Resume of James Raaymakers

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Monday, 25 January 2010 10:45

Resume of James Raaymakers

Career Objectives

· Obtain an IT Systems Engineer or Systems Administration position in an IT organization where I can utilize my knowledge and skills to improve systems performance, reliability and service continuity.

Technical Qualifications

Extraordinary technical skills and outstanding customer service.
Active Directory Design, Documentation and Deployment
MS Exchange 2000 / 2003 /2007 and now 2010 infrastructure Design, Documentation and Deployment
Active Directory Administration in a complex 12 domain multi site environment with 13,000 + users and 53 Domain Controllers.
Exchange Administration in a large multi admin group Exchange Organization and 13,000 + mailboxes and 25 Exchange servers, connectors & gateways with a complexe routing structure.
Server, network and desktop systems support technician in up to 12,000 user environments.
Migrations from Novell and GroupWise to Microsoft Windows and Exchange / Outlook.
Veritas Backup Exec and Symantec Live State Server Protect deployment and administration
Citrix MetaFrame XP design, deployment and administration
802.11x & 802.1X Wireless LAN technologies and Security.
Advanced experience on 95/98, NT, 2000, 2003 and XP operating systems
Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005 install and administration.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Services & Portal 2003 deployment.
Microsoft Project Server 2003 Deployment
Microsoft ISA 2000 Server
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005
BlackBerry Enterprise Server
Microsoft Active Sync
Symantec, McAfee and Trend Micro Anti Virus Technologies.
Anti Spam Technologies such as the Barracuda & IronPort AntiSpam Firewalls
PostX Email Encryption
Advanced internet, network, domain, server and Office 2000 / XP / 2003 security
Critical Updates, Service Packs and Security Update testing, deployment and management and deployment using MBSA, HFNETCHKPRO and WSUS server for both the Windows operating system and Office Suite
WAN and LAN Cabling, patch panels, routers, hubs and switches
Cisco PIX 501, 506 and 516 Installation and configuration.
DNS, WINS, DHCP, Routing, IP subnet design using Windows, Linux Bind, Lucent QIP.
Internet Information Server (IIS 5.0 & 6.0) Website design and administration
Remote access solutions including Cisco VPN, SSL-VPN, SSH, Windows RAS VPN, Citrix, Remote Desktop and Terminal Services
Various Linux distros both server & desktop versions
Linux Email Gateway using Linux with Postfix/SpamAssassin/ClamAV/DCC/Pizor/Razor.
Joomla CMS platform & Squid reverse proxy on Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope.
ASP.NET & VBScript Programming Languages

Present Certification Status

CompTia A+
Windows 2000 MCP
Windows 2000 MCSE
Windows MCSA 2003

Related Work Experience

County Of Sacramento, Office of Communication & Information Technology

January 2005 to Present

Active Directory & Exchange Administrator

Administrator for the County of Sacramento’s Active Directory Forest & Exchange Organization Infrastructure.
Administrator for the County of Sacramento’s BlackBerry Enterprise Server Infrastructure.
Administrator for the County of Sacramento’s TrendMicro AntiVirus & AntiSpam Infrastructure.
Administrator for the County of Sacramento’s IronPort AntiSpam Gateway Infrastructure.
Administrator for the County of Sacramento’s ActiveSync Deployments.
Administrator for the County of Sacramento’s Office Communicator 2007 Infrastructure.
Administrator for the County of Sacramento’s Active Directory Forest & Exchange Testing Lab Environment.
SharePoint Portal infrastructure consultant for county departments
Deployed SharePoint for several County Departments.
IronPort AntiSpam Project Team Member, deployed IronPort into Production.
PostX Email Encryption Project Team Member, deployed PostX into Production.
LapTop Encryption Project Team Member, Project in progress.
Qualys Vulnerability Scanner Project Team Member, project in progress.
Bldg. 600 EOC project Team Member, deployed Active Directory/Exchange/IronPort/Trend AV, network environment at Bldg 600 for the Joint Powers Accociation. (Department of Homeland Security)
OCIT Change Coordination Policy Board Team Member.
OCIT Capacity Plan Project Team Member.
Collect Electronic Mail Data for legal investigations
Documenting and Publishing Systems Infrastructure Deployments, Systems Specs, Information Store layouts, Visio Diagrams, Daily Admin Tasks, Knowledge Base and “How To” articles, Capacity Planning, Change Coordination Policies.

Virtual Alert October 2004 to December 2004

Systems Engineer

3 Month Contract Position
Developed a network environment using Microsoft & HP technologies for the Department of Homeland Security that will be used as a high security information portal for BIO Terror Event Alerting and information.
Build & configure server hardware and software.
Build and configure the server rack cabinets with servers, UPS units, PDU units, Ethernet KVM switches, Hubs, Managed Switches, Routers & Firewalls.
Documenting the step by step processes and procedures involved in developing and building a highly proprietary network environment.
Working along side software developers, business management, Federal and State Government Executives to design and develop a highly secure and very complex SharePoint Portal access scheme using Active Directory and Exchange
Developed and implemented a Systems Monitoring Procedure
Developed a Systems Maintenance and Monitoring Documentation System

