Senior IT Systems Administrator and Consulting Engineer
Resume:
W. James McKenzie
Jacksonville, FL 32221
EDUCATION
Microsoft Windows 2000 (Instructor) Florida Technical College
Aug. 1998 – Nov 1998 Executrain; Jacksonville, FL
MCSE Certification Training
Aug.1991 – Dec. 1991 Mid-Florida Technical; Jacksonville, FL
Core Computer Requirements
1990 – 1992 Florida Community College of Jacksonville; Jacksonville, FL
Core Requirements Studies (1 Years)
1996 – 1999 Jacksonville Theological Seminary; Jacksonville, FL
Masters of Christian Education
1992 – 1996 Jacksonville Theological Seminary; Jacksonville, FL
Bachelor of Biblical Studies
1981 – 1987 Served in the US Navy and Honorably Discharged
CERTIFICATIONS
Microsoft Certified Master (Candidate) MCITP Win2008, MCITP Exchange 2010 Enterprise Messaging, MCP, MCSE Win2k, MCSE NT,, MCT, Moss 2007 Certified
QUALIFICATION
April 2024 – 12/12/2025
(St Joseph’s/Candler Hospital)
Network Admin III
Windows 2016,2019,2022 and All associated Services, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, File Services, IIS, Windows Radius for AAA, Certificate Services, RDP/Terminal Services, Tanium, VMWare 8.0, vCenter 8.0,Pure Storage, Brocade SAN Switch Management, HP Blades. Delinea remote Management, CyberArk, MS Exchange 2016, ProofPoint, WebTitan
Provided System Administration for the above products, participated in On-call Rotation, Participating in monthly Server Patching.
April 2007 – 3.2024
(Allcol Technologies Inc)
Multiple Consulting Projects with AT&T
Active Directory Windows 2003/2008/2012/2016/2019, ISA 2004/2006, Threat Management Gateway, Exchange 2003 – 2010 Transitions Infrastructure Assessment Specialist, System Center Operations Manager, System Center Configuration Manager, System Center Forefront Client Protection, Barracuda SMTP Appliances, Blackberry Enterprise Services, Hyper-V in Clustered Environment, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, System Center Configuration Manager, HP EVA 4400/6400 SAN and Brocade Switches, HP MSA 2000 SAN, HP Blade Server and Chassis, HP Virtual Connect Switches, Symantec Enterprise Vault Email and File Server Archiving, Quest Migration and Archiving Manager, Spotlight on Exchange, GoExchange, VMWare, 3Par San, Microsoft Azure and AT&T Proprietary Cloud Solution.
Companies:
AT&T Atlanta, GA 12/2011 to Present
Microsoft Corporation (Contract) 6/2011 to 12/2011
City of Quincy 6/2002 to Present
Gadsden County BOCC 10/2007 to Present
Muscogee County Schools / Microsoft Corp 3/2010 – 6/2011
Baptist Medical Center 2/2010 – 3/2010
City of Sanibel 1/2010 – 2/2010
Atlanta Public Schools 10/2008 – 12/2009
Clay County Board of County Commissioners 6/2008 – 10/2008
Balfour Beatty Inc. 11/2007 – 5/2008
Brooks Health Rehabilitation 6/2007 – 11/2007
Plan, Architect, and Installed a variety of Microsoft Infrastructure Products:
oCurrently working as Staff Augmentation for the Muscogee School district and performing the following Task:
Performed Migration from Novell to Active Directory
Designed Active Directory for the District
Active Directory Certificate Services (PKI)
Implemented Exchange 2007 with CCR Clustering
Implemented ISA Server Farm (Firewall)
Implemented Hyper-V Clusters
Managed Hyper-V with System Center Virtual Machine Manager
Implemented System Center Configuration Manager
Implemented System Center Operations Manager
Implemented SQL Server Clusters with SQL Reporter
Implemented NLB Cluster as Web Farm.
