TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating systems: Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008/R2 and 2012/R2, 2016

Protocols: TCP/IP, VoIP, DHCP, DNS, FTP, POP3, SMTP, SNMP, IPSec. LDAP

Networking: Routers and switches, Linksys Access points, Active Directory, Terminal services, RIS server, system and network hardening, network security, LAN/WLAN/WAN, wired and wireless networks, VPN site - to-site, TCP/IP, iSCSI, NFS

Routing Protocols: RIP, RIPv2, EIGRP, OSPF

Applications: Wireshark, Visio 2007/2010, PowerPoint 2007/2010, Outlook 2003/2007/2010, BackupExec, SharePoint 2010, Exchange 2003/2007, Exchange 2010, 2013, SQL 2005/2008R2, IIS 6, IIS 7, Blackberry server, Office Communicator 2007R2, SCCM 2007R2, Confidential XenApp 5, XenApp 6/6.5, XenDesktop/XenApp 7.x, Provisioning Services 6.0/6.1

Virtualization: VMware ESXi/ESX 3.5/4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5/6.0, VMware vCenter 4/5/5.1.5.5/6.0, Microsoft Hyper-V, XenServer 5/6, vMotion, DRS, HA, Fault Tolerance, VMware View 4.6, Xen Desktop 5.6, vCenter Infrastructure Navigator, vCenter Configuration Manager

Servers: HP BladeCenter c7000, HP BL460c G7, HP DL580G5, HP DL 380G4, Dell R610/620, Dell R710/720, Dell PowerEdge 2950, Dell PowerEdge 1750, Dell M1000e, Dell Blade M620, Cisco UCS B200 M3, UCS 5108 enclosure

Cisco products: Cisco UC500/520, Cisco 3745, 3725, 3600, 2811, 1841, 1941, 1720, IAD2431, UCS 6296 FI

Switches: Cisco Catalyst (3750, 3560, 3550, 2960, 2950), Dell PowerConnect, Force10, Brocade (ICX, CX, VDX), Nexus 5548

Wireless: 802.11B, 802.11G, 802.11N, Cisco Aironet, Meraki MR12/16

Firewall: Cisco Pix 506E, 5505, ASAV, TZ100/200/NSA240, WatchGuard x2500

SAN Storage: NetApp FAS 2040/2050/8060/8080, Dell PowerVault MD 1200/1220/3220, Dell Equallogic PS4100/6100, EMC VNXe3300, VNXe3150

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Sr. Infrastructure & Systems Architect

Responsibilities:

• Design and architect solutions for aging or newly minted customer infrastructures
• Research and recommend new software/hardware technologies for implementation in a new infrastructure
• Configuration of all system, virtual, switching and SAN technologies within Cloud, office and customers
• Management of current systems and customer infrastructures relating to systems and networking technologies
• Configure SQL cluster for POC testing playground for client application testing
• Develop the strategic plans for IT technologies growth
• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure architect & design, implementation and support
• Architect for VMware and Hyper - V virtual infrastructure
• Develop and construct customer deliverables in the form of documentation of infrastructure
• Oversee the planning, control and management of all IT infrastructure related components
• Experience in infrastructure operations strategy, planning design and implementation including continuous improvement

Confidential

Sr. Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provide extensive technical experience to provide strategic planning for enterprise server and storage systems
• Configuration of all system, virtual, switching and SAN technologies within the virtual datacenter
• Management of current systems and customer infrastructures relating to systems and networking technologies
• Support and maintain a largely virtualized VMware environment
• Direct control of FC zoning across nexus fibre switches for SAN availability to the virtual environment
• Administration and management of 3000+ VMs across 128 UCS hosts and 16 chassis
• Direct management of a multi Cisco UCS Domain and VMware environment- vSphere 5.x & 6.x
• Administration and troubleshooting including datastore clusters, HA, DRS, and distributed switches-design
• Administration of several core Microsoft applications (Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Exchange/O365, Azure)
• Architecting server system and storage solutions for current deployed and planning for DR expansion
• Execution of infrastructure operations strategy, planning design and implementation including continuous improvement
• Proactively adjusting virtual environment and datastore clusters related to VM performance using trend analysis and a variety of reporting tools

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Overall design and development of new implementation process and configurations for all system and virtualization technologies
• Configuration of highly available and redundant VMWare infrastructure (ESXi, vSphere products, vCenter) and SAN architecture
• Configuration and management of all virtual switching solutions such as Nexus 1000V and vSS and vDS
• Configured servers and network equipment with improved efficiency and maintainability
• Architected the virtual VMware environment in which the product gateway runs on
• Install EMC VNXe3150 SAN for all products and configure for operational use
• Provide technical experience for government programs relative to information and vulnerability analysis
• Deployed all VMs for products and internal VMware and Hyper-V environments
• Create and configure LUN volumes on EMC SAN
• Designed an easy to deploy modular virtual solution and created a vSphere automation infrastructure for new/updated hosts
• Guest OS administration and management for Microsoft related products and varies Linux flavors
• Daily Administration for virtual environment consisting of 1000+ VMs across 3 vCenter security zones
• Designed and implement virtual traffic networking with Cisco Nexus data center products using NX-OS
• Managed highly available SAN infrastructure using tiered storage pools on varies EMC products
• Troubleshoot any and all issues related to storage, systems, virtualization and virtual networking

