SUMMARY

• Managed and maintained a complex server environment consisting of 3000 VMware servers in 365 nodes and 56 clusters.
• Serviced a user base of more than 20,000 local and remote individuals, plus external contractors. Managed server and server network upgrades in a challenging corporate environment with attention to timeliness and cost effectiveness at all times.
• Actively interfaced on a daily basis with project managers, applications programmers, and networking engineers.
• Solved technical, network, account, DNS, Active Directory and storage issues in response to SCCSM Help Desk work orders.
• Provisioned and deployed storage and server requests for thousands of projects, including sandboxed testing environments and lab configurations.
• Maintained AS/400 and Intel legacy systems and equipment for a diverse environment.
• Performed server and software troubleshooting, maintenance, virtualization design and deployment, and security enforcement.
• Provided around - the-clock emergency support for corporate and 69 remote retail locations in multiple countries.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• VMware ESX and ESXi
• Dell blade and rack-mount servers
• DHCP
• V-Switches
• DNS
• Cisco UCS blade servers
• AS/400
• VMWare vShield
• Retail kiosks
• VCE VBlock 300, 700, 720
• Printer servers
• Retail POS systems
• Microsoft Clustering
• Microsoft Active Directory
• VNXE 3100 NFS storage systems
• VNXE 7500, storage systems
• UIM storage provisioning
• MDS9506 Cisco storage switches
• VMWare View administration
• NSX Firewall administration
• Vmware administration

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Server Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Upgraded the corporate VMware server farm from 3.5 to Enterprise 5.5.
• Saved thousands of dollars in hardware, cooling and power costs through the consolidation of hardware-based server farms to virtual server clusters.
• Achieved space savings in an over-utilized data center environment through blade server installations.
• Certificate of Achievement Maintaining Server 2003, 2008, 2012R2 Network Infrastructure
• Supported: VMWare View environments for over 1,200 users; over 3,000 Windows and Linux operating systems; 10 VNXE 3100 NFS storage units plus a VNXE 7500; MDS9506 switch configuration and maintenance; and supported four Virtual Center installations operating in linked mode.
• Multiple VCE VBlock implementation with 356 ESXI 5.5 hosts and over 4,600 virtual servers, including UIM provisioning for storage and NSX firewalls and vShield.
• Completed major overhaul of Point of Sale system overnight at 14 retail locations and support 69 retail stores running UCS blade server systems.