Ronald L. Onstott

www.linkedin.com/in/rononstott/en

5538 Emerald Ridge Drive

Cottleville, Missouri

636.544.5887

ron.onstott@gmail.com

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Holding a DOD Secret Clearance, leader, solution-focused, team player, self motivator, cost-effectiveness, and customer focus professional with over 20 years of IT experience. Currently, just hired by Vatterott College through Syllogisteks as an IT Consultant responsible for design, migration, implementation and support for all Vatterott systems.

 

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

 

Vatterott College, System Administrator                                                                           6/2014 - Current 

Worked as a Syllogisteks IT consultant at Vatterott for six months then hired this past month. As a team member of two system administers (SA) manage and support Vatterott Corporate offices plus 30 remote campuses around the Midwest Region. Manage and support 2012 AD structure, DNS, DHCP, Citrix, VMware, Exchange 2007 hosting 1800 mailboxes, Netapp, Backup Exec 2010 via remote 365DataCenter. Also manage ASA, WebSense, SonicWalls, and Shortel phone systems throughout campus networks. Just designed and installed Lync2013 Corporate wide.

Currently, plan to virtualize Exchange2013 DAG design from Exchange2007. Installing fifth HP VMware host to increase resources for Exchange20013 migration.

Re-designed DNS and setup DNS savaging throughout Vatterott networks to resolve slowness, dup IP’s, and high ticket volume of connection issues. Re-designed WSUS from 2003 to 2012 WSUS, upgrading\replacing Window 2003 servers with 2012r2. Re-designing Vatterott GPO and OU structure.

Installed and configured Panasonic Security camera systems and upgrading campus servers to Windows 2012 server.  

 

AllStaff Tech.Solutions\Lockheed Martin @ US Army Corps Engineers, St. Louis, Mo. 03/2009–03/2014

Enterprise Messaging Administrator/Sr. Systems Administrator 

·   Support level 2 & 3 for over 800 local and remote users in a team environment with on-call status

·   From local Exchange2003 server to virtualized Exchange2010 USACE wide servers. Restore Exchange DataBases, mailboxes, use exmerge and Steller to repair personal folders. 

·   Provide certificate, signature, and encryption support.

·   Provide Mobile Armor support, installation, script to back up systems across the network.

·   Maintain 60 terabyte of critical USACE data, DRA, and data recovery with ARCSERVE 15.0 converted to Symantec Netbackup 7.5. Iron Mountain for off-site backups.

·   Maintain DNS, WINS, and ADS. Currently testing DHCP and Backup solutions under VMWare.

·   Involved in migrating stand-a-lone legacy Windows2003 servers to Windows2008 servers, consolidations Enterprise level VMWARE cluster. Use vSphere to maintain MVS VMWare cluster

·   Netapp FAS3040/2050 fibre and iScsi, snapshot, filer, CIFS

·   Served as Deployable Tactical Operations Systems (DTOS) First responder to provide initial emergency mobile command communications for environmental disasters, involved in setting up all communications and mobile satellite.

 

 

NCI Information Systems, Inc. – Scott Air Force Base, IL                        08/2008–03/2009

Enterprise Messaging Administrator 

·   Provide MS Exchange 2003/2007 support, maintenance and availability for over 90,000 and 12 remote sites, of Front&back-end systems, clustering, and virtual nodes.

·   Provide Black Berry support, maintenance, and availability for over 3000 users

·   Provide as lead MS Internet Security and Acceleration Enterprise Server (ISA) 2006 engineer responsibilities DOD CAC enabled OWA and SharePoint authentication. Also involved in U.S. Air Force wide CAC enabled Enterprise Information Management (EIM) development and design intergrading internal USAF services.

·   Maintain and support IronMail, Antigen, and Symantec services for inbound connections, email to workstation protection and security.

·   Averaging 200 to 300 Remedy trouble tickets monthly.

 

IT Consulting (private), - St. Louis, MO.                                                                             12/2007-08/2008

Involved in new start-up company, business planning, logo, and web site. Designed, implemented, and managed all critical communications, backups, security, and technical support. Installed and configured MS Small Business and Exchange 2007, OWA with Mobile 5/6. Designed, implemented, and managed all security aspects with Firewall ISA 2004 with VPN access.

