SUMMARY:

• Highly qualified and hands on Oracle VM 3.0 for x86 Certified Implementation Specialist and certified VMWARE Professional (VCP5) Professional with notable success currently seeking a position as Infrastructure Architect/Manager / Project Manager or VMWARE /SAN /UNIX / Oracle Architect/ Hadoop Engineer that will effectively utilize acquired technical skills and abilities, bringing years of related professional experience as follows
• SAN /NAS Administration
• Windows Administration
• UNIX/Linux/Hadoop Administration
• Data Backup, DR /Recovery /High Availability Solutions
• VMWARE EMC NETAPP
• Cloudera, Hortonworks
• IDM/Fusion Middleware /OBIEE/ Oracle VM - ( OVM )Administration
• Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud
• Full lifecycle experience in designing, deploying, and supporting enterprise-scale IT solutions like Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Business Intelligence, System upgrades and Migrations.
• Experienced team leader focused on meeting business needs by delivering service, effectively prioritizing multiple mission - critical tasks and working well under pressure.
• Solid track record for the implementation of technology solutions for optimizing operational efficiency.
• Great work ethic, interpersonal skills and solid critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

OPERATING SYSTEMS: Windows 2012/ 2008/ 2003 , OS/2, Sun Solaris 2.6/2.7/2.8/9 , Red Hat Linux WS/ES/AS 2.1/ 3.0/4.0/5.0/6.0 , Fedora, SUSE, IBM AIX 5.X, Hadoop, Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL 5 /6 )

SOFTWARE / TECHNOLOGIES: VMWare server /ESX 2.5/3.0.1/3.0.2/3.5/4.1/5.1/5.5 , Oracle VM/Manager OVM 2.x, OVM 3.X, Platespin Powerconvert, Acronis, Vizioncore VRanger / ESXRanger, VConverter/vReplicator, Lotus Notes / Domino 5.X/ 6.5.X/7.0, Quickplace, Workplace, Sametime, EMC Navisphere, Oracle 8i, Oracle 9i/10G, Oracle EBS 11i, Checkpoint, Active Directory, Apache, Trend IMSS, SQL Server 2000/2005, Symantec Veritas Software, Oracle, IIS/ASP, Microsoft Exchange, Websense, Veritas Netbackup, Veritas Volume Manager,HTML, XML, Tomcat, Cisco, Business Objects, Blackberry BES, JP Mobile/ Good, Borderware, Ciphertrust, Ironport, Juniper SSL VPN, CISCO Routers/ Switches, LDAP, Websphere,, Visio, Microsoft Project, Citrix, EMC Replistor, Mirrorview, Virtual Iron, Xen, Kaseya, Hadoop HDFS.

HARDWARE: Confidential EMC CX3-40/CX500/ CX300, SUN E250, E450, V120, V220,V240, E6500, L1800 Tape Library, Quantum, ADIC, Confidential Poweredge 6600/2650/2850/2950 , JNIC, Storagetek, CISCO 4507, CISCO 2600, Compaq, Sonicwall 4060, Juniper SA 3000, SA 1000, Confidential PowerVault ML6000, ADIC Scalar 24, Compaq Proliant, HP, IBM Netfinity, Confidential Powervault 2200 DAS Array, Confidential EMC CX500 SAN, PowerEdge 1855 Blade servers, Confidential 2800/ 2850/2950/ 6650 , SAN/NAS, Confidential S500, Brocade Fibre switches, iSCSI, Confidential C7000, ZFS, OVM, Exadata, Exalytics, OVCA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Frisco, TX

Oracle / Linux Virtualization Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Architecting and Implementing Oracle Virtual Infrastructure Architecture (OVM) and OVCA Engineered system with various clients with Confidential / HP / Oracle Hardware and Confidential Filers /
• EMC Storage with Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) 5.7/5.8/6.3, VSphere 4.1/5.1/5.5, Oracle Enterprise Manager and helping migration from VMWARE and implementation of pre-prod templates with developing and testing run books and standardizing processes for HA/ DR and finally and production handover to Level 1 client operation teams. Some of these client implementation also included implementing initial Oracle OVM Jumpstart starter’s packs for the clients.

Confidential, Miami FL

OVM / VMWARE / LINUX Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Helped architect and Implement and upgrade Oracle Virtual Infrastructure Architecture (OVM) 3.2.4 with various Oracle Hardware and Promise / Hitachi SAN with Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) 5.7/5.8/6.3, VSphere 4.1/5.1/5.5, Oracle Enterprise Manager and helping migration from OVM to VMWare 5.1.
• Helped in process of proposing and designing, architecting the Oracle Exadata Engineered system solution as per best practices and help in standardizing processes for HA/ DR and finally and production handover to Level 1 client Infrastructure/Network /DBA operation teams. Installed and tested POC for Cloudera Distribution and Integrated with Oracle / Informatica for few test use cases.

