SUMMARY:

• I am a solutions architect with 25 years of experience supporting IT infrastructure in the enterprise. I am an excellent communicator and typically function in a lead role. I am well versed on many platforms including but not limited to Microsoft, VMware, and Linux. I am seeking an opportunity which will leverage my extensive dev ops, cloud, and virtualization experience.
• 25 years of experience as an enterprise engineer
• 13 years of experience designing, implementing and administering virtual infrastructure
• Expert with virtualization and cloud technologies including IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS from multiple vendors
• Expert level troubleshooting and problem analysis skills backed by rich work experience and dedication to maintaining skills on current technology
• Experience supporting all past and current Microsoft operating systems and server infrastructure
• Expert Linux administrator with experience supporting all major distributions including Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu, and Fedora
• Expert in the creation of technical documentation and deliverables
• Advanced VMware engineer experienced in the design, implementation, and support of vSphere environments including vRealize Automation, vRealize Configuration Manager, vRealize Operations Manager, Site Recovery Manager, VMware Horizon, and vSphere NSX
• Expert in enterprise scripting and automation techniques utilizing Windows PowerShell, vSphere PowerCLI, and Bash

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Kansas City, MO

Core Infrastructure and Datacenter Architect

Responsibilities:

• Created architectural designs and build plans for a 4000 seat VMware Horizon View VDI deployment on NetAPP Hyper Converged Infrastructure
• Collaborated with the architecture team to define the standards, policies, and procedures in preparation for a migration to Microsoft Azure
• Identified and documented application workloads which would be migrated to the cloud
• Created and executed the roadmap and deployment plan for the hardware refresh and vSphere upgrade from 5.5 to 6.7
• Responsible for creating and maintaining the design and build documentation for the cloud, storage and disaster recovery environments
• Maintained the Cisco UCS, HP C7000 converged infrastructure as well as the design, implementation and maintenance of our NetApp HCI deployment.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Senior VMware Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Professional services engagement to upgrade the B&W vSphere infrastructure from 5.5\6.0 to 6.5
• Assessed and documented the existing environment in preparation for the upgrade
• Deployed vCenter, upgraded all ESXi hosts, and assisted with the upgrade and migration of all virtual machines in accordance with VMware best practices
• Produced detailed build documentation and provided a systematic knowledge transfer to the customer

Confidential, Huntersville, NC

Senior VMware Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Professional services engagement to assist with datacenter migration and analysis of current workloads
• Facilitated application mapping through VMware Virtual Infrastructure Navigator and vRealize Network Insight
• Created custom dashboards in vRealize Operations Manager to monitor application health and performance pre - migration and post-migration
• Conducted a VMware health check and participated in the remediation of all discovered issues
• Provided consulting services regarding the hardening of vCenter and ESXi hosts
• Produced leaved behind documentation and conducted a knowledge transfer with internal IT resources

Confidential, Raritan, NJ

Senior VMware Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Functioned as senior consultant on the Ops team for the world’s largest SDDC
• Provided global support for 8 vCenter instances, over 500 ESXi hosts, and more than 10,000 VMs in multiple development, QA, and production environments
• Responsible for supporting vROPs 6.x, VCO, NSX, LogInsight, Service Now, and HPE OneView
• Configured vCenter alarm and alert integration with Log Insight infrastructure
• Developed PowerShell and PowerCLI scripts to automate routine administrative tasks
• Responsible for the maintenance of documentation and the development of management procedures
• Established standards and baselines regarding performance and optimization of VMs and ESXi hosts
• Responsible for the support of Microsoft Windows servers and infrastructure

Confidential, West Chester, PA

Senior VMware Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided the logical and physical design of a global VMware Configuration Manager deployment
• Migrated VMs from preexisting VCM infrastructure to new environment
• Tested and validated functionality of new environment
• Document all net new infrastructure and performed knowledge transfer to internal IT resources

Confidential, Kansas City, MO

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the administration of VMware infrastructure consisting of 200 physical ESXi hosts and 3000 VMs
• Deployed, managed, and supported Windows Server 2012 and RHEL 6.x server infrastructure
• Deployed, managed, and supported Cisco UCS systems with over 300 blades
• Responsible for capacity planning, management, and right-sizing of the environment utilizing vRealize infrastructure
• Achieved advanced automation through the use of PowerShell, Orchestrator and Configuration Manger

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Virtual Infrastructure management, utilizing vSphere 5.x and Microsoft Hyper-V
• Responsible for the deployment, management, and support of Windows Server 2008 and 2012
• Leveraged SCCM for OS deployment, software distribution, and OS updates
• Deployed and supported Ubuntu 12 and Ubuntu 14 infrastructure
• Provided automation and streamlining of tasks through the use of PowerShell and bash scripts

Confidential

Technology Consultant III

Responsibilities:

• Enterprise scale virtual infrastructure management, implementation, and support utilizing vSphere 4, vSphere 5 and Hyper-V
• Responsible for troubleshooting the virtual infrastructure as well as the guest Oss
• Administered Windows 2003 and 2008 R2 server infrastructure including Active Directory, DNS, Group Policy, IIS and MSSQL servers
• Assisted with task automation using PowerShell and WSH
• Supported a global Fortune 20 enterprise
• Provided technical support for a Fortune 500 Enterprise (50,000 plus employees)
• VMware SME in the design, deployment, cost analysis, and support of medium and enterprise scale VMware virtualization solutions including Virtual Center, HA, DRS, VMware Consolidated Backup and VMware Virtual Desktop Manager
• Installed and supported virtual infrastructure and guest operating systems
• Maintained a virtual infrastructure availability of 99.999%
• Administered Windows Server 2000, 2003 and RHEL 5 infrastructure
• Wrote Bash and PowerShell scripts to automate routine tasks

Confidential

Unix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administered virtualization environment comprised of VMware Servers and Sun Containers
• Managed development and production Apache Web Servers and MySQL Database instances
• Responsible for the administration of Open SUSE, Solaris 9 and 10, and Red Hat 4 Server infrastructure
• Automated tasks with Bash scripts and Windows PowerShell

Confidential, Kansas City, MO

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administered VMware Virtual Server environment running on Linux
• Deployed Tomcat, Apache, WebLogic and MS IIS application servers for Dev, QA and production environmentsSupported Windows 2003 servers, AD, IIS, MS SQL, SCOM and SCCM
• Responsible for the support and full life cycle management of Windows and Linux server environments
• Deployed and supported server virtualization infrastructure based on VMware ESX server 2.5 and 3.x
• Consolidated 47 physical servers to 4 blade servers reducing hardware costs by 38%
• Deployed and supported Tomcat and Apache web servers in VMware virtual environment for Development and QA
• Developed a timekeeping application in Eclipse (Java) with Oracle as a back-end database
• Developed LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack based web applications
• Developed .Net applications leveraging IIS 6.0 and ASP.net with Oracle and MSSQL back ends
• Administered physical and virtual Solaris and RHEL infrastructure
• Provided patch management, vulnerability scanning and remediation services utilizing Citadel Hercules for over 5,000 end points