Robert Kendall

Lead detailed infrastructure design of large and complex Cloud and On Premise projects

Washington, DC 20020 ad2a0m@r.postjobfree.com

+1-240-***-****

Work Experience

Sr. Virtualization Architecture

Promontory Financial July 2017 to Present

•Management of engineer team to lead through iteration design steps and tasks to identify dependencies and resolving design conflicts. Architected a structured design process for creating a hybrid cloud architecture to include on-premise resources, networks, security, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DaaS and XaaS architectures

•Prepared capacity and architecture plan to create the Azure Cloud environment to host migrated IaaS VM’s and PaaS role instances for refactored applications and databases configured Azure StorSimple, blob storage and Azure file servers

•Experience in designing and implementing cloud-based solutions with Azure. Proficient in Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Active Directory, Azure Networking, Azure Storage, Azure DevOps, and Azure Security Center. Skilled in PowerShell scripting and Azure CLI.

•Used IAM to create network security groups (NSGs) to control inbound and outbound access to network interfaces (NICs), VMs and subnets.

•Implemented high availability with Azure Classic and Azure Resource Manager deployment models.

•Designed and configured Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, Azure network settings, DHCP address blocks, DNS settings, security policies and routing

•Configured nodes and network devices to a F5 and Netscaler load balancers, (CAG’s) Citrix Access Gateways

Designed and implemented Citrix solutions for enterprise clients. Expertise in Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, Citrix ADC (formerly Netscaler), Citrix Cloud, and Citrix Workspace. Proficient in PowerShell scripting, Active Directory, and Windows Server Administration. Proven track record of leading and delivering large-scale Citrix projects on time and within budget. Strong background in project management, vendor management, and team leadership.

Configuration and management Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD) version 2305.LTSR versions of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD): LTSR 2203, and LTSR 1912 Citrix (XP, 3.0, 4.0, 4.5, 5.0, 6.0), Access Gateway, Password Manager, Provisioning Server, Edgesight) and Terminal Servers. Migrate farms from Citrix MetaFrame XP and Citrix Presentation Server 4.x to Citrix XenApp 5.0 and 6.0

•Architect a management POD that runs on vSphere 7.0 and also leveraged VMware NSX for micro segmentation purposes and outside service mapping

•Created NSX firewalls in full VXLAN backing mode. Security is provided by NSX Distributed firewall; natively for E-W traffic and through Palo Alto integration for N-S traffic.

•Manage Site collection storage limits and SharePoint Online user profiles.

•Designed a global VMware Horizon View environment that consisted of over 3000 virtual desktops

•Created Cloud Pod Cluster in User Environment Manager (DEM/UEM) to incorporate end-to-end redundancy as the primary design premise for delivering non-stop desktop service.

•Administration of VMware Horizon View version 7.8, View Composer, View Connection Server, View Security Server

•Manage Link Clone and Instant Clone provisioning within desktop pools while using persistent and non-persistent disks

•Created customized VMware Horizon View App Stacks and mounted multiple App Volume disks

•Deployed application virtualization using VMware Thin App versions and created application portal pages

•Configured multiple hardware-accelerated graphics cards for high GPU performance on VDI (NVIDIA and AMD)

•Assigned display protocols Blast Extreme, PCoIP or Microsoft RDP for graphics performance on VDI

•Helped customers determine the best endpoints for their VDI deployment (PC vs Zero Client vs Tablet vs Laptop)

•Used VMware vCenter Operations Manager (vCOPS / vROPS / vRNI) for server and workstation monitoring

•Configured Nexus 7000 for OTV by extending Layer 2 applications across distributed data centers

•Deployed Nutanix NX-3155G-G7 and managed AHV and ESXi VM clusters through Prism Center

• Manage Kubernetes containers via GitHub and GitLab deployed Nutanix Acropolis CoreOS VM’s

•Configured and managed Cisco HyperFlex compose of 240 M5 nodes and two Cisco 6332 Fabric Interconnects

•Architecture and administration of 6248 series Cisco Unified Computing System's (UCS) for audio/ video encoding farms

