Systems engineer Resume

SUMMARY:

Cloud focused enterprise architect with over 17 years of experience in providing advanced computer systems direction across multiple IT sectors. I am an innovative thinker who is able to consistently engineer, present, and lead solutions that meet and exceed the functional requirements of the project while remaining well within all budgetary and other non - functional constraints dictated by the project stakeholders.
Assisted in the development of a commercial public cloud offering that supports thousands of customer VMs. The infrastructure consists of VMWare vSphere hypervisors running on Cisco UCS hosts, and NetApp shared storage. The solution has three main nodes located in Phoenix, Ashburn, and Amsterdam.
Developed and implemented a Virtual Private Datacenter offering that leverages VMWare vCloud Director and vShield Edge to provide customer multi-tenancy and site-to-site VPN capability. Utilized features such as AutoDeploy and host profiles to greatly reduce the amount of time and effort needed to deploy new compute nodes.
Regularly works with customers to gather business requirements and constraints for potential private cloud deployments. Utilized VMWare Capacity Planner to help collect data off of existing physical machines and properly scope the necessary resources in the new virtual environment for these customers.
Drive the design of customer oriented solutions primarily using VMware vCloud products. These include but are not limited to: ESXi, vCloud Director, vCOPS, vCenter, Chargeback, and AutoDeploy.
Articulate the steps and changes a customer must make to effectively deploy and exploit private cloud and ensure they are ready to deploy hybrid cloud solutions as appropriate.
Assume the role of a mentor to other system engineers when appropriate
Designed and implemented an internal vSphere environment to house all internal corporate servers. Converted 97% of all existing physical machines to virtual machines greatly reducing the overall datacenter footprint.
Designed and implemented a “Proof of Concept” deployment of VMWare View VDI desktops. This deployment utilizes WYSE terminals for client connectivity, and Teradici PCoIP offload cards in the hosts to improve overall throughput by reducing vCPU load on the virtual machines.
When necessary perform a full current state analysis of a customer environment to scope the necessary hardware configuration needed to support the virtualization plan.
Present Cloud Computing solutions and benefits to Managers and Director Level prospects as well as Systems Managers and Administrators.
Actively pursuing the elite VMWare VCDX .
Designed and deployed the existing multi-site multi-domain Active Directory forest.
Designed and deployed the existing Microsoft Exchange infrastructure. Later virtualized that same infrastructure. This includes services to provide anti-spam/anti-virus capabilities.
Designed and deployed the existing Microsoft Lync (originally Live Communications Server, then Office Communications server), environment. Later virtualized this entire environment. The system currently supports large multi-site, multi-country Video and VOIP meetings on a daily basis.
Designed and deployed the existing Microsoft SharePoint service as virtual instances.
Designed and deployed numerous instances of Microsoft SQL in many various configurations
Deployed a system to monitor hundreds of physical customer servers with various services. The system would follow a notification escalation procedure based on associated rules.
Worked with customers daily to resolve issues and plan future deployments.
Deployed a system to monitor network abuse complaints and automatically associate those complaints with a specific customer.
Participated in numerous datacenter migrations that involved hundreds of customer systems.
Experience with many different operating systems including virtually every flavor of UNIX, and every version of Windows Server.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Skills: VMWare vCloud Suite - Including vCenter, vCloud Director, ESXi, Autodeploy, Chargeback, and vSphere Data Protection SAN/NAS iSCSI/FC/NFS Cisco UCS Cisco MDS NetApp, EMC, and Nexenta Storage appliances Microsoft AD, Exchange, Lync, Sharepoint, SQL, and NT Server through 2012

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