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Senior Information Technology System Engineer
QXO Building ProductsSenior Information Technology System Engineer
Oct. 2020Manage and maintain Mitel MiVoice VOIP Phone system, CISCO Routers and Switch, Various internet service providers.
System Administrator
The North American Coal CorporationSystem Administrator
Aug. 2016 - Sep. 2020Dallas/Fort Worth AreaNorth America's premiere company in contract mining, technical solutions, environmental solutions and material handling solutions. • Design and implement Backup and Recovery Solution with Veeam Backup and Replication at multiple sites. Powershell scripts for pre/post processes. Enhanced backup speeds using Veeam Proxy, VLAN networks. • Design and implement End Point imaging using SmartDeploy and Microsoft MDT. • Manage and maintain Vmware, VSphere and HyperV virtual systems with multiple hosts and clusters. • Manage and maintain Vmware Workspace One UEM/MDM. • Implement Multi-site DC upgrade from Windows Server 2012 to Server 2019 Core. • Worked with the network team to implement IKEv2 and SSL-VPN to s upport Covid19 transition. • Provide remote technical support to remote users using MS-Teams, Teamviewer. • Research and evaluate new technologies and make recommendations based on findings. • Worked with network-team to roll-out 10G upgrade.
IT Consultant
Independent IT Consultant/ContractorIT Consultant
Aug. 2015 - Jul. 2016DFWI successfully accomplished the implementation of a Remote Desktop Server farm to provide remote access for our Sage 500 ERP solution via Remote App. I am also responsible for administration of the Shoretel Phone System, AD Domain Upgrades, VMware Servers and various Windows 2008 Servers hosting Faxservers, Timeclock System, and Document Image System; as well as providing prompt resolution to desktop/end user support issues.
IT Manager
Roofing Supply GroupIT Manager
Feb. 2004 - Aug. 2015Dallas/Fort Worth Area2004 - 2006, only IT employee overseeing 15 remote locations. Server 2003, AD, DNS, DHCP, Citrix Server. Sonicwall firewall. 2006 Design network for 55 remote sites. Deployed Exchange 2003 server, migrated 500 users to Exchange 2003. Setup DHCP, Internal DNS(private and public domains). Setup Group Policy, Printer Management. 2006 Communicated with Business Owners and Department heads during network build out. Designed network to accommodate 200+ remote locations with multiple VLANs,subnets. 2008 – 2015 – 2 other team members reported to me for Desktop and Systems Admin. 2008 Successfully migrated from IP SEC VPN to MPLS at the same time rolled out Shoretel VOIP. Fortigate firewall for edge security, CISCO Router, L3 for internal routing. L2 and L3 switches for LAN and WAN networks. QOS with DSCP. Used non-routed subnets for router/router/firewall OSPF. 2008 Successfully implemented Shoretel VOIP phone system to 80+ remote locations, 800 Users, central trunking using PRI from SIP via Adtran. 2008 Deployed SCCM 2007 for imaging computers, pushing software packages to computers. 2010 Successfully implemented 6 MS-Hyper-V 2008 R2 Cluster using Dell Equallogic SAN. Using iSCSI, Jumbo Packets and Flow Control. Supporting 30 Virtual Machines. 2010 Successfully migrated from single 2003 Exchange Server to Dual 2010 Servers. BES Server. Email Gateway. Powershell Scripts were written to find users that had iPhones, bulk import of users, bulk updates to AD fields for various user groups. 2014 Successfully implemented Vmware 6.0 (3 NODE Cluster) with Vcenter(VMotion) to support migration of VOIP system. 2015 Successfully implemented Dell Appassure for Exchange,SQL onsite Backup. 2015 Successfully implemented DC in Azure with IPSEC VPN. FTP, SFTP, TCP/IP, SQL, IIS, AD, Firewalls, Azure, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, WSUS, Loadbalancers, SD WAN.Trusts between multiple Forest due to acquistions.Internal,external IT audits. Solarwinds. Aerohive, Aruba WIFI.
Computer Systems Analyst
Daven GroupComputer Systems Analyst
Jun. 2001 - Feb. 2004I worked for this MSP as a Network Admin for various SMB customers. I successfully completed NT4 to W2K/W2K3 Domain Upgrades, built multi-size IPSEC VPN networks, establishing DNS, DHCP for various networks. I was also successful with Virus remediation with various SMB and installing Antivirus Software to prevent future issues. Other accomplishments include building Terminal/Citrix Server Farm, setting up CISCO Routers to work with various circuits: T1, DSL, Cable.
Software Developer
Computer Associates / ACCPAC InternationalSoftware Developer
Jan. 1996 - Dec. 2001I was Team Lead of developers to maintain/enhancement ACCPAC for Windows Payroll (Canadian and US). I was instrumental in increasing overall performance of the Payroll Process. Maintenance included meeting timely annual and semi-annual tax updates, as well as user enhancements to the software. This software was written in C/C++, CA-Realizer and Visual Basic.

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