SUMMARY:

• 25 years of industry experience and strengths in the areas of server, data centers, infrastructure and systems design (conceptual to implementation). Solid experience working on production systems; career focus on the Microsoft technology stack.
• Built and supported customer - facing, production, web-hosting platform at Volusion. Platform successfully handled 18,000 customer websites including Disney, LL Bean, and other high-volume ecommerce platforms. At its peak, the platform handled 3M+ hits per hour.
• Part of a global team to enhance and support HP’s public cloud technology platform, which hosts production environments for Fortune 100 clients across the world using multiple virtualization platforms including KVM, VMware, Citrix, VMS LPARs and
• Architecture and implementation of server and datacenter infrastructures in a Microsoft Windows environment.
• High level experience in VMWare design, implementation and management in versions 5.5 and 6.
• Design and deployment of VMware Horizon VDI experience in enterprise deployments.
• High level experience in HP EVA and 3PAR, Compellent and NetApp storage systems including Cisco MDS and Brocade switches.
• High level experience in virtualization, HSM and Business Continuity.
• Designing, testing and implementing global server tech stacks in large, enterprise environments.
• Ability to identify business goals, analyze situations, potential issues, and deliver solutions

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Server Hardware: HP ProLiant and Blades, Sun, IBM, Compaq ProLiant.

Storage Array: HP Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA), HP MSA (P2000), Compellent SAN, HP LeftHand (4000), 3PAR 7K + Associated Software Products.

NAS Devices: HP e7000, Network Appliance, Isilon.

Tape Libraries: HP ESL G3, ADIC Scalar i2000.

Converged Infrastructure: HP Flex-Network, HP Flex Fabric.

Server Management: HP Insight manager, VMware VirtualCenter, CA ITam.

Image Management: HP RDP, HP P2P, VMware P2V, Opsware.

Virtual Server: ESX VMware.

Backup Software: CommVault Galaxy, Veritas NetBackup, HP Data Protector.

MultiPath Software: HP SecurePath, EMC PowerPath, and MPIO.

Operating Systems: Windows 2012/2008 Server/Active Directory, VMware ESX Server/Citrix XEN/Microsoft HyperV, Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

HPE Storage Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Working for Confidential through SBS as a storage/ Converged Systems Consultant.
• Providing consultative and best practice input to HPE clients on a variety of HPE products including but not limited to storage product line, Proliant servers including BladeSystems, archival products and Converged Systems.

Confidential

HP SAN Architect

Responsibilities:

• Performing a project through Avanade for Motorola Solutions to do performance analysis on HP EVA and 3PAR storage arrays across the country and provide recommendations for performance improvements.

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Helping to develop an Enterprise market for storage and virtualization.
• Supporting existing storage and converged infrastructure clients in VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V virtualized environments. Migration of ESX virtual machines to MS Hyper-V.

Confidential

SAN/Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Hired as a contingency employee with the Enterprise Cloud Services group to provide expertise on Hewlett Packard Storage products including the 3PAR 7000 and 10000 series arrays as well as NetApp 8000 series arrays in cluster
• Collaborate on a daily basis with a world-wide team in developing the storage design, testing and deployment in support of Hewlett Packard’s global cloud services products.
• Build and support HP’s public cloud platform including HP Storage, VMware 5.5 and Openstack dat is used by Fortune 100 customers.
• Uses OpenStack to build and enhance enterprise cloud services automation.
• Used Windows PowerShell/VMware PowerCLI to deploy storage within the context of the Openstack automation environment
• Supported multiple virtualization platforms including VMware, MS Hyper-V, Citrix Zen, Linux KVM and LPars. Migration between these platforms is being driven by HP’s Logical Server technology.

Confidential, Tempe, AZ

IT Professional Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Specialized in designing and deploying HP BladeSystems, ProLiant server implementations, HP Network edge devices and HP’s various StorageWorks products.
• Supported the deployment of these products in Windows, Linux and VMware environments.

Confidential, Valencia, CA

Pre-Sales Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Virtualization expert for VMware platform designing server and desktop virtualization solutions.
• Pre-Sales Engineer for Cisco UCS server solutions.
• Also provided backup solutions with Commvault and Quantum Tape solutions.

Confidential, Simi Valley, CA

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Primary job was to be the ‘go to’ person for three Compellent SANs, 6 Hewlett Packard c7000 BladeSystem chassis, Microsoft Windows Server and Active Directory, and VMware 4.
• Environment TEMPhas 58 VMware hosts on blade servers with 370 virtual machines. These Windows virtual machines host over 18,000 websites for our customer sites. The Compellent SANs comprises of two production SANs in Simi Valley and one in Dallas, Texas as a disaster recovery/ production site. Continuous replication, over a VPN tunnel, ensures dat current data exists in case of a disaster. Phase two brought production up in Dallas.
• Used Windows PowerShell/VMware PowerCLI to deploy storage, configure and patch VMs in the VMware infrastructure

Confidential

Manager of Storage/Systems

Responsibilities:

• Primary job was to provide Enterprise solutions. dis encompassed engineering deployments in storage, blade technology, virtualization, consolidation and enterprise backup. Storage solutions included a HP EVA 8100 and a NetApp 3020dual controller NAS solution.
• Deployed a HP EVA 4400 and a NetApp 3040 dual controller NAS solution with 12TB of storage in the DR site.
• Designed and implemented a VMware version 3.5 deployment and virtualized 60 % of the existing physical servers. Total virtual machines were 210. Deployed 8 HP c7000 blade chassis for SQL and VMware.
• Designed a new version 4.0.0 deployment and migration from 3.5. Also included business continuation and disaster recovery through technologies such as storage replication and virtualization.
• PowerShell/PowerCLI used to deploy new hosts and VMs.

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Primary functions included hardware platform design, deployment and management for Windows environment. Deployment and support of HP EVA based SAN with Brocade switches.
• Responsible for 6 NetApp filers comprising of 3 model 740 and 3 model 720 NetApp filers, as well as 5 HP EVAs and an Isilon NAS array.
• Assigned as one of the Engineers on the design, deployment and management of our initial VMWare server consolidation solution. Initial VMWare version was 2.4 and is currently Enterprise 5.x. their was an excess of 550 virtual machines. Initial deployments were VMware and MS Virtual server.
• Assigned as the Senior Engineer on Windows multi-instance SQL clustering.
• Senior MCSE and HP ASE on staff.

Confidential, CA

Internet Operations Manager

Responsibilities:

• Original MIS member of an Internet startup dat focuses on e-commerce support.
• Company was acquired by Ask Jeeves in September of 1999.
• Designed, deployed and managed the IT infrastructure including all HP ProLiant servers, Cisco networking equipment, and all messaging and storage entities.
• Environment was primarily Microsoft Windows.
• Designed, deployed and managed the customer facing environment at the Qwest hosting facility. Our customer services are 24/7, so all designs consider the HA requirements of any implementation.