SUMMARY:

VMware Certified Professional with expertise in Microsoft Windows Server Administration, EMC Storage Engineering and seeking opportunity as VMware Adminstrator.

EXPERIENCE:

Senior VMware Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provide coaching and support to offshore team. Liaise with the client leadership team on a daily basis to provide the necessary delivery assurance.
• Provide support for customer problems and requests.
• Manage Unix/Windows server including, operations systems, databases and the system side of the applications running on it.
• Successfully P2V servers and followed the recommended procedures to decommission old servers.
• Created change request to schedule maintenance.
• Created Windows 2012 Servers as requested
• Scheduled Backups as requested via CommVault Simpana 10
• Manage these systems in accordance with the Service Level Agreement
• Responsible for all server administration activities. Responsible for assuring system availability and performance of servers
• Responsibility for day - to-day operations
• Provide technical solutions for problems
• Provide and maintain documentation

Senior Storage Engineer

Confidential, Fort Worth, TX

Responsibilities:

• Diagnosed, repaired, installed and configured an EMC CX3-10 back into production.
• Performed maintenance, updates, and addressed alerts on HP MSA20, MSA1000, Confidential MD3200, MD3000, MD3000i, MD1000, EMC Clariion CX300, & Celerra NS350 Storage Arrays.
• Scheduled, Performed, and Maintained Backups and Data Recovery via CommVault Simpana 9
• Scheduled maintenance windows for storage arrays throughout the enterprise and updated the flare codes management tools, and replaced faulted drives and parts as needed.
• Successfully migrated data and decommissioned storage equipment.

VMware Engineer

Confidential, Pittsford, NY

Responsibilities:

• High service-satisfaction rated consulting architect among Federal and Commercial customers.
• Work as consultant for VMware Professional Services.
• Successfully delivered several vCenter Operations Manager v5.7 Jumpstarts, Accelerators, Architecture and Design PS services including configuration of third-party adapters.

VMware View Engineer

Confidential, Montgomery, AL

Responsibilities:

• Packaged, tested and deployed in-house applications with VMware Thinapp for XP and Windows 7.
• Created test groups and analyzed applications performance.
• Worked closely with programmers and system administrator to ensure all VMware Thinapp packages worked as designed.
• Analyze and troubleshoot on an advanced level, performance of SAN-backed VMware View infrastructure to determine proper allocation of resources to a multi-department user population with widely varying needs. Performed updates as needed.

Remote VMware/Storage Engineer

Confidential, Anaheim, CA

Responsibilities:

• Build, configure and deployed Windows 2K8 R2 Server Virtual Machines within vSphere 5.1 environment with vCenter Management.
• Configured RAW Device Mapping on appropriate servers.
• Assured that Confidential, Confidential, and Confidential were configured operational.
• Confidential MD-series Architecture, Configuration and Installation.
• Performed EXSi updates via Integrated Confidential Remote Controller ( Confidential ).
• EMC Symmettrix VMAX & Confidential Compellent FS8600 Storage Arrays.
• Analyze and troubleshoot on an advanced level, performance of SAN-backed VMware ESX infrastructure to determine proper allocation of resources to a multi-department user population with widely varying needs.

VMware Engineer

Confidential, Pittsford, NY

Responsibilities:

• Performed assessments of the current VMware Infrastructure for State Agencies using vCenter Operations Manager to enable quality of service, operational efficiency and continuous compliance of dynamic cloud infrastructure and business critical applications.
• Design, install, configure VMware ESX, within vSphere 5.0 and 5.1 environments with vCenter Management, Consolidated Backup, Confidential, Confidential, DPM, Confidential and VMware Data Recovery. Experience with VMware View desktop virtualization (VDI).
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) migration of Windows 2000, 2003, 2008, & 2012 servers from VMware and legacy hardware.
• IBM DS-series Architecture, Configuration and Installation
• Confidential MD-series Architecture, Configuration and Installation
• HP P2000 G3 Storage Arrays
• Analyze and troubleshoot on an advanced level, performance of SAN-backed VMware ESX infrastructure to determine proper allocation of resources to a multi-department user population with widely varying needs.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Responsibilities:

• Providing infrastructure improvement best-practice expertise, processes, policies, and procedures as part of a two Disaster Recovery Site initial configuration project.
• Successfully performed the initial configuration and provisioning of two new VNX5300 Storage Arrays and one VNX5100 Storage Array
• Created Thin Provisioned Storage Pools on the VNX5300 Storage Arrays
• Configured Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST)
• Configured and Zoned Brocade 5100 FC Switches with Data Center Fabric Manger (DCFM)
• Spearheaded the migration of 64 Terabytes of data from a Sun StorageTek 6540 Array to an EMC VNX5300 Array via FalconStor NSS Migration within a Windows, VMware, Solaris and UNIX environment.
• Assisted with the migration of 8 Terabytes of data from a Confidential Equallogic PS6000 iSCSI Array to VNX5100 Array via Zerto Data Replication within a VMware View VDI environment.
• Spearheaded the migration of 8 Terabytes of data from a Hewlett Packard StoragWorks P4500 G2 Array to VNX5300 Array via Zerto Data Replication within a Windows, VMware, and UNIX environment.
• Install and configure PowerPath in Windows, VMware and UNIX environment
• Install and configure VMware Site Recovery Manager VSA
• Knowledge transfer and assistance as needed

VMware Engineer

Confidential, Jackson, MS

Responsibilities:

• Designed, install, configure VMware ESX, ESXi, within vSphere 3.5, 4.0, 4.1 and 5.0 environments with Virtual Center management, Consolidated Backup, EMC Recoverpoint., Backup and recovery tools Quest vRanger, EMC Avamar and IBM TSM for database recovery, Confidential, Confidential, DPM, Confidential and VMware Data Recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM).
• Experience with VMware View 4.5 & 4.6 desktop virtualization (VDI) and VMware ThinApp installation, management and application packaging. Administrated and maintained more than a 500 virtual desktops. Packaged, entitled, updated and patched applications via VMware ThinApp 4.5 & 4.6, applications such as Microsoft Office, Adobe Reader, Java Runtime, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Lotus Notes, etc.
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V), Physical-to-Physical and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows 2003, & 2008, as well as Hyper-V and legacy hardware using VMware Converter and PlateSpin Power Convert.
• Analyze and troubleshoot performance of SAN-backed VMware ESX infrastructure to determine proper allocation of resources to a multi-department user population with widely varying needs.
• Customize layer 2 and layer 3 networking between VMware, networking components and storage for high availability and maximum performance.
• Develop, test, and maintain a disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data.
• Creating, administering and monitoring EMC Symmetrix VMAX, EMC DMAX, EMC VNX5300, EMC Clariion/Celerra Storage, NetApp FS3000, and HP StoreVirtual 4000 Storage
• SAN administration, Cisco zoning, managing LUNs, volumes and installing FC HBA on host, installing HBA driver and troubleshooting storage issues.
• Maintained enterprise SAN consisting of both Fiber Channel and SCSI disk arrays.
• Created CIFS and NFS file systems, Mounting shares in Celerra, Install and configure PowerPath in Windows, VMware and UNIX environment
• Perform migration of 70 Terabytes of data from an EMC Symmetrix DMX-4 Array to an EMC Symmetrix VMAX Array via EMC Open Replicator and PowerPath Migration Enabler within a Mainframe, Windows, VMware, and AIX environment.
• Perform migration of 48 Terabytes of data from an EMC Clariion CX4 Array to an EMC VNX5300 Array via EMC SAN Copy within a Mainframe, Windows, VMware, and Citrix environment.

System Administrator

Confidential, Jackson, MS

Responsibilities:

• Provided support to physical and virtual servers running on multiple versions of Microsoft Windows including Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows 2008 and Linux Confidential versions 4.0-6 and 5.0-1.
• Builds, installs and tests Windows and Confidential servers based on requirements from Design and Architecture or established standards.
• Monitors system performance and takes proactive action when pre-defined thresholds are exceeded. Performance, maintenance, troubleshooting and problem isolation.
• Work with Active Directory issues such as: logon failures, account lockouts, network connectivity, DNS and WINS name resolution, authentication problems, DFS links and replication issues, folder and printer permissions, etc.
• Follows the department processes to perform nightly backups of the assigned servers. Manually scans each log for completion and manually copies any files to ensure quality and complete data backup which were not captured during the process.
• Ensures that all backup files either onsite or offsite are readable by performing audits.
• Inspect and monitor servers and observe the operation of the data center. Resolve and report any problems via a Remedy ticket.
• Document and maintain existing server and backup documentation and produce additional procedures as necessary to enhance the efficiency, accuracy and reliability of server and data backup and restores.
• Handle Remedy tickets for trouble ticket, requests, and critical issues as assigned.
• Handle projects such as server builds, hardware installations, software installations, etc. as assigned.

PC Analyst

Confidential, Jackson, MS

Responsibilities:

• Provided support to physical and virtual desktops running on multiple versions of Microsoft Windows including Windows 95, Windows 2000, and Windows XP.
• Builds, installs and tests Windows desktops based on requirements from Design and Architecture or established standards.
• Handle user interface on a daily basis to resolve many desk side related problems. Developed strong and trustworthy relationship with customers by understanding their support requirements via telecommunication and face-to-face interaction.
• Perform new PC and laptop installations, application software installations, swaps, configurations, as well as engage in desktop PC/printer moves/adds/replacements.
• Management of service requests and receiving, prioritizing and distribution of service tickets on a case by case basis in a timely manner.
• Supervise several desktop support staff and reassigned tickets in accordance with standard procedures as per manager's request.
• Troubleshoot PC performance problems and maintain security/password configurations (create ids, modify groups, change passwords, unlock accounts, etc.). Received high customer satisfaction marks from clients in a support role capacity.

PC Analyst

Confidential, Meatirie, LA

Responsibilities:

• Provided Desktop PC's & Laser Printers break-fix support
• Preformed Desktop and Laptop Builds using Symantec Ghost Server
• Monitored and tested equipment to determine network component performance; improve network performance and prepare equipment procurement specifications
• Coordinated moves and relocations of hardware.
• Supported handheld devices.