PROFILE:

• A highly qualified systems Engineer\ Integrator\Project Coordinator with 17 years of experience in some of the best corporations. Has BS in physics from Fordham University. And demonstrated ability to develop, test and implement enterprise a wide range projects then document and present complex technical concepts to personnel of all levels in a corporation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SOFTWARE: VMWARE - ESX (6.x, 5.x, 4.x, 3.x) vRA, vRO\vCO, vROPS, SRM, Linux, Cloud(AWS, Amazon Web Services, MS Azure, Office360), Ansible, SQL Server, WIN2016, WIN2012, WIN2008, WIN2003, Win7, Win10, XP, MS Project, Patch link, IBM Director, IBM Storage Manager, CIM, MS Clusters, Printing\Scanner\Fax servers, LDAP, Wise Packaging MSI technology, Lenel, Verint, Novell( 6.5, 4.11, 3.11, 3.1x, SAA3 and 4, ZENWORKS), ODBC, Remedy, MARKET DATA( ILX, Bloomberg, Reuters, etc),TCP/IP, PCOIP, RADIUS, Firewall, Wire Shark, VERITAS, Avamar backup, NETBACKUP, VPN, Amazon Stores, INTERNET( web design, Adobe Photoshop, Premier, etc), IIS, Audio and Video editing, MAC OS, VAX/VMAS-DCL, AIX, MS Office, Antivirus\Security software (Symantec End Point), HTML, XML, Power Shell Scripting.

HARDWARE: Servers (IBM, NEC, Dell, Compaq), Blade Center Servers, Cisco UCS, Switches, Routers, WiFi, RFID Cards, Proximity readers, IBM, Dell, and Confidential SAN, vAppliance Servers, Multi-port NICs, HBA Cards, HP, Toshiba, Printers and Scanner Servers, Apple products, tape backups, Fibre Channel, SCSI, iSCSI, SATA, WYSE Terminal, Thin Clients, Zero Clients, PDA, Tablets, Cabling etc.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Virtualization Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Level 3 VMware Consultant. Performed Architecture, engineering, troubleshooting, installations, and maintenance on VMware (5.5, 6.0, 6.5), Cisco UCS, Windows, Linux.
• SME for VMware ESX, vSphere, vCenter, Hyper- V, vMotion, HA, DRS, vROPS, Win2008, Win2012, Win2016
• Scripted Automation and reporting Tools using Powershell, Java, APIs, etc.
• Design IAAS Virtual Machine Build process. Optimized and Customized the build for VMware and OS.
• Project Management and Tracking using Jira in Agile, Confluence, and various other tools. Also, utilized Service Now, VMware Vsphere Client, UCS Manager, Powershell tools, etc.
• Lead Project Engineer for various projects such as, What’s On, Wide Orbit, AutoDesk Mira and Foundry Nuke, Nick Central and other Broadcast Apps for MTV, BET, Paramount Pictures, Etc. Interface with Client and Vendors at All levels.qA
• Calculated Cost Analysis of for purchases including, VMware Software, Cisco USC blades, Chassis and related equipment for various projects then championed the purchasing process from PO and delivery to installation.
• Scheduled Change Management Requests and incidents for various Projects and Tasks.
• Created Test and QA environments as needed by project or tasks then documented results for manager and team mates.

Confidential

Sr. Engineer\ Analyst\ Architect

Responsibilities:

• Senior Engineer Analyst\Architect on a team that Designed, Scripted, Implemented and Managed an IaaS Solution (VM Creation tool), with Cloud Automation solutions on VMware Environment.
• Served as one of the Lead Automation Engineers and SME for VMware vSphere, vRA-vRealize Automation, VCenter Orchestrator, vCenter API and SDK. Used Java Script, Rest APIs, Powershell, Ansible, Ansible Tower and Git to help facilitate Automation of operations related tasks, ie creation and deletion of VM, Clones, Snapshot, Auto Deploy of Hosts, Reports, errors reporting and logs, rights assignment, etc.
• VMware SME for vRA7.x(vCAC6.x), vRO7.x(vCO6.x), VMware Converter, Vcenter, vSphere (6, 5.5), vROPS (vCOPS). Also, used extensive Knowledge of VMware, Win2008, Win2012, Linux (RHEL6.X, RHEL7.x), Networking, Ports, Storage, to support various efforts.
• Project-Coordinator tracking progress while performing POCs, updates, presenting reports, leading meetings. Utilized various applications such as MS Project, MS Excel, MS Visio, Web-ex, SCRUM, Agile, Jiras. Created documentation, Wiki, and demos
• Work expensively with vRA and vCO help implement the Dev Environment then create blueprints and workflows to as a part of a larger IaaS effort.
• Served as a Technical coordinator to interface with various managers and teams across the organization as well as vendors and vendor support to provide Technical solutions.
• Automation Engineer working with various products such as Puppet, Ansible, Ansible Tower, Blade Logic, VMware, Splunk, ELK etc,
• Establish connection to DFS share with the use of Ansible vault Identity management tools using Kerberos and NTLM.
• Helped Lead the effort to Automated the standard build image by using Ansible Playbooks to install config sets and apps. Performed UAT, DEV and OC testing.
• Contributed Leadership in a project to use Ansible Tower to fully automate installation of applications on the standard build Linux and Windows build.

Confidential

Senior Engineer\ Analyst\ Architect

Responsibilities:

• Senior VMware and infrastructure Engineer\Analyst\Architect on a team that managed many clients of various size and from different industries. This includes top to bottom design and implementation of enterprise wide project and third level support, troubleshooting, documentation, hardware fix, migrations, etc.
• Designed and implemented complex solutions to meet the clients growing needs for VMware 6.x and 5.x, Confidential Networker, SAN, Confidential Data Domain, vCloud suite, AWS, VMware Horizon View 6.x, SRM, VMware Cluster, vRealize, vCOPS, Linked-Cones, VCAC. This includes Automation with Powershell, etc.
• Physical build of VMware Hosts bare metal environments from the bottom up within one day. This included preplanning and design as well as purchase of equipment.
• Trouble shoot complex VMware, network, VCO Automation, storage, Hardware and Latency related issues and implemented solutions after presenting recommendations to management for approval.
• Diagnosed and fix network issues. This includes wireless networking issues.
• Visited client sites to address specific issues and to perform analysis for potential problems.
• Configure backup environment using Confidential Data Domain and Networker.
• Used a large variety of tool to manage a large number of client environment. This includes, N-Able, WebConnect, Vcenter, Vcenter Web Client, VCOPS, Confidential Data Domain Management, Confidential VNX, etc
• Supported and implemented various Microsoft technologies such as Win 2012, Win, 2008, Win 2003, Window 8, Windows 10, SQL servers, MS Cluster, MS Terminal server, DFS, Office 365.

Confidential

Consultant\Migration Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Confidential consulting on a project to help Migrate the University of Maryland Medical School environment. This included planning, testing implementation of File and Print Environment as well as workstation migration for Virtual VMware environment and Physical.
• Utilized, developed and configured various tools to aid in the migration. This included, Quest tools (QMM, File Migrator) Printer logic, Powershell, MS Excel Spreadsheets, MS Access, Power Grep.
• Utilized Powershell and scripting tools to create scripts and batch files for migrations.
• Configured, Microsoft Production and Test servers in the Virtual environment.
• Created, reviewed and updated Documentation to help standardized overall procedures, technical developments best practices.
• Utilized deep understanding of VMware Virtualization, VDIs, Novell and Microsoft Printing, MS Window 7, Windows XP, Windows server 2012 and 2008, Poweshell.

