Sr. Systems Administrator
International Republican Institute
Total des années d'expérience :18 years, 5 Mois
Designed, implemented and monitored an automated election observation system with GPS tracking, SMS texts and live feedback using TABLETS for country elections as part of an Election Observation Team in the country of Jordan in 2012 and Tunisia in 2014.
Manage and maintain a complete system with over 150 servers and multiple sites.
Designed and configures network infrastructure with Cisco Catalyst 3850 and 2960x.
SAN configuration and management with NFS storage for VMs and Virtual Disks in VMWare ESX.
Examine and configure strong security systems that protect from ZERO day attacks using multiple layers of security and authentication.
Design, manage and configure exchange DAG between 2 sites and a secure VPN connection.
Disaster Recovery structure design and implementation.
Configure SSO authentication with windows AZURE ADFS VMs
Lead the migration of exchange from on-prim to O365 and exchange 2013.
Improve network communication speed and reliability by using VLANs and redundancy.
Oversee the daily performance of computer systems, and maintain configuration management of system topography.
Provide system administration/engineering support for Linux instances hosted in AWS Commercial cloud as well as GOV Cloud environments for CMS.
Implementation of IDM for user authentication across multiple EC2 instances.
Terraform and cloudformation infrastructure builds of EC2 instances.
Patching of EC2 instances within a maintenance window using Ansible and perform security updates of same instances for the remediation of system vulnerabilities
Update security groups for different instances through CloudFormation.
Develop, implement, and enforce Information Technology Policies and Procedures.
Configuring & Troubleshooting Win2000/2003/2008 Active Directory, SQL Server 2000/2005
Design and consolidate DHCP, DNS, Print service and Symantec Antivirus Server from remote locations and build a failover plan for each.
Study account and recommend best solutions to reduce cost and get best service.
Lead the IT implementation of the maintenance contract.
Manage, designed, planned, and installed VMware ESX servers with VMotion, HA, and FT.
Manage shipping processes for IT equipment to Iraq.
Maintain Exchange 2003/2007, Configs, Hardware Troubleshooting and server Management Software
Analyze application/database performance and assist in providing best solutions.
Explore the most recent application technology developments. Stay current on techniques and technologies. Reduced operating costs through standardization of hardware platforms.
Responsible for configuration of windows Active Directory domain. Installed and designed various Group Policy Objects (GPO’s) for AD domain and OU’s.
Day to day operation: Administrator for the AD network consisting of 500 users, 7 Windows 2003 servers, Windows XP in a campus setting of two separate locations. Implemented all new software and equipment. Monitored and maintained server security. Assigned user accounts and granted permissions to shared resources.
Install and configure Backup Exec Veritas 10 Backup Server to backup all windows servers and database. Setup Device Pools, Medias, Polices, Backup selection and Backup Jobs and restore. Implement Grandfather, father, son policy for tape rotation, & manage office-site tape storage.
Design and develop company financial system responsible for inventory management and revenue recognition.
Increase API Hotels.com web user traffic 25% by tracking origination profiles and enhancing search word placement with major search engines.
The Master of Science in Information Systems Technology (MSIST) is teaching technology for today and management skills for tomorrow
Masters of Business Administration with concentration in Management
Computer Science