Kevin W. Cline

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Norton, Ohio *4203

Cell 330-***-****

adiqiu@r.postjobfree.com

Skills:

VMware - ESXi 5.5, 6.5, 6.7 Environment design, management

VMware High Availability (HA), VMotion, and DR

Veeam Enterprise management, Backup and DR with server replication between data centers

Microsoft Server 2012r2 – 2019 Installation and Management

Advanced knowledge of Active Directory, Group Policies, DNS, DHCP

Microsoft Exchange 2010, 2013, 2016

Symantec Endpoint protection, McAfee EPO Enterprise server management to push Antivirus and Anti-Spyware Kaspersky Enterprise, Sophos Endpoint and management center

Mime Cast cloud-based email management for Microsoft Exchange and Barracuda Spam Filter management, Barracuda Web content Filter.

Microsoft WSUS Security and Update patch push server

Experience:

TSG Resources Inc. North Canton Ohio

Sr. Systems Administrator March 2017 to December 2020

Manage a virtualized data center of 135 virtual servers in 4 data centers to support 32 Altercare nursing home facilities in Ohio and Michigan, along with Absolute Pharmacy and Avalon foods.

Daily systems management, backup and DR planning using Veeam to backup multiple data centers and DR replication of servers.

Manage Zoom accounts with AD integration

Imprivata Biometrics configuration and account management

Okta SSO administration and push to endpoints

Migrate 2000 computers from Kaspersky antivirus to Sophos with remote push

Plan and implement the migration of a TSG data center of 125 servers to a new Co-Location while maintaining 24x7x 365 uptime project completed in 6 months

Manage Helpdesk group of 6 techs supporting 4500 users, using Connect wise for remote support

1EDISOURCE Inc. Solon Ohio

IT manager / Systems Engineer July 2016 to February 2017

Support a virtual environment of 300 servers and storage supporting SAAS and EDI developers.

Manage patch management and server backups and DR across datacenters using Veeam.

The design and implementation of the active directory upgrade from 2003 AD to 2008r2 AD, reducing the domain controller count from 14 to 9 domain controllers across 3 Datacenters and 3 domains.

Planned and implemented the upgrade of the Exchange 2010 Spam filtering to Minecast spam filtering.

Upgraded VMware hosts to VSphere 6.0 on 8 Host servers

Manage Veeam backups for 300 servers on 2 VMware V-centers.

Manage an IT team of 3 Support Technicians to manage an EDI environment, maintaining the upmost uptime for customers

Managing the configuration of customer facing point to point VPN tunnels.

Forbema Technical consulting Jenison Michigan

Dedicated onsite Systems Engineer on site at Kichler Lighting August 2011 to July 2016

oDesigned and deployed a remote network in a new las Vegas Warehouse, including file and

Print servers and domain controller along with installing a cisco VoIP phone system for a new Las Vegas distribution center.

oManaging the VMware ESX environment and increased the virtual environment from 3 VMware ESX host servers to 9 VMware host servers.

oBuild a 40 server environment for the deployment of an Epicor customer support system that included an automated fax confirmation system and EDI connection servers for B2B.

oImplemented V-Motion and High Availability to Kichler’s ESX servers which have increased up time of the production servers to almost 99.9%.

oImplemented a DR plan for the VMware environment enabling us to bare metal restore production server within minutes along with offsite replication eliminating the need for offsite Tape services.

oOnsite Data center rebuilt at Kichler’s Aztec distribution center (Hartford Conn), Upgrading both hardware and server OS from 2003 to server 2008 server environment, installation of an ISCSI IBM disk array to house local user home and Shared folders and adding local DNS and DHCP for the Hartford office.

oUpgraded thru VPN, Kichler’s China office Exchange and Domain controller servers to be compatible with the Cleveland office systems.

oBuilt a Microsoft Clustered server environment for the users home folders and Departmental Shared Drive, to allow failover fault tolerance to critical systems.

Myers Industries Akron, Ohio

Corporate Infrastructure Manager January 2010 to August 2011

Manage ShoreTel VOIP, on a Brocade network infrastructure and MPLS network to over 40 sites.

oManage the Corporate infrastructure including daily support of network, MPLS, VPN, Windows 2003 and 2008r2 servers. Manage the service desk supporting 1400 users across 8 manufacturing sites, corporate office and Myers Tire Supply sales offices and Distribution centers in 32 states and 5 countries.

oRe-Design and upgrade the Akron Data center to ESXi 4.1VMware environment and NetApp San.

oCo-ordinate Myers Tire Supply Sales office technology moves to new locations helping maintaining network and ShoreTel VOIP to both new and old locations in parallel during the moves.

oBuild a clustered SQL and SharePoint environment for public and private facing SharePoint

Kichler Lighting Independence, Ohio

VMware, Windows System Engineer August 2006 to January 2010

Administration of Kichler’s Microsoft windows server 2003 environment and VMware virtual infrastructure..

oManaging the VMware ESX environment

oDesigned Kichler Lightings entire VMware ESX environment

Upgrading it from ver.2.0 to ver. 3.5

oIncreased the virtual environment from 3 VMware ESX host servers to 6 VMware ESX host servers

oWindows server environment

oUpgraded Kichlers 4 Domain Controller from server 2000 to server 2003 and upgraded the Active Directory and Group Policies and DNS from 200 to 2003

oManage the Kichler Domain DHCP across locations in 4 states and 2 countries

oOnsite support of VMware server environment in the Dallas showroom showtime software for 2 Lighting industry trade shows a year, along with support of point of sales barcode scanners for trade show orders

oBack-up and DR

oManage Kichler IBM Tivoli TSM back-ups on all Microsoft Server system for

oBuilt a Symantec Enterprise Vault Exchange archive disk environment for archiving emails older than 90 days, and moving them to lower cost disk space.

oDesigned and setup scheduling of full DR copies of all Critical Production servers in the VMware environment allowing full bare metal restorations of all critical Microsoft servers.

MCPc, Computer Consulting and Products Strongsville, Ohio

Senior Desktop Repair Specialist December 2004 to August/2006

Life Cycle management Project team leader

oTechnical team lead of the data backup and migration on Servers and Desktops coming off lease and being replaced

oA short list of companies that I have preformed migration services for are: Forest City Enterprises, Erie Insurance (traveled 6 states to complete), A. Schulman Company (3 States and Canada), Parker Hannifin Corp(Cleveland), Hammot Medical (Erie Pa.), Linde Gas Corporate Cisco router upgrade project Cleveland Ohio and 200 remote location by phone support.

Field Service Technician / Field Service Supervisor August 1999 to December 2004

oOnsite, at the Timken Company in Canton, Ohio. Supervised up to 14 Technicians, providing desktop and software support for over 4000 users. In charge of implementing new PC rollout, repair and software upgrades for multiple Domains.

Certifications:

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)

VMware Infrastructure 3& 4.1ESXi Install and Configuration Certification

A+, Network+

IBM Blade Center Management

C4 Managers Training

IBM Blade Center support and Repair

Dell certified platform repair tech

HIPAA compliance training

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