J4 Systems Nov. 2003 to Aug 2004

Network Engineer and WAN Specialist

Performing Network Analysis and creating Priority Plans, Upgrade Plans and proposals based on Analysis.
Recommending network equipment, software, security and network design based on needs of client.
Building, installing, setting up, configuring and securing networking equipment and software.
Designing and Deploying Active Directory networks for multiple clients with up to 1000 client PCs and 10 Servers.
Network Deployment Project Management usually under budget.
Creating Network Documentation and Training Documentation.
Setup and deploy Wireless Networks and configure Wireless Security.
Citrix MetaFrame XP Infrastructure design and deployment for clients with more than 90 client PCs.
Veritas Backup Exec Backup System design and deployment for up to 10 servers resulting in good backups. Use of backups to successfully restore failed servers.
Design and Deploy Microsoft Exchange 2000/2003 Infrastructure.
Building Server hardware such HP Proliant ML series, DL series, DELL Power Edge series, RAID ARRAY Controller configurations, Hot swap Drive replacements, Cluster Controllers.
Install routers, hubs and switches.
Install and configure Cisco PIX firewalls including point to point and remote client VPN.
Install and configure other filewall appliances such as SonicWall.
Coordination with ISPs to create, modify or move DNS MX and WWW records for clients.
Support and troubleshoot all the above systems successfully resolving all issues within acceptable time frames.

Washington Mutual Bank, Stockton CA. Aug. to Sept 2003

Deployment Team Lead

Working part time Friday nights, Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays.
Migration from Novell and GroupWise to Microsoft Windows 2000 Active Directory and Exchange 2000. .
Project lead for a mass Windows XP deployment involving over 1000+ IBM workstations and printers.
Perform site surveys prior to actual deployments to insure all equipment and resources are ready and available.
Installing or converting printers from token ring to ethernet.
Perform infrastructure migration from token ring to ethernet by installing ethernet hubs and switching CAT5 patch cables from token ring hubs to ethernet hubs.
Leading the actual deployments on Friday evenings and Saturdays.
Leading the “Morning Of Support Team” on Mondays.
Completing all required paperwork and techs time sheets and faxing to the project manager in Seattle Washington.

Grass Valley Group, Grass Valley CA. Aug 28 to Sept. 28 2003

One Month contract as a security expert to clean and patch servers, workstations, video production and broadcast equipment.
MSBLASTER, LOVESAN & LOVEGATE Worm cleanup and systems patching on company’s 50+ Servers, 600+ Workstations as well as Video Routers, Newscast Servers, Broadcast Servers and Video Controllers.
Recommended and demonstrated three solutions for auto-updating clients and servers as well as doing network wide scans for systems missing critical updates and pushing the critical updates to the systems needing them. Microsoft SUS server, Update Expert and HFNETCHPRO 4.0.

Siemens Business Services, Sacramento Ca.

December 2000 to June 2003

On contract to the California Department of Social Services, Children and Family Services Division, Systems Support Unit and California Department of Corrections Institutions Headquarters for three years in a 10,000 user environment.
Network Engineer, plan, design, build and install network infrastructure devices and systems including Active Directory design.
Domain Administrator, users and groups, permissions, password resets, Active Directory & Group Policy.
Server and Desktop Systems support technician.
Systems and network troubleshooting and resolution. Including hardware, network infrastructure devices, connectivity and supporting software applications such as Outlook, MS Office 97/2000/XP, Windows 9X, Windows 2000, XP and NT 4.0 Workstation.
Windows NT / 2000 / 2003 Server installation, configuration and administration.
Microsoft Exchange server troubleshooting and administration.
TCP/IP, DNS, WINS & DHCP design, implementation and administration.
PC systems deployment, rollout, installation and configuration, including installation of operating system, applications, disk cloning and network configuration.
Project lead tasked with Windows 2000 Server Migration.
Windows 2000 Migration and Rollout of 1000+ desktops, 150+ laptops.
Responsible for division and department Windows 2000 Professional / Server disk image creation and maintenance for more than 20 different PC and server platforms.
Planned and developed a Windows 2003 Active Directory Domain Test LAN for the Department of Corrections Institutions Division.
Consultant to IBM technicians at the department of Social Services for the migration from OS2 Warp to a Windows 2000 Active Directory Domain.
Network, domain, internet and Office Application Suite security.

Earthlink Inc. Sacramento, Ca.

November 1999 to December 2000

Tier Two Technical Support/Help Desk.
Assisting Earthlink Customers in configuring, troubleshooting and resolving PC Systems connections to the internet using both Earthlink software and Windows networking resources.
Types of connections supported were Dialup / DSL / ISDN / Cable.
Specializing in WIN 3.1/95/98/NT/2000/Other Operating Systems / ISDN / DSL / LAN.
Tier One Technical Support Team Senior Tech. / Assistant Supervisor.
Team Training / Development Coordinator.
Team TCS (Time Coordination System) Coordinator.
Promoted to Tier II Technical Support.

Independent Computer Consultant Guam, USA. Sole Proprietor/Owner

1994 to February 1999

Administrative
Marketing.
PC and network systems design, installation, configuration, troubleshooting, repair, upgrade.
PC Systems Rollouts
Install and configure MS DOS, Windows 3.11/95/98 and NT
LAN and WAN Network support.
Web site design, hosting and management.
IIS administration
Information Systems Consulting.