Summary:

Enterprise Infrastructure Architect in Corp IT and Semiconductor Manufacturing. Since 2003 I am specializing on architecting and driving VMware vSphere based enterprise virtualization in Confidential Corporations. I lead and excel, with asuperb track record of highly successful project implementations. I desire to apply my intricate understanding of VMwareand the public/private cloudsto achievethe bestbalance between ROI, stability and scalability.

Employment History:

Confidential

Enterprise Architect

Confidential

Virtualization Architect

Confidential

Senior Infrastructure Architect

Professional Experience:

I am thetechnical lead and SMEfor Enterprise virtualization projects. My main fields of expertise are:

Architecture

• Designing and building VMware vSphere environments with HA, DRS, SDRS, Host Profiles, etc
• Specification, Integrating and Standardization of hardware
• Linking, unifying and standardizing all vSphere environments
• Guide and support C-level managementvision
• Scaling and Performance
• LargeVMs Oracle, MS SQL, SAP, engineering computenodes
• Large Datastores LUNs of 10 TB
• MonsterVMs above 100 GB of vRAM and greater than 6vCPUs
• Infrastructure scale-out to 1000s of VMs
• Infrastructure Performance monitoring and tuning
• Migrations
• RISC UNIX to x86 on vSphere
• Workload Profiling
• Capacity Planning
• P2V, V2V
• Data Centermigrations and Data Center consolidations
• DR for critical environments
• VMware SRM Site Recovery Manager using ABR and VR replication
• Hardware
• Spec'ing of x86 hardware
• Deployment of Blades and large quad-socket rack servers
• Firmware/vSphere integration
• Integration with Storage, Networking, Monitoring, Backups
• HP and DELL
• Operations
• Guide offshore team
• Third level support
• Document processes and handoff expertise to Operations team
• vSphere
• Familiarity with all versions ofvSphere/ESX i starting with version 2.5 up to the latest version 6.0 Beta
• Integration with VMware VUM
• Integration with vCOPS
• Testing and deployment ofVMware VSAN

Key Activities

Confidential

Lead vSphere virtualization architect

• Replaced faltering worldwide virtual environments with a new unified and standardized stable and scalable vSphere infrastructure.
• Hundreds of ESXi 5 hosts worldwide running thousands of VMs
• 7 vCenter in linked mode
• Migrate critical Tier1 UNIX mainframe applications to x86 vSphere
• Migrated Dev, QA and Production SAP environments Applications, Central Instances and Oracle DBs from legacy RISC to Linux on vSphere 5
• Extensive SAP workload profiling and tuning
• Designed, tested and configured VMware SRM 5.x based DR Distaster Recovery of critical SAP workloads to a failover datacenter
• Engineered SSD based hardware and software acceleration for vSphere workloads MS SQL, engineering workloads
• Migrated P2V, V2V, new builds all IT and Fab Manufacturing applications to vSphere
• Within a Corp IT infrastructure, test beta technologies from VMware with the use of SanDisk HW SSDs, FusionIO and SanDisk Software Flashsoft .
• Scale and accommodate critical monster VMs very large 10 TB DBs with over 100 GB of RAM which also require very high performance
• Test and build processes to maintain firmware, plugins, VMware ESXi and all 3rd party software components compatible and up-to-date
• Redesign the Headquarters' failing virtual environment into a stable and scalable infrastructure
• Migrate old Data Center and Lab hardware into new DC virtualized infrastructure

Confidential

Lead manufacturing project architect.

• Starting in Confidential, amongst the earliest industry adopters of VMware ESX in Semiconductor manufacturing

Detailed Activities

Confidential

• At 4 core sites worldwide and 10 satellite locations I built a new and linked infrastructure around 4U quad socket DELLrack servers and DELL blade chassis. We migrated all the IT compute workloads into this new infrastructure
• P2V'ed remaining physical servers to achieve over 98 compute virtualization
• Migrated and consolidated all physical development, QA and production MS SQL databases to vSphere
• Migrated critical Tier 1 Solaris mainframe zones running SAP and Oracle DBs to Linux on vSphere with SRM DR
• SAP modules include SCM, ECC, LiveCache, CRM, ADOBE, Portal, GTS, GIS, BPC, etc
• Migrated all 20 SAP modules from Solris to vSphere
• Migration included 14 out of 18 Oracle DBs
• Built SRM DR into the depoyments
• Performed DR failover to a spare Data Center
• In isolated bubble s through SRM test plans
• For real on select SAP modules
• Scaling and performance tuning of MS SQL DB and Oracle DBs. Special emphasis on large Data warehouses running SQL Always On on VMware
• Migrated critical Tier 1 Solaris mainframe zones running BI Business Intelligence and Analytics Software on Oracle to Linux on Sphere with SRM DR.
• Standardized all hardware worldwide on DELL x86. All Solaris hardware was retired.
• Test the new VMware technologies on SanDisk hardware and software VSAN on SSD, ESXi with FlashSoft, VDI with UltraDIMM, etc
• Continuous performance tuning to harden and scale the vSphere clusters
• Design remote business VMware based solutions
• Integrate storage solutions into ESXi: HDS USPV, HDS VSP, HDS AMS, NetApp, Dell Compellent, DELL MD, Kaminario, EMC.
• Integrate storage, backup and other plugins into VMware

Confidential

• Build new HP blade centric Tier 2 virtual environment on NetApp 10 GiGE NFS

DataCenter migration:

• Profiled workloads running on physical hardware
• Migrated all 400 server workloads to a new consolidated Data Center
• Migrated 200 Linux physical complier workstations to Linux VMs about 50 different Linux flavors
• On-site third level support

Confidential

I provided the vision, budgeting requirements, coordination, implementation, support and maintenance of theR D manufacturing infrastructure.We were supporting a staff of 100 developers and 600 R D Fab engineers. I coordinated an average of 30 to 40 concurrent projects by selecting, nurturing, focusing, implementing or eliminating and transferring new technologiesto and from our Silicon Valley R D facility.

Systems Integration Architect

• Architected all manufacturing solutions for Operations, aligned manufacturing vision with corporate requirements, guided Data Center Operations team, coordinated execution and deployments, monitored systems maintenance and support.
• Clustering and improving production uptime
• Specialized in high availability designs through MSCS, NLB, SunGuard, HPSG, HACMP.
• Managed production virtualization implementation to reach 99.99 uptime. In 2004 the first environment is created with12 HP DL585 ESX 3.x hosts.
• Extensive experience in 24x7, high availability, manufacturing production environments.

Thin Clients Computing

• I dramatically simplified the complexity of ourProduction Fabs computing infrastructure by converting our 100 desktop based clean rooms into a 95 WinCE Thin Clientsenvironment.
• In a second phase, we further simplified our infrastructure by performing a transparent migration of critical production from Citrix MetaFrame to RDP based MS Terminal Services Servers. This greatly eased server farm management, improved support, lowered licensing costs, enhanced load and achieveduptime scheduled unscheduled above 99.99 .
• Network I lead all aspects of our 1 Million network redesign:
• Based on CISCO 6500 technology, it redesigned our network on a three layered concept Access, Distribution, and Core switches , with the goal to connect our Datacenter servers with the manufacturing on end-to-end redundant 10 GiGE.
• This new network was dedicated to production and manufacturing, and designed for self sufficiency for DR purposes.

Early adopter of virtualization: vision and implementation Envisioned, designed,spec'ed, budgeted, documented, coordinated and implemented an ESX 3.x environment which initially in 2004 was running on 12 physical HP DL585 servers.

Technical Knowledge:

Virtualization Specialist:

• VMware VI 3, vSphere 4, vSphere 5, vSphere 6 beta
• In-depth understanding of design, implementation and configuration of best practices to optimizevSpherevirtual environments.
• Integration into a tightly managed vCenter environment Linked Mode, DELL vSphere plugin, etc .
• Creation and managment of Resource Pools, Folderand vCenter/AD permissions.
• ESX i Server provisioning via vCenterServer and Host profiles.
• Integration of VUM VMware Update Manager and MS SQL 2005/2008 with vCenter Server. Extensive experience of ESX host, VM guest, VM Hardware, VA, and VMware Tools updates through scheduled VUM jobs.
• Design, setup and integration of shared storage Fiber, NFS, iSCSI with VMware clustering.
• Redundancies and hardening of networking, iSCSI, VMKernel, Service Console, and Storage.
• Data Center Consolidation and optimization
• Configuring and tuning of VMware Distributed Resource Schedule DRS , VMware High Availability HA and VMware Enhanced Virtualization Compatibility EVC to achieve 4 nines ESX uptime.
• DPM Distributed Power Management design integration within an overall DataCenter power and cooling strategy.
• Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

Backup technologies:

• VMware vDR 1.x Virtual Data Recovery with bloc level in-line target deduplicationon CIFS and/or VA targets
• VEEAM Backup and Replication 5.x with built-in target deduping and compression to Linux and ESX targets either with VCB proxy integration with ESX 3.x or Network based or ESX vStorage API stack with vSphere 4 and proprietary scripts integrating into VCB, Veritas Backup and/or DR solutions.
• Use of vSphere 4 CBT Change Block Tracking for very high speed >1GB/s backups with minimal I/O impact.
• Ranger implementations
• NBU 7.5 with integration of SQL and Oracle RMAN backups

Replication technologies:

• VMware SRM 5.x Site Recovery Manager with ABR Array Based Replication and VR vSphere Replication .
• VEEAM Backup and Replication 5.x for near CDP Continuous Data Protection .

Backup and Recovery technologies:

• VMware vDR 1.x FLR File Level Restore
• VEEAM Backup and Replication 4.x with Linux and Windows FLR, VM files restore, and VM restore
• NBU 6.x and 7.x.
• VSAN
• Deploy and test 1.0 beta version in mixed hybrid mode SSDs and HDDs .
• Deploy and test production version in mixed hybrid mode UltraDIMMs and HDDs
• Deploy and test 2.0 beta version vSphere 6 in full Flash mode
• Monitoring, Performance Tuning and Reporting
• Performance, capacity, and bandwidth utilizationmonitoring and reporting through built-in VMware capabilities: vCenter alerts, SNMP traps, SMTP.
• EG vSphere centric implementation integration with HPOV.
• VEEAM Backup Enterprise Manager.
• VMware vCOPS
• vFoglight by Quest.
• SCOM alerts.
• Workload Profiling
• Platespin Power Recon and vCenter Guided Consolidation.
• Migration/cloning
• V2V hot and cold migration and cloning of existing VMs.
• Use of Platespin Migrate, VMware Standalone Converter and vCenter Converter to perform X2V conversions.
• Storage
• vCenter Integration of storage through plugins.
• Implement dedupe technologies NetApp, DataDomain .
• Deploy Thin Provisioning.
• Understanding of Licensing for:
• vSpherecore products.
• Licensing considerations for VM guests MS SQL, Oracle DB, Windows, RHEL .
• Proficient in vSphere's most recent technologies: SDRS, linked mode vCenter Servers, Distributed vSwitches, Host Policies.
• Understanding of Fiber Channel, iSCSIand NFS storage protocols and integration in the context of virtualization.
• Tuning and optimizing of the vSphere infrastructure through packages like Vizioncore vOptimizer.
• Integration of AD, DNS, NLB and MSCS into ESXi.
• Train technical staff in the use of new management tools and utilities.
• Layered management encompassing the entire virtual and physical infrastructureecosystem through:
• Real-time monitoring and alerting of Hardware and ESX i through HP SIM, HPOV, EGMonitor, Open Manage Essentials and vSphere 5.
• Deep Security Monitoring, IPS Intrusion Prevention System and IDS Intrusion Detection System with VM Protect by Third Brigade now Trend Micro , with optional public cloud monitoring 2007 .
• Latest generation virtualization virus and malware protection with Trend Micro Core Protection for Virtual Machines CPVM , integrated with Trend Micro OfficeScan and/or Trend Micro Server Protect. Tiered AV design, with Real Time Agents, Scanning Agents, and the Core Protection for Virtual Machines Central Management Server 2007 .
• Integration of the above with vSphere and vCenter Server.

Windows Technologist

• Design integration and working knowledge of AD, DNS, Exchange, IIS, DHCP, SMTP, SNMP, MetaFrame/Xen, MS TS and Thin Clients.

Infrastructure Architect

• Vast technical depth and breath, focused on knowledge and technology.
• Integrating projects into a comprehensive unity requiring a large set of technical data.
• Design, spec, purchase, build and deploy cross platform solutions.
• Solid understanding of enterprise storage products SAN, NAS, RAID, tiered storage management, iSCSI, Fiber channel , running on multiple platforms Brocade,Hitachi, EMC, IBM, DELL, NetApp, HP and with modern technologies deduping, Thin provisioning, CISCO Network topologies to address enterprise infrastructure and business needs.
• Working knowledge of Linux, HPUX and Solaris.
• Virtualization evangelist, with the vision and tireless energy to successfully drive complex implementations.
• Provide guidance and processes for the Data Center team, architecting the manufacturing applications integration into the enterprise computing infrastructure.