Jose Naranjo 786.260.8458 - joseluisnt@yahoo.com

Summary

A multi-talented professional with advanced background in systems and network engineering and over 20 years of experience. Able to adapt to rapidly changing technologies and environments. Strong ability to foresee and resolve problems, analytical and logical thinking, and delivering assignments on time. Experienced in training and consulting services.

Areas of Expertise - Ethernet, TCP/IP and sub-netting, switching technologies, NAT, PAT and ACLs.

- Microsoft Windows Server and technologies like AD, DFS, DHCP, DNS, FTP, IIS.

- Systems and Network Security, Data Backup and Recovery.

- VMWare virtualization environments.

- PCI-DSS network design standards.

Professional Experience

Blackstone Inc. Miami, FL - Network and Systems Administrator

April, 2005 - Present- Designed, installed and administered a certified PCI-DSS Level 1 network for Merchant

Services processing, connecting Blackstone to FirstData through DataWire. Blackstone became Payment Gateway offering Credit Card processing for more than 8000 terminals, and offering POS solutions to other merchants.

- Managed end to end PCI-DSS Level 1 certification project on time and budget.

- Installed and administered MS Share Point and MS Project servers housing all corporate projects.

- Installed and administered a Microsoft Exchange failover clustered server with front end server providing a multi-domain e-mail solution for over 500 (internal and external) users.

- Configured and administered Barracuda Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus appliances to protect e-mail flow.

- Installed and administered Microsoft SQL failover clustered servers with over 70 corporate databases.

- Maintain and administered corporate network (86 servers, over 100 workstations), also providing help desk support to over 100 employees.

- Administer Active Directory infrastructure, including DFS, DHCP, internal and external DNS.

- Configured and administered FTP and WEB servers (IIS).

- Implemented and administered load balancing and session control for IIS WEB sites through Barracuda WEB Application Firewalls.

- Managed all corporate domains and SSL certificates with registrars for FTP and WEB sites.

- Configured and administered a Microsoft ISA Server to control internal Internet access to approved sites through departmental group membership.

- Configured and administered VPN servers for remote access to corporate network.

- Configured and administered corporate firewalls and routers (CISCO).

- Configured point-to-point VPNs for connecting Blackstone to other partners (custom and foreign) like T-Mobile, AT&T, Florida SunPass, COMCEL (Colombia), Claro (Puerto Rico), Orange (Dominican Republic).

- Administered EMC CX-500 ClarIIon SAN, providing configuration of RAID groups, LUNs, Storage Groups, HBAs configuration and updates as well as PowerPath for multi-path servers.

- Configured and administered a GFS rotational scheme with CA Brightstor ARCserve for backing-up all corporate data (over 6 Tb).

Synergis Networks and Systems, Asuncion, Paraguay - Systems Administrator

May, 2004 - November, 2004- Administered the corporate domain as well as provided support for the other clients.

Desoft, Pinar del Rio, Cuba - Network and Systems Administrator

December, 1997 - May, 2004- Installed and administered the corporate network.

Education

Bachelor in Computer Science and Mathematics, Pedagogical University of Pinar del Rio

September, 1991 - July, 1995

Computer Science, University of Havana

September, 1987 - July, 1991