TECHNICAL SKILLS

PLATFORMS: NetApp Data ONTAP 8.1/7.3.4, vCloud Air, vSphere 5.x/4.1/ESXi 5.x/ESXi 4.1, VMware Horizon View 6, Citrix XenApp 6.5, XenDesktop 5.6, PVS 6.1, Hyper - V, Redhat Enterprise Linux 5/6, Windows 2012, Windows Server 2008, Windows 2003, Active Directory, DNS, ADLDS, ADAM, MS PKI, Windows Remote Desktop Services, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows XP Professional, and Citrix Presentation Server.

SOFTWARE: Cisco UCS Manager/Service Profiles, NetApp System Manager, NetApp VSC, NetApp SnapDrive, NetApp SnapManager, SnapRestore, SnapMirror, vCenter Server 5.x/4.x, vCloud Director 5.x, vCloud Automation Center 6.x/5.x, vFabric Application Director 6.x/5.x, vCenter Heartbeat 6.x, vShield Manager, RVTools, vCenter Converter 5, Exchange 2007, SQL Server 2008/2012, Quest Migration, Group Policy, Script Logic Pro, Platespin Migrate, Veeam Backup, and InfoBlox DNS.

HARDWARE/STORAGE: Cisco UCS: 5108 chassis, B230 M2 blades, 6120XP Fabric Interconnects, VIC, IOMs, DL585, DL385, HP C7000 chassis and BL460 blades, Dell Power Edge 6850, Dell Blade M1000e chassis and M600 blades. Cisco Nexus 5000 and Nexus 2000 switches, Cisco Catalyst 3550/12G, 3550/24, and 4506 Enterprise switches; Dell Equalogic PS6000 iSCSI; NetApp FAS 3020, 3040, 3050, 3140, 3270, 6240; EMC VNX. Protocols: NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, and FCoE.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on a team of senior cloud engineers to design and implement a VMware private cloud solution built on vSphere 5.5, vCloud Automation Center 5.2 and vFabric Application Director 5.2. The cloud solution was designed to offer the following IaaS and PaaS capabilities: self-service VM provisioning, bare-metal provisioning, application installation automation and other resources. The service catalog included the following offerings (blueprints): virtual instances of Windows 2003, 2008, SQL 2008, SQL 2012, IIS 7.5, and RHEL 5.x.
• Implemented VMware vCloud Air Hybrib cloud proof-of - concepts for several private customers. The tasks included: creating vPCs (virtual private cloud) containers of compute, network, storage; creating a site-to-site VPN between the customers’ VPN concentrator and the Edge Gateway wifin vCloud Air; creating firewall rules to pass traffic.
• Assisted wif the management of the EMC vBlocks, which is comprised of Cisco UCS blades/chassis, Fabric Interconnects, Nexus switches, EMC VNX storage arrays and Avamar enterprise backup.
• Implemented vCenter Heartbeat to provide high availability of the following services: vCenter, Single Sign-on, Inventory Service, and Update Manager.
• Assisted wif the design and implementation of an internal MS PKI solution for the purposes of replacing existing self-signed certificates wif enterprise root signed certificates.
• Instantiated a VMware Horizon View 6 proof-of-concept in a lab environment to evaluate the following features: automated/manual desktop pools, direct-connected agent, RDS desktop pools, and Horizon Workspace.

Confidential, Greenbelt, MD

Senior Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Strategize datacenter consolidation and application migration to a cloud-based infrastructure (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
• Designed and implemented a private cloud proof-of-concept infrastructure on the following: Dell C2100 and R800 servers, NetApp FAS 3260 SAN and NAS storage, VMware vSphere 5.1/ESXi 5.1, vCloud Director 5.1, vCloud Automation Center and vCenter Chargeback to demonstrate the following: self-provisioning of virtual machines (vCPU, vRAM, vNetwork, vDisk); virtual datacenter and organization resource pooling and elasticity; and chargeback/show back of multi-tenant resource consumption.
• Created aggregates, volumes, LUNs, LUN masking, iGroups, iSCSI, CIFS and NFS on the NetApp filers. Also, enabled the following on the volumes: snapshot schedule, thin-provisioning, and compression for non-critical data.
• Implemented and configured vCenter Operations Manager in a proof-of-concept environment for testing of virtual infrastructure monitoring, alerting, resource reclamation and root-cause analysis. Configuration included badges, heat maps, alerts, application relationships, and custom dashboard.