 

Northrop Grumman Information Technology – St. Louis, MO                                      09/1995-11/2007

Network Manager, Network Engineer

·   Designed, implemented, and manage a 100 node WAN/LAN multi-platform network facility consisting of SUN, HP, SGI, and NOVELL 3.1 - 4.11 systems migrated to Microsoft ADS infrastructure to include GC, DC, DDNS, DFS, and WINS redundancy. Directly reported to higher management project leaders, account managers design, costs, and Visio drawings for future deployments, upgrades, and troubleshooting.

·   Design topology layer 2 IP switching. Implemented and managed a fully utilized Cisco 6509 12.1 IOS Catalyst Switch with redundant supervisors, FlexWAN and VLAN networks for Production, Training and R&D.

·   Designed, implemented, and managed Cisco PIX 5.1.1 with redundancy. Created and maintained firewall policies.

·   Designed, implemented, and managed Cisco 3000 VPN Concentrator two factor group and password authentication and ADS login and password verification with strict GPO workstation security policies.

·   Designed, implemented, and managed Exchange 5.5, 2000, 2003 environments with OWA.

·   Responsible for planning, implementing, and maintaining local and remote sites

Electronic Data Systems/HRC – St. Louis, MO                                      02/1991-09/1995

LAN Technician

·   LAN NOVELL 3.12, 4.11 Administration, customer support, and supported over 2000 TCP/IP & IPX nodes

·   Installed hardware/software, maintained HRC backups, and assisted in R&D.

Electronic Data Systems/RDCL - Elizabethtown, KY                                               06/1989-02/1991

Mainframe Tape & Printer Operator

·   OPD Entry level position at RDC- Louisville, KY

·   Second shift mainframe tape & printer operator

Computer Services Inc. – Elizabethtown, KY                                                                10/1985-06/1989 Computer Operator – Data Processing/Sorter Operator

·   Responsible for second\third shift COB entry, processing, and printing bank data checks, microfiche, general ledger, and customer checking and saving statements.

United States Coast Guard – Decatur, AL                                      05/1981-05/1985

3^rd Class Petty Officer & Machinery Technician

·   Hazards Chemical/Safety Towboat & Facility Inspector patrolling Tennessee River.

·   Diesel Mechanic, boiler & steam systems, Fireman and Damage Control responsibilities.

EDUCATION

·                        Designing, Configuration, and migration Microsoft Exchange2013 by Premier Knowledge Solutions

·                        Security+ Certification and studying CCNA

·                        NGIT Microsoft ADS/Exchange 5.5/2003 classes

·                        Laine Educational Enterprises, LTD. UNIX Utilities, Commands & Administration

·                        American Research Group UNIX level I and II

·                        Productivity Point Windows Administration, GPO Policies, and Deployment

·                        CBT Cisco/Networking/Security training

·                        Wave Technologies Training – Novell, Microsoft, Troubleshooting, Data Communications, LAN/WAN Internetworking, and Disaster recovery.

·                        Attended numerous INTEROP conferences on Network Security and Technology Advancements.

·                        Graduated Bartlett High School – Anchorage, Alaska                      1977-1980

 

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

·   Improved Vatterott network performace and reduced ticket connection issues

·   Re-designing Vatterott GPO\OU Structure

·   Improved Vatterott communications with Lync2013 

·   USACE – migrated to Symantec Netbackup 7.0 with U.S. Army ELA saving USACE millions in backup and support costs USACE wide.

·   NCI – lead in USAF wide CAC enabled OWA access with ISA 2006

·   NGIT- Achieve 96% network availability annually

·   NGIT- over 93% customer satisfaction rating.

·   NGIT- Key Contributor bonuses plus USCG/CSI/EDS/NGIT/HRC Awards

·   NGIT- Cut support and cost efforts in half by standardization hardware, software, licenses and technology trends.

·   NGIT- Designed and implemented efficient high-end network with redundancy centralizing management and stabilizing environment.

·   NGIT – Performance Exceed Expectations Reviews

·   EDS – Performance Solid Exceeds Reviews

·   CSI – Advanced quickly from sorter operator to computer operator

·   USCG – Honorable Discharge, Ribbons, commendable ratings