PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• VMware certified virtualization SME with large scale virtualization & consolidation experience.
• Personal passion for virtualization as relative to future technology trends and their application in real - world scenarios
• Results-driven technical and project management expert, possessing expertise in the design, development and implementation of distributed networked application architecture and security.
• Open minded ingenious thinker with the ability to provide innovative imaginative, "outside the box" technical solutions where needed.
• Virtual Systems & Infrastructure (VMware vCenter, ESX(i), GSX/Server, Workstation, DRS, HA, Converter, Capacity Planner, & ACE Microsoft Virtual Server, Platespin, LPARs & Solaris Zones)
• Storage Area Networks (Fibre Channel & iSCSI on EMC/Dell, Hitachi, HP & NETAPP Storage Platforms.)
• Microsoft Windows NT-2016 Servers and Support Services (Active Directory, IIS, Exchange, SNA/HIS, etc.)
• Redhat Certified Engineer (Redhat ES/AS, Redhat Cluster suite, Satellite, Red Hat Application Stack)
• Advanced Environmental Scripting (Powershell, BASH, Kshell, Python, C#, VBScript, WSH/WMI/ADSI)
• High Availability Systems (Microsoft Clustering, Load Balancing & Redhat Cluster Suite)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: VMware ESX(i), Linux (Redhat& SUSE), Windows Server NT-2016, Cisco IOS & Nexus, VMware Solaris, HP-UX, AIX

Enterprise: VMware vSphere &vCloud, VMware Center VMware Cloud Director, VMware Automation suite, VMware Cloud Operations Management suite, VMware Site Recovery Manager, VMware View, ActiveDirectory, Confidential /HP/EMC/NetApp SANs, Oracle VM, Xen Source, Oracle 10/11 RAC, Weblogic 10.3, OSB 10.3

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Cloud Computing Sr Sys Admin

• Team Lead to deploy and support world-class High-Performance Computing (HPC) solutions for the diverse, worldwide team of Confidential development engineers as part of the Confidential IT team, with a strong emphasis on Linux/Unix computing solutions
• The HPC solutions include both CPU and GPU based computing solutions
• SME/Lead for UNIX/Linux operations worldwide
• SME/lead for engineering application deployment support for Confidential ’s development teams worldwide
• Provide best of class scalable solutions deployment expertise that align with corporate best practices, economies of scale, security and governance
• SME/Lead for Open Source HPC and Unix/Linux solutions deployment across physical & virtual compute solutions (AWS & Azure)
• Maintains a collaborative, team-based cross-functional management approach that fosters engagement, consensus and collaboration
• Perform installation, configuration, management, and use of high-performance computers such as clusters of Linux boxes, large SMPs and large-scale solutions of 1000’s of computing cores
• Works with the IT Leadership to support solution development, culture creation and operational efficiencies in alignment with long term planning goals
• Perform installation, management and use of software such as compilers, scientific applications, batch schedulers, job resource, and application license and utilization managers

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Principle Linux Engineer

• Design/maintain secure and reliable RedHat Enterprise Linux version 5-7 gold images for physical & virtual deployments
• Manage multiple VMWare production vCenters& clusters, utiliziting SRM and NSX
• On-Call support/monitoring
• Cloud team rep for Change & Configuration Management
• Support for various Linux system & application patches (Satellite Server, security platform, SOX/PCI platforms) RHEL patch deployments
• Researched, recommended and implemented new linux gold standard enhancements that improved system reliability and performance.

Confidential

Linux Engineer Level III

• Designed, implemented RHEL 6 & 7 for both physical and virtual platforms (VMware & KVM).
• Ensured SOX & PCI compliance of all V2V, P2V & net-new builds.
• Designed & implemented various in house security tools and 3rd part applications such as BladeLogic, ESM, Ensure for Linux.
• Supported 0day security patching & OS updates.
• Mentored & trained staff regarding system integrations, RHEL OS & Unix best practices.
• Provided detailed release notes with each of 9 platform releases. Also provided artifacts regarding troubleshooting, root cause analysis for both Unix and stakeholders with each monthly rollout.

Confidential

Senior Services Architect

• In depth VMware SME service delivery and process management lifecycle expertise used to facilitate the architectural planning, scoping, and implementation execution of new deployments of vSphere
• Architect for three of CA's cloud service offerings (Auto Suite for Clouds, Cloud Manager and Applogic)
• Architect of virtual platforms for clients utilizing VCE, Flexpod&AppLogic
• Mentoring for senior and junior consultants on ITIL, virtualization, softskills such as (knowledge transfer & client relationships), best practices, and adherence to corporate policies and planning standards.

Confidential

Senior Linux Engineer

• Provided Tier 3 support for 75+ Linux servers and 13 ESX Clusters (237 hosts)
• Architected & designed migration from Netapp FAS 300 to FAS 3000. Spear headed live migrations of critical apps using iSCSI, NFS and CIFS shares. Leveraged SnapMirror technology to minimize downtime.
• Utilized VMware Lab Manager for the development department to allow for multiple development tracks. Created quick deployable VM Templates for IIS, SQL, mySQL, Oracle, Weblogic and OSB.
• Team leader for the successful migration from a PHP/MYSQL backbone to the current Oracle/Weblogic backbone. Built out Oracle RAC 10gR4 and WLS 10.3 HA servers for use as this backbone.
• Virtualization SME for the Infrastructure team.
• Mentored team members on topics covering VMware ESX, Lab Manager VI3, NetApp FAS 3000 series.

Confidential

Principal Consultant

• Architected, calculated and designed technical and strategic solution documents taking into consideration the IT infrastructure, source and target - software, software stack, middleware, applications, hardware, network infrastructure, data center size and foot print
• Experience formulating and designing virtualization & capacity planning models integrating customer and application inputs such as application complexity, database size, registered and concurrent users, transactions, application flow, application interfaces, up streams and down streams.
• Virtualization SME for the Infrastructure practice team.
• Mentored team members on topics covering Vmware ESX, Lab Manager VI3, Solaris Zones, Xen Source/Oracle VM.
• Obtained the Cirba Certified Professional Certificate on the Cirba virtualization auditing tool

Confidential

Senior VMware Engineer

• Primary responsibility was to architect, build, test, deploy and support the planned ESX Virtualization environment at Tempe Data Center location.
• Responsible for the Direction, Stability, Security and Integrity of ESX into Windows Active Directory Environment.
• Migrating MS, Linux & Netware 6.5 servers to Confidential Blade Centers with DS8000 & Confidential Shark SANs
• Leveraging VI3 and P2V/Platespin for migrate physical to virtual systems
• Engineering various VMware projects of over $700,000
• Preformed Jumpstarts & Mentoring for 4 client support teams