OBJECTIVE

• Seeking a position within the IT department to advance personal growth and advancement, specifically in virtualization and cloud computing.
• Specialize in High Availability and Data Disaster Recovery.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows 2008R2, Windows 2012, CentOS, RedHat 5.x, 6.x, Fendora

Database: MS SQL 2000, MS SQL 2003, MS SQL 2005, MS SQL 2008R2, SQL 2012, MySQL

Firewall: Cisco PIX, Cisco ISA, Cisco ASA, Checkpoint, SonicWall

Email: MS Exchange 5.5, 2000, 2003, 2010, Domino R6 - R8, IronPort, Barracuda, Blackberry Enterprise

Virtual: VMWare ESX/ESXi 3x, 4x, 5x, VMWare VCloud, VMWare View, VMWare ThinApps, VMWARE SRM 5.x, Citrix XenDesktop, Citrix XenApps 5.x, 6.x.

Others: HP BAC, HP Sitescope, HP SIM, IIS, Apache, Tomcat, JBOSS, Citrix Netscaler, IBM Cast Iron, IBM Cognos BI, SFTP/FTP, DNS, NetApps SANs, HDS SANs, EMC Clariion, Dell Compellent SAN, Nimbo NAS, Alberdeen NAS, Brocade Fiber Switches, Cisco MDS, HP Blades, UCS Blades, DELL Blades.

Scripting: Windows Scripting, MS PowerShell Scripting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Systems Engineer

Confidential, Sugar Land, TX

Responsibilities:

• Manage all VMWare environments across 2 datacenters and 5 remote sites.
• Architect and implement DR planning with SRM 5.1 with recovery planning of refinery and business critical applications.
• Manage 7 Compellent SAN systems (30 and 40 series controllers) and deploy new Compellent systems as needed.
• Implement Tivoli Data Protection for Virtual Environment across all sites.
• Architect and migrate OCS 2007 to Lync 2010, then to Lync 2013.
• Architect and implement SQL 2008R2 and SQL 2012 clusters on VMWARE.
• Architect and execute migration plan from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 with 2 CAS, 2 HUB and 2 DAG members per datacenter, secondary single pair 1 CAS, 1 HUB and 1 DAG at a remote DR datacenter.
• Manage Solarwinds Monitoring and Solarwinds Virtual Manager.
• Administrator and implement all Linux systems within the corporate environment. (Redhat, Ubuntu and Oracle)
• Manage all Brocade FC switches.
• Review and recommend application designs for high availability and redundancy through load balancing, clustering and virtual apps (Citrix, MS Remote App.)
• Train system administrators on Exchange 2010, SCCM 2012 and Lync 2013.

Sr. Systems Engineer

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple VSphere 4.x and 5.x environments, 3 Compellent SANs, 2 NetApp SANs, a Citrix Farm v6.x and Corporate Exchange 2010 Environment.
• Architect IT Solutions for external Customers, such as VMware, Citrix, MS RDS 2008r2, Exchange 2010 across multiple sites for DR, Business Intelligence, CIF, SAN resources, and Disaster Recovery.
• Architect internal IT Infrastructure for Hosted Services.
• Architect Backup solutions through multi-tenant systems.
• Provide documentations and training to other teams such as Service Desk, NOC, and Project Management.
• Deploy multiple VMware environments with SAN solutions with FC/ISCSI options from scratch for external customers.
• Recommend IT Solutions to external customers as needed or requested.
• Assist and architect IT Solutions to keep IT in compliance with PCI/SOX/SAS Compliance.
• Manage multiple NetApp SANs, Dell Compellent SANs, Alberdeen and Nimbo NAS boxes.
• Manage multiple Linux machines for both internal and external customers - Ubuntu, Fedora, RedHat.
• Install, support and manage all Brocade FC/FCOE Switches for both internal and external customers.
• Architect/Deploy application automated recovery and high availability.
• Deploy multiple HA Exchange 2010 and Lync 2010 environments for external customers.

Sr. Systems Engineer

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Manage Corporate Infrastructure Systems, Retail Operation Systems, MS SQL Clustering, DELL Compellent SANs, VMWARE 5.0 Clusters
• Testing/Development Servers, Zen Load Balancer, F5 Load Balancer, Exchange 2010 - 2 CAS,2 HUB,2 DAG mailbox servers.
• Architect Retail application scalability and Corporate Application services.
• Deploy WSUS, MS 2008 AD management, Quest Active Role Server, and automate system recovery.
• Support MS 2008R2 Windows clusters with SQL 2005/2008R2
• Deploy SVN server for Source Safe servers.
• Manage and buildout Datacenter Operations.
• Create Corp IT policies based on ITIL v3 polices and engage with 3rd party vendors for PCI type 1 compliance certification.
• Expanded the DELL Compellent SAN to an 80TB system on FC and FCOE.
• Deploy Windows 2008R2, 2003r2, and Linux Ubuntu/Fedora servers.
• Support and Maintain Brocade FC Switches and Force10 FCOE Switches.
• Deploy and support Tier 1 business and retail applications.
• Manage multiple payment systems on Redhat 6.
• Deploy Lync 2010 and MS Dynamics CRM 2011 with Scribe data imports.
• Plan and architect Disaster Recovery planning for Datacenter Protection.
• Deploy VMWARE Orchestrator and VMWARE Automation Center.

