SUMMARY:

• Systems/virtualization/SAN/backup/network administrator & engineer with over sixteen years of experience seeking a career opportunity within 45 - 60 minutes commute of the Eastern Shore, DelMarVa, Ocean City, Berlin, Salisbury Maryland areas.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Microsoft Windows Server NT: 2012 VMware vSphere ESX 3.x - 4.0; ESXi 5.x; Workstation

Microsoft Windows 3.1: 8.x vCenter Site Recovery Manager; VDR, Operations Manager

Microsoft Virtual PC; Virtual Server; Hyper: V BlackBerry Enterprise; Good Mobile Messaging

VMware Horizon View; AppVolumes; VDI Red Hat Linux 4 - 6; Ubuntu; SUN Solaris 5.x

Confidential UNIX 10.20: 11.23 EMC CLARiiON; HP EVA; NetApp; StoneFly; LeftHand

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003; 2010 HP Omniback/D Confidential Protector; CommVault Galaxy/Simpana

Microsoft SMS/SCCM; WSUS; MBSA Symantec NetBackup; Backup Exec; Backup For Workgroups

Juniper VPN/Firewall OS 4.x: 5.x; CheckPoint Microsoft SQL Server

Citrix Metaframe; XenApp; Remote Desktop Services McAfee VirusScan; Symantec AV/Endpoint Protection

HP OpenView; Systems Insight Manager Dell OpenManage; NetApp Balance; HP Insight

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Perdue Farms Salisbury, MD.

Consultant

• VMware Horizon View; ESXi and vCenter upgrades, migrations to Nutanix-based converged infrastructure hardware solutions. AppVolumes application delivery rollout. Support of View VDI environment. Day-to-day engineering; deployment and troubleshooting in a tier-3 support role

Confidential . Philadelphia, PA.

Senior Systems Engineer

• Moved a 1,500 member financial services headquarters office to a new facility while also migrating users to new hardware running Windows 7/Office 2010 instead of XP/2003
• Centralize roaming profiles; user d Confidential and implement DFS on the SAN; Migrated the primary d Confidential center to state-of-the-art location with 27x7 NOC-monitored operations
• Migrated DR d Confidential center from a local SunGard facility to a remote XAND location utilizing Level3 10Gb intra-connectivity
• Overhaul and validate all devices monitored/alerted within WUG; HPSIM and NetApp Balance. Migrated VMware ESX 4.0 to ESXi 5.0 adding Site Recovery Manager, Operations Manager and Linked D Confidential center capabilities
• Created processes & documentation for continually upgrading, maintaining & monitoring both physical/virtual servers & their applications
• Worked with DBAs ensuring that Microsoft SQL Server instances were healthy & properly maintained and that migrations of older SQL versions to newer virtualized servers fell within industry best-practices
• Moved 100+ branch locations from older Windows 2003 Dell equipment to Windows 2008 HP ProLiant’s while centralizing all DHCP/DNS operations to HQ. Utilized the following equipment for the above operations: Cisco Nexus/UCS; fibre channel NetApp SAN; HPc7000 blade chassis; HP ProLiant

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Senior Systems Engineer

• Brought 30+ server IT to a 100+ server enterprise environment (~3000 users) with documentable processes; procedures; monitoring & maintenance complying with HIPAA/PCI regulations
• Engineered/implemented a VMware vSphere ESXi v4/5 environment for both primary & DR locations utilizing NetApp iSCSI SAN; HP c7000 blade chassis & Cisco Nexus equipment
• Crafted procedures on how to convert (P2V) legacy/un-supported physical application servers to virtual machines
• Overhauled the Tools4Ever’s Monitor Magic & HP Systems Insight Manager applications to implement automation; monitoring & proactive alerting; Modernized the Exchange; ProofPoint; BES & Voltage messaging environments
• Engineered/implemented a Microsoft Office Communications Server solution for effective employee communications between multiple campuses
• Migrated the messaging & file share applications with remote-site DR capabilities while decreasing downtime/latency; Maintained ListServ groups for mass communications
• Helped implement a centralized DLP/spam/virus messaging solution to prevent the company from continually being spammed, attacked & blacklisted
• Migrated the multi-site Active Directory 2003 domain & authority to 2008; Maintained SQL instances ensuring Maintenance Plans; backups were running and the overall health was OK.
• Worked with multiple vendors for quotes; licensing & support; Provided maintenance & support of AD rights; group policies; file-share permissions; equipment provisioning; SANs; BlackBerry; networking environments & equipment

Confidential, Exton, PA

Operations Engineer

• SAN, ESX, Linux, Windows, Solaris, DR systems engineer/administrator for a global B2B processing network
• Migrated corporate headquarters and migrated and implemented a new disaster redundant off-site production d Confidential center

Confidential, Wayne, PA

Systems/SAN Administrator

• Maintenance of 150+ Wintel/HP-UX/Red Hat Linux/ Confidential AIX servers located both at corporate & branch locations which service ~4,000 employees. Implementation and maintenance of a SAN-based tape backup library, in addition to vaulting and corporate server disaster-recovery procedures
• Maintained the corporate SAN HBA’s, switches (Brocade & McD Confidential ), cabling and disk arrays (EMC CX700, HP EVA8000, and Dell PowerVault); Implemented a proactive system event log monitoring and alerting system using GFi’s SELM/EventsManager and IpSwitches WhatsUp Gold. Server maintenance and monitoring using SMS2003, WSUS, HP OpenView, Dell IT Assistant and HP SIM
• Managed and migrated physical servers to a virtual ESX farm virtual using the VMware ESX product on an HP BladeSystem c7000 utilizing the SAN for d Confidential center virtualization; Performed troubleshooting, research, beta testing and worked with multiple vendors for purchasing, orders, licensing and support contracts