James E. Bailey

 

5640 Pacific Blvd.  #1034

Boca Raton, Fl. 33433

Phone:  561-504-2500

Jim.bailey@comcast.net

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/jim-bailey/1a/9a9/803

 

 JOB TARGET

IT Manager and / or Systems Administrator position in an organization that will benefit from my initiative, capabilities, coupled with proven technical and problem solving skills. I am particularly interested in a position with the potential for advancement and increased decision-making responsibilities.

 

RELEVANT SKILLS

IT infrastructure design, maintenance, repair, disaster recovery. AWS cloud computing, EC2, VPC, ELB, RedShift, ECS, RDS, IIS, MSSQL, Auto scaling, Docker, GIT, SAAS, IAAS. Exceptional problem solving and troubleshooting skills. Ability to quickly adapt to and learn changing technology requirements. Ability to quickly assimilate into a team, assess goals and make meaningful contributions. Ability to stay calm and focused under extreme pressure.

 

History

 

Mar 2005 – Present

Network Administrator / Infrastructure Architect / AWS Cloud Services Engineer

Black Book Online

·  Network administrator / Infrastructure Architect managing Amazon cloud, managed hosting, and physical production, testing, and development environments including Active Directory, Exchange, VMWare, iSCSI SANS and SQL servers.

·  Lead the design, architecture, engineering, implementation, and management of the AWS migration of all production systems including web servers, SMTP servers, SQL servers, RDS, Redshift, load balancing and auto scaling, VPN between AWS regions, Cloudwatch monitoring, Site 24/7, Sumo Logic, and New Relic monitoring and metrics, Pager Duty alerting and escalation policies.

·  Point man for implementation of Chef for deployment and configuration control.

 

May 2008 – May 2012

Senior Network Engineer / Consultant

Palindrome Consulting

·  Full time engineer for Blackbook, but also serviced other clients as required. Usually as high level support / design or high profile clients.

·  Network infrastructure design, implementation, and maintenance.

·  MS Exchange Active Directory installation, maintenance, disaster recovery.

·  SQL and IIS server implementation and support.

·  Design and monitor backup strategies, including clustering and real time data replication. Avaya VOIP phone system administration.

·  Desktop support

 

Mar 2005 - May 2008

Consultant / Engineer

VNOCSpace

·  Full time engineer for Blackbook, but also serviced other clients as required. Usually as high level support or high profile clients.

·  Rolled out an entire call center of over 100 workstations and three servers in one weekend from bare metal using Ghostcast.

 

Mar 2002 - Mar 2005

Remote Administration Engineer

Courtesy Computers

·  Provide leadership and support for a technical staff of five Remote Administration Engineers and five Field Engineers.

·  Design and implement policies and procedures to streamline and automate workflows and documentation.

·  Project Manager for all major rollouts.

·  Consulting and design liaison between sales, engineering and clients.

·  Remotely administer a wide variety of networks for CCI clients throughout the eastern seaboard from New York to Key West. Design maintain and repair network infrastructure components such as Citrix, Exchange 2003/2000 & 5.5 MSSQL server Cisco, HP, Lucent switches and routers, Windows 2003/2000 & NT4.0 server, CCI proprietary Linux based firewalls, Arcserve, Veritas, Ultrabac, backup systems. Perform disaster recovery for all server products. Desktop support using terminal services, Citrix, and VNC. Perform on site consulting, design and installation of entire networks. Provide tech support to CCI field engineers as required.

 

Education

Attended, Corpus Christi State University, Computer Science

H.S. Diploma, Umatilla High, Umatilla, Fl.

Decades of hands on experience

 

Certifications

·  MCSE - Certifies competence to design, implement, maintain, troubleshoot, and repair Microsoft Windows based networks. Sub-certifications include Win2k Workstation, Server, Active Directory Design, Network Infrastructure and Migrating from Win NT to Win2K domain structure.             

·  A+ Comptia - Certifies competence to install, maintain, and repair computer systems in a corporate environment.

·  Exchange 2010/2003/2000/5.5- Microsoft email, calendar, contact database server. Install, repair, and maintain.             

·  Linux - The standard for Web Servers, SANs, File Servers and embedded systems.             

·  MSSQL server 2014/2008  Install, repair, and maintain.

·  RDS / Redshift / MongoDB. Cloud based databases

·  Firewalls – PIX, Astaro, Watchguard, SonicWall, Juniper. Install configure and maintain.

·  Backup Software - Brightstore/Arcserv, Backup Exec, Ultrabac.

·  Visual Basic - Used to create custom applications, frontends, and scripting network maintenance tasks.

·  Citrix – Advanced terminal server environment and application server.