Larry McFarlin

E: aczhwg@r.postjobfree.com M: 970-***-**** Fort Collins, CO 80525 linkedin.com/in/larrymcfarlin

Systems Administrator

Accomplished Systems Administrator with seventeen years of professional IT experience designing, implementing, and managing server infrastructures and data center operations. Engineering, implementation, and management of messaging, storage, and DR solutions both on-premises and through cloud infrastructures.

Skills

Server 2003-2012R2 Exchange 2003-2016 Office 365 Office 2003-2013 Lync Barracuda Google Postini datto McAfee SAAS/MXLogic Dell PowerEdge Dell VRTX Dell PowerConnect Dell Equalogic Dell SonicWALL Cisco ASA Microsoft SharePoint 2013 VPN Symantec Backup Exec Sophos UTM Symantec Endpoint Protection ESET DNS GPO Active Directory DHCP VMWare ESX 5.5 Hyper-V Domain Services RRAS WSUS Windows XP-Windows 10 CAT 5e/6 SmarterMail IIS SIP ShoreTel Mitel NAS SAN Nimble WiFi PowerShell eFax Project Management Disaster Recovery SOW Incident Management Time/Ticket Tracking Aruba VLANs RADIUS SQL 2005-2012 Veeam Backup and Replication FDA Validation Change Control HP ProLiant Dell MD Arrays LTO Tape Backup Microsoft Clustering DFS LDAP Cable Management Documentation ITIL Monitoring and Alerting IPAM ISCSI Storage On-Call Scheduling Management Microsoft Project 2013 HP ProCurve Policy, Process, and Procedure Development P2V Tier 2 Escalations VMWare Horizon Cisco UCS DR/HA ADFS/SSO Azure

Professional Experience

Tolmar Pharmaceuticals Fort Collins, CO 2014 – Present

a fully integrated pharmaceutical company focused on the development, approval, and commercialization of specialty pharmaceutical products, including a line of generic dermatology products and specialty injectable oncology products.

Systems Administrator

Architect, implement, and maintain enterprise server infrastructure and ensure data integrity through policies and documentation practices. Works closely with business management to ensure that implementations follow proper development of IT infrastructure vision. Top-tier escalation for unresolved issues. Maintains documentation and communication per developing ITIL procedures for efficiency. Sole Systems Administrator in a team of ten IT staff supporting approximately seven-hundred employees in varying fields of manufacturing, sales, accounting, legal, R&D, QA, Administration, and more. Engineer responsible for Installation/Operational/Performance Qualification of FDA validated systems.

Architected and completed single Exchange 2010 to site-resilient Exchange 2016 DAG migration with virtually no downtime. Manages Exchange, AD, DNS, DHCP infrastructure.

Architected and implemented second datacenter and expanded ESX infrastructure from single site with approximately forty to fifty VMs on five ESX 5.5 hosts to site-resilient DR infrastructure with approximately three-hundred servers across seventeen ESX 5.5/6.0 hosts. Migrated ninety-five percent of original physical infrastructure to virtual VMware infrastructure. Completed operating system migrations and upgrades from a primarily Server 2003/2008R2 infrastructure to a primarily Server 2012R2 infrastructure. This included Domain Controller upgrades to support raising domain functionality level from Server 2003 to Server 2012R2.

Testing multiple SSO vendors for architecture and deployment of a SAML SSO solution with provisioning support.

Deployed and maintains VMware Horizon VDI infrastructure with fifty virtual machines.

Architected and implemented new backup system utilizing Veeam Backup and Replication for nightly disk and monthly/yearly tape backups. Migrated from HP Data Protector to increase efficiency and reduce tape usage by 50%.

Architected and implemented Microsoft SharePoint 2013 three-tier server infrastructure, Microsoft Project 2013 server infrastructure, ManageEngine Enterprise monitoring system, Schneider/APC StruxureWare Data Center Expert Monitoring system, and deployed/maintain three Nimble SANs.

Member of ITIL Change Advisory Board for change control management. Member of team developing policies, processes, and procedures for essential IT functionality. Responsible for developing documentation, templates, and business communications for scheduled and emergency service maintenance windows.

Ceres Technology Group Boulder, CO 2014

Provider of Enterprise-level managed services such as technical helpdesk support, computer support, and business phone systems to small and medium-sized businesses.

Systems Administrator

Architect, implement, and maintain server, LAN, WAN, and WLAN infrastructures for clients in Northern Colorado and Wyoming.

One of two Systems Administrators supporting fifty to senty-five clients throughout Northern Colorado and Wyoming. Part of site deployment team sent to various national locations to deploy entire IT infrastructures for hourly rental office space client.

Responsible for tier-2 escalations from helpdesk and computer support team. Accompanied sales team as the Technical Sales Engineer for subject matter expert support.

InterWorks Inc. Stillwater, OK 2008 – 2014

Enterprise-level managed services and business intelligence provider that specializes in every aspect of IT service from desktop to full Enterprise solutions.

Systems Engineer

Architect, implement, and maintain enterprise solutions with meticulous standards of excellence for national clientele.

One of two Microsoft Exchange Engineers primarily responsible for architecture, implementation, and administration of Office 365 migrations from on-premises legacy mail systems and other hosted email solutions. Implemented and maintained spam services utilizing Postini, MXLogic, and Barracuda solutions. Managed name server/DNS record solutions from providers such as Network Solutions and GoDaddy.

Responsible for maintaining Microsoft Online Partnership and managed Microsoft Online Solution leads provided from Microsoft, including Azure, SharePoint Online, Office 365, Visio Online, Intune, and Lync installations and migrations.

Architected new server solutions including Dell VRTX hyper-converged solutions utilizing Hyper-V as well as VMWare virtualization and physical server implementations. Responsible for entire service catalog of IT support solutions from desktops to server migrations.

Architected and implemented physical network solutions using firewall WAN redundancy, managed switches, WLAN, and LAN technology. Performed cable organization and management.

Managed Active Directory infrastructures, GPOs, permissions, RRAS, WSUS, DNS, and DHCP.

Certifications

New Horizons 2002 CompTIA A+ (COMP10639695)

Meridian Technology Center 2009 Microsoft MCP (D109-4143)

Meridian Technology Center 2010 CompTIA Network+ (COMP10639695)

Meridian Technology Center 2010 MCSA (D109-4150)

Meridian Technology Center 2010 CompTIA Security+ (COMP10639695)

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