PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Cloud Engineer/Architect for over 8 years that deployed and implemented private and public/hybrid cloud environments from scratch for enterprise level companies in the Financial and Telecommunication industries; from network infrastructure, data center, cloud architecture and storage schematics/renderings to engineering and deploying the entire cloud environment to production state.
• Specialize in enterprise level data center infrastructure and Public/Private and Hybrid Cloud solutions; 10 years VMware ESX/ESXi 4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5/6.0/6.5 architecture and server installs, configuring ESX/ESXi 4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5 and vSphere 6.0/6.5 and KVM hypervisor based Cloud Computing architecture with industry leading cloud service provider integration with networking, capacity planning, storage, clustering, disaster recovery and system migrations.
• Installed and configured Virtual Center, control user access to the VMware infrastructure from the cloud provider and vCenter, deployed and managed virtual machines with vCenter and cloud providers such as; ServiceMesh, Confidential TSAM/TPM, vCloud Director, Cloud Stack, Open Stack, Rackspace, and Amazon EC2/AWS.
• Ensured high availability of applications and troubleshoot typical ESX Server issues.
• Hands on experience with VMware server virtualization and Grid technologies
• Datacenter infrastructure architecture configuration, capacity planning and builds along with racking, cabling, hardware, software, applications, testing, and delivery.
• Windows 2000/2003 Active Directory Migrations from Windows NT for over 65 sites. Windows Active Directory 2012 configuration and administration.
• Cisco Nexus 5500 series switch configuration for port and network optimization
• Deployed and support private and public Cloud (Grid/Utility computing) architecture, deployment, and full production for services such as SaaS, PaaS, IaaS clouds environments with DCaaS experience

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cloud & Virtualization: VMware ESX, ESXi 2.5/3.0/3.5/4.1/5.0/5.1 , vSphere 4, VMotion, DRS, HA, KVM, Hyper - V, VMware Converter, Platespin, Numecent, Citrix Presentation Server 5.0, ZenApps, Citrix ICA protocols, Nagios Monitoring, Grid Technologies, Cloud computing and Convergence technology. Cloud providers such as Tivoli Virtual Deployment Engine (VDE ), Docker engines, vCloud Director/vShield, Confidential, ServiceMesh, Amazon EC2, AWS, and Direct Connect, CloudStack, Confidential, Heat, Neutron, Glance, Nova, Ceph, RabbitMQ/AMQP, and Rackspace. Big Data - Hadoop and MongoDB. Familiarity with DevOps and operations automation tools such as Chef, Puppet and Ruby. Cloud orchestration with Confidential, VCO, VRealize, TSAM/TPM, Confidential and SeviceMesh cloud product and AWS Docker Container. Proof-of-concept environment deployment and familiarity with Architecture Development Methodologies, (TOGAF, Prince2, ITIL, Agile etc).

Relative Technologies: Cisco routers, switches configuration: Cisco Nexus 5548UP Series, Cisco 4600 Series, Cisco 2960 Series, Cisco Catalyst 4503-E, and ARISTA 7050QX-32, Load Balancers

Networking: TCP/IP, IPv4 / IPv6, QoS, OSPF, BGP - Security - Firewalls, DNS, DHCP

Storage: NetApps, EMC, NAS and SAN, JBOD, NFS, VMFS, Object Storage, Block Storage, Storage Archive

VMware NSX: virtualization network platform and SDN/NFV VMwar vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) for shared storage

Database: Web services

Operating Systems: Experience in configurations, builds, and imaging; Wintel, UNIX & Linux platforms all flavors - (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu), Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 , Active Directory Services, Novell Directory Services, and Macintosh/Apple OS.

Scripting Languages: perl, python,Java, php, html, JASON, API, Chef, knife, and Puppet and other languages to troubleshoot workloads and lines of code for Cloud environment support.

