PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

As a self - motivated Lead Windows Systems engineer and Architect that has proven ability to complete complex and challenging projects. I have demonstrated this in supervised, unsupervised, and team-based environments. Also as a skilled communicator, which I am able to convey technical information at all levels such as: end user, technical administration, and business presentation level. I have excelled at troubleshooting, research analysis, and problems solving. I have an impressive track record of proven accomplishments in development, implementation, and production server environments as a System administration / Citrix administrator (enterprise & medium environments). My core competencies are client support, troubleshooting, team building in enterprise & medium server farms.

COMPUTER SKILLS:

Computer Networking (TCP/IP Protocol, LAN Administration, Peer-Peer and Client /Server. AppleTalk Win 2000 Server, Win XP, Windows server 2003, Windows server 2008Intranets, and Extranets Digital Printing

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

System Administration:

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2012 & R2, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 Server, Windows NT4.0, Windows XP, Windows 9x, ESX VMware, Virtual Server, Virtual PC and Microsoft Clusters. SQL cluster, veritas clusters 5. & 6

OS/ Networking:

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 & R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP, Win Vista, Windows 7 & Windows10, ESX, ESX-I, VMware 5x & 6X, Hyper-V, & Nutanix AHV (acropolis)

Cloud Services: building cloud VMs in AWS & AZURE. I have used and manage cloud apps in house and 3 party cloud apps Netskope, DUO, Microsoft SCCM cloud version to update server off the internal network. Manage users migrating users to the O365.

Hardware: Confidential base, Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server with fabric 6248 & 6296, HP/Compaq, Blades P-class - C-Class, Confidential Blades, Confidential X-Series. 10 years of HP C-Class blade - completed the instructor lead HP VCEM (virtual connect Enterprise Mgr) course. I have 10yrs+ of HP C7000 blade system. I have used this with Ethernet Modules, Fiber Modules, Flex -10 Modules, & OA for configuring various networks within the enclosure(s). I have used onboard administrator to configure these Ethernet Modules, Fiber Modules, & Flex -10 Modules. I have also completed the instructor lead HP VCEM (virtual connect Enterprise Mgr) course. I used these HP C7000 blade system with Half & full height blades to configure ILOs, Virtual Connects domains, Virtual Connect mgr. Nutanix Hyper converge Infrastructure.

Tools: RV Tools, System Center Operation Mgr (SCOM 2k7 w/sp1), MOM, VB-scripting to run routine admin tasks. Terminal Service, Remote Desktop, WSRM, MOM, SMS, ILO. RILOE Card, Top-Tools Cards, RSA, (OA) Onboard Administrator. Platespin7, vCenter convertor, Powershell & PowerCLI scripts & Commands to code for routine admin tasks. Appsense.

Protocols and Services: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, Gateways, IIS4-6, and IIS 7Networks VMware vDS & VMware NSX for Vmware, FoE

IT Security: Firewalls Technology VMware NSX ( vShield ), ASTARO Linux 4.0 Certified & Certificate of Completion in Microsoft ISA server 2004

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Lead Sr Systems Engineer

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Currently responsible for upgrading VMware ESXi (6.0 -6.5) servers, VSphere (6.0 -6.5) servers / appliances and Windows 2012 environments, which includes DEV, Test, QA, prod. Providing engineering documentation & architectural drawings.
• Responsible for building C7000 enclosures to migrate new virtual environments.
• Installed and designed the 6,5 environment to use the PSC in a failover environment to use SQL2016-always-on for st Powershell orage Vcenter storage and F5 load balancers for the (PSC) platform service controllers. I am also responsible for monitoring in these environments.
• Creating, managing, configuring and assigning alerts SCOM alerts in system center operations manager 2012.
• Creating overrides and recovery scripts for alerts.
• Using HP Oneview 3.0 & HP Insight Control to automate building of virtual and physical servers.
• Configuring, managing vCAC provisioning groups, blueprints, workflows, and monitoring machines Upgrading SCOM 2012 to scom 2016 on sql always on. Assessing and Designing (IaaS) based on VMware vRA/vCAC, vRO, vROps, Powershell, PowerCLI in distributed environment.
• Maintaining, supporting & set up APPSense mgr as a standalone product in a prod & test environment before actual deployment.
• I tweak the program(s) for the best configuration for each particular environment I managed a number of network access through file, folder, network drive, or application access only for certain file extensions can also be allowed/disallowed...
• I was responsible for managing and engineering NUTANIX infrastructure for VDI and SQL databases.
• Configuring access to prism console and configuring ESX on Nutanix hypervisor AHV Acropolisclusters. building cloud VMs in AWS & AZURE.
• I have used and manage cloud apps in house and 3 party cloud apps Netskope, DUO, Microsoft SCCM cloud version to update server off the internal network. Manage users migrating users to the O365.