•Configured Virtual SANs (VSANs), basic and enhanced zoning, Node Port Virtualization (NPV), Node Port Identifier Virtualization (NPIV), Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), Fiber-channel (FC) and multihop FCoE on Cisco MDS 9513

•Maintain Active Directory Synchronization (AD Sync) server

•Maintain Active Directory Federated Services (ADFS) environment

•Knowledge on ADFS Claim rules, Multiple Domain Federation of ADFS with Office 365 cloud and Dir. Synchronizations

•Extensive knowledge of PowerShell used for Office 365 and Exchange 2019 management

•Architecture, design, install, configured VMware ESXi, host within VI3, vSphere 4, vSphere 5, vSphere

6.7 and vSphere 7 environments

•ESX management vSphere: installation, network design and configuration, HA, DPM and DRS cluster configurations, FCOE, NFS and Fibre Channel SAN storage technologies

Deployed vApp workflow is to provide a single call workflow that can instantiate a vApp Template from vCloud Director (vCD)

•Design a vSAN environment composed of Lenovo 3550 servers that were in a vSAN datastore RAID 6 erasure coding with several cache and capacity disks.

Created and configured VMWARE Site Recovery Manager replication plans and protection groups

•Used NFS, CIFS, VMFS, FCoE, FC and iSCSI protocols for multi-vendor SAN and NAS arrays.

Cloud Architect Azure AWS

Merz Pharmaceutical June 2016 to July 2017

NC (06/20/16 - 07/14/2017)

•Responsible for the engineering of various aspects of both physical and cloud hosted data center infrastructures which included network, compute, storage, platform and middle-ware.

•Lead detailed infrastructure design of large and complex internal projects collaborating with IT stakeholders, service owners and partners

•Created and maintain technical standards, procedures and documentation in partnership with services partners as needed

•Transitioned AWS infrastructure from EC2-Classic to VPC, overhauled AWS accounts and groups to follow latest security best practices (IAM), reduced AWS costs by over 30% by utilizing Life Cycle

•Management Implemented Amazon Web Services with High-Availability, Fault Tolerance, Scalability, Database Concepts by utilizing AWS EC2, EBS, S3, Glacier, SimpleDB, Amazon RDS, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon SQS, IAM, and EMR plus other services

•Created network routes between different regions with AWS Route 53

•Configured S3 buckets with various life cycle policies to archive the infrequently accessed data to storage classes based on requirement

•Configuration of Cisco Nexus 2k, 4k, 5k and 9k switches

•Used IAM to create network security groups (NSGs) to control inbound and outbound access to network interfaces (NICs), VMs and subnets.

•Implemented high availability with Azure Classic and Azure Resource Manager deployment models.

•Designed and configured Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, Azure network settings, DHCP address blocks, DNS settings, security policies and routing

•Utilized ASR (Azure Site Recovery), PowerShell and MVMC (Microsoft Virtual Machine Convertor) for on-premise to cloud migrations

•Installed, Configured and maintained Cisco B200 M3 blade servers.

•Deploy and configured Cisco C200 Rackmount servers.

•Architect a management POD that runs on vSphere 6.5 and also leveraged VMware NSX for micro segmentation purposes and outside service mapping.

•Networking within the management POD powered by NSX in full VXLAN backing mode. Security is provided by NSX Distributed firewall; natively for E-W traffic and through Palo Alto integration for N-S traffic.

•Architecture, design, install, configured VMware ESXi, host within VI3, vSphere 4,vSphere 5 and vSphere 6.5 environments.

•ESX management vSphere: Installation, Network design and configuration, HA, DPM and DRS cluster configurations, Fibre Channel SAN storage technologies, Virtual Center management, Patch management using Update Manager,

•Installation of ESX server and creation of VMs and install different guest OS Linux and Windows

•Installation of PSC appliances (PSCA) with High availability configuration of multiple PSCA and F5 load balancer

•Installation of vCenter Server appliances (VCSA) with (HA) Basic or Advance cluster solutions

•Configured Clusters for the ESXi hosts and created Anti-Affinity rules in the DRS to either keep the VMs together or separate them on ESXi hosts.

