Senior Infrastructure Engineer Resume Profile Charlotte, NC - Hire IT People

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Certifications: VCP 4/5, EMC Cloud Architect Specialist , UCS Support Specialist
VMware: vSphere 4/5, ESX 4.0/4.1, ESXi 4.1/5.0 boot-from-SAN scripted installations Converter, vCenter Operations Manager Cisco Nexus 1000v
Server Hardware: Cisco UCS, Dell, HP
SAN Technologies: EMC Clariion CX4-480, VNX Fibre Channel HBAs, Converged Network Adapters CNAs Cisco MDS, QLogic switches PowerPath/VE
Scripting: Powershell/PowerCLI

EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Designed and implemented three Cisco UCS and Louisville using vSphere 5 on EMCCX4-480 and VNX 5700 arrays with MDS switches on Cisco Nexus switching infrastructure, including the Nexus 1000v
Consulted Product Development team to define new products and associated technical design requirements
Worked on a centralized team of 6, responsible for virtualization, storage, networking architecture and design for a Service Provider with almost 25 datacenters across the SouthEast U.S., supporting local market engineers.
Leveraged PowerShell and PowerCLI scripts for server provisioning and infrastructure reporting

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

Assisted with the migration of roughly 1000 servers from client environment to Sungard-managed datacenters
Responsible for Windows server environment, including on-call support, new server builds, and Change Controls
Perform maintenance, changes, and repairs to two VMware vSphere4 data centers that comprise roughly 800 virtual servers

Confidential

Sr. Systems Engineer

Executed two-stage client migration of 1000 servers to new transition/production environment
Built and extended 10 VMware ESX server clusters using standardized kickstart scripts
Performed virtual-to-virtual V2V and physical-to-virtual P2V VMware Converter migrations from old hardware and existing ESX clusters to new transition environment and ultimately into new production

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Sr. Systems Engineer

Primary Server and VMware Administrator, focused on architecture and security
Managed VMware ESX 2.5/3.0/3.5 environment, including Converter migrations, performance tuning, network, VLAN, iSCSI configuration, upgrades, VirtualCenter and SAN deployment
Consolidated 50 virtual servers on 7 stand-alone ESX servers into 2 SAN-based servers and a stand-alone DMZ server in two months
Directed and supervised Junior desktop and server admin staff
Architected and built new development, staging and production environments for .NET application development, including BizTalk, SQL, IIS, File, and DC servers

Confidential

Sr. Systems Administrator

Built custom isolated Exchange environment for sandbox testing of server patches
Provided server installation, support, and maintenance

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Sr. Systems Administrator

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Manager

Directed and supervised desktop/server admin staff
Implemented integrated long distance/T3 provider, saving a projected 8,000 annually
Deployed MXLogic spam filtering service, saving a projected 11,000 annually
Performed forensic imaging and analysis using Helix forensics-centric Knoppix and Forensic Toolkit
Executed business plan to roll out new copyright investigations product
Architected and deployed web-based learning management system infrastructure
Managed Windows Servers SBS 2003 Server 2003 , including Active Directory, Exchange, DNS, DHCP
Implemented Symantec BackupExec 10d backup scheme

Confidential

System Administrator

Infrastructure and Project Manager: Systems and Staff

Supervised and trained IT and Administrative personnel
Project managed new construction of expanded office space and coordination of office move
Installed new firewall, upgraded phone/T1 service to integrated provider
Represented WGFS on national data standards committees
Provided company-wide desktop and server support
Implemented backup scheme using Symantec Backup Exec 10d

Confidential

Project Manager and Teaching Infrastructure Architect

Planned and implemented the technical infrastructure supporting the College's digital distance education goal of 30 courses online by 2005
Proposed, designed, and contracted 125,000 grant to build flagship streaming video classroom
Represented College on University-level roundtables and at various distance education conferences
Designed, installed, and maintained 20 multimedia classrooms and conference rooms
Upgraded software and hardware resources in accordance with College/University standards