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ROBERT W. FOSS

IDAHO, 83835

acdu19@r.postjobfree.com

208-***-**** – 208-***-****

Expe rienced

i n:

O BJECT I VE

Senior Engineer or Technical Manager role for a solid company that values teamwork and

Software-

collaboration.

Windows Server

OS

EXPER I ENCE From NT to 2012

Windows Desktop

Manager – System Engineering & I TOC From 98 to Win8

2012 – Present

Coldwater Creek, I nc., Coeur d’Alene, ID VMWare ESX

From 2.x to 5.5

Working Manager in a 3 System Engineer team maintaining over 600 Windows servers (60+% virtualized

MS SharePoint

– combination of IBM servers and Cisco UCS) across 4 physically separate datacenters.

2007 & 2010

Managing an 8 member NOC team purposed with 24/7 full enterprise monitoring, 1st response

t roubleshooting and escalation. This team is also responsible for scheduled task administration. MS TFS

2005 & 2010

Planned and implemented our migration of Exchange from 2003 to 2010 – also the primary

administrator. Strong I IS

E xperience

Integrated MobileIron MDM in our environment as our BYOD management solution.

7.5 and below

MS SQL

System Engineer I I From 2000 to 2008

2004 – 2012 MS Office Suite

Station Casinos LLC, Las Vegas, Nevada 2007 & 2010

CommVault 9.x

Lead role in a 3 System Engineer team who maintain over 500 Windows (2K, ’03, ’08) servers including

backups, OS and hardware upgrades, system monitoring, Microsoft Exchange, I IS, antivirus, etc.

Strong AD

Implemented and maintained 36 VMWare ESX 4.x Hosts with 300+ Virtual Servers utilizing NetApp and E xperience

E MC SANs over both iSCSI and FC.

MS Exchange

Spearheaded physical to virtual server migration resulting in an environment over 60% virtualized – 2003 & 2010

I ntel covered our project in the article at h ttp://www.intel.com/references/pdfs/StationCasinos.pdf

CA NimBUS

Planned and deployed NetApp Filers running CIFS to replace traditional Windows File Servers,

i ncluding live migration of 10TB of active data. Symantec

E nterprise Vault

Day to day planning and management of a multiple Domain environment across 18 different physical

Endpoint

locations.

P rotection

Responsible for WINS, DNS, DHCP, AD, Group Policies and security.

McAfee

Provide second tier support for over 14,000 employees. Email Gateway

Hardware-

HP, Dell and IBM

O perations Engineer

Server Platforms

2003 – 2004

T ravelworm, I nc., Las Vegas, Nevada

Cisco UCS Blade

Chassis

Built, maintained and monitored 40+ Windows servers for a 24/7 availability travel web site.

NetApp, EMC &

Responsible for successfully implementing an offsite co-location cage for high availability.

H itachi SANs

Brocade and Cisco

Network and Systems Manager FC Solutions

1998 – 2003

NOS Communications, I nc., Las Vegas, Nevada

References

Managed and trained 3 System Engineers responsible for 50+ Windows servers.

available

Coordinated administration of a WAN of 6 locations over 2 states (2,000+ nodes).

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

1989 – 1994

Majored in Criminal Justice.

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