Active Directory Engineer
Resume:
Brian Monnin
Warrendale, PA **086
724-***-**** (Cell)
CAREER OBJECTIVE
To continue to expand my knowledge of network connectivity solutions.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Microsoft Certified IT Professional – Enterprise Administrator – Obtained on August 28, 2010.
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist – Obtained on May 26, 2010.
Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator – Windows 2003 – Obtained on March 8, 2004.
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer – Windows 2000 - Obtained on February 7, 2002.
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer – Windows NT 4 - Obtained on December 1, 1998.
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
2/8/2016 to Present Senior Network Analyst, Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc., St. Clair Hospital, Upper St. Clair, PA
Provide Network and System support for St. Clair Hospital infrastructure including:
● configure, manage, and maintain over 63 Cisco 3750 and 14 Cisco 2960-x
layer 2 switches with Cisco Network Assistant 6.2.
● completed the migration to and maintain 179 2702s, 37 1131s, and 19
3502s Access Point through redundant Cisco 5508 controllers.
● configure, deploy, and maintain two Pulse Secure Connect 3200 SSLVPN
appliances.
● configured and deployed telephony monitoring system using CommView.
● design and build out Versus patient tracking upgrade system.
● perform daily monitoring and system issue addressing via SolarWinds
Server and Application Monitor.
● design and deploy Food Service server and tablet environment for patient
food orders.
● deploy ABL-80 blood-oxygen monitoring system.
6/19/2015 to 2/4/2016 Enterprise Architect, Pine Richland School District, Gibsonia, PA.
Responsible for the designing, maintaining and deployment of enterprise level solutions throughout the Pine Richland School District’s six schools. This position involved the structuring of Microsoft Active Directory enterprise level services, account management, group policy deployment, printer management, Avaya phones systems, and communication links. This position also included the following duties:
● Deploy and maintain Extreme Networks 3610 Wireless Access Points
though EntWireless Controller interface. Currently managing over 200 WAP devices and over 1600 connections.
● Deploy and maintain Enterasys S1 cores and B5K125-48P2/CSG124-48P2 stack switches through Extreme Network NetSight Suite.
● Maintain a 3Com 7758 core and numerous legacy 5500G switches
● Design, deploy, and maintain Microsoft System Center Configuration
Manager for End Point Security, Software Center installs, and Automated
Updates.
● Manage and upgrade Sonic Wall NSA 3500.
● Migrate systems off expired hardware to an ESX VMWare 5.5 virtualized
environment.
● Design, deployment, and maintenance of external Polycom connections
with A.W. Beattie classes.
8/30/10 to 6/19/2015 System Administrator, RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA.
Responsible for the design, implementation, and maintenance of server, network appliances, data center, client systems, and WAN technologies. Daily responsibilities involve providing early morning support for all IT issues that evolve overnight with RAND’s international offices with the goal of resolving any issues before the main office opens in Santa Monica, CA. This position also includes:
● Development, deployment and maintenance of two Juniper SA4500, one
Juniper SA2500, and three Juniper MAG2600 SSLVPN appliances. This
includes the clustering configuration, certificate maintenance, authentication
policies, admin and user realms, and resource policies.
● Designing, deployment, and maintenance of company-wide BlackBerry
enterprise environment. This includes maintaining three BES 5.0.2 and 10.2.2
servers, 400 users, 27 handheld models, multiple remote apps, and several
administrative accounts. Also, required continual policy and security
modifications. Currently designing MDM acceptance and SQL clustering into
company model.
● Maintenance of internal Microsoft 2012 R2, internal
Certificate Authority environment. This includes maintaining the root,
subordinate, and issuance servers while also assisting with distributing
internal certificates to a wide range of server platforms. Also involves
redirecting various appliances to OCSP protocol and Network Device
Enrollment Service.
● Designing, migration, and maintenance of an RSA 8.1 environment for 2,267
end users. This year conducted a complete overall of the companies two-
factor authentication environment with a seamless migration of all end users
from version 6.1 to 8.1.
● Implementing and maintaining the company-wide eToken Smartcard
authentication system. This includes designing and maintaining Enroll-On-
Behalf-Of workstations for token signing.
