James Anderson
Engineer
Brooklyn, NY
********@*****.*** - 516-***-****
WORK EXPERIENCE
Engineer
Network Operations Center - New York, NY - May 2014 to November 2015
* Incident Management (ensuring alerts, issues are accurately logged, reported and escalated appropriately)
* Troubleshooting network and server problems for fault isolation
* All levels of Systems Monitoring & Analysis
* Direct responsibility for Med to High Priority Calls at all Severity Levels
* Problem Management (determining permanent solutions to unique or chronic problems)
* Writing resolutions and processes to contribute to internal knowledgebase
* Change Management (suggestions and plans for change and following up on approved change implementations).
* Create and present information to Internal and External Audience
* Personnel Development (task delegation, follow-up, contribute to personnel evaluations, team, group meetings)
* Train and Mentor Network Operations Center (NOC) Analyst
* Designing action plans for internal NOC processes IT Service Delivery Manager
WSP - New York, NY - September 2011 to December 2013
* Supported a staff of 4,500 users in 32 offices across in the US.
* Supervised the IT Service Desk staff (10) including recruitment, scheduling, development, evaluation, and disciplinary actions.
* Partnered with other members of the IT Leadership group to achieve departmental goals and objectives.
* Established and maintain regular written and in-person communications with the organization's executives, decision-makers, stakeholders, department heads, and end users regarding pertinent IT matters.
* Served as point of escalation for customer support related issues.
* Partnered with system and business analysts to evaluate requests impacting service delivery.
* Took lead on various IT projects and initiatives.
* Help design and implement short- and long-term strategic plans for the Service Desk.
* Developed, implemented, and maintained policies, procedures, and associated training plans.
* Managed the handling of calls, emails, and chat sessions in order to meet established service levels.
* Experienced in, implementation, and support, focused in one or more of these areas: Office Applications, Desktop applications, application and services integration.
* Partnered with Director of IT to manage vendor and contractor relationships, contracts and service agreements.
System Engineer
Exchange and SQL - New York, NY - June 2010 to July 2011 NY
* Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2008
* Active Directory and Preferred
* Microsoft Windows XP/7, Office, Exchange and SQL 2003, 05', 10'
* Blackberry Enterprise Server 4.x/5.x and Blackberry handhelds
* Citrix Metaframe/XenApp and knowledge of Citrix XenDesktop
* Understanding of networking concepts
* Experience deploying home networks
* Email, VPN and spam troubleshooting
* Building Servers and Workstations
* Data backup, Symantec Backup Exec and Antivirus software
* Financial industry experience including familiarity with market vendor applications
* Expertise with Avaya phone systems
* Understanding of Storage Area Networks
* Experience with VMWare vSphere and V Center virtualization System Administrator
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia - New York, NY - October 2008 to June 2010
* Active Directory Administration and Management
* Exchange 2007 Administration and Management in a (clustered Environment experience)
* DHCP, DNS, Group Policy Administration
* Windows Server 2003 and 2008 R2 Administration and Management
* VMware Infrastructure ESX
* Multi-site environment tied together via Cisco VPNs
* Altiris 6.9 and 7.0 Administration and Management (Deployment Console and Notification Client)
* Windows XP, Vista and Windows7 Image Creation.
* Sophos endpoint protection Administration and Management.
* Symantec endpoint Administration and Management protection (Failover Environment)
* Administration and Management print server 2003 and 2008
* Blackberry Enterprise server 5.0 Administration and Management
* End User Desktop Support
Support - New York, NY - June 2008 to August 2008
Contract
In Field Technician
Perry Consulting - New York, NY - March 2008 to June 2008 Contract
Network Administrator
Citizens Committee for NYC - New York, NY - 2005 to 2008 Desktop Support Technician
Andrews & Kurth LLP - New York, NY - 1994 to 2004
EDUCATION
Technical Career Institute of Technology - New York, NY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Skills
Dynamic and experienced individual with sound knowledge of monitoring and troubleshooting network communication systems. Seeking a responsible position with a view to utilize my skills towards professional growth and development
Exchange - Exchange 2003, 2007 and 2010 Firewall\spam - SonicWALL, Barracuda and MX logic technology Citrix solutions- Citrix XenDesktop, Citrix Desktop Studio 5.1 and above Backup Solutions - Backup Exec, Datto and Veeam (backup for VMware) backup software VDI - EXSI 5.0 and vSphere client Antivirus solutions - Trend Micro, Symantec Endpoint Protection and Sophos antivirus
Cloud base email - Office 365 and hosted exchange environment. Windows Server - Server 2000, 2003, 2008, and 2012 Windows Desktop - Windows XP, Window 7, and Windows 8