•Updating ESX host's using Vmware Update manager.

•Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines.

•P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter.

•Working on VMware clustering like HA and DRS clusters using VC.

•Working on Migration concepts like Vmotion and cold migration, Storage Vmotion

•Creating Virtual Distributed switches and Standard Switches

•Add some basic vRealize post-provisioning workflows using static parameters, that can perform actions (i.e. installing and or executing additional software or configurations) on the provisioned VM

Virtualization Engineer Pivotal - Durham, NC December 2015 to June 2016

Durham, NC (12/19/15 - 06/17/16)

Design and implementation experience with Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, SimpleDB, Amazon RDS, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon SQS, and other services of the AWS family

•Implemented AWS High-Availability, Fault Tolerance, Scalability, Database Concepts, System and software architecture, Security, IT Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Internet technologies and interoperability

•Used AWS Route53 for web based applications and websites

•AWS monitoring with CloudWatch

nstalled Workstation, Bootstrapped Nodes, wrote Recipes, and Cookbooks and uploaded them to Chef- server and managed AWS for EC2/S3 & ELB with Chef Cookbooks.

•Deploy and configured and maintained Cisco 3750X IP Services switch.

•Installed, Configured and maintained Cisco Nexus 7004 datacenter core routers

•Provide planning, installing, configuring, and upgrading support for vRealize Automation & vRealize Orchestrator

•Architecture, design, install, configured VMware vRealize suite, ESXi, host within VI3, vSphere 4,vSphere 5 and vSphere 6 environments.

•Design Disaster Recovery solution based VMware Site Recovery Manager.

•ESX management vSphere: Installation, Network design and configuration, HA, DPM and DRS cluster configurations, Fibre Channel SAN storage technologies, Virtual Center management, Patch management using Update Manager,

•Installation of ESX server and creation of VMs and install different guest OS.

•Installation of VC server and Installing Virtual center components

•Updating ESX host's using Vmware Update manager.

•Working on VMware clustering like HA and DRS clusters using VC.

•Working on Migration concepts like Vmotion and cold migration, Storage Vmotion

•Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates.

•Creating Virtual Distributed switches and Standard Switches

•Add basic vRA\ vRO post-provisioning workflows using static parameters, that can perform actions (i.e. installing and or executing additional software or configurations) on the provisioned VM

•Implemented and administered Windows Server, IIS, SharePoint, SQL Server.

•Managed technical services of Windows network infrastructure, including Active Directory, Group Policy, SCCM and SMS.

•Shavlik HFNetChkPro and Microsoft's WSUS were used also

•Provision and Administer Hyper-V hosts, Guest OS with SCVMM 2012 SP1

•Design and implementation experience with Amazon Services such as EC2 and S3buckets.

•Experience in release engineering with Cloud Foundry and BOSH in large scale distributed services

•Automate administrative tasks with Python

•Experience in Implementation of SAN and NAS environments using FC, FCoE, iSCSI Protocols and NFS and CIFS Protocols on EMC VNX,VNX2 and CLARIION, VMAX systems

•Configuration of EMC DCA and VCE solutions.

•Automate administrative tasks with Python and Perl

•Build and deploy new services using Chef

•Monitor and tune production MySQL servers

•Monitor and tune production Green Plum clusters

•Developed the scripts to push patches, files and maintain configuration drift through the Puppet tool

Deployed advanced monitoring (using SNMP, Pivotal Tracker, Nagios and Zenoss, Zabbix) to production, development, and QA environments to ensure maximum uptime and availability

System Architect /IT Security Liaison Officer

University of North Carolina Chapel - Hill, NC, US May 2014 to December 2015

•Security Incident handling, SIEM (ESEM) using RSA Envision/ArcSight products.

•Experience in Network Intrusion detection/Intrusion Prevention System and Firewalls.

•Experience in Implementing & managing Symantec Data Loss Prevention.

