Virtualization Engineer Resume Profile

OBJECTIVE:

To obtain a challenging position where my technical and customer service skills can benefit both my employer and myself, while continuing to develop my technical abilities and broaden my experience in the industry.

Confidential

Virtualization Engineer

As a Virtualization Engineer I handle both business as usual activities ESXi upgrades and patches, host firmware upgrades, datastore creation, storage reorganization, host and cluster maintenance, etc. and ongoing/upcoming projects, system expansions, etc. Some of the projects I have been part of are vCenter and ESXi major version upgrades v4 to v5 , VDI VMWare View major version upgrades and complete environment redesign v4 to v6 , complete storage system redesign we changed our storage vendor and platform, and we used the opportunity to modernize our entire datastore system configuration , ESXi host hardware platform replacement Cisco UCS to Dell blades , and several others. We support over 100 ESXi hosts, 30 ESXi VDI infrastructure servers, and roughly 2000 server VMs and 1500 VDI desktops, all with a staff of 3 Engineers only 2 Engineers for the last 4 months of that time . I served double-duty in this position and my previous UNIX Architect for 3 months during the transition period to ensure my previous team had my position filled.

Confidential

As a Sr. UNIX Systems Architect I handle the engineering reviews for new UNIX projects, system builds, infrastructure changes, and OS/middleware deployments. I support three environments: Production, Test/Development/User Acceptance Testing UAT , and Disaster Recovery DR . This includes physical servers, virtual servers VMware , and appliances. On a daily basis I handled trouble tickets, customer escalations, server builds, problem resolution, as well as the various management fire drills that inevitably arise. More long term , I helped to build our systems and support infrastructure. I built our repository server that supports our Red Hat Linux RHEL4-6 and middleware builds, and implemented our Red Hat Satellite Server. I fight for redundancy and stability in every way possible, RAID mirrors, NIC bonding using integrated and PCI Ethernet ports, SAN multipathing, redundant Ethernet and fiber switches, etc. My goal is to always build and deploy the most stable platform possible for my customers, and to maximize their uptime and system satisfaction. In addition, we trend usage statistics and make adjustments RAM, CPU, etc. to remove any bottlenecks that appear as we scale our environment.

Confidential

I was hired before the center was opened for the Technical Support staff of a new inbound call center. I assisted in the opening of the Rockford/Loves Park branch, and all new client start-ups for that branch. These duties included application selection, development and testing, user and application support, tape backups, and running new cat3 and cat5 wiring. Other duties included creating custom patch cables, disk imaging, application and OS troubleshooting in a Win 9x/NT 4.0 environments, printer maintenance, readying workstations for new client software in an extremely dynamic environment, and miscellaneous functions on our Tandem Himalaya system. I also gained familiarity with Novel Client 4.11 through 4.7, and NetWare Administrator.

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I was responsible for maintaining all aspects of the company's computer network. This included all servers, workstations and laptops, as well as desktop PCs and all peripherals in both the main office and all branch offices. I was also tasked with the updating and maintenance of the company's web page and writing a technical/user manual for our custom-built database application. I assisted the outside contractors in the rewiring and upgrading of our 10b2 coax network to a 10/100bT Ethernet network.

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