PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Architect and deployed 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; VMware ESX/ESXi 4.1/5.0/5.1 architecture and server installs, configuring ESX/ESXi 4.1/5.0/5.1 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, IBM TSAM/TPM, vCloud Director, CloudStack, OpenStack, 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.
• 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 ), a High Scale Low Touch ( HSLT ) product, vCloud Director/vShield,VCAC, ServiceMesh, Amazon EC2, AWS, and Direct Connect, CloudStack, OpenStack, 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 VCAC,VCO, VRealize, TSAM/TPM, OpenStack and SeviceMesh cloud products. 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

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

Storage: NetApps, EMC, JBOD, NFS, VMFS, Object Storage, Block Storage, Storage Archive

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.

Enterprise Management Tivoli: NetIQ DRA, WSUS, ISA Server, Microsoft PKI, MOM, Microsoft Cluster Servers, SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 installation, configuration, Sysprep, WAIK, and Oracle 8i servers.

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 Engineer/Cloudburst/IBM

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• IBM Cloudburst support for TSAM/TPM and Maximo server, VMware SME configuration, support and upgrading current hypervisor layer. Openstack implementation for the IBM Confidential initiative; IAAS migration from Cloudburst to Openstack. Full Support of both environments from end to end.

VMware Engineer/Cloud

Confidential - New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Data storage/retrieval and archive solutions for the financial industry using Amazon Glacier to fit the needs in scalability, cost effectiveness, durability, security, reliable and immediate access to current and cold storage data. Conducting a full assessment of the virtualization environment with an extensive discovery, data collection, fact finding and best practice solutions.
• Support the private cloud environment which consists of OpenStack as the cloud product, KVM as the hypervisor, OpenStack Nova dashboard for orchestration
• Implemented and configured Nagios open source monitoring the virtualization server cluster
• 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 PXE boot that automated the Linux OS server installations after data center migration was completed

Cloud Architect/ Engineer

Confidential - Weehawken, NJ - Contract

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 OpenStack controller all components (Nova, Swift, Cinder, Neutron, 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:

• 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 OpenStack cloud environment with KVM as the hypervisor for proof-of-concept
• Built a CloudStack 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 CloudStack 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

Confidential, Middletown, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Provided CSP2 Assistance Services, mainly focused on evaluating, defining, prioritizing, and creating software enhancements to the IBM Cloud Software and related products implemented to address the Confidential &T requirements for various aspects of Confidential &T's infrastructure in a public cloud environment.
• Product installation and integration of IBM Service Delivery Manager (ISDM), IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager (TPM), Maximo, IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager (TSAM), IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager (TUAM), IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager (TUAM) Server license, IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager Enterprise Collector Pack, IBM Tivoli System Automation (TSA) for Multi-platforms, WebSphere (WAS) servers and IBM 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: VMware, Linux OS, Windows OS template builds, maintenance and Cloud architecture support.
• 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, TeamQuest 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 met 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 IBM Blade Centers HS21 blades, HP ProLiant and Sun Solaris 8, 9, 10 servers; with the emphasis on the IBM 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, IBM 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 IBM 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, IBM DS4000 SAN storage array & IBM 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.
• Solely responsible for migrating Novell NDS to Microsoft Active Directory: users, groups, directories, shares, data, and ACLs via VB and CMD scripting.
• NetIQ DRA was used as the Active Directory manager for migration implementation and management.
• Developed a Windows NT to Windows 2003 Active Directory migration plan and processes guideline for migration team; script automation and migration application consultation

