OBJECTIVE:

• To obtain a challenging position as a VMware Virtualization Engineer. Where my VMware, Cisco UCS and Microsoft experience can contribute to the team and company's success.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, St, Toledo Ohio

Senior Systems Engineer (Vitalization Team Lead)

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured four new vCenter Appliances 6.0u1b ( Corporate datacenter and DR Site)
• Upgraded three Windows vCenter 5.5 à 6.0u1b
• ESXi 6.0 installs and configurations - ESXi upgrades 5.5 to 6.0 (300+ hosts)
• Migrated ESXi hosts and VMs to freshly deployed vCenters
• VMware Update Manager - Installed, configured - Upgraded ESXi 5.5 to 6.0 - ESXi Patching
• Upgrade VMware Tools and Hardware versions (900+ VMs) vRealize Operations Manager - Installed, configured and monitoring vRealize Orchestrator - Install and configure vRealize Log Insight Manager - Installed, configured and monitoring
• VMware Management Assistant (VMA) - Installed and configured
• Assisted the VMware View Team to upgrade VMware View from v6.1 to v6.2
• Provisioning Storage: EMC Xtremio and VMAX to create datastores. Configure Storage Zoning.
• UCS builds, deployments and firmware upgrades.
• Storage - Configured EMC XtremIO - Volumes for datastores, Snapshot schedules and reporting
• Second datacenter build out (DR Site + Active - Active for VMware View)

Confidential, St, Toledo Ohio

System Engineer II (Team Lead)

Responsibilities:

• Production, Quality Control and Development Servers
• Hardware - Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers
• Five UCS Domains (Pods) with a total of 25 chassis with 120+ B-Series Blade Servers
• Management of UCSM
• Cisco UCS Firmware upgrades from 2.0(4a) à 2.1(3b) à 2.2(2c) à 2.2(5b) à 3.1(1g)
• Create and Manage Service Profiles (and Service Profile Templates)
• VMware - VSphere 5.5 (4 vCenters, 10 Clusters, 350+ ESXi Hosts, 950+ Virtual Servers and Appliances)
• Configure Standard vSwitches
• Configure Distributed Virtual Switches (dvSwitches)
• Upgrade projects: vSphere 5.1 to 5.1 (U1c) vSphere 5.1 (U1c) to 5.5 (U1b) to 5.5 (U2b)
• Install and configure vRealize Orchestrator
• Install and configure vRealize Operations Manager
• Additional monitoring solution Solarwinds
• VMware Horizon View 5 (upgraded to 6)
• Running on 25 UCS Blades - ESXi 5.5 Hosts with 4500+ Virtual Desktops.
• Target numbers are 75 - 100 Hosts and 10,000 - 12,000 Virtual Desktops. Spread across two datacenters. Using VMware’s Cloud Pod Architecture (CPA)
• ThinApps (Virtualized Applications)
• Deployed App Volumes to replace the standard Thin Apps
• Install and configure vRealize Operations Manager for View
• Windows Server 2003, 2008R2 and 2012R2
• Windows 2012R2 SQL High Availability Cluster
• Active Directory 2008R2 and 2012R2 (mixed environment)
• Storage -
• XtremIO (upgraded from 2.0 to 3.0 to 4.0)
• VMAX and CX480
• Connectrix Manager for SAN switches (configure zoning)
• Exchange 2010 (Mailbox Database Clusters with 17,000+ mailboxes)
• Mailbox server and database design
• PowerShell Scripting for VMware and Exchange tasks.
• Disaster Recovery Team Member

Confidential, Toledo Ohio

Senior System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Confidential ’s Internal Servers and Managed Customer Services including Managed Windows, Managed Exchange and Managed VMware
• Windows Server 2003, 2008 and 2008R2
• Active Directory 2003, 2008 an 2008R2
• Maintain, design and migrate from all versions of Windows Active Directory to 2008R2
• Exchange 2003, 2007 and 2010 (including Mailbox Database Clusters)
• Maintain, design and migrate from all versions of Exchange to Exchange 2010
• Administer DNS, DHCP and Group Policy
• Patch Management - Windows Update Server (WSUS)
• VMware 4 & 5 - Customer Production, Internal and Testing Environments
• Twelve separate environments ranging from six to fifteen ESXi Hosts
• Multiple vCenter Servers
• Patch and Update ESXi Hosts
• Upgrade project 4.1 to 5.1
• Deploy Hosts with Host Profiles
• Configure Cluster settings for HA, DRS and Storage DRS
• Configure Virtual Switches (VMotion Network, VM Network and Storage Network)
• Configure ISCSI Adapters (Data Stores use the ISCSI connections to the EqualLogic Volumes)
• Combine total of over 1200 VMs
• VMware View deployment - 50 Virtual Desktops using Thin and Thick Clients
• High availably servers
• VMware Clusters ESXi 4 & 5
• Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Clusters
• Management of Dell Equal Logic SANs including provisioning, maintaining and migrating
• Provisioning new Volumes for VMware Data Stores
• Configure access control for allowed IPs and ISCSI Initiator Names (IQNs)
• Disaster Recover and Backup Solutions
• EqualLogic SAN Volume Snap Shots
• EqualLogic SAN Volume Replication
• Backup Exec 2010R3
• Veeam Backups for VMware
• Provide Leadership and for the Systems Engineering Department which includes two Senior Systems Engineers, three Systems Engineers, two Junior Systems Engineers and ten Desktop Support Technicians

Confidential, Genoa Ohio

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed customer servers
• Windows
• Exchange
• Active Directory
• Administer DNS and DHCP
• Server monitoring System
• Help Desk Support - 550 Local Users and 2700 Remote users in 22 different Companies
• Exchange Server deployments 2007 & 2010, upgrades and migrations
• Exchange Database maintenance - Create new Exchange Databases and move all Mailboxes (goal to eliminate fragmentation and corruption).
• Active Directory Migrations including migrating the method of replication from FRS to DFS
• DNS Servers – Maintain DNS Servers for all internal Active Directory Domains and Confidential ’s Public DNS Servers
• PowerShell scripts – VMware and Exchange
• Over all vSphere Management (vCenters, ESXi Clusters, VMs and other management tools)
• Virtualized approximately 98% of the physical servers at Confidential and HCR
• Attended VM World 2014 and EMC World 2015