BRAD WHALEY

7350 SW 26th CT, Davie, Florida 33314 954.817.4358 whaley.brad@gmail.com

INFORMATION SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

Disciplined, loyal, and highly motivated IT engineering professional with demonstrated abilities in advanced systems design, development, and administration backed by a proven, 16-year track record of success. Adept at crafting and implementing multi-site and multi-platform solutions that boost system responsiveness, reliability, and security while remaining scalable to future growth. Creative and proactive problem solver with strong communication and team leadership talents; easily interact with clients, associates, and management from a wide variety of backgrounds and skill levels while delivering stellar levels of customer service and support.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Network Development & Maintenance System Monitoring & Administration Data Storage & Recovery Solutions Cutting-Edge Security Technologies

Technical Assistance & User Support Vendor Relationship Management Testing & Quality Control Processes Team Leadership & Training

T E CHN ICA L P R O FI CI E N CI E S
Platforms: Tools: Linux, OS X, Unix (AIX), Windows 9x/NT/ME/2000/2003/2008/XP/7 Active Directory, Apache, Barracuda SSL VPN, BEA Weblogic Platform, CA Unicenter Service Desk, Captaris Rightfax, Cisco ASA/ASDM, Cisco IOS, Cisco VPN, DHCP, DNS, EMC Celerra Manager, Filenet BCM, HP Sitescope, Jboss, Live Communications Server 2005, Lync 2010, MS Exchange Servers 2000/2003/2007/2010, MS Hyper-V, MS IIS 6/7/7.5, MS SharePoint Portal Server, MS SQL Server 2000/2005/2008/2012, MS Office, NetApp Data Ontap, Numara Track-It, Solarwinds Orion NPM/NTA, Sophos products, Quest Spotlight, RIM Blackberry Enterprise Server, ScriptLogic Desktop Authority and Active Administrator, Symantec BackupExec, Symantec Ghost Solution Suite, Tomcat, VSIFax, VMWare ESX Virtual Infrastructure, Xmedius Cisco, Dell, and HP network devices, firewalls, LAN/SAN/WAN/VPN

Networking:

P R O FE S S IO N A L E X P E R I E N CE
SOLSTICE BENEFITS Plantation, Florida Network and Systems Administrator 4/2010 Present

Design, deploy, monitor, troubleshoot, administer and maintain a Windows 2008 Active Directory, COTS and custom software, and hardware including routers, switches, and firewall. Administer MS Active Directory, maintain web servers, deploy firewall solutions. Resolve LAN/WAN network traffic issues and security. Process automation scripting. Document processes and procedures. Key Achievements: Migrated data center to high availability colocation for disaster recovery and business continuity. Manage the creation and administration of Windows Group Policies, user accounts, and security policies. Deployed and administered Microsoft Exchange Server 2010,as well as, Lync 2010 unified messaging solution. Continued...

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Implemented Cisco ASA Firewall and Content Security and Control, as well as, manage configuration and maintenance. Deploy configure and maintain network switching, routing, VLAN and VPN technologies. Increased security throughout the organization by implementing IPSec for all internal network communications, Sophos DPS policies that prevent the copying of PII from workstations and full-disk encryption. Prepared documentation and brought systems polices up to date to achieve SSAE 16 certification. Maintain a HIPPA compliant environment, ensuring the protection of PHI. FWM LABORATORIES Hollywood, Florida 10/2009 4/2010 Network Administrator Designed, deployed, monitored, troubleshot, administered and maintained a Windows 2008 environment of operating systems, COTS and custom software, and hardware including routers, switches, and firewall. Administered MS Active Directory, managed DNS, deployed firewall solutions, and resolved LAN/WAN network traffic issues. Managed desktop support technicians. Worked closely with vendors to manage support agreements and obtain custom services and resources. Key Achievements: Designed and deployed Windows 2008 and Windows XP infrastructure from the from the ground up. Managed the creation and administration of Windows Group Policies. Deployed and administered Microsoft Exchange Server 2008. Implemented Cisco ASA Firewall, as well as, managed configuration and ACLs. Configured and maintained network switches and VLANs. Implemented F-Secure Anti-Virus suite to resolve numerous malware infection. Set up Symantec Solutions Suite for desktop imaging, backup, and recovery. CROSS COUNTRY HEALTHCARE, INC., Boca Raton, Florida 7/2001 7/2009 Systems Engineer II Interfaced with department heads, managers, and IT staff from multiple sites while driving development and completion of business-critical IT projects. Deployed, monitored, troubleshot, administered and maintained a heterogeneous environment of operating systems, COTS and custom software, and hardware including routers, switches, and more than 140 physical and virtual server throughout the enterprise. Applied system updates, patches, and bug fixes, performed data backups and restoration, and optimized the availability of corporate and subsidiary websites. Administered MS Active Directory, managed DNS, deployed firewall solutions, and resolved LAN/WAN network traffic issues. Created documentation detailing project requirements and end user instructions. Work closely with vendors to manage support agreements and obtain custom services and resources. Key Achievements: Increased uptime of e-commerce and corporate websites to more than 99.99% by designing load-balanced Microsoft IIS front-end web servers along with high-availability Weblogic back-end application server cluster. Completed flawless migrations of a mixed Novell and Windows NT environment to Windows 2000 and 2003 platforms. Continued...

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Simplified system management and promoted a homogenous environment for network hardware by upgrading core and edge switches throughout the organization. Played integral role in planning and executing the movement of all corporate servers from an in-house Network Operations Center to an external facility in Miami. Utilized IBM's Filenet content management architecture to design and implement a paperless document storage and retrieval solution for the finance department. Designed and instituted new approval processes to ensure Web applications were properly tested prior to release into production. Designed corporate intranet using Microsoft's SharePoint Portal Server. Built and maintained VMware ESX Servers and Clusters. Performed P2V Migrations of existing physical severs to virtual machines.

E D U CA TIO N B A CK G R O U N D
Associate of Science in Computer Networking Security & Management - 2007 KEISER UNIVERSITY, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Electro-Optical Ordnance Technician Course - 1996 MARINE CORPS LOGISTICS BASE, Albany, Georgia

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