Systems Engineer Team Member

Charles K (Kenny) Gagne

*** ******* **.

Rock Hill SC 29732

Phone: 803-***-****

ad5dmn@r.postjobfree.com

Objective

My objective is to be an asset and team member for the company and help the company achieves their goals. My goals are to work to be a better employee and assist my co-workers in any way I can to be helpful to them.

If you give me the opportunity to work for you. I can prove to be a valuable asset to the company.

Professional Experience

Sharonview FCU December 2019 – Present

Senior Systems Engineer

Administrator Vmware 8.0 for 3 clusters including Horizon View 7.0

Administrator HPE Storage Systems including StoreOnce, Nimble and 3Par

Administrator HPE Synergy Appliance

Active Directory, DNS and DHCP for 2019 domain controllers

Administrator Commvault 11.28 and Wasabi Cloud Storage

Administrator Commvault Backups and BCP strategy

Administrator – Rubrik Cloud Backup

Software Specialists, Inc November 2014 – October 2019

Systems Engineer – Contractor SC department of Health and Human Services

Setup SMTP relay server to Proofpoint Hosted system to Office 365 for secure encryption for Printer and Notification servers.

Successfully migrated 4 terabytes of data from a Compellent San to EMC VNX solution.

1.Reclaimed EMC LUN’s from a previous Windows 2012 cluster installation and commissioned Four 2012 R2 servers.

2.Created new Group Policies for Drive Mappings, Folder Redirection and Home Directories via Powershell after data migration.

3.Monitored the health of Active Directory with AD replication tools such as DcDiag, NTdsutil, and RepAdmin for six domain controllers.

4.Installed EMC Avamar Client on 2012 R2 Servers and successfully tested restore capabilities.

5.Transparent Migration for users.

Setup Scheduled Tasks Via Powershell to automate tasks for checking SMTP relay server status.

Configured VMAX 3 400K storage devices for windows and Linux servers.

Configured Isilon FS one 8 node cluster for SMB shares and NFS mount points for VM’s

Installed and setup RHEL and Oracle Unbreakable Linux on 150 VM’s.

Upgraded Vmware Horizon view components from 6.2 to 7.8.

Administered Biscom Faxcom server.

Migrate 125 TB’s of storage from a VNX 5500 to Vmax 950F Datastores.

Administered Vmware Vcenters 6.0, 6.5 and 6.7.

Administrated Dell rx720, rx740 servers for Vcenter with ESXi OS.

Installed and administered VROPs for 3 vcenter instances.

American Credit Acceptance, LLC October 2012 – November 2014

Senior Systems Administrator

Moved our exchange environment from outsourced business to in house and migrated 900 mailboxes from exchange 2010 to exchange 2013(O365). Now Running in a mixed mode environment with ADFS 3.0

Raised Active Directory Domain and Functional level to 2008 R2 and then to 2012R2 functional level to support ADFS 3.0.

Monitored the health of Active Directory with AD replication tools such as DcDiag, NTdsutil, and RepAdmin for five domain controllers.

Completed File Structure and Permissions Migration from a Cisco NAS device to an EMC San Solution for 3 Terabytes of data.

Setup a Right Fax Cluster for Active / Passive Failover.

Implemented Printer Servers and Group Policy mapping for all Department for seamless printer setup.

Implemented PKI Security by installing PKI certificates via Group Policy.

Created two Vsphere hosts for a segmented DMZ environment with Test and Production servers hosting 8 2012 servers and 2 domain controllers functioning at 2012R2 domain.

Tier 3 level support for Windows 7 PCs and Laptops

Tier 3 level support for I-Phone and Windows mobile devices.

Setup the ADDS structure at our Satellite office for DNS (forward and reverse lookup zones) and DHCP for communications across our domain.

Successfully rolled out SCCM and SCOM to over 900 machines.

Setup Scheduled Tasks Via Powershell to automate tasks for backup and replicating data to our EMC San Solution.

Security Finance Corporation Inc. September 1987 - September 2012

Communications Administrator

Setup first 5.5 exchange server and migrated to exchange 2000, 2003 and then exchange 2010 with an active / passive cluster for Disaster Recovery.

Implemented Barracuda email devices for our DMZ and created connectors for exchange 2010 for email traffic flow.

Used P2V Vmware to create test environment for HR Ultimate Software for update testing.

