The Resume’ of

Steven Haskell

951-***-****

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SUMMARY: Several years’ experience combining expertise in hardware and software troubleshooting, showing expertise with dynamic network architecture; have proven to be a valuable skill set amidst the rapid growth of today’s IT industry. Primarily relied upon to keep co-location facilities/corporate networks up and functioning with expectations to maximize current productivity. Configure, install, and maintain LAN/WAN equipment with security in mind. Analytical skills necessary to interpret complex technical documentation and diagrams. Ability and willingness to develop and follow processes and procedures. Ability and willingness to work as part of a team or individually. Possesses the drive and self-confidence to help achieve cognitive knowledge of a business and the systems used for the day-to-day business operations.

EXPERIENCE: IT/Systems Manager Affinitiv (Formerly Car Research) (Houston, TX.)

August 2010 – September 2023

Duties:

Microsoft Azure Cloud technologies

Amazon AWS Cloud Technologies

Data Center Monitoring using Data Dog and Dynatrace.

SolarWinds, formerly Samange, help desk ticketing system.

Administrating Hyper-V in a combination of various Windows Osse’s including 2003/2008/2012/2016/2019/2022 and PowerShell.

Responsible for daily backups of all data and virtual servers.

Introduced and implemented enterprise class security practices i.e., Virus software including Intrusion detection/Intrusion prevention. Spam Filtering, Anti Spyware, Anti Phishing Technologies, and Microsoft Security Updates using WSUS.

Created/tested DR plan utilizing Azure Site Recovery (ASR)

Responsible for maintaining and administrating DNS structure, both on prem and public platforms using various DNS hosting providers.

Responsible for Administering and Maintaining Active Directory Infrastructure and Group Policies.

Responsible for maintaining and administrating network infrastructure.

Implement Office 365 as the primary collaboration suite.

Scheduling/Performing Windows Server Updates using WSUS.

DHCP Server Implementation

Collaboration Technologies such as MS Teams, Skype for Business.

Various remote support tools

Played a key role in designing and implementing the company’s Microsoft Azure cloud footprint.

Spearheaded a team and migrated one of the company’s on-premises Data Center to Microsoft Azure cloud environment.

Senior Network Administrator - Posey Company (Arcadia, CA)

June 1999 – June 2010

Duties:

Responsible for the availability and maintenance of the Microsoft Exchange email system

Responsible for maintaining and administrating 34 network servers. With combination of Windows 2000/2003/2008,

Responsible for daily Backups of Data and Mailboxes

Responsible for the security and availability of the network i.e. Virus software including Intrusion detection/Intrusion prevention. Spam Filtering, Anti Spyware, Anti Phishing Technologies, and Microsoft Security Updates using WSUS.

Responsible for the integrity and availability of corporate databases

TECHNOLOGIES USED:

Sophos Web Security

Dell EqualLogic SAN’s

Unitrends Backup/Recovery Enterprise Appliance (various models)

MS Hyper-V

Microsoft Windows 2000/2003/2008/2012/2016/2019/2022 Server

Microsoft Exchange 2000/2003/2007/2010/2013

Smarter Mail messaging

iMail messaging

Microsoft Windows XP Pro/Windows 2000/7/10/11

Microsoft Office 97, 2000, XP, 2003, 2007,2010,2013/2016/Office365

Wireless Security

Numerous other Technologies

Hardware:

Cisco ACI fabric

Cisco APIC Controller

FortiGate Firewalls

Fortinet Switches

Dell switches

Cisco Switches

Cisco Meraki Switches (Cloud Based Management Switches)

Cisco Meraki Wireless Access Points

Jive Hosted PBX phone system

Xorcom/Asterisk Voice over IP Phone Systems

WatchGuard Firewalls

HP Net Server’s

HP Workstations

Dell Power Edge Servers

Dell Workstations

Dell Lap Tops

Dell Power Vault

Numerous other vendor hardware

CERTIFICATIONS:

Microsoft Azure AZ-900

Microsoft Azure AZ-104

Cisco Certified Network Associate

Microsoft Certified System Engineer

EDUCATION:

2021 Self-Taught Microsoft AZ-900 and AZ-104 Azure certifications.

Currently on track for the AZ-305, Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions, certification

2016 – 2018 Western Governors University

Bachelor of Science, Business - Information Technology Management

2012 - 2014 University of phoenix

Associates of Arts Information Technology with an emphasis on network security

2002 Cal-Poly Pomona, CA

Technical Certification Windows 2000 MCSE with Exchange 2000

2001 IT Tracks W. Covina, CA

Technical Certification CCNA

1999 Mt. Sierra College Monrovia, CA

Technical Certification MCSE, MCSE + I NT 4.0

Comments: My professional goal in life is to be successful at what I do, no matter where I do it!

I am self-motivated and very resourceful and do not require any direction as to what is required of me.

References available upon request

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