SUMMARY

• He is an accomplished VMware virtualization/cloud engineer and has been working in IT industry for past 20 years and has experience in enterprise architecture, virtualization, cloud computing, networking and building SDDC (software defined data center) with VMware, Confidential and Cloud Providers.
• He has experience in Data center server Hybrid cloud migration, troubleshooting and performance monitoring. VMware Cloud on AWS migration. Smart automation for continuous delivery.
• On - Premises to Cloud migration
• Smart automation for continuous delivery - CI/CD
• VMware vSphere ESXi 4.x, 5.x, 6.x; 6.5/6.7 vCenter Server (Windows & VCSA) plan, design and implement and upgrade from 5.x to 6.0/6.5, SSO and HA, DRS
• HA/DRS, vMotion, Storage vMotion, Cross vCenter Server vMotion
• Cloud assessment; readiness, migrate and optimizing of hybrid workloads to AWS and Azure cloud
• Optimizing AWS and Azure Reserved instances; availability sets; enable memory metrics; manage EC2 instances; consolidate billing and S3 bucket
• Virtual Storage Network - vSAN -All-Flash and Hybrid; vSAN Encryption, cluster sizing; stretched cluster using Active-Active data centers
• VMware vRealize Operations - vROPs 6.x; cluster sizing, vROPs for Horizon, 3rd party vROps Management packs installation and configuration including EPIC Care Systems Analytics
• Experience in AWS Cloud Platform Infrastructure including EC2, AWS EC2 Auto-Scaling; S3 bucket; RI and Savings Plans; Availability sets; RDS and VPC; AWS Management Console (IAM -set up AWS IAM users and groups, configure permissions, and manage security credentials); API; Tagging
• Experience in Azure Cloud Platform Infrastructure including compute; storage; Reserved Instances; Availability sets; Azure cost management; Azure cloud portal; Marketplace; API; Resource groups
• Experience working with deployment and orchestration technologies (such as Docker, Kubernetes)
• Good working knowledge with Micro Services architecture; REST API; Python; PowerCLI; PowerShell
• Familiarity with build and CI/CD tools desired (Github); Postman; Harness
• Basic understanding of industry standard database (SQL, MariaDB, MySQL; Postgres, etc.)
• Maintain current functional and technical knowledge of virtualization, converged infrastructure, storage, networks, cloud native, Containers and other emerging technologies
• Good technical knowledge of HCI - Nutanix AOS; CVM; PRISM; Nutanix DFS; vSwitch Networking; good grasp of CALM (Application Lifecycle Management)
• Strong analytical, consulting and professional documentation skills
• AWS and Azure cloud providers - Reserved Instance (RI); Savings Plans; EC2; S3 bucket; storage; memory setting using cloudwatch; availability sets; cloud spend optimization - cloud IaaS; PaaS; SaaS;
• Confidential Application awareness and full stack visibility of the entire hybrid estate in hours via API driven software
• On-Premises to Cloud (AWS & Azure) workload migration - Assess, Readiness/Planning, migrate, and optimize using Azure Migrate; Zerto;
• Conducting assessments on premises workload right sizing; cloud workload right sizing; when to use RI and Savings plans
• Continuously optimize compute, storage, and Amazon RDS matching real-time workload demand all while ensuring optimal use of your existing RI Pool
• Using Confidential Rest API to expose resources such actions; market; target; reservations etc.
• VMware vSphere, vROPs, vROps for Horizon, LogInsight; vSAN; VMware Cloud on AWS
• Confidential ; Azure Migrate; AWS Server Migration Service (SMS), Zerto
• Confidential to automate workloads; workload rightsizing; on premise to cloud migration and cost optimization; Rest API; Postman; Swagger; Regex; curl
• Microsoft Azure Migrate; vROPS Upgrade Assessment Tool
• Using CI/CD tools like Harness for smart automation for continuous delivery; JIRA
• Kubernetes - kubernetes master; kubelet; kube-proxy - yaml; kubectl, Kubernetes integration with Confidential for performance assurance; scaling and right sizing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Enterprise Service Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Conducting Health check assessments of customer’s enterprise datacenter environment from vSphere vCenter configuration - DRS; vMotion; networking; storage devices and virtual machines
• Design and deploy Confidential instances by adding On-Premise targets like vSphere vCenter; Cisco UCS; Nutanix Hyper converged; Storage vendors like Pure; Netapp; EMC, Hitachi with proper account login credentials to Confidential instance
• Add Appdynamic; Dyantrace targets for Application Performance Monitoring with Confidential that ensures those applications always get the resources they need to perform and display application performance metrics are used to drive better decisions through the infrastructure
• Working with customer cloud team to integrate AWS cloud target by obtaining key and secret access key and applying to customers Confidential instance
• Working with customer cloud team to add Azure cloud target by registering Confidential with Azure Active Directory; Creating Client Secret Key and Setting Permission; obtaining Tenant Name; obtaining Subscription ID(s) and enabling Confidential to Access the Subscription(s)
• Consulting and guiding customer’s enterprise datacenter environments to architect, deliver a well-managed successfully deployment of Confidential on premise and public clouds - AWS and Azure.
• Working with customer to assess, prepare, optimize on premise workloads; automate policies to perform workload placement moves; auto-scaling (up/down) merge clusters; license placement automation for SQL, Oracle and Red Hat workloads while simultaneously assuring performance, compliance and workload efficiencies in real-time.
• Assess customer workloads to prepare; migrate and optimize workload migration from on premise to AWS and Azure cloud platform using Confidential platform.
• Working with customers to assign IAM role with AmazonSSMFullAccess to EC2 instances and setting up CloudWatch Memory Metrics on Windows and Linux Instances on AWS by leveraging Systems Manager
• Assisted customer to enable memory metrics for workloads in Azure under diagnostics settings - enable guest monitoring
• Worked with customers to create S3 bucket to allowing consolidated billing - account with AmazonS3FullAccess and Billing permissions that will allow the user to create an S3 bucket to place a report and show cloud spend
• Provided customer guidance on how to integrate Cloud Targets – AWS; Azure; Storage targets (Pure; NetApp; Hitachi; EMC); Nutanix, Cisco UCS, Cisco Appdynamics and ServiceNow
• Assisted customer to understand benefits of cloud migration, and how to optimize AWS and Azure RIs with RI-Aware scaling actions optimized cloud workloads in AWS and Azure by taking advantage of RI (Reserved Instance)
• Working with DevOps team to deploy Confidential on Kubernetes-pods infrastructure automation technologies like Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS), Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Pivotal Container Service (PKS).
• Conducted working sessions with customers to demonstrate working with Confidential REST APIs resources for various endpoints – Reserved instances; Target; Actions, Storage actions with full stack visibility to the Supply Chain
• Document all work with customers including value provided, run books, configuration guides, and executive summaries

