Principal Cloud Systems Engineer Resume

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware vSphere
VMware SRM
VMware Hybrid Cloud
VMware End User Computing
Nutanix SDS
HP Proliant systems Cisco UCS Dell Servers Supermicro Servers Windows Active Directory Networking
DNS,
DHCP Window Server Linux System Support Microsoft Azure Amazon Wed Services

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Principal Cloud Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

Designed, deployed, and maintain a global Private Cloud infrastructure, comprising over 1300 hosts, 6000 VMs with multiple Operating Systems.
Lead VMWare engineer, managing deployments and operations, and responding to escalations.
On - board new tenant environments into Private Cloud, including scripting, systems integration, rightsizing, and infrastructure configuration
Datacenter operations worldwide for customer facing environments and corporate IT.
Key Contributor in migrating Production data center to Microsoft Azure resulting in over $10 million dollars in savings / year Assist Post Sales teams with larger
Key Contributor in negotiating VMware ELA renewal resulting in significate savings for RMS.

Confidential

Virtualization & Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

Provide presales consulting services (technical and business) for customers’ IT infrastructure solutions; emphasizing VMware’s technologies to address customer’s business requirements.
Qualify customers’ technical needs; develop, and deliver tailored solutions to customers.
Deliver internal product training and ‘chalk talks’ to new hires, SEs and Sales teams.
Present Confidential ’ solutions and technical proposals to prospects, and customers.
Qualify and conduct POCs for VMware and Nutanix Solutions
Assist Post Sales teams with larger implementations of VMware and Nutanix solutions
Post-sales support for VMware and Nutanix solutions to ensure customer satisfaction

Confidential

Sr. System Engineer

Responsibilities:

Designed, deployed, and maintaining VMware infrastructure to support Confidential Business units.
Successfully designed and implemented hardware and software upgrade of Virtual Infrastructure in two Data Centers, resulting in 50% reduction in CAPEX and OPEX and increased efficiency.
Deployed and maintained HP cClass blade systems.
Designed and implemented Hybrid cloud strategy.

Confidential

Sr. System Engineer

Responsibilities:

Responsible for building, monitoring, and maintaining worldwide VMware infrastructure to support Confidential business units.
Developed best practices documents for worldwide sales team supporting over 3000 Virtual Machine and 250 hosts.
Managed Vendor of Private Cloud; Provided architecture oversight to ensured vendor adhered to best practices resulting in a reliable cloud private computing environment for Confidential ’s.
Identified and resolved several issues with Confidential ’s internal Virtual Infrastructure resulting in a robust and reliable Virtual infrastructure.
Successfully upgraded three data centers totaling over 70 hosts and 900 VMs to vSphere 4 U1

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

Designed, deployed, and maintained Windows Server and VMware infrastructure that support Confidential Business units.
Designed & deployed VMware VI3 server farm supporting over 350 Virtual Machines for Production, Testing and Development environments
Deployed and maintained HP blade Servers.
Defined Server Infrastructure Standards
As Lead Server Admin was a key contributor in successfully moving two corporate Data Centers
Successfully staffed and trained offshore Level 2 Support team

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

Designed & deployed Confidential VI3 server farm and 600 + Virtual Machines for Testing and Development environments.
Designed & deployed Microsoft PKI Infrastructure for entire Enterprise to facilitate Encrypted File Systems on laptops, Web Server Certificates, and Encrypted Email.
Deployed and configured Data Domain system for disk to disk backups of critical systems to provide near line storage and provide disaster recovery coverage.
Deployed and maintained HP blade Servers.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

Created and maintained user accounts in Windows Active Directory, NetWare, Cisco Unity, and other legal application for 2000+ user Law Firm.
Monitor and maintain Windows and Netware Servers.
Build/upgrade Servers when required.
Configure and maintain critical system backups
Provide end-user computer hardware and software support.