
Systems Administrator / Desktop Support Technician Freelance Consulting and Contract Work
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Systems Administrator / Desktop Support Technician Freelance Consulting and Contract Work
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
Systems administrator and programmer with over eight years of professional experience. Seeking a part-time position in Information Technology, while currently attending college in Minneapolis. Well recognized for analytical ability, creative problem solving skills, and the ability to combine attention to detail with seeing the “bigger picture”. Earned reputation for being a “Solutions Provider”.
Windows Server, Active Directory, Exchange, and SQL Server administration, implementation, and support. VMWare, Security, High Availability, Disaster Recovery
Desktop administration, support, and implementation.
Network support and administration.
(Computer Networking industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)
Managed and maintained Active Directory, Exchange, SQL, and Sharepoint services for several clients from diverse industries, with varying technology needs.
Created and Administered VMWare ESX Server enterprise virtualization environment.
Implemented and managed secure and reliable file and print services, hardware redundancy and removeable disk-based backup systems.
Researched and designed enterprise and small business backup and disaster recovery strategies, that enabled critical client, server, and workstation computers to be restored from a backup disk or clone image onto different (and incompatible) computer hardware, just about anywhere in the world
Deployed and maintained workstation hardware, operating systems, and software packages.
Troubleshooting of various malware problems, and windows event errors.
(Computer Networking industry)
2001 — Present (8 years )
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Investment Management industry)
September 2005 — November 2006 (1 year 3 months)
Implemented VMWare Server virtualization software. Created and maintained cloned disk images of all critical server and workstation systems on a regular basis. Imported the cloned disk images into VMWare with P2V (physical to virtual) migration utilities, enabling systems to be recovered within minutes of a failure, at an alternate location if necessary.
Managed and supported all network and server systems, including Windows Server 2000 and 2003, IIS, and MS SQL Server.
Performed full migration from a Windows NT4 domain to Windows Server 2003 Active Directory, transparent to end users.
Researched, designed, and tested disaster recovery procedures.
Implemented Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 2.0, Sharepoint Services, and Symantec Antivirus 10.0 Enterprise with full management and update capabilities.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Insurance industry)
July 2004 — May 2005 (11 months)
Windows Server 2003, Exchange 2003, IIS 6.0, and SQL Server 2000 administration and support.
Maintained and supported workstations using Windows XP, Office 2003, Goldmine Corporate 6.5, and ACT! 6.0.
Developed employee time and productivity management application using C# .NET with a SQL backend.
Managed and supported Artisoft Televantage 6.0 telephone system’s Server / Client software.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
October 2003 — May 2004 (8 months)
Relocated entire office with minimal downtime.
Replaced main file and print server, transparent to the end users.
Created procedures to standardize server and workstation troubleshooting, upgrading, and replacement.
Implemented replacement of backup systems hardware and updated Veritas Backup Exec software from 8.0 to 9.0.
Managed and supported multiple co-located IIS 5/6 web servers and SQL 2000/Cold Fusion 5 database servers.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 1998 — December 2002 (4 years 6 months)
*Planned, managed and performed several large scale roll-outs of Windows 2000 and NT 4.0 servers and workstations.
*Performed training of both end-users and support technicians.
*Implemented and tested new procedures for deploying hardware and software in a corporate environment.
*Designed corporate internet and intranet web pages.
*Provided help desk, desktop, and server support.
Aerospace Engineering, Mathematics 2006 — 2007
Currently seeking B.S. degrees in Aerospace Engineering and Mathematics
Computer Programming, Mathematics 2003 — 2005
I have completed Mathematics courses beyond Calculus 4, and six semesters of computer programming courses, including Visual Basic .NET, Java 2, and C++ at the Minneapolis Community and Technical College (MCTC). I’ve tested out of several Windows Networking and PC Troubleshooting classes, and have also completed all written and oral communications requirements.
New technology, science, engineering, space, communications, software, web, automation, aeronautics
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