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OBJECTIVE
I am qualified by 15 years of experience in various computer disciplines and ha
ve strong experience with server and networking technologies in several heteroge
neous environments. My objective is to demonstrate teamwork, responsibility and
accountability with my team members and staff.
I also ensure that I stay abreast of current IT technology and industry trends w
hich are relevant to my position.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Company Name Withheld
Information Systems Manager
Pasadena, TX from 2/2008-Present
The company is a chemical manufacturer on the Houston ship channel with approxim
ately 400 million dollars in annual manufactured product. The plant IT infrastru
cture spans over 55 acres, with 2 additional offices in NY.
* Following hurricane Ike and 6 feet of water covering all 55 acres, the plants
critical IT services were restored within 48 hours. 90% of IT equipment was lost
. Over 100 employees were relocated into temporary buildings and had IT services
within 14 days.
* Management of approx. 35 servers, both physical and virtual as well as all net
work and desktop infrastructure.
* Migrated plan to 75% virtualization, cutting significant costs from licensing,
cooling, and hardware
* Supervised 2 direct subordinates, while maintaining a very technical and hands
on role in IT.
* Following 3 employee layoffs, assumed the roles of Network Administrator, Desk
top Support, and Interim Manager of Security. Managed and supported all servers,
networking devices, desktops, laptops, land line phone systems and wireless ac
counts, PBX systems, network printers, copiers, plotters, access control and vid
eo surveillance systems, routers and SAN's, Oracle and SQL systems, email serve
rs and email compliance /EPA/DHS archival systems.
* As Interim Manager of Security - 1 direct report and 24 indirect reports. Des
igned a new dock monitoring security system in compliance with the Coast Guard,
with direct savings to the company of $155,000 per year in guard services.
Peoples Energy Production
Transitional Information Systems Manager
Houston, TX from 7/2007-2/2008 (Contract)
Natural gas exploration and production
Company was acquired by El Paso Corporation in September, 2007 with 90% employee
attrition as of 2-1-08. No contractors were retained. I was brought on board as
a contractor to facilitate the sale by Itegrys Corp of People's Energy Producti
on and to decouple the systems from Itegrys Corporation. I was the sole People's
Energy Production technical staff to facilitate the migration after the company
was sold.
* Moved and migrated approximately 100 employee's equipment/data/security to El
Paso HQ with no downtime.
* Management of approximately 20 servers in 3 company offices including Active D
irectory, VERITAS Backup exec, Excalibur, Production Access, DVR/Security, UNIda
ta Excalibur databases, Microsoft SQL 2005, Citrix Presentation Server, and Geog
raphix. This also included hardware/software for all servers, desktops, laptops,
network applications, routers/switches.
* Technical liaison and lead to El Paso Corporation staff following completion o
f the sale. Migrated approximately 20 terabytes of user data, account migration,
custom applications, email and AD migration to El Paso servers, Cisco VPN tunne
ls and fiber network communications to El Paso facilities.
* Systems administrator for approximately 100 users.
* Application support for Excalibur land/accounting/production revenue, GeoGraph
ix's ARIES RMS\ GESXplorer\SeisVision\PRIZM, Hummingbird BI/Query, Cygnet electr
onic meter reading, Cognos Data Beacon, Eagle regulatory forms, Epsilon risk ma
nagement, IHS Energy, PI/Dwights, OPUS record inventory system, Production Acces
s, SAP R/3, and PeopleSoft.

MKM Engineers, Inc.