Confidential

Information Consultant\VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed, planned and tested VMware View linked-clones in floating non-persistent desktop pools. Developed templates and optimization of Master Images as Stage 1 of a migration and expansion of the current VDI environment. Created detailed documentation of all processes.
• Provided support of VMware View environment which included, VCenter 5.5, VMware ESXi 5.5 Servers, VMware View Composer, View Connector Server, Clustering, DRS, HA, and Security Server and Virtual machines\VDI plus Thin Clients in Test QA and Production environments.
• Reviewed and Developed Virtual Image settings and policies then implemented improvements and optimization based on knowledge of ESXi, VMware View, Composer, vCO Automation, Storage, IOPS, Networking(firewalls, switches, Voice, Video, Audio) databases, desktop and server applications, group policies, (GPOs), *.adm files, PCoIP setting, Remote Access, Profile Management(App-Sense), Cloud technologies, Tablets, Anti-Virus(SEP- Symantec Endpoint), data center server and operations, support procedures and fault tolerance procedures. This included the use of power shell and registry scripting.
• Completed Virtual Desktop Performance tuning, optimizing, and automation of Windows Master images and Linked Clones. This included tuning of Horizon View, PCoIP, Symantec End Point, Floating Pools setting. We also created detailed baseline reports and suggested workflow while mapping the improvements using Windows Servers 2012 and 2008 environment with Windows 7 and Windows 8 desktop as well as Thin Clients, Zero Client and tablets such as the SurfacePro.
• Used excellent communications and technical writing skills to interface with various teams, managers and consultants in the design of technical solutions to business problems.

Confidential

Consultant VMware\Server Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Served as a VMware Engineer for one of the largest Health Care systems in the country with over 60,000 users and 2600 VMs, 2000 applications in several Data Centers with 24/7 uptime.
• Researched and Designed a Single Sign On process that uses Proximity readers and RFID Security badges to provide Two Factor Authentication into Active Directory using VMware View VDI client on Zero Client WSYE devices and normal PC. The project allowed users to Tap in and Tap out to log on and log off as part of IDM infra-structure link to VDIs.
• Engineered, implemented and troubleshoot VMWare ESXi Host(Linux) during the life cycle from creation to decommission. This included
• Implemented and trouble shoot VMware 4.x and 5.x, Datacenter, VLANs, LUNs, VDIs, ThinApp, SRM, VCOPS, Vmware View, Orchestrator, Migrations, HA, DRS, Load Balancing, workflow automation, ESX 4.x to ESXi 5.x migration, EPIC testing and implementation.
• SME for projects and tasks with in depth knowledge of technologies such as VMware ESX4.x and 5.x, Win2008, Win2012, Win7, Win 8, XP, Win2003, Red Hat Linux, Suse Linux. Storage (IBM, Confidential ), Networking (Cisco-Switch, Multi-port NICs, cabling), Security, CLI Scripts.
• Completed DataCenter Consolidation Project which included Physical to Virtual Migration.
• Utilized VCOPS, VCenter, Update Manager, Power Shell scripting and 3rd party tools to perform data analysis for intricate maintenance, updates, rollouts, reports and documentation.
• Support of various, health, business and security related applications on our VM environment, ie EPIC, etc. Developed excellent working relationship with Directors, Staff, Vendors.
• EPIC Support. Monthly updating of EPIC BCA and Printing environment.

Confidential

Consultant\Integrator\Computer Engineer

Responsibilities:

• File and Print Migration from Novell to AD ( Active Directory) along with DataCenter migration\consolidation. Served as Lead Engineers in the design, testing and implementation of an agency wide File and Print migration. Researched, tested and implemented related technologies to deliver a seamless solution without interruption to the end users. This included, MS clusters, AD Group Policy(GPO), Novell and MS trustee assignment, VMWare Physical to Virtual (P to V) migrations, Citrix, Vbscript, Power Shell, Desktop migration. Created scripts, documents, and QA procedures. Build servers, rolled out applications as well as features.
• Managed, supported and optimized the VMware ESX 3.x and 4.x environments. This included all engineering, reporting and operational tasks. ie, VMware-ESX host creation, VM creation, updates, template creation, memory and CPU allocation review and troubleshooting.
• JFK, LaGuardia and Newark Airport, World Trade Center, Port Newark, CCTV migration: Technical Lead in the design, implementation of the WTC CCTV migration to the Domain. Migrated a standalone production System to the domain with no interuption to daily service.
• Implemented and supported Enterprise SAN solution, using IBM Storage. Also supported of Confidential Storage solutions that were implemented by the vendor. Also installed SATA NAS, SATA Beast.

