Objective:

Seeking senior level position as ITaaS/Virtualization Architect/SME leveraging 10 year specialization in virtualization technologies ideal position would focus on driving significant data center initiatives in the Virtualization, VDI, and Cloud space utilizing VCE Vblock

Areas of Expertise:

Virtualization VCE Vblock vCloud View - Virtual Desktop Infrastructure VDi VMware Cisco UCS Architecture Design System Administration Disaster Recovery Windows Cluster Server

Summary:

• 17 years' experience in IT field providing premier consulting and support services to Fortune 500 customers.
• 12 years' specialization as Virtualization SME, Architect and Engineer.
• Experience with VMware products beginning in 2000 including vSphere 4.0, 4.1, 4.5, 5.0, 5.1, 5.5 VMware Horizon View VDI, VMware SRM, VMware Lab Manager, vCloud Suite, Orchestrator, vShield, vConverter, vC Ops, vCAC, vCO, vCM, Hyperic, PlateSpin suite
• Red Hat and general Linux experience
• Virtualization Architect multiple projects VMware View VDI design, pilot, deploy, transition to VDI /VMware View 4.5, 4.6, 5.0, 5.1, 5.5 and Thin-App
• Cloud Architect utilizing vCloud Director, Orchestrator, vCloud Suite,
• Virtualization experience includes multiple SME, Sr. Architect roles virtualizing enterprise server and desktop infrastructure using the following technologies VMware vSphere and VMware View, VMware Thin App, VMware vCloud Suite, vCloud Director, vCloud Connector, vCOPs, Orchestrator, SRM, Hyper-V, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, MED-V, App-V, Citrix
• Experience with VCE Vblock, EMC VNX, VMax, Clarion Symetrix, Celera, CISCO UCS, CISCO MDS, Nexus, Catalyst NetApp
• Solutions Architect Microsoft System Center Suite project including Virtual Machine Manager Data Protection Manager, Configuration Manager, and Operations Manager
• SME- Solutions Architect providing consulting services in multiple Active Directory projects 10,000 users, up to 4000 servers AD 2000->2003->2008
• SME Solutions Architect providing consulting services for Windows Exchange 5.0, 5.5, 2000, 2003 2007 systems spanning the globe 100,000 users, up to 4000 servers
• Architect for migration project largest AD system in Africa 10,000 users 1000 servers
• System Administration, technical and team lead at one of the world's premier technology enterprises, Microsoft Corporation, customer facing consultation and internal operations in systems involving 4000 servers up
• Design, build, deployment, troubleshooting, management, and disaster recovery of all current Windows operating systems specializing in Clustered systems Architect, installation, configuration, troubleshooting Windows Cluster Server in large, 2-5000 server, production environments

Employment History:

Confidential

• Lead VDI Architect/Virtualization SME VMware Stack Horizon View Suite 6
• Assess current VDI POC, Design scale out/ pilot and production environment
• Assess future vCOPs vCD and vCAC initiatives

Confidential

• Lead Architect/SME VMware Horizon View
• Design, deploy multisite Horizon View deployment 2400 seat implementation
• Integrate View environment with Citrix Xen App infrastructure
• Architect/SME multiple VCE Vblock implementation
• Architect/SME SRM implementation
• Architect data center relocation and service migration

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• Lead VMware Architect / SME vCloud Suite, vC Ops Suite
• Multiple vC Ops Suite design and kickstart
• Multiple vCloud Suite design and validate vCM, vCAC SME
• Various projects concentrating on vC Ops Suite, vCloud Suite, vCM, vCAC SME vC Ops Suite including vCM, vCloud Automation Center, vCO

Confidential

Sr. Architect, VDI/View SME, vCloud SME, vBlock SME, UCS SME

• Supporting VCE vBlock Residency program, SME VMware, Virtual Cloud Director, vShield, View, vSphere CISCO UCS, Nexus, MDS EMC UIM, VNX, VMax vC Ops
• Delivered first ever vBlock Solution Delivered in Japan
• Delivered first ever VCE validated VDI/View solution on vBlock

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• Principle Solutions Architect, VDI/View SME, vSphere SME, vCloud SME
• View Architecture infrastructure design,
• ThinApp infrastructure design,
• vSphere Architecture infrastructure design,
• vCloud Director design,
• SRM technical assessment design,

Confidential

Sr. Virtualization Solutions Architect-Cloud Orchestration SME

Sphere/SCVMM Cloud Integration project, Responsible for SCVMM/vSphere integration and solution Orchestration

Confidential

Sr. Virtualization Solutions Architect-SME

• Technical Services Development Virtualization Solutions Architect developing technical service offerings in the virtualization space including
• VCE vBlock Design Technical assessment
• Cisco UCS Capacity planning, Health checks
• VMware- Developing Capacity Planner Service offerings scenarios, Technical Analysis, Design and Architecture, TCO analysis
• EMC SRM enablement

Confidential

Sr. Virtualization Solutions Architect-View, ThinApp, vSphere, vCloud, SRM SME, Technical Lead