Sr. Systems Engineer

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple environments of 900+ servers on Windows 2003/2008R2 and Linux (CentOS) platform across 3 Datacenters, a development environment and an UAT environment.
• Deploy new releases/patches to production servers and software test automation for performance monitoring and debugging.
• Maintain all Production servers stability and performance; Application servers (JBoss), Web servers (Apache/Tomcat), dotNET, IIS
• Database Servers, SQL 2000, SQL 2003, SQL 2005, SQL 2008R2 clustered.
• Deploy Citrix XenApps, XenDesktop for remote access and NetScaler for application load balancing.
• Install/Maintain HP BAC 8.x for all Production platform and UAT monitoring and Sitescope
• RUM Probe, Sitescope and SIM on IIS Web Server, MS SQL 2003 Database on Windows 2003 for software automation and performance monitoring.
• Document all network settings, infrastructure, deployment procedure, and installation procedure with SVN base on ITIL v3 requirements.
• Develop web applications for release deployment using PHP/mySQL/Apache/JBoss based on the CMS/CSS technology for custom reporting features.
• Architect/Deploy IBM CastIron and Websphere Cloud reporting.
• Design Data Flow Encryption file exchange with vendors/clients.
• Maintain PCI/SAS70 compliance.
• Architect/Design/Migrate Exchange, Exchange, VMWARE 3.5 to 4.1 and VMWARE 4.1 to 5.0.
• Deploy VM desktop (XenDesktop), VCloud Director, and VMWare ThinApps/Citrix XenApps.
• Assist Sales/Account management team with integration solutions with vendors/partners.
• Assist Engineering teams with debugging and application fault investigations.

Systems Engineer

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Responsibilities:

• Rollout new servers and upgrades as requested, support all server hardware (HP/IBM) and software deployed and network issues,
• Migrate NT 4.0 Backbone to Active Directory 2k, then 2003.
• Migrating Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000, Domino Lotus Notes R6 to Exchange and finalizing to Exchange 2003-Install separate
• Exchange Front End Servers for OWA for 4 remote sites and 1 main BridgeHead Server at Division HQ for replication relay.
• Deploy and maintain Bugzilla system for software integrations group on WAMP server.
• Responsible for creating the msi software package for deployment through internal Application Management Systems, deploy and install server patches and upgrades as needed.
• Supported NT based Apache Servers, Print Servers, Email Filters, Network Monitoring Servers on Win NT 4.0, 2k, and 2003 Servers.
• Supported Engineering tools such as MatLab, AutoCAD, ECAD/ORCAD, Exceed, Access, ARMS, Citrix, Blackberry, Canvas v7 & v8
• ClearQuest, SAP, Oracle, AutoCAD, MathCAD, Rational Rose, ClearCase, Oracle v.6, 8.0.6, 8i, and Compaq Visual Fortran.
• Deploy/maintain corporate division internal Intranet websites, internal Cisco Call Manager phone systems, PIX firewall
• IP Sentry network monitoring systems. Provide training as necessary to desktop support employees on known OEM issues and new software deployment.
• Utilizing network tool, McAfee Master Server, Ghost Master Server updates, and monitor VPN connections for network security.
• Maintain Good-Link Enterprise Servers and (Front End Server) MS Active Sync Servers for remote and traveling users using PDA to access emails.
• Deploy Email Filtering systems - IronPort
• Administrator Network and Email systems for 4000 user environment across 18 Building.

System Administrator II

Confidential, Cupertino, CA

Responsibilities:

• Support/Deploy all HP Servers.
• Install, configured and upgrade PC and laptops Ghost Images.
• Support HP Printer series, fax machines, and copy machines.
• Troubleshoot any network/VPN connections/Tunneling.
• Daily network maintenance includes NT users, Print Servers and Group Policies management.
• Supported a 5k users environment with NT service requirements.
• Upgrade Windows NT 4.x to Windows 2000 Active Directory.

Systems Administrator

Confidential, Campbell, CA

Responsibilities:

• Support Windows NT 4.x systems
• Install, configured and upgrade PC and laptops.
• Support and maintain Print servers
• Implement Cisco PIX Firewall
• Deploy IIS web servers and Java based application servers for development/engineering purpose.
• Support/Create NT account for new users and existing users.
• Deploy/Maintain Novell Systems/Servers.