Enterprise Management: Experienced in ITIL processes, Windows Active Directory 2000/2003/2012 Enterprise Administration, Tivoli, Nagios, NetIQ DRA, WSUS, ISA Server, Microsoft PKI, MOM, Microsoft Cluster Servers, SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 installation, configuration, Sysprep, WAIK, and Oracle 8i servers. HP Openview, Remedy Heterogeneous network management and configuration; LAN/WAN, DSL, NAS/SAN Storage, Broadband, VPN, and 802.1x wireless, Active Directory LDAP, Microsoft Exchange Server, DFS shares, NOC support, Novell Netware Directory Service and Novell Client. Network protocols: TCP/IP, DHCP, WINS, DNS, IPX/SPX RDP, UDP, NAT, Cisco VOIP, DMZ and Macintosh network protocols.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Global BMC Cloud management support for IaaS and PaaS infrastructure with BMC Bladelogic, VMware vSphere, vCenter, vRealize Operation Manager, and BMC Remedy to solve user related incidents.
• BMC Remedy IT Service Management incident automation with Netcool Enterprise Event Monitoring servers self-healing initiative.
• Alert monitoring and support fix on vCenter datastores, ESXi hosts and virtual machine provisioning with full customer communication via Outlook and Skype IM messaging.
• New Cloud environment implementation of Scalr, QStack, Micrsoft Azue with HyperV virtualization, Docker Engine, Containers, and Amazon S3 storage capacity.
• Total migration from the BMC cloud environment to the new.
• Global 24/7 support of Confidential CLM cloud environment.

Cloud Architect/VMware& Confidential Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Global Technology and Operations responsible for the Greenfield project’s improvement, development and build phase activities.
• I contribute to the new Confidential build with AWS Docker and EC2 container support, Confidential to VRealize conversion and VMware vSphere environment to Red Hat Linux KVM virtualization project with Confidential as the primary cloud provisioning and orchestration product. Windows Active Directory 2012 administration with virtural machine LDAP configuration in the cloud environment.
• BMC Remedy IT Service Management incident automation with Netcool Enterprise Event Monitoring servers self-healing initiative.
• Red Hat Linux and Microsoft Window server problem ticket resolutions through Remedy and integration support, troubleshooting and debugging the cloud environment and other service delivery technology operations activities.
• Remedy incident ticket support system administration and OS patching for Linux Red Hat servers.

Cloud Engineer/VMware Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Confidential implementation for the Confidential ICO initiative; IAAS migration from Cloudburst to Confidential .
• Full Support of both environments from end to end. Second and third level support for TSAM; script modifications and builds, (perl, python,Java, php, and html), within workflows for incident resolution.
• Virtual machine OS support, Linux Rhel, AIX, and Microsoft Windows servers 2008/2012.
• Active Directory support within the cloud environment.
• Chef integration with TSAM workload configuration for Confidential ICO preparation.
• VMware VRealize implementation, migration and support of the public cloud environment.

Cloud Development/Architect

Confidential, Florham Park, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Support the private cloud environment which consists of Confidential as the cloud product, KVM as the hypervisor, Confidential Nova dashboard for orchestration
• Implemented and configured Nagios open source monitoring the virtualization server cluster
• Scripting language involve with implementation of Nagios are python, Java, php, htmI, Jason, and Perl.
• Exposure to GitHub repositories, branches, commits, and Pull Requests to work together on projects.
• Data center responsibilities with regards to the cloud network, storage, servers and firewall architecture and best practices, VMware vCenter vSphere administration. Data center migration to new location included racks, wiring, routers, switches, servers, OS and applications
• Built a Linux Ubuntu Kickstart server for Confidential boot that automated the Linux OS server installations after data center migration was completed

Cloud Architect/ Engineer

Confidential, Weehawken, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Hands on design/build of every aspect of the private/public cloud lab in a data center environment as it is developed from a pre-production to real-time production state
• Rack/stack and wiring the environment with servers, a combination of NetApp FAS6210 NAS, ZFS, and NFS/JBOD storage, VMware hypervisor, vCloud Director and ServiceMesh as service providers, switches and network connectivity to existing Cisco 6500E router
• Configured 2 Cisco Nexus 5548UP switches out of the box to full network connectivity and vlan configuration in preparation for decommissioning the existing Cisco 4900 switch; the switch cutover was successful.
• Successfully deployed the Sandbox Cloud environment from the network switches to the VMware 5.0/5.1 hypervisor, bare metal Windows 2008R2 Enterprise Edition vCenters servers with 2 node Microsoft Cluster Failover, storage and ServiceMesh Agility as the cloud provider along with Amazon AWS public subscription.
• Installed Confidential controller all components (Nova, Swift, Cinder, Horizon, Keystone & Glance) on Ubuntu 12.04 OS, SQL database clusters, storage and network, on KVM virtualization layer.
• Installed and managed bare metal Wintel/Windows and Linux RHEL/CentOS server and there virtual counter parts for Cloud provisioning.
• Assisted in a data center relocation and also assisted with disaster recovery effort of the lab and production environments after the Hurricane Sandy power outage.

