SUMMARY:

• Experience using a wide variety of virtualization, scripting, and automation tools to optimize deployment and management of physical and virtual infrastructure, integrating with 3rd party APIs to provide end - to-end orchestration. I strive to continuously learn about emerging technologies and apply that knowledge to my daily activities.
• Helped lead and provide guidance for the adoption of Agile methodology.
• Designed, tested, and implemented the next-generation internal private cloud infrastructure, servicing over 1500 VMs
• Evaluated, tested, and conducted numerous PoCs validating use cases and design for Nutanix.
• Managed six vCloud Director instances in geographically distinct datacenter locations, each housing between 20 to 150 individual tenants.
• Developed a datacenter migration plan in concert with two other individuals, including the expected costs and benefits, budgetary concerns, and setting timeline expectations.
• Designed and implemented the transition from a limited virtualization environment (one host), to a 94% virtualized environment consisting of a 25 host/6 cluster/2 datacenters solution (ESXi 4.x).
• Developed, Tested, and Implemented an end-to-end migration script that successfully migrated over 1500 virtual workloads with minimal downtime.
• Research, Designed, and Documented a global Chef Server implementation with high availability.
• Spearheaded the Converged Systems Team’s Established Git standards for Converged Systems and ACI Development teams.
• Created multiple vCenter Orchestrator workflows to automate self-provisioning of customer vCloud resources, including a wide variety of OS/Server/Application configurations - in one case saving 12 manhours per implementation.
• Authored several specialized PowerShell scripts to automate user creation, audit subnets, test and verify VMware configurations, and other systems administration tasks.
• Created a five-year strategic plan for Unity’s Storage and Virtualization infrastructure, including the creation of a three tiered service offering to meet Unity’s varied needs.
• Created an extensive home lab with vSphere 6, Orchestrator, and NFS/iSCSI central storage.

COMPUTER SKILLS:

Software: Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Git, vSphere 4.x/5.x/6.x, vRealize Suite, VMware Orchestrator, Confidential, Jenkins, ServiceNow

OS: Debian, RedHat, Windows Server 2008/2012, Windows 7/8/10

Hardware: VBLOCK, UCS, Nutanix, VXRail

Cloud: Azure, vRealize Automation, VMware vCloud

Programming: PowerShell, VMware/Cisco PowerShell plugins, Ruby, JavaScript, Windows Scripting, Unix Scripting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Primary driver/leader for leveraging Artifactory for PowerShell modules, leading to the formation of a test-driven CI/CD Pipeline.
• Automated the migration from legacy cloud platform (vCloud Director) to vRealize Automation with minimal required downtime for over 1500 servers.
• Developed Confidential strategy for multi-datacenter deployment including integration with Palo Alto/Panorama.
• Developed, Tested, and Implemented a custom vRealize Automation / ServiceNow integration system, providing a customizable service portal for an internal private cloud.

Confidential

Senior Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Successfully demonstrated a full stack deployment of Adobe Experience Manager, leveraging Chef, Orchestrator, and vRealize Automation.
• Led the Converged Team’s first attempt at adhering to Agile practices by establishing short, medium, and long term goals in Rally (ALM) and holding regular stand-ups/sprints with the team in Pune, India & Winghaven.
• Created a suite of VMware and UCS scripts that enabled automated deployment of hardware, reporting/heat-mapping, and insight into factors that affect system stability.

Confidential

Senior IT Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed storage standards for SQL VMs; optimized Linux VM kernel options for VMware implementation.
• Helped drive major effort to migrate QA/Dev systems from a shared, over-provisioned vCenter data center to a greenfield data center - including bringing the greenfield data center up to vSphere 5.5, configuring a Distributed Virtual Switch, and offering design guidelines for storage pools.
• Leveraged PowerShell to combine VMware reports from multiple sources (including SharePoint lists) to create comprehensive list of Virtual Machine inventory. This was used for FedRAMP Certification efforts in addition to aiding in the datacenter migration.

Confidential

Senior DevOps Engineer / Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Utilized VMware Orchestrator to automate the deployment of new tenants in vCloud, reducing 2 hours of work to approximately 30 seconds.
• Automated Fortinet provisioning processes with Orchestrator’s SOAP API plugin, saving additional man hours while standardizing the end results.
• Utilized Puppet to ensure required PowerShell scripts were identical at five geographical distinct datacenters.
• Standardized new Nimsoft robot deployments utilizing standalone Puppet and custom facts.
• Designed, installed, and managed a central Git repository with self-updating code via post-update hooks & Ruby/SinatraRB.

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Lead the efforts to migrate a datacenter belonging to Unity’s sister company ACM to a new datacenter. This included creating classification criteria for VMs and physical servers, extrapolating compute and storage requirements, research and select hardware to meet the requirements, and formulate a plan for migrating each server.
• Recognized the need for a strategic plan for VMware/Storage infrastructure and proceeded to document Unity’s first ever five year virtualization and storage plan. Including upgrading multiple outdated VMware environments to current versions.
• Designed the Virtualization and Storage infrastructure for Unity’s implementation of the Lawson software product.
• Identified and researched alternative cost-effective solutions for document management, instant messaging, and VMware capacity management.

Confidential, NY

Network Engineer / Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Leveraged multiple VB scripts and PowerShell scripts to aid in automation of the creation of local users on over 100 servers in the absence of Active Directory (saving approximately 13 hours), bulk file manipulation (shrinking approximately 4 hours of constant work down to an automated process).