Infrastructure Engineer / Engineer

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Currently responsible for engineering VMware environments (dev. Test, QA, prod) for incoming mergers / acquisitions.
• Providing engineering & architectural documentation & drawings to other engineers to implement migrations (p2v, v2vs).
• I am also responsible for upgrades of older VMware environments to use, vDS, NSX, ESXi, vSphere (5.5 & 6.0).
• Assessing and Designing (IaaS) based on VMware vRA/vCAC, vRO, vROps,, Powershell, PowerCLI in distributed environment

Lead Solution Architect

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing, and developing VMware infrastructure environments for hospital applications.
• Designing solutions in Visio drawings.
• Working with Development and productions teams to have solutions for applications being added to the environment.
• Leading projects that are enterprise wide for new deployments, upgrades, or migrations.
• Working with all IT departments: Database, developers, network, EMC, Hitachi, NETAPP storage, operations to have a successful project(s).
• Documented, design Visio drawings and coordinating with Dev and prod teams to implement procedures regarding projects.
• Server maintenance VMware maintenance, and monitoring. With Develop and test production teams to create strategies for migrations, new upgrade, new tenants, and new projects.
• Managing, architecting Citrix design, implementation and administration of multiple Citrix farms including XenApp 6.0 and 6.5. & Xenapp 7, Using Nutanix for Confidential -environments for PVS servers Responsible for the Production, QA and Development environments
• Standardized server management and monitoring tools across the organization to provide real-time alerting leading to greater uptime and increased security.
• Documented, drafted and implemented procedures regarding equipment, server maintenance VMware maintenance, and monitoring. Documenting the network environment for vDS & NSX VMware architecture. Using PowerCLI, Powershell cmdlets to retrieves the virtual machinesinformation, such as to stop, re-start, move, & suspend.
• VMs. Assessing and Designing (IaaS) based on VMware vRA/vCAC, vRO, vROps, Powershell, PowerCLI in distributed environment. Configuring, managing vCAC provisioning groups, blueprints, workflows, and monitoring machines. building cloud VMs in AWS & AZURE.
• I have used and manage cloud apps in house and 3 party cloud apps such as: Netskope, DUO. Manage users & migrating users to the O365.