Confidential, Gaithersburg, MD

Sr. VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and Implemented a VMware vSphere 4.1/ESXi 4.1 cluster running on (6) IBM x3650 M3 servers to facilitate the initial migration of physical and virtual machines from the legacy VMware clusters.
• Designed and Implemented (10) VMware vSphere 4.1/ESXi 4.1 NetApp FlexPods spread across two physical sites. These FlexPods were built across (15) Cisco UCS 5108 chassis’ and (120) Cisco UCS B230 M2 blades. Each blade chassis connected up to two 6140XP Fabric Interconnects over (4) 10Gb SFP+ Twinax connections. The Fabric Interconnects connect upstream to Nexus 5000 and Nexus 7000 switches.
• Migrated legacy Dell and IBM VMware clusters to the NetApp FlexPod. Utilized storage vMotion and vMotion to migrate 350 virtual machines across the network to the NetApp FlexPod.
• Used UCS Manager to configure and manage the following components: UUID pools, MAC pools, Management IP Pool, WWNN pool, WWPN pools, vHBA templates, vNIC templates, Policies, Firmware packages, Service Profile Templates and Service Profiles.
• Configured host profiles in vCenter to automate the configuration of all the ESXi hosts. Installed and configured the Nexus 1010 appliance/Nexus 1000v Virtual distributed switch, VEM, and VSM modules to simplify virtual networking configuration and administration.

Confidential, VA

Sr. VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Upgraded three VMware ESX 3.5 environments to vSphere 4.1 ESXi utilizing NetApp iSCSI SAN storage.
• Create and present NetApp SnapDrive and SnapManager LUNs to tier-1 applications such as Exchange and SQL.
• Utilize NetApp System Manager and the Console to manage aggregates, volumes, LUNs, CIFS, NFS and snapshots.
• Implemented PingFederate Single Sign-on application to integrate RSA two-factor authentication for web applications such as Google Apps and Adobe Connect.
• Utilize vSphere vCenter Converter to migrate physical systems to virtual machines for infrastructure consolidation.

Confidential, Merrifield, VA

Sr. VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Migrated an ESX 3.0 and VirtualCenter 2.0 infrastructure to ESX 4.0 and vCenter/vSphere 4.0.
• Implemented and migrated to vNetwork Distributed switches to reduce administration and enhance vNetwork security.
• Utilized host profiles to streamline ESX host deployments and standardize configuration across the hosts.
• Created NetApp aggregates, volumes, LUNs, and igroups using FilerView, console and NetApp System Manager.
• Mapped LUNs to igroups and presented Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and NFS datastores to ESX hosts.
• Utilized NetApp SnapDrive and SnapManager to present raw device mappings to application and database servers.
• Licensed and configured cluster failover between two NetApp FAS 3140 Storage Appliances

Confidential, Crystal City, VA

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed an ESX 3.5 infrastructure consisting of 10 ESX hosts, 2 datacenters, 2 clusters, 1 VirtualCenter server and 75 virtual machines. The hardware used for the ESX infrastructure was a Dell M1000e chassis wif M600 blades.
• Created vSwitches, vNICs, VM port groups, VMkernel port groups and service console port groups.
• Worked wif the SAN engineer to provision iSCSI LUNs for ESX hosts on the NetApp FAS 3020 Filer.
• Created resource pools to help manage CPU and memory reservations wifin the ESX clusters.

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, implemented and managed a VMware ESX 3.5 environment to include: single datacenter, single cluster, 10 ESX hosts, VirtualCenter 2.5 server and a SQL 2005 back-end database to store the VirtualCenter database.
• Implemented DRS and HA for virtual machine load balancing and high availability.
• The hardware used to build the ESX environment was a HP C7000 enclosure wif BL460 blades.
• Achieved a 10:1 consolidation ratio as a result of the implementing VMware ESX. Also, used VMware Converter and PlateSpin Migrate to convert P2V.
• Support and maintain an Active Directory 2003 and Exchange 2003 environment consisting of 11,000 users wif most of the users in the U.S. and some abroad. The AD structure contains one AD forest, a single domain (non-empty root) spread across three physical sites and one logical site and nine domain controllers.
• My key roles for the Active Directory infrastructure are to ensure optimum health and availability of the domain controllers, the sites and site links, DNS zones, group policy, replication, delegation of control to AD, running AD Health checks via the ADHC tool provided by Microsoft, and new AD site and domain controller deployments.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Upgraded the FCC’s Windows 2000 Active Directory infrastructure to Windows 2003 Active Directory. The environment consists of an empty forest-root domain, a child domain (resource), two sites, six domain controllers and 4000 total users.
• Perfomed Active Directory health checks prior to the upgrade to ensure proper, error-free replication of active directory data, DNS data, Global catalog, and SYSVOL. Tools used: dcdiag, netdiag, repadmin, replmon, dnslint, and perfmon.
• Performed the following steps prior to upgrading: Extended the schema via ADPREP /forestprep on the schema master and ADPREP /domainprep and ADPREP /gpprep on the infrastructure master. Also, Ran ADPREP /domain prep and ADPREP /gpprep on the infrastructure master in the child domain.

Confidential, Greenbelt, MD

Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a technical analyst to migrate a Novell 5.1/eDirectory (LDAP) infrastructure to a single forest, 2 domain Windows 2003 Active Directory infrastructure for the Defense Financial Accounting Service (DFAS). This process involved migrating and consolidating 16,000 Netware users from 32 sites to a single AD forest spread across 3 sites.
• Worked on an Active Directory/Exchange migration team to migrate 20,000 users and 30,000 workstations from Windows NT 4.0/Exchange 5.5 to Windows 2003/Exchange 2003 for the US Army Korea.