CORE COPETENCIES:

• VCA - DCV
• VCA-Cloud
• VCP5-DCV vExpert 2013
• VMware ESX(i) 2.x, 3.x, 4.x, 6.x
• VMware Virtual Center 1.x, 4.x, 5.x
• Platespin Protect (Disaster Recovery)
• Veeam Backup and Replication
• Hyper-V
• KVM
• XenServer

• Ansible (Development of roles/plays/etc.)
• Jenkins
• Rundeck
• Graphite
• Grafana
• ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
• Docker
• Git (GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket)
• Terraform
• Vagrant
• Monit
• Sensu
• Nagios
• Zabbix
• ZenOSS
• OpenStack
• Rancher
• Packer
• Jira
• Slack

• SMS Server, Microsoft Site Server, Exchange Server 5.5 - 2003, MySQL, SQL Server, Novell 3.12 - 4.11, Citrix XenServer, Citrix PVS, Citrix XenApp, Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003, SCCM, Cacti, Graylog2
• Backup solutions: IBM Tivoli (TSM), Veeam Backup and Replication v6 - v7
• Scheduling solutions: BMC Control-M
• Windows NT 3.51 - Windows Server 2012 R2
• Linux (Debian, RedHat, CentOS, BSD, Oracle Linux, Ubuntu)

• Windows NT 3.51 - Windows 10
• DOS 5 - 6.22
• MS Office - MS Office 2010
• Visio
• OSX
• Linux

• SAN/NAS Technologies
• IBM DS4000, DS8000, XIV, SVC
• HP Lefthand P4000
• Nexenta iSCSI, NFS (ZFS based SAN solution)
• HP 3Par
• Dell Compellent
• Solidfire
• Servers
• HP Netservers, HP ProLiant, Dell, IBM Blade servers, IBM X-Series, HP Blade Servers (C3000, C7000, BL4xxx, BL6xx)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Equipment: Cisco Router Experience, Cable/DSL routers, HP Procurve Switches, Cisco Switches, Cisco Firewalls

Network Services: IIS, Apache, NGINX, SFTP, FTP, DNS, WINS, RAS, VPN, Print Services, DHCP (BOOTP), WLBS (NLB), PXE/TFTP, IPAM, Windows Active Directory Design and Implementation, DDNS, PowerDNS, Citrix Access Gateway and Citrix NetScaler’s

Network Administration: Multiple Domain structures, Trust Relationships, Logon Scripts, User and Computer Accounts, AD GPO’s

Security: Secure Socket Layer (SSL), Windows NT Security, IPSEC policies, Snort NIDS, NMAP

Firewall: Cisco IOS, IPCHAINS, ISA Server, TMG, IPTABLES (Netfilter), IPCOP, Smoothwall, PFSense, Ubiquiti and Astaro

VMware NSX: Quagga, HAProxy, KeepAliveD, NGINX Reverse Proxy

EXPERIENCE:

Senior Virtualization Engineer/DevOPS Advocate/Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Member of Cloud Infrastructure team
• Worked as a collaborative team to migrate our legacy datacenter consisting of Dell Blades, Dell Compellent storage, Solidfire storage, Dell switches, VMware NSX and vSphere 5.5 environment to a new datacenter. The new datacenter was designed in an availability zone setup. Management zones, network zones and compute zones. Each compute zone consisted of its own independent Pure Storage array(s), Cisco leaf switches and Cisco Confidential blades. This new environment was driven as SDN provided by Cisco ACI, AVI load balancers, as well as Citrix NetScaler’s.
• Architected, developed and delivered a solution consisting of PowerDNS for external DNS services which was migrated from an F5 GTM solution. This solution also consisted of providing IPAM functionality. In addition to this solution it also provided for an automated provisioning and management including native API’s. With these exposed API’s I developed some Python code to easily manage zones, records etc. and automate.
• Architected, developed and delivered a complete highly available 21 - node ELK Stack deployment for log aggregation from all vSphere hosts, firewalls, load balancers, switches, routers, Windows and Linux systems. This solution consisted of developing the logic within the Logstash parsing to send out notifications, execute additional logic, as well as provide correlation between events.
• Architected, developed and delivered an Anycast DNS solution based on Quagga (OSPF) and PowerDNS to provide wide scaling of DNS infrastructure within the internal network.
• Architected, developed and put together a POC for a NAS solution which was built upon Debian Linux, Samba, GlusterFS and CTDB. This solution provided a highly scalable and redundant NAS solution. This solution was completely driven by automation provided by using Ansible.
• Developed internal training materials for POC’s, new emerging technology and theoretical designs. These training materials were used to present outside of the infrastructure team with other teams to show things such as automation (Ansible, Rundeck and Jenkins), infrastructure as code, version control, code review and micro-services. Being able to expose others to new emerging ways to do things using technologies such as Docker, Vagrant, OpenStack, Rancher and etc. This proved to be a huge win for the organizations since everyone could provide input in both directions. Everyone learning from each other. This also began the journey for me personally as being a DevOPS advocate.
• Training labs were created to allow for others to discover these new ways to do things leveraging Vagrant environments being provisioned using Ansible. By doing this I could also tailor each lab for the specific use case such as network routing and switching using Quagga using routing protocols such as OSPF and BGP. Other use cases included such things as building out clustered solutions such as Elasticsearch, MariaDB MySQL, GlusterFS and etc.
• Architected, implemented and managed a new vSphere 5.5 environment which also included VMware NSX.

Senior Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for architecture and administration of 50+ vSphere hosts across the country. Including 1000+ virtual servers.
• Architected and implemented a new vSphere 5.1 environment between two datacenters. Which utilizes vDS (vSphere Distributed switches) using 10GB network links connecting to Cisco Nexus switches. Also, implemented SDRS (Storage DRS) using backend XIV Gen3 Storage.
• Senior team lead for Windows, Linux and VMware
• Architected and implemented a new HP blade center environment (C3000, C7000, Virtual Connect, BL4xx, BL6xx, Flex-10) for data centers
• Took over administration and design of Citrix environment (XenServer, PVS, XenApp 4-6)
• Architected and implemented a new ESX VI3 environment comprised of six IBM X3950 servers attached to IBM DS4500 SAN backend storage, Virtualcenter 2.x, fully redundant and Highly Available. High availability including a fully implemented HA, DRS and vMotion solution.
• Architected and implemented a new VMware vSphere (ESX 4) environment running on HP Blade solutions, Virtual Connect, Flex-10 utilizing IBM SVC for SAN storage
• Lead Engineer on Active Directory 2000 to 2003 and then 2003 to 2008 migration
• Designed a new supernet IP scheme for the whole company to use in any location
• Server administration of 500+ servers of mixed Windows and Linux
• Netapp iSCSI, NAS administration, IBM SVC, HP Lefthand SAN (P4000), IBM XIV
• Designed a DR solution to utilize our VMware environment and Platespin Protect to be used as our DR solution for Windows Servers (Physical and Virtual)
• Architected a remote office solution using HP C3000 blade chassis’, HP Blade servers, VMware vSphere and HP Lefthand networks iSCSI SAN. Used in 7 remote offices including overseas.
• Took over responsibility of an outdated VMware ESX 2.x environment which was comprised of 10 ESX hosts and about 100 virtual machines and migrated to ESX 3.x and then to vSphere 4.x

Senior Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Proactive consulting and capacity planning for 100+ customers
• Project management responsibilities for major rollouts of solutions
• Active Directory Design and Implementation (Member of Corporate AD design and integration)
• Reactive support engineer for 5000+ servers
• Core member of High Availability infrastructure and design team
• Member of core team for the design and implementation of Exchange infrastructure
• Tech lead for W2K and W2K3 migration project for servers running NT4 (2000+ NT4 servers in environment)
• SAN based disk storage for standalone or cluster based configurations
• Enterprise Windows NT domain model (9 master domains with 15,000+ users per domain)
• HA solutions including SQL Clustering, IIS Load Balancing, Cisco Internet Redirector and Foundry ServerIron Load Balancers (SLB and DSR)
• Windows NT/2000/2003 security solutions
• Installation and support of VMware ESX Servers, and VMware guests for customers
• Platform support (Windows NT Server 4.0 - Windows 2003) of 5000+ servers throughout the country
• Basic troubleshooting of MPE/IX and LINUX systems

Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Design and administration of Windows NT multiple master domain model
• Installation and maintenance of 100+ NT4 Servers
• Network Design
• Provided support and configuration of DHCP, WINS, IIS Web Servers, Print Servers, Backups and file services
• Engineering, configuration and maintenance of Cold Fusion 4.0 web servers
• Microsoft Exchange administration
• Project manager for Windows NT helpdesk queue
• Technical point of contact for the Southeast region for Confidential WorldCom’s Y2K project
• Mixed Ethernet and Token Ring environment

Network Administrator and Computer Support

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Windows NT Server 4.0 and Novell 3.12/ 4.11 administrator
• Network Design
• Installation and maintenance of servers
• Installation and maintenance of PC’s for customers
• The setup and maintenance of a showroom testing room

Computer Tech

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Member of the Windows 95 OSTP transition team for Confidential
• Transitioned users from Microsoft Mail to Microsoft Exchange
• Windows NT and Exchange administration
• Installation and configuration of new hardware to suit workstations
• Operating system upgrades to Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0 for over 14,000 workstations
• Troubleshooting older applications (Dbase, Oracle Office and various other Oracle Apps) to function under Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0
• Configuration of other various applications (Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Office Suites, SQL Applications, Data Warehousing)
• Network connectivity configuration and troubleshooting (TCP/IP, NetBEUI, IPX/SPX, IBM Mainframe, UNIX, OS/2, Novell Netware 3. x and 4.x and Windows NT Server 3.51 and 4.0)
• Mixed Ethernet and Token Ring environment