PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Tempe, AZ

Infrastructure Engineer, VMware SME

Responsibilities:

• Manage, deploy and upgrade ESX/ESXi and vCenter versions 5.1, 5.5 and 6.0 using Virtual Infrastructure Client, Web UI, ESXi CLI, Powershell and Power CLI. This included managing VMtools and VM Hardware Versions as well as host firmware updates.
• Utilize the vRrealize Suite including, vRealize(vCenter) Operations Manager, Log Insight, Infrastructure Navigator, VMware Update Manager, Dell Open Manage and Cisco UCSM to monitor and manage 4 vCenters including 56 datacenter hosts and 34 remote office hosts running over 800 virtual machines.
• Manage Dell R710 and R720 rack mount hosts and Cisco UCS Chassis, B200 Blades and 6200 series Fabric Interconnects.
• Member of Windows Administration team to diagnose application, Windows 2003, 2008 and 2012 operating system and virtualization performance. Acted as first and second level support for Tier 1 and 2 applications, BigIP F5 load balancer, Netbackup, Active Directory, DNS and DHCP.
• Manage Distributed vSwitches, LUNs(VMFS volumes) and Storage Policy Based Management to keep virtual platform meeting company operational criteria.
• Configure cluster settings for DRS, HA, DRS Affinity rules and groups and VM Component Protection settings.
• Deploy and manage vRealize Automation 6.x, 7.0 and 7.1, vCloud Orchestrator and vCloud Network and Security for DevOps and private cloud implementation. Role included System, Tenant and Infrastructure administration managing entire private cloud implementation for various business groups and tenants.
• Act as backup SAN administrator using EMC XtremeIO and VMAX3 and work with Storage, Network and Architecture teams to deploy new network and storage architectures.
• Deploy, diagnose and manage virtual machines for customer and internal use.
• Deployed Zerto Replication to manage and test Disaster Recovery of Tier 1 applications. Deploy vSphere Data Protection for backups of private cloud virtual machines.
• Write and schedule Powershell scripts to report health of virtualization environment and machines running within the environment.

Confidential , Tempe, AZ

Sr. VMware Engineer / Sr. Wintel Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Manage ESX/ESXi versions 4.1, 5.0, 5.1 using Virtual Infrastructure Client, ESXi CLI, Powershell, Power CLI and vCenter Operations Manager, VMware Update Manager.
• Member of support team to diagnose application, operating system and virtualization performance.
• Configure cluster settings for DRS, HA, VM fail - over and DRS Affinity rules and groups.
• Deploy Microsoft Fail-over Clusters using Server 2012.
• Monitoring of performance and cluster status using Virtual Center client and vCloud Operations Manager.
• Work with Storage, Network and Architecture teams to deploy customer solution for a global client.

Confidential, Scottsdale, AZ

Sr. VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Manage VMware implementation in four locations consisting of 40 hosts and 4 clusters.
• Deployed new ESXi hosts, Distributed Virtual Switches (dVS) and Nexus 1000v Virtual switches, Deployed vCloud Operations Manager.
• Manage ESX/ESXi versions 4.1, 5.0 using Virtual Infrastructure Client, ESXi CLI, Powershell, Power CLI and vCenter Operations Manager, VMware Update Manager.
• Deploy Site Recovery Manager for disaster recovery implementation of 32 virtual machines between 2 sites.
• Member of support team to diagnose application connectivity and core OS performance.
• Write Powershell scripts to manage virtualization environment to deploy virtual machines, report cluster statistics and change VM configuration settings as needed.
• Upgrade all clusters, vCenter Servers and hosts to vCenter 5u2, manage storage allocation and snapshots.
• Planned, managed and implemented project to migrate 100 VMs and 7 customers between two ESX platforms with no downtime.
• Monitoring of performance and cluster status using Virtual Center client and vCloud Operations Manager.
• Installed Proof of Concept Oracle Virtualization 3.0 (OVM 3.0) and Microsoft Hyper-V platforms and tested implementations of each platforms capabilities.