Migrated NDS DNS to Windows DNS and DHCP.
oWorked with Atlanta Public Schools as their Infrastructure Architect and Subject matter expert on Active Directory, MS Exchange 2003, SQL Server 2005 MS ISA 2006, and various other products.
oPerformed NDS to Active Directory Migration
oPerformed Active Directory Health Check
oPerformed Active Directory LDIF Modifications
oImplemented and Design a Proof of Concept Lab for APS in a Virtual Environment with VMWare Server. Duplicated their AD and Exchange Environment in the Lab for Proof of Concept testing of Archiving Solution. Implemented Exchange and SQL Cluster in the VMWare Lab Environment.
oImplemented Windows Cluster to Support DHCP and Wins.
oImplemented Windows Cluster to Support SQL Farm and File Server Farm for Email Archiving.
oPlanned and Architected the Installation of Active Directory 2008, MS ISA 2006 environment and planned
installation of Exchange 2007.
oCreated and managed VB Scripts with VBSEDIT application.
oPlanned and Implemented Windows 2003 Public Key Infrastructure
oPlanned and Designed the Upgrade of Atlanta Public School Windows 2008 Public Key Infrastructure with OCSP and NDES support.
oPlanned and Implemented Microsoft Hyper – V for Virtualization Project.
oPlanned and performed the migration of Groupwise to Exchange migration using the Quest Migration Manager
oPlanned and Performed the migration of NDS to Active Directory using the Quest Migration Manager.
oPlanned the deployment of MS Exchange 2007 in a Clustered Environment
oInstalled Exchange 2007 in a Continuous Cluster Replication Configuration.
oDocumented the installation and configuration of Active Directory, MS Exchange 2007and ISA 2006
oInstalled Active Directory, and MS Exchange 2007 in Multiple Production Networks.
oInstalled Configured MS Exchange 2007 Mailbox, HUB Transport, CAS, and Edge Server Roles in the MS Exchange 2007 Environment.
oInstalled and Configured Forefront for Exchange in the Messaging Environment.
oDesigned and configured Active Directory, Exchange 2007, SCOM, SQL 2005 Cluster, WSUS, Citrix Presentation Servers 4.5 across multiple IBM Blade Center Servers.
oMigrated a multitude of Data Center Servers to new Platforms.
April 2007 – May 2007
Kerzner International
Exchange 2003 /2007 Readiness Assessment
Performed Exchange 2003 Best Practice assessment for the future deployment of Exchange 2007.
oPerformed ExBPA on the existing Exchange 2003 and Gathered Critical Issues that existed against the environment.
oProvided Best Practice Recommendations for the existing environment and performed Exchange 2007 readiness examination.
oPerformed a ADMap against the existing Active Directory environment and recommended Best Practice solutions for the environment.
oPerformed Storage and Server Sizing Assessment for the future deployment of Exchange 2007 and provided recommendations for the environment.
December 2006 – April 2007
Citco Corporation
Exchange 2007 and Enterprise Vault Deployment
Plan, Architect, and Installed Enterprise Vault for Exchange and SharePoint
oPlanned and Architected the Installation of Enterprise Vault for Exchange Version 7 SP1 for the Existing environment and planned installation of Exchange 2007.
oPlanned the deployment of Enterprise Vault for Exchange for 9 Site locations with a centralized SQL Server Vault Store environment.
oInstalled Enterprise Vault for Exchange 2003/2007 in the Company Lab.
oDocumented the installation and configuration of Enterprise Vault
oInstalled Enterprise Vault for Exchange 2003/2007 in the Production Network.
oConfigured Enterprise Vault for Exchange 2003/2007 to Locate, Collect and Migrate Personal Folder Files on the Production Environment.
July 2005 – July 2006
Blue Cross BlueCross BlueShield of Florida.
Email Admin/KVS Admin
Setup and administrate MS Exchange 2000/2003 Organization with 9500 Users
oEnvironment has 23 MS Exchange Server in 3 Sites
oEach Server having multiple Storage Group and Multiple Stores to Balance the Load
oAdministrated Tumbleweed Email Firewall for SMTP Gateway
oSetup and Managed Email Journaling in Exchange
June 2004 – April 2005
Microsoft Corp.
