Sr. Systems Administrator Resume

Desired Industry: Information Technology	SpiderID: 16737
Desired Job Location: Orlando, Florida	Date Posted: 11/1/2007
Type of Position: Full-Time Permanent	Availability Date: present
Desired Wage:
	U.S. Work Authorization:
Job Level: Experienced with over 2 years experience	Willing to Travel:
Highest Degree Attained:	Willing to Relocate:

Objective:
QUALIFICATIONS
• Over twelve years of experience emphasizing Network Administration. Experience includes the design and implementation of various Windows 2000 & 2003 networks at Electronic Arts, TracFone Wireless, AT&T, and Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center. This encompasses setup of most production and development systems, switches, & routers.
• Software Skills Include: Microsoft operating systems, Exchange, McAfee & Symantec A/V, IIS, SQL, VMware, RedHat, CentOS, Asterisk, Blackberry, Citrix, Spam Filters, Veritas Backup Exec.
• Networking Skills Include: Active Directory, DNS, WINS, DHCP, TCP/IP, Subnetting & Supernetting, FTP, VPNs, VOIP, WAP/WEP and Cisco hardware.
• Certifications include MCSE, CCNA, and Solaris Certified System Administrator.

Experience:
Uplink Communications, Inc. Systems Integrator 11/06-Present
* Network & Active Directory consulting for various clients.
• Determine optimal configuration for ASTERISK/VOIP system installation. This may require
re-cabling the entire building, running new cables, replacing routers & firewalls, configuring
firewall access rules, re-IPing, installing new connectivity for VOIP connectivity, etc.
• Install Asterisk on CentOS servers, configure phones, configure system to meet client’s needs.
• Technical support for all clients. Troubleshoot all Server/PC/Phone/Connectivity issues.
• Optimized PDA phone to support configuration, deployment and support from anywhere at any
time.
• Installed and configured IP video survalence systems and alarms.

Electronic Arts, Inc. Sr. Network Administrator (Consultant) 07/06-11/06
• Analyzed overall environment and recommended / implemented numerous changes including
virtual servers, server clusters, Active Directory Group Policies, and consolidated Login Scripts.
• Created new Policies & Procedures for securing the A/D environment.
• Single point of contact to administer all Production & Development Systems.
• Recovered from numerous outages including rebuilding the Anti-Virus server, Print Server and
Exchange issues.

TracFone Wireless, Inc. Sr. Systems Administrator 02/03-05/06
• Administer all Windows 2003 Production & Development Systems.
• Solely planned and upgraded the domain structure from NT4, Exchange 5.5 to Windows 2003
Active Directory with Exchange 2003 in a clustered environment.
• VMware ESX server running VMware’s VMotion & Migration of servers using P2V.
• Setup Exchange and File Share Clusters. Used Robocopy to migrate files to the new cluster.
• Responsible for setup, maintenance, monitoring and troubleshooting of over 150 HP/IBM/DELL
Intel servers. These servers and systems had to be fully redundant to provide high reliability and
fault-tolerance. Use of HP’s Server Insight Manager to monitor these servers.
• Systems include RedHat, Citrix, Blackberry, Project Server, Witness, TeaLeaf, Symantec A/V,
Ironport Spam Filter, Exchange clusters and file system clusters.
• Designed development, staging, and production environments to assist with change control.
• Created a Disaster Recovery plan for mission critical applications. Relocated datacenters with
minimal downtime. Failed over to these sites when needed. Also, evacuated during hurricanes on a moment’s notice to run critical systems from a remote location.
• Hardware consisted of HP Proliant Servers, Brocade Switches, SANs consisted of IBM Sharks,
Hitachi Disk Arrays and HP MSA 1000’s.

Uplink Data, Inc., Sr. Account Executive 09/02-02/03
• Representing various telecommunications carriers, while primarily selling AT&T Voice and Data
T-1s.
• Manage customer and vendor relations. Find a vendor’s best product offerings and market them.
• Analyzing the customers business needs and determining the best solution.
• Automated marketing campaign by setting up an Exchange Server as a Fax Server. This included
simplifying the targeted marketing strategy and lead generation process with various tools.

RHIC, Greiner Bio One Inc., IT Manager (consultant) 4/02-9/02
• Renovation of the entire network infrastructure of Greiner. This included analyzing all expenses and cutting costs by more than half, reviewing and renegotiating all contracts, and rebuilding the software and hardware infrastructure.
• Initially the heterogeneous network consisted of hubs, NT4, W2K, ISA Server and Lotus Notes. Migrated to a Cisco Catalyst 4003 and Windows 2000 Active Directory.
• Also responsible for wiring and cabling of Ethernet and NEC phone system.
• Coordinated a team effort to review and analyze the mission critical software. This resulted in determining that the current Wizard database was inadequate and that Microsoft ‘Great Plains’ software package would meet the business’ needs.
• Attended training for Microsoft ISA Server.

Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center, Network Manager 4/01-9/01
• Responsible for the entire setup and configuration of an $11,000,000 network in the $450,000,000 Opryland Hotel & Convention Center.
• The network installation consisted of a Native Windows 2000 Active Directory Forest with fully redundant Cisco Switches, Routers, and Cisco Wireless Access Points on 18 separate VLANS.
• Setup and configured Dell Power Edge and Power App Servers hosting Windows 2K with IIS, SQL, Exchange, SMS, Veritas, and various other software applications. The desktops and laptops were also Dell computers.
• Cisco hardware included 6509s, 3500 series switches, PIX firewall, 3640 series routers and AP352 Wireless Access Points.
• Responsibilities encompassed setting up switches in the IDFs, installation and configuration of the servers and switches. Ghosting and deploying all computers to the new and existing staff members. Ensuring that all software applications were operating correctly and replicating with the local servers and Opryland Hotel Nashville.
• Performed site survey to determined where the Cisco WAPs would go throughout the hotel and convention center (total building area encompassed 2.2 million sq. ft.). Then began the installation and configuration of these WAPs as the building’s construction completed.
• Coordination of Vendors with their server applications and paging/communication devices such as Blackberry pagers.
• Attended training in Nashville from Cisco for this project.

iXL, Senior Consultant 4/00-2/01
• Hardware & software coordination for project engineers and developers for the Price Waterhouse Cooper Portal Project.
• Network Administrator of eCommerce Team in iXL. Setup, configured and managed IIS, SQL and various server shares for eCommerce team members.
• Strategically worked with Documentum Corp. to become a certified “Documentum Service Partner.” This negotiation included education on their products and an agreement for iXL to market Documentum as a value added Document Management Solution to our Clients. Attended training for Documentum 4i in Pleasanton, CA.
• Attended training for Solaris 7 System Administration I, II, and Network Administration. Attained Solaris 7 System Administrator Certification. Attending training for Updating Support Skills for Windows 2000.

Education:
Bachelor of Science, University Of Central Florida.
Major in Liberal Studies; Minors in Business Administration, Health Administration and Psychology.
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) 8/98 NT 4.0 Workstation, Server, Enterprise, TCP/IP, Networking, & Exchange 5.5.
Certified SUN Solaris 7 System Administrator (8/00)
Cisco Certified Network Associate (2/01)
AT&T Data & Voice Certified (11/02)

Candidate Contact Information:

Name: Andrew Russo
Street: -	Phone: 3213322800
City: Orlando	Fax: -
State: Florida
Zip: -
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