SUMMARY:

• Experience engineer with Datacenter & Cloud Infrastructure design for Private SaaS and IaaS environments utilizing best practices for availability, reliability, and performance. I bring a “can do” attitude team approach to implement the latest cutting edge technical solutions for today’s business solutions.
• Experience in implementation and administration VMware vSphere ESX and ESXi versions 2.0,3.0, 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.5, 6.0 and VMware vCloud Suite.
• Experience in implementation and administration of NetApp FAS/V - Series 7-mode and cDot environments series storage arrays to ensure high availability and acceptable performance characteristics for VMware vSphere and SAN-backed applications.
• Experience in implementation and administration iSCSI, NFS, and Fiber Channel protocols. Experience with implementation and administration Brocade Fiber Channel SAN switching.
• Experience in implementation and administration Converge technologies such as Cisco UCS and HP c7000 platforms.
• Experience in implementation and administration rack server technologies such as Dell PowerEdge R series, IBM System X Series.
• Exposure to HyperConverge technologies such as Nutanix and Nutanix CE in POC environments.
• Exposure to OpenStack, KVM, in POC environments.
• Experience in implementation and administration infrastructure operations management appliances such as VMware vRealize Operations Manager, vRealize Log Insight, VMware vRealize Hyperic, vSphere Infrastructure Navigator (VINVMware vSphere Data Protection, VMturbo (Turbonomic) and NetApp Virtual Storage Console.
• Experience in implementation and administration patch management and deployment applications such as VMware Update Manager, Altiris, and Kickstart.
• Hands on experience with service catalogs, orchestration and automation framework management tools such as VMware vRealize Automation, vRealize Business, vRealize Orchestrator, Cloupia (now call Cisco CUIC) and Chef in POC environments.
• Exposure to Zenoss, Cacti, Nagios, and Splunk.
• Experience in implementation and administration VMware Horizon View 6.0, 7.0 View Pod deployments, VMware App Volumes, VMware ThinApp.
• Experience in implementation and administration Windows 2008, 2012 R2, Terminal and Remote Desktop VDI.
• Experience in implementation and administration one of the largest Citrix Presentation 4.0 environments for SAAS provider.
• Experience in implementation and administration Software Define Network technologies such as VMware NSX, VMware vCloud Networking and Security and Opsense FW.
• Experience in implementation and administration network enterprise switching, routing, and firewall operating systems such as Cisco NX-OS/IOS/CatOS/PIX, HP Networking Provision OS. Switches: Cisco Nexus 5000, Nexus FEX 2000, and Cisco Nexus1000V, Cisco 1900, 2900, 3000, 4500, 6500, HP Networking Provision 3400, 2800. Routers: Cisco 2500,2800,3600,7200. Firewall: Cisco Pix 506,515,525, Cisco ASA 5500, Juniper ISG-1000, Netscreen 5GT/10/25/208, Checkpoint FW-1/VPN-1, Netgear FVS318 Firewall, WatchGaurd Firefox SOHO 6tc, Symantec Firewalls, Linux IP Tables, Ubuntu ufw.
• Experience in implementation and administration Two-Factor Authentication such as Duo in VMware Horizon, Amazon AWS, and Ubuntu 16.04.
• Experience in implementation and administration Sophos Antivirus for VMware.
• Exposure to container technologies such as Docker in POC environments.
• Exposure to Cloud Providers AWS (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, ELB) and Digital Ocean in POC environments.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Virtualization Architect Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Architect Confidential ’s Cloud offering utilizing best of breed technology, providing robust, highly available, scalable, and manageable environments to meet the functional and business requirements of Confidential ’s critical applications.
• Gathered requirements, constraints, and assumptions for the design from appropriate stakeholders.
• Performed capacity analysis to help determine the resources.
• Produced designed documentation that included a logical and physical architecture, implementation and configuration procedures, and design diagrams for the design.
• Responsible for the creation Virtualization Policies, Standards, and Procedural documentation (SOPs)
• Responsible for Mentoring Confidential Enterprise Engineering Infrastructure team.
• Project included Confidential Americas Point of Sale (POS) refresh.
• Projects included Confidential Customer Support VMware Horizon View VDI infrastructure.
• Projects included Tokenization.
• Projects included Windows 2003 migration Windows 2012 R2 analysis.

Confidential, Pleasanton, CA

Sr. Virtualization Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created design to be built VMware standards based on documented requirements
• Created Virtualization Policies, Standards, and Procedural documentation
• Enabling “Build ‘to design’” capabilities and functions
• Enabling “operate ‘to design’” capabilities and functions
• Enabling core administration of virtualization tools/capabilities/solutions: lifecycle, best usage, best functionality, usage to standards, requirements review, etc.