Confidential

Senior Technical Virtualization Consultant

Responsibilities:

• VMware vCenter 5.x/6.x design, implementation and upgrade from 5.5 to 6.6 and 6.5
• Plan, design and implement SSO layout for small, medium and large environment, linked mode
• Plan, design and implement VMware vRealize operations 6.x (vROPS) and LogInsight including various management packs – SAP, Confidential /HP/EMC, Blue Medora packs
• Plan and review Hardware meets VMware and Hardware vendor matrix compatibility.
• Performed health-check and performance analysis of the virtualization/cloud environment, servers, storage, network, backup, and DR systems and generate best practices and recommendations to the customer.
• Performed sizing calculations of VMware environments based on current systems and future growth – vSAN, vROPS, vSphere vCenter server to ensure the availability, scalability, security, and performance of the VMware ESXi environment.
• Planned, designed and implemented vSAN 6.5, 6.6 and conducted performance testing using tools like HCIBench. Designed and implemented vSAN stretched clusters using Active to Active data centers.
• Plan, design and implement vROps and Log Insight and vROps for Views and creating custom dashboards, views and working with various customer groups to create user case scenarios.
• Creating custom groups; custom dashboards; custom super metrics; importing and exporting JSON files; working with Blue Medora packs
• Working with PowerShell scripts to automate many operational tasks.
• Conduct white-board sessions with clients on various VMware vSphere suite – vSAN, vCenter Server, vROPs/LogInsight, SRM and vRA implementation and operational best practices. Assist customers to review entire vSphere environment with regards to performance bottlenecks.
• Lead engineer in conducting design sessions and working with various customers to analyze, plan and roll out software and hardware implementations using HP, Confidential, or IBM blades for vSphere vCenter server, ESXi, vSAN, vROps, vRA including management packs and firmware codes.

