PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Builder of Windows Server 2012/2016 R2 and Linux CentOS Physical Servers including VMware ESXi 5.5 - 6.7 hosts, patching Teamed NICs, Mgmt Ports with redundant power between dual PSU’s.
• Builder of vCenter client VMs using Golden Windows OS image’s as well as Linux VMs leveraging Spacewalk Kickstart profile images and or bootable media via iDRAC/vUSB. Part of VM Admin group that performed Migration of vCenter clients from 5.5 to 6.0.
• Processed Nessus Security Scans of new server builds. Installed and initialized Enterprise monitoring tools: SolarWinds, SCOM, and Science Logic EM7.
• SolarWinds and SCOM admin, configuring network and server monitoring with advanced alerting that interfaces and creates Service Desk auto-tickets. Creating custom SolarWinds and SCOM dash boards to rollout to Business Application Owners utilizing Active Directory group permissions.
• Managed 3500+ DNS zone files using Linux BIND for external and internal .com/.net/.gci DNS, including F5 Big IP load balancing and Windows DNS tools.
• One of Five MoveIT DMZ Administrators managing the largest application across 103 Properties including vendor facing setup. Highlight: Quarterbacked setup of complex SSH Encrypted transmission from a recent acquisition that included PGP Keys for Authentication for HR/Payroll Data. Created new target hosts and ingestion points, setup user account permissions.
• Netbackup and CommVault Admin of enterprise backups and restores of Windows and Linux servers, Exchange, SQL, VADP snapshots of .vmdk files of VM’s and performing file level and SQL DataBase restores. .
• Microsoft trained and certified O365 hybrid deployment specialist and active Exchange Online Administrator during and after 36k employee migration to Cloud.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

VMware Administrator

Confidential, Virginia

Responsibilities:

• Managed the VMware ESXi Host's in FDIC's Corporate Data Center (CDC) residing on HPE C7000 Blade Chassis's, Blade Servers and HPE Synergy 12000 Frame and Blade Servers, Leveraged HPE Pro Support Contract for System Board replacements, Predictive fail of DIMMs and 2.5 SSD HDD’s. Managed VM’s VMware vSphere vCenters including 3-VCSA 6.5 Appliances with active-passive configuration, including VDI ESXi Hosts & Horizon vDesks. Managed Infrastructure with single pane of glass with HPE OneView, iLO & SSH access including ESXi patching & HPE Firmware Updates. Managed
• Daily TripWire Reports for File Change Monitoring of ESXi hosts. Highlights: Identified 30+ ESXi Hosts were not being Monitored in TripWire. Escalated to Tripwire Admins and tasked a colleague to create a CHG Request to open up Firewall SSH Ports for LDAP Authentication for TripWire scans. Worked with Dallas Regional Office IT (RO) on cleaning up VM File Shares as vSan was reporting if a RO ESXi Host failed, vSan Utilization would hit 91% Utilization.

Confidential Systems Engineer

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Managed the HR/Payroll Projection Systems and Emergency Notification Systems for the Confidential Infrastructure Branch. Managed Physical Server Decomm’s for InfoWeb in a Collocated cage in Confidential &T Ashburn VA. Including coordinating s of Destruction of HD’s and Servers.
• As a Systems Engineer maintained both the Hot site and DR Disaster Recovery Site that consisted of Windows 2012 R2/2016 R2 vSphere VM’s for Eleven iiS App servers for Production, Staging, and a Integration Team City Foundation development environment including Six SQL servers with 3 SQL Clusters, Three Automation Servers while managing the F5 AppPools on the IIS Application Servers in addition to Five Apache Tomcat and Java Transport Room Messaging Servers. Setup & manage WinSCP & BitVise Application level FTPS connections that fork into MoveIT Enterprise for HR and Contract financial data. Splunk & Zabbix monitoring, while troubleshooting application LDAP mail errors.
• Deploy Application Code updates, Role Change and Failover of Databases. Orchestrated Disaster Recovery plan with US Courts DBA and Failed over the Development Environment from East -to- West Coast US Courts Data Centers and created SOP for DR test that achieved a recovery window of 15minutes between E/W-App servers, SQL Clusters while maintaining Quorum between E/W SQL Nodes and File Share Witness while managing the F5 load balancer and IIS AppPools and Reverse Proxies.

