Summary

• Accomplished IT professional with over 15 years of experience in hardware platforms, operating systems, and virtualization techniques. Broad range of skills and experience with ability to troubleshoot, design, and implement the latest technologies in a secure, stable and well documented manner.
• As a VMware virtualization and Microsoft Windows administration subject matter expert, provides solutions for security, reliability, and performance issues. Deep understanding of past technologies with knowledge and ability to overcome the challenges of implementing cutting-edge technologies, integrating them into legacy systems, or standalone environments. Experienced working with VMware, Active Directory, networking, SAN connectivity and storage systems, data de-duplication, replication, and disaster recovery.

CAREER SYNOPSIS

Confidential

SENIOR SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

• Design and implement a wide range of advanced technologies for clients, including VMware vSphere, VMware View, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft SQL, Veeam Backup Replication, HP/Lefthand P4000 and VSA solutions, Microsoft Exchange, HP Procurve Switches, Microsoft SCCM, Microsoft SBS, plus many other software and hardware technologies.
• Senior Virtualization SME Successfully upgraded clients from 4.x to vSphere 5.0 and designed new vSphere implementations.
• Upgraded several clients from Microsoft Exchange 2003 and 2007 to Microsoft Exchange 2010.
• Continuously face many technical challenges which are overcome promptly and efficiently, minimizing downtime and loss of data and user productivity.
• Research and develop procedures and documentation to assist staff with:
• VMware vSphere networking best practices
• VMware vSphere 4.x 5.x iSCSI multipathing
• Microsoft Exchange migration and upgrade best practices
• HP / Lefthand P4000 and VSA best practices
• VMware vSphere upgrade procedures
• Design and implement networks based on HP procurve switches.
• Pioneered and led an initiative to update client documentation and encouraged other staff and management to maintain current documentation.
• Write clear and thorough documentation that is provided to the customer upon completion of the project.
• Maintain and upgrade a wide range of software systems and hardware platforms for clients.
• Consistently finish projects on time and within budget.

Confidential

VMWARE / WINDOWS SENIOR ENGINEER

• Chief architect of FAS IT VMware infrastructure Spearheaded UIS/FAS IT VMware collaboration initiative.
• Held responsibility of physical to virtual P2V server migration initiative, virtual machine stabilization, optimization, data protection and documentation.
• Designed, documented, and presented a project plan to improve quality of service by creating a multisite, automated failover VMware cluster with tiered storage.
• Presented many recommendations to bring the existing ESX farm into line with VMware and industry best practices.
• Provided expert assistance in designing and presenting several SAN architectures for the HIMS project.

Confidential

SENIOR NETWORK SERVER ENGINEER

• Maintained over 700 Windows and ESX servers on a team of nine engineers. Personally held responsibility for the administration and maintenance of over 150 of these servers with direct responsibility for six Tier 1 applications.
• Led an ongoing, enterprise-wide server virtualization initiative, reducing the physical server footprint by 40 . Execution involved capacity planning, architectural design, hardware and software implementation, preventative maintenance and communication plans.
• Performed capacity planning for the VMware farm and evaluated P2V candidates for suitability for migration to virtual machines. Personally migrated over 200 physical servers to virtual machines.
• Migrated BMC's datacenter to a new location from downtown Boston to Needham. Communication was critical to ensure each server was moved and re-IP'd with no outages outside the scheduled downtime window.
• Upgraded the VMware environment from 2.52 through 3.5 U4 with zero downtime for any of the Virtual Machines.
• Developed monitoring, reporting, and data manipulation scripts for several applications, including Veritas Netbackup, Legato Networker, Papervision, Occupational Health Manager, VMware, Sunrise Clinical Manager, Centricity EMR aka Logician , and Microsoft Windows administration.
• Migrated a Tier 1 inpatient application, Sunrise Clinical Manager, to a Microsoft two-node cluster, developing MSCS strategies for the vendor in order to ensure application availability requirements. This solution became the golden standard for subsequent implementations of SCM on MSCS.
• Implemented, documented, and mentored peers and helpdesk staff in new technologies.
• Developed standardized Windows 2003 and 2008 server build, server decommissioning, Microsoft Clustering Services, VMware ESX Server build, Cisco Content Selector Switch, and Physical to Virtual P2V server migration documentation and procedures.
• Implemented an enterprise backup solution at BMC, Veritas Netbackup, migrating stand-alone tape drives and libraries into a unified environment. Performed 11TB of backups on a system designed to handle 1.5TB nightly.
• Demonstrated prioritization skills, flexibility, and the ability to develop unique and time-saving solutions during several major infrastructure outages.
• Retired all Novell fileservers, migrating data and shares onto Windows 2000 file servers with no loss of data. Successfully migrated all security groups into Active Directory with no unplanned outage to the users.
• Developed several in-house applications and scripts that increased system reliability and reduced hands-on interaction. Server build setup scripts, inventory and asset management scripts, DNS troubleshooting scripts, web-based checklist application, and server vulnerability checking scripts.

Confidential

NETWORK ENGINEER

• Provided Windows, networking and hardware support for a 15 node, 500 user frame relay network. Migrated many sales offices and moved the Boston datacenter to Quincy.
• Supported Windows NT 4.0 Server, Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, Exchange Server 5.5, Proxy Server 2.0, and Windows 9x.
• Maintained the TCP/IP network, including WINS, DNS, DHCP, FTP, VPN, firewalls, and web services to both the Intranet and Internet. Programmed routers, switches, FRADS, and 3rd party hardware RAS solutions to expand the network as new offices were opened.

OPERATING SYSTEMS

• VMware ESX server 2.52 vSphere 5.0U1, 3i, 4i, Workstation, Fusion, and Server GHX .
• Windows NT4, 2000, 2003, and 2008 Server.
• Windows 9x/Me/XP/Vista/ Windows 7.
• Linux experience with Ubuntu, Red Hat, Suse, and Knoppix distributions.
• MS-DOS 2.0 6.22.
• NetWare 3.12, 4.11.

SOFTWARE

• VMware Virtual Center, VMware View, VMware Converter Standalone Enterprise editions , VMware High Availability HA , VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler DRS , VMware VMotion, Veeam Backup Replication, VMware Consolidated Backup VCB , VMware Capacity Planner, Vizioncore vRanger, Vizioncore vCharter, Vizioncore vFoglight, Platespin PowerConvert.
• DNS, WINS, DHCP, Microsoft Active Directory, Group Policy, Microsoft Exchange, IIS, FTP, SFTP, SCP, SSH, Microsoft SCCM, Level Platforms Onsite Manager, Terminal Services, NetMon, PerfMon, Disk Thrasher, IO Meter, Sysinternal Utilities, Dell Open manage, HP Smartstart, Compaq Insight Manager, VPN, Veritas Netbackup, Legato Networker, Apache Tomcat , Arcserve, Microsoft SMS 1.8 - 2.0, SAP.
• Microsoft Office '97 2010, Visio, Word, Excel, Project, PowerPoint, Publisher, Access , Microsoft InfoPath, Microsoft SharePoint, MSPS Microsoft SharePoint Services , Biscomm, Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, PDF Creator, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe Photoshop, Google Sketchup.