Active Directory Premiere Support Specialist
Premiere Support Level Support Specialist for Active Directory
oAssisted Professional and Premier Customers with various outages and malfunctions of the Windows 2000, 2003 Active Directory Product.
oAssisted Premier customers as the project Lead Engineer with Large Domain, Exchange and File Server Migrations of over 1000+ DC in multiple domains and Forest.
oVery proficient with most of the Microsoft Support tools in Troubleshooting to resolution active directory issues.
oSupported products such as DNS, DFS, Active Directory, FRS, Terminal Server Licensing, AD Replication, ADMT, MS Exchange, ISA, IAS, RRAS, Wins, MetaData Cleanups, Offline Files, etc.
June 2003 – June 2004
Florida Technical College
Microsoft Windows 2000 (Instructor)
oEvening Instructor of 10+ Students in the Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 MCSE Track
Sept 2001 – Feb 2003
Winn Dixie Stores Inc.
Network Engineer Certified (MCSE Win2k, MCSE NT)
I worked as an Infrastructure Network Engineer of Third Party Applications on a Windows 2000 Domain, My Assignment was to design and implement Third Party applications in the current Windows 2000 environment and document the install procedures in order for the operations group to support and maintain the infrastructure.
Aug 1999-Aug 2001
Time Warner, Inc. New York, NY
Sr. NT/2000 Administrator/MS Exchange Administrator/SMS Administrator
oI worked as the night Shift Engineer for Time Warner.
oImplementing and managed 5000 node network, Implemented Windows NT/2000 Servers and Unix Server Networks.
oInstalled and Managed 15+ Exchange 5.5 Server Farm
oImplemented Cisco routers for Wan Communication with Both ISDN and T1 Connectivity.
July 1997-Aug 1999
Perdue Office Interiors, Jacksonville, FL
Sr. NT Administrator/MIS Manager
oImplementing and managed 150 node network, Supervising 3 additional Technicians for application support.
oImplemented Windows NT Servers and Citrix Server Networks.
oImplemented Cisco routers for Wan Communication with Both ISDN and T1 Connectivity.
June 1992 – July 1997
Bectech Inc. Jacksonville, FL
Network Administrator
oAdministrated the IT Network system of 250 node network and performed computer assembly and Software installations.
oImplemented and Managed a Windows NT server and workstation Network and various software applications.
oAt Bectech Inc. our major contract was with the local colleges in Jacksonville.
oOur task included install Netware client on each workstation and Automating software install on all P.C. for uniformity.
oUpgrading Various Desktop P.C. with new hardware that met the software standards for operation. Removed and replaced malfunctioning hardware with new hardware such as hard drives, video adapters, Ethernet Adapters, Memory, Controller cards, modems, etc.
oInstalled desktop printers to run workstations and shared printer and files on various workstations and servers.
SKILLS INVENTORY
Protocols: TCP/IP, NETBEUI, IPX/SPX, APPLETALK
Routers: Cisco, 2500, 2600, 3600, 7500 Series,
Switches: Cisco 2800, 2900, 5000 series Switches
3Com 5500/5500G, 7700/7700G
Alcatel 7700, OLT 7340/7345
Services administered: WINS, DHCP, DNS, DFS, SMTP, FTP, FRS, Terminal Server Licensing, AD Replication, ADMT, MS Exchange, ISA, IAS, RRAS, Wins, MetaData Cleanups, Offline Files and NNTP
Servers Managed: Web, DNS, Citrix, MS Exchange 2003/2007/2010, Live Communication Server, MOM, SMS, 2000, 2003, 2008 and SCOM, Weblogic Servers BEA. 5.1, 6.1. MS ISA 2000/2004/2006
Operating Systems and Software: Windows 2008 Server and Active Directory, Windows 2003 Server and Active Directory, Window NT/2000 server and Workstation, Windows 95/98/Pro/XP/Vista/7, Windows NT 4.0, Netware 4.1, SQL 7.0/2000/2005/2008, Exchange Server 5.5/2000,2003,2007/2010, IIS 4.0/5.0/6.0/7.0, ISA Server 2000/2004/2006, Certified MOSS 2007.
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