Implemented Onbase Installation for department to scan and digitize documents for historical purposes

Setup Netbackup PureDisk for backups for 900 branch offices with De-duplication functionality

Installed and supported Trecs Enterprise Server

Barracuda Web and email Filter Administrator

Ultimate Software Administrator for test environment

Setup Blackberry server for administration of over 150 Blackberry devices.

Tier 3 Support for windows 7 PC’s, laptops and tablets

Created maintenance plans for SQL Server 2005 and 2008 for backup strategies for Databases and restored Databases as needed.

Technical Skills

Storage

HPE Nimble Storage

HPE StoreOnce 5100

Windows Server 2003, 2008 R2, 2012, 2016 and 2019 Active Directory Administration

Add and delete users for AD

Create and modify distribution lists

Manage Organizational Units

Created and Maintain advanced Group Policies

Monitored the Health of Replication and Best Practices for 2019 domain and functional level.

Create Windows Server 2008 and 2012 Failover clusters

Administer DNS and DHCP for Active Directory

Manage Security Permissions and Quotas for users on 2008 R2 File Server

DHCP, DNS management for the Domain.

Powershell scripting

VMWare PowerCLI

Email Encryption, Antispam and Antivirus Protection

STMP Reply and TLS Encryption Windows 2019

Proofpoint Enterprise version 7.1

SCCM Endpoint Protection

Exchange Server 2010, Exchange Online Administration

Successfully migrated from Exchange 2000 to 2003 to 2010, Exchange Online.

Export mailboxes from exchange 2010 and remove accounts from AD.

Successfully migrated all users” mailboxes to Exchange Online.

Created receive connectors for Fujitsu Scanners in various departments for sending faxes via Rightfax

Created connectors for Barracuda email virtual devices

Symantec Netbackup 9.0 for Windows Administration

Created backup policies for Windows servers and Vmware Snapshots for 50 physical and 140 Virtual Servers

Restored exchange 2003 databases from foreign exchange servers within our domain

Symantec Netbackup Puredisk 6.6.2 For Linux 9.0 Administration

Created 4 cluster node for Puredisk for failover support

Created backup Policies for 1100 offices with 1.0 terabyte of Storage for each node

Documented procedures for Accounting and Help Desk on how to restore backups for testing and troubleshooting

Trecs Enterprise Server

Migrated from versions 5.0 to current version 6.46

Created SQL servers jobs to archive data from production to decrease processing time

Barracuda Web Filter Administration

Created a teamed environment for two devices for failover support

Created allowed websites policies

Added sites requested by users that may be blocked

Applied firmware updates when applicable

Barracuda Email Filter Administration

Created policy for Quarantined emails for to be sent to HR for approval and forwarding

Allowed email addresses and domains when applicable

Added disclaimer to all outgoing emails

Windows XP and 7

Support and troubleshoot over 100 pcs

Maintain various 3rd party software for use in the Home Office

Ultimate Software for use in HR

Setup test environment for restoring databases to test updates for production

Applied updates to production

VMWare 5.5 Administration

Assisted IT development department in creating VM machines for testing updates for in-house software

Created VM pc’s from physical server and pc’s using P to V software

SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008 R2, 2012

Migrated SQL Databases from 2000 to 2005 and 2008 R2

Created Maintenance Plans for Database backup, removing expired backups, indexing, and truncating transaction logs

Setup SQL Server Clustering for 2008 and 2012

Opentext Rightfax 10.6 SR3

Successfully migrated from 9.32 to 10.0 from physical to virtual server

Configured Rightfax gateway connectors for exchange 2010 and Barracuda devices

Configured Rightfax gateway for Office365 integration

Opentext Docs Open 4.0

Maintained users and rights to documents for 10 users

Configured indexing server for searches in documents for specific criteria

Fujitsu Scanners

Successfully migrated scanners in 5 departments that were attached to pcs to fujitsu scanners to eliminate steps to reduce time to sending faxes

Created routing connectors for exchange 2010 to facilitate passing the faxes to the Rightfax server

Blackberry Enterprise Server 5.0

Maintained over 100 users

Created and maintain policies for users

Education and Training

Issuing Institution

Qualification

Course of Study

USC At Aiken

Bachelor's Degree

Finance with minor in Computer Science

Also coached Security Finance softball team for two years and the team was runner up in the league championship

in 2010.

Also recorded voice overs for automated attendant for Help Desk, Home Office and Tax departments.

References

Harvey Brown 803-***-****

Joe Brueggemann 314-***-****

Kim Humphries 864-***-****

Cindy Griffin 864-***-****

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