Consultant Resume Solutions Architect - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Over the years I have gained extensive experience with storage & backup systems, administering NIX & Microsoft Windows operating systems, virtual infrastructures and enforcing security procedures.
I can demonstrate a record of success troubleshooting complex computer systems, increasing operational efficiency, thorough documentation and team leadership.
Installation, implementation and administration of many storage and backup technologies
Operating system installation and configuration
In depth system troubleshooting and performance tuning
Server and application monitoring systems
Deployment and management of commercial and open - source monitoring systems
Operating system, application and hardware life cycle management
Extensive experience with standard services such as DNS, NFS, DFS/CIFS/SMB, SMTP and LDAP/Active Directory
Backup strategy design, implementation and administration
Disaster recovery planning, implementation and off-site DR validation exercise experience
Shell and automation scripting (primarily BASH & Korn and PowerShell + PowerCLI)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Linux (primarily RedHat and their major derivatives)
Microsoft Windows (NT4 - 2019) including Hyper-V core deployments
VMware ESX / vSphere (2.5.x - 6.x)
Linux + Apache Web Server + MySQL + PHP (LAMP) web hosting platforms
Microsoft Active Directory, Policy Services & Azure AD synchronization + pass-through authentication
Microsoft IIS
Microsoft Exchange Server (5.5 - 2013)
Microsoft Clustering Service (MSCS)
Microsoft SQL (2000 - 2014)
Open Compute Project x86 Servers
Dell / EMC PowerEdge x86 Servers
Cisco UCS (B & C Series)
HP x86 Servers
IBM x86 Servers
Dell / EMC VNX & VNX2 series disk arrays (block & unified)
Dell / EMC CLARiiON CX3 & CX4 series disk arrays
Dell / EMC RecoverPoint
Dell / EMC Replication Manager
Dell / EMC Celerra NAS devices
Dell / EMC Avamar (3.x - 7.x)
Dell / EMC Data Domain
NetApp low to mid-range filers
Nimble Storage Arrays
Veeam Backup & Replication
Zerto Virtual Replication
Cisco MDS & Nexus switches
IBM TS4500 series tape libraries
ADIC Scalar series tape libraries

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

Build complex deployment packages on various configuration management engines. IE: Chef, Kaseya, and SCCM.
Re-Implement RedHat satellite and remediate hosts which have not patched in years.
Retire a number of legacy Windows domain, each requiring a lengthy discovery process to migrate straggler apps/users.
Evaluate and deploy SIEM platform (Rapid7) to a fragmented mix of obsolete & modern operating systems.

Confidential

Data Center Production Hardware Engineer

Responsibilities:

Manage the local Open Compute Project hardware lab operations, capacity and technician(s)
Work globally to help other data center regions, and participate in discussion groups to share procedures & methods with my peers around the world
Mentor, assist and facilitate escalations from on-site tier 1 & 2 server break-fix teams
Facilitate building maintenance activity with tier owners as required, often at large-scale
Consistently help our team meet or exceed SLA’s for server repairs & escalations
Develop, write and update documentation as the server repair processes evolve
Assist Confidential hardware team in diagnosis, repair and remote hands during lab, FA and troubleshooting events

Confidential

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

Deployed EMC Avamar backup systems and assist with migrations on a consulting fee basis
Implementation and administration of dedicated multi-tenant Veeam Backup & Replication appliances on commodity hardware
Installation, operation and maintenance of a large multi-tenant EMC NetWorker and EMC Avamar backup platform
Installation, operation and maintenance of multi-tenant Cisco UCS compute platform
Installation, operation and maintenance of various EMC “mid-range” storage platforms (IE: CLARiiON / Celerra / VNX)
Created a fully automated open-source server build system to offload tasks onto lower tier personnel
Retired and consolidated many obsolete Intel based servers (Windows & Linux based) to ESX and Hyper-V.
Development and implementation of the “gen 1” multi-tenant hosted VMware platform
Consolidated many disparate & obsolete Linux servers to a single standard distribution
Implement MSCS clusters hosting IIS, Microsoft SQL and MySQL for customers