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Personal Experience - Home Lab
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BONIFACE RASUGU

Brooklyn Center,MN

Summary

IT Professional with 10 plus years of experience. Expertise includes Azure Cloud Services, On Prem Traditional Network Suport, Experienced Mac OS Support Office 365, Network Administration and end user support. A dedicated and proactive IT Professional who can be counted on to get the job done.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

IT Independent Contractor Consultant

FIELD NATION
05.2020 - Current
  • Network installation
  • Installed and Configured Meraki MX 68 CW Firewall, Meraki Switches and Meraki MR access points for Lennar Homes using templates
  • SD - WAN Configuration - American Roofing Supply
  • Fortigate HA Configuration - Pivital
  • Sonic Wall - Configured Sonic Wall - Prokart Indoor
  • Installed Ubiquity Access Point and Controller - Primrose School Minnetonka
  • Router Removal and move VLAN to Different Device
  • SDWAN Config- Marriott Hotel
  • Installed Cradle point, Connected Out port on Poe Injector to Poe on CradePoint, installed IN port on CradePoint Poe injector to secondary WAN on cisco Meraki
  • Extended Circuit from Demarc - FedEx
  • Reimaged Laptop - Hilton Hotel Maple Grove
  • Level 2 Engineer assisting with onboarding devices to Azure Intune and autopilot- Zomedica
  • Installed Cisco c1000 and connected it to circuit.- Abbott
  • Server Troubleshoot- Kona Grill
  • Site Activation/Turn Up
  • Installed New Meraki, did speed Test and verified connectivity
  • - Pomeroy
  • HDD Replacement and complete imaged setup - HP ProDesk 600 - Hilton Garden Maple Grove
  • Installed PCM for State Farm insurance - Pivotal Tech
  • Installed CradlePoint to Cisco Meraki and Verified Connectivity - American Fam Insurance
  • CradlePoint Backup Installation - SPND
  • Lumen router installation - Big D enterprises
  • Installed Tested and Turn up - Verizon Business
  • Configured Cisco switches- Stacked, Consoled, IP address
  • - The Landing
  • Installed SIM in Meraki, tested - American Best
  • Installed a battery in a v14 g2-itl (Lenovo) Laptop - Global Tech Solutions
  • Troubleshot AP at site
  • Replaced - All Micro Service
  • Decommissioned 37 Network/Servers, Onsite Hard Drive Removal - Guardian Data Destruction
  • Register Controller Upgrade at Walmart - Essential Projects
  • Verified the internet service was installed by ISP provider and configured all wireless devices to corpnet/corpguest networks
  • UPS Install and Secure Network Rack - IW Technologies
  • Built a small LAN for ZION Care Services in Roseville
  • Setup a Watchguard Firebox, set ISP IP, disabled DHCP, entered DNS settings
  • Configured VLAN Configured VLANS and trunked to Cisco and Unifi switch
  • Setup up a Windows Server Small Network with HP ProLiant Microserver Gen8, Sophos UTM 9
  • Set up ILO on the ProLiant Server Gen8 using Intelligent provisioning
  • Configured Raid 5 using storage administrator to create arrays using Raid 5 for 5 Hard disks
  • Installed Windows Server 2019 as an ADDS, DNS, ADDUC, DHCP Server, Print and File server
  • Created users and gave access to the shared folder
  • Configured Sophos UTM for Protection and VPN
  • Connected ASUS access point Wi-Fi and created a static route to the Sophos
  • Disabled DHCP and allow passthrough on comcast modem

Azure Cloud Engineer Contractor Consultant

MIRACLON
11.2023 - 12.2025
  • Created and Supported VMs
  • Managed Users in Entra ID
  • Registered Company Devices using AutoPilot
  • Created Powershell Script to Join Devices to Domain
  • Configured & support storage accounts
  • Created and Managed Resources

Azure Administrator Contractor

Zomedica
10.2023 - 03.2024
  • Configured Zomedica Custom Domain
  • Onboarded Workstations(Windows /Mac) to Azure Intune/Autopilot using PowerShell scripts template
  • Added and deployed Apps in Intune - Using Win32 App
  • Onboarded company portals to the users’ phones
  • Registered devices with Autopilot/Intune
  • Transferred over the profile from the old profile to the new
  • Added printers to the profile
  • Configured Teams & Outlook email from Office 365
  • Assisted with personal settings

