SUMMARY

• 12 years of experience in Information Technology
• 12 years of experience supporting desktop hardware and software
• 12 years of experience with Windows/LAN administration
• 12 years of experience with NT/Active Directory environments
• 12 years of experience with Microsoft Windows server architecture
• 8 years of experience with Network Administration
• 9 years of experience with VMware ESX Administration
• 9 years of experience with system virtualization architectures
• 7 years experience with SAN technologies and architectures
• Excellent balance of technical and leadership skills
• Key point of leadership is lead by example
• Superior organization and planning skills for all areas of responsibility
• An expert in problem diagnosis, analysis, and resolution in hardware and software
• Proven commitment to excellent customer service and satisfaction

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Cisco 29xx,35xx, 36xx, 37xx Series Switches
• Cisco 26xx Routers
• Cisco PIX/ASA Firewalls
• Cisco Wireless Access Points
• Cisco VPN Concentrators
• Cisco UCS Blades, B200/B230
• Dell/Compaq/HP servers
• Dell/HP/ Blade servers.
• Nutanix NX - 2300
• Wireless technology 802.11
• LTO/DLT Tape Libraries
• DNS/WINS/DHCP
• NAS (Network Attached Storage)
• Disaster recovery planning.
• PC- Compaq (Presario, Deskpro, Elite Series)IBM (Thinkpad, Intellistation. Net Vista
• 6350,8310,8183 Series), Dell (LatitudeOptiplex, Precision Series), Gateway
• (GP7-500, E-4200)
• F5 VPN Concentrator
• F5Big IP Firepass Modules.
• EMC Clarion Series, SAN FC-4700, CX-700, CX-400, CX-500,CX-300, CX-240
• Netapp-3240
• VMware ESX Server 2.5, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0. 5.0 5.5 6.0 ,6.5
• VMware Virtual Center 1.0, 2.0, 4.1, 5.0,6.0,6.5
• VMware P2V Converter
• VMware vRealize Operations Manager
• VMware vRealize Automation
• VM Update Manager
• Microsoft Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 2012
• Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7, 8 and 10
• CyberArk

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, TX

Virtualization & Systems Architect / Tech Lead Prolim Consulting

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all new design, implementations and deploy of all new VMware products.
• Successfully designed, configured and deployed new vROPS appliances over 3 secure VMware environments.
• Designing and implemented new VMware update servers for all VMware and ESX patching for 3 secure vCenters
• Mentoring and training other engineer for better knowledge of new products and features from VMware.
• Participate in working daily tickets submitted by helpdesk personal
• Consolidated 3 legacy vCenter servers to 1 new primary and repointing PSC’s to external PSC’s.
• Working with application teams and systems engineers in creating vm and systems alerts to be proactive with system in current VM environments.
• Point of contact for currently Cisco UCS environments consisting of 8 chassis (C650) and Cisco (B200 & B230) Blade servers.
• Lead the architecture of new VMware Orchestra Automation workflows. Collaborating with teams, dept and groups to gather proper information for future automation processes. I.E. server builds, decom’s and vm snap shot removals.
• Lead architectural design and implantation for VMware NSX 6.3.1
• Responible for updating, maintaining and patching CyberArk servers from 9.20 to 9.10 for all local Window machine accounts.
• Successfully built out and deployed Disaster Recovery solution cross 2 data centers with VMware products.
• Design and maintain run books for new server deployments and application.

Confidential, Fort Worth, TX

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Tier three support for all day to day VMware and Wintel infrastructure environments spread across 5 Data Centers.
• Responsible for installations, configurations, tuning, right sizing and troubleshooting of various VMware environments
• Currently working to consolidate virtual machines from old vCenter servers to newly designed vCenter server.
• Collaborate with other Engineers to develop systems engineering and project management to assist in the development of new infrastructure design and architecture based on the company and industry best practices to satisfy requirements.
• Preform updates and patches on ESX clusters both local and remote.
• Mange enterprise applications responsible for server builds, patch management, virtual machine management, virus scanning etc.
• Assisting with new Data Center build out, design and implementation for future growth for new capacity build out.
• Develop and maintain high standards in establishing procedures and policies to address routine jobs and certain resolutions protocols.
• Provide 24x7 On-call escalation Support
• Responsible for creating and maintaining documentation to support the configuration management for customer environments
• Participate in capacity management activities (forecasting, analysis and planning for future growth
• Currently testing VMWare View in our lab environments
• Respond to automated incident ticketing system and take corrective action immediately according to existing processes.

Confidential, Fort Worth, TX

Sr. Infrastructure Eng.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for maintain 4 EMC & 1 Netapp storage arrays across 2 data centers using virtual technology.
• Maintained Cisco Nexus 5020 and MDS 9124 fabric switches to connect to Cisco UCS blades and Dell R810.
• Responsible for maintaining 80 ESX hosts across 2 Data Centers with about 1000 virtual machines.
• Preformed Flare code upgrades on 3 EMC Clarion arrays with zero downtime.
• Coordinated code upgrades for all UCS b200/b230 with minimal downtime.
• Responsible for multiple offsite locations build outs for connectively back to our Ft Worth office. This consisted with the architecture of a standalone ESX server with several VM’s for local office usage.
• Lead the architecture for ESX upgrade of development ESX servers running 4.1 to 5.0. For future planning for production ESX servers.
• Participated in an on call rotation for all production issues.
• Coordinated Lunch and Learns for peers in regards to Storage, Virtualization and Cisco UCS for knowledge transfer within our team
• Coordinated SAN relocation project from one data center to another to meet future company growth..
• Developed standards, policies, procedures and processes around VMware and Storage deployments and remediation effort to standardize.
• Managed and redesigned multiple SAN implementations for dedicated VMware and SQL storage solutions
• Played a major role with migrating current Dell servers that were coming end of support life to new Cisco UCS B200/B230 blades.
• Architected, implemented and deployed new UCS Blade system in multiply datacenters to accommodate company future growth