PIKA International Inc
Manager of Information Systems
Houston, TX from 1/2002-7/2007
Unexploded Ordnance Disposal, Radiological Abatement, Environmental Engineering
(MKM Engineers restructured for a move to Kuwait)
* Managed Information Technology for an international engineering company with 1
6 offices.
* Successfully relocated 6 offices, comprised of approximately 250 employees.
* Developed 15 new offices, designed/installed the network infrastructure, and c
oordinated with no down time.
* Development of geophysical technology services for risk-assessment of Federal
land - direct result: increased company revenues from 16 million to 48 million
in less than 3 years. 2 million directly from Geophysical.
* Budget owner for all hardware, software, and technology services.
* Managed and developed a team of 3 full time employees, resulted in promotion f
or 1 and enhanced responsibilities for the other 2.
* Developed all policies and procedures for IT products, services, and usage, br
ought 99.9% uptime and unsurpassed network reliability.
* Implemented an inter-office wide area network (WAN) utilizing triple DES encry
ption. This system offered corporate network services to 9 remote offices worldw
ide including Microsoft Exchange, Citrix, Microsoft Project Server, Share point
Portal access, Remote printer to plotters, and voice-over IP to international em
ployees. Managed a companywide migration from Exchange 2000 to 2003.
* Supported over 250 workstations and laptops in a Windows 2000/XP professional
environment.
* Managed 25 physical Dell power edge servers running MS Windows 2000 Advanced S
erver, Windows Server 2003, Veritas Backup Exec, MS SQL server, Timberline, ADP/
HR Office, Pervasive, Trend Micro, Scriptlogic,
Desktop Authority, Linux, Microsoft Exchange 2000-2003.
* Responsible for the management and daily backup of 1.6 terabytes of data withi
n 7 offices.
* Developed 24/7 remote monitoring system for the U.S. Department of Defense - c
omprised of 7 solar powered, encrypted pan/tilt/zoom wireless cameras to secure
unexploded ordinance (hand and 40 mm grenades and land mines) from civilians.

Enron Energy Corporation

Executive Information Systems Manager
Direct support for the Enron President and Vice Presidents
Houston, TX from 8/2001-12/2001 (parted as one of the 5,000 layoffs on 12-3-01)
* Maintained all computer systems, applications network printers and peripherals
for Enron Executive Team.
* Trained executives on over 60 available applications.
* Management of passwords, shares, data migrations, and exchange accounts.
* Managed 11 Compaq Proliant servers and all server hardware, switches, RAID, an
d network devices.
* Responsible for all backups, account creation/management, Microsoft Exchange a
ccount administration.
* Provided Level 3 desktop/last line hardware and software support for 100 execu
tive members.
* SMS Package deployment for various proprietary applications.
* Promoted to Executive Support within first month of supporting 300 clients.
* Integral role in migration from Windows NT to Windows 2000 and from Lotus note
s 4.6 to Microsoft Outlook.
* IBM AS/400 support for remote Portland Power Systems

Merrill Lynch- Investment Banking Division

Systems Manager
Houston, Texas 4/2001-8/2001 (4 month contract)
* Managed 23 Compaq servers and all server hardware.
* Responsible for all backups, Account creation/management, Microsoft Exchange a
ccount administration.
* Managed all PBX equipment, accounts and voicemail systems, routers, and switch
es.
* Provided desktop/last line hardware and software support for 70 executives and
bankers workstations/laptops/blackberry's.
* SMS Package design/deployment for 60 proprietary banking applications and off
the shelf applications.
Renaissance Cruises Inc.
Information Systems Manager- 3 Stripe Senior Deck Officer
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 1/2001-4/2001 (4 month contract)
I did not renew because of apparent impending Renaissance bankruptcy.
I traveled onboard through 26 Countries located throughout Asia, The Persian Gul
f, The Middle East, Northern Africa, The Mediterranean, and Southern Europe.
* On call 24/7, supported over 120 workstations, 60 point of sale systems, 85 pr
inters, and 16 servers onboard an active cruise ship of 384 Officers, staff, and
crew as well as 650+ passengers/cruise.
* Daily backups, server maintenance, user rights, account creation and network p
rinter creation.
* Creation and maintenance of Lotus notes email server, all email accounts and t
he Internet proxy.
* Supported Deck and Engine critical computer systems -Navigation, Ballast, Rada
r, and Engine Control.
* Additional day-to-day tasks as the Systems Administrator, Desktop Support, Hel
p Desk, and Trainer.
* Maintenance of all corporate databases, menu and systems maintenance for all P
OS systems.
* Dry dock gutting of the majority of systems onboard. managed team of 3 during
the removal of retired equipment, installed over $300,000 of equipment in under
3 weeks.
* Responsible for weekly UNIX Folio compilation of $1,000,000+ as well as shipbo
ard charge data, archival and transmission to base office.

Enron Energy Corporation

Executive Information Systems Manager
Direct support for the Enron President and Vice Presidents
Houston, TX from 8/2000-1/2001 (6 Month Contract)
(Same position/responsibilities as above-mentioned position)

Walter P. Moore and Associates-Structural and Civil Engineering

Office Systems Manager
Houston, TX from 11/98-5/2000 (Indefinite Contract)
(Condensed for Length, Details available upon request.)
* Exclusive desktop and network support for 250 clients in 6 branch offices.
* Network, Database, AD, and Exchange account Administration
* Sole support for proprietary accounting, payroll and human resources applicati
ons.