IT Specialist/ Network Administrator

Achieve Community Charter
08.2007 - 04.2017
  • Managed server infrastructures and data-center operations
  • Effectively planned, configured and optimized the IT infrastructures to achieve high availability and performance, by Installing Gig Port switches between switches and servers
  • Basic & In-depth Configuration, Support & Troubleshooting of Mac OS Devices
  • Configuration of Mac OS, JAMF MDM
  • Configuring RAID for best performance and redundancy
  • Configure POE on switches, high performance memory and CPUs for servers
  • Deployed Network Security Devices FortiGate, to protect, monitor, and report vulnerabilities
  • Deployed FortiGate by configuring security policies, UTM, IPS, Whitelists, Web Filtering, Remote Access, IPSec VPN, and SSL VPN
  • Deployed HP and Cisco switch management and configuration
  • Configured static and dynamic routes, VLAN support, IP addressing, Access Ports, Trunk Ports
  • Prepared IP pools for Multiple VLANS., ACLs, RADIUS
  • Configured, verified and troubleshot the WAN Protocols PPP (Both PAP & CHAP) DHCP RELAY
  • Configured, verified and troubleshot the routing protocols like RIPv1, RIPv2, OSPF, and EIGRP, OSPF, and STP
  • Upgraded all HP & Cisco Routers and switches with the new Firmware version checking the connectivity between the sites
  • Hardware: Cisco router and switches, Ethernet wiring (terminated, tested, and labeled)
  • WDS & SCCM Deployment and Support
  • Configured, built, tested, and implemented SCCM 2012
  • Built and maintained a standard image with application selection
  • Deployed Windows workstation patches, and created packages, collections, and advertisements for software deployments and inventory
  • Configured network switches to allow the broadcast of the SCCM PXE request to be forwarded beyond the local subnet
  • Resolved and troubleshot complex Network and Workstation issues in a timely manner
  • Verified all Child Domain Controllers replicate to the Parent domain controller
  • Created Group Policies and OU's for better organization
  • Created training materials for both users and teammates
  • Desktop/Laptop Workstation Support - Windows 7,8 & 10 support - software installation, network connection, malware removal
  • Diagnosed Boot issues
  • Contacted warranty HP service for hardware issues
  • Prepared the design plan for the sites for the installation of HP, and Cisco routers
  • Configured local usernames and passwords
  • IIS configuration and support
  • Deployed HP wireless controller to manage all Procurve 530 Wireless Access Points
  • Deployed Aruba Wireless Access Points
  • Helped Audio Visual Dynamics in the school with AV technology with the creation of boardroom and classroom multimedia presentations like smartboards, video switching using HDMI and VGA and the audio

Education

High School Diploma - IT College Classes

Newark Public School District
Newark, NJ

Skills

  • Mac OS Support
  • Azure Cloud
  • On Prem Network Administration
  • Network Automation
  • Active Directory
  • Azure AD
  • Entra ID
  • Azure Cloud Services
  • VMWare
  • AD Domain Controllers
  • Fortigate Deployment
  • Office 365
  • Windows Server 2012
  • Windows Server 2016
  • Windows Server 2019
  • Windows Server 2022
  • Intune
  • Autopilot
  • PowerShell
  • Remote Desktop Services
  • Imaging
  • Deployments
  • Data Migration
  • Storage Hardware Architecture
  • Network Device Automation
  • Ansible
  • Mac OS JAMF MDM
  • DNS
  • DHCP
  • GPO Policies
  • Wireless Access Points
  • Network Security
  • Security Firewalls
  • Fortinet
  • Cisco ASA
  • FortiGate Firewalls
  • Watch Guard Firebox
  • Sophos
  • Cisco Meraki
  • Aruba
  • SCCM Server Installation
  • Switch management
  • Configuration
  • Static Routing
  • Dynamic Routing
  • VLAN Support
  • IP Addressing
  • Access Ports
  • Trunk Ports
  • ACLs
  • Radius
  • IPSec VPN
  • SSL VPN
  • Asset Management
  • Mac user profiles
  • Windows 10
  • Windows 11
  • MacOS
  • Troubleshooting of MacOS devices

Personal Experience - Home Lab

05/01/06, Present, 10 years - Configured and deployed a Home Domain Lab with 1 Fortiwifi 60E Firewall, 4 Cisco 1841 Routers, 5 Cisco Catalyst 3550 layer 3 switches, and 1 Hp procurve 2650 layer 3 switch. Configures Azure Cloud Home Lab – Setup Custom Domain, Created VMs, Resources Storage accounts etc. Deployed VMWARE server with Multiple VMs. Configured On Prem domain services DHCP, DNS, domain controller, web service, and File server and web server. Setup Mobile VPN with WatchGuard, Integrated WatchGuard to Windows AD, Configured Policies, Antivirus and Rapid Deploy. Advanced Configuration of HP & Cisco Routers/ Layer 3 Switches e.g. I configured VLANS, Access ports, trunks, DTP, VTP, IP routes, subnetting with FLSM, and VLSM using all 3 IP classes. I also configured STP to prevent Broadcast storms. Successfully Configured RIP, EIGRP & OSPF on Cisco Layer 3 1841 Router. Configured VLANs for HP Wireless Access Point, Aruba access point and CISCO AP AIR 18521 E K9 on my home network. Trunked the HP switch to the Cisco switch. Enabled port fast on the interfaces connected to the Windows server and Endnotes. I also configured BPDU guard on Port fast interfaces in cases a switch is connected.

Timeline

Azure Cloud Engineer Contractor Consultant

MIRACLON
11.2023 - 12.2025

Azure Administrator Contractor

Zomedica
10.2023 - 03.2024

IT Independent Contractor Consultant

FIELD NATION
05.2020 - Current

IT Specialist/ Network Administrator

Achieve Community Charter
08.2007 - 04.2017

High School Diploma - IT College Classes

Newark Public School District

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