Windows Engineer at USDA
Kansas City, Missouri Area
Windows Engineer at USDA
Kansas City, Missouri Area
IT Consultant and Senior Microsoft Enterprise Architect / Engineer with 10 years of professional experience in information systems. Proven skills in client relationship development and management, team leadership and strategic process improvement. Solid experience in project management and systems analysis. Self-directed and adept at communicating at all levels of an organization.
Microsoft Clustering (Including Exchange 2003/2007 and SQL 2000/2005, MQ Clustering), Active Directory Design, Implementation, and Administration, AD Training and Documentation, Networking design and data flow
(Government Agency; Government Administration industry)
April 2009 — Present (8 months)
Responsible for Application Development and Support for the USDA Web Farms
(Music industry)
February 2006 — Present (3 years 10 months)
StrangeFamily Music, LLC offers music recording services, from Live recording to studio projects for CD Demos and full blown CD production.
(Public Company; SPLS; Retail industry)
July 2008 — April 2009 (10 months)
Worlds largest Corporate Promotional Products company! Responsible for design, implementation, and support of Active Directory infrastructure. Also work with network design / implementation, Web Site administration, Clustering Services, F5
BIG IPs. The 'Bat Cave' is teeming with cutting edge technology, supported by top notch IT Engineers! I'm fortunate to be involved with such a great team
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; AA; Construction industry)
June 2007 — January 2008 (8 months)
Responsible for Designing, Implementing, and Documenting the migration of the AD Environments for Alcoa with Variform's existing AD environment.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Financial Services industry)
August 2006 — May 2007 (10 months)
• Design / Implement 5 Node File Server Cluster (3 Physical-2 Virtual) to migrate existing File Server.
• Design / Implement Clustering in VMware for Lab
• RE-Design / Implement AD environment for disaster recovery
• Architect for Directory Structure and Permissions for File Server Cluster.
• Installed APC Server cages, PDUs, and KVMs for Data Center after natural disaster
• Installed servers to new APC cages in Data Center
• Installed KVM and environmental units for APC Cages in DC
• Design / Implement RightFax cluster in VM environment using 2 x 2boardservers for fax traffic
• Building of physical servers – unpacking, racking, loading OS. Documenting builds using Novastar’s build sheet for asset / server / software management
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2000 — June 2006 (5 years 10 months)
• Verify customer environment design by SA for technical feasibility for Software and Hardware - Then responsible to build out final approved design and hand off to Operations Support.
• Built and supported a WIN2K / WIN2K3 IT Infrastructure environment of 500+ customers and approx. 2000 servers in a geographically dispersed network.
• Administration of AD Replication for multiple sites and forests; infrastructure and customer environments
• Designed, deployed and supported Exchange 2K and 2k3, as well as SQL 2000 and 2005 (including clustering).
• APF & Altiris for remote builds
• Storage Area Network (SAN): Configured Single/Dual HBA cards and Software for SAN
• Veritas Netbackup:
• Employed VB Scripting to automate administrative tasks.
• Used Enterprise Project Manager Software for Project Management of all implementations.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; F; Financial Services industry)
1996 — 1998 (2 years )
1986 — 1994
1990 — 1993
Music, Tennis, Golf, Playing with my children (Adrian 5, AnaGabriela 3) Church Praise Band, The Hymnots, The Hallelujah Cowboys