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Summary:

An experienced IT professional with years of experience currently looking to grow and develop to further advance inthe field ofIT Administration. Capable of quickly acquiring new skills,prioritizing tasks, while maintainingflexibility and commitment with excellent oral and written communication skills. Possesses core competencies in system administration andnetworking withan exceptional customer service driven attitude.

Expertise:

-System and Network Administration - Virtualization

-MS Office- Active Directory

-User Training and Support- Veeam Backup Solutions

-Scripting - Palo Alto Firewalls

Work Experience:

System Administrator–job3Nov. 2015-May 2016

  • Remediation of difficult to manage network with industry standard best practices and services including AD, DNS, DHCP, RDS, and RAS VPN
  • Purchased and installed new SSL certificates on all web servers
  • Upgraded severely out of date firmware on Equalogic PS4100E SAN and performed PSU and disc controller failover tests
  • Deployed the Kaspersky Administrative Center to manage all client systems with the appropriate licenses and software policies
  • Configured and installeda new Palo Alto PA500 firewall to replace the underpowered model previously in use to strengthen network security
  • Deployed and managed Veeam as a backup solution to ensure ten terabytes of data was securely backed up and tested to confirm data integrity

IT Systems Technician –job2July2014-Nov. 2015

  • Supported 600 usersand 80 servers in a team of three with six different locations nationwide
  • Correctedconnection problems during Exchange migration to Office 365and designed scripts to automate management for on premises and Azure Active Directory
  • Used SCCM to image end user systems and perform automated data restores
  • Coordinated system repairs and decommissioned outdated equipment
  • Replaced and virtualized aging Server 2003 file server with Server 2012 R2 to increase performance

Co-Op Technical-job1 Mar. 2013-July 2014

  • Coordinated and performed organizational overhaul of mission critical file server to improve network bandwidth
  • Assisted users with the setup of early morning video conferences and distributed loaner laptops
  • Received Pacesetter Award for my extensive work in ensuring theNuclear Engineering Division become one of the top performers in the 2014 DOE HSS Audit
  • Tasked with migrating all compatible systems to Windows 7 in an effort to meet the Windows XP End of Life which involved extensive planning, due to complex and expensive scientific software installed on these systems
  • Performedroutine datacenter maintenance to support multi-million dollar experiments

Education:

Lewis University August 2010- May 2014 Independent Study (Home Lab)

Romeoville, IL - Simulated Hyper-V network (DNS, DHCP, SQL, AD)Bachelor of Science in Computer Science to replicate an enterprise level topology

- Repurposed old desktopswith Linux to setupSamba

shares and CUPS server to manage printing