•Deployment of NAC - Network Access Control System. Knowledge in Proxy

•Manage transition of dental facility and hospital from their current EMR package (Cerner) to Epic

•Possess in depth expertise in analysis, implementation, troubleshooting and documentation

•Experience with regulatory compliance audits such as FIPS, PCI, SOX, ISO 17799.

•Followed the Security guidelines of HIPAA /PCI/IEEE/NIST/ DISA STIGs and STAGs

•Configured and managed Barracuda web filter, Nessus, Qualys scanner.

•Deployed advanced monitoring (using SNMP, Remedy, Heat, Nagios and SpiceWorks) to production, development, and QA environments to ensure maximum uptime and availability

•Architecture, design, install, configure VMware ESXi, host within VI3, vSphere 4,vSphere 5 and vSphere 6 environments with vRealize.

•Design and manage Vcenter and VMware View VDI network of over 50 thin client nodes.

•Design Disaster Recovery solution based VMware Site Recovery Manager.

•ESX management vSphere: Installation, Network design and configuration, HA, DPM and DRS cluster configurations, Fibre Channel SAN storage technologies, Virtual Center management, Patch management using Update Manager,

•Experience in advanced VMWare technologies like Storage VMotion

•Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows NT, 2000, 2003, 2008, and 2012 as well as Linux servers from VMware, Hyper-V, Xen and legacy hardware using VMware Converter, Platespin and Xosoft

•Ability to write scripts (e.g. PowerShell)

•Configured and documented MSCS clustering for SQL Servers using physical disk and RDM's.

•Configuring User Profiles, Creating local and Global Groups, Managing Account and Domain Controllers.

•Sharing Folders, Planning and Assigning NTFS Permissions.

•Implementing Windows Terminal Services by Installing Remote Desktop Services,

•Detailed design and implementation of SCCM 2012 R2

•R Windows 7, Windows 8.1 via SCCM using OSD/MDT

•Package Creation and Distribution via SMS / SCCM 2012

•Serve as the Exchange Administrator; configure and troubleshoot Exchange 2013 Hybrid Server and Exchange Online (Office 365 Enterprise)

•Troubleshoot issues with Office 365 mailboxes

•Serve as an Office 365 Global Administrator

•Leveraged the power of VDI to transition Health Care customers from their current EMR packages to Epic

•Worked with customers to integrate Epic's software into their existing environments with Epic Business Continuity Applications

•Configured Epic Print Services with Terminal Services

•Configured bar code scanners with Epic Rover application

•Developed Epic Sure Scripts

•Managed backup and restored functionality of Epic environments

•Created VPN’s for Epic Interconnect, Epic WebBlob, Epic Hyperspace Web connectivity

•Managed SQL clusters running Clarity to support high availability for Epic Clarity Console

•Managed the availability of Epic MyChart and MyChart Mobile for medical staff

•Ensured secure access to the electronic medical record information and test results with Epic Care Link

•Provided access for Epic-to-Epic medical record transfer with Epic Care Everywhere

•Created customer portal pages for mobile devices using Epic Haiku and Epic Canto applications

Virtualization Architect

HCL - Cary, NC

November 2013 to May 2014

•Architecture, design, install, configure VMware ESX, ESXi, within VI3, vSphere 4 and vSphere 5 environments with Virtual Center management, Lab Manager, vCloud Director, VCAC, VCO

•Consolidated Backup, DRS, HA, DPM, vMotion Administrated client environment consisting of 1000+ Esxi hosts and 10000+ Virtual Machines

•Experience with VMware Data Recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), vCenter Operations Manager, Horizon Workspace, Horizon Mirage, ThinApp and VMware View desktop virtualization infrastructure (VDI).

•Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows NT, 2000, 2003, 2008, and 2012 as well as Linux servers from VMware, Hyper-V, Xen and legacy hardware using VMware Converter, Platespin and Double take

•Experience with architecture, implementation and administration of IBM XIV storage arrays.

•Hands on experience in iSCSI, NFS, and FC, FCOE, switching, and zoning.

