Randy Ross

Cell:714-***-****

adjh1w@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary:

I am a results-driven IT professional with over 15 years of experience who is proficient in designing, planning, and implementing new technologies, as well as managing and building large networks and datacenters. I have the key ability to communicate cost-effective strategies to my peers and executive-level management.

Skills Summary:

Networking: Cisco ASA FirePOWER, Palo Alto, Juniper. Nexus, Catalyst, Dell switches, F5 BIG-IP Citrix XenApp App ballancers.

Storage: Pure FlashArray//X, Dell EgualogicTintri,, Cohesity, and Hitachi. iSCSI, NFS and FiberChannel

Virtualization: NSX, vSphere 6.7, Azure, vRealize, Site Recovery and Horizon, and Workspace One

Applications: AD, DNS,Certificate Services, Azure AADDS / Update Manager / Intune / Sentinel, DFS, and Sharepoint

Experience:

Honda Federal Credit Union - Infrastructure Architect

03/2017 - 3/2020

Principal Infrastructure Architect for Honda Federal Credit Union. Defined and maintained infrastructure and security architectural policies, procedures, and standards. Documented existing IT architecture infrastructure topology ensuring the infrastructure aligns with the overall enterprise architecture standards and best practices. In charge of analysis, design, and planning of all phases of IT projects. Developed and implemented methods to measure and report infrastructure performance, reliability, and availability as it relates to key performance indexes.

The Pinnacle Group – Infrastructure Architect / Security Consultant

04/2014 – 1/2017

Performed clients internal and external security penetration testing web application security assessment, onsite internet physical security assessments, onsite social engineering, wireless assessment. Generate and present reports on security vulnerabilities based on PCI-DSS or HIPPA compliance. Project Manager and Architect for multiple client build-out Data Center, VMWare and Azure cloud based expansion projects, including coordination selection and assigning electrical, environmental controls. Large scale v Center Upgrades and conversions for Imperial County Water and Electric and Los Angeles Municipalities Architect for NetApp, 3PAR, Hitachi and EqualLogic (multiple clients) disaster recovery Application Security design auditing and consultantation.

CBRE Global Investors Sr. System Administrator / System Architect

06/2011-03/2014

Responsible for the architecture of virtualization and storage infrastructure in Los Angeles. Consisting of 100+ ESXi hosts, 15 Red Hat and SUSE Enterprise Virtualization hosts, 1800+ VM’s, multiple Hitachi, NetApp, and EqualLogic storage systems.Responsible for over 40 worldwide offices and primary systems architect of the Los Angeles Datacenter. Primary systems administrator supporting a large multi-application web farm providing 24x7 availability to global investors. Designed / Configured and Maintained CheckPoint firewalls datacenter topology worldwide. Managed Virtual Infrastructure for CBRE Investors. Including Radware and F5 application load balancing topologies. Chief Architect and project manager for Los Angeles datacenter migration to Dallas data center relocation. Complete redesign of ESXi 5.3 vCenter and network vLAN topology including F5 client-facing websites in Dallas datacenter. Managed and maintained Windows 2008 AD servers providing Active Directory, DNS, VPN, DHCP, and DFS file services. Provided detailed provisioning plans, troubleshooting, yearly budgeting, and capacity planning for the ESXi infrastructure as well as underlying storage. Assist development teams with designing applications from a system/network perspective to ensure application scalability and reliability. Managed application load balancers Radware and F5 LTM, for public-facing web applications. Designed and implemented a systems deployment and management strategy using Microsoft Deployment Services worldwide.

Brighten Lending, Inc. Manager of IT / System Administrator

04/200*-**-****

Customized MS Windows 2003/2008 Active Directory to perform LDAP authentication for ancillary application authentication. Providing SSO authentication, via SSL web-based portal applications.