Confidential, Pleasanton, CA

Virtualization Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Perform regular comparisons of production systems against non-production systems using both manual and systematic approaches.
• Monitor all change implemented for impact analysis.
• Identify and communication deviation of configurations against best practice.
• Identifies opportunities for better monitoring.
• Work with the systems administrators for change implementation.
• Maintain a common documentation library of standardized procedures and configurations (RunBooks).
• Work with business representatives, IT Management, IT development, support teams and vendors to ensure on time, on a budget, and quality delivery of technical solutions that support the strategic direction of the business and IT.
• Collaborate across Operations and Implementation teams to determine best solutions for support.

Confidential, Pleasanton, CA

Sr. Systems Engineer/VMware Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Part of a team providing 24x7x365 day-to-day operations, projects, and tier 2/3 support for all system and network issues regarding Confidential data centers (Santa Clara, Sacramento, Chicago, Redwood City, and Burbank.)
• Reduce hardware and operating costs by as much as 50% and energy costs by 80% by consolidating more than 300 IBM x 336 servers with VMware virtualization.
• Increased virtualization footprint more than 100 %. By June of 2012, infrastructure was 88% virtualized.
• Responsible for implementation and day-to-day administration VMware environment. Creation (HA) High Availability and (DRS) Distributed Resource Scheduling, Storage DRS, vMotion, Distributed vSwitch, Resource Pools, Net I/O, Storage I/O, Alert Structures, Roles, Permission, Security hardening, VM templates, VM provisioning, Migration P2V and V2V Servers, monitoring .upgrading and loading patches, troubleshooting both physical and virtual server issues.
• Responsible for implementation and administration rack x86 servers, Converge Cisco UCS, VMware ESX/ESXi 3.0, 4.1, 5.0, Cisco and HP Networking, Brocade SAN Switching, NetApp VMFS and NFS creation and masking, virtual machine template deployments, Citrix Presentation 4.0 Terminal Services and Windows Active Directory 2003, 2008.
• Projects included deploying NetApp FlexPod infrastructure for Confidential 's next-generation IaaS infrastructure. FlexPod is a converged computer, networking, and storage solution developed by Cisco and NetApp to provide a secure multi-tenant environment.
• Projects included 4 Data Center consolidations migrations and 2 Greenfield Data Center multi-tier environment buildouts.
• Projects included improving the performance and reliability switching performance in Confidential Network by upgrading Layer 2 and Layer 3 firmware, Static LACP configuration Core/Access, Port-Fast with BPDU-Guard enable, new cabling between Core/access,XRRP for HA between the Core switches, VLAN’s for broadcast domains, HSRP on Edge Routers and OSPF as the routing protocol.
• Projects included backup solution for hosted and transactional products and services using Veritas Netbackup 6.0, NetApp Snapshot/Snapmirror, NetApp Virtual Storage Control, and Data Domain.
• Created build to design VMware standards and procedures for Confidential SaaS and IaaS environments utilizing best practices for availability, reliability, and performance of compute, network, and storage.
• Integrated Infrastructure and Operations Management tools such as Cloupia (Cisco Director),VMware Update Manager, EDA Kickstart, and Altiris to automate deployment and patch management process.
• Integrated 3rd party virtualization tools such as VMTurbo, NetApp VSC, VMware Lab Manager, Nexus 1000-v, NetApp Insight Balance.

Confidential, San Ramon, CA

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed project base system and network administration on Cisco Firewalls, VPN, Wireless, Routers and Switches IT consultancy services /solutions to Confidential clients.
• Projects 6 month Network Engineer engagement at Confidential in San Pablo, CA.
• Projects included secured Cisco EAP /ELS Wireless rollout, Citrix 4.0 Presentation Server at Confidential in San Pablo, CA.
• Projects included Cisco Wireless rollout at Anaheim Kaiser.
• Projects included Cisco Wireless Site survey and deployment Confidential for the Deaf, Riverside.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Part of a team providing 24x7x365 day-to-day operations, projects, and tier 2 support for all system and network issues regarding Pulse Entertainments datacenter, corporate IT, and production website operations.
• Implemented secure, redundant multi-tier enterprise architecture. Design architecture included: Cisco PIX 525 Firewall session/state failover, Firewall Physical/Logical DMZs, Cisco 6500 Switch EtherChannel for load balancing and redundancy, Cisco Layer 2 switch protocols (VLAN, 802.1q), Linux Load balancing for Pulses Application/Core and Web servers, and network bonding.
• Responsible for Cisco Network and Windows Active Directory Administration.
• Responsible for pushing Apache web configurations changes with Perforce.
• Projects included Windows Active Directory 2000 migration to Windows 2003.
• Projects included Exchange 2000 to 2003 migration in front-end/back-end configuration. Implementation includes Trend ScanMail 7.0 Antivirus, Messageware OWA Suite.
• Implemented an automated desktop and server patch management environment with Microsoft WSUS.
• Upgraded Blackberry BES Hardware/Software from BES 3.6 to BES 4.0.
• Implemented SSL VPN on Cisco 3005 VPN Concentrator for Corporate remote users.
• Implemented Site-to-Site VPN solution between Corporate Cisco 3005 Concentrator and Productions Pix 525.
• Created on-going documentation of the environment as it evolves.
• Created logon scripts, backup strategies, performance monitoring, AntiVirus protection.
• Configured Red Hat Linux as a Samba server in ADS environment.
• Created and deployed XP workstation images with Sysprep using Acronis True Image 8.0 Server.
• Created and deployed Text to Speech Server images on 10 new HP DL320 servers using Acronis True Image 8.0 Server.
• Manage equipment standardization including Networks, communications, Smart Devices (handhelds/PDAs/SmartPhones), PCs, and software.
• Provided daily operational and project support to company's business functions, professional services, and ASP environments.
• Implemented server/client defined security-hardening configurations to help prevent networks from malicious attacks and accidental end-user induced system outages.