● Performing server, VMware 5.0 builds with base applications. This includes
migrations to appropriate clusters, host assignments, datastore provisioning,
and resource editing.
● Managing two datacenters - one in Pittsburgh and one in DC.
This includes rack and power placement, cabling, labeling, alerting software
installation, console KVM setup and assignment, Raritan deployments,
hardware build outs and maintenance.
● Developing training and documentation for all secondary support staff
following any enterprise level architectural change.
● Developing and deploying Windows Server 2012 R2 platforms for the various
research departments. This includes restructuring the company AD
infrastructure to present a more manageable GPO deployment.
6/15/10 to 8/27/10 IIS Administrator, Westinghouse, Pittsburgh, PA.
Responsible for the design, migration, and maintenance of Westinghouse’s external internet presence from IIS 6 to IIS 7 server platform. This position included the modification of all existing web formats from IIS 6 technologies to IIS 7, testing, then migration.
2/2009 to 4/2010 Projects Engineer, Enkompas Solutions, Pittsburgh, PA.
Responsible for the design, implementation and maintenance of client technology requests. The requests included all technology based requirements for small to medium sized businesses. Some of the project work included:
● Designed, implemented, and managed multiple Hyper-Virtualization
environments.
● Designed and implemented Server 2008 domain controller migrations,
usually within a Hyper-V environment.
● Designed and implemented SQL 2005 upgrades that included maintenance
plans that satisfied a company's retention policy.
● Restructured domain level services for clients - (AD, DNS, WINS, GPO,
Scripts).
● Designed, implemented, and often restructured backup routines ranging
from localized backups, to centralized and/or to offsite based subscriptions.
● Designed, implemented, and often restructured mail services ranging from
Microsoft Exchange 5.5, 2000, 2003 and 2007, to smaller STMP/POP
based mail systems, to cloud-based email services.
● Designed, implemented, and managed Citrix Presentation Server 4.5
environments usually within a Hyper-V build.
● Designed, implemented, and managed application deployments viaTerminal
Server Applications Manager on Server 2008.
● Designed, implemented, and migrated Exchange 2003/2007 environments to
Exchange 2010.
● Created and/or modified SonicWall firewall configurations.
09/11/07 to 2/2009 Senior Systems Engineer, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
Responsible for the implementation, deployment, and management of university wide servers, storage, and backup units. This position exists within the Network Operating Center and requires the flexibility to support a variety of operating systems and hardware. The operating systems primarily associated with this position include Windows 2000, 2003, and 2008, SUSE 9 and 10, and Linux 4.5. The hardware primarily associate with this position include Dell Poweredge 1750, 1850, 1950, 2550, 2650, 2850, Power Vault 220s and MD3000, IBM Netfinity 7100 and Google Search appliances. This position also includes:
● Process daily Exchange 2007 and Blackberry setup and account
maintenance requests.
● Designed, implemented, and maintained a three terabyte storage array for
the Nursing Department migration. Combined two Dell Poweredge 1950 to
a Dell MD3000 Storage Array to form a fault tolerant clustered environment.
● Process Microsoft DNS Host A record and Cname changes.
● Operate Sun StorageTek L700-E Robotic Tape Library.
● Built Windows 2008 KMS server.
● Assist with Enterprise Exchange 2007 failover issues, patching, and
troubleshooting.
● Maintain WINs architecture for the University.
● Responsible for the monitoring of the Eaton Powerware UPS - 6 UPS's, 2
Strings per UPS, and 36 Jars per string - with BTECH controllers.
● Resposible for configuring and maintaining Group Policies.
● Replaced failed or failing hardware in Dell Poweredge 1750, 1850, 1950,
2550, 2650, 2850, Power Vault 220S and MD3000, IBM Netfinity 7100, and
Google Search appliances.
03/26/2007 to 09/11/07 Applications Administrator, Unison Health Plan, Pittsburgh, PA.
