SUMMARY:

• Highly skilled, reliable systems and virtualization engineer with years of experience supporting systems, storage, networks and end - users combined with expertise in and professional s from
• Microsoft and Cisco Excellent server, storage, system analysis, problem solving and client relation skills Exemplary work ethic

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technology and Tools: Active Directory SQL server Cisco Routers/Switches VMWare vSphere HyperV Microsoft Exchange NetApp/EMC/Dell/HP Storage Blade Chassis/Servers HP/DELL/IBM/SUN/CISCO Network Hardware Citrix ZenApp Virtual Connect Technical Support Cisco UCS Firewalls/PIX/ASA/ISA/ SonicWall/Firebox IIS/MS Back Office Terminal Services Load balancers Riverbed WAN optimizers Windows Server 2008/2012 Red Hat/Centos 4/5/6/7 Cisco IOS TCP/IP/DNS/WINS/DHCP Symantec NetBackup and Backup Exec Sophos email security appliance Nutanix VCOPS/VRO VCE VBLOCKS 320/340 VMware VCD/VRA VMware Lab Manager VMware View VMWare Heartbeat vRanger backup Quest Automation Platform VMTurbonomic (VMTurbo) Automation

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY:

Confidential, Marlborough, MA

Senior Virtualization Consultant, Virtualization Team

Responsibilities:

• Support for hundreds of physical servers and thousands of Virtual machines between multiple Datacenters and remote sites
• Built and configured 12 Remote Sites
• Building and provisioning new vm’s, ESXi hosts and storage.
• Powershell and Powercli scripting vRealize Automation and vRealize Operations Manager
• Oncall rotation and incident handling as part of Virtualization Team
• Upgraded all Virtual infrastructure across 10 vcenters to VMware 6.5. Migrated and decommissioned older vcenters

Confidential, Boston, MA

Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Global Server and Storage Team

Responsibilities:

• Supported for hundreds of physical servers and thousands of Virtual machines across 3 Datacenters.
• Discovered a major issue in Confidential FCOE implementation, and switched all customer facing web traffic servers in 3 datacenters from FCOE to Fiber Channel
• Provisioning new vm’s ESX hosts and storage
• Powershell and Powercli scripting
• Built and configured 20+ global remote sites, vmware clusters, servers and storage
• Built and configured 4 global 6.0 sphere instances running on vcenter appliance in linked mode with custom signed s. Managed and installed custom signed d across all virtual infrastructure
• Implemented VMTurbo Automation for efficient virtual machine hosts and storage operations and load balancing
• Worked with access switches, including port trunking and vlan management
• Oncall rotation and incident handling as part of Global Virtualization Team

Confidential, Needham, MA

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Supported hundreds of physical servers and thousands of Virtual machines across 23 Global Datacenters
• Windows, Linux, Centos, Unix, Solaris Operating Systems
• Managed templates and catalogs for Windows (2008r2\2012r2\7\8) Linux (CentOS, RHEL) VMs
• Supported VCE vBlocks 320 in Blaine MN, Slough UK, Pune India and Singapore. Support for Global Production Datacenters and Lab environments
• Built and configured 5 production VMWare vCloud Director Implementations, in Needham MA, Munich and Shanghai, utilizing SSO and VMware Heartbeat. Designed migration procedures from legacy VMware Lab Manager to vCloud Director, and oversaw to successful completion.
• Point engineer for support of VMWare vCloud Director, VMWare Lab Manager and Quest Automation Platform (Dell) private cloud solution
• Build and configured several production and lab vcenters, including core production vcenter with distributed switch networking, 15 HA clusters, 120+ hosts and 2000+ vm’s utilizing EMC VMAX 40k and VNX for back end storage. Migrated over a thousand vm’s from legacy 4.0 and 4.1 vCenters to 5.1 current production vCenters.
• Build and deployed multiple vSphere clusters, running on HP BL465 G7\G8 blades, clustered across different blade chassis via virtual connect. Configure and support HP/DELL/SUN/IBM/Cisco blade chassis, and rack servers
• Deployed VCOPS across the Enterprise. Support for Cluster mode and HA mode NetApp (including ONTAP, c-node and firmware upgrades, troubleshooting, physical configuration, cabling and adding/removing disk shelves)
• Consolidated 46 Global vCenters into 10, migrated from Legacy Cloud solutions to VMWare vCloud 5.5, P2V hundreds of servers.
• Oncall rotation and incident handling as part of Global Server Team

Confidential, Boston, MA

System Engineer / Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Built and managed VMWare/clustered NetApp environment. HP ProLiant BC 460c G7 blade enclosures with clustered 3240 NetApp. Configured redundant and replicating NFS datastores
• Implemented 4 site storage replication
• Implemented Exchange and SQL application aware DR and backup solutions with snapshots and replication to DR site done at the storage level, with multiple Exchange 2010 servers, and SQL servers in Boston, New York, Washington DC
• Played essential role in Exchange to 2010 migration and upgrade, configured Barracuda Email load balancers.
• Managed company wide backups and restores.
• 2nd level support for helpdesk with various end user issues, email, email archiving, document restores, pc issues and upgrades, massive companywide laptop and desktop upgrade and new image technology (Wanova) implementation.
• Helped with implementing RiverBed Steelhead WAN optimizers.
• Reconfigured Active Directory for more efficient replication
• P2V migrations, Active Directory, DNS, Backup Exec, GPO

Confidential, Allston, MA

Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Active directory, Exchange/ Domain Services, Backup exec, DNS, Group Policy administration
• Server builds and virtualization projects, Hyper V, ESX 4 VSphere / Shared Storage implementation
• Built 2008 Terminal Server Farm for Electronic Medical Records.
• Built and implemented BlackBerry server for mobile security
• Implemented high speed internet at 6 locations
• Managed 6 site medical network
• Deployed 2 new sites. Configured Network and site to site connectivity
• Installed new firewalls in several sites, with remote access and failover VPN
• Managed clustered VMWARE/Net App Infrastructure
• Set up and configured SQL DB servers
• Configured networked medical equipment
• Boston Phoenix/WFNX, Boston, MA Network/System Engineer
• Server builds and virtualization VMWare/ESX
• Server, Storage, Network, Backup, deployment, support and complete lifecycle management
• Active directory, Exchange/Postini, Domain Services, DNS, Group Policy administration
• Upgraded and redesigned Exchange to enterprise version, reconfigured mail flow, split Exchange into separate databases, and migrated the databases to IFORSTOR SAN
• Implemented Enterprise-Wide Patch management WSUS
• Installed and configured multiple T1 lines on CISCO 3600 routers
• Upgraded backup system and procedures, managed SAN
• Increased repeat and new business by optimizing efficiency and reliability for customers by providing effective diagnosis of phone and LAN troubleshooting using specialized diagnostics at physical level
• End user support in AD/Mac environment across 7 sites

Confidential, Westford, MA

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and maintained servers (raid, clustering and database systems)
• Created and managed user and group accounts, including user rights to logon scripts, set up share and NTFS resource security, established trust relationships between multiple domains
• Implemented IIS security features for Internet access, auditing and web hosting. Configured virtual directories and servers. Installed, configured, modified and maintained Oracle database systems
• Built administrative, client and peripheral function machines. Implemented native applications. Installed, configured and tested frequently changing custom code. Worked with DLL level errors, database connectivity issues, documented corruption and retrieval.