Confidential, San Ramon, CA

Owner IT Consulting Business

Responsibilities:

• Provided support and planning for critical requirements including Network Administration, Backup Administration, Antivirus Management, Patch Management, Software Installs, Computer Builds, Hardware Installs, Desktop Support, End-User Support & Training, Vendor Relations, and Project Management.
• Configured routers, firewalls, servers, and email, web, and FTP services for small to medium sized businesses.
• Services included migrations to Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 Active Directory, and Exchange Server 2003.
• Performed data recovery services on corrupted hard drives.
• Provided Level 2 remote help desk support.
• Used Remedy program to track ticket progress and enter updates to have on going record of case activity till resolution is reached and ticket closed

Confidential, Oakland, CA

Senior Network Consultant (Subcontractor)

Responsibilities:

• Hired as project base consultant to create design to be built Windows AD and network standards based on documented requirements.
• Projects included NT 4.0 migration to Windows 2000 AD migration for California Labor Federation. Designed included multiple sites (Sacramento, Oakland) and site-to-site VPN deployment.
• Projects included network assessment, configuration and deployment Cisco 4210 IDS Sensor and Cisco Policy Manager 2.3.3 for Confidential Bank.
• Projects included configuration and deployment Ironport C60 Mail Gateway appliance.
• Resolved various Active Directory errors for Network Mechanic clients such as DNS, FSMO replication errors.
• Resolved Exchange 5.5, Exchange 2000 information store database corruption, relay errors, and spam issues.
• Created standard and procedural documentation for Confidential clients.

Confidential, Bay Area, CA

Subcontractor

Responsibilities:

• Provided Cisco networking outsourcing services to Confidential alliance partner Confidential .
• Dimension Data is a global connectivity and integration services company operating in over 30 countries on 6 continents.
• Support included: configuring and installing Cisco routers, Cisco switches, Cisco VOIP phones, and software.

Confidential, New York, NY

Network Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Hired as project based consultant to create design to be built Windows AD and network standards based on documented requirements.
• Project included NT 4.0 migration to Windows 2000 Active Directory.
• Project included deploying Small Business Network comprised of NetScreen Firewall/VPN and Cisco routers and switches.
• Project included deploying NetScreen VPN hub and spoke between corporate network and two remote offices.
• Project included Developed organizational units in Active Directory (AD) and managed user security with group policies.
• Project included Exchange 5.5 migration to Exchange 2000
• Installation and configuration OWA services within Exchange 2000 using certificates.
• Windows hardening IIS 5.0 DMZ deployment.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Part of a team providing 24x7x365 day-to-day operations, support and management for Confidential corporate and e-commerce production network.
• Responsible for Cisco Network and Windows 2000 Active Directory Administration.
• Devices used Cisco 2500, 3600, 7204 routers, Cisco PIX 520 Firewalls, Cisco CSS-1154 Load Balancers, Cisco Catalyst 6500 switches.
• Performed Firewall, Router and Load Balancer configuration changes as per the business requirement.
• Documented network changes and updating diagrams accordingly
• Worked with Cisco TAC on escalated issues.
• Performed root cause analysis on Network Incident.
• Troubleshooting various network related issues.
• Projects included deploying Windows NT 4.0 migration Windows 2000 Active Directory.
• Projects included deploying secure, redundant Multi-Tier network deployment on Cisco equipment.
• Projects included Configuring the PIX 515 for an IPsec Remote-Access VPN.