David Austin

Experience

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  Entex

  Aug 1996 - Sept 1999

  CE

  Provided deskside support; troubleshooting and repairing problems.· Led a large project traveling around the country setting existing workstations on the Banyan network. Converting their mail over and moving their data from the old server to the Banyan server.· Assisted GTECC in a project in moving two groups together and installing the network (serverless) and configuring the workstations to attach and logging in through the WAN.

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  Sarcom

  Sept 1999 - Dec 2003

  Technical Project Lead

  Led several projects involving the deployment and migration of hardware, software, systems upgrades and repairs. This position also required travel both regionally and nationally.· Supervised teams of employees monitoring productivity and profitability.· Leveraged working knowledge of Microsoft Operating Systems, Microsoft Suite Application and DOS driven applications.

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  Gaylord Entertainment (corporate)

  Jan 2003 - Jan 2008

  Maintained a VERITAS NetBackup 6.5.1 environment (One Master server and seven media servers that back’s up 8 TB data) also supporting three other properties with a VERITAS NetBackup 6.0mp4 environment.· Maintained two Isa2004 proxy servers that Smart filter software for content filtering.· Created user groups in Active Directory for granting user access to share resources on the network.· Added DNS records in the forward lookup zones for host and created IP reservation in the IP scope on the DHCP serve for printers.· Maintained server stability by resolving hardware and software issue on Dell servers.· Used Virtual Center 2.5 to manage 30 win2k and 2003 virtual servers on four 3.1 ESX host. Show less

  • System Administrator

    Jan 2005 - Jan 2008

  • Network Desktop Cord.

    Jan 2003 - Jan 2005
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  Verizon

  Jan 2009 - Jan 2024

  Netbackup Administrator and System Administrator Responsible for building out two small NetBackup 7.6.0 environments with 7+ media servers (3 of them clustered) with over 400 clients.· Leveraged proprietary utilities to add users to user groups to grant access to shared resources.· Used AGPM to create and modify GPO to manage access to servers in policies.· Supported a VM Farm that had a vCenter 5.5 with 170 host and 650 VM clients.· Managed the process of retiring old VM farm with ESOL hardware and moving clients off to new hardware. Show less

  • Sr Engr Spec-Systems Admin

    Jan 2011 - Jan 2024

  • MTS IV Spec-Sys Engrg

    Jan 2009 - Jan 2011
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  Checking it out

  Jun 2024 - now

  Retired