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Summary

A proven analytical, strategic, and tactical systems engineer with 20 years of extensive hands-on engineering and architectural experience in highly complex information technology management environments in a career complete with increasing responsibility and significant achievements. Experience

System Engineer

Qualfon

Sep 2020 - Oct 2021 (1 year 2 months)

Responsible for engineering support of Qualfon’s infrastructure, and consolidation of five acquired company domains.

• Management of Veritas NetBackup and Veeam backup solutions on Nutanix, VMware, and Hyper-V.

• Migrated server backup jobs from NBU to Veeam in a $300K cost savings plan while implementing both back-up directly to AWS S3 Glacier for long term storage and site to site disaster recovery solutions using Nutanix SAN protection domains, Veeam, VMware, and Hyper-V server replication schemas.

• Charged with repair and management of Solarwinds’ solutions including NPM, IPAM, NCM, and Kiwi.

• Implemented AD clean-up sprawl and consolidation of purchased companies’ system infrastructure including Dialog-Direct’s on-prem MS Exchange mailboxes, distribution lists, shared MBXes to Qualfon’s O365 Exchange on-line.

• Trained for 6 Sigma certification.

Senior System Engineer

Pointivity Managed Solutions

Jun 2015 - Mar 2020 (4 years 10 months)

Responsible for management, support, and engineering of Pointivity’s largest clients.

• Implemented Microsoft Active directory features and functions and Azure Active Directory of both current and new clients with emphasis on Highly Available, Fault Tolerance, and MS Best Practices.

• Created change management, incident management, and root cause analysis documentation.

• Described to client’s technology proposals in both a 30,000’ viewpoints and in more detailed technical support discussions.

• Successfully migrated MS Exchange clients to new forests, new domains and O365 Exchange On- Line.

• Improved security with implementations of ProofPoint, Cisco FirePOWER, MFA, SSO, and NetWrix Tools in a Cisco UCS hyper-converged environment.

• Increased performance of VDI environment 150% by careful resource analysis, optimization of Hyper- V RDS & Windows 10 WVD auto-scaled environments and retiring 50+ antiquated systems that were end-of-life.

• Increased uptime of client document systems 500% with reduced TCO, CapEx and fault tolerant best practices

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Senior Network System Engineer

Golden Hour

May 2014 - May 2015 (1 year 1 month)

Designed, implemented, and documented network architecture of a HIPAA compliant environment.

• Managed EqualLogic SANs, ExaGrid appliances, ESXi hosts, Windows, Exchange, SharePoint, Dell switches, Cisco ASA intrusion detection appliances, firewalls, L2/L3 switches and Exchange 2007 DAG systems.

• Responsible for improvements, management, upgrades, and configuring Fault Tolerant vSphere 4/5/6

(clusters).

• Designed and implemented new GFS backup and recovery solutions of their 100% virtualized environment with Veeam, ExaGrid, and created the documents for the new procedures.

• Improved backup and DR from 40% of systems to 100% systems coverage in first six months.

• Created metrics, reports, and ticket management procedures of all environments for upper management.

• Successfully migrated all hardware from aging Co-Lo to newly certified secure datacenter in Rancho Bernardo.

Senior System Engineer

Jenny Craig

Jul 2011 - Apr 2014 (2 years 10 months)

Managed all Windows server infrastructure with Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP with ‘Best Practices’ focus MS Exchange with multiple DAGs, the elimination of single points of failure, developed new PowerShell & VBS automation and monitor scripts.

• Managed all VMware 4.x/5.x host servers and implemented HA/DPM/DRS/VDR solutions.

• Charged with all backups including all Windows, Linux, MS SQL, Oracle DB, and VMware hosts. Implemented D2D2T backup policies, NDMP, DataDomain storage, InfoBlox and Centrify appliances, increased backups from 30% of servers when first started to 100% of all servers within 4 months of hire.

• Successfully MS Exchange migration from 2007 to 2010 in team based multi-staged procedures.

