SUMMARY:

• Seeking a senior technical position in which I will utilize my knowledge and skills to assess, implement and maintain secure and available systems and networks to suit business and strategic goals and objectives.
• With a working technical/functional understanding of technology and user needs, I feel that I can work with management, staff and end users in a productive manner.
• I have a strong desire to expand my knowledge of IT and organization processes, which I will use to better my productivity and value.
• OpenStack, ServiceMesh Agility, Amazon EC2, AWS, VCE, vBlock, FedRamp
• Intel based computers and clones running MS - DOS, Windows 3. *, 95/98 and NT/2000/XP/2003/2008/7 operating systems.
• Vmware vSphere 5.x/4.x, ESXi 5.x/4.x, vDistributed Switches, vCLI, Thin Provisioning, Storage vMotion, vCloud 1.0, vCloud 1.5
• BMC CLM 2.1, 3.0, BSA 8.2, BNA, AR Server 7.6/8.0, MidTier 7.6/8.0, Platform Manager, BAO, AWS.
• VMWare 3.x/3.5 Infrastructure with Virtual Center, VMOTION, DRS, HA, VUM, Converter
• Dell EMC CX300, NetApp F840, 960, 6030, 2050, 3040, 3270
• Cisco UCS Manager 1.4/2.0, UCS 5100 chassis, 6248 Fabric Interconnects, B200 and 230 series blades, Nexus 1k and 5k switches
• Gold and Platinum Disk, Retina, DISA STIGS and Checklists
• Exchange 2007 CCR, HUB, CAS, MB roles. SQL 2005 physical and virtual Microsoft Clusters (MSCS). SharePoint 2007 servers.
• UNIX operating systems including RH Linux and IBM AIX 4.3, 5L (5.2), RS/6000, pSeries, SSA, HMC, LTO
• ISC BIND and DHCP, Apache, Postfix, Mailman, Squid, Big Brother
• Oracle RDBMS 8.1.6, 8.1.7 and 9.2, Application Server 4.0.8 and 9i.
• Tivolli Storage Manager 5.1 for UNIX and Windows, Ghost, XO Soft WANSyncHA for Exchange.
• Microsoft IIS 4.0/5.0/6.0, Terminal Services, TCP/IP, RAS, IAS, DHCP, WINS, DNS, AD, SSL, SSH, VNC, LDAP, Group Policy, SUS/WSUS, RIS, Certificate Services, VMWare Server, Virtual Server, Virtual PC
• Cisco 830/2600/4000/7206 , HP 2500-5300, Packeteer, F5 Big IP LTM, Netgear / Linksys Routers, m0n0wall, pfsense, CyberWall Firewall, BlackIce, ZoneAlarm, DSL, WiFi, Dell TrueMobile AP, PPTP VPN, RRAS, IAS, UPS, CATV UTP cabling, MM fiber, switches/hubs.
• Sun Directory Server 4.11-5.2, Sun Directory Proxy Server 5.2, Steltor Corporate Time, Exchange 2003, 2000 (lab) and Exchange 2000 Conferencing Server, GFI MailEssential & Mail Security, MailEnable, SQL Server 2000, Blackboard.
• General knowledge of most PC software including MS Office Applications, Project, Visio, Corel WordPerfect Suite, Adobe PhotoShop, Internet Explorer, Netscape Communicator.
• Batch, Basic, Visual Basic, C/C++, HTML, PERL, Shell and SQL.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chantilly, VA

Cloud Engineer / Architect

Responsibilities:

• Served as lead cloud engineer on Confidential & Confidential Government Cloud project that built first ever ServiceMesh Agility based multi - tenant IaaS cloud offering. Installed and configured Agility 9.2.x. Designed Agility distributed architecture to meet HA requirements across the two Confidential & Confidential datacenters.
• Designed RBAC for approver/requestor/administrator roles and Multi-tenancy (tenant isolation requirements).
• Created templates/stacks for OS offerings and Agility enabled them.
• Created Agility blueprints for IaaS offerings. Deployed vSphere 5.1, vCloud 5.1, vShield 5.1, vCops 5.8, VMware
• Usage Meter on the vBlock 340’s Confidential each datacenter. Collaborated with network and storage engineers to implement configuration requirements.
• Served as cloud engineer on effort to integrate ServiceMesh Agility with VMware, OpenStack and Amazon AWS to showcase Cloud Brokering and Hybrid Cloud using Agility. Created stacks and blueprints for JBoss/MySQL.
• Wrote scripts to install and customize JBoss/mySQL using bash and Chef. Also worked on integrating AppWorks with Agility and leverage CHEF for application deployment. Demo the solution to various prospective government clients.
• Setup Amazon EC2 account including two VPCs with a various networks. Created security groups, routing tables, ssh keys. Leveraged S3 for storage. Worked on numerous Amazon calculators to estimate cost for clients to host in Amazon EC2.
• Supported Solution Architects with various ROMs and BOEs for client proposal when Cloud, Amazon EC2 or ServiceMesh Agility expertise was required.
• Served as a technical lead for the Confidential -DTaaS 2.0 Cloud offering. Collaborated with BMC, ColumnIT, Confidential PM and development team on how CLM would meet the requirements for DTaaS 2.0. Using 1.x secure multi-tenancy architecture as a model architected the BMC CLM pod/network container design for secure multi-tenancy including multi-tiered networks. Chaired the DTaaS 2.0 infrastructure meeting. Created high level design for custom VM Remote Console solution, which developers used to build solution. Led the effort to update the system design document. Installed and configured BMC Cloud LifeCycle Management (CLM) 2.1 in lab, and upgraded CLM to 3.0. Configured VMware, NetApp and CLM to meeting design requirements.
• Member of the DHS Cloud team responsible for the design, build and operations of secure multi-tenant DTaaS/IaaS/EaaS/WPaaS trusted cloud services utilizing a FlexPod infrastructure (Cisco/NetApp/VMware) and BMC CLM orchestration for the Department of Homeland Security and the components within.
• Participated in planning and design sessions for IaaS DR roadmap, including utilizing NetApp SnapMirror and VMware Site Recovery manager to meet DR level requirements. Researched VMware SRM and NetApp integration requirements.
• Worked with BMC to implement BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management in lab in preparation for DTaaS 2.0 and future releases of XaaS based on BMC CLM. Supported WPaaS integration with BMC SRM and AO.
• Re-designed networking in vCloud Director from single to multi-ple tier. Tested and documented procedures to migrating existing 1.x Portal vApps to appropriate tiers. Migrated production customer workloads to appropriate tiers. Communicated with system owner on progress of migration effort.
• Installed/Configured/Secured VMware vSphere ESXi 4.1 on Cisco UCS B-series blades. Upgraded UCS Manager from 1.4 to 2.0. Utilized host firmware packages to upgrade blades and components. Created/modified Service Profiles / VMNic Templates in UCS manager. Installed vCloud Director 1.x and configured Organizations, networking and catalog items. Configured NetApp MultiTenant vFilers with NFS/CIFS/ISCSI protocol support. Worked alongside senior network engineers to configure Cisco Nexus 1k/5k switches.
• In conjunction with two other engineers, implemented entire IaaS cloud Confidential DHS DC1 datacenter in less than two weeks in time for ST&E. This was heralded as a major accomplishment considering the time and other constraints.
• Reviewed Confidential EaaS proposal and provided system diagrams and feedback for re-proposal. In collaboration with vendor partners, proposed a storage and compute architecture that maintained security multi-tenancy, while sharing as many components as possible and being elastic to scale up/out as customer demand required. Assisted in designing the Confidential EaaS Exchange 2010 two site topology leveraging DAG for HA. Coordinated and helped implement EaaS in the DHS Lab as a proof of concept.
• Architected and implemented a secure multi-tenant file transfer solution for DTaaS to allow developers to transfer data from the OneNet to their sandboxed vApps.
• Provided O&M support to DHS DC1 Cloud Operations Team for DTaaS and IaaS clouds. Provided technical guidance and support to a team who implemented DTaaS for GD IT.