Responsible for the administration of core applications. This position supports externally purchased and internally developed applications utilized on a daily basis. Requires the ability to rapidly learn a new application while optimizing legacy systems, large database interfaces, and web based solutions. Primary applications include: Commerce Server, SharePoint Business Portal 2007, Great Plains, Kronos, On-Base, SQL Server or Websphere. This position also includes:
● Design, implementation, and management of a Sharepoint 2007 farm
with two forward facing web servers and two backend SQL 2005 servers.
● Design, implement, and manage On-Base document storage and retrieval
system.
11/28/2004 to 11/18/2006 Network Administrator, Matrix Solutions, Pittsburgh, PA.
Responsible for the design, implementation, deployment, and management of company wide servers, storage, and backup units. This position supports all aspects of network infrastructure including Microsoft O/S clients and servers, UNIX/Linux servers, SQL servers, SharePoint services, Veritas Backup Exec 9.1, Sonitrol Security systems, Firewall applications, Email and FTP services, MailWise virus/spam filtering, remote VPN access, and automated scripting. This position also included:
● Designed and implemented Linksys SRW2024 managed switch
environment.
● Designed, implemented, and managed Active Directory.
● Designed and implemented help desk ticket transfer system.
● Designed and wired network topology for new 50 user site.
relocated, connected, and tested new network location with only a 5
hour down time.
● Designed, implemented, and managed IIS 5 environment.
● Migrated Windows 2000 mixed domain to Windows 2003 native domain.
● Designed and implemented a Novell Netware 6.5 server test lab.
● Developed and supported a centralized HEAT helpdesk ticket system.
● Supported local and remote GoldMine Business Contact Management
system.
● Designed, implemented, and maintained a company wide network
storage solution.
● Developed a Crystal Reports backend customer satisfaction reporting
process.
4/15/02 to 11/28/04 Network Analyst, Gateway Health Plan, Pittsburgh, PA.
Responsible for the implementation, deployment, and management of company
wide servers, storage, and backup units. This position focused primarily on the replacement of older HP servers with Dell PowerEdge 2650 and 1750 servers. Specific solutions involved designing and deploying a redundant Content Management Server intranet environment and redesigning a company wide data storage solution via Windows 2003 server. Other designs and deployments include:
Designed, implemented, and deployed GHP's document management server architecture (Citrix server front end for client connectivity and Microsoft's SQL2000 back end for the distribution of OnBase document management software).
Designed, implemented, and managed IIS 5 environment for internal .NET applications. Built redundant web servers to support HTML access.
Designed, implemented, and managed Active Directory.
Configure and manage Cisco 3660 router.
Designed and implemented an internet proxy server solution with Microsoft's ISA server and Elron Web Filter plugin.
Designed and implemented GHP's migration from Microsoft's NT 4 domain structure to a Windows 2003 Active Directory structure.
Designing and positioning GHP's Application Development environment for the implementation of Microsoft’s .NET Framework Security.
2/18/01 to 4/15/02 Network Engineer, Mellon Financial Corp., Pittsburgh, PA.
Responsible for the implementation and deployment of LAN/WAN based servers in Mellon's multiple domains from London to Los Angeles. Though Compaq servers are still located at Mellon, the current platform incorporates IBM Xseries 342 and 350 server models along with older 4500 and 5500 models. This position also involves the ability to provide connectivity to EMC DASD disk arrays via both Qlogic and Emulex HBA adapters. Frequent administrative tasks include:
Establishing FTP, Migration, and Workgroup accounts on our Windows 2000 Cluster Servers;
Migrating accounts and adapting logon scripts;
Creating DFS structures for various business units;
Delegating administrative control to first level support teams;
Supporting third party applications in a Metaframe environment;
Assisting with VPN connectivity;
Installing and configuring backup solutions via Tivoli Storage Manager;
Establishing and monitoring disk quotas;
Running various security and quota reports via Bindview RMI;
Reviewing and monitoring Active Directory structures and permissions;
Performing server evaluations between Compaq, Dell, IBM, and HP;
Monitor and deploy server and security announcements.
PRIOR EXPERIENCE
Includes 7 years with the State of Arizona and 2 years with Maricopa County in IT field.
FUTURE PLANS
To continue with additional certifications as identified by employment.
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