• Installed, migrated, and managed servers and equipment to new data center (NOC) in Irvine. Data Center Engineer

Viejas Casino & Resort

Jan 2008 - Jun 2011 (3 years 6 months)

Managed Viejas’ datacenter (Windows, Linux, and AIX servers) with second and third shift coverages for the Viejas’ Casino, Outlet Center, Borrego Spring's bank, and their owned FM radio station.

• Leveraged multiple monitoring systems such as MS System Center (SCVMM, SCCM, & SCOM 2007 R2); Nagios; Cacti; OpenNMS; LanGuard (GFI); SolarWinds, and ZenOSS monitoring solutions.

• Managed NetBackup and SANs (NetApp, EMC, and Compellent) including tier storage balancing, implementing NDMP, designing new processes and procedural documentations.

• Implemented regularly scheduled maintenance and security scanning procedures for security, critical patches, upgrades of environment with Altiris solution. New patching procedures for entire infrastructure on a bi-monthly staged rotation.

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• Reduced physical servers by 85% to a highly virtualized local cloud with high density blade servers

(Dell, HP and IBM). Reduction in Server energy usages resulted in significant monetary reward by San Diego Gas & Electric.

Computer Systems Engineer

TEKsystems

Aug 1998 - Jan 2008 (9 years 6 months)

Computer sytems engineering contractor at various TEKsystems clients and durations. Senior System Engineer

DJO

Aug 2007 - Jan 2008 (6 months)

Managed and implemented 3 projects to completion on a short term contract for DJ Orthopedics for TEKsystems .

•Configured company’s SSL VPN, and WhatsUp Gold V.11 Upgrade,

•Exchange PST migration to Symantec’s highly secure Enterprise Vault e-mail archival appliance. System Architect

Merrill Lynch

Jan 2006 - Jul 2007 (1 year 7 months)

Designed Infrastructure for Centralized Desktop and Server Management. Implemented Centralized Software deployment system from bare-metal to End of Life management utilizing COTS software and in-house developed interface for Merrill Lynch under contract for TEKSystems.

•Developed contingency plans and implemented Virtual Environment to test and ease transition to Merrill's new international financial desktop interface.

•Software packaging and deployment for Merrill International and U.S. Banking. System Engineer

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Sep 2005 - Dec 2005 (4 months)

Managed all disaster recovery, and NetBackup configurations for U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs national infrastructure under contract with Sapphire Systems.

•Increased backup and recovery efficiency; reduced by 4 hours nightly backup window by reconfiguration of NBU settings. Implemented and configured forward synthetic-full backups.

•Wrote scripts for daily success/failure of backups, scripts for backup metrics. Senior System Engineer

Cricket Wireless

Dec 2003 - Dec 2005 (2 years 1 month)

Managed 300+ Windows 2000 and 2003 servers at two data center sites. Managed data strorage on 5 EMC and Hitachi SANs.

• Utilized EMC UniStor; Hitachi SATA Beast, Storage Foundation, and DMP SAN utilities.

• Charged with all backups using Veritas' NetBackup Enterprise.

• Designed, implemented, and managed hierarchal storage plan, upgraded to a D2D2T methodology.

• Successful migration of Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003. Michael T. Allen - page 3

• Designed, implemented, managed hierarchal storage plan to D2D2T methodology.

• Designed, implemented, managed new on-premise Datacenter. Lead Engineer

Johnson & Johnson

2002 - 2003 (2 years)

Migration of J&J's systems from Windows 98 desktop computers to Windows 2000 Migration Engineer

Sharp HealthCare

2001 - 2002 (2 years)

Migration of 4000+ GroupWise Clients to Exchange 2000 and Novell to Microsoft AD environment. System Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

2001 - 2002 (2 years)

Contracted to oversee Windows server infrastructure team at Rancho Bernado large printer facility. Education

Western Governor's University

MBA, Information Technology Management

2012 - 2014

Augustana College

BA, Chemistry / Secondary Ed. Certification

Iowa State University

BS, Geology

Licenses, Certifications and Training:

Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions - Microsoft Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification - Qualfon VMWare ESXi - VMware

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE, MCP+I) - Microsoft Skills:

• Active directory • Change management • Cisco • VMware • Hyper-V • NetBackup • Veeam

• Nutanix • Netscaler • Storage Area Network (S

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