C onfidential, Phoenix, AZ

Sr. VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Part of a team managing 48 clusters, 300+ hosts and 6000 virtual machines. Add storage, perform V2V migrations, analyze performance and resource utilization of VMs, hosts and clusters.
• Manage ESX/ESXi versions 3.5, 4.0 and 4.1 using Virtual Infrastructure Client and Power CLI
• Member of Windows/Linux Support Team to diagnose application connectivity and core OS performance.
• Write Powershell scripts to pull real-time ESX stats for Disk IOPS to assist storage team in storage refresh project and public cloud project..
• Deployed ESX 5.0 for QA environment with18 hosts in two clusters using NAS storage and distributed virtual switches.
• Team member performing VMware Health Check Analysis.

Confidential , Scottsdale, AZ

Sr. Wintel Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Lead System Administrator of VMware ESX/ESXi infrastructure consisting of 7 VMware Clusters including 27 hosts and 300+ Virtual Machines.
• Sr. Windows System Administrator managing all aspects of AD, DNS, DHCP and Windows 2003/2008 operating system.
• Lead Microsoft Exchange Administrator managing four Exchange clusters hosting 6000 mailboxes.
• Sr. Team member on Microsoft Exchange 2010 upgrade. Deployed Exchange 2010 in lab environment including CAS load balancing and DAG storage. Working on plan for cross-domain migration from Exchange 2003 to 2010.
• Managed all aspects VMware ESX/ESXi 3.5/4.1 Virtual Server Infrastructure, deploy and maintained virtual machines, distributed virtual switches, NFS and iSCSI drive mounts, VMotion, Storage VMotion and HA/DRS on a twenty-seven ESX Host Virtual Infrastructure. Use VMware VIC, Power CLI, CLI, VMA and Powershell to perform maintenance and changes.
• Completely redesigned and rebuilt Virtual Infrastructure to provide full network access redundancy, server consolidation and meet performance metrics for servers and applications. Perform patching and daily troubleshooting, performance monitoring and maintenance of VMare Infrastructure.
• Act as part of a team managing more than 500 Dell, HP and VMware physical and virtual Windows 2003/2008 Servers in 14 locations managing all aspects of a Windows 2003/2008 Domain architecture.
• Managed NetApp Storage Devices using Data OnTap and MMC, Create Aggregates, create, manage and grow; VFilers, Volumes, CIFS Shares, NFS, iSCSI LUNS and user shares in support of various projects, servers, Exchange and VMware storage requirements.
• Assisted and acted as On-Call person to ensured 24x7x365 availability of business critical systems (VMware, Terminal Services, Citrix, Exchange, Web Services and SQL) and Tier 3 support

Confidential , Lake Mary, Fl

Vice-President of Information Technology/Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performed network administration of entire network infrastructure, maintain, repair and upgrade servers, workstations and Terminal Services environment. Ensured 24x7x365 availability of business critical systems (Terminal Services, Exchange, Web Services and SQL). Upgraded and maintained Firewalls, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam Software, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and all aspects of the Windows 2003 Server environment.
• Manage all aspect of Windows 2003 domain including, DHCP, DNS, AD, GPO and infrastructure.
• Interfaced with users and departments to assist with business development goals and information systems projects, priorities, initiatives and deliverables.
• Managed help desk, programmers and vendor relations including software, hardware, service providers and telecommunications vendors. Developed and mentored department 4 team members.
• Implemented new systems and applications to reduce labor hours, minimize data entry errors, automate daily business operations and assist individual departments and business units to meet short and long term goals.
• Developed and tested disaster recovery plans, developed systems maintenance plans and routines and developed systems and user policies and procedures.
• Managed systems application development projects including, timelines, design, deliverables and budgets.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Information Systems Director

Responsibilities:

• Managed operations of entire network infrastructure for multi-state business operations including help desk, programmers, vendor and third party relations, including; software, hardware, service providers and telecommunications vendors.
• Maintained, repaired and upgraded 24 servers, 175 workstations in four states and Citrix MetaFrame server farm. Performed all aspects of network, systems and desktop administration.
• Ensured 24x7x365 availability of business critical systems (Citrix, Exchange, Oracle, SQL) and less than eight hour downtime for non-critical systems.
• Managed and developed the budget, design, deployment and daily operations of Cisco AVVID IP Telephone system throughout the entire organization and maintained business critical Oracle 8.17 and Microsoft SQL 2000 Server databases.
• Implemented and managed, systems and applications to assist individual departments and business units to meet short and long term goals. Performed information systems project management, budgeting and asset tracking.
• Developed and tested the disaster recovery plans, developed systems maintenance plans and routines and develop systems, user and security policies and procedures.