PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• I have been working in large development and production environments consisting of many VMware vSphere clouds. I've stood up a VMware View instance which with the support of my networking and storage team I designed, built, support and trained for use by project teams. I've also stood up VMware Site Recovery Manager SRM to protect 2 sites. Vcenter operations Manager is also in place set up by myself. Some advanced VMware topics I have worked with are VM shared disks, and Distributed switches. All systems monitored with HP Sitescope, SIM, Solarwinds Orion, and VMware VCOPS.
• I am also a capable Microsoft Windows Active Directory Enterprise server multi-site administrator with extensive experience installing, configuring, and troubleshooting Windows Server Operating systems and Build and manage various windows enterprise services such as WSUS, WDS, KMS. I also administer Symantec Endpoint protection 12.3, Netbackup 7.6, and Aspera high speed file transfer systems
• I Build, configure, and maintain the physical HP and Dell servers for H/W and Software O/S for use in virtual clouds and standalone systems working with vendors for support and maintenance including quoting for renewals, researching, and pricing for new systems to be purchased.
• I am dedicated, loyal and work well in A team environment receiving multiple awards, meeting or exceeding customer satisfaction and Service Level Agreements.

TECHNICAL AND SPECIALIZED SKILLS

CAREER EXPERIENCE

Confidential

• Support the existing VMware vSphere, and windows server Environment
• Configured shared disks for a virtualization project to be used in an Oracle virtual RAC cluster
• Successfully Built configured VMware Site Recovery Manager SRM for a 2 site environment.
• Built, configured, and support the Netbackup 7.6 and OpsCenter environment. Responsible for backup and restores.
• Restored host connectivity to Distributed switches after hosts network corruption or loss from a bad change to a distributed switch.
• Built various vCenters connected to Fiber storage with Distributed switching across 16 hosts.
• Used PowerCLi to script creation of VMs and also shared disks removal/addition to protect a set of shared drives for use with SRM.
• Built another successful HP SIM environment with Agent and Agentless management
• Built a new Domain for our development environment with multiple redundant DNS servers.

Confidential

• Build, configure, upgrade, and Support of the Vmware Vsphere, and physical server Environment.
• Successfully migrated our old DMZ cluster to a c3000 Blade center and build a new cluster for our Vsphere cloud.
• Successfully accomplished many P2V and VM migrations.
• Building, configuring, supporting windows 2008 R2, 2008/2003 and linux 5.6 to 6.4. Worked with windows server 2012 in the lab before this assignment.
• Resolved a Netbackup issue where the backup server could not communicate to the libraries on fiber by shutting down all devices and powering up the libraries, then the backup server.
• Responsible for various I/T related tasks.

Confidential

• Provision and support 17 vSphere Clouds built from the ground up to meet project designs with VMware ESX 4.1 and ESXi 5.0 to 5.1 with Multiple Virtual standard and distributed switches fenced and unfenced for our managed cloud for specific project connectivity connected to NFS and Fiber Channel Datastores configured with update manager and NetApp Virtual Storage console for backup and Rapid cloning.
• Configured a virtual cloud with 2 hosts with 6 virtual switches each with one VM each with one physical uplink to emulate a physical environment to be able to track packets to and from each VM.
• Trained, worked on, and passed the VMware vSphere 5 certification.
• Upgraded clouds from vSphere ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5.0 and 5.1 update 1 to support new virtual machines requirements, uninstalling the current update manager before upgrading as the process never runs smooth when upgrading to ESXi 5.1.
• Configure advanced settings dealing with network redundancy, system logging, datastores redundancy, NFS performance issues, DRS groupings, USB devices. Migrated VMs to different clouds with common datastore mappings with a fast response time resulting in high customer satisfaction.
• Resolved issues relating to Single Sign On, SQL limitations, HA, DRS, EVC, and Plugin issues, CapacityIQ plug-in extensions, VLAN tagging for the management interface, keeping projects productive with low down time.
• Used VMware convertor to import Virtual Machines VM into new and existing clouds resolving issues relating to ghost Interfaces, false source suspension.
• Built View 4.6 and 5.1 clouds. Configured automated, manual, other source, on demand Pools and migrated different types of pools between View implementations. Configured deployed Composer linked clone pools.
• Resolved issues with View involving connecting to the ADAM Database for phantom linked clone replicas, PCOIP, agent loss of communications.
• Install, configure and support Virtual Center operations Manager VCOPS . Resolved SSO issues to allow vCenter 5.1 to be registered.
• Resolved rapid clone issues relating to customization and auto O/S activation with KMS for deployment of multiple clones in a very short time keeping projects creating a grid environment of 100VMs productive.
• Work with the storage engineer in NetApp system manager to provision Fiber channel LUNs, CIFS Shares, and ISCSI LUNs for our clouds and standalone servers.
• Experience in P2V in production environment, knowledge on HA and DRS,

