System Administrator Data Center

DONALD H. FARRISH

EXPERIENCE:

Consultancy

Ernst & Young (2/2007- Present)

Seasoned Windows System Administrator with expertise in managing complex enterprise environments. Adept at cloud integration, cybersecurity, and automation, leveraging Azure for streamlined operations while adhering to compliance standards. Deploying Software as a service, Platform as a service, and Infrastructure as a service. Reduced system downtime by 40% while leading a team of 5 IT professionals, driving organizational efficiency through innovative infrastructure solutions. Automate over 30 tasks using Azure command-line interface to improve efficiencies. Deploy virtual machines to virtual networks using Azure portal.

Administration of global corporate datacenters with Development, QA and Production Systems. The production platform encompasses a broad array of hardware (SUN, EMC, Dell Netappliance) and operating systems. Responsibilities included administration, maintenance and trouble shooting of 3000+ servers running under Windows 2008 & 2012 AD operating systems and SQL Clustering SFT.

Architecture & Service Continuity in implementing the best practices in administering global data center.

Created disaster recovery site, plans and technical procedure documentation

Involved in capacity planning, server hardware configuration, hot swap disk drives, patches and upgrades.

Administered and supported the critical web-based e-commerce applications for internal & external facing clients.

Bowne (5/2004- 2/2007)

Responsible for all aspects of the design, configuration, operation, management, performance tuning and maintenance of large enterprise Windows 2000\Active Directory, SQL Servers and custom applications.

Planned, designed & implemented enterprise Compaq\HP SAN infrastructure. The project required moving 500+ Win2k servers onto SAN.

Administered SAN infrastructure over fiber channel in W2K environment. Responsible for all aspects of system integration, installation, user requirements.

Configure LUN devices, storage provisioning, World Wide Naming conventions and administer storage devices on a SAN.

Installed & configured Fiber channel hubs, storage enclosure. hubs & brocade switches

Release upgrades and patch management of all SAN hardware (Switches, HBA, and Storage Array etc.).

Daily support of middle tier applications, IIS, and large development\test environment.

Support SQL cluster & application clustered servers connected to SAN. The design provided complete system redundancy using MS Enterprise software & Compaq\HP SAN.

Implemented VMWare ESX 2.x Servers within SAN environment to reduce the number of stand alone servers.

Large DAS Server consolidation project of hardware and software to SAN. Project leader for reducing the servers within development and QA divisions.

Installed & configured HBA in Windows Hosts systems for connectivity to EMC Symmetric

Daily monitoring of EMC SAN with ECC software.

Support MS Exchange 2000

Redesigned disaster recovery for data center operations in New York and New Jersey.

Delivered High Availability two node Microsoft SQL 2000 cluster server for business critical application

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Sun Chemical (10/2003-4/2004)

Project leader responsible for administrative support of large enterprise Windows 2000\Active Directory, SQL Servers and custom applications.

· Configure LUN devices and administer storage devices on a SAN.

· Work closely with business to develop production applications and systems.

· Project manage Six Sigma projects for European and United States offices.

· Daily support of middle tier applications, IIS, and large development\test environment.

Designed & implemented large H.P. SAN environment.

Implemented VMWare ESX 2.x Servers. Interacting routinely with the application development group and coordinate application development testing, user acceptance testing and rollout from the development to production.

Server consolidation project of Win 2k hardware and software. Developed corporate procedures, capacity planning.

Exercise business continuity test plans and DR for data center operations in Europe and the US.

Delivered High Availability Microsoft SQL 2000 cluster server for business critical application.

EDUCATION

EMC MILFORD

Control Center Open Edition 5.0

Symmetrix Architectural Overview

NETWORK SYSTEMS & SERVICES N.Y.C.

Certified Netware Engineer

LEHMAN COLLEGE

Data Communication & L.A.N. design

Programming

WESTCON EASTCHESTER

Netware System Manager

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

Computer Science

U.S. ARMY FORT GORDON

Communication Systems Repair Cryptography

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