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How would you describe your time at Audiovox?

??? Planned and designed network architecture with HP Proliant DL 300*s, Dell PowerEdge 2000*s Servers; Implemented mirrored/striped disk array with fault tolerance (RAID 1+0), and independent data disks with distributed parity blocks (RAID 5).
??? Engineered and implemented various Enterprise Level Solutions running on Windows 2003 SP3/2008 SP1 Servers; Installed BlackBerry Enterprise Server 4.1 SP6 and configured Microsoft Exchange emails, calendar, contacts and scheduling.
??? Installed Windows Active Directory infrastructure running in both mixed and native modes and experience with domain, machine and user migrations; In-depth technical experience deploying and maintaining multi-site Microsoft infrastructure Windows 200X, including security management and group policy, Exchange Server 200X, SMS 2003 SP3, and Office 2007.
??? Maintained various enterprise back office applications: SQL Server 2008/2005 SP2, Application and DataBase server clustering; Created FTP sites in Windows 2003 SP3/2008 SP1 ES, and controlled access to the sites.
??? Configured database architecture, including hardware and physical layout, and installed and maintained SQL-Server databases on Windows Servers; Tested and implemented database designs supporting various business applications.
??? Performed Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), testing and validation; Coordinated SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008 migrations. Conducted engineering reviews for new/existing applications that connect to SQL Server 2005 environment.
??? Led the Assessment, Design, and Implementation of Microsoft Infrastructure projects - particularly rollouts, migrations and upgrades across large, distributed user bases; Strong architect level understanding of Microsoft infrastructure technologies, including: Exchange, AD, Windows Server; particularly with migrations and upgrades from Legacy environment.
??? Technical Proficiency with Exchange Hosted Services, and migrations experience with Enterprise Active Directory 2003/2008 and Exchange 2003/2007 in a small, medium and large network environment.
??? Deployed websphere archive files and generated CSR contents; Installed server certificates for the secured websites. Experience installing and configuring WebSphere 6.0, software maintenance, updates and security patches with WSUS 3.0.
??? In depth knowledge of the security risks to a Windows 2003 server and implementation of applications to protect systems from virus, spyware, and hackers; Maintained and supported Open Systems storage arrays: SAN, NAS, DAS, Storage monitoring applications and Capacity Planning for the SAN, and provided SAN support for Disaster Recovery planning and testing.
??? Experience with disk array administration, replication and disk configurations, RAID management, SAN design, Host Disk Array connectivity, and switching environments; Experience implementing HP MSA 1510i SAN based storage on Windows, and hardware-based raid solutions. Kept current with industry-wide and system specific technologies.
??? Installed and configured VI3, performed Virtualization Assessment Accreditation, Capacity planning, backup utilizing VCB in combination with Symantec products and machine conversion, and migration from physical to virtual and vice versa.
??? Hosted Virtual machines with large variety of applications: Web/Application/DataBase Servers and Citrix Presentation Server 4.5; Experience with HA and DRS configurations across HP chassis, and a variety of Fibre Channel and iSCSI networks.
??? Experience with VMWare ESX server 3.5 installations, configurations, maintenance, migrations and Virtual Center upgrades; Familiarity with CA XOsoft disaster recovery planning and execution, Cisco 6500*s Catalyst Switches, 3800*s Routers.
??? Created and configured a server cluster with servers connected to share cluster storage; Provided high availability, failback, scalability, and manageability for resources and applications. Performed load balancing by a DNS server instead of a strictly dedicated machine and implemented Round Robin DNS & Sticky Sessions/SSL techniques on large networks.
??? Managed Checkpoint NGX R65 security administration and gateway deployments on Nokia IP security platforms; Determined requirements for alternate processing and back-up sites for data centers, Information Technology Centers (ITC).
??? Provided technical leadership for the Disaster Recovery team strategic Disaster Recovery design through project planning and implementation; Resolved issues quickly and managed their resolution via third-party expertise: Citrix Presentation Server 4.0, Symantec Enterprise Vault 7.0, Veritas NetBackup 6.0....