•Customize layer 2 and layer 3 networking between VMware, networking components and storage for high availability and maximum performance.

•Configuration of Cisco MDS 9506, 9513 Cisco Nexus 2k, 5k and 7k switches.

•Develops strategies to manage the frequency of appropriate support of upgrade packages, patches(VUM)

•Configured firewalls at application level using VShield

•Configured and documented MSCS clustering for SQL Servers using physical disk and RDM's.

•Experience with 3rd party solutions in VMware environments including Veeam, Zerto, EMC Replication Manager, Symantec, TrendMicro

•Installed, configured & administered Windows 2008 R2 SP1 Enterprise Server. Creating User Accounts,

•Knowledge on ADFS Claim rules, Multiple Domain Federation of ADFS with Office 365 cloud and Dir. Synchronizations

•Configuring User Profiles, Creating local and Global Groups, Managing Account and Domain Controllers.

•Created/updated and pushed domain group policy objects (GPO's)

•Used PowerShell, vSphere CLI, Power GUI, vSphere power CLI and AutoIT for scripting.

•Sharing Folders, Planning and Assigning NTFS Permissions. Implementing Windows Terminal Services by Installing Remote Desktop Services, Terminal services Clients &Connecting to Terminal Servers

•Bridged WAN links to DC's and forced replication in Active Directory.

•Created/managed scopes and leases on DHCP servers and Infoblox appliance

•Created new DNS records and subnets/cleared cache memory on DNS servers.

•Used WSUS, BigFix, and Patchlink to deploy patches to Servers/Workstations.

•Responsible for hardware integration of I/O modules (NICs, HBAs, VICs, CNAs)

•Configuration of IP KVM's and outer band management cards (iLo, CIMC, Drac, iRMC, RSA)

•Followed the Security guidelines of PCI/IEEE/NIST/HIPAA/ DISA STIGs and STAGs

Wintel Systems Engineer

Fujitsu - Durham, NC

July 2013 to November 2013

•Manage and configured four Data Centers running VMware Vsphere 4.x, 5.x enterprise network of 53 ESXi servers and over 1000 VM's

•Configured and manage Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 Hyper V servers and VM's.

•Installed, configured & administered Windows 2008 R2 SP1 Enterprise Server. Creating User Accounts, Configuring User Profiles, Creating local and Global Groups, Managing Account and Domain Controllers.

•Sharing Folders, Planning and Assigning NTFS Permissions.

•Implementing Windows Terminal Services by Installing Remote Desktop Services,

•Monitored Active Directory replication with Replmon.

•Bridged WAN links to DC's and forced replication in Active Directory.

•Created/managed scopes and leases on DHCP servers

•Created/updated and pushed group policies

•Created new DNS records and subnets/cleared cache memory on DNS servers.

•Troubleshot connectivity problems on the LAN/WAN.

•Managed configured thresholds and application pools on IIS 5.0/6.0 web servers.

•Performed SQL backups and restores on databases and added permissions.

•Created and configured clusters using MS cluster administration and Fujitsu Prime Cluster

•Configured and created clusters using Symantec Storage Foundation / VERITAS Cluster

•Used WSUS to deploy patches to Servers/Workstations.

•Manage network operating systems such as Linux, UNIX, and MAC environments

•Followed the Security guidelines of IEEE/NIST/HIPAA

•Used HP Insight Manager and Open View to monitor hardware problems on the serve

•Managed user's workstations using MacAfee endpoint protection (ePO).

•Deploy and manage Fujitsu, DELL, Cisco UCS, HP and IBM rack mount and blade servers.

•Configuration of IP KVM's and outer band management cards (iLo, CIMC, Drac, iRMC, RSA)

•Responsible for the installation, configuration, migration of NetApp FAS3020C Filers

•Configured and manage NetApp (FAS2200 - FAS6200) and V-Series (V3220 - V6290) Data Ontap 8.x- 7 mode and C mode providing fault tolerance with NetApp Snapmirror, Sanpshots and Snapmanager

•Installation and configuration of AIX, Solaris and other Linux distros.

