of Information Technology departments, which included 180+ employees and 3 direct reports.

Designed, and Implemented a Windows 2000 Advanced Server 2-node cluster using a Tera-Byte Storage unit to store a SQL Server 2000 Database for an e-commerce application.

Designed, implemented, and supported a 90+ Windows 2000 Server / Advanced Server / Datacenter Country-wide forest to support 4500+ corporate users with 24x7 availability.

Trained support staff to support 4500+ users on an Active Directory model.

Designed, implemented, and supported Windows 2000 Advanced servers with applications for use by Citrix Win Frame and Terminal Server users.

Developed, implemented, and maintained a disaster recovery plans for small companies LAN/WAN infrastructure that included backups and fail over servers.

Ongoing support and day-to-day troubleshooting for a network infrastructure that has multiple segments using distributed/mixed mode VLAN’s’ across a common network.

Designed, Implemented, and supported a network infrastructure with layer 3 and 4 switches and routers to provide high availability for e-commerce applications/data using load balancing at the server, switch, and router level.

Managed the Implementation and support of VoIP using Cisco 7000 series routers, also used Cisco Works 2000 voice manager to manage and enforce security policies within the voice network.

Managed the Implementation and support of the Windows 2000 environment using an EMC SAN (Storage Area Network).

Performed capacity planning for upgrade to Windows 2000 Datacenter, exchange 2000, and the EMC Storage Area Network.

Designed the automated deployment of Windows XP Professional to end-users.

Migrated Microsoft Exchange 5.5and Microsoft Mail post offices to Microsoft Exchange 2000 on a Windows 2000 Server / Advanced Server Platform.

Designed, implemented, and administered the automated deployment of Microsoft Office 2000 to end users on Windows 98, NT platforms using Microsoft SMS Server.

Developed and implemented load balancing across routers implemented at router level (layer 3 & 4).

Upgraded Macintosh OS 9 systems to OS X for internal marketing department and for our business partners.

Upgraded and installed new SUN workstations and Intel Based systems for clients from Solaris 2.6 / 2.7 to version 9.0

Haltronics Office Technology., Manager of Internet Services Division, (May 2000 to Dec 2000).

Managed the development of technical specifications for wireless network and internal network design using Cisco & Intel Network equipment.

Designed, implemented, and supported Windows NT servers with application for use by Citrix Win Frame and Terminal Server users.

Developed, implemented, and maintained a disaster recovery plan for our Wireless WAN infrastructure that included fail over routing and switching.

Implemented and supported a network infrastructure which had multiple segments using distributed/mixed mode VLAN’s across a common network.

Designed, Implemented, and supported a network infrastructure with layer 3 and 4 switches and routers to provide high availability applications/data/voice using load balancing at the switch & router level.

Implemented and supported VoIP / VoATM using Cisco 7000 series routers, also used Cisco Works 2000 voice manager to manage and enforce security policies within the voice network.

Implemented and supported a windows 2000 environment using an EMC SAN (Storage Area Network).

Implemented and supported VPN (Virtual Private Network) using Cisco VPN 3000 &VPN 5000 and Intel Shiva VPN Express.

Migrated Microsoft Exchange 5.5 to Microsoft Exchange 2000 on a Windows 2000 Platform.

Designed, implemented and administered the deployment of Microsoft Office 2000 to 100 end users on Windows 95,98,NT platforms.

Worked with BreezeCom, Intel and other Cisco CCIE’s to build one of the first wireless Internet network in Central Ohio.

Developed and implemented load balancing across routers implemented at router level (layer 3 & 4).

Implemented load balancing and clustering technologies using windows 2000 server to ensure high availability of DNS, Web services and other IP Services.

Implemented a PIX firewall in a Cisco powered network.

Designed and implemented deployment schedules and procedures to aid in the automation of application deployment for end users across all platforms.

Designed, Developed and Maintained Cisco / BreezeCom Powered wireless WAN Infrastructure.

Managed infrastructure support staff that supports approximately two thousand users.

Metro Health Medical System., Senior Network Engineer, (March 1999 to May 2000).

Managed the specification, development, quality assurance, and delivery of proposed solutions.

Design, Implement, and Support Windows NT 3.51 & 4.0 domains on the Intel and Risc platforms with MSDOS, Windows 3.1,95,98,NT, 2000 Workstation Clients.

Developed backup programs for registry and client specific files using Visual Basic 5.0, 6.0.

Developed and implemented a network recovery plan before and after year 2000.

