SUMMARY

• A VCP/MCSE Systems Consultant & Engineer with DoD Top Secret Clearance.
• Over 25 years of progressively advancing experience with enterprise datacenter information technologies including hardware, software, networking, virtualization, cloud, storage, security, disaster recovery, consulting, and system administration.
• Over 10 years of design, implementation and support experience with VMware and other virtualization products such as Nutanix AHV, & Microsoft Hyper - V, as well as datacenter conversions, consolidations, and migrations. Cloud solutions including AWS & Azure.
• Over 7 years of design and implementation experience with various SAN solutions ranging from Enterprise to Small Business level, iSCSI & fibre channel. Over 5 years experience with design, implementation, and support of hyper-converged solutions.
• Experience with design and implementation of Windows NT/ 2000/2003/2008/2012/2016 infrastructures. Experience with multiple LAN/WAN topologies & infrastructures in many different datacenter environments including highly secure datacenters.
• Expert troubleshooting and problem solving capabilities. Outstanding customer interaction skills. Demonstrated success in reaching prompt solutions and resolutions for hardware, software, networking, and system (both physical and virtual) issues.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Supporting pre-sales efforts with enterprise technical subject matter expertise.
• Providing technical solution guidance for customers and potential customers.
• Designing and configuring proof of concept and demonstration environments for customers to include hyper-converged solutions, private cloud, hybrid cloud, & public cloud technologies, including AWS & Azure.
• Design, implementation, & management of Unisys Federal Cloud & Infrastructure Capability and Development lab.
• Testing and proof of concept in Unisys Capability Lab using technologies including cloud migration, hyper-converged solutions (Nutanix, HyperFlex), private cloud and hybrid cloud solutions (VMware, AHV, AWS, & Azure), Cloud Management Platforms, End point security (Carbon Black, ForeScout, SteelCloud), IoT, etc.
• Sourced, defined, developed, tested, & implemented migration solution for DISA Rapid milCloud® 2.0 Migration.
• Lead Engineer for delivery of USAF EITaaS new Windows 10 secure Endpoint solution, including Windows 10 E5 with ATP, Carbon Black Protect & Carbon Black Response, Bromium Secure Platform, & SteelCloud automated STIG compliance & remediation.

Confidential

Sr. Systems Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Contracted direct full time to Nutanix as Sr. Systems Consultant.
• Post sales, customer facing design, configuration, and implementation of Nutanix based hyper-converged solutions using vSphere ESXi hypervisor and Nutanix AHV hypervisor.
• Migrations from existing infrastructures to hyper-converged infrastructures.
• Migrations from existing hypervisor virtual infrastructures to Nutanix AHV hypervisor virtual infrastructures.
• Delivery of services to large enterprise and medium to small business in all verticals across North America including, manufacturing, health care, finance, DoD, higher education & k-12 education, federal government, local government, etc.

Confidential

Sr. VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Sr. Virtualization Engineer at Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) supporting 50+ ESXi hosts & 750+ VMs in multi-cluster, HA cluster environment.
• Complete lifecycle management and support for test & development VMware virtual infrastructure.
• Design and implementation of live migration plan from vSphere 5.5 infrastructure to vSphere 6.5 infrastructure.
• Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of complex solutions.
• Working with and supporting VMware technologies in, high availability, and fault tolerant datacenter environment.
• Oversees and implements system upgrade strategies.
• Monitoring, capacity planning, alert notification remediation as well as customer report generation of virtual infrastructure using vRealize Operations Manager and Veeam ONE.
• Support of Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure running Splunk.
• Coordinates with client management to formulate complex technical solutions.
• Research current systems technology and serve as subject matter expert on complex systems processes and procedures.
• Provide technical leadership to appropriate personnel on highly complex system administration activities
• Evaluates products and upgrades for appropriateness.

Confidential, Chantilly, VA

Lead Data Center Delivery Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Consulting and implementation role for Federal Government and Department of Defense clients.
• Design of virtual infrastructures based on VMware solutions including vSphere, Horizon View, NSX, & SRM.
• Implementation of virtual infrastructures based on VMware solutions including vSphere, Horizon View, NSX, & SRM.
• Assessments of existing virtual infrastructures to include remediation of discovered issues.
• Data center consolidations and migrations.
• Complete infrastructure implementations including hypervisor, shared storage and networking.
• Implementation of converged and hyper-converged solutions.

Confidential, Radford, VA

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Sr. Virtualization Engineer at PD ALTESS, US Army supporting 110+ ESXi hosts & 1500+ VMs in multi-cluster, multi datacenter, multi-tenant environment.
• Supporting 250 user VMware View virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) on Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure
• Implementation and support of Nutanix hyper-converged solutions.
• Design and implementation of migration plan from vSphere 5.0 to vSphere 5.5.
• Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of complex solutions.
• Working with and supporting VMware technologies in a highly secure, multi-tenant, high availability, and fault tolerant datacenter environment.
• Oversees and implements system upgrade strategies.
• Coordinates with client management to formulate complex technical solutions.
• Research current systems technology and serve as subject matter expert on complex systems processes and procedures.
• Provide technical leadership to appropriate personnel on highly complex system administration activities
• Evaluates products and upgrades for appropriateness.

Confidential

Systems Integration Sr. Advisor

Responsibilities:

• Consulting, design, implementation, integration and support of VMware virtualization infrastructure solutions as well as shared storage solutions in many different environments and disciplines.
• Consulting, design and implementation of virtual disaster recovery solutions using VMware’s Site Recovery Manager.
• Datacenter consolidations, migrations, and physical to virtual migrations.
• Virtual infrastructure upgrades.
• Converged infrastructure deployments.
• Virtualization readiness assessments.
• Virtual infrastructure health checks.

Confidential

Field Technical Advisor

Responsibilities:

• Design, deployment, configuration and support of enterprise solutions including Confidential PowerEdge servers; Confidential | EMC Storage Area Networks; Confidential | Equallogic Storage Area Networks; Confidential PowerVault Tape Backup Libraries; Confidential PowerVault Network Attached Storage (NAS) & Directed Attached Storage (DAS); Fault tolerant clusters; VMware virtualization infrastructures.
• Onsite customer facing technical support for critical customer issues.
• Experience with fibre channel, iSCSI, SAS, NAS, DAS, & FCoE.
• Implementation and support of blocked based and file based replication as well as snapshots.
• Remote and on-site technical support for Confidential enterprise customers needing assistance with their Confidential high availability and enterprise storage solutions.
• Responsible for customer satisfaction by effective handling of customer problems.
• Ensure proper escalation procedures are followed.
• Thoroughly and accurately document all service activities.