•Administration of RHEL 5,6,7 and Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.4 which includes installation, testing, tuning, upgrading and loading patches, troubleshooting server issues.

Senior Platform Engineer Virtustream - Bethesda, MD January 2013 to July 2013

•Virtustream is the leading Enterprise Class Cloud solution provider. xStream(TM) is Virtustream's Enterprise Class Cloud solution allowing both mission-critical legacy and web-scale applications to run in the cloud--whether Hosted, Managed or Hybrid

•Responsible for architecture, design, engineering and management of large scale, multi-site, multi-tenant enterprise class cloud platform based state-of-the-art virtualization, server and storage technologies

•Expertise in design and development of self-service Cloud portals

•Experience deploying & supporting IAAS, MAAS, PAAS, SAAS and SAP\HANA in a cloud environment

•Develop system management, monitoring and operations strategy for virtualization and servers to maximize uptime and meet agreed upon SLAs

•Manage cloud platform performance and capacity, mine data from various sources, formulate analysis and provide scalability recommendations to resolve any performance and capacity issues

•Provide platform update management strategy leadership to the platform operations teams and assist in complex system and patch updates

•Manage and configured VMware Vsphere 4.x and Vsphere 5.x enterprise network over 400 ESXi servers and over 5,000 VM's

•Configured vCenter Linked Mode for London, Saudi Arabia, Virginia and California data centers

•Design and implementation experience with VMware, vCloud suite of products

•Design and manage Vcenter and VMware View VDI network of over 600 thin client nodes.

•Design Disaster Recovery solution based VMware Site Recovery Manager.

•ESX management vSphere: Installation, Network design and configuration, HA, DPM and DRS cluster configurations, Fibre Channel SAN storage technologies, Virtual Center management, Patch management using Update Manager, P2V, V2P and V2V migrations using VMware Converter Enterprise.

•Experience in advanced VMWare technologies like Storage VMotion

•Manage and deployed Cisco UCS (C260-C460) and IBM (3650-3690) servers.

•Responsible for hardware integration of I/O modules (NICs, HBAs, VICs), motherboards, and enclosure management subsystem components including preliminary vendor investigation, qualification, manufacturing readiness, debug, system/software integration, and failure analysis

•Ability to write scripts (e.g. PowerShell)

•Hands on experience with tier 1 storage vendors (NetApp, DELL,)

•Configured and manage NetApp (FAS2200 - FAS6200) and V-Series (V3220 - V6290) Data Ontap 8.x- 7 mode and C mode providing fault tolerance with NetApp Snapmirror, Sanpshots and Snapmanager

•Compellent SAN experience in administering, creating volumes, replication and replays

•Recognized as a Subject Matter Expert in FCoE, FC, NFS, CIFS, iSCSI protocols

•Configure and managed Cisco Nexus 7k, 5k, 2k switches set trunk ports, switch ports and VLANS

•Lead design, deployment, and maintenance of a broad range of Microsoft technologies including: Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008, 2008 R2; Exchange Server 2003 & 2007; SharePoint Server 2003,

2007, 2010; Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004, 2006; SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008; Windows Server Update Services (WSUS); DNS; WINS; DHCP; Active Directory; Group Policy Design and Implementation; IIS; and Terminal Services Gateway, Remote Desktop Services.

•Deployment of Unix and Linux systems and services (Solaris, Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, CentOS)

Deployed advanced monitoring (using SNMP, Nimsoft, Remedy, Heat, Nagios and Zenoss) to production, development, and QA environments to ensure maximum uptime and availability

SENIOR\LEAD NETWORK ENGINEER

Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency Washington, DC

June 2005 to December 2012

•Manage and configured VMware Vsphere 3.x, 4.x, 5.x enterprise network of 25 ESX, ESXi servers and over 200 VM's

•Design and manage Vcenter and VMware View VDI network of over 30 thin client nodes.