Cloud Architect/ Engineer

Confidential, Warren, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Hands on architecture design/build of every aspect of the private/public cloud lab in a data center environment as it is developed from a pre-production to real-time production state
• Rack/stack and wiring the environment with servers, a combination of NetApp FAS6210 NAS, ZFS, and NFS/JBOD storage, VMware hypervisor, vCloud Director and ServiceMesh as service providers, switches and network connectivity to existing Cisco 6500E router
• Configured 2 Cisco Nexus 5548UP switches out of the box to full network connectivity and vlan configuration in preparation for decommissioning the existing Cisco 4900 switch; the switch cutover was successful.
• Successfully deployed the Sandbox Cloud environment from the network switches to the VMware 5.0/5.1 hypervisor, bare metal Windows 2008R2 Enterprise Edition vCenters servers with 2 node Microsoft Cluster; Active Directory Administration
• Failover, storage and ServiceMesh Agility as the cloud provider along with Amazon AWS public subscription.
• Installed Confidential controller all components (Nova, Swift, Cinder, Horizon, Keystone & Glance) on Ubuntu 12.04 OS, SQL database clusters, storage and network, on KVM virtualization layer.
• Scripting language involve with implementation are python, Java, php, htmI, and Perl.
• Installed and managed bare metal Wintel/Windows and Linux RHEL/CentOS server and there virtual counter parts for Cloud provisioning.
• Assisted in a data center relocation and also assisted with disaster recovery effort of the lab and production environments after the Hurricane Sandy power outage
• Design, build/maintain new runtime administration tools involving provisioning and automation with a flexible and highly available virtual software, infrastructure, and platform environment globally
• Built a TSAM, TPM Cloud with VMware ESXi 4.1 & KVM as the hypervisors in the lab environment
• Built an Confidential cloud environment with KVM as the hypervisor for proof-of-concept
• Built a Cloud Stack cloud environment with VMware as the hypervisor for proof-of-concept
• Built a vCloud Director/vShield cloud environment with VMware as the hypervisor for proof-of-concept
• Parallel to the TSAM Cloud there will be a Cloud Stack Cloud management server environment with EMC VNX Unified Storage (FCoE), iSCSI, NFS or CIFS capability
• There are other Cloud Computing products under proof-of-concept review such as Tivoli Virtual Deployment Engine (VDE ), a High Scale Low Touch ( HSLT ) product, ServiceMesh, Amazon EC2 and AWS and Rackspace
• Installed and managed Windows 2008R2 and Linux RHEL/CentOS virtual machines and templates, iso files for provisioning
• The Cloud environment that meets all specifications and is the most feasible and cost effective for Confidential ’s internal cloud needs will be implemented into the production environment.
• Production implementation experience with TSAM and Maximo TPM in a public cloud architecture.
• Additional responsibilities: VMware ESX, Wintel base bare metal vCenter, Linux, Solaris, Windows, and Cloud architecture support; BMC BladeLogic Automation Suite deployment, development, production automation and administration.

Cloud Systems Integration/Architect

Confidential, Middletown, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Provided CSP2 Assistance Services, mainly focused on evaluating, defining, prioritizing, and creating software enhancements to the Confidential Cloud Software and related products implemented to address the Confidential & Confidential requirements for various aspects of Confidential & Confidential 's infrastructure in a public cloud environment.
• Product installation and integration of Confidential Service Delivery Manager (ISDM), Confidential Tivoli Provisioning Manager (TPM), Maximo, Confidential Tivoli Service Automation Manager (TSAM), Confidential Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager (TUAM), Confidential Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager (TUAM) Server license, Confidential Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager Enterprise Collector Pack, Confidential Tivoli System Automation (TSA) for Multi-platforms, WebSphere (WAS) servers and Confidential DB2 Enterprise Edition in lab environment as well as production support
• Manage VMware ESXi hosts, virtual machines, datastores, vSphere virtual center, and Netapp NAS storage configuration through the Cloud customer software enhancements.
• Additional responsibilities: Active Directory Administration, VMware, Linux OS, Windows OS template builds, maintenance and Cloud architecture support.

