TECHNICAL SKILLS

• MS SharePoint
• Microsoft SQL Server
• PowerShell
• HP ILO
• Dell ILO
• SQL
• Veeam
• Windows Server OS
• Active directory
• DNS
• DHCP
• Cisco (IOS)
• GCP
• VMware SRM
• PowerCLI vCenter Server
• EMC VNX 5300
• Recover Point
• NETAPPStorage vSphere Host
• DRS
• Ha
• SCCM
• Horizon View VDI
• Cisco ACI/ENCS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Solid experience in managing VMware, vSphere Replication, vCenter, vROPS, PowerCLI, PowerShell, REST API.
• System Engineer role for multiple network technologies in the enterprise (LAN, WAN, SD - WAN).
• Provide troubleshooting and coordination. Quality of Service for next generation planning and deployment. Coordinate contractor resources during project deployments.
• Cloud architect, knowledgeable in architecture with Azure and O365.
• Experience and understanding of security compliance from across multiple platforms.
• Experience in hyper-converged servers, and UCS infrastructure
• Experience in HP SIM infrastructure
• Experience with Solar winds management suite
• Extensive experience with Site Recovery Manager
• Microsoft Server administration and management

Confidential

Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Work within the IT Infrastructure Team, providing support administration and build for the SCCM infrastructure, monitoring and operations support on Windows Server 2008R2 and 2012R2, VMware ESX v7, and SAN Storage Arrays.
• System monitoring using Manage Engine SCOM.
• Collapsing multiple forest and migrating of physical and virtual machines to a single forest.
• Using a variety of tools: VMware Converter.
• Monitor and maintain 1000+ Windows x64 servers. Planned and implemented a multi-forest Active Directory structure to bridge the test and production infrastructure. Segregated the production and PCI networks, while maintaining central administration and group policy management.
• Developed PowerShell/PowerCli scripts from scratch to manage new VM provisioning and domain objects, plus patching. Configured application layer security such as TCP Wrappers.
• SAN, NAS, File system, Network, File Access Protocol (CIFS, NFS).
• Heavy use of PowerShell for day to day operational and automation tasks. Create and script solutions needed for various platforms, purposes and projects.
• UCS Compute Platform, Azure and AWS.
• Implementing, managing and maintaining automation tools to reduce time and complexity of systems operation tasks.
• Collaborate with others to troubleshoot and resolve escalated production issues.
• Assess utilization trends and make appropriate design and implementation recommendations to scale the architecture.
• After-hours support rotation and implementation as needed.
• Propose and implement system enhancements. Deploy and configure virtual machines as necessary.
• Enterprise and Data Center experience (1000+ servers / virtual machines and physical machines) Virtualization/APIs. VRealize Automation/Orchestration.
• Manage a multi-datacenter environment.
• Supported multiple SQL 2012 and SQL 2008 instances in both an Active/Active and Active/Passive roles.
• Engineered processes for a shared SQL quorum migration to a new SRDF capable EMC SAN. Performed hardware and operating systems refreshes on all systems with minimum application outages.
• Hands-on experience With KVM and VMWare Hypervisor. Hands-on experience with RHEL, CentOS and Windows. Ability to document processes and solutions specific to VMWare Converter, Carbonite and Doubletake. Experience collapsing a multi-forest environment into a single domain Quest and other toolsets.

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for vRealize Automation and Implementation. Created VMWare vRealize Automation distributed deployment environment. Configured vRealize Endpoints Fabric groups. Created Reservations policies. Developed VCO Workflows to automate VM provisioning for different service levels. Utilizing vRealize Operations Manager reports and Fabric Group consumption to review capacity planning with management and identify capacity constraints.
• Work alongside key vendors (EMC, VMware, Cisco, Veeam, Networks) to drive the development and deployment of their technologies within the environment.
• Develop and manage deployment, reporting, and project solutions with scripting, automation and orchestration tools.
• PowerShell.
• Design and implement technology solutions based on VMware products and provide support for escalated performance issues within this product suite
• Identify opportunities, develop solutions & drive improvements across the server platforms
• Collaborate with the wider Design and architecture teams to contribute to solution designs and develop standards
• Performing knowledge transfer and mentoring of staff
• Will also have opportunities to work outside the normal discipline of Windows
• VDI infrastructure architect and support engineer: connection, composer and reference servers.
• Construction of AppStacks using VMware AppVolume.