Lead Sr Windows Systems Engineer | VMware & Citrix Engineer

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• installation & configuration for HP, Confidential, Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server with fabric 6248 & 6296.
• Design and support, Updating firmware, blade server firmware.
• Designed, deployed, and maintenance of a broad range of Microsoft technologies including: Windows Server 2012 & R2, 2003, 2008, 2008 R2.
• Built virtual environments that are configured with 30 nodes Cluster(s) for MS SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008.
• Configure update and support of Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), SCOM 2007, & Active Directory, Group Policy and IIS.
• Standardized server management and monitoring tools across the organization to provide real-time alerting leading to greater uptime and increased security.
• Documented, design Visio drawings and coordinating with Dev and prod teams to implement procedures regarding projects.
• Server maintenance VMware maintenance, and monitoring.
• With Develop and test production teams to create strategies for migrations, new upgrade, new tenants, and new projects.
• Standardized server management and monitoring tools across the organization to provide real-time alerting leading to greater uptime and increased security.
• Documented, drafted and implemented procedures regarding equipment, server maintenance VMware maintenance, and monitoring.
• Documenting the network environment for vDS & NSX VMware architecture.
• Design Citrix environment using Nutanix SSD drives for EMC, Hitachi, NETAPP storage. VRA & VRO to automate vm builds.
• Responsible for migrating, maintaining, supporting, virtualizing windows & Redhat linux environments into Fujitsu datacenters.
• I have installed and configured hardware for HP, Confidential Blade & Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server with fabric 6248 & 629 Design and supported.
• Designed, Architected, install, configure VMware ESX, ESXi, vSphere 4, vSphere 5 and vSphere 6 environments with VirtualCenter management.
• Hands on experience in iSCSI, NFS, and Fiber Channel protocols for vmware.
• Fiber Channels to esx hosts (boot from SAN & Nutanix)
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates.
• Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows NT, 2000, 2003, 2008, and windows server 2012 & R2as well as centos / redhat Linux servers from VMware and legacy hardware.
• Using Powershell / PowerCLI cmdlets to retrieves the virtual machinesinformation, such as to stop, re-start, move, & suspend VMs
• Develop, test, and maintain a disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data.
• Experience with 3rd party solutions in VMware environments including Veeam, SRM and VMWARE labs (labs.vmware.com).
• Maintain the & install configure VMware vDS.
• I have migrated vDS switches to created vDS, created DV port groups, adding DvUplinks to the Host that are being migrated.
• Consolidating multiple single virtual switches to a single vDS.

Lead Sr Enterprise Windows Engineer / VMware & Citrix Engineer

Confidential, Dallas, TX & Los Angeles, CA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the day-to-day operation of the Production, QA and Development environments utilizing tools such as AppSense, EdgeSight and performance monitoring software. Scale 1500 concurrent users, 100 XenApp servers.
• Perform Assessments on the current Citrix infrastructure and develop recommendations for implementing, engineering, & supporting XenApp 6.0 & 6.5 environments with 45 published applications.
• Publishing apps on all environments and creating documentation for junior citrix admins.
• Training new users and employees for the use of citrix environments. APPSense Mgr Manage User Personalization and Whitelists on AppSense. set up APPSense mgr as a standalone product in a prod & test environment before actual deployment.
• I tweak the program(s) for the best configuration for each particular environment I managed a number of network access through file, folder, network drive, or application access only for certain file extensions can also be allowed/disallowed. building cloud VMs in AWS & AZURE.
• I have used and manage cloud apps in house and 3 party cloud apps Netskope, DUO, Microsoft SCCM cloud version to update server off the internal network.
• Manage users & migrating users to the O365.
• Supported VMware View Horizon- VDI that was used for only for 100-250 users, used Nutanix SSD drives for storage.
• Architecture, design, install, configure VMware ESX, ESXi, within VI3, vSphere 4 and vSphere 5 environments with VirtualCenter management.
• Hands on experience in iSCSI, NFS, and Fiber Channel protocols, Fiber Channels to esx hosts.Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates.
• Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows NT, 2000, 2003, 2008, and 2012 as well as Linux servers from VMware and legacy hardware. Develop, test, and maintain a disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data.
• Experience with 3rd party solutions in VMware environments including Veeam and VMWARE labs.
• Build new veritas typical two node cluster for migration using Responsible for maintaining IT infrastructure including server hardware, VMware environments.
• Responsible installation & configuration for HP, Confidential, Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server with fabric 6248 & 6296.
• Design and support Updating firmware, blade server firmware.
• Lead design, deployment, and maintenance of a broad range of Microsoft technologies including: Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008, 2008 R2.
• Build virtual environments that are configured with 2 nodes Cluster(s) for MS SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008.
• Configure update and support of Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), SCOM 2007, & Active Directory, Group Policy and IIS.
• Using PowerCLI / Powershell cmdlets to retrieves the virtual machinesinformation, such as to stop, re-start, move, & suspend VMs .
• Setup and configure Veritas 6 to add resources to new cluster.
• Monitoring cluster resources on Veritas clusters for linking adding and deleting resources.
• Migrating off windows 2008 to window 2012 r2 veritas clusters as well as connecting to new netapp storage for the backend EMC, Hitachi, NETAPP storage.
• Linking and Unlinking resources for trouble shooting veritas clusters.
• Standardized server management and monitoring tools across the organization to provide real-time alerting leading to greater uptime and increased security.
• Documented, drafted and implemented procedures regarding equipment, server maintenance VMware maintenance, and monitoring.
• I have migrated vDS switches to created vDS, created DV port groups, adding DvUplinks to the Host that are being migrated.
• Consolidating multiple single virtual switches to single vDS.

