Igor Kotenko
Staten Island, NY
347-***-**** ********@*****.***
Information Technology Specialist
Insightful, results-driven IT professional with extensive experience in maintenance, administration, upgrade and support of corporate IT.
Technical Summary
OS - Windows 7/ 8/ Server 2003/2008R2/2012R2/ Linux/Red Hat Enterprise Linux/ CentOS/ SUSE
Hardware - HP SAN storage /HP Blade servers/ Dell servers/Cisco switches/ Cisco routers/ Cisco VPN
Networking - TCP/IP/LAN/ DNS/ WINS/DHCP/ SFTP/ FTP/ SSH/Samba/LDAP/NFS
Technologies - Active Directory/ MS Cluster Services/ Novell
Email systems - MS Exchange 2003/ 2010/ 2013
DB systems - MS SQL 2008/ 20012/ MySQL
Web servers - MS IIS 6/ 7/ 7.5/ Apache/ Tomcat
Software packages - MS Office 2010/MS SharePoint/ Symantec NetBackup/ Symantec Endpoint Protection/ BES for Exchange/ Microsoft Dynamics GP/Nagios
Virtualization - Microsoft Hyper-V/ VMware vSphere / vCenter/ VM Physical to Virtual (PtoV)/ KVM
Scripting - Powershell/ VBscript
Experience
New York Life Insurance, New York, NY 2007 - present
Senior Applications Project Specialist
Provided uninterrupted smooth systems operation, maintenance and deployment of Windows-based systems and their interconnection within heterogeneous corporate infrastructure in a business enterprise environment.
Coordinated project-based IT efforts for the business unit.
Collaborated with peers in planning, analyzing and implementing solutions in support of business objectives.
Provided resourceful technological base at all stages of system development, software updates and new releases.
Performed troubleshooting of advanced issues related to Active Directory topology, Web and SQL servers in a complex multi-domain environment.
Identified and investigated technical issues with managed systems such as failed night batch processing or critical alert conditions that affect business operations.
Handled technical issues related to communications with vendors. Resolved security issues found in the audits.
Participated in corporate DR planning, actual DR tests and follow-up analysis.
Implemented the Enterprise Link distributed processing environment based on Windows/MS SQL technology for corporate finance, consisted of 60 HP Blade and standalone servers.
Performed multiple servers migration utilizing VMware virtualization technology - Physical-to-Virtual, and vCenter.
Panasonic A HQ, Secaucus, NJ 2007-2007
Windows Server Engineer
As a member of the IBM team performed new server builds, software installation and application migration on the project to eliminate Windows NT servers at the Panasonic NA datacenter.
IBM System X and Blade Center solutions, IBM DS 4800 Storage, VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3.0, P2V Assistant, Windows 2003 server.
AMCO, Cleveland, OH 2002-2007
Windows Systems Engineer
Responsible for the complete company infrastructure, including the Internet access (DS-3), point-to-point T1’s, VPN, CISCO routers, PIX Firewalls, CISCO VPN concentrators, switches and desktops.
Performed Windows NT4 domain migration to Windows 2000 Active directory, including MS Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000 migration. Later upgraded the same infrastructure to Windows 2003/Exchange 2003.
Managed and supported internal web hosting of all company’s web sites based on Microsoft IIS and SQL servers. Supported web applications development team.
Implemented Blackberry Enterprise Server for Exchange, and Microsoft Dynamics GP.
Teksystems, Cleveland, OH 1996 -2002
IT Consultant
Participated in Windows NT domain consolidation on the BP - Castrol merger project. Remotely administered numerous BP and Castrol sites (in USA, Canada, UK, Australia, Venezuela and Mexico) with about 50,000 user accounts.
Administered heterogeneous corporate LAN environment at KeyCorp. Installed and upgraded Novell, NT 4.0 and MS SQL servers.
Performed Citrix MetaFrame XPE server upgrades at Avery Dennison Corp. Data Center.
Administered Novell and NT LAN at the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Headquarters.
Education
BS in Computer Science, Kiev Politechnical Institute.
Professional Certifications
MCSE, MCP+Internet. MCP ID #: 977339 . CNE