SUMMARY:

Twenty years of progressive information technology experience with architecting and supporting global scale technologies in large complex distributed environments. Possess technical and managerial expertise in managing large scale heterogeneous physical and virtualized environments. For the last ten years I have been responsible for driving virtualization and cloud strategy across the internal enterprise. I possess outstanding interpersonal, presentation and communication skills. I view myself as a results orientated individual possessing broad technical skills with a passion for emerging and bleeding edge technologies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Vancouver, WA

Senior Cloud Solutions Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Core Implementation analysis review and installation of key VMware and EMC Cloud suite of products.
• VMware vRealize suite installation
• Guest OS preparation and configuration for pre - installation of vRealize software.
• Troubleshooting OS layers in regards to, load balancers, host certificates and functional LDAP accounts.
• Guest OS performance related troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
• vIPR integration and installation for storage automation
• Third party integration, Service Now, Puppet and IPAM solutions.
• SME of Enterprise West Coast accounts, covering project implementations and issues.

Confidential, Beaverton, OR

Senior Virtualization Engineer (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Cloud 2.0 implementation project - Consists of key VCE technologies and converged infrastructure designs.
• Engineering design and implementation review \ execution.
• Migration strategy and execution from existing equipment to new infrastructure.
• Capacity analysis and overall environmental documentation.
• VMware vRealize Suite implementation.
• BAU support of guest operating system performance issues on Windows servers primarily and some Linux administration.
• Experience with OS configuration \ integration to support and execute the cloud software layers, TCP/IP, ODBC configurations, certificate generation and installation.
• Operational Responsibilities - Daily management of the virtual environment.
• vMotion and Storage vMotion of virtual slices to aid in data store balancing and optimal consolidation ratios.
• Capacity approvals for incoming VM requests.
• End to End environment documentation and layout.
• Asset Inventory analysis to determine lease exposure to gauge against project migration deadlines.
• Executive management reporting of key trending metrics, compute and storage consumption.
• Guest Operating System troubleshooting and configuration in regards to functionality and performace.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Senior Vice President

Responsibilities:

• Evaluation and integration of new technologies in the virtualization (VSI and VDI) and cloud computing disciplines. Working with strategic vendors and technical account mangers to outline future virtualization, automation and storage strategies.
• Windows Server 2012 template and guest customization specification design.
• Integration of the virtual offerings to a self-service cloud solution.
• Backend infrastructure re-design utilizing Fusion I/O technology to accelerate overall performance of the VDI infrastructure.
• Integration and testing of iSCSI connectivity solutions for general purpose use in the VMware arenas.
• Integration of application streaming technologies utilizing VMware Thin App solutions. Thus abstracting applications from the operating systems, creating re-usable VDI images and templates.
• Using VMware cloud computing technologies we have built an internal private cloud consisting of twenty thousand plus developers and close to sixteen thousand virtual machines.
• Design and integration of automated self-service solution to provide automated security solution for Linux operating systems in the cloud offering. Inclusive of global security framework, root pw restrictions, and KDC group administration.
• Primarily responsible for the release and communication of new cloud offerings, primary liaison to the business units for acquiring feedback and proving solutions.
• Financial Control oversight for the financial recovery process within the cloud environment. Primary liaison to financial control department heads to design and monitor usage and reporting metrics.
• Third Level Support of over six thousand plus ESX hosts globally, currently running ESX 5.1U3 soon to go through a vSphere 5.5 U1 migration.
• Managed a team of ESXi subject matter experts to provide technical support and strategy for operational solutions in the virtualization discipline.
• Evaluation of ESXi 5.5 and virtual center web client integration with Active Directory and SSO (Single Sign On) technologies.
• Virtualized storage and provisioning evaluations and overall strategy responsibility utilizing products from corporate vendors such as EMC’s SRM and vIPR product solutions.
• Working with strategic vendors to develop operational “best practices” for one of the world’s largest virtualized environments,
• Solutions and production roll out responsibility for global virtualization monitoring platform vCOP’s (vCenter Operations Manager). Evaluation, design and rollout inclusive of virtual storage adapters (VSA) for ESXi and Storage performance visibility.
• Enterprise backup and disaster recovery evaluation and implementation using VAPD and storage replication technology.
• Overall storage integration responsibility, inclusive of pricing \ performance \ and utilization. Primary liaison for storage operations inclusive of peer review design of new technologies being introduced into the virtual cloud estate, new technology POC design and analysis.
• Virtual storage SME point person working in a conduit manner for all storage related activities inclusive of new technology evaluations, storage tech refreshes, production issues and outages.
• Integration for storage provisioning best practices, volume sizing, aggregate utilization and over subscription best practices.
• Introduced SSD flash arrays into the ESXi environment for tiered performance gains on certain I/O requirements.
• Fusion I/O technology to accelerate performance for mission critical environments such as Active Directory, SharePoint and Exchange environments.

Vice President

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Audit and compliance responsibility, self assessment, risk analysis and remediation.
• Management and Collegial reviews including compensation planning
• Escalation resolution and business planning
• Architecture review and impact analysis.
• Ordering and build out of new x86 infrastructure and support.

Senior Systems QA Engineer 

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Perform horizontal integration testing for all server and desktop applications. Applications would include MDAC, Netbackup client, Microsoft vulnerability remediation, hot fixes, MS SQL server, IBM MQ series, Office productivity suites and service pack updates.
• Daily BAU support, system event log reviews, security entitlements, system access, and audit \ compliance related activities. Maintain communications with Global Monitoring groups, and corporate helpdesks.
• Third level support for custom in house developed application that delivered applications and vulnerability remediation to approximately 300,000+ seats.
• Work with colleagues in my work areas to assist in architecting new applications from business requirements document all the way through the SDLC lifecycle.
• VMware ESX 3.5, 4i and 5i installation, configuration and management
• Considerable storage experience and operational management across several industry leading vendors. NetApp, EMC and IBM XIV.
• Storage protocols and networking background, FCP, NFS, iSCSI
• Windows 2008 and Linux 6.x platform support experience.
• vCAC - VMware Cloud Automation Center - Installation and Configuration
• vCOPS - VMware Operations Manger - Architecture Installation and Configuration
• Netuitive Analytics for enterprise monitoring and analysis.
• Cirba - Intelligent VM placement and license reconciliation application - installation management and configuration.
• NetApp FAS arrays utilizing FC and NFS as well as C mode technologies
• EMC VNX NAS and VMAX 20k\40K, SRM \ vIPR.
• IBM XIV array management and Virtual Center provisioning experience.
• Managing large scale infrastructure projects.
• Driving technology change across the enterprise by evaluating and introducing cutting edge technologies.