SUMMARY

• ESX - ESXi 3.5/4.0/4.1/5.1 VMware Virtual Infrastructure lead engineer. Responsible for multiple VMware ESX-ESXi 5.1/4.1/ 3.5, Vsphere 4, Virtual Center 2.5 environments. These environments contain 16 fully automated HA/DRS clusters, 60 ESX hosts, and 1000 guest operating systems, and growing.
• Architecture, design, and implementation new ESX-ESXi host operating systems, based on business unit needs.
• ESX host patching utilizing VUM. Devise schedule for patching and determine which updates to deploy.
• Deploying new guest operating systems based on business unit specifications, Windows 2008 STD/ENT/R2, Windows 2003 STD/ ENT/R2, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Red Hat Enterprise 4.6. Quarterly updating of all VMware guest operating system templates.
• VMware storage VMotion of fiber channel SAN based LUNS as required.
• VMware ESX host and guest operating system monitoring, reporting, and troubleshooting using VI client as well as VEEAM Enterprise monitor. Running daily and weekly automated VMware health checks.
• Physical server consolidation physical to virtual using VMware converter on both online conversions as well as cold offline conversions to cut down on physical server sprawl and to regulate power consumption and resources.
• Make recommendations on adding additional resources to current ESX environment to accommodate for VMware guest operating system growth and expansion.
• Documentation of VMware environment using Visio, Excel, and Word. Periodic update of documentation to keep things current.
• VMware scripting to pull information and do reporting utilizing various methods such as, Perl scripting, Windows Power Shell, Power GUI, and teh VMware VI toolkit.
• vRanger Pro 4.5 VMware guest operating system backups and restores for production, disaster recovery, and lower environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• VMware ESX, ESXi server 6.0/5.5/5.1/4.1
• Virtual Center vSphere 4.1, vSphere 5, vSphere 5.5, vSphere 6.0
• VCSA 6.0 embedded
• Quest PowerGUI
• VMware vSphere PowerCLI
• VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus
• VMware Data Recovery
• vkernel VOPS
• vFoglight
• VMware Distributed vSwitch
• Microsoft Clustering 2012/2008
• Microsoft Windows 2012, 2008, 2003, 2000
• Red Hat Linux Enterprise 4.6 installations
• Extensive VMware scripting/powershell/perl
• vRanger Pro 4.5
• VMware High Availability
• VMware DRS
• vRealize Operations Manger 6.0.1
• VMware Guided Consolidation
• VMware Converter
• Cisco UCS C - Series 220 M4 servers

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Philadelphia, PA

Senior VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Supported VMware, specifically ESX VSphere 6 to monitor cluster performance, optimize teh server environment, and diagnose and resolve production issues amongst 2 Data Centers and over 2,000 servers.
• Performed ESX Hosts and Virtual Machine migrations between Development, Integration, and Production environments and across Datacenters.
• Provided performance metrics, work load status update, and project status updates at biweekly workload tracking meetings.
• Experience using a formalized change management and incident management process.
• Experience using a formalized change management and incident management process.
• Experience in troubleshooting DRS Cluster errors with shares, pools, and limits.
• Install new and rebuild existing Servers and configure hardware, services, settings, directories, storage, etc in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.
• Performed daily system monitoring, verifying teh integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system logs using Zenoss and vRealize Operations Manager.

Confidential - Philadelphia, PA

Senior VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead VMware engineering for Platform Engineering group providing experience in optimizing current environment utilizing vKernel VOPs to offer right-sizing of VMware guest operating systems to cut down on memory, cpu, and disk over commitment problems.
• In optimizing teh current environment teh Confidential was able to achieve a significant cost savings.
• As a byproduct we were also able to fix many performance related problems within teh environment.
• Responsible for thorough documentation of current environment providing inventory, Visio drawings, and reports to upper management and teh rest of Platform Engineering team.
• Development and implementation of standards and procedures for ESX host deployment and VMware guest operating system requests/deployments.
• Configuration of automated weekly reports for upper management on growth, performance, and availability.
• Architecture, design, and implementation of 64 vSphere 5.5 ESX hosts for production, testing, and development based on future growth.
• Instrumental in wrapping a process around VMware guest operating system standards for teh City as well as devising teh virtualization first program.
• Implemented teh migration of existing ESX servers from ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.5.
• Virtualization template creation, upkeep, and automation for several Windows 2008 platforms and various Linux distributions.
• Managed and maintained virtual computing environment based on VMware and administers computer systems with Windows and Linux operation systems.
• VMware Data Recovery implementation to backup and restore virtual machine guest operating systems.
• In an effort to lift teh City off of end of life hardware me am responsible for many P2V and V2V conversions using VMware converter.
• Conducted VMware Virtualization Assessments to recommend consolidation scenarios and project cost savings associated with virtualization for clients.
• Focused on client values and satisfaction while balancing corporate objectives, feasibility and scalability of solutions.
• Assisted with technical requirements and overall project plan including cost, scope, portability, compatibility and usability for multiple projects within teh City.