Virtualized 90% of company infrastructure to ESX 4 via P2V migrations. Responsibilities include supporting the environment of 75 VMs and 3 remote branch offices. Designer and architect of the existing VMWare environment using HA & DRS and vSphere 4. Virtualized Citrix farm, MS Exchange 2007, IIS, and SQL 2000/2005 servers. Responsible for all IT corporate policies, stability, and security of all corporate network assets. Accountable for implementation and network management infrastructure including security, backup, and offsite disaster recovery planning. Designed and deployed two new regional offices in Las Vegas and Florida. Installed and all servers, T1 circuits, switches, and firewalls onsite at each location. Migrated SQL 2000 to 2005 for Point Data Server, including custom table and ODBC modifications. Primary Administrator of Exchange 2007 for 550 remote/local users. Including archiving policies and after-hours data store compaction. Created custom VBS applications for software and hardware inventory management. This application tracks assets' geographical location and user environment. Architect of offsite disaster recovery topology compliant to FDIC and HIPAA requirements. Designed and implemented a new datacenter for El Monte corporate headquarters. Including the design of cooling and power requirements. Designed and implemented current Citrix XenApp farm supporting over 2500 clients with published applications and thin client virtual desktops.

Irwin Holdings, Inc. Manager of Information Technology

05/2006 – 03/2009

Virtualized 95% of the infrastructure of four separate sister companies Hobbs Bannerman, Irwin Industries, Rig-One, and Streamlined Support Systems (S3).

Converted Active Directory from a single forest, to multiple domain forest for all five separate Irwin Holdings companies. Designed procured and implemented EMC Clarion CX420 SAN to ensure high availability and acceptable performance characteristics for VMware Virtual Infrastructure 4 and SAN-backed applications for company restructuring. Responsible for technical design, implementation, and maintenance of HP/Dell servers and storage hardware, EMC storage systems, routing and switching, SSL/VPN, Symantec Backup Exec, Blackberry Enterprise Server, and GFI FaxMaker.

Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V), and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of, Windows NT, 2000 and 2003 and LAMP servers. Build, configured, and deployed VMs and templates.

Centrally managed for over forty different geographically diverse firewalls and DNS servers.

Infrastructure architect of over forty geographically diverse branch offices and job sites into a cohesive inter-company network to increase efficiency and improve internal/external customer satisfaction.

Designed a hybrid satellite/CDMA solution for extremely remote job sites. Providing VPN and shared document management capability for job sites without electrical or POTS services.

Built support team from ground-up, hiring, and equipping personnel for the challenges of a rapidly growing business needs and increased demands from remote field locations. Completed interviews, personnel, and salary reviews.Personally led the conversion of an unstructured helpdesk to a unified multiple corporation service desk through a custom-built open source ticketing system. Providing best practice results and increased service levels. Reduced resolution time, and analyze metrics to increase service offerings. Automated recurring tasks via custom PowerShell, VBS Scripts, MSI based installations, and Active Directory automated installations.

Served as a member of the corporate leadership team for all business practices and procedures.

ITResources System Administrator / Consultant

06/1998 – 04/2006

· Systems and Network Administrator for Isuzu Motors, Yamaha, Yamaha Federal Credit Union, Pilkington Aerospace, EDS, California Avocado Commission, and DVI Industries.

· Preformed new installations and migrations for Exchange 5.5, 2000, Exchange 2003 for multiple companies. Designed and configured firewalls, circuits, T1’s, OC3 for many different companies from small banks to fortune 500 companies.Coordinated North American data center relocation for Isuzu Motors. A move consisting of 220 servers, 300 switches, three Nortel PBX’s, routers, firewalls, AS400s, mainframe, and a 35 TB automated tape storage cluster. Upgraded multiple Active Directory (Y2K upgrades) networks, NT 4.0, 2000, 2003 (Multiple companies)

· Installed and configured Windows NT/2000/2003 Servers and Active Directory converting environments from Novell. Created VBS scripts to automate administration and repetitive tasks.

· Well versed in MSI creation of remote/local deployment of applications.Designed and performed backup and offsite data recovery topology strategies.

MCSE, MCT, A+ (MCP ID#464392)

REFERENCES:

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