Cleveland Clinic – Cleveland, OH April 2020 – to date
Cybersecurity Engineer
- Identity and Access Management Engineering. AD/Azure/GCP
- Responsible for PKI infrastructure
Parker Hannifin – Cleveland, OH Sep 2017 – Mar 2020
IT Technical Specialist
- Primary Active Directory support escalation engineer for Global Windows 2012 Active Directory enterprise environment
- Utilize PowerShell/IIS/PHP to automate Azure and OnPrem Active Directory tasks.
- Developed a webpage to automate the monitoring of AD Replication across our 33 Server AD Forest.
- Manage on premise Directory Services and O365/Azure solutions.
- Manage Active Directory migration for acquisition that is currently migrating 17 forests and 4000 users into our environment.
- Used PowerShell Automation to develop a PS script to automatically alter the user IDs for migrated users, resulting in 1 hour saved per 30 users migrated.
- Manage O365 licensing via Azure AD PS script.
- Member of Windows Solution Architect team for Windows 2016 Enterprise Domain. (50,000 +clients)
- Member of Disaster Recovery team for corporate headquarters infrastructure (Active Directory)
- Manage on premise DNS, ADFS, AD Connect and PKI infrastructure
- Engineer Active Directory support tools from Quest/One Identity (Active Role Server, Password Manager)
- Manage infrastructure, coordinate and deploy version upgrades
- Streamlined and engineered a self-service portal for Active Directory reporting tools (Quest Enterprise Reporter and Change Auditor) by automating the delivery of key reports to product and business stakeholders.
- Lead Engineer for new project implementation that aligned with core business needs
Windstream Communications –Twinsburg, OH Nov 2015 – Sep 2017
Senior Distributed Computing Analyst/Application System Engineer
- Manage on premise BackOffice and O365 solutions including messaging, authentication, and collaboration / document sharing. Manage deployment and roll-out of new O365 solutions from current on premise to cloud. Moving web applications and other services to the cloud. Working with Microsoft Azure, Skype for Business, Application Proxy, MDM, Exchange, Active Directory, DirSync, ADFS, VDI, LDAP, AirWatch/Intune, Lync, SharePoint, and Automation (Powershell)
- Part of the team that designed and migrated Exchange 2010 On-premise environment to Exchange Online using Hybrid setup.
- We were able to reduce our exchange server count from 60+ to 6 (Edge, Hybrid, Mailbox) servers at the main datacenter and 3 at our DR location.
- Worked with Legal team to setup new retention policy/labels using Security and Compliance center.
- Designed and upgrade PKI environment from SHA1 to SHA256, to support BYOD and cert authentication.
- Went from one root and one enterprise CA to one root and 4 CA servers using OCSP.
- Also worked with Enterprise IT Network team to configure templates being use in cert based wireless connection
- Part of the team that upgrade Active Directory from 2008 to 2012 R2 for Dev, UAT and Production
- Part of the team that Upgrade Customer LDAP from DSEE6 to Oracle Unified Directory (OUD 11g)
- Designed and upgrade Failover Cluster Server (File Server) from 2008 R2 to 2012 R2
- Designed and upgrade Failover Cluster Server (File Server) from 2 Node to 4 Node, and Lead Technical Staff to migrate 56 regional servers into the main data center file server cluster.
- Migrate acquisition DFS into Windstream main DFS Namespace
- Migrate past acquisition file servers into our File Server Cluster environment.
- Build Dev Environment for the department to imitate production (AD, ADFS, AD Connect)
- Designed and implemented Master/Slave Nagios setup for monitoring. These also replaced the current setup that sends SMS to all members of the team to only the on-call member and escalation while everyone gets email. Also setup multiple PowerShell monitoring scripts.
- Upgrade DirSync to Azure AD Connect and configured custom filters to support organization needs in production with different rules to accommodate acquisitions
- Manage DNS Environment (Internal/External using InfoBlox)
Castellini Group of Companies –Wilder, KY April 2012 – Nov 2015
System Administrator
- Perform Network Administration on enterprise wide level for Castellini Group of Companies and its subsidiaries. Including backup of systems from VMware level to file server level using BackupExec and VMware snapshot when needed, manage user and system authentication and authorization in appropriate repositories as Active Directory, e-mail systems using Exchange and Office 365 hybrid environment.
- Monitor system and network health including capacity, efficiency and utilization using different tools such as taskmgr, perfmon, Nagios, VMWare vSphere client/web client to successfully solve any issues before user impact.
- Support Castellini Produce Company using Fascor Warehouse Management system.
- Support RWI Logistics and RWI Transportation T.M.W software.
- Perform software upgrade for VMware from 5.1 to 5.5 and patch, for 6 ESXi host at the Castellini datacenter so we can utilize the features which include upgrading our datastores to 10TB in size.
- Perform server upgrade, server patch, network patch, desktop upgrade, software upgrade and applications upgrades.
- Led project scope meetings with vendors to determine project goals and responsibilities.
- Performs technology needs analysis for onsite and remote support for multiple sites.
- Rolls out hardware and software to ensure optimal deployment of resources
- Plans, implements, and supports the network and computing infrastructure plan.
- Manages small to medium sized projects according to agreed budgets and schedules.
- Assists with technology planning through ongoing research. Responsible for user and printer management on AS400 Innovative.
- Led on-call staff to support Castellini and its subsidiaries during off call hours for emergency support on a weekly rotation.