SUMMARY:

• Precision personified, from the enterprise to the cloud.
• An energetic, innovative and collaborative information technology professional with extensive experience across a diverse array of operational silos.
• Directs the successful integration of assets between facilities, ensuring optimization of resources while exceeding company goals. Maintains systems while troubleshooting difficult issues with clients.
• Facilitates the automation of processes to secure a seamless user experience.
• An inspiring and creative thinker who implements precise and cost - conscious resolutions to problems.
• Through disciplined motivation and constructive leadership, enhances performance and productivity of a wide variety of functions. Implements broad-minded and astute methodologies to consistently drive growth and opportunity for any organization.
• Virtualization | Windows Administration | Cloud Computing | Tech Refreshes | Hyperconverged Architecture
• Data Migration | Database Deployment | Disaster Recovery | Infrastructure Implementation
• Process Improvement | Application Deployment | Automation | Managed Hosting

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Platforms: Windows (7, 8, 10, 2003, 2008, 2012, 2016), VMware ESX/ESXi (4.x, 5.x, 6.x), Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, iSeries

Scripting: Powershell, PowerCLI

Software/Tools: VMware (VSphere, VRA, VRO), NetIQ, Dynatrace, SiteScope, Solarwinds, CommVault, Avamar, Microsoft Sharepoint, Service Now, Cherwell, McAfee EPO 8.8, Trend Micro Office Scan XG, RapidDR, Ivanti, Microsoft SCCM, EMC (Navisphere, SANCopy, Analyzer, and Snapview), Microsoft Office (2010, 2013, 2016), Client Access, Symantec Anti-Virus, Citrix

Hardware: Cisco UCS, HP Proliant, HP Simplivity, Dell, EMC, NetApp

Methodologies: Agile, ITIL, DevOps

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Fort Worth, Texas

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead engineer responsible for comprehensive disaster recovery planning and testing for vital and critical applications.
• Collaborate with infrastructure architects to help develop holistic solutions that address a variety of technical challenges.
• Create documentation for requirements, architectural designs, engineering drawings and diagrams, as well as operational policies and procedures.
• Troubleshoot and support Windows 2008/2012/2016 VMs, along with administering Active Directory.
• Install, configure, and administer vSphere 6.x clustered environments.
• Develop and document best practices for system installation, deployment, and operation.

Confidential, Coppell, Texas

Senior Platform Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Perform intricate multi-staged migrations of customers’ environments.
• Work with development teams to further operationalize applications with a focus on repeatability, redundancy, and scalability.
• Translate business requirements into technical infrastructure design solutions required to support enterprise-wide applications.
• Participate in internal development and testing of monitoring, analytics, and troubleshooting tools.
• Deliver complex virtual infrastructure solutions which follow internal standards, compliance, and best practices, while meeting the needs and requirements of the business.
• Partner with enterprise architecture to recommend migration strategies, policies, and procedures by evaluating prior outcomes; identifying problems; evaluating trends; anticipating requirements.

Confidential, Fort Worth, Texas

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Assisted with the merger of separate pilot booking systems used by USAir and Confidential, ultimately delivering a single unified portal.
• Oversaw the upgrade of the SAIS team’s lab infrastructure from VMware ESXi 5.5 to ESXi 6.0.
• Acted as liaison with the vendors, development teams, and business users to create and finalize end-to-end technical solutions.
• Assisted with the integration and unification of segmented flight attendant booking applications used by USAir and Confidential .
• Augmented current application tiers through hardware expansion and build out.
• Contributed to the development of processes designed to improve service delivery.
• Oversaw the installation of client/server and distributed applications over the project life cycle.

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

Windows Implementation - Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overseeing a large portion of active project work to ensure all team members are engaged, and all deadlines are being met.
• Managed the Windows Implementation work queue.
• Remained key virtualization resource for both creating, troubleshooting, and administering large scale VMware environments.
• Created and maintained vital technical/process documents for both customers and my own team.

Implementation Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked large scale implementations for several Fortune Global 500 and Fortune 500 companies.
• Met with customers to gather and vet their technical requirements.
• Assisted with the organization and execution of assets necessary to build solutions sold to customers.
• Instrumental in streamlining several implementation processes.
• Assisted in designing the infrastructure to support multi-platform enterprise-wide applications.

Implementation Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Expanded existing internal enterprise infrastructure to facilitate new customer on-boarding.
• Deployed physical and virtual Windows environments at global collocation facilities.
• Troubleshoot any problems that may arise during an Implementation as well as remediate any issues that would prevent systems from transitioning to support.
• Built dedicated customer infrastructures spanning private and public cloud offerings.

Confidential, Plano, Texas

Test Lab Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managed a complex Windows, Linux, and Unix server environment, consisting of physical servers, VMware virtual servers, and various types of shared storage.
• Maintained the lab’s VMware environment.
• Played an integral role in the consolidation of multiple datacenters into one cohesive lab environment.
• Recognized by the President of TSP for outstanding customer service.