Employment:

Confidential

Position: Virtualization Engineer

• Duties: Datacenter Migration
• P2V physical systems to facilitate migration to the Nationwide Ohio data centers from the Harleysville data center.
• Work with storage team to ensure successful VM replication from PA to Ohio.
• Convert VMs to OVAs/OVFs to reduce the bandwidth necessary to copy from PA to Ohio. Convert OVAs back to VMs and reconfigure once out in Ohio.
• Troubleshoot operational issues.

Confidential

Position: Chief Technology Officer

• Duties: Data Center Subject Matter Expert for Confidential campus project
• Designed, implemented, and continually revised a comprehensive campus technology list by architect space plan for every room in the new 3 million square feet campus Confidential is building in Confidential.. Travelled extensively to the Confidential in support of the effort.
• Architected the data center computer systems hardware and software.
• Wrote executive briefs detailing the necessity of maintaining Confidential standards as pertaining to Cisco networking gear, MPLS, Power over Ethernet, and OM4 fiber.
• Analyzed all design and build team contractor designs for technical sufficiency as well as compliance with the project contractual requirements.
• Architected the virtual infrastructure for the new campus down to the virtual machine level detail, based on performance and uptime requirement tiers, while maintaining NYU standards.
• Assisted the Project Manager in detailing the project plan, increasing my knowledge and understanding of large scale project management .

Confidential

Duties: Solutions Architect and Engineer

• Designed and implemented a fault tolerant, multi-site monitoring system to alert when small and medium size business client systems are experiencing issues.
• Responsible for complete client experience: customer relations, project estimation, sales, proposal writing, project management, system engineering, and accounting.
• Introduced virtualization into a variety of clients by virtualizing existing physical servers including MS Exchange, MS SQL, and Informix database systems.
• Investigate virtualization alternatives such as Hyper-V, Xen, and KVM as well as cloud frameworks such as Dell vStart, VMware vCloud, Openstack and Cloudstack.
• Performance troubleshooting and testing of virtualized database servers.

Confidential

Duties: Lead Engineer

• Created the comparison matrix used to evaluate 14 network/system monitoring tool vendors, interfaced with the vendors, reviewed the quotes provided, and determined the vendors to be in the second round evaluation process where systems are evaluated in a proof of concept. Provided detailed analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of various products to the team.
• Worked with the Central IT engineers designing the virtual infrastructure for the database, probe, and reporting servers of the network monitoring tools.
• Acted as the liaison between Central IT and the technology group in Confidential.
• Duties: Management
• Supervise and mentor help desk technicians and systems engineers

Confidential

Position: Lead Virtualization Engineer

• Duties: Virtualization Architect
• Designed the new virtual infrastructure on VMware ESX server to minimize reliance on expensive fiber channel, utilizing a Confidential configured for a balance of performance and fault tolerance.
• Troubleshot all virtual system performance issues.
• Lead engineer for the new SAN implementation and network configuration changes to better support virtualization.
• Presented the virtualization project status updates to the CIO and her executive team. Project spent only 58000 out of the original 800,000 budget, was completed a month ahead of schedule, and expanded the project scope from 8 virtual machines to 50.
• Created a chargeback model to allow central IT to become a profitable managed service provider of virtual servers to other departments or schools at 40 of the cost of a physical server.
• Acted as liaison to other departments and schools to provide technical assistance as required with their virtual infrastructures and designed the implementation plans to migrate their resources into central IT's.

Confidential

Position: Senior Systems Engineer

• Duties: Computer and Network Engineer
• Troubleshoot Novell Clusters, Groupwise performance, and Zenworks policy issues for several large Confidential universities.
• CNS's lead Novell Project Engineer and lead VMware Project Engineer, responsible for all Novell and VMware pre and post-sales support, bid/proposal writing, installation and configuration, server migrations and server consolidation.
• Architected and implemented the virtual web hosting environment for a large publishing company utilizing VMware's GSX server and Windows 2003, subsequently migrated the hosting facility over to VMware ESX server 2.5x.
• Successfully installed an IBM DS4500 Fiber Channel SAN, Netware clusters and VMware on an IBM Bladecenter for a law school in New York City. Later migrated 120 GB from an iSCSI SAN to an IBM DS4500 Fiber Channel SAN in a Netware 6.5, Cluster Services 1.7, Groupwise environment.
• Lead project engineer on Netware Windows file system and GroupWise / Exchange email migration for a very large law school in lower Manhattan.
• Created the Disaster Recovery plan and upgrade/migration plan for a mid size NYC non-profit utilizing VMware ESX server on Compaq Proliant hardware.

Confidential

Position: Systems Engineer

• Duties: Computer and Network Engineer
• Planned and performed an eDirectory tree split on a 500 node, 15 server network. Subsequently split the GroupWise system for this same customer, while creating a more fault tolerant and better performing GroupWise system with post offices at each remote office.
• Redesigned tree partitioning to improve NDS replication and fault tolerance while reducing WAN traffic and response times for same NJ state agency above.
• Planned and implemented a 500 node, 15 server Netware 6 and Novell Client v4.9 rollout utilizing Compaq and Novell automation tools.
• Installed and configured Novell Cluster Services on IBM BladeCenter Fiber Channel SAN for a very large enterprise network.
• Wrote the Disaster Recovery Plan for the Netware side of a midsized customer.
• Installed and configured Novell Cluster Services on HP Compaq servers utilizing iSCSI for the SAN connectivity. Investigated SUSE Linux for same customer.
• Installed and configured Novell's Business Continuity Cluster solution utilizing iSCSI clusters for warm site Disaster Recovery. Modified storage to a Datacore FiberChannel SAN for async mirroring when WAN link could not handle traffic.
• Consolidated 7 GroupWise post offices from 7 aging servers into 1 newer system for a school district with only 3 migration issues out of 550 mailboxes.

Confidential

Position: Network Consultant

• Duties: Contract network engineer to troubleshoot and resolve complicated network issues, and implement high level solutions such as firewalls and clustering.
• Installed and configured Netware, Windows and VMware shared SCSI clusters.
• Troubleshot and resolved all Veritas Netbackup Enterprise backup issues for a 40 server local network segment, assisted all North American and European sites.
• 3rd level tech support for Windows 2000 Professional, Windows NT 4 and Mac workstations connecting to Netware 5.1, NT4, Windows 2000 and Unix servers.
• Scripted BindView queries for macro automated server trend reports as well as user and data migrations, server and user consolidations, and network security reports.
• Created migration plans for moving from Netware 3 SFT III Compaq SystemPro servers to other high availability platforms both Novell and Microsoft .
• Resolve backup issues, troubleshoot network issues, redesign NDS tree and network infrastructure for a medical equipment provider. Implemented Novell Zenworks to push out Norton AntiVirus to a 200 node network. Troubleshot and resolved Cisco router, 3com switch and Checkpoint firewall issues.
• Supervise help desk technicians, provide 2nd level end user support for both Dell and clone hardware, MS Windows and MS Office. Backup cc:Mail administrator.

Confidential

Position: Lead Novell Project Engineer

• Duties: - Managed all Novell product installations for over 0 Novell software customers.
• Provide third level support for Novell products troubleshooting.
• Perform network evaluations and security audits utilizing tools such as Novell LANalyzer, Microsoft Visio, and BindView NOS Admin/BV Control products.
• Assist sales team in preparing technical proposals and doing sales presentations, resulted in a 500 increase in the number of Novell customers.
• Design, implement and troubleshoot Microsoft Windows NT and Novell Netware networks, including Check Point FireWall-1, Citrix MetaFrame, MS Exchange, Novell GroupWise, ZenWorks, ManageWise and BorderManager.