Confidential

Lead Architect Citrix Engineer.

Responsibilities:

• Server Team Engineer\Project Coordinator: Provide daily and sometimes nightly support of our current computing environment. This includes support and maintenance of various technologies including; Novell, Microsoft, SANs, VMware 3.x and 4.x, Linux, NEC Servers and Applications, IBM Servers, Clusters, IBM Director, Patchlink. This includes third level support.
• Technical Project Lead\ Architect CAD PID Folder\Trustee Migration . Designed, Tested and Implemented migration of CAD Project ID folders from old novel Cluster to the new Novell environment. Initially each CAD PID folder had over 704 Trustees and other rights assignment. We reduced the number to 112 per folder. We decreased the Trustee Rights assignments while maintaining the folder structure. We used extensive scripting and other methods to redistribute the rights there by reducing total number assignments on the CAD folder structure from several Million to about half a Million.
• Print Environment Architect, designer and third level Support. . Designed, tested and implemented two print environments in 4 years with no interruption to the end user.
• PCD Water Meter Migration Project . Technical Project Lead in the design, testing and implementation of the Water Meter Migration Project using radio signal to collect data.
• WTC badging system migration: Work as a part of a large team that migrated the WTC badging system on the Lenel Server Running on NEC. This includes working with drastically new technology such as NEC servers and Express Cluster which provides Redundancy between sites and well as Lenel and Enterprise Air which provide wireless connectivity to hand held scanners.

Confidential

Systems Engineer\Integrator\ Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Served as Consultant during the process of migration to a from Netware to Active directory. Installed, administered and troubleshoot Novell Netware 6.5 OES servers running E-director 8.7.3 for a Global Pharmaceutical company. This included Level 3 support for all Novell related services, applications and features such as, EDIR, SLP, LDAP, Active Directory, Norton Anti-Virus, Netbackup, Backup Exec. Is required full knowledge of Netware tools such as DStrace, DSrepair, NoRM, I-Manager, DSview, CMON, Console One, NSSMU, NSS commands, Identity Manager and etc.

Confidential

Systems Engineer\Integrator\ Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Built and integrated almost 100 Citrix servers running on Win2003 or Win2000 for these projects.
• Developed and utilized process to remotely install Server OS using Virtual CD mounted off the RIB cards. This is significant because it allowed a team of 2 engineers to remotely install almost 100 servers servicing North America, Asia Pacific and Europe.
• Also developed and utilized a method of remotely installing the OS through a NIC using standard Build.
• Citrix: Migrated applications from legacy Windows and Novell, environments to Citrix METAFRAME XP. This included application integration and tweaking the Citrix servers, etc. This also included publishing and testing Citrix applications and working with the Citrix Management Console extensively.
• Identified and updated all Cluster and SAN used in the Novell 6 and 6.5environment. This includes working with Console One, I-Manager, I-Monitor.
• Responsible for planning, development, and distribution on to Windows and Novell servers of various monitoring tools, such as LT Auditor, File Census, ESM, Tivoli, CIM, IBM directory, HP open Manager, etc.
• As part of the Backup remediation project, was responsible for identifying and mapping the backup environment, including ARCSERVE, NETBACKUP, and Backup Exec on Novell and Windows servers in the environment. This includes determining Storage device.
• Help to provide WAN and LAN connectivity to Citrix Farms by configuring NIC cards, testing network and ensuring ports are opened. Also provided various levels of Connectivity and \or Authentication in a multi-tier application environment. Example, OBDC, SQL, other Databases, mainframe and UNIX.
• Setup VM Ware and Virtual PC environments to use for testing and POC (Proof of Concept).
• Use Wise Package Studio to QA\test applications.
• Daily management\support of various types of servers including Win2000, Win2003 running Citrix Meta Frame during the implementation stage of projects.
• Utilized standard procedures for interfacing with LOB (Line of Business), data-centers, shippers, testers, application developers, and other Groups. Also developed reporting requirements from each team as well as Status from our team.