IT Consultant

Confidential, Virginia

Responsibilities:

• Studied the VMware Cloud Architecture Toolkit (VCAT) 2.0. Setup an evaluation lab with vCloud Director 1.5 connected to vSphere/ESXi 4.1 with SQL 2005 databases. Created multiple provider and organizational vDCs, using reservation, allocation and pay-as-you go allocation models. Created external, organization and vApp networks. Used VLAN and port group backed network pools. Deployed single and multi VM vApps. Setup LDAP authentication.
• Assessed needs, designed and implemented new IT infrastructure for an Army contractor with 50 users across 3 sites. Infrastructure included Cisco ASA’s for router/firewall/DMZ and IPSEC VPN site to site tunnels, Symantec Backup Exec 2010 R2 for disk and tape backup, Symantec EndPoint Protection 11 and WSUS for antivirus, patching and removable media control, SharePoint 2007/SQL 2005 on Windows 2008 R2 64bit for document sharing and collaboration, and various network services (DNS/WINS/DHCP/File/Print). Implemented VMware vShpere 4 ESXi on 2 Dell R710 servers for virtualization of the Windows 2008 R2 64bit servers.
• Implemented IBM Rational AppScan system for USFS to perform web application security code scanning and vulnerability assessment.

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented private clouds based on vSphere 4.1 / ESXi in dev/test lab and production environments. Used DISA STIG and VMware Security Hardening guides to securely lock down the environment for DoD Security Certification and Accreditation. Reconfigured ESXi hosts, NetApp NAS/SAN igroups to use ALUA for multipath IO (MPIO) for non MSCS LUNS.
• Used ASIS and thin-provisioning for de-duplication and space savings.
• Fast tracked the migration of 1,000 user mailboxes from Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2007, in preparation for the migration of email services to the Confidential (NMCI) cloud. Assist in the planning of upcoming migration unstructured user data from legacy resources to the Confidential (NMCI) cloud.
• Assisted Web Team Lead with preparing a near term SharePoint backup and recovery plan. Helped define requirements, gathered and vetted input from engineers to ensure a workable technical design. Next step is to implement, as well as work on the long term BR plan and solution.
• Played an instrumental role in the deployment of the ONR Extranet based on SharePoint. Performed performance analysis and tuned configuration / resources to improve the response time of various components of the SharePoint application stack, including AD, ISA, IIS and SQL servers.
• Served as Interim Team Lead for a 3 month period. Major accomplishments include facilitating and assisting in the implementation of SiteCore, ISA to CAC enable SharePoint and Reporting Services and the team meeting the deadline for CAT 1 compliancy for the ONR C&A package.
• Assessed needs and designed an Exchange 2007 organization leveraging CAS, HUB and Continuous Cluster Replication Mailbox roles. Total of 6 servers supporting 1000+ users and 1TB+ of mailbox data. Implemented NetApp SnapDrive and SnapManager for Exchange for BR.
• Assisted in the assessment, research and design of a DR solution to support the command BCP/COOP requirements. Specifically researched VMware Site Recovery Manager and NetApp to facilitate the replication and automated failover of entire systems hosted on the VMware Datacenter.
• Responsible for the maintenance of a VMware Infrastructure 3.5.* data center running on 14 IBM LS41 blades and connected to a NetApp FAS 6030 cluster. 3 clusters with approximately 115 VMs. Generated reports using PowerShell. Designed and implemented DRS to support the computing requirements of various application workloads.
• Storage administrator over NetApp 6030 cluster, 960 and 250 filers. Hosts are fiber attached via IBM (Brocade) Total Storage fiber channel switch. Performed NDU from Data OnTap 7.2 to 7.3.3. Used SnapMirror to replicate volumes between NetApp controllers Confidential various sites.
• Served as project lead for Active Directory upgrade from 2000 to 2003. CAC/PKI enabled the domain. Took over and fast tracked long over due project from beginning to end in two months time.
• Set example for other engineers on configuration and document management of IT resources. Created various server configuration documentation and network security plans (NSP).
• Patched Windows and VMware ESX servers so they are compliant with Netwarcom IAVAs.

