Select Industries Served

• IT
• Healthcare
• Non-Profit
• Research
• State Government
• Universities

Core Skill Set:

• vSphere 4.x, 5.x, 5.5
• vCOPS 5.7, 5.8.4
• SRM/vSphere Replication
• vSphere SSO
• VMware Horizon View
• vCAC - basic
• Microsoft Windows Server OS
• MS SQL 2008 - 2014
• Active Directory
• DELL EqualLogic
• Cisco USC
• 3Par
• NetApp
• EMC VNXL VMAX
• Quest vRanger
• Veeam
• AppAssure
• PlateSpin
• VMware Capacity Planner
• VMware Health Analyzer
• Cisco Nexus 1000
• Microsoft Hyper-V
• SCOM
• SCVMM
• Power Shell
• PowerCLI
• Vendor plugins and Appliance

BACKGROUND

Senior IT professional with 15 years' experience in dynamic growing environments. Accustomed to complex business needs and a fast paced atmosphere. Enterprise background with a concentration in cloud computing, high availability, and disaster recovery. A detail oriented and goal focused engineer aimed at saving costs while improving stability, performance, and availability of business critical applications and services.

Professional Experience

Senior Systems Administrator

Confidential

Customer-facing position delivering services for IGI customers. Deliver pre-packaged datacenter, cloud infrastructure, desktop and end user computing VMware consulting solutions. Assist in the development of standard reusable VMware consulting service offerings, including definition of tasks, deliverables and estimates. Recent customer facing vSphere projects accomplishments include LAUSD, Kansas Southern Railway, Verizon, and Real Page. Designed and implemented vCOPS 5.8.4 dashboards. Conducted vSphere design sessions, implemented vSphere 5.5 on Cisco USC, HB Blades. Configured IP-based and Fiber networking for SAN/NAS technologies NetApp, EMC, Dell Compellent, DELL EqualLogic, HP 3Par datastores and installing and configuring plug-ins. Performed major vSphere storage migrations from 4.x to 5.5. Performed VMware health check and performance tuning on vSphere production environment. Installed and configured large number of vSphere Distributed Switch using 802.1q technology. Designed vSphere vCenter Server, SSO and SQL 2012 database. Applying VMware and compliance best practices. Worked with USC service profile. Installed and implemented SRM and SRM replication on EMC, Dell EqualLogic, 3 PAR SRA. Installed VMware Horizon with View for Healthcare company for 100 user POC Windows 7 64 PCoIP on 6 HP Blade BL620 servers. Participated in creating application templates for various departments. During the POC phase used esxtop in VMware ESXi, for performance monitoring to understand both the average and peak CPU use levels for these groups of workers.

Senior Virtualization Consultant

Confidential

Key Contributions:

• Experience migrating large physical servers P2V new vCenter environment using and upgrading VMtools and hardware upgrade.
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual P2V , Virtual-to-Virtual V2V and Virtual-to-Physical V2P migration of Windows NT, 2000, 2003, 2008, and 2012 as well as Linux servers from VMware, Hyper-V, and legacy hardware
• Assessed, designed, and implemented complex VMware solutions SAP VMware vCenter fine turning application and Database VMs.
• Designed and implemented SRM 5.0/5.1 for various organizations for their disaster recovery plans. Experienced implementing Equallogic SRA and Compellent SRA.
• Installed and configured Foglight for Virtualization and VMware VCOPS for several customers
• Designed and implemented backup solutions using VMware VCB and Backup Exec 2010 and Quest vRanger, NetBackup, Veeam, AppAssure
• Implemented Dell Management Plug-in and testing Dell iDRAC for remote management
• Implemented vendor-specific virtual appliances Dell, HP. IBM, VMware Virtual storage manager, Cisco 1000v
• Designed, planned and executed multi-phase server consolidation scenarios using VMware Capacity Planner and Platespin Power convert
• Performed Virtual Readiness Assessment for various data center sizes, analyzing data and compiling report with recommended consolidation scenarios using VMware Health Analyzer and CiRBA
• Worked extensively with storage products and using best practice to design storage allocation for virtualization platform designing multi-pathing for better storage performance.
• Systems management and administration of VMware and Windows operating systems
• Implemented various template using different operating systems
• Running data center server consolidation assessments and recommending virtualization solutions.

Senior Systems Administrator

Confidential

Key Contributions:

• Responsible for planning, testing and deploying VMware ESX server and Virtual Center to provide infrastructure for utility computing services and server consolidation. Planned, tested and implemented migration from ESX 2.5 to ESX 3.0 utilizing vMotion using cold boot method.
• Lead engineer implementing 4/64 HB banded Brocade 4900 switches ISL to the current fabric, firmware upgrade, Fibre cable LC-LC, WWN and Port level Zoning.
• Lead engineer implementing and supporting American Red Cross Windows 2003 enterprise based clusters using SAN Fibre Channel-based storage, Qlogic/EMC HBA, Veritas Microsoft Cluster option, Veritas DMP and Microsoft Cluster Service to configure Enterprise SQL 2000 2005 database servers.
• Lead engineer implementing, maintaining and supporting Brocade 3850, 4100, 4900 switches responsibilities include creating, zoning, and saving all zone configurations.
• Lead engineer implementing, maintaining and supporting HP EVA 8000 SAN frames 100 TB of storage and Fiber channel disk attached to 500 hosts this includes firmware code updates, storage sub-system technical issues, SAN storage management, LUN management using HP Command view, managing all ISEE incident tickets.
• Designed and implemented HP SAN for corporate Exchange, Active Directory, and File server systems
• Lead engineer maintaining and support all high-end HP integrity servers rx8620 and HP SUPERDOME

Systems Engineer/Security Engineer

Key Contributions:

• Instrumental in implementing DELL/EMC Fiber-Channel based SAN architecture solution using Qlogic HBA to the SAN fabric using blade technology.
• Configured and mirrored the SAN CX300 across two data business sites. Configuring of McData 4Gb SAN switches installation of SanSurfer, Navisphere agents Navisphere CLI PowerPath Snap View Dell PowerVault tape device.
• Lead engineer implementing and supporting NIH-NIA Windows 2003 enterprise based clusters using SAN Fiber Channel-based storage, Emulex HBA on Dell blade servers.
• Instrumental in implementing Windows 2003 domain controllers, verifying replication and domain policy. Installed and implemented Windows 2003 servers and IIS6.0 web servers on Dell blades OS hardening and applying security checklists. Installed and hardened Microsoft SQL 2000 with SP4 servers.
• Instrumental in implementing and managing security tools Dragon IDS 7.1/2, Elm Log Manager, McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator, Retina Scanner, ISS-Internet Scanner 7.2, Tripwire 5.1, BIGFIX.
• Provide daily server administration and troubleshooting support of SAN, Active Directory DNS DHCP password and service accounts management SQL server management.
• Research and understanding of NIST, Sarbanes-Oxley, FISMA compliances and regulations.