Server

• Built and configured a multi-domain environment for all the projects that needed their own domain trusted with our main lab domain. For our main domain I installed and configured an additional Domain Controller at a remote site using the sites and services tool. Setup DNS on the remote DC managed by our Bluecat Proteus appliance. Work with group policy to deploy restrictions, etc. for our servers and IE.
• Installed and configured Aspera connect and shares to work with the Distributed File System DFS I configured for Mapping with our Aspera Shares high speed file transfer system allowing our projects to transfer data to our lab saving them a massive amount of time.
• Built a Windows Deployment Server and integrated it with a Linux front end to allow us to deploy servers of windows and Linux Operating Systems. Captured custom images for use with our projects.
• Provisioned an IIS 7 root certificate of authority server which I deployed certificates for VMware, view, etc., and SharePoint server > set up a site, configure for SSL and Published projects web database.
• Created an Openssl root certificate of authority for our stubborn program Aspera and deployed certificates to replace its default ones.
• In addition built, configured, and support our KMS volume activation server, Radius authentication service in network policy server, Windows Server Update Service WSUS ,Terminal Server Remote app which consisted of a 2 server farm, 1 load balance, 1 Gateway, and 1 web application server
• Installed, configured, and support Symantec Endpoint protection 12 console. Deploy to physical and virtual servers with use of the virtual tools to tweak performance. Use of the clone prep tool to avoid duplication problems, Upgraded clients through the console for newer versions of the A/V packages.
• Resolved issues with A/V clients offline, outdated definitions, disabled components, etc
• Obtained Bluecat IP management certification and manage our Proteus/Adonis high availability appliance for DNS and DHCP. Created ghost DNS domain for our VPN to different projects work properly. Setup forwarding zones to the main GE site and our Greenville lab site.
• Work with our Solar Winds IP management application to keep track of networks.
• Built and administer our HP Sitescope server for monitoring of servers and services and Insight manager server for access and organization of ILOs.
• Figured out, reconfigured, and manage our Manage Engine A/D Selfservice Plus application to allow our community to initialize, reset, and unlock their own domain accounts. Customized for hidden admin access.
• Work with the Network engineer to add NATs in our F5 appliances.
• Install and configure virtual and physical Pfsense firewalls for use in our fenced environments.

Confidential

Server Administrator

• Worked with VMware Virtual Center Server and Workstation to modify Virtual server settings and troubleshoot space, and hung issues releasing PIDs on the hosts bringing servers back online in as fast as possible.
• Resolved multiple Microsoft Windows server, cluster, and VMware issues relating to corruption, memory allocation, SAN connections, and space allowing customers to reconnect to Microsoft Windows file shares and applications saving Disney millions.
• Outsourced to Disney and serve as Steady State support of server environment for multiple sites.
• Configured and troubleshot Compaq servers with Microsoft Windows server 2000/2003 utilizing DHCP, DNS, Active directory, and Group Policy keeping server down time to minimum.
• accomplished Remedy work orders including file restores, permission changes, share creations, print queue creations, etc
• Joined Lean initiative, supported several accounts and proved capable of working in multiple unique Microsoft Windows server environments meeting SLAs and customer satisfaction requirements over 9.4.
• Resolved Microsoft Windows server Volume Shadow copy Service VSS issues affecting environment allowing shadow copying and backups to complete successfully.
• Resolved Microsoft Windows server performance issues relating to Network Card Team configurations reducing ping times from 900ms to 32ms and increasing application performance 100 and increasing productivity by 100 .

Confidential

• Supported and modified configuration on Microsoft Windows server Cluster server in Compaq fiber environment allowing proper server to SAN access.
• Joined GEDS Team to support Microsoft Windows server Cluster servers 24X7 keeping clusters online over 95 .
• Crossed trained associates to function as team, improving moral and reducing interventions to resolve application problems.