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Infrastructure Engineer II

Responsibilities:

• Provided planning, designing, and configuration for the Windows Operating System, Wintel hardware, VMware and Confidential environments
• Installed and configured new Cisco UCS with B200 M3 blades to migrated from aging Dell R720 servers
• Worked with clients to understand requirements, and translating those requirements into system design for builds.
• Managed 8 VMware clusters and two vCenter instances across a stretched layer-2 clustering
• Implemented test plans, migration plans, and delivery plans and develop business continuity processes
• Devolved vCloud IaaS plan for new server creation and resource control
• Direct management and administration of 3000+ VMs and 200 ESXi hosts between two physical datacenters
• Performed infrastructure health checks and monthly maintenance updates on all vSphere related products
• Prepared and clearly describe the design, including rationale for decisions and implications of decisions
• Served as level three support for any VMware and Confidential infrastructure related issues.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Dual responsibility for the overall a Confidential and VMware architecture for support center and hospitals
• Daily support and maintenance of the VMware and Confidential virtual infrastructure environments
• Coordinate with Project Managers and business owners for new projects and implementations
• Direct management of 80+ ESXi hosts and 700+ virtual machines for the organization
• Upgraded and installed all servers up to 2008 R2 and server 2012
• Administration and management of 3 vCenter instances between three datacenter locations
• Designed, install and maintain a scalable and highly-available VMware virtual infrastructure
• Managed all VMs and Windows systems for administration and support
• Managed 15 VMware clusters broken up into load and function for VMs and use case
• Installed Additional EMC and NetApp shelves for increased capacity
• Responsible for management for DMZ, external and internal Confidential NetScaler MPX load balancers
• Administration of Oracle Fabric Manager for fabric network for VMware interconnectivity
• Network support, administration and design for VMware and Confidential related products
• Installed new G8 blades on C7000 blade chassis for growing capacity
• Assisted other team members with Exchange, AD and storage related tasks when needed
• Configured new Confidential and VMware host builds to support all mission critical VMs
• Installed and configured a full scale Cisco UCS domain for both hospitals
• Built POC for 300 user pilot VDI using Cisco UCS products; Nexus switches, Fabric interconnects and M3 blades
• Updates to 4.1 and 5.1 migrations to new BL460c blade onto c7000 environments
• Implemented and managed a Confidential PVS 6.1 and multi-server XenApp 6.5 Farm
• Responsible for developing all architectural standards relating to the VMware and Confidential infrastructure
• Administration of EMC and NetApp LUNs and FC relating to the VMware clusters

Confidential, Phoenix, FL

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Network and systems support for a wide range of SMB clients
• AD upgrades from 2003 to 2008 or 2012 server operating systems
• Performed Exchange migrations from Exchange 2007\2010 to 2013
• Implemented several Confidential XenDesktop 6 and XenApp 6.5 environments for customer base
• Performed Cisco Meraki AP surveys and implemented Confidential for best coverage and range
• Directly managed 400+ VMs and 30 hosts and unique instances of vCenter for clients
• Managed internal tenant cloud infrastructure containing VMware, XenServer and Hyper-V technologies
• Worked on escalated tickets from level II support and performed mentoring to Jr. level Admins
• Designed and implemented refreshed Confidential environments for clients
• Daily administration and management of VMware infrastructures and networks for customers
• Designed and implemented Network refreshes and troubleshooting regarding Cisco technologies

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Daily support and administration for client virtual and physical server environments
• Scope out and build virtual infrastructure for new client migrations and redesigns of infrastructure
• Provide support for Level l engineers and cross-train on configurations and implementations
• Design network foundation for virtual configurations based on ESXi platforms
• Configure SAN devices for multi-host shared storage configurations
• Troubleshoot all virtual, networking and storage related issues
• Built and maintained a 8-node cluster with 3 vCenter instances (prod, POC, dev) for Confidential ’s IaaS platform
• Make use of vCenter enterprise and standard features including; DRS, HA, vDS and FT
• Managing exchange 2007/2010 and 2013 servers as well as weekly administration
• Network and security support for clients including; Confidential 's and Confidential
• Designed network foundation for multitenant infrastructure: ex, Tenants VLAN's, stacked switches, fabric configuration, Public IP VLAN for tenants, MTU, VPN tunnels
• Designed management cluster for all VMware solution products: ex, vCenter, vCloud Director, vCenter Operations Manager, vShield, vCenter Chargeback and SQL cluster servers
• Designed Tenant hosts and infrastructure using organization networks and separate vApps
• Implemented provider vDC for clients and created templates for future deployments
• Designed and implemented Veeam Backup to Dell DR4100 backup appliance with deduplication and compression
• Managing infrastructure changes and onboarding process for tenants - testing phase