Infrastructure Engineer

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated the Global Messaging Team in the engineering processes to decommission and remediate a large Windows NT4 domain environment for PGM, PGRD, CIT, Corp. Finance, Corp. Legal, and Corp. Affairs.
• Responsibilities include developing migration processes, scripting, authoring SOP standards for technical documentation and processes, MS SQL database updates and management.
• Provided technical expertise to migration teams. IPS device protection verification for data center globally; Active Directory administration and auditing.
• Performed installations of Windows 2003 Domain Controller and Exchange 2003 servers in an existing Active directory using FDA high level standard procedure and documentation.
• The OS is installed on HP Proliant DL380 G3, G4, and ML570 server hardware; DNS and IIS installation, monitoring application installation (NetIQ and Insight Manager and SMARTS for EMC Clariion SAN), Symantec Netbackup storage integration.
• Participated with the PGRD sites server virtualization project with VMware ESX server and P2V cloning, (installed ESX server 3.0, Virtual Infrastructure Client, Virtual Center, and virtual switch configuration with (VMotion, VM Kernel, iSCSI, NFS/NAS and Virtual Machines).
• Scripts are run for final testing and final approval.
• Performed Active Directory migration of users, groups, directories, shares and ACLs.

Desktop Deployment Engineer

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Managed the laptop and desktop migration/rollout with new hardware in laptop/workstation imaging via Ghost Multicasting and automated DVD deployment, including Lotus Notes to Microsoft Outlook migration.
• The level of support encompasses Il, and lll level support of desktops, laptops, applications, servers, hubs/switches replacement, hardware, software, network, and LAN/WAN.
• Performed network administration with Novell Netware, Windows NT, and Windows 2003 Active Directory and Cisco VOIP support.
• Consulted engineers with Novell Netware and Windows NT migration to Windows 2003 servers and the Active Directory; Exchange server administration and support, Outlook and Domino server Lotus Notes administration and configuration and support.
• Responsibilities also include workstation configuration on Dell desktop and laptop, Windows XP configuration from software installation, testing and registry configuration for maximum performance.
• Workstation and laptop image creation from scratch using Ghost Multicast imaging.
• SAP GUI installation, connection to test databases, and support for the entire SAP group.
• Installed and configured ICA client for the Citrix Presentation server for application delivery on workstations, desktops, and in images and administration by pushing application installation to desktops.
• Setup a lab environment to test VMware workstation for different operating systems and application testing.

Senior Systems Engineer/Migration Manager

Confidential - Parsippany, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Developed an automated standard for migration with the use of resource tools, scripting and third party applications.
• Produced procedure validation for standard deployment of Windows NT domains migration to Windows 2000/2003 Active Directory for Kraft Confidential .
• The standardized process consisted of performing all migration processes through scripting languages such as, VB scripting, NT scripting, and WSH scripting automation and Quest FastLane migration tool; migrating users, computers, groups, applications, group policy, profiles, roaming profiles, file servers, Exchange servers and Outlook (user, groups and policies), print servers, shares, data and security copies from Windows NT domains to Windows 2000/2003 Active Directory which included desktops and servers.
• Assisted with the World Trade Center disaster recovery and brokerage relocation project.
• Windows 2000 Server/NT OS installations, rebuilding network infrastructures, workstation configuration, Microsoft IIS server hot fixes, and service packs, software integration, server/workstation validation

Confidential, Leonia, NJ

Tivoli Enterprise Architect / Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for UNIX based Tivoli Framework implementation and Windows 2000 Server/Advanced Server/2000 Professional & NT 4.0 image configuration. Data warehouse containing multiple clustering, SAN, and NAS environments for different companies.
• Responsible for the architecture/design and installation of the Tivoli Enterprise testing lab for full implementation into the production environment.
• In the test environment Tivoli Framework applications and modules were loaded such as; Tivoli Framework 3.7, Distributed Monitoring 4.1, Tivoli Inventory 3.7, Netview 6.0.1, Tivoli Software Distribution 3.6, Tivoli Remote Control 3.7, Tivoli Storage Manager, and Tivoli Decision Support.
• These products were integrated in a heterogeneous environment (Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux, Windows NT, and Windows 2000 Advanced Server).
• MasterCell, Microsoft IIS v 5.0 installed for Web base XML program and XML tools for Visual Basics developed by Confidential, and Tivoli SecureWay Policy Director.
• Server load balancing for web based middleware products, MQSeries, Suite Spot, and IBM Web Sphere.
• Deployment of enterprise solutions: Tivoli Framework TMRs, manage servers in an NOC environment filtering out to desktops, including the endpoint architecture; In-depth knowledge and experience working with Tivoli.