Confidential

Senior Technical Virtualization Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Customer-facing technical position delivering services for IGI customers. Designing and delivering vSphere core products, vRealize operations, cloud infrastructure, desktop and end user computing VMware consulting solutions. Assist in the development of standard reusable VMware consulting service offerings, including definition of tasks, deliverables and estimates.
• Major customer facing vSphere projects accomplishments included LAUSD, Kansas Southern Railway, Real Page, WellStar Health Systems and Verizon Wireless.
• Installed and configured vCOPS 5.8.x, vROPs 6.0 and created custom dashboards. Deploying vCops Enterprise to integrate with NetApp, HP 3PAR, Brocade, Confidential, Horizon View Orchestrator management packs. Installed and configured Log Insight appliance.
• Conducted vSphere customer design sessions, implemented vSphere 5.5 on Cisco USC, HB Blades. Configured IP-based and Fiber networking for SAN/NAS technologies – NetApp, EMC, Confidential Compellent, Confidential EqualLogic, HP 3Par datastores and installing and configuring plug-ins.
• Performed VMware health check and performance tuning on vSphere production environment. Installed and configured large number of vSphere Distributed Switch using 802.1q technology. Designed vSphere vCenter Server, SSO and SQL 2012 database.
• Applying VMware and compliance best practices. Worked with USC service profile. Installed and implemented SRM and SRM replication on EMC, Confidential EqualLogic, 3 PAR SRA.
• Configured View Connection, Composer and Security servers. Participated in creating application templates for various departments. Created replicas and clone on various datastores and configured persona management for user profiles.
• Creating high-level architecture vSphere Visio layout, VMware design, workbooks and As built documents. Completed several POC on vCAC 6.0, vRA 6.2, vRops 6.2, and vCO Appliance Deployment & Configuration.
• Installed and configured vRA- configured tenant, created single and multiple blueprints and published them.
• Completed several SRM 5.x/5.8.1 deployments using array based model between 2 sites

Confidential

Technical Virtualization Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured Fog light for Virtualization and VMware vCOPS 5.8.x
• Designed and implemented SRM 5.0/5.1 for various organizations for their disaster recovery plans
• Designed and implemented vCenter 5.5 and ESXi 5.5 running on Cisco USC blade technology vCenter consolidation and deploying greenfield implementation using Converged technologies – Confidential, HP and Cisco USC
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (v2v) and Virtual-to-Physical (v2P) migration of Windows NT, 2000, 2003, 2008, and 2012 as well as Linux servers from VMware, Hyper-V, and legacy hardware
• Assessed, designed, and implemented complex VMware solutions SAP VMware vCenter – fine turning application and Database VMs.
• Experienced implementing EqualLogic SRA, Compellent SRA, EMC, HP 3PAR
• Designed and implemented backup solutions using VMware VCB and Backup Exec 2010 and Quest vRanger, NetBackup, Veeam, AppAssure
• Implemented Confidential Management Plug-in and testing Confidential iDRAC for remote management
• Designed, planned and executed multi-phase server consolidation scenarios using VMware Capacity Planner and Platespin Power convert
• Performed Virtual Readiness Assessment for various data center sizes, analyzing data and compiling report with recommended consolidation scenarios using VMware Health Analyzer
• Worked extensively with storage products and using best practice to design storage allocation for virtualization platform; designing multi-pathing for better storage performance.
• Running data center server consolidation assessments and recommending virtualization solutions.

Senior Systems Administrator

Confidential - Falls Church, VA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for planning, testing and deploying VMware ESX server and Virtual Center to provide infrastructure for utility computing services and server consolidation. Planned, tested and implemented migration from ESX 2.5 to ESX 3.0 utilizing vMotion using cold boot method.
• Lead engineer implementing 4/64 HB banded Brocade 4900 switches; ISL to the current fabric, firmware upgrade, Fibre cable LC-LC, WWN and Port level Zoning.
• Lead engineer implementing and supporting Confidential Windows 2003 enterprise based clusters using SAN Fibre Channel-based storage, Qlogic/EMC HBA, Veritas Microsoft Cluster option, Veritas DMP and Microsoft Cluster Service to configure Enterprise SQL 2000 & 2005 database servers.
• Lead engineer implementing, maintaining and supporting Brocade 3850, 4100, 4900 switches – responsibilities include – creating, zoning, and saving all zone configurations.

Systems Engineer/Security Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Instrumental in implementing Confidential /EMC Fiber-Channel based SAN architecture solution using Qlogic HBA to the SAN fabric using blade technology.
• Configured and mirrored the SAN CX300 across two data business sites. Configuring of McData
• Lead engineer implementing and supporting NIH-NIA Windows 2003 enterprise based clusters using SAN Fiber Channel-based storage, Emulex HBA on Confidential blade servers.
• Instrumental in implementing and managing security tools – Dragon IDS 7.1/2, Elm Log Manager, McAfee® ePolicy Orchestrator, Retina Scanner, ISS-Internet Scanner 7.2, Tripwire 5.1, BIGFIX.
• Provide daily server administration and troubleshooting support of SAN, Active Directory; DNS; DHCP; password and service accounts management; SQL server management.
• Research and understanding of NIST, Sarbanes-Oxley, FISMA compliances and regulations.