Confidential, McLean, VA

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Served as technical lead for the implementation of a NetApp FAS 2050HA (cluster) in which 4 legacy storage platforms were migrated to. Protocols used include ISCSI, NFS and CFS. Features used include Snapshot for SQL and Exchange. Data migrated to FAS 2050HA included VMWARE/VMFS (Virtual Machines) and SQL databases. Leveraged ASIS to increase data storage utilization and Snap Mirror for vol/qtree replication.
• Sr. Administrator responsible for the operations and availability of a 250 servers data center which supports back office business services, B2B and B2C services related to long distance, toll free, VOIP (Lingo) and related telecommunications services.
• Provided leadership and guidance to three SAs (2 US, 1 India) and a desktop support technician. Specifically worked with them to find ways to increase their productivity on the job. Performed SOX audits on SOX/Financial Systems. Worked with backup team to support backup and test restore processes. Worked with DBAs to support databases and performance tuning of backends.
• Sr SA for all Windows based systems such as AD (Group Policy, DNS, WINS), Exchange, WSUS, SQL, IIS and as well as Telco specific apps, NetApp F840 and Dell/EMC CX300 SAN, Sun based LDAP directory servers. Implemented and monitored storage/servers/services using Dell IT Assistant and Host Monitor.
• Served as technical lead for the relocation of 150 servers from a remote data center to the primary data center. As part of a data center relocation, consolidated 75 Windows servers to a 5 host VMWare 3 Infrastructure farm with VMotion/DRS. Utilized Dell/EMC SAN for storage. Prior to this consolidation, simulated a 25 server real world environment in a VMWare 3 single node environment to test a phased upgrade plan from AD 2000 to 2003, and Exchange 5.5/2000 to 2003. Used VMWare converter to P2V production systems.
• Served as technical lead and project manager for a 3 node Citrix 4.5 CPS farm with over 20 current and legacy applications to support users in remote location securely accessing corporate applications in low bandwidth environments. Managed implementation by consultants, support required by internal IT developers to integrate/modify in house applications, and the user testing and acceptance processes.

Confidential, VI

Network / Infrastructure Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed a network infrastructure that supports 600 employees, 2400 students and 800 computers, within 50 buildings within 2 campuses / islands. Services provided include internet access, wireless, file space, email, telephone, voicemail, video conferencing, ERP and other applications served from over 40 servers of various operating systems.
• Actively participated in the integration of ITS (IT and Library) and the transformation of ITS to a customer service / user advocacy focused department. Participated in UVI VISION 2012 strategic planning and ITS Strategic Plan development.
• Supervise two full time staff and two student workers. Responsible for hiring, time sheets, task assignment, professional development, performance objectives and evaluations, conflict resolution. Managed contracts, vendor negotiations, assisted 1st and 2nd level tier technicians; Assisted in and made s/w, h/w policy and purchase decisions, and developed security policies.
• Worked with consulting firm in Disaster Recovery, Security, and Network assessments and recommendations. With assistance of consultants, designed a new University network which consists of a gigabit backbone via single mode fiber, 4 node OSPF area, and dual homing of each building to backbone.
• Utilized HP 2500-5300 series switches and HP ProCurve manager Plus for network management.
• Project manager for implementation of Outlook / Exchange 2003 for email and groupware within organization per strategic plan. Planned, organized and controlled migrations and training for 600 users. Designed and implemented 2 FE / 2 BE (replicated) Exchange 2003 system for 600 mailboxes, this included backup to Tivoli Tape Backup system and F5 LTM load balancing, fail over and SSL acceleration. Implemented separate Linux / Squirrelmail system for 3000 students.
• Key member in project to upgrade Banner MIS from version 6 (client/server) to version 7 (web based). Upgraded AIX and Oracle to support new system. Implemented 2 web application servers and F5 LTM for load balancing, failover and SSL acceleration. Supported project manager, programmers and consultant with various migration tasks and issues.
• Infrastructure project manager for 3 story, 150 user executive and administration building whose IT infrastructure consisted of Avaya S8500 PBX, HP layer 2/3 switches, HP wireless, over 400 CAT6 terminations as well a multimode gigabit backbones.
• Increased Internet resiliency and capacity from 1 to 9mb via 3 ISPs, Cisco 2821, BGP and traffic shaped via Packet Shaper 6500. Implemented Cisco 7206vxr routers to double inter-campus connectivity from 4 to 8 T1s via analog Confidential and provided QOS to video conference traffic.
• Managed upgrade of two campus telephone systems from Lucent G25 to Avaya S8500 by PBX vendor.