Lead Sr Enterprise Windows Engineer / ESX engineer / Citrix Engineer

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for engineering, installing, administering, configuring,, migrating, trouble shooting and providing documentation to Admins to support for after hours.
• Configure VMware ESX 2.x, 3.0, 3.5, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1 host configuration (includes: startup profile, EMC, Hitachi, NETAPP storage configuration, network connections and security settings).
• Responsible for installation process of VMware ESX 3.0 (identify the new server’s configuration, set up required localizations, create user account and root password, create the boot floppy and boot the target ESX system from the Linux image).
• Boot from SAN for some ESX hosts, Trouble-shooting/ install / configuring V-Motion for ESX Host in a datacenter cluster(s), trouble/configuring IP schema for V-Motion on ESX hosts to failover to one another in cluster(s).
• I have migrated vDS switches to created vDS, created DV port groups, adding VRA to automate vm Builds.
• DvUplinks to the Host that are being migrated. Consolidating multiple single virtual Switches to single vDS.
• Configuring DRS to use Resource pools properly across ESX host clusters Supported, managed, administered, and configured Citrix 5.0, 6.5 ( Xenapp 5 & 6.5 ) farms that consists of 50 + servers & 10 plus Citrix farms.
• I also fined tune Citrix farms such as: load balance and configured Citrix web-sites, managed Citrix published apps on specific servers for Internal & external customer.
• Engineered & implemented Citrix Farms upgrades from 4.0 to 4.5 to Citrix 5.0, 6.5 ( Xenapp 5 & 6.5 ) on 2003 & 2008 windows servers.
• I have set up and managed Data stores using ACCESS DATABASEs / SQL 2000, SQL EXPRESS, SQL 2005.
• Set various dedicated data collectors for various Citrix farms.
• I have also architect Citrix Farms new environments for new customers.
• Completed training in Citrix 5.0, 6.5 ( Xenapp 5 & 6.5 ).
• Creating custom reports on results of SCOM monitoring, using SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).
• Providing application support for SCOM platform, including add/remove servers, add/remove user access, review/update SCOM console security, create monitoring rules, add/remove monitoring notifications, creating SCOM console views.
• Setting up multiple Windows Server 2003 / 2008 R2, UNIX/Linux & other file and application servers as clients to SCOM server, retrieving and displaying performance data (CPU / Memory utilization, Disk I/O, Network Bandwidth, etc), security audit and dashboard views from these hosts and getting detailed server, client and network status reports.
• Setting up monitors and alerts.
• Providing problem resolution/troubleshooting for SCOM components and related custom scripts/automations to clients in the Microsoft engineering area, as well as integration into other monitoring components.
• Implementing changes/enhancements to SCOM components and creating custom Management Packs (MP) as needed Vmware Engineer.