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed service provider for 35+ clients in the tri-county area
• Manage, support and administration of 500+ physical and VM servers for varies clients
• Perform Exchange Migrations 2003/2007 to 2010 or migrations to Office 365
• Implementing a VMware or VDI infrastructure for clients moving away from physical workstations
• Design new network infrastructures for client and prepare hand-off documentation
• Managed and configured SQL clusters on failover settings
• Designed and implement full ESXi clusters will shared storage
• Application load balancing for web servers, configuring HA, hardware failover and weighted round-robin
• Configured Cisco 1841 on client premises and apply ACL’s depending on services
• ASA/ Confidential /WatchGuard Firewall changes and processes depending on client needs and accessibly
• Administration for varies deployments of virtualized environments with Hyper-V and/or ESXi
• Created Site-to-site VPN tunnels using Watchgaurd, Confidential and Confidential firewalls.
• Managed active directory and full administration for all clients, processes and new/existing users
• Designed, implemented and managed multi host ESXi infrastructures using vCenter administration
• Internal networking reconfiguring, VLAN additions and multi-subnet/domain environments
• Implemented and managed VMware or Confidential VDI environments
• Managed and administration of Confidential XenApp farms for clients rolled out with thin-client infrastructures

Confidential, Coconut Creek, FL

Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• IT outsourced support for 10+ managed clients and 50+ telephony contracted clients
• Manage ACL’s and site-to-site VPN connection between same client remote sites
• Implemented Cisco CME installs and in some cases a full Unified Communication Manager deployment
• Managed varies server platforms from windows 2000 to 2008 R2
• Configured VLANs for network separations when introducing a physical to Virtual environment redesign
• Designed new customer implantations; domain registration, Active directory and Exchange 2007/2010 environments
• Configured Cisco routers with T-1 and PRI termination from vendor provide IAD routers
• Applied advanced switch configurations to a SAN storages when iSCSI and MTU size increases were needed
• Managed full VMware ESXi virtualized client environments
• Managed a SharePoint 2003 environment with Website, Remote Access and File Management services
• Configured Confidential 5505’s for VPN-tunnels and Phone Proxy support for traveling clients
• Managed Call Manager changes and configurations for clients with implemented product

Confidential

IT Service Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented Office Communicator Server 2007R2 infrastructure phase 1
• Planned, coordinated and executed a Windows XP pro to Windows 7 migration for 150+ users
• Managed 15 virtualized servers and 2 clusters using VMware ESX 3.5
• Configured port access and restrictions using Lucent Firewall for new services or decommissioned services
• Designed and Implemented a System Center Configuration Manager 2007R2 and System Center Operation Manager 2007R2 infrastructure
• Maintained an internal office LAN/WLAN
• In progress migration from a 2003 server infrastructure to windows server 2008 environment
• Designing and executing a restructure of Active Directory OU’s, Group Policy, user groups and permissions
• Complete AD restructuring; naming conventions, delegations
• Administered a budget for new equipment purchases and hardware refreshes
• Migrated OCS 2007 R2 to a Lync 2010 environment

Confidential, Miramar, FL

Telecommunication Lab Technician

Responsibilities:

• Implemented a managed server environment on an experimental network for production
• Configured multiple virtual vlan configurations for designated DHCP scopes for, phones, pc, AP’s and servers
• Configured Cisco Aironet with WPA and TKIP using RADIUS authentication
• Set up Cisco routers, switches and Extreme switches for student labs
• Tested and installed VoIP labs on cisco 3745 routers using IPSec tunnel for voice transport
• Designed experimental environments with 3+ servers
• Documented manuals for students and professors
• Configured and managed IP phones through CME 7.0 and Cisco Unity Express
• Troubleshot 30+ Cisco routers and switches
• Layer 1 - 4 troubleshooting using TCP/IP fundamentals

Confidential

Jr Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and maintained category 5/6 cables along with fiber optic implementation
• Repaired software and hardware related computer issues
• Maintained and designed a PCI compliance environment for customers and data
• Data and disaster recovery for company back-ups
• Remote server maintenance and active directory support for clients
• Configured Cisco PIX firewall, routers, switches and Alpine 3800 series switches for reliable client networks
• T-1 installations and Cable/DSL set-up for smaller companies
• Maintained a Server 2000/2003 infrastructure