Confidential, Plano, TX

Oracle VM / VMWARE / Hadoop Infrastructure Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Oracle Virtual Infrastructure Architecture (OVM), Implementation and Integration with Confidential R610/R810, Confidential Filers, Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) 5.7/5.8/6.3, VSphere 4.1/5.1, Oracle Enterprise Manager and implementation of pre-prod templates and testing run books developing and standardizing processes and finally and production handover to Level 1 operation team.
• Responsible for migration and setup of VMs from 2.x and 3.x Oracle VM Infrastructure to the latest OVM 3.x and day-to day maintenance of both the environments. Worked with cross functional Operations Team, Service Delivery teams, Application Teams, Applications Owners and Project Managers to implement the best Oracle Virtualization / Storage practices, streamline the processes, develop and centralize documentation to make the highly unstable environment to stable environment. This helped them avoid the decision to move all Oracle Infrastructure stack to VMware, saving them 1.8 million, time, effort and avoiding downtime to critical apps and thereby use all the benefits of Oracle VM for Oracle Applications and which would help them in migration next year to a combination to Oracle / Amazon AWS Cloud and Hadoop Ecosystem.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Oracle EBS Virtualization / VMWARE / Data Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Oracle Virtual Infrastructure Architecture (OVM), Design for HA and DR for multiple sites and Implementation and Integration with Confidential Blades, SUN Hardware/Storage ZFS with Redhat OS, Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) 5.7/5.8/6.3, VSphere 4.1/5.1, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Documentation in KB, Development and implementation of pre-prod templates and testing run books developing and standardizing processes and finally and production handover to operation team.
• Responsible for migration and setup of VMs from VMWARE to Oracle VM Infrastructure and day-to day maintenance, operation and management of both the environments.
• Responsible for setup, implementation and maintenance of Oracle Virtual Servers using SUN hardware and SUN ZFS Storage and setup of multiple OVM Managers using physical and virtual VM setup for different Dev./QA/Prod environments.
• Responsible for setting up complete SUN/ Oracle Hardware/Network/Storage in dual datacenters as a HA /DR backup for Oracle EBS Infrastructure.

Confidential, Tallahassee, Florida

Sr. VMWARE Engineer / Architect / Consultant

Responsibilities:

• System Admin Support - Linux, ESX, VMware, Windows 2008, Red Hat, Basic routing & switching, Active Directory, patching process, setting standards, interfacing between Technology Arch to SAs for design creating & implementation for backup and restore on Confidential Infrastructure using Confidential Plug-Ins.
• Responsible for setup, implementation of ESX servers using VMware, Confidential servers, Confidential Filers and maintaining them with regular patching schedules and Implementation of VMWARE SRM between the two sites.
• Responsible for Virtual Infrastructure Architecture, Design, Implementation, Integration of Confidential Hardware with Redhat and windows OS, VSphere 4.1/5.0 and day to day maintenance of VMWARE hosts/guests /P2V requests and maintenance of Confidential filers at Primary and Secondary Sites.

Confidential, Lake Buena Vista, Florida

Sr. VMWARE Engineer / Architect / Consultant

Responsibilities:

• System Admin Level III Support - Linux, ESX, VMware, Windows 2008, Red Hat, Basic routing & switching, Active Directory, patching process, setting standards, interfacing between Technology Arch to SAs for design creating & implementation.
• Responsible for setup, implementation of ESX servers using VMware, Confidential blades, Confidential P4800 SAN and other iSCSI/NFS devices, monitoring ( Confidential SIM )/ Validation and maintaining them with regular patching schedules.
• Responsible for Virtual Infrastructure Architecture, Design, Implementation, Integration of Confidential Hardware with Redhat OS, VSphere 4.1/5.0, Oracle RAC, Documentation in KB, Development and implementation of pre-prod testing run books developing and standardizing processes and finally and production handover to Level 1 operation team.
• Responsible and Involved with all layers of the virtualization stack including the infrastructure (hardware, storage and network design), platform (hypervisor, management services, performance) and tools (configuration, provisioning, monitoring and capacity management) and worked cross functionally and collaborated with Network Services and other teams, application, storage, network and security team SME s to understand and adopt the non-functional technical, security, and operational requirements.
• Storage Admin - Administering storage solution(s), Isilon, Confidential Lefthand 4500/4800 Storage units and Integration with CommVault Simpana backup solutions.
• Middleware/Tools /Databases - Supported Technical teams with Virtualized instances of Tomcat /Apache / Hadoop setup/admin, Confidential OO script generation for provisioning & patching, support of VCenter, Confidential SIM servers, RedHat Linux Server Automation, Oracle RAC DB Clusters.
• Lead the project for Implementation and testing /validating use cases and scenarios with VSphere / Confidential Infrastructure/ Confidential 4500/4800 Storage and Cisco switches for HA, DR compliance and VMware SRM.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr. ESX VMWARE Architect/ Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for ESX sever production support to manage updates, patching, migration, and day to day administration of over 3900 ESX servers and over 38000 VM’s.
• Coordinated server provisioning, Capacity Planning activities and fulfill various server requests
• Work and coordinate with 24/7 staff around Asia, Europe and North America to support multiple Data Centers and DR sites globally to support hardware like Confidential Blades/Infrastructure over ILO, VMWARE ESX 3.5/4.1, Cisco UCS and EMC Symmetrix and Confidential SAN/NAS/NFS.
• Worked with Remedy Ticketing and Asset Management System to handle Level 3 support and keep the Inventory in sync.
• Worked with Confidential filers/EMC Storage and held role of Storage/Backup Admin with Netbackup.

Confidential

Storage /VMWARE Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Assessment of different Virtualization Infrastructure Technologies such as Red Hat, VMWARE and Oracle Unbreakable Linux Network with Oracle VM Technologies for Oracle EBS implementation.
• Coordinated server maintenance, server provisioning activities and fulfill various server requests
• Integrated and configured Red Hat Linux OS with configuration of new LUN’s as per Best Practices.
• Implemented, installed, and built multiple servers to implement the development of QA, Staging, and Production environment using Red Hat 4.0 and Oracle EBS 11.5.10.2 and VMWARE ESX Servers.

Confidential, DALLAS, TX

VMWARE/STORAGE Engineer - INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Administration / Upgrade / Management of EMC SAN / Confidential NAS at Primary Data Center and DR site and migration of 80 P2V Windows /Linux hosts to VMWARE ESX server.
• Technical Lead for Recommending, Evaluation, and Implementation ofNewer Technologies like Disk based centralized Backup, CDP, Disaster recovery, Snap, VOIP, Document Management and HA Infrastructure.
• Coordinated server maintenance, server provisioning activities and fulfill various server requests
• Helped with Oracle / SQL server DBA responsibilities in IBM AIX environment / Windows.
• Successfully planned, designed and implemented infrastructure solutions/ projects forsetting up auxiliary Data Center / Disaster Recovery site with Blade Servers / SAN / Replication.
• Responsible for NOC and Level 3 support escalated from Help Desk and for after hours support.
• Administration / Patch Management, monitoring, application support of Lotus Domino, Exchange IIS, SQL, Oracle and backup of Windows 2000/2003, Red Hat Linux, IBM AIX P series servers.

Confidential, NEW YORK, NY

VMWARE/STORAGE/UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Technical Lead for Windows 2000/2003, Solaris, Linux servers, and responsible for maintenance/ admin/ backup /migration of Windows /Linux host P2V to Confidential Blade servers ESX server, EMC SAN.
• Responsible for controlling, monitoring and maintaining servers and telecommunications devices and the implementation and support of the industry's best technology tools.
• Responsible for the planning and implementation of additions, deletions and major modifications to the supporting infrastructure.
• Implemented Network scans /Assessment on regular intervals to ensure network security at the Corporate Office and Satellite offices.
• Responsible for the administration and maintenance of the company's WAN and infrastructure.
• Lead / managed the group of engineers to oversee troubleshooting, systems backups, archiving and disaster recovery and provides expert support when necessary.
• Worked with Business units/Consultants /SME to help implement process improvements.
• Maintained vendor relationships / introduced new vendors / products and managed the purchase of hardware and software products.

Confidential

PC Support Analyst | Senior System Administrator | Web Developer

Responsibilities:

• SA for IBM Domino server, Windows OS, Web servers/Applications, Networking, and Oracle on Solaris.
• Provided Level 1 and 2 help desk PC support.
• Managed database servers, including account creation and management, access privileges, tuning, and space management.
• Installed, configured, and maintained Enterprise Lotus Notes servers with 1,500+ users.
• Planned, managed, and developed the corporate Intranet, documenting standards and guidelines for future development and publication.