Lead Sr Enterprise Windows Engineer

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ & Denver, CO

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for engineering / /troubleshooting, migrating from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008 (STD, enterprise, Core) & ESX4.1, 3.0, 2.x hosts VMware environments in an enterprise environment, Supported, managed, administered, and configured Citrix 4.0, 4.5 & Citrix 5.0 ( Xenapp 5 ) farms that consists of 1000 + servers & 200 plus Citrix farms.
• I also fined tune Citrix farms such as: load balance and configured Citrix web-sites, managed Citrix published apps on specific servers for Internal & external customer.
• Engineered & implemented Citrix Farms upgrades from 4.0 to 4.5 to 5.0 on 2003 & 2008 windows servers.
• I have set up and managed Data stores using ACCESS DATABASEs / SQL 2000, SQL EXPRESS, SQL 2005.
• Set various dedicated data collectors for various Citrix farms.
• I have also architect Citrix Farms new environments for new customers.
• Completed training in Citrix 5 ( Xenapp 5 ). I Managed license server(s) for Citrix farms.
• I created documentation & Diagrams of Citrix Environments that I have engineered & supported for support purposes.
• Utilize my Citrix skill to teach others to support various Citrix farms.
• Configure VMware ESX 2.x, 3.0, 3.5, 4.1 host configuration (includes: startup profile, storage configuration, network connections and security settings).
• Responsible for installation process of VMware ESX 3.0 (identify the new server’s configuration, set up required localizations, create user account and root password, create the boot floppy and boot the target ESX system from the Linux image).
• Boot from SAN for some ESX hosts, Trouble-shooting/ install / configuring V-Motion for ESX Host in a datacenter cluster(s), trouble/configuring IP schema for V-Motion on ESX hosts to failover to one another in cluster(s).Configuring DRS to use Resource pools properly across ESX host clusters (CPU, MEMORY..Etc).
• Responsible for building ESX HA cluster for 99.9 uptime using 2+ or more ESX hosts for HA and add more ESX server to the ESX cluster or to the ESX farm.
• Lead and perform patch management, hot-fixes for servers.
• Performs and implements network settings such as DNS, WINS, TCP/IP, and Gateways.
• Decommissioning OLD MOM monitoring environments. Building new SCOM 2007 R2 monitoring to monitored services and applications, UP and down for servers. Use SCOM 2007 R2 to send out report on health of servers and reports out to teams. Fine Tuned, Configured and Design monitors for apps and servers teams.
• Recommend & Verify SAN configurations such as fiber cards for ESX servers with connections and SAN space for servers and verifying LUNs are mapped to servers with fiber connections. Provides VMWARE - Virtual PC and Virtual Server for testing window apps, web apps, and server networking protocols.
• Performed Datacenter migrations using Plate spin power convert software server to migrate servers to new environments.P2V, P2P, P2I, V2V, & V2I for datacenter moves, datacenter closures, Datacenter adds. Configure Virtual Center Servers for ESX 3.0, 2.x hosts.

Confidential, Denver, CO & Atlanta, GA

Windows System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing the day-to-day operations in an Enterprise environment. Currently managing one-support team and server standards in an MS Windows environment, such as server re-builds and builds (imaging and re-imaging). Create and maintain trouble-shooting documentation for the team. Verify hardware standards for new servers across various Data Center locations. Provides training to new hires on procedures pertaining to technical documentation.
• Configure VMware ESX 2.x host configuration Responsible for building ESX (includes: startup profile, storage configuration, swap configuration, network connections and security settings). Responsible for Linux installation process VMware ESX 2.0 (identify the new server’s configuration, set up required localizations, create user account and root password, create the boot floppy and boot the target ESX system from the Linux image). Boot from SAN for some ESX hosts, Trouble-shooting/ install / configuring V-Motion for ESX Host in a datacenter cluster(s), trouble/configuring IP schema. Configuring DRS to use Resource pools properly across ESX host (CPU, MEMORY..etc).
• Leads and performs patch management, hot-fixes for servers. Troubleshoots and implements network settings such as DNS, WINS, TCP/IP, and Gateways. Maintains a Security policy for Global Groups and Global Groups polices using MS Group Policy Management Configuring Backup / Domains controllers for a New Forest. Verify SAN configurations such as fiber cards for servers with connections and SAN space for servers and verifying LUNs are mapped to servers with fiber connections. Provides VMWARE - Virtual PC and Virtual Server for testing window apps, web apps, and server networking protocols. Responsible for creating and maintaining VB.Net / VB / VBA / ASP Apps for MS Office solutions for data analysis and for collaboration to give real time data statistics for Windows Apps and Web Apps. Through building and supporting these Web Apps and Local Apps, helped to expand the various Departments inside of HP an Intranet presence.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining VB.Net / VB / VBA / ASP Apps for MS Office solutions for data analysis and for collaboration to give real time data statistics for Windows Apps and Web Apps. Through building and supporting these Web Apps and Local Apps, helped to expand the various Departments inside of HP an Intranet presence.

Environment: NT 4.0, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Advance Server, and Windows Server 2003