SKILLS:

• Excellent communication, interpersonal, time management, organizational, and attention to detail.
• Go - getter attitude with a happy attitude and self-fulfillment of helping others.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Confidential, Edison, New Jersey

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Team to identify Gaps in reference to operational components needing improvement
• Worked with Team to Automate Build Process and Procedures via Powershell
• Worked with Team to Develop Process around BIOS/Firmware upgrades for Dell hardware
• Evaluated Vendors for the basis of analyzing SOX controls and systems to access compliance in environment - e.g. NIST/CIS, tool- Tenable Nessus
• In discussion with ServiceNOW team to reduce Time to Repair on high volume tickets
• Working with Team to plan AWS migration, analyzing infrastructure and resources
• Analyze Confidential environment for P2V on Physical systems, working with Confidential on Getting access to capacity Planner
• Work with MacAfee Intel, in discovering SOX compliance module
• Analyze GRC Suite tools for integration with Logging tools, e.g. Tripwire, RSA Archer

Confidential, Long Island

Infrastructure Architect / Admin

Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure Operations / DR Project
• Work with Team of Architects to Design / Deploy
• Develop team of engineers to support operations
• HP to UCS migration (DMZ/SQL/PROD/Citrix Clusters)
• UCS to UCS migration
• Install/Manage/Configure Confidential Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 150 VMs
• Work with application teams to test and identify configuration per app
• PowerCLI Scripts to maintain volume repetitive tasks

Technologies: Server - UCS 6200 Series/HP DL 580/(vCenter/ESXi 5.5.x), Storage-VNX/VMAX/VPLEX, Network - Nexus 2k/5k/7k, ASA firewall, f5 Loadbalancer / Netscaler, Infoblox - IPAM.

Confidential

Cloud Team

Responsibilities:

• Participated with existing internal personnel to develop vRealize Automation 6.2 and Application Services 6.2
• Exposure to Confidential Infrastructure components & Troubleshooting
• Worked with teams to support existing automated provisioning efforts in IaaS layer Blueprinting and participated with team in automated provisioning requirements for PaaS components via Application Services Blueprinting.
• In concert with Confidential programmers, Exposed to vCO, Javascript, JSON, Rest APIs, Powershell, shell-bash (Programming experience Beginner to Intermediate, worked with team of Software Engineers in understanding their implementation goals and project initiatives)
• Blueprints for Confidential, Oracle, IBM WAS and MS-SQL, (Informatica, Confidential Developed initiative) Contributed to and understood

Confidential

Pre-Sales Architect

Responsibilities:

• POC Environment work for Developing Blueprints to Confidential 5.2 to 6.2 vRealize upgrade
• Worked internally with Confidential personnel to establish lab environment for rolling out blueprints for Self-healing, Storage provisioning, and MS-SQL as a Service.
• Demo for MS-SQL provisioning and ServiceNOW integration provided with team for Internal Automation team at TimeWarner/CNN offices Atlanta.
• Software Engineering discussion around Continuous Integration and Containerized / Standardized Deployments for applications, Infrastructure, OS (Win/Nix).

Confidential

Trainer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with New Hires Learning vRA/vRO
• Developed Workflows for automating provisioning
• Workflows created ( Confidential, MS-SQL, IBM - WAS
• Cloud Provisioning against Confidential Air, AWS, Azure, Softlayer cloud infra REST APIs (WIN/NIX Instances) vCloud Air API
• AWS API
• Azure PowerShell Module
• Softlayer API
• Prebuilt templates/Blueprints backed with javascript code.
• Bash and Powershell used for custom install scripts called from workflows.

Confidential, Wembly England

Confidential Engineer / Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Management of Private Cloud Infrastructure
• Deliver presales architecture and diagnostics support
• Deliver support for clients in a post - Sales Engineering role
• Active management of Workload Covered Network, Server, Storage, Virtualization, OS
• Implemented and delivered Architecture Review, Confidential upgrade from 5.1 to 5.5
• Managed services include; Services managed, DNS/FTP/SSH/AD, vCenter, vOrchestrator, Workflow Creation API SOAP/REST integration with serviceNOW, VUM, SQL. Hardware HP p2000 arrays, HP c7k BL460c G6, Dell R720, Compellent Storage

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Confidential Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Work with Teams to train up members on Confidential and Management thereof.
• Confidential vSphere 5.1 Management Infrastructure Stand up & Documentation
• System Integration Dell R815 Environment
• Planning of Environment Upgrade and Migration to VI 5.1
• Working with Storage Teams on VMAX /Clarion Environments, SRM Planning & Design
• Work with Team Members on Cisco UCS environment Standup / Troubleshooting
• Develop Standards for internal day to day management processes
• Worked on Scripted Data Collection validating infrastructure state (PowerCli).
• Dell Firmware management OMSA/DRMK, Confidential update management VUM install

Confidential

Confidential Consulting Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design and assist with Deployment methodologies and training for internal personal.
• Work with customer s external facing for Confidential upgrades, Migrations, Roll outs to esxi / vSphere 5.1.
• Working with customers in SRM environments to design, deploy and manage integration / operations plans.
• Worked with Confidential FAS arrays and Data ONTAP

Confidential, New York

Architect

Responsibilities:

• vSphere 5 upgrade
• PowerCLI automation of environment for the basis or provisioning and analysis
• Guidance on architecture for DR based integration SRM, Zerto
• Testing and evaluation of 10 Gig performances with HP BL490 servers / Virtual Connect / Confidential Virtual Distributed Switch.
• Development of architecture documentation and operation run books.
• Advanced Troubleshooting of environment variables.

Confidential, Florida

Architect

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Client in regards to existing vBlock infrastructure.
• Analysis for the layout of the environment.
• Assisted customer with automation scripts using powerCLI
• Design build VM provisioning process
• Instruct staff on how to manage changes via automation with PowerCLI/Powershell for Confidential environments