SUMMARY:

• IT infrastructure optimization expertise
• Proven project management leadership skills
• Configuration and management of Cisco firewall
• IT security, firewall and systems safety focused
• Server configuration and maintenance acumen
• Intuitive and analytical technical problem solving
• Versatile trouble shooting and solutions driven
• Technical team /monitoring experience
• Methodical help desk installation/ administration
• Extensive VMware experience

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Pasadena, CA

Senior VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managing and maintaining three data centers which consist of four vCenters, 100 ESXi hosts, and 3000 VMs as well as 11 of HP c7000 chassis with 300 HP blade servers and 300 which mix of HP ProLiant and Dell PowerEdge servers
• Sole responsible for upgrading and optimizing performance all three data centers.
• Coordinating with Head of the developer, researcher, and corporate departments to create maintenance window. Keep communication channel open before and after maintenance completed
• After company acquired by Open Text selected and team lead to provide complete assets and migrating all three datacenters to Open text company.
• Scheduling and performing a maintenance window for entire datacenter that includes running putty session or KVM to collecting syslog of any HP C7000 Chassis or HB BL servers to drill down to find hardware issue which I resolve asap or to create a ticket for requesting remote hand.
• Working Network storages which are NetApp and EMC either using Fiber or NFS module to build up storage access for vCenter, ESXi hosts and migrating VMs from Old storage to New network storages.
• Sole responsible for building, maintaining VMware environment for yearly held Enfuse Conference in Las Vegas, During preparation vCenter and conference, I work closely with software developers to build a custom environment.
• Configure Cisco L3 switches for ESXi hosts and coordinate with Hotel network team about how many VLANs we need and past down IP range our team to assign PCs.
• Working closely with Devops and Quality engineers creating VM templates for Microsoft and Linux OS and supporting them for their daily basis projects and reserving IP addresses for Their physical and virtual machines on our DHCP.
• Creating users, group, and group policy Active Directory as well as security group to access to specific clusters of the vCenter.
• Working with network, storage, and DBA team to optimize existing VMware infrastructure
• Consolidating multiple Vcenters and Data Storage. That improves VMware environment and saving cost for VMware licenses, and service agreement.

Confidential - Beverly Hills, CA

Information Security/System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Ran penetration test on company website for vulnerability
• Built up network load balancing for windows servers and Building up SQL cluster to increase availability and performance.
• Installed and maintained application performance monitor tool like a SolarWinds to optimizing website availability.
• Worked on project to implementing a network detection and prevention system.

Confidential - Sylmar, CA

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Confidential is the world’s largest manufacturer and supplier of specialty glass and commercial glass and refrigerator doors.
• Played a pivotal technical systems role in driving the design and installation of VMware 6.0 while concurrently managing the deployment of Cisco Network Switches and virtualizing existing physical servers including the back-end of team members.
• Configured and maintaining NetApp FAS storage for VMware.
• Was responsible for designing and maintaining of Company Active Directory infrastructure as well as creating Group policies, OUs, creating internal Root CA or external Authority.
• Worked with Dover IT or other sister company IT department to build a trust relation-ship between my domain and their domain as well as creating conditional forwarders with them.
• Dealing with infrastructure - cleaned up existing mixer of 2003 Standard ED 32 and 64 Enterprise Ed. Active directory domains and migrated 2008 R2 64 enterprise edition which included cleaning up old GPOs and OUs and designing Active Directory structure along with multiple sites
• Successfully headed up the configuration and pointing effort focused on managing all external traffic on the Cisco management port including the installation of Firepower virtual appliance and CXCS module on Cisco firewalls and configuring URL filtering.
• Spearheaded the introduction and installation of the Cisco Fire power system allowing for greater control URL and DNS-based security intelligence, DNS inspection and sinkholes, dramatically improving defenses against advanced threats.
• Championed and project-led the rollout of a new IP scheme and defining the virtual VLAN including ordering the appropriate Cisco switches, firewalls and routers resulting in a significant upgrade to the network operating system.
• Provided methodical administration leadership for a new/emerging technology, Meraki Dashboard, including the configuration of SSID’s for accessing local network and guest SSID for guest users not able to access local resources resulting in much more robust network protection.
• Stepped up and researched, defined the virtualization of in-house servers reducing technical capital expense, realizing dramatic power reduction, and minimizing time consumed maintaining servers. Appointed by senior management to present this new technology concept to the team. Provided comprehensive to support this new technology.
• Significantly upgraded the Disaster Recovery System by rolling out a more robust and improved Commvault back- up solution resulting in minimizing downtime after a system disruption.
• Implemented and building security policy for entire company as well as scheduling external and internal vulnerability scanning; ICMP, SNMP, SSH, PCI, and SSL cert with Qualys result of having reliable and secure network.
• Implemented BitLocker feature entire domain which we can protect and recover company confidential data.
• Used Wireshark to analyze any suspicious traffic on network or any desktop.
• Was project leader in the successful migration and administration of Microsoft Exchange to Office 365 Microsoft cloud based approach resulting in eliminating physical servers inside the organization. The process included comprehensive of the IT team members quickly raising the competence level of technical team.
• Utilized PowerShell, VBS scripting, and Batch scripting for performing enterprise administrator duties.
• Installed SolarWinds products; Network Performance Monitor, Application Performance Monitor, and Syslog, Event Manager to monitor servers and network devices (switches, Cisco ASA 5512x, 5515x firewalls, and Routers)
• Installed and configuring SCCM for Windows Deployment Services, software deployment, and desktop support team for performing and troubleshooting desktop imaging and software deployment.
• Installed WSUS servers and scheduling security, critical updates.
• Installed, maintained, trained IT team and all user about new IT helpdesk Software which is called TrackIT.

Confidential - Van Nuys, CA

Senior Systems Administrator and Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Zodiac Services is in the electrical machinery, equipment and supplies industry sector focused mainly on the aerospace industries.
• Appointed by senior management to assume a leadership role in the critical migration and management of six new remote sites taking full ownership of the process. The result was commended and came in on time and on budget. This included creating an Active Directory forest managing six sites under one forest with 5 sites of course create site within AD and monitor replication between DCs.
• Led the research and provided successful negotiation skills with Canon Solutions and the Dell Corporation proposals on buying servers, laptops, and desktops computers replacing old technologies and providing a significant upgrade to the operating system.
• Created OUs and delegating a local admin for their daily minor local admin duties
• Built and cleaned up Group Policy object and lecturing local admin about it.
• Put in charge of rollout of the complex/challenging upgrade and domain migration from a 32bit to a 64bit environment resulting in a much more robust and more secure window 2008 R2 64 Active Directory.
• Installed and Maintained VMware 5.1 with EqualLogic 6000 series and moving physical servers in two locations to virtual environment (P2V)
• Orchestrated master imaging and software deployment system with Symantic Altris and deploying companywide, and local admin uploading and pushing images.
• Assumed a project leadership role in searching and implementing the best fit for URL filtering software such as M86 and Websense.
• Purposed VoIP entire company and Project manager of implementing VoIP in Six locations.
• Created and implemented DRS policy.
• Project management for IT migration success resulted in bonus recognition from senior management.