DuPont Corporation
Team Lead PC/LAN NT Support
Houston, Texas 7/98-11/98 (4 Month Contract) (Condensed for Length, Details a
vailable upon request.)
* Provided Level III support for 14 Dupont sites and over 40,000 employees in ou
r region.
* Provided maintenance of all user accounts NT 4.0 and Novell 3.x, network privi
leges, and network printers.
* Reassignment of desktop level trouble tickets using Remedy to 70+ desktop supp
ort teams

Waukesha-Pearce Industries Inc.

Asst. Network Administrator/Desktop Support Team Lead
Houston, Texas 4/97 to 7/98 (Condensed for Length, Details available upon reques
t.)
* Assisted the Network Administrator in maintaining a 13 city WAN running both N
ovell and NT.
* Built and configured hundreds of PC's as well as directed a company rollout an
d migration to 95 and NT.

Matrixx Marketing Inc.

Team Lead Technician
Houston, Texas 4/96-4/97 (1 Year Contract) (Condensed for Length, Details availa
ble upon request.)
* Supervised 8 Technical support individuals and provided last line support for
these technicians.
* Achieved 2nd place out of 600 co-workers for customer satisfaction in my third
week with the company.

Education/Certifications

Texas State Technical College - 1992

Computer Sciences
MCITP Microsoft Certified IT Professional Server Administrator (This replaced th
e Microsoft MCSE in 2008)
I intend to enhance this certification with the Enterprise Administrator credent
ials, as well as the VMware Vsphere VCP by March, 2011.
Addl. Hardware:
Cisco ASA routers, Cisco access points, Compellent and EMC SAN, component level
repairs of laptops, desktops, printers, plotters, Iphones, Blackberry's, Weather
Stations, biometric and RFID access control systems, IP cameras, Pro-curve and
Cisco managed switches, T-1, long range wireless, microwave and InmarSAT communi
cations systems, Non-linear digital video editing, Fluke diagnostics, HV array
UPS systems, Drobo pro, Aironet P2P, CAT cabling/termination, and Sony Realshot
Manager surveillance systems.

Addl Applications Microsoft server 2000, 2003, and 2008 server (standard and ent
erprise), SQL Server 2000-2005,, Exchange 2000,2003, 2008 standard, Computer As
sociates Arcserve, Backupexec 7-2010, Oracle 8.x-11x, HRoffice, ADP PC Payroll,
Crystal Reports, BST EI, Excalibur land/accounting/production revenue, GeoGraph
ix's ARIES RMS, GESXplorer, SeisVision, PRIZM, Hummingbird BI/Query, Cygnet elec
tronic meter reading, Cognos Data Beacon, Eagle regulatory forms, Epsilon risk
management, IHS Energy, PI/Dwights, OPUS record inventory system, Production Acc
ess, SAP R/3, Peoplesoft, Timberline Accounting, Timberline Payroll, Timberline
Estimating, QuickBooks Complete Accounting, Peachtree 8.0, Outlook Web Access, M
icrosoft Terminal Services, Pervasive SQL, Cisco PIX and ASA, Windows 2000- Wind
ows 7 professional, Track-IT helpdesk/asset management, GFI Mail Essentials anti
-spam, GFI Fax maker, Microsoft Project Server 2002-2010, Microsoft Sharepoint,
Microsoft Office 97-2007 , GHOST, Remedy Helpdesk. AutoCAD 2000-2005, Citrix Met
aFrame, Microsoft Project97-2003, Microsoft Team Services, Xtend Connect remote
Palm Pilot connectivity, RIM Blackberry. Enterprise APC UPS monitoring, Bentley
Microstation, Arcview, Trimble, Symantec Enterprise Vault Oracle Enterprise appl
ications, Oracle Discoverer, Tabware, Lenel, Barracuda Email archiver, VMware ES
X, Vsphere 4.0, Blackberry Exchange Server, Mann Weather Station, Compliance Sui
te, Perkins-Elmer Labworks, Foxboro DCS, Sony Realshot Manager surveillance syst
ems, Vcenter, Ms Visio,
and Microsoft Hyper-V.