GODFREY BAITY
Professional Summary
Seasoned career professional with 15+ years of experience in the IT industry with diverse companies.
Background includes project solutions and architecture in areas of networking, storage, virtualization, and
email technologies. Disciplined focused around pre-sales, implementation, delivery, support, and
maintenance of IT solutions for SMB and mid-to-enterprise level organizations. Seeking a role to foster
career progression utilizing gained experience, leadership and technical abilities.
Technical Skills
Operating Systems: Windows 2008/2012, Linux, VMWare 5.x
Languages: Ruby 1.8/1.9, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, T-SQL, PL/SQL, C#
Networking: Cisco ASA 5500, Checkpoint, SonicWall, Clavister, Fortinet, Brocade/McData, Dell Force
10, Cisco 2900/3600/3750
Disaster Recovery: Dell AppAssure, SRM, RecoverPoint, SnapMirror Networker, BackupExec
Protocols supported: TCP/IP, SSH/SFTP, RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, LDAP, SNMP, SMTP, VTP, 802.1q,
IPSEC, GRE, L2TP
Security: RSA/SecurID, Shavlik, Cisco AnyConnect/VPN, Checkpoint, SSH/SFTP, Nessus PF,
SecureDoc, Symantec Endpoint Encryption/Protection, PGP
Databases: SQL Server 2005/2008, MySQL
Storage: EMC, NetApp, Dell Equalogic
Applications: ADS/DHCP/DNS/RDS, Citrix XenApp 6.x, HyperV, vCenter, MS Exchange
07/10/13/Office 365, SharePoint, Office 2010/2013, Essentials, IIS
Monitoring: HP Sitescope, Kaseya VSA, Traverse, Cacti, Dell OM
Telephony: Mitel 3300, InterTel 5000
Work Experience
United Technology Group April 2012 – Present
Senior Systems Engineer
Responsibilities:
• Serving as subject matter expert for email driven project initiatives.
• Providing response, resolution and escalation of incoming technical client issues and requests
submitted by phone, e-mail, chat and our client portal.
• Analyzing issues to provide proactive root cause analysis and remediation of client networks.
• Analyzing desktop, server, and network device performance in an effort to identify deficiencies
and recommend solutions for maximizing the design of a client’s IT environment.
• Providing the expertise to diagnose and remediate server, network and end user issues that are
escalated by other members of the engineering team.
• Contributing in peer-to-peer technical and leadership training activities.
• Providing on-the-job technical training and mentoring for other members of the engineering team
• Developing and maintaining documentation of client environments
• Providing pre-sales engineering support to develop project estimations and scopes of work.
• Consulting with existing and future prospective clients.
• Designing and implementing project work based on sold service offerings for client base.
Georgia Credit Union Affiliates May 2008 –
January 2012
Network Administrator
Responsibilities:
• Oversaw daily network operations for all customer facing credit union services and applications.
• Developed initiatives to evaluate, test, and procure equipment to introduce new technology and
processes to market to credit unions.
• Created and maintain procedures, policies, and documentation for network topologies, security,
and audits.
• Led project efforts of budgeted acquisitions, testing, and deployment, of new hardware and
software.
• Maintained email services for 150 users to include all mobile network devices
(iPhone/iPAD/Blackberry) using Blackberry BES and MS Exchange.
• Ensured network antivirus, patching, and email security levels for SonicWall security appliance
and Symantec Endpoint Protection servers and WSUS.
• Monitored uptime, backup/recovery, and redundancy of all backend MySQL, SQL, Oracle
databases and load-balanced web services.
• Maintained specified level of security for credit union financial data, according to related SLAs.
• Coordinated yearly disaster recovery planning and testing.
• Administered and maintained user, email, and group network accounts and group policies via
ADS services.
• Implemented, designed, and managed File/Print/DS services for all Windows production and test
servers.
• Participated in rotational 24/7 on-call support of network/helpdesk operation applications and
services.
• Monitored WAN/VPN and telecommunications connectivity services between corporate,
datacenter and Disaster Recovery (DR) sites to include Mitel CS5000, EPLS routers, switches,
and hubs.
• Perform daily traffic analysis to assure proper operation of mission-critical network HW/SW
servers and applications.
• Using results of monitoring to recommend and implement changes to the physical layer of the
network to improve traffic.
• Implemented, maintained, and provisioned EMC Clarion SAN, RecoverPoint replication, for
VMware/vSphere 4.x clustered (HA/DRS) virtualization infrastructure for all 3 company sites.
• Performed vulnerability security assessments and remediation utilizing Nessus PF for serviced
credit union clients.
• Provided annual security awareness training to company employees and staff.
Education
GODFREY BAITY
Associates of Applied Technology 2001 –
2003, 2013
Gwinnett Technical College, Lawrenceville, GA
Networking Specialist Concentration
Computer Hardware Specialist Certificate
Bachelor of Technical Management 2005 – 2006 (1 Semester)
Devry Institute of Technology, Alpharetta, GA
Technical Management Concentration
Bachelor of Science 1995 – 2000 (3yrs Completed)
Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Computer Information Systems
Professional Development & Certifications
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP):
4/2012
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) 4/2012
Enterprise Messaging Administrator on Exchange 2010
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Configuration
Cisco Certified Network Associate 11/2013
Routing and Switching
Microsoft Certified Solution Associate:
12/2014
Managing Office 365 Identities and Requirements
Enabling Office 365 Services
Comptia A+ 2005
Managing Office 365 Identities and Requirements
Enabling Office 365 Services
ITIL Foundations Training 2008
References Available Upon Request