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Senior Solutions Engineer IT Strategic Innovation Services

My primary role is split between two main projects, which consist of maintaining our IT Innovation Zone and architecting/engineering the IT nCloud initiative. While providing resources and leadership within these two projects, tertiary projects surface as well, which don't necessarily fit into a day - to-day management process, but more along the lines of product evaluation.

NetApp nCloud

• My role in nCloud entails architecting and engineering of Cloud Services for NetApp IT. Our goal is to become a Cloud Broker and integrate a Hybrid Cloud Model as the primary means of hosting tiered applications, development operations, shadow IT projects, and eventually, production workloads for NetApp as a whole. When I first started my employment at NetApp, our Cloud environment consisted of a single Cloud Service Provider. Our work has enlightened and enabled NetApp constituents to the world of Cloud Computing. Starting from a simple VMware based CSP, we have strived to not only provide resources for end users, but also to engineer the future of NetApp Cloud Computing through grass roots evangelism and industry encapsulation. Google reference:
• During our initial External Private Cloud rollout, we soon became aware of IaaS limitations, and started to look up the stack towards PaaS. SaaS has always been another area of expertise for our team, and we have rolled out a few SaaS platforms within IT and NetApp Corporate. Our main goal was to then bring global awareness of new Cloud Technologies, ranging from Cloud Service Providers, to Cloud Management Platforms, and all infrastructure in between.
• Our current Hybrid Cloud Architecture consists of many products from various vendors in the marketplace. The essential tools we have incorporated into our latest nCloud iteration consist of Amazon Web Services, OpenStack, source code repositories, configuration management, API's, development operations, resource monitoring, log collection, automation frameworks, intelligent scaling, security, CMDB, change management, chargeback/showback, ticketing/problem management, team collaboration, as well as other components of a Cloud Management Framework. The end result is expected to provide a completely autonomous, self-service solution, that all employees can leverage in order to streamline activities with results that positively impact the business.

Innovation Zone

• The Innovation Zone is a lab environment within IT that allows for innovation, exploration, evaluation, and proof-of-concept of new and emerging technologies. My role in the Innovation Zone is essentially as the sole proprietor. I maintain all hardware, platforms, software, and management of the entire environment. The IZ consists of primarily a FlexPod deployment, which is configured to virtualize all resources. Within this environment, we not only host our own IT funded projects, but we provide resources for other groups that are resource/space constrained as well. The IZ footprint is pretty substantial, consisting of 1PB of storage, running on latest generation NetApp filers operating in Clustered Mode, and Cisco UCS gear, capable of hosting roughly 700 medium sized virtual machines/instances.
• The IZ also hosts various projects and evaluations that are requirements of our senior leadership executive vice president level . I have worked with all levels of the company reporting structure, from datacenter operations personnel, to resource procurement of new resources, to meetings and presentations to vice presidents, senior directors, and all responsibility layers in between. Working with the IZ has afforded me the opportunity to interact with the company as a whole and has garnered experience that has not been available at my previous residencies in the Information Technology field, and my feedback and performance has been influential to the company in making strategic executive decisions.
• Some of the technologies I maintain and have worked with include:
• Hardware: NetApp Filers FAS6070, FAS 6250, FAS6280, E2600, Fujitsu Servers RX200,RX300, Cisco Switches N5K-C5010, N5K-C5548, Cyclades Terminal Server, Cisco UCS 6248 / B-Series Blades
• Platforms: Amazon Web Services, OpenStack Havana, VMware vSphere 5.x, Data ONTAP 8.x Cluster Mode, RedHat Enterprise Linux 5/6, RedHat Cloud Infrastructure RHEV/OpenStack, Microsoft Windows 2008-R2, 2012, Cloud Foundry, Heroku, Podio, ServiceNow, OpenShift
• Applications: Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010/2012, Microsoft SQL Server 2008/2012, Chef/Puppet, GitHub, Zenoss/ZaaS, SAML, AD,
• Cloud: AWS, OpenStack, New Relic, AppDynamics, Cliqr, ShareFile, Box.com, Office365, CrashPlan, Egnyte, RightScale

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VMware Specialist / Senior Systems Administrator

• At Cisco, I was responsible for maintaining large VMware clusters that were made up of Cisco UCS Unified Computing System, EMC and NexSan SAN's, and Cisco networking gear both MDS SAN Switches and various Ethernet switches . We maintain approximately 500 virtual machines across 4 clusters for different customer environments in a test / dev atmosphere. I was responsible for rollout, maintenance, upgrades, problem determination, and all other aspects of ensuring maximum uptime. This included setup of hardware, networking, SAN, Ethernet switches and fabric switches on a multi-building campus.
• My job duties also included various operating system support roles Linux, Windows, and Solaris, as well as rack-and-stack duties. The majority of periphery support tasks were based around VMware and operating systems. I was also required to learn various Cisco operating systems in a basic fashion, such as IOS and NXOS.
• My current primary role is as a remote support admin, supporting multiple UCS chassis with B200-M1/M2 Blades networked with Cisco Ethernet gear for a lab in Richardson, Texas. The storage consists of EMC CX4-240's all connected by Cisco MDS 9120's, Cisco 6120's, and Cisco 5010's. I am the sole admin for this environment that consists of approximately it's being built upon daily 30 hosts connected to 2 separate SAN's. The only thing I don't maintain is the uplink out of our racks, which is maintained by the IT / LAB network team. I perform all maintenance remotely, and have a set of hands available at request. I have also managed all this equipment on-site and have extensive knowledge of equipment connectivity.