Cloud Solutions Engineer Resume Wichita, KS - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Having experience from manufacturing through Enterprise IT, including ITIL foundations, I am able to utilize my 16+ years of IT experience and tools to provide planning, support, and leadership in any challenging IT environment.
For the last 5 - 7, years my primary focus has been in VMWare, PowerShell, and Cloud technologies including architecture and engineering for each of these key focus areas.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows NT 4.0, Windows Server 2000-2012r2, Windows 95-10

Collaboration Applications: Microsoft Office 97-2013, SharePoint

Enterprise Applications: Citrix, Terminal Services, Altiris, IIS, Active Directory, Exchange 2000-2007, ISA 2000-2004, MS WSUS, VMWare ESX/ESXi, Veritas Cluster Services, Veritas Storage Foundation with HA

Scripting: PowerShell, VBS, COM/BAT

Database (limited): MS Access, MS SQL 2000-2012

Technologies: Cloud, AWS, Azure, SoftLayer, Confidential VPN, WLAN, LAN, SAN, RAID, Blade Servers, Data Backup/Recovery, Remote Management

Certifications: Sonicwall CSSA, A+

Soft Skills: 7-Habits, ITIL

Official Training: VMWare 4.x, Veritas Cluster Services, Veritas Storage Foundation with HA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Cloud Solutions Engineer

Confidential, Wichita, KS

Responsibilities:

Lead multiple projects for a Fortune 500 list retail client’s migration from a series of traditional datacenters into AWS services for Microsoft Remote Desktop Services & IIS environment. Upon successful completion additional multi-million dollar revenues for Confidential were secured. This included the architecture of all cloud based service: network (VPC), interconnectivity (VPN & DirectConnect), custom Windows images (AMI) & patching, automation (PowerShell & Confidential platform) of the complete Windows RDS stack (license servers, RDS hosts, …) from image to completed & hardened build, load balancing, and many others.
Developed & managed the internal VMWare test & demo clusters which increased the sales team’s ability to showcase Confidential products more quickly and seamlessly.

Technical Lead

Confidential, Wichita, KS

Responsibilities:

Saved the client $36K+ per month ongoing costs and $32K+ in initial investment costs through proper Citrix and VMWare design and engineering in a single project. Plus, saved the project for CSC as the client was looking to source the builds from another client as the cost was initially estimated at a much higher rate.
Managed VMWare storage migrations for over 750 virtual devices totaling over 36TB of data on Tier 2 NetApp storage devices, and 16TB of data for Tier 1 EMC Vmax storage devices. This included: SRM reconfiguration for disaster recovery solutions, disk alignments utilizing NetApp’s MBRAlign utility, scripting via Powershell/PowerCLI for report creation and configuration analysis, off shore resource management, project management, migration engineering, and process design. The migration to the new devices was completed on time and on budget for each critical milestone to date.

Senior Windows Systems Administrator

Confidential, Wichita, KS

Responsibilities:

Developed PowerShell scripts to completely automate BESR migrations for 800+ servers saving ~20 minutes per server.
Lead the team through 400+ request backlog and brought the projects intake current.
Completed training from Symantec for Veritas Cluster Services and Veritas Storage Foundation with HA.

Senior System Engineer

Confidential, Wichita, KS

Responsibilities:

BESR services/jobs
Hardware configurations
Uptime
Disk utilization
General system information

Systems Administrator Sr. Professional

Confidential, Wichita, KS

Responsibilities:

Managed ~900 VM guests and ~50 VM ESX 4.0 Hosts
Automated the installation of SNMP utilities through VBS and Altiris on 1100+ servers saving 25 minutes of manual work per server. Created a net-gain of 450+ man-hours.
Automated DNS changes on 1100+ through PowerShell, saving 10 minutes of manual work per server.
Engineered a virtual Citrix solution utilizing VMWare to maintain 3500+ active connections for a single desktop environment.

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