SUMMARY:

• Solutions - oriented, fully-certified Senior Systems/Virtualization Engineer with more than fifteen years of demonstrated success designing and implementing database, network, system and virtualization solutions that improve business functionality, decrease costs, increase performance, and positively affect the bottom line.
• Network & Systems Security; Data Integrity/Recovery; Disaster Recovery Planning, ManagingArchitect, and Implementation; Contingency Planning; Research & Development; Risk Assessment; Cost Benefits Analysis, Peers and Clients, Skill Set Resource, IT and Project Management Supervision, Database Development and Design Virtual Infrastructure, Manage IaaS using Amazon AWS, Certified VMware Professional (VCP) and VCP6 Network Virtualization. Data Center Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructure. Data Center and Cloud Management including vCenter Site Recovery Manager 3.5 thru 5.5.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Platforms: Microsoft Windows Operating Systems 3.1,2000,2003,2008,2012, Windows 7, Vista, XP, Linux (Red Hat,SuSe, Debian), Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, OS2 Warp, ESX 3.5,Hyper-V, vSphere 4.1,5,Citrix, XenDesktop, XenApp6,6.5.7, EMC CLARiiON (CX3, NX3, NAS NS20, NAS, Clariion ISCSI and Compellent SAN

Networking: TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, Ethernet, VPN, IPSec, SSH, IIS 4, 5, 6, 7, FTP, HTTP, Network Cabling- Cat 5E, 6, FoundryFESX, GS, Cisco

Languages: Windows Shell Scripting (WSH),Powershell 1&2, C, Basic, HTML5, C#, C++, VBScript, JavaScript, VB.NET,Groovy, Phython, TSQL, ASP, ColdFusion, XML, MSDOS, Various SDK (Android, iOS, PowerCLI, Win8), Java SE, EE, iOS, Android, HTML/CSS, vCloud Suite, vRealize Suite, PowerCLI, AWS SKD/CLI, Chef

Tools: Norton Firewall and Ghost, McAfee/Norton Virus Protection Utilities, Symantec Endpoint Protection 9,10,11,Microsoft Office, Putty, MS SQL 7, SQL 2000 thru 2012, Zetafax, Pagegate, Symantec Backup Suites, PCAnywhere, MS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

VMware Consultant/Network Deployments

Responsibilities:

• Identity & Access Management and lead direction for SSO for Office 365 and internal login. Lead Active Directory migration from 2003 functional level to 2008R2. After XP was migrated to Windows 7, raised the functional level to 2012. Cleaned stale objects and populated AD data with clean data (Usernames and email) in preparation for Office 365 migration for a Fortune 500 company.
• SCCM migrations from Win 7 to Win 10 on site for Flowers Foods. Approximately 250 migrations over a 3 day weekend.
• Upgraded VMWARE 4.1 to VMWARE 6. Implemented vRealize and vCloud suite for a Fortune 500 company.
• Lead Systems team and Project management responsibilities in desktop migration and transformation to Citrix and VDI solutions. Led West Georgia Health’s team and Illuminate360 contractors in the migration of 1250+ Desktop from Windows XP to Win 7 using Microsoft SCCM. Helped in creating the image and procedures in migration process. Also, championed the process of transforming 500+ current XP desktops and transforming them on WYSE hardware, Citrix Receiver, Hyper-V, and VMware VDI platform.
• Implement Citrix Rollup Pack and Feature packs as per Citrix recommendation.
• Led solutions recovery team in architecture with Citrix and Citrix receiver in running West Ga Health specific applications. Covering over 125 specific applications including Meditech in a virtual app environment.
• Used vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and Veeam to implement One Click Recovery for several Hospital critical applications. Designed Centralized recovery plans. Automated disaster recovery failover and automated failback based on the Hospital's requirements. Planned migration and disaster avoidance. Disaster Recovery to the Cloud Services based on Site Recovery Manager.
• Using AppZero PACE for Automated Multi-server Discovery across W. Ga Health's Network while leveraging AppZero Features to Reduce Migration Effort.
• Worked with IS team and Illuminte360 team with migrating all Advanced Multi-tier Application(IIS + SQL) with AppZero. Meditech Software and various Hospital Dependent packages including legacy applications.
• Identifying Application Dependencies and Preparing the Target Server and Migrating the Application Components (IIS and SQL)
• Demonstrate expertise in VMware capacity planning, VMware ESX server, and Vcenter Server installations and maintenance as well as vMotion, StorageVM, sDRS, vCD, VM Orchestrator with PowerShell.
• Design, install, configure VMware ESX, ESXi, with vSphere 4 and 5 environments with VirtualCenter management, LabManager, Consolidated Backup, DRS, HA, DPM, vMotion and VMware Data Recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows NT, 2000, 2003, & 2008, as well as Linux servers from VMware, Hyper-V and legacy hardware.
• As Lead Architect, lead 150+ P2V migrations from Windows Server
• Designed implementation of vCloud Director 5.1 into infrastructure of software service provider with various requirements.
• Created Primary vDC, and various organization vDCs, organization catalogs with various vApp installs using VMware Orchestrator.
• Involved in project management and implementation for large, business critical IT projects. Provide infrastructure and system troubleshooting and support. Support a large, diverse highly available environment including: Windows Servers, ESX, SQL, and Exchange 2007, 2010, 2013
• Multiple VMware ESX Server hosts in a High Availability setting, Using VMware Vcloud Director 5-5.1 for Infrastructure as a Service. (IaaS)
• Used Capacity Planner that: Increased productivity while consolidating servers and optimizing capacity throughput. Used IT standardization practices that reduced IT complexity. Used capacity trends and virtualization benchmarks to improve predictability of issues
• Led the project for Illuminate360 and West GA Health in the transformation and migration of over 1200 desktops. Migration from XP to Win7 and also some into a VDI environment.
• Set Up Profiles to curb Bandwidth ‘hogs’ on the Network (streaming Radio/MP3, Facebook Gaming, and various non-essentials) that were taking bandwidth from needed resources.
• Created Clustered SQL Servers for clients and relieved slow/LAg issues with co-lo server.
• Implemented VLAN structure for Main Campus

Confidential, Griffin,GA

Network Manager/Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Preventative maintenance on Switches, Routers, Firewalls, Telephony, and Windows Servers (including2003, 2008, 2008R2, SQL, Exchange, Terminal, AD, DNS, and DHCP)
• Started and completed the initiative of moving from a server based environment and converted 25+ servers onto a solution that involved virtualization. Hyper-V ESX 3.5, vSphere4, and EMC SAN
• Took their physical servers of over 50+ Windows 2003 servers and upgrading and converting to Windows 2008 and using P2V and including them in a new VMWare structure with VMWare Infrastructure 3, ESX 3.5 and 4 servers. Converted over 50+ servers from hardware bound into a virtual VM.
• High availability (HA) for network services and applications (including Terminal Server and MS SQL 2008) by implementing failover clustering
• Deploy VMware and Hyper-V infrastructure consisting of over 100+ virtual machines with various O/S.
• AD, Group Policy and DNS Administration
• Perform Data Migration from EMC to Dell Compellent using Storage VMotion. Created LUNs and created disk space for new Hosts.
• Installing and configuring the Clariion and Compellent NAS
• Configuring Vmotion and Virtualcenter Infrastructure for Vmware ESX with EMC Clariion Environment and then migrating infrastructure to DELL Compellent