Rob Stormes
Highlands Ranch,CO
Summary
Dedicated System Engineer adept at cultivating long-term partnerships with vendors and clients. Expertise includes installing, configuring and monitoring complex systems and infrastructures. Offering successful career history comprising more than 20 years.
Veteran Systems Engineer versed in developing solutions for mission-critical needs. Specializes in deploying systems within ongoing operations while causing minimal disruptions. Committed to verifying compatibility, required operational thresholds and budgetary compliance of developed products.
Detail-oriented Computer Systems Engineer committed to improving system design and operations for reliable workflow management. Researches and implements budget-conscious security and encryption solutions to protect user privacy and increase overall network health. Creates easy-to-follow guidelines and troubleshooting documentation for non-technical staff.
Pursuing full-time role that presents professional challenges and leverages interpersonal skills, effective time management, and problem-solving expertise.
Thorough team contributor with strong organizational capabilities. Experienced in handling numerous projects at once while ensuring accuracy. Effective at prioritizing tasks and meeting deadlines.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Systems Engineer / Contractor
State of Alaska, Dept. of Health
03.2024 - 05.2024
- Active Directory project for splitting multiple domains in a single forest to 2 new forests for each domain
- Server Migrations
- Discovery of Group Policy objects
- Discovery of server inventory
- Created OU structure in each forest
- Came up with naming conventions for groups and GPOs
- Improved system performance by identifying and resolving technical issues in a timely manner.
- Contributed towards continuous improvement initiatives aimed at streamlining internal processes and enhancing overall service delivery quality.
Sr. Systems Engineer / Contractor
Point Solutions Group, Tamko
05.2023 - 06.2023
- Remediation of Active Directory
- Tamko Active Directory remediation took place by Tamko engineers
- Developed plan to reorganize Active Directory
- Work was tasked internally by Tamko engineers
- Tuned and remediate PSG's Azure Active Directory
- Set up Azure for internal PSG users
- Mentored junior engineers in advanced concepts, fostering professional development within the team.
- Provided expert guidance on best practices in systems engineering, improving team performance and product quality.
- Conducted thorough audits of system architecture, identifying areas for improvement and implementing corrective actions.
Sr. Systems Engineer / Contractor
Wintrust Financial Services
10.2022 - 01.2023
- Developed plan to decommission older domain controllers
- Executed domain controller decommission
- Upgrade domain controllers operating system
- Domain consolidation
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions for business needs.
- Developed comprehensive disaster recovery plans to minimize downtime in the event of a crisis.
- Mentored junior engineers in advanced concepts, fostering professional development within the team.
Sr. Active Directory Engineer / Contractor
Kyndryl
07.2022 - 08.2022
- Developed plan for domain consolidation
- Part of team to complete migration but customer decided to use the plan to do migrations without assistance leading to end of contract
AD Infrastructure Engineer / Systems Engineer / Contractor
USAA
01.2022 - 05.2022
- Assisted with development of Powershell scripts for automation
- Tuned monitoring and alerts for USAA Active Directory environment
- SCOM Powershell integration
- Domain controller patching
- Azure AD management
- Domain controller refresh project
Active Directory Engineer / Systems Engineer
Intermountain Healthcare
09.2013 - 07.2021
- Company Overview: Broomfield, CO
- Systems Engineer with focus on Active Directory
- Daily management and maintenance of Active Directory Forest including 6 child domains that included over 85,000 objects and 58 domain controllers
- Set NTFS permissions on multiple file shares
- Used SolarWinds and SCOM for server monitoring
- Configured monitoring on same platforms for Active Directory
- Planned and executed project to replace all domain controllers across the enterprise, with hybrid of physical and virtual servers (VMWare/ESX), dropping number of domain controllers from 58 to 30 to reduce network replication traffic
- Ensured that all server hardware, operating systems and procedures aligned with organizational standards and strategic business plan
- Headed project to collapse child domains and migrate over 20,000 user accounts into the root domain using ADMT and Quest Tools PowerShell plug-in
- Increased team productivity and automated repetitive tasks by using PowerShell
- Acted as escalation point for troubleshooting advanced systems issues; consistently earned 100% issue-resolution scores by providing excellent service to internal and external customers
- Installed and configured BitLocker
- Configured Windows Clustering for enterprise applications
- Installed and configured Windows Server 2012 and 2016 for enterprise applications
- Backup and restore servers using NetApp and NetBackup
- Installed and configured IIS for medical applications
- Quarterly Active Directory audits
- Senior member Change Advisory Board
- Reduced project completion time with efficient resource allocation and effective communication strategies.
- Established strong working relationships with clients through exceptional communication skills, fostering trust and collaboration.
- Developed positive working relationships with stakeholders to effectively coordinate work activities.
- Presented technical findings to stakeholders, ensuring clear understanding of project status and goals.
- Achieved successful project outcomes by maintaining accurate documentation and meeting strict deadlines.
Senior System Engineer
Uncommon Solutions
05.2012 - 07.2013
- Company Overview: Greenwood Village, CO
- Consulted with client companies to provide solutions along with strategic planning and project leadership over systems migration, configuration, administration, upgrades and troubleshooting initiatives
- Recommended technologies to solve business problems within budget, including Azure and Microsoft Office 365
- Virtualized servers with VMWare and Hyper-V
- Tier 1, 2, and 3 support of client's existing technologies
- Leveraged ADMT to migrate users and computers between domains
- Greenwood Village, CO
Systems Administrator / Contractor
Base One Technologies
11.2011 - 05.2012
- Company Overview: Broomfield, CO
- Systems Administrator for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security
- Provided tier 3 support for Active Directory, Exchange and Blackberry services for all ICE employees
- Member of team that configured SCOM for Active Directory and Exchange monitoring
- Streamlined Blackberry server procedures to ensure agents in the field had up to date information
- Broomfield, CO
Systems Administrator / Help Desk Manager
Pacific Dental Services
05.2005 - 10.2011
- Company Overview: Irvine, CA & Lakewood, CO
- Responsible for administration of company infrastructure including over 200 servers, 200 virtual servers, 5000 computers, and 3000 user accounts
- Responsible for administration of Microsoft Exchange environment
- Supervise Systems Administration and Support team that handled maintenance and repair of IT infrastructure
- Developed procedure for converting patient charts from paper to digital
- Created process for automated server configuration that reduced build time from 16 hours to 30 minutes
- Created solution that combined digital chart and digital x-ray data into one application
- The solution combined over 200 Sybase SQL databases for digital charts and uses Microsoft SQL replication to combine digital x-ray patient information into one database allowing billing department and doctors to have one destination to access patient data for any dental office
- Performed software installations and upgrades to Windows operating systems.
- Configured and tested Windows Server operating systems with roles features.
- Mentored employees and offered constructive feedback for performance improvement.
- Conducted routine and emergency maintenance of assigned data center equipment.
- Attended meetings to deliver status reports to key stakeholders.
- Spearheaded inventory control measures to replenish and maintain IT equipment.
- Delivered Tier 2 and Tier 3 support for problem identification, diagnosis and issue resolution.
Education
Some College (No Degree) - Business Administration
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
Waco, TXSome College (No Degree) - Information Technology
ITCP Technology Training
Irvine, CASkills
- Active Directory
- Domain consolidation/divestiture
- Cloud
- M365
- Exchange
- Share and file permissions
- Gitlab
- Powershell
- Virtualization
- Upgrades
- Patch Management
- Mentoring
- Hardware and software installation
- System testing
- Performance tuning
Certification
Comptia A+
MCSA
MCP
Security+ (Pending)
Languages
English
Full Professional
Timeline
Systems Engineer / Contractor
State of Alaska, Dept. of Health
03.2024 - 05.2024
Sr. Systems Engineer / Contractor
Point Solutions Group, Tamko
05.2023 - 06.2023
Sr. Systems Engineer / Contractor
Wintrust Financial Services
10.2022 - 01.2023
Sr. Active Directory Engineer / Contractor
Kyndryl
07.2022 - 08.2022
AD Infrastructure Engineer / Systems Engineer / Contractor
USAA
01.2022 - 05.2022
Active Directory Engineer / Systems Engineer
Intermountain Healthcare
09.2013 - 07.2021
Senior System Engineer
Uncommon Solutions
05.2012 - 07.2013
Systems Administrator / Contractor
Base One Technologies
11.2011 - 05.2012
Systems Administrator / Help Desk Manager
Pacific Dental Services
05.2005 - 10.2011
Some College (No Degree) - Information Technology
ITCP Technology Training
Comptia A+
MCSA
MCP
Security+ (Pending)
Some College (No Degree) - Business Administration
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
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