• Mware vSphere 4.1 upgrade
• Mware infrastructure upgrade ESX 3.5->ESX 4.1 vSphere,
• Cloud Design/Deployment
• SRM Design/Deployments
• View Design/Deployments
• ThinApp Application Virtualization Design/Deployment
• Architecture Design/Deploy 4000 seat desktop virtualization solution Selection, testing and POC of various solutions including VMware View, Med-V, App-V

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Sr. Virtualization Architect, SME VDI, various VMware products

• Design 7,000 seat VDI environment
• Design virtualized 1000 server environment.
• POC View vs. Citrix environment
• P2V server consolidation using vSphere 4.1
• Design/Deploy VMware Lab Manager,
• POC SRM
• POC VCE Vblock Cisco UCS, EMC Vmax
• POC Zero client solutions , Wyse, Cisco, Teradici and Panologic

Confidential

Lead Deployment Engineer

Small green field VMware View 4.5 deployment for 200 desktops on new vSphere 4.1 platform

Confidential

Lead Architect

• Active Directory/Microsoft Exchange migration following acquisitions collapsing 4 separate AD forests into one parent organization:
• Process included complete virtualization of business units acquired prior to consolidation using vSphere 4.0.

Confidential

Sr. Solution Architect, VMware Solution Architect/ SME serving African Continent

On-Site Sonangol Angolan National Oil Company , ANGOLA TELECOM Angolan National telecom system , Angolan Port Authority, Angolan Customs Office, US Embassy

• Major Data Center Refresh, Greenfield Data Center Build- Design/Migration to new Active Directory, Exchange, and SQL environment. This project included more than 10,000 users, more than 1000 servers in multi-site environment.
• Subsequent projects included VMware infrastructure virtualization and consolidation of this environment and desktop virtualization projects.
• Solution Architect Infrastructure Upgrade and Migration Project. Design complete upgrade of existing Microsoft infrastructure Windows 2000 based . Transition to Windows 2003/2008 Active Directory/Exchange 2007/ Windows Server platforms. Redesign topology vis a vis central datacenter and retail locations 400 remote locations .
• Solution Architect System Center Virtual Machine Manager for Hyper-V project piloting infrastructure virtualization

Confidential

Senior Solution Architect

Virtualization Project. Design/deployment of VMware 3.5 virtualization platform and Virtual Center management suite based on Capacity Planner analysis. P2V conversion of all Mission Critical systems 500 server consolidation .

Confidential

Senior Consultant-Technical Lead

Active Directory Upgrade project, design/deploy team lead 8 direct reports

Confidential

Sr. Architect

Virtualization, consolidation, and migration of Windows components in Florida datacenter 500 server consolidation VMware suite 3.0

Confidential

• Technical Lead / Architect supporting Microsoft Virtualization products including Virtual Server Virtual Desktop and Virtualization
• Third Tier Enterprise Technical Support/System Administration
• Technical Lead on Premier design/support team for Windows 2000, 2003 specializing in Microsoft Cluster Server
• Dedicated design/support team for critical problem identification analysis resolution in Global Windows Environments for Fortune 500 companies, Siemens, EDS, PepsiCo, Wal-Mart etc US Military with systems consisting of thousands of servers
• Critical Problem resolution issues including design, installation, database maintenance, disaster recovery network, DHCP, and DNS configuration, backup/recovery
• Complete thorough documentation of all phases of systems design, operations, policies, support and management including
• Authoring several knowledgebase articles pertaining to unique and interesting issues as they surface
• Ongoing mentorship to team members as opportunities arise including triage development and delivery
• Analysis of enterprise design, deployment of server and desktop OS configuration using automated deployment such as RIS, ADS, KMS deployment
• Specialization in Windows 2000, 2003, 2008 operating and Windows Cluster Services deployed in varied hardware environments including IBM, HP and Dell hardware including servers, blade server configurations, and various disk solutions such as SAN, NAS, and iSCSI
• Full design documentation case management including issue analysis, scope, environment, action planning
• Customer facing communication with highest level of customer IT staff involving systems of over 50,000 users
• VMware Architect 3/04-4/06

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• Architect, installation, implementation, and administration of network infrastructure of various sizes and complexities
• Design and implement various VMware server consolidations using Virtual Center, ESX Sever and various P2V conversion tools such as Platespin and VMware Converter
• Design Implement Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2000 Server migration in 350 seat network
• Design Implement Exchange Server 5.5 to Exchange Server 2000, 2003
• Design Implement Window 2003 server networks including New Exchange 2003 email domains
• Fractional Systems Administration
• Varied hardware environments including IBM, HP, Dell

Confidential

• 3rd Tier Technical Support/Systems Design Microsoft Exchange 2000, 2003
• Extensive use of VMware products such as ESX GSX Server and Virtual Desktop
• Enterprise over 50,000 users technical support/ administration for Exchange Server 5.5, 2000, 2003, Global systems spanning all continents, global networks including multiple 1000 to 7000 server server and multi node cluster systems
• Member of elite 24X7 technical support/administration team for critical problem analysis resolution in Global Exchange environments for Fortune 500 companies US Military
• Problem resolution issues including architect, installation, database design/maintenance, disaster recovery network, DHCP, DNS configuration and full documentation
• Active Directory Analysis and design replication, account management database management, backup recovery, disaster recovery
• Security extensive experience securing against and recovering from viral attacks impacting multiple organizations