I've been an architect/engineer for over a decade. I'm well versed in Microsoft technologies and services, specifically Active Directory, Exchange, PowerShell, System Center (centering on Opalis/Orchestrator and SCOM/Service Manager), and DNS. I also have in-depth storage architecture experience across a variety of platforms including EMC, NetApp, and 3PAR/HP, as well as virtualization architecture experience using both VMWare ESX and Hyper-V. I see my next position leveraging these skills to become an architect of a firm's technological vision, providing innovation that is counted on heavily to improve the bottom line. Specialties: SAN/NAS, Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory, System Center, Virtualization, Automation, PowerShell, DNS

Infrastructure Associate @ From May 2014 to Present (1 year 6 months) Senior Network Engineer @ Lead engineer for Microsoft's authoritative DNS service, supporting such properties such as Hotmail and Xbox. Architect of an OOB monitoring, alerting, and reporting solution focused on the authoritative DNS layer. Researched and documented load capacity metrics for various builds of dns.exe, resulting in more accurate capacity planning. Established latency "heat map" that allowed for more accurate failover responses. Responsible for automating operational processes such as patching, QC, and compliance through PowerShell scripts and an Orchestrator-based automation platform. Researched, tested, and automated the deployment of a new dns.exe build that reduced recursive query failures by up to 50%, reduced recursive timeouts by up to 25%, and solved numerous operational issues for internal Microsoft customers. Responsible for maintaining FEDRAMP and FISMA compliance for the DNS service. DNS-OARC voting member. From July 2012 to December 2013 (1 year 6 months) Redmond, WAPrincipal Infrastructure Architect @ Architect responsible for the design and documentation of an Opalis driven ITPA solution. Architect of a System Center Service Manager solution to replace legacy ticketing system. Architect on Tribune’s Exchange 2010 migration. Lead architect on two hour server provisioning project, specifically focusing on vSphere automation. Built enterprise TMG environment. From August 2010 to July 2012 (2 years) Chicago, ILArchitect and Systems Engineer @ Lead architect responsible for the design, documentation, and implementation plan for an ESX 4 environment consisting of three three node clusters leveraging host profiles, distributed network switches, and VMWare Fault Tolerance. Lead architect responsible for the execution plan for a 40TB storage migration from a shared EMC storage environment to a Nuveen-owned HDS USPV. Lead architect responsible for the design, documentation, and implementation plan for an Active Directory migration from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008 R2. From March 2010 to May 2010 (3 months) Systems Engineer @ Lead engineer for US site during Windows 2003 to 2008 domain migration. Responsible for the architecture and administration of US site in a global AD and Exchange environment. Implemented Iron Mountain based compliance solution for electronic communication systems. Responsible for the selection, architecture, and administration of 3PAR based SAN. Implemented and maintained a Tivoli Storage Manager backup environment. Architected and administered a McAfee-based antivirus solution for US site. Architected and administered various remote access based solutions including a global 4.x BES environment and the implementation of RSA soft tokens for mobile handheld users. Wrote multiple scripts (in languages such as VBS, Perl, and PowerShell) to automate back-office administration tasks. From July 2008 to November 2009 (1 year 5 months) Senior Systems Engineer / Window Systems Group Lead / Architect @ One of three senior engineers/team leads/architects in the firm. Lead back-office integration of market maker into existing AD/Exchange/storage environments. Architected a multi-server Exchange 2003 environment that improved performance by offloading anti-virus and anti-spam workload to Barracuda appliances. Maintained firm's SEC compliance with an Iron Mountain based journaling solution as well as a WORM compliant storage solution. Architect of an SolarWinds monitoring solution, utilizing IPMonitor to monitor Windows servers. Architect of an Evault disk-based backup solution designed to maintain high-availability for all mission critical firm data. Response times were reduced by 66% for all restores. Designed storage environment that included a clustered NetApp 3020c that yielded higher reliability and increased storage capacity. Automated Windows maintenance to occur with minimal end-user interruption. Architected an Active Directory infrastructure that heavily utilized group policy to ease administration burdens. Trained staff and broadened Windows knowledge across the firm. From August 2005 to March 2008 (2 years 8 months) IT Systems Manager @ Responsible for the maintenance and enhancement of the firm's internal and data center environments. Led a hosting migration from one data center environment to another, yielding an increase in security and availability of all affected client sites. Managed a team of developers responsible for the complete development life cycle of major upgrades to the production environment. Consulted two days a week at a large holographics firm and was responsible for implementing a redundant network connectivity solution to ensure communication between branch offices. Managed a Windows server farm that supported over twenty clients. Responsible for all security initiatives and patch management solutions in collocation and internal environments.. Authored project plans for all initiatives and was responsible for the final implementation. Overhauled Active Directory environment to improve efficiency and scalability of LAN. Designed and implemented backup plan for both internal and consulting environments. Implemented and maintained various firewalls in production and internal environments. From September 2004 to April 2005 (8 months) Rock Climbing Guide @ Excelled in keeping weekend warriors, thrill seekers, and couch potatoes safe while simultaneously allowing them to check one off life's bucket list. Executive chef presiding over a Michelin-Starred camp fire-based kitchen responsible for Sunday breakfasts. Caravan leader for cross country trips known for his impeccable ability to time bathroom breaks for both males and females. From 2003 to 2005 (2 years) Senior Systems Engineer @ Responsible for the design, architecture, implementation, migration to, and support of an Active Directory infrastructure for LAN and data center environments. Architect of a two-tiered DNS solution which preserved separate public and private DNS namespace for LAN and datacenter. Engineer responsible for the architecture, implementation, continued functionality, and support of remote office WANs. Lead engineer for the implementation and support of multiple Checkpoint 4.0, 2000 (NG), Express Firewall-1/VPN-1 solutions for both LAN and datacenter environments. Architect for all LAN security, including automation, implementation, and maintenance of a patch management solution and centrally-managed antivirus solution. Responsible for the design, implementation, migration to, and support of a Microsoft Exchange 5.5 mail solution and subsequent upgrades to Exchange 2000 and 2003. Responsible for the administration and maintenance of a Microsoft SourceSafe based development environment. Responsible for the implementation of group based policy. Responsible for the design and implementation of an asset-tracking and procurement system. . From September 1999 to June 2004 (4 years 10 months)

Bachelor of Science, Biomedical Engineering @ Northwestern University From 1996 to 1999 Chris Ferraro is skilled in: Virtualization, VMware, Active Directory, Data Center, Microsoft Exchange, Linux, Windows, Enterprise Architecture, Windows Server, High Availability, SQL, DNS, System Center, Powershell, SAN, Firewalls, Microsoft SQL Server, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Technologies, Security, Cluster, Storage Area Networks, Hyper-V, System Administration, Servers, Storage, Unix, SharePoint, SDLC, VMware ESX, NetApp, VBScript, Infrastructure, Disaster Recovery, Integration, System Deployment, SCOM, Netscaler, Load Balancing