SUMMARY

• I am an Sr. Systems Engineer with a passion for hard work and fast - paced, challenging environments.
• I m a natural leader and thrive in situations where I can demonstrate my ability to plan and carry out both short-term and long-term objectives.
• I am searching for a long-term professional home where I can be consistently challenged and where innovation and achievement are recognized and appreciated.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of Linux and Windows Systems Engineers
• Lead the migration of a production datacenter to a new facility
• Drive outage and incident response as well as complete root cause analyses
• Work closely with other business units and development teams to provide engineering and architecture guidance
• Define standards and processes to be used on infrastructure hardware and applications
• Define VMware standards and verify that current VM infrastructure meets those standards
• Deploy Windows and Linux virtual machines to meet business requirements
• Configure and manage Cisco UCS hardware and blades to run VMware ESXi
• Configure VMware vCenter to enable HA, DRS and Storage DRS technologies
• Configure and manage NetApp FAS2552 and FAS8020 storage arrays in production and disaster recovery locations
• Manage data compliance as well as back and restore requests with EMC Avamar and Data Domain
• Manage Active Directory and Group Policies for all forests and domains
• Manage Windows server patching with WSUS and PowerShell scripts for automation
• Work with other business units and teams on any operational issues that arise and impact their work and development cycles
• Implement Zenoss monitoring solution to consolidate and expand on existing monitoring by Nagios and SolarWinds
• Leverage Zenoss monitoring tools to create performance and availability reports
• Act as escalation point for complex problems and incidents

Sr. systems engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and configured VMware datacenter leveraging a Dell EqualLogic SAN
• Managed Active Directory using administrative tools as well as PowerShell cmdlets and scripts
• Configured and managed WSUS servers leveraging Active Directory and group policies for update adherence
• Managed Red Hat Enterprise and CentOS Linux servers with an Apache and MySQL based application
• Managed monitoring solutions including SolarWinds and Zenoss
• Evaluated configuration management systems including Puppet, Chef, Salt and Docker
• Implemented configuration management system using Open Source Puppet
• Deployed NTP, SNMP and MySQL configurations with Puppet

Sr. systems engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and configured datacenter solution with VMware, Cisco UCS, EMC VNX and Cisco networking.
• Documented installs including physical and logical Visio diagrams
• Led Engineering team and served as project manager for datacenter deployment
• Provided project status to upper management and business owners
• Configured datacenter networking using Cisco ASA firewalls, Catalyst 3850 and 2960 switches
• Configured SPAN ports for Alert Logic IDS devices
• Configured EMC VNX SAN for fiber connectivity to UCS blades
• Configured Cisco UCS chassis with 6248 Fabric Interconnects and B series blades
• Supported .Net application on Windows Server 2012 and IIS

IT Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed, trained and evaluated a team of local and remote Network and System Architects, Engineers and Administrators.
• Created yearly forecast for both capex and opex spend, as well as tracking any variances throughout the year
• Provided leadership, mentoring, development opportunities and Subject Matter Expertise to a high performing technical team
• Responsible for the formulation and implementation of goals and plans
• Responsible for resource planning, managing team workload, budget management including developing and maintaining annual budget.
• Single point of responsibility for the quality, timely delivery and cost effectiveness of data network projects and support activities
• Worked closely with other teams and business units to design and implement correct solutions for project requirements
• Created a team roadmap and led all projects to completion in a timely and cost-effective manner
• Negotiated all MPLS and Internet contracts, doubling bandwidth while saving over 1 million dollars per year
• Designed and configured VMware ESXi 5 datacenter including multiple clusters and application pools for development and production
• Configured Cisco UCS blades to run ESXi 5, Updated to 5 Update 1
• Deployed and managed Palo Alto Firewalls to Datacenter and branch offices decommissioning Checkpoint firewalls
• Configured Windows clustering and Fail-over cluster for SQL clusters on Server 2003/2008
• Managed A10 and F5 load balancers to distribute web traffic
• Configured Zenoss monitoring for all server/network equipment and websites using SNMP, WMI via Python scripts

IT Infrastructure Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team including both Full-time and Contract employees
• Trained staff on all current technologies being used for better after hours support and problem remediation
• Designed and oversaw Exchange 2010 implementation from Exchange 2003
• Managed Exchange 2010 cluster with multiple CAS and DAG nodes
• Configured OWA access through Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010
• Configured and managed SQL 2005 servers
• Built and managed a Zenoss Core monitoring solution for entire Infrastructure
• Deployed EMC NS-480 SAN/NAS solution with FC/iSCSI access
• Built a VMware vSphere 4.1 Enterprise cluster w/ DRS and HA support
• Built multiple VMware ESXi hosts for QA/Test guest servers
• Managed Axway B2B and EDI systems