Designed software package to intertwine Microsoft BackOffice Products using Visual Basic 4.0.

Setup a web server using Microsoft Internet Information Server 3.0, 4.0.

Designed, implemented and Administered Microsoft Exchange 5.0 & 5.5 and Microsoft Mail Server 3.2 on a Windows NT Platform.

Designed Microsoft Exchange 5.5 infrastructure and migrated 250 Microsoft Mail 3.2 users to Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5.

Designed, implemented and administered the deployment of Microsoft Office 2000 to 100 end users on Windows 95,98,NT platforms.

Designed and implemented deployment schedules and procedures to aid in the automation of application installations for end users across all Microsoft platforms.

Maintained and upgraded existing and new SGI Workstations.

Maintained and Installed Macintosh systems for research personnel.

Managed a support staff that supports approximately three hundred users.

Ohio Savings Bank, Systems Analyst/Desktop Support, (June 1996 to February 1999).

Implemented a web server using Microsoft Internet Information Server 3.0, 4.0.

Network troubleshooting: Network architecture planning, speed and traffic analysis, and diagnostics.

Tested servers and workstations for Y2K Compliancy.

Provided support to end-users regarding PC hardware, software difficulties, and connectivity problems onsite, via phone and email.

Developed and tested recovery procedures to ascertain any possible failure conditions of products.

Compiled information on products and maintained documentation.

Upgraded Windows 3.11 Workstations to Windows 95 & Windows NT Workstation 4.0.

Orbital Computers Inc., Senior Systems Engineer, (January 1994 to February 1996).

Determine clients’ IT needs and provide business solutions.

Managed the specification, development, quality assurance, and delivery of proposed solutions.

Design, Implement, and Support Windows NT 3.51 & 4.0 domains on the Intel and Risc platforms with MSDOS, Windows 3.1,95,98,NT Workstation Clients.

Developed backup programs for registry and client specific files using Visual Basic 5.0.

Designed software package to intertwine Microsoft BackOffice Products using Visual Basic 4.0.

Setup a web server using Microsoft Internet Information Server 3.0, 4.0.

Provide Internet solutions for small businesses using Microsoft Proxy Server 1.0 and 2.0.

Design and Administer Microsoft Exchange server 5.0 & 5.5 on a Windows NT Platform.

Provide programming solutions for small businesses using Microsoft Visual InterDev and Microsoft Visual Studio 97 & 6.0.

Installing and configuring Cisco/3Com Routers, hubs, and switches.

TECHNICAL BACKGROUND

CERTIFICATIONS

MCSE (2003 Track) 08/2004

MCSE (2000 Track) 03/2001

CCNP, Cisco Certified Network Professional. 09/1999

MCSE, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. (Exchange and TCP/IP Track) 07/1998

MCSD, Microsoft Certified Systems Developer in Visual Basic & InterDev. 09/1998

JOB TRAINING & WORKSHOPS

Windows 2000 Security Conference at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, OH 12/2001

Cisco certification Training at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, OH 12/1999

Microsoft Developer conference 99 in Denver, Co. Organized by Microsoft Corp. 09/1999

3Com Solutions partners’ convention in Las Vegas, NV. Organized by 3Com Corp 06/1999

Microsoft Business Managers Convention in Redmond, WA. Organized by Microsoft Corp 04/1999

Beta Testers Convention in New York, NY. Organized by Microsoft Corp. 11/1998

Microsoft Developer conference 98 in Denver, Co. Organized by Microsoft Corp. 09/1998

Windows 98 workshop at Cleveland State Univ. organized by Microsoft Corp. 04/1998

Visual Basic clinic at Cleveland State Univ. organized by Source EDP. 10/1997

MSDN workshop at Cleveland State Univ. organized by Source EDP. 06/1998

Visual Basic clinic at independence organized by Source EDP. 11/1996

Extensive knowledge in designing, deploying and maintaining advanced Internet protocols

(EIGRP, BGP4, Rip v. 1 & v. 2, ICMP, ARP, RARP, DNS, IPsec)

Extensive knowledge in designing, deploying and maintaining Cisco routers and load balancing using layer 3 & 4 capable routers and switches.

Installing and managing distributed & mixed mode VLAN’s

EDUCATION

M.C.I.S., Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio. 09/2001

Master of Computer Information Science / Programming Concentration

B.S., Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio. 12/1999

Computer Information Science / Programming Concentration / Math Minor

HONORS

Consecutive Deans List (Fall Quarter 1997 to Fall Semester 2001) at Cleveland State University.

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