Confidential - Philadelphia, PA

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Engineering and support for thirty five data centers hosting over 4,000 servers. me am currently leading multiple projects scheduling meetings, coordinating resources, design and implementation.
• Lead engineer and integrator of brand new VMware vSphere 4.1 and vCenter 4 disaster recovery sites at our Philadelphia data center for multiple financial institutions, including multiple physical to virtual conversions.
• Lead VMware Engineer for a client in New York, Banklink, VMWare ESXi 4.1 implementation for their production, disaster recovery and test and development networks.
• Dell server hardware remediation on failing components and technology refresh team member. Server build outs for new business units and existing business units including Red Hat Enterprise 4.6, Windows 2008 ENT/STD/R2 64bit and 32bit, Windows 2003 R2 SP2 Standard, Windows 2003 Enterprise R2 SP2.
• Gathering specifications for new equipment purchases performing operating system installs. Responsible for coordinating weekly in data center moves to newly built data centers.

Confidential, Bala Cynwyd, PA

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• ESX 3.0.2 VMware Virtual Infrastructure lead. Designed and configured 24 ESX 3.0.2 host servers at our Production, Test, and hot site facility including 250 VMware guest operating systems.
• Configured all teh servers in a VMware cluster with HA/DRS and Vmotion with all servers connected and booting from SAN.
• Was responsible for creation of all VMware templates to model our current production environment as well as deployment of multiple VMWare guest operating systems.
• Configured 8 SAN attached ESX servers in our production environment for server consolidation which cut down on power consumption and operating costs modeling our hot site.
• Deployed and configured 8 SAN attached clustered ESX 3.0.2 hosts, HA/DRS and over 100 VMware guest operating systems for our development and test environment within in our home office.
• Teh implementation of teh ESX VMware environment halped cut down on server sprawl and power consumption saving teh company thousands of dollars in new equipment costs and creating a safe environment for development and test systems.
• Installed and configured VMware license server.
• me was tasked with configuration of VMware Virtual Center version 2.0.2 for central point of management and deployment.
• In charge of upkeep and patching of ESX hosts, quarterly updating of VMware guest operating system templates.
• Fine tuning environment to meet with increasing resource demands. Monitoring performance and making recommendations for better performance and distribution of resources.
• Go to guy for all VMware needs.
• Technical lead for Data Storage needs.
• Installed and configured HP EVA 4000/6000/8000 SAN environment for high availability, performance, data growth needs, and server consolidation.
• Brocade zoning configuration and monitoring to meet our daily storage needs.
• In charge of all storage needs within our home office, offsite data center, and hot site, multiple SAN environments with multiple fabrics.
• Lead role in server consolidation. Worked on a two person team planning, installing, and configuration of HP 35P Blade server enclosure with attached storage and boot from SAN to house main line of business applications and model office servers.
• Teh installation of teh HP Blade systems halped teh company save money on leased rack space, improved performance, and their ever increasing storage needs.
• Installed and configured HP Rapid Deployment server for faster server deployment.
• Teh installation of HP RDP increased teh speed at which we deploy servers in our environment.
• Worked on team to develop Windows 2003 64 and 32 bit server standard images for deployment.
• Set up and configuration of remote Disaster Recovery site.
• Worked on a five person team to devise, configure, install, and document a brand new disaster recovery site in replacement of our east coast facility.
• Teh site will eventually be turned into a hot site for continuous data access and is an ongoing project dat me am part of.
• Remote hands project. Installed and configured HP Advanced ILO for remote server management of our remote servers to remote control, troubleshoot, and power on and off mission critical servers, which halped to alleviate downtime and potential travel to remote data center for hands on console server management.
• Devised critical server update patching strategy.
• Utilizing WSUS me was teh lead in creating teh process for deploying Microsoft critical and security update patches to all of our test servers and production boxes.
• Came up with teh update schedule, frequency of updates, and testing of critical patches.
• Image Right imaging software application.
• Worked on a team to deploy new imaging system and remove teh current Feith imaging system.
• Teh servers were SAN attached and boot from SAN to further increase performance and expand drive space on teh fly as needed.
• Configured Windows 2003 active passive cluster for high availability.
• Scripted daily monitoring of our Windows 2000/2003 server environment.
• Implementation utilizing VB scripts cut down on teh man hours needed to daily server checks.
• Active Directory Group Policy Management and implementation.
• Worked on a team to scale down and cleanup our AD environment for better management and performance.
• Microsoft WSUS administration.
• Key person responsible for WSUS updates on all Windows 2000/2003 field office servers as well as all Windows 2000/2003 production servers.
• Intervening time includes positions related to my current work but either in a more junior capacity or on older technology.
• These have been omitted in an effort to keep dis resume relevant to future positions and under 5 pages. Information on these positions is available upon request.