Systems Engineer/Infrastructure Design

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing an entire system architecture and configuration including hardware, software, communications and provisioning virtualization implementation; coordinated engineering and application teams with project management timelines and budgeting responsibilities.
• Built VMware OS instances per capacity planned specifications through the ITIL process.
• Responsible for server capacity planning, Team Quest analysis and documentation, provisioning and migration of hardware, software, operating systems and applications within all environments, (development, disaster recovery, QA, and production) to VMware virtualization, SAN storage and SaaS cloud computing Confidential Merrill's datacenters.
• Directed communication with applications, engineering, networking, and migration teams to meet project goals and deadlines. This includes new hardware and software testing, proof of concept, timeline scheduling to final cutover and communication to management via email correspondence, telephone, meetings and documentation, (reporting and project end analysis).
• Other responsibilities extend to all components of an application and application environment including front, back, and middle tiers where applicable
• Led a tool evaluation effort, including definition criteria, identification, evaluation and tool recommendation

Infrastructure Architect/Engineer

Confidential, Nutley, NJ

Responsibilities:

• As a member of the Operations Infrastructure, Sales and Trading Team; was responsible for new technology capacity planning, implementation/building a newly expanding production and disaster recovery data center infrastructure in Nutley, NJ and datacenter migration; utilizing Confidential Blade Centers HS21 blades, HP ProLiant and Sun Solaris 8, 9, 10 servers; with the emphasis on the Confidential Blade Center and virtualization to reduce the footprint and cost of maintaining (Uptime Institute Tier model) multiple platform data center infrastructure.
• UNIX OS installations for Solaris 8, 9, 10 for SPAC and x86 and, LINUX x86 and RHEL 3.5, 4, and 5. Operating system configuration application installation and network configuration. Daily support with SSH, Telnet and HyperTerminal connection. Built and racked SUN Jumpstart server in the new data center for Linux and Windows OS 2008 deployment.
• Installed and configured an enterprise monitoring system in the lab for testing and training purposes using UNIX, Windows Active Directory with .NET, VMware Server, Windows 2008 servers and Solaris servers packaging a monitoring product called GMI-In-A-Box.
• GMI-In-A-Box is packaged for Confidential that is a combination of products such as Tivoli monitoring, ITM 5 to ITM 6.2.1, Confidential Webtop - TEP, TPM, TEC, Netcool OMNIBus monitoring servers, Perfcap PAWz, Bigfix patch management, EPO, UNIX Solaris and Windows 2003 OS and the Active Directory. Created users, groups, and machine accounts to setup monitoring and patch management.
• Along with new datacenter implementation, performed datacenter migration of equipment, remediation/OS upgrade with SUN Jumpstart, virtualization migration, application installation, application support on IIS 6.0 and 7.0 servers with a .NET, J2EE platform, testing, and coordination. Datacenter migrations were consolidated from different geographical locations and from one location to another within the same facility.
• Performed daily server support which includes web server, common platform monitoring and alert reconciliation.
• Created and maintained a capacity planning spreadsheet with bar charts to monitor the capacity of DBU servers that hosts Confidential 3000 Xtra investment management tool.
• Built Windows 2008, Linux, and Solaris 10 virtualized guests using VMware ESX 3.0 and Virtual Center 2.0 for common platform application server implementation; physical to virtual conversion with VMware converter and product testing with Platespin for old server hardware to new server hardware conversion in the lab.
• Virtualized server migration to Active Directory, domain controllers, and FSMO role reassignments.
• Confidential is an ITIL, SOA processes integrated company.

Wintel Engineer/VMware Virtualization Specialist

Confidential, Secaucus, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the Windows NT Server decommissioning and Windows 2003 Standard and Enterprise remediation project.
• Initial server application discovery process consists of gathering system hardware and software inventory for migration to Windows 2003 operating system.
• Physical server builds of Confidential System x3650, and x3850 (RAM, RAID controllers, RSA cards, Fiber Channel Cards, processors, power supplies, NIC cards and hard drive with RAID configuration), OS builds, hardware, software, and BIOS updates and racking.
• Servers are racked, configured to KVM switch, and connected to the network via Cisco routers and Hubs IP, MASK, Gateway, DNS, and WINS address and other network configurations were performed.
• Windows NT domain upgrade to Windows 2000 then migrated to Windows 2003 Active Directory; FSMO roles are transferred to current domain controller, make it a Global Catalog and adjust policies.
• The virtualization environment consists of VMware ESX Server 3.0, GSX server and Workstation, implementing Virtual Center 2.0, Confidential DS4000 SAN storage array & Confidential DS4000 Storage Manager, VMWare Converter, P2V cloning, V2V, VMotion, and building VMware ESX server farms and GSX V2V conversion.
• Supported and troubleshoot all Windows and server hardware issues along with all virtual guest inventory support and LUN maintenance.
• Responsible for full documentation on all hardware builds VM builds and enterprise application installation and configuration.
• Supported for all new servers in the data center, testing to production, quality control, and disaster recovery.