Systems Administrator Engineer

Gary Dayton, IT Professional

567-***-****, *********@*****.***

PROFILE IT Professional with fifteen plus years of experience in the IT industry.Own a wide range of skills across multiple platforms.Software, hardware, storage, desktop, server, and network experience.Hardworking, dependable, and professional.Work well in a team atmosphere or independently.Strong ability to adapt, learn and implement recent technologies.Possess tremendous aptitude and versatility.Authorized to work in the US for any employer.United States Navy veteran. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Feb 2025 — Apr 2025 Senior Systems Administrator, Terra State Community College Fremont Windows server and VMware support. Upgraded WSUS server from Window 2012 to 2022.Deployed Veritas backup agent on several Windows servers improving backup performance. Aug 2024 — Nov 2024 Systems Engineer, Marathon Petroleum Findlay Worked closely with project managers during project planning phases; provided input on resourceallocation estimates for systems-related tasks! Oct 2023 — Apr 2024 Systems Engineer, Buckeye IT Services LLC. Tiffin Primarily responsible for new server deployment projects both physical and virtual. VMware and Hyper-V.Windows server 2012-2022.Also involved in various break-fix situations. Deployed MFA for Office 365.

Feb 2014 — Oct 2024 Senior Systems Administrator, Ellucian (Tiffin University) Tiffin Tasked with deploying and supporting multiple versions of Windows servers.Deployed Cisco and Meraki network switches and implemented 10g backbone connections to tencampus wiring closets. Managed EMC Networker Data Domain. Converted several physical servers toVMware virtual machines. Deployed many wireless access points. Created multiple wireless networksconfigured across both cloud-based and controller-based platforms. Deployed Unitrends backupappliance. Set up vCenter replication as a disaster recovery solution. Installed, upgraded, and managedCisco Call Manager which consisted of a combination of 250 IP phones and endpoints.

Sep 1994 — Aug 2013 Computer Systems Administrator, Lifetouch Galion Tasked with supporting a multi-server, multi-platform data center which consisted of both physical andvirtual servers and workstations in addition to a 300-line PBX.Successfully managed upwards of three hundred Active Directory user accounts and 50 plus groupaccounts.Deployed and managed over 500 computer accounts consisting of both Windows servers andworkstations.Installed and supported 6 MSSQL servers of various versions.Converted 6 physical machines to virtual machines utilizing VMWARE ConverterSuccessfully integrated an inherited VMWARE infrastructure consisting of a 65 TB SAN.Eliminated production bottlenecks on a document management server by converting the physical serverto a virtual server and splitting processes between the physical and virtual server. This also created alevel of redundancy.Converted 2 physical servers to virtual servers. In essence saving 20 TB worth of image data by migratingthat data to a separate SAN.Instrumental in deploying 40 plus PCI hardened workstations insuring plant wide PCI compliance.

EDUCATION

Oct 2013 — May 2015 Associates in ITAOS, Westwood College Online