•Configured nodes and network devices to a F5 and Netscaler load balancers also CAG appliance

• +15 years designing, implementing, migrating, supporting and administering Citrix (XP, 3.0, 4.0, 4.5, 5.0, 6.0), Access Gateway, Password Manager, Provisioning Server, Edgesight) and Terminal Servers. Migrate farms from Citrix MetaFrame XP and Citrix Presentation Server 4.x to Citrix XenApp 5.0 and 6.0

•Connected Site to Site VPN's on routers and firewalls

•Performed test on the smart jacks and DSU/CSU's

•Configured Vlans and VTP on Cisco switches

•Configured and manage Cisco UCS

•Configured Virtual Port Channel Technology

•Configured Cisco Routers using MPLS /GLBP /OSPF/BGP /EIGRP/HRSP

•Configured NAT/PAT on routers and Firewalls

•Configured sub interfaces on Cisco routers

•Configured Spanning ports/Trunk ports and Network taps on switches

•Configured MDS 9509/9513 Cisco Fiber San switches

•Deployed Snort IDS's & updated snort rules on a Linux Platform Provided network security and monitored the firewalls/snort boxes

•Troubleshot connectivity problems on the LAN/WAN.

•Managed/monitored exchange servers using Spotlight on Exchange

•Installed and configured RIM (BES) Blackberry Exchange Servers.

•Performed SQL backups and restores on databases and added permissions.

•Deployed/ Configured Barracuda and Iron Mail spam appliance for monitoring spam

•Created and configured clusters using MS cluster administration.

•Configured and created clusters using Symantec Storage Foundation 5.1 / VERITAS Cluster

•Monitored/managed the Brocade switches

•Managed and Configured HP EVA 3000 SAN

•Configured and Managed EMC CLARiiON CX300 NAS/SAN using Navishpere/PowerPath

•Managed and Configured NetApp 3020 NAS/SAN

•Detailed design and implementation of SCCM 2007 R2

•installed Windows 7, Windows XP via SCCM using OSD/MDT

•Package Creation and Distribution via SMS / SCCM 2007

•Used WSUS, BigFix, and Patchlink to deploy patches to Servers/Workstations.

•Manage network operating systems such as Linux, UNIX, and MAC environments

•Followed the Security guidelines of IEEE/NIST/HIPAA

•Used HP Insight Manager and Open View to monitor hardware problems on the servers.

•Monitored alerts from US Cert/Microsoft & SANS

•Managed check point firewall logs using check point tracker

SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency Washington, DC

March 2002 to June 2005

•Configured video editing software: Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas

•Manage Video Telephone Conference codecs (Tandberg, Polycom, Sony, Aethra)

•Monitored trouble tickets using Touch Paper software application.

•The System/Network administrator for my division.

•Troubleshot connectivity problems on the LAN/WAN.

•Managed the users and servers using Active Directory.

•Assisted remote users by using Remote desktop connection.

•Configured managed/unmanaged Cisco switches/routers

•Deployed/configured/managed Cisco IDS's

•Reimaged configured and setup new PC's and servers by using Acronis.

•Managed/monitored Exchange 5.5 /2000 servers.

•Restored & backed up files and data to tapes using VERITAS NET Backup

•Performed NDMP backups to Adic pathlight (VTL) and NetApp near store SANS

•Handled hardware and printer problems for Dell and other venders.

•Performed server tests using NetDiag/DCDiag.

•Created/updated and pushed group policies

•Created new DNS records and subnets/cleared cache memory on DNS servers.

•Supervised 3 lower level staff members

•A member of the Infrastructure team.

•Configured sub interfaces on Cisco routers

•Implemented, maintained, and monitor virus protection using Symantec antivirus.

•Monitored the network traffic on the firewall.

•Worked in a Data center environment using HP CIM monitoring tool.

•Assisted remote access users in the Cisco VPN concentrator.

•Patched & performed maintenance on 200 File/ Print windows 2003 and 2008 servers

•Configured and setup blackberries.

•Security Manager for my division.

•Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines.

•Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates.

•P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter.

COMPUTER SPECIALIST(LAN/technician)

Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency Washington, DC

May 2001 to March 2002

•Configured routers,

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