Confidential, Silver. Spring, MD

Data Center Specialist and USA Today field Site Project Co-Lead

Responsibilities:

• Highlights include completed rack space planning of NEW Nexxus 1/10GBASE-T network core upgrade that we centralized in a new data center row that interfaces with an existing/old 6509 Cisco FC and Ethernet MDF system in old COMM room. Installed top of the rack mounted Cisco 93128 FEX’s in every 3rd infrastructure Rack cabinet with 24-fiber strands out of each going back to a centralized ‘patching’ cabinet in new network row kernel upgrades on all Linux systems Confidential or below RHEL kernel version ' 2. . el6.x86 64t'. A kernel panic occurs if host is not rebooted within 250 days. Numerous BIOS/LifeCycle controller Firmware updates for Dell 11g, 12g, and 13g Systems
• Microsoft corporately trained and certified hybrid Exchange Online deployment specialist that prepped and assisted with migration of 36k employees from On-Prem Exchange to O365. Active Administrator in O365 Exchange Online through the Exchange admin console (EAC) assisting Exchange Engineers with the initial triage of email disruptions, missing emails, distribution group creation through ADWA/EAC, Active Directory user moves, username changes and ADSI edits. SMTP server implementations for application messaging

Confidential, Silver. Spring, MD

Data Center Specialist and USA Today field Site Project Co-Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed 3500+ DNS zone files using Linux BIND for USA Today external and internal .com/.net/.gci DNS including F5 Big IP load balancing and Windows DNS tools.
• One of Five MoveIT DMZ Administrators managing the largest application across the USA Today Network including external vendors. Highlight: Quarterbacked setup of complex SSH Encrypted transmission from a recent acquisition that included PGP Keys for Authentication for HR/Payroll Data. Created new target hosts and ingestion points, user account permissions.
• Builder of Windows and Linux servers both Physical and Virtual Servers in vSphere, Spacewalk Kickstart profiles and bootable media via iDRAC/USB. Migrating vCenter clients from 5.5 to 6.0.

Confidential, Ashburn VA

Data Center Engineer and Logistics Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Received server and network equipment in internal Logistics and Asset Management controls and documented. Send out ERF notifications to Work Flow coordinator and Project Managers upon receipt.
• Process Logistics Work Orders which released Hardware to Project Manager to create install work order.
• Supported Cisco environment: Logging into Terminal/Comm Server to troubleshoot ports that are down on server's, report available 1GE and 10GE ports on 2k FEX's and 5k and 7k Nexus Switches to Network Engineers. Verify fiber patching with Visual Fault Locator (VFL)
• Fiber, FCoE & Copper premise wiring and intra cabinet patching. Resolving polarity issues on FCoE Uplinks.
• Trouble shoot and repair audible and visual errors of Data Center equipment and setup RMA warranty returns of replacement parts.
• Managed and configured Avocent connections for KVM access remotely.

Confidential

Data Center Engineer-Enterprise Backup and Recovery Admin

Responsibilities:

• . Visual inspection of Data Centers to Diagnose audible & amber faults in Data Centers and leverage Warranty.

Confidential

Data Center Engineer-Enterprise Backup and Recovery Admin

Responsibilities:

• Performed Service Center requests for file level restores of CIFS shares, .ost and .pst restores/repairs. Backup Administrator of Enterprise Backup and Recovery utilizing CommVault on Windows File Servers Data Base Servers and Backup Exec Enterprise Vault Backups to Disk and Disk to Tape.
• Managed data duplicated to LTO tape and coordinated distribution to Data Warehouse Iron Mountain
• Received new server upgrade and install requests for all Data Centers operations including configuring iLO to mount virtual media and install OS.

Confidential

Data Center Technician

Responsibilities:

• Racking, stacking of new servers and decommission of over 300 retired servers to virtualize data center with 16 - HP 7000 Blade Chassis .
• Upgraded 10/100 MDF CAT5 Cisco 4500 Network to a MDA CAT6 Cisco Nexus 7000 data center switch with unified Network that provided a central patching location to servers, switches, SANS, and HUBS.
• Utilize Fluke test equipment to certify CAT6 and fiber connections as well as trouble shoot network faults
• Maintained Ethernet and Fiber Cable stock, staged and inventoried decommissioned servers and racks.

Confidential, Anchorage, Alaska

Factory Sales Rep

Responsibilities:

• NT Consultant: Assisted in the migration of the State of Alaska's analog phone system to VOIP. Performed tech refreshes of end - users desktop phones with Cisco POE VOIP phones that acted as a passive switch for the desktop PC s. Performed E-911 testing and report compliance. Installed a state owned HP Blade Server Confidential a leased space facility of the NT provider.
• Confidential - Confidential Sales Rep: Position required establishing a more knowledgeable sales force via Confidential various retail locations that sale, market, distribute, and install Confidential - Confidential (HP) products in retail locations. Establish a technological baseline for sales rep s to promote HP product lines as it pertains to a wired or wireless home or home offices, SMB s, PC computing, and NT printing.

Confidential, Fairbanks, Alaska

Sr. Field Engineer and Director of Operations

Responsibilities:

• Fairbanks largest TVRO (TV Receive Only) satellite systems retailer as core business with an emphasis on installing new commercial remote high speed connectivity and monitoring systems as well as commercial Pro - Audio entertainment and security systems