Confidential, St. Thomas, VI

Systems/Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administrator of the university network. Responsible for assessing network needs, designing infrastructure changes and implementation.
• Maintained a four site 16 T1 channel licensed Confidential .
• Instrumental in the implementation of the Blackboard online course management system, network wide F-Secure Anti-Virus for 600 nodes, Mcafee anti-virus for 20 Wintel servers, and two thin-client labs in the Libraries.
• Duties also include those from the previous Systems Administrator position.
• Completed upgrade of Windows NT domain to Window 2000 Active Directory. Subsequently successfully upgraded domain to Windows 2003 Native Mode. Created Perl and Batch scripts to generate LDAP/AD accounts from data retrieved from Oracle based ERP system.
• Completed network upgrade to 100megabit HP L2 switches in over 50 buildings in two campuses. Implemented SNMP monitoring via MRTG and Big Brother. Implemented VLANs for wireless subnets secured by open sources captive portals using Radius/LDAP for authentication.
• Designed/planned an Avaya VOIP, HP gigabit LAN and 802.11a/b/c WLAN deployment in a new 3 story, 150 users, executive and administration building.

Confidential, St. Thomas, VI

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administrator of a 3 DC mixed 2000/NT Domain w/ multiple member servers / workstations that span the Universities two island campuses. This domain provides secure Banner 2000 (MIS) access, Financial Aid database access, and many advanced NOS functions such as file/print sharing, Group Policy, DNS/WINS, Terminal Services, SUS etc.
• Performed upgrades, patching, performance tuning, user and print queue maintenance, backup, recovery testing, security hardening, log monitoring.
• Administrator of 4 IBM RS/6000s computers running AIX 4.3 & 5L (5.2) that run the Universities primary MIS applications, which consist of SCT Banner and Nebraska Bookstore’s Prism POS/ICS. Tivoli Storage Manager w/ a 7 tape IBM LTO Ultrium Tape Autoloader is used for DR. Setup two identical p650s in production and cold spare state with nightly application/data mirroring for disaster recovery. Utilized SYSBACK for system cloning.
• Administrator of Oracle 8i and 9i RDBMS, Application Server 4.0.8 and 9i on AIX and Windows NT/2000 platforms.
• Managed contracts, vendor negotiations, student workers; assisted 1st and 2nd level tier helpdesk technicians.

Confidential, St. Thomas, VI

Information Technology Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Administrator of a 4 DC NT Domain w/ multiple member servers / workstations that span the Universities two island campuses. This domain provides secure Banner form access, Financial Aid database access, and many advanced NOS functions.
• Asst. Administrator of 3 IBM RS/6000 running AIX 4.3 computers that run the Universities primary MIS applications, which consist of SCT Banner, Nebraska Bookstore’s Prism POS/ICS, and IBM’s EDMS (Electronic Document Management System).
• Assisted DBA and primary Systems Administrator with the upgrade of Banner 5 to version 6. Deployed Oracle forms runtime and startup scripts to the client base through Windows domain. Maintained the Banner for Web self-service Oracle based web system. Assisted in programming of C, SQL and Korn Shell scripts/programs.
• Worked Confidential 1st and 2nd tier levels Confidential Help Desk troubleshooting and fixing issues on Intel x86 or clone systems related to various software, hardware, printer and network connectivity problems plus installing/upgrading many types of hardware and software. This job also required me to connect campus computers to the UVI IP and IPX/SPX network, which consist of Novell NetWare 3-4.11, Windows 3. */9*/NT and Unix based servers.