Confidential

Senior Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked within the IT Infrastructure Team, providing support administration, monitoring and operations support on Windows Server 2008R2 and 2012R2, VMware ESX v6, and NAS Storage Arrays.
• PowerCLi scripting to provision VMs in a multi-tenant environment.
• Configured Group Policy to deploy QND security solutions and to maintain Corporate Security Policy.
• Converted multiple machines from physical to virtual using VMware Converter.
• System monitoring using Manage Engine SCOM.
• SCCM Infrastructure Management and Administration.
• Administered Unitrends Backup and Recovery solution.

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Install and configure ESX servers. .
• Migrated servers from physical to virtual using hot and cold cloning technology in VMware. Create clusters in VMware. Configure High Availability (HA) and DRS.
• Deploy and clone virtual servers. Rules creation, and creation of backup policy, and alert configuration of backup policy. Configuration of VLANs in vCenter.
• Provide and maintain user access in vCenter.
• SCCM Infrastructure Management and Administration.
• Configure mail alerts for any failure in HA, DRS, CPU or memory.
• Patch management using VMware update manager for ESXi server. Test and implement disaster recovery using VMware Site Recovery Manager.
• Implemented WSUS/SCCM integration and created a monthly phased patching process. Successfully created refresh and replace Operating System Deployment task sequences for Windows 7 to Windows 8 upgrade using Zero/Lite Touch Installations, WAIK, USMT 4.0, and MDT 2010 integration.

Confidential

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Windows 2008 and 2012. Group Policy management, clustering updates and server install and configuration.
• VMware vSphere architecture, Physical to virtual migration, implementation and support for internal clients.
• Provided network and storage resources to achieve dense virtualization ratios while maintaining SLAs and surpassing disaster recovery RTO/RPO’s.
• Architected, designed, installed, and configured VMware ESX, ESXi, within VI3, vSphere v6.0 and vSphere v5.1 environments with VCenter management, DRS, HA, DPM, vMotion, VMware Data Recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), vCenter Operations Manager, and VMware View desktop virtualization infrastructure (VDI).
• Built, configured and deployed VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows 2003, 2008, and 2012 as well as Linux servers from VMware and legacy hardware.
• Supported SAN environments to ensure high availability and acceptable performance characteristics for VMware vSphere and SAN-backed applications. Experience with architecture, implementation and administration.
• Analyzed and troubleshot on an advanced level. Performed SAN-backed VMware ESX infrastructure to determine proper allocation of resources to a multi-department user population with widely varying needs.
• Customized layer 2 and layer 3 networking between VMware, networking components and storage for high availability and maximum performance.
• Developed, tested, and maintained a disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data.

Confidential

Virtualization Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Deploying, managing, and troubleshooting VMware vRealize Automation, vRealize Orchestration, vRealize IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), vRealize Distributed Execution Manager, and vRealize SSO Servers across multiple data centers.
• Worked within the IT Infrastructure Team, providing Tier 3 administration, monitoring and operations support on Windows Server 2012 R2, VMware ESX v6 and EMC Storage Array.
• Planned, Designed and Deployed Configuration Manager 2012 R2 and SCCM 2007 R2.
• SCCM Infrastructure Management and Administration.
• Deployed Configuration Manager 2012 R2 Clients Using Group Policy.
• Migrated obsolete hardware platforms to VMs via VMware Converter.
• Analyzed technical issues and provided second-tier, end to end problem determination, and issue resolution.
• Set configuration and security policies, and system monitoring.
• Extended existing System Center Configuration Manager infrastructure to manage corporate-connected PCs, Macs and Unix/Linux servers.
• Designed, developed and deployed PowerShell and PowerCLI scripts to automate the deployment of patches, AD accounts, groups.
• Configured SCCM to manage cloud-based mobile devices running Windows, all from a single management console.
• Configured Configuration Manager so that management of Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 8.1, Windows RT, iOS, and Android devices using Microsoft Intune service over the internet.
• Oversaw operations and maintenance for Site Administration in Configuration Manager.
• NetApp shared storage and VMware administration.
• Supported Infrastructure Security by maintaining current patch levels, on vSphere Servers, Windows Servers and SQL Database Instances. Configured and troubleshot SSL Certificates and RSA Tokens.
• Responded to incident tracking system for Virtualization and SAN-related issues.
• Performed SAN hardware and software maintenance and upgrades.
• Office 365 Administration: ADFS, Identity Manage. Developed PowerShell script to assist and administering the Office 365 environment.
• Administered Exchange Server 2010. Managed Exchange backup and restore requests, and new account creation requests.
• Planned and executed migration from Windows 2003 Server to Windows Server 2012 for 1,100 production servers.
• Deployed App and Desktop Solutions with Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop v7.6.