PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 18+ years of experience specialized in all aspects of server infrastructure, this is includes virtualization, storage, configuration management, scripting, cloud, operating systems(VMware, Red Hat, & Windows), licensing, contracts, employee development and .
• Very involved in the day to day leadership of the system administration and storage team members.
• Expert knowledge in VMware vSphere implementations, migrations, upgrades, & administration.
• Expert knowledge in architecting VMware virtual environments for specific application systems to the needs of the business.
• Expert in writing automation scripts to move large scale virtual environments from old environments to newly upgraded, from vsphere upgrades, migrations to VXLan for vmware networking, and moving VMs to new storage and decommissioning old storage VMFS datastores.
• Expert Knowledge in managing large enterprise server environments (1500+) consisting of RedHat Linux, Windows Server, and VMware ESXi servers.
• Expert Knowledge in server equipment hardware standalone, blades, & chassis (c7000), HP, IBM, DELL, Cisco UCS.
• Expert knowledge in configuring VMware environments to comply with Oracle licensing guidelines of Oracle products such as Oracle RAC Databases and Oracle Middleware.
• Excellent knowledge in scripting technologies such as BASH, VMware PowerCLI, Powershell.
• Excellent knowledge of managing Redhat linux systems using Redhat Satellite 6.3 and HP Server manager, for patching and configuration management.
• Excellent knowledge of large SAN envrionments, day to day management, provisioning Luns from EMC VMAX & XtremIO, 1.5PB storage environment.
• Excellent knowledge on deploying and supporting Windows solutions and configurations including Microsoft clustering/SQL clustered environments.
• Excellent knowledge of system administrators, from one on one to formal led s on new technologies.
• Excellent knowledge of automated VMware storage migrations from one SAN environments to another.
• Excellent knowledge of consolidating physical environments to VMware virtual and cloud.
• Excellent knowledge in configuring environments to comply with governances such as ITIL, PCI, and HIPPA
• Experienced in advising Managers & Directors on technical matters, licensing, forecasting, & researching new technologies.
• Worked in automating routine activities such as VMware vm provisioning, ESXi automatic patching, and many other routing vSphere management tasks.

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE:

• VMware vSphere 5,5.5,6.0,6.5,6.7 vRealize Operations Management
• VMware Site Recovery Manager
• AWS
• EMC XtremIO
• EMC VMAX
• EMC Isilon
• RedHat 5,6, & 7
• Microsoft Server 2k8,2k12,& 2k16
• ESXi 5,5.5,6.0,6.5,6.7
• Microsoft Office 2k12,2k13, & Office 365
• Google Gsuite apps
• Cherwell Helpdesk System
• HP Service Manager
• Cisco Jabber
• Webex/GoToMeeting/BlueJeans
• Google Hangouts instant messenger
• VMware Powercli 6.5
• Bash / SED & AWK
• Microsoft Powershell / cmd / vbs
• Redhat Satellite 6.2
• HP Server Automation
• HP Sitescope
• VMware vSOM(vCops)
• Splunk
• Ansible
• Azure
• VMWare on AWS
• Containers

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Piscataway, NJ

Systems Admin

Responsibilities:

• Team lead with 10 members consisting of system administrators, systems analysts, & storage administrators.
• Accountable for the support of both virtual and physical servers (>1500 HP/VMware/AWS servers running Linux, Windows & Unix) which house the main business revenue business drivers (including Confidential Xplore, Confidential Spectrum, Confidential Standards Applications, Confidential applications).
• Consolidated satellite data centers to the Confidential operations center and expanded the VMware environment to reduce the physical footprint by 90%.
• Virtualization experience includes roles as architect, SME, & implementer using the following technologies VMware vSphere, VMware Thin App, vSOM(vCOPs), SRM.
• SME/Architect in migrations and upgrades of VMware vSphere environments (Windows & VCSA appliance) of all versions. Currently support 6 vCenter servers with a total of 1400+ VMs in multiple geographically separated datacenters.
• Developed & implemented automation strategies for OS provisioning, patching, and day - to-day administration tasks for our large scale VMware environment using VMware PowerCLI, Powershell, & windows scheduler.
• Manage 1.5 PB of storage; SAN, NAS, de-duplication. Consolidation and implementation of flash storage with de-duplication and compression to reduce operating costs and storage footprint.
• Experienced in day to day storage administration using EMC XtremIO, EMC VMAX, EMC Isilon, EMC Clarion and played primary key roles in investigating new storage technologies such as Pure, Rubrik, and Nimble for the storage needs of tomorrow.
• Support over 1000+ RedHat installations (RHEL 5,6, &7), 250+ Windows Server installations(2008,2012, & 2016), and 50+ Windows 10 installations. Mix of Virtual (90%, Physical (%5), and Cloud (%5).
• Enforce system & security policies according to PCI compliance and CIS benchmarks.
• Patch and support RHEL(Redhat Satellite 6.2) & Windows(WSUS) in order to maintain PCI compliance in all of our outward facing systems.
• Key contributor to implementing Confidential hybrid cloud solution leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS) including support/management of nine AWS accounts.
• Responsible for team meeting and exceeding SLA requirements for critical services established with key business partners, including 24hr coverage.
• Initiate, negotiate, maintain and renew contracts with support and hardware supply vendors.
• Key contributor to Disaster Recovery activities; building and maintaining warm site, data replication, and testing.
• Created a costing model to compare on premise architecture to cloud solutions that is used in business case rationale in developing final recommendations.
• Key Contributor is designing and configuring VMware images to be used for Oracle RAC 11g/12c using VMware’s Multi-Writer(shared disks) configurations
• Prepare recommendations, conduct evaluations and research new and emerging technologies.
• Highly sought out problem solver for most difficult and complex technical issues.
• Day to day leadership and mentoring of staff of the Sysadmin & Storage team.

Confidential, Perth Amboy, NJ

Sr. Network Technician

Responsibilities:

• Configure, maintain and administer an integrated Windows 2003 Active Directory.
• Extensive experience in Microsoft Exchange 2000/2003 environment in addition to completing an Exchange NT to Exchange 2003 migration.
• Experience in migrations & administrating from an Active Directory 2000 to Active Directory 2003 environments.
• Experienced in supporting Microsoft File & Print environments, also experienced in supporting DFS (Distributed File System) for our network file servers.
• Configure and maintain our 802.11G wireless network so that unscheduled downtime is minimized and kept secure through WEP security.
• Extensive systems experience including network maintenance, troubleshooting, up-grades, installation of and support for: Servers, Software (including Windows XP, 2003 and 2000), printers, and peripheral equipment.
• Managed users & computers through group policies within an AD Environment.
• Experienced in running & managing Exchange 2000 in an Active Directory environment, and also experienced in migration from Exchange .
• Create department specific PC Images for XP/Win2000 workstations to be rolled in an Active Directory environment.
• Perform general hardware/software support to over 3000 users in a mixed NT/Win2k/Netware environment on the desktop & administrative level.
• Configuration and installation of over 1000 XP workstations, network printers, etc.

Confidential, Perth Amboy, NJ

Network Technician

Responsibilities:

• Managed users & computers through group policies within an AD Environment.
• Experienced in running & managing Exchange 2000 in an Active Directory environment, and also experienced in migration from Exchange .
• Create department specific PC Images for XP/Win2000 workstations to be rolled in an Active Directory environment.
• Perform general hardware/software support to over 3000 users in a mixed NT/Win2k/Netware environment on the desktop & administrative level.
• Configuration and installation of over 1000 XP workstations, network printers, etc.

Confidential, Edison, NJ

PC Technician

Responsibilities:

• Resolve network issues from pc to telecom closets, troubleshooting every aspect of the network to resolve issues in a timely manner.
• Install/Fix/Change RAM, sound cards, hard disks and Zip Drives.
• Supported Windows operating systems such as 2000 Pro/98/95/NT4.0.
• Supported IBM & Compaq laptops for our mobile users.
• Experience in ghosting PC's for large scale rollouts.