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Education:

• MS, Information Technology, Rochester Institute of Technology
• BS, Information Technology, Rochester Institute of Technology

Industry Certifications:

• Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), Windows Server 2003
• Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist
  • Windows Server 2008 Active Directory: Configuration
  • Windows Server 2008 Applications Infrastructure: Configuration
  • Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure: Configuration

Work Experience:

System Engineer, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (2005 - Present)

• work on team to deploy, operate, and optimize an Internet scale geo redundant active-active ad delivery engine
• responsible for coordinating technical aspects of new data center build outs
• troubleshoot multi tiered high performance web applications based on both proprietary and standard software solutions
• work with development and test teams to address new trends and drive product manageability, stability, and scalability improvements
• recommend and drive improvements to production architecture to completion
• develop automation to enable systems to recover from errors without human intervention

Consultant, Fountain Young and Company, Endicott, NY (1998 - Present)

• setup directory, file, print, and e-mail services
• setup and secured network and site-to-site VPN solution
• investigate and develop solutions for performance and technical problems

Graduate Assistant, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY (2004 - 2005)

• lead lab sections for networking and system administration courses
• assist students with their lab and class related assignments
• collaborate with faculty in lab environment to provide assistance for students
• evaluate student work

Coop, Information Technology Services/Datacenter Operations , Rochester, NY (2003 - 2004)

• assisted Senior Windows Administrator maintain Windows based servers in the RIT data center
• assisted in maintaining Exchange Server 2000 environment
• developed and tested upgrade to Windows Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2003 test plans and procedures

Coop, Sky Lake Camp and Retreat Center, Windsor, NY (2003)

• developed camper registration database utilization the LAMP application server stack
• worked with staff to determine needs and requirements of application

Computer Skills

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows Client and Server (all versions), Linux (specifically Redhat/CentOS distributions)

Client Software: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Access, OneNote) (all versions)

Development tools: Visual Studio, PrimalScript, VIM

Network Services: DHCP (ISC dhcpd, MS), DNS (ISC BIND, MS), SMTP (Sendmail, Microsoft Exchange 2000 - 2007), FTP (MS IIS, wu-ftpd), Web Services (Apache, MS IIS), LDAP based Directory Services (Active Directory, OpenLDAP), Telnet (MS, BSD telnetd), SSH (OpenSSH)

Networking Concepts: Bridging, Switching, Routing, Ethernet, ARP, TCP/IP, TCP, UDP, Access Lists, NAT, 802.1q VLANs, Traffic Shaping

Network Hardware: Cisco routers and switches (Cisco IOS 12.2, 12.4), HP ProCurve switches, Citrix Netscaler load balancers

Server Applications: Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 - 7.5, Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 - 2010, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 - 2008 R2

Computer Hardware: x86, AMD64/EMT64/x64

Virtualization technologies: Microsoft Hyper-V, VMWare ESX

Programming/Scripting Languages: C#, PHP, VBScript, PowerShell