MARK KIRVES

Sr. Infrastructure Engineer Sr. Systems Administrator IT Manager

Eden UT, 84310 · 914-***-****

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SUMMARY

Hands-on IT Infrastructure Engineer, Systems Administrator, and IT Manager possessing excellent troubleshooting and communication skills. 19+ years as the sole infrastructure engineer supporting Corporate Office infrastructure, interfacing with IT staff at all company business units, while also supporting a mix of on-site and remote users. Broad skill set includes Active Directory, VMware, Exchange Server (5.5 – 2016, and O365 hybrid), SQL Server, IIS, SAN, Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Windows Server, core switch and firewall infrastructure, TCP/IP networking, Microsoft Office365, various backup and restore technologies, various information security technologies, Sarbanes-Oxley

(SOX) compliance. Very experienced with implementations, maintenance, troubleshooting, lifecycle management and migrations of the aforementioned technologies. EXPERIENCE

SEPTEMBER 2000 – JULY 2020

IT MANAGER - CRANE CO. (STAMFORD, CT)

Sole infrastructure engineer supporting Crane Co. Corporate Office infrastructure, interfacing with IT staff at all Crane business units.

Transitioned the Corporate infrastructure from physical servers to VMware with High- availability and vMotion capability.

Supported 120 Corporate users.

Supported migration of applications to Amazon Web Services, and implementation of new applications in both Azure and Amazon Web Services.

Supported implementation of Azure Site Recovery to replicate Corporate infrastructure to a Disaster Recovery site in Azure

Work with IT staff at all other Crane business units to connect to enterprise wide systems such as HFM financial reporting, PeopleSoft, O365, UIPath RPA, and SharePoint

Implemented DELL N3048 PoE switch stack with VLAN QoS tagging to support VoIP

Lifecycle management, upgrades, and migrations:

Active Directory, IIS, SQL, DHCP

Windows Server NT – Server 2019

VMware ESX 3.5 – 6.0 in a clustered configuration

Exchange server versions 5.5 – 2016, Exchange Online O365

Windows XP – Windows 10 Workstations

Checkpoint and WatchGuard Firewalls

3COM, Cisco, DELL managed switches

Managed 3 ISP changes and ensuing public IP / NAT / Firewall changes

MS Office XP – O365

See skills section for list of core infrastructure, security, cloud, and specific product experience AUGUST 1999 – SEPTEMBER 2000

IT CONSULTANT SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR - SYSTEM ARTS, INC. (NEW YORK, NY) IT consultant responsible for various system administration and troubleshooting duties at four locations in NYC and surrounding area.

NOVEMBER 1995 – AUGUST 1999

IT MANAGER – MAC PRODUCTS, INC. (S. KEARNY, NJ)

Sole IT support for a manufacturing company. Implemented a Microsoft Windows network, email, implemented an MRP system to better manage manufacturing, purchase orders, AP/AR. SKILLS – CORE TECHNOLOGIES

Active Directory (Sites and Services, Trusts,

Group Policy Objects)

Microsoft Windows Servers up to 2019,

Windows 10 workstations

Microsoft Exchange 5.5 – 2016, Exchange

Online O365

SQL Server 2000 through 2016

IIS (Microsoft Internet Information Services)

TCP/IP Networking (Including WINS, DNS,

DHCP, LAN/WAN, IP address planning)

VMware ESX 3.5 through 6, including DRS,

vMotion, and HA in a cluster environment

Microsoft O365

EqualLogic iSCSI SAN, including configuration of replication and MPIO, shared storage for

VMware ESXi

DELL VRTX Blade Server with shared storage to

host VMware ESXi

Veeam backup and replication

Backup Exec

Druva inSync cloud backup

Microsoft WSUS Automated patch

management

Ivanti Automated patch management

IPSec Site-to-site VPN

PPTP and SSL Point-to-site VPN

Microsoft Active Directory Federation

Services

Cisco and DELL managed switches

P2V (physical to virtual) migration to

VMware

Cisco Meraki Wi-Fi (separate SSIDs for guest

and employee access)

Switch VLANs to support VoIP QoS

APC Symmetra UPS, configure VMware VMs

for graceful shutdown using PowerChute

vSphere plug-in

Ghost and imageX for workstation imaging

Password Reminder Pro and Password Reset

Pro

Quest Collaboration Services (for Exchange /

AD Global Address Book synchronization)

SKILLS – SECURITY TOOLS

WatchGuard and CheckPoint Firewalls

FireEye security appliances

Rapid7 Vulnerability Scanner

MailMarshal SMTP Gateway

proofpoint SMTP Gateway

Microsoft ATA (Advanced Threat Analytics)

Two-factor VPN authentication using

Gemalto MobilePASS, Azure MFA, Microsoft

Authenticator, Google Authenticator

CarbonBlack Protection Server

Windows Server PKI Installation and

configuration

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SKILLS – CLOUD TECHNOLOGIES

UIPath RPA (Robotic Process Automation)

infrastructure setup in Azure

ASR (Azure Site Recovery) replication of on-

premises servers to a disaster recovery site

hosted in the Azure Government cloud

Azure IaaS: VMs, backups, load balancers,

IPSec VPN, VWAN Hub, Vnet to Vnet

connections, and PaaS (Webserver, SQL

platforms)

Amazon Web Services IaaS: VMs, backups,

load balancers, IPSec VPNs

SKILLS – TECHNICAL TRAINING ATTENTED (NOT CERTIFICATIONS)

Cisco CCNA ICND

VMware ESX 3.5 basic and advanced

Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure

Solutions

Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010

Citrix Metaframe 4.0

Checkpoint Firewall Security Expert

ColdFusion

SANS Security Essentials

SANS Hacker Tools and Techniques

VMware ESX 3.5 basic and advanced,

VMware VSphere – What’s New ESXi 5.0

Introduction to PowerShell 3.0 scripting

Active Directory Design and Implementation

HTML

Dreamweaver MX

EDUCATION

B.S. MECHANICAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY, NJ INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GPA 3.5, Cum Laude Honors

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