1. Matthew Dillon
46911 Wesleyan Court
Sterling, VA 20164
Cell– 571-294-1169
Email: Mattjeaninedillon@verizon.net
EDUCATION:
Marymount University (2001), VA-Arlington
Computer Information Systems, Bachelor's of Science
CERTIFICATIONS:
Windows 2008 MCITP: Enterprise Administrator 12/10/09
Windows 2000 MCSA Messaging 05/12/05
IPV6 Network and Migration 12/12/06
AWARDS:
Making a Difference 02/15/15
Hardware Proficiencies: Dell M100E Blades, Dell 5424 switches,HP C7000 Enclosure, HP
Procurve switches, EMC DELL Clariion CX4 Sans, HP SANS, Netscaler, F5, Dell PowerEdge
servers, Sonicwall.
Software Proficiencies: Windows 2000/2003/2008/2012R2, Exchange 2003, SQL 2008, IIS,
Active Directory, CentOS, RedHAT, ESX, ESXI, WinSCP, McAfee EPO, Netbackup,
Veritas,MOM, Sharepoint, Putty, Powershell.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Booz Allen Hamilton 02/12 - Present
Senior Consultant/Active Directory Lead
Managed Active Directory Forest with roughly 32,000 users. Coordinated with several members on the
application teams to upgrade the domain controllers from 2003 to 2008R2. Also upgraded the forest and
domain functional levels and enable the recycle bin feature. Worked with audit to perform yearly reports to
comply with government guidelines. Heavy use of powershell for reporting and user/computer cleanup.
Recently integrated a script to perform the cleanup of stale activesync devices which will cut down on the
number of helpdesk tickets. Integrated CyberArk with active directory to protect admin accounts. Worked
with several different teams on projects to integrate them with active directory. Have some knowledge of
working in a Hybrid Cloud environment. Also have familiarity with FIM and how it integrates with AD.
Currently working on upgrading all domain controllers to 2012R2 and turning off NTLMv1.
Evolvent Technologies 01/10-01/11
Senior Systems Engineer
Worked in a development environment supporting the MHS contract for the DOD. Accomplishments
include: planning and designing VMware esx/esxi 3.5 with HA and DRS to support development.
Managing HP and EMC SANS, adding/removing LUNS, Adding DAE’s for more storage. Initiating and
implementing an IPSEC solution for the DOD to secure traffic between all Domain Controllers. Used
WINPE to create several template images to be used for installing the base OS for the DOD systems.
Building severalvirtual lunix routers so that servers could communicate on separate subnets. Implemented
2. several GPO’s to comply with DOD gold disk findings. Designed the Active Directory structure for the
DOD MHS network.
Hobsons 10/07-06/09
Senior Engineer Fairfax, VA
Responsible for supporting small office of 50 users and 2 customer facing web farms.Primarily responsible
for Active Directory, internal and external DNS changes, system monitoring, system upgrades, FTP,
Backups and SMTP. Involved in several data center moves to centralize our servers on the east and west
coast. Was the lead on 2 domain migrations, one in migrating company users and another with migrating
our customer facing environment. Also was involved in a exchange migration and decommissioning of
several domains. Worked on consolidating all DNS domains to be managed under one provider. Familiar
with both Netscaler and F5 load balancers. Responsible for managing and upgrading sonicwall firewalls ,
managing VPNtunneling, NATpolicies, Virus detection, unauthorized accessandfirmware upgrades. Also
managed centralized storage with EMC ns502, working with configuring both CIFS and LUNS. Was
responsible for coordinating the effort to get all the servers up to date with the latest critical patches.
Managed a small cage at a Savvis co-location in Sterling, setup and audited power requirements, rack space
and access to the facility. Managed two junior techs, delegating work and helping them grow their skills.
Supported Microsoft virtual servers for developers and testers. Supported virtual iron and did several
physical to virtual conversion. Was the lead on changing on internal office ip’s from the typical
192.168.1.x/24 to a more unique class C subnet. Also did this within our production sites as well.
Completely redesign the customer facing Active Directory scheme, applied sit-wide GPO’s, added new
domain controllers and removed old ones.
Logistics Management Institute 04/07-10/07
Systems Engineer II. McLean, VA
Responsible for analyzing and re-designing Active Directory. Implemented screen saver lock group policy
for all laptops to ensure systems are secure. Responsible for bringing up Active Directory and Sharepoint
in the annual DR test. Deployed Operations Manager 2007 to the mission critical systems, configured
notification groups and rules. Tested Iron Mountains Data Defense software for production release to 600
laptops within the company.
Digital Solutions Inc. 03/06-04/07
National Science Foundation Arlington, VA
Systems Engineer II. Part of a team that manages 200 plus servers. Primarily responsible for deploying a
procurement system with 3 separate physical environments. Used visual basic scripting to audit systems
and automate tasks. Also did some ldap scripting to query account information from active directory to
create account expiration reports. Participated in service recovery drills and data center UPS maintenance
drills. Built severalSQL clusters involving both SAN’s and disk arrays. Was the primary administrator for
building a medium sharepoint 2003 farm. Worked with the networking team to identify several duplexing
issues and network bottle necks. Managed 35 application servers.
SRA International 08/05-03/06
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Arlington, VA
Senior Systems Administrator Part of a team that manages 250 servers and 5000 plus users. Responsible
for dealing with tier 3 issues across the environment that include but are not limited to: Exchange 2003,
Win2k file servers,print servers,domain controllers, IIS servers and SQL servers. Responsible for writing
scripts to pull information from Active directory for reporting purposes.
National Association of Securities Dealers 12/01 - 08/05
Systems Administrator Rockville, MD
3. Responsible for managing Development servers and a small Production environment. Deployed and
managed Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM)2000 and 2005. Worked mainly with IIS, SQL and Active
Directory to support a system that housed information on Invertors.
Fannie Mae 6/00 - 7/01
Junior Systems Administrator Washington, DC
Provide systems administration support for a combined environment of 150 NT servers (service pack 6a)
and Windows 2000 servers(service pack 2). Team member of a corporate-wide upgrade of 5,000+ Novell
Clients. Responsible for imaging Compaq Proliant serversusing Norton Ghost. Set up array configurations
and fault tolerance to optimize for the best disk performance. Prepared new servers for deployment to the
data center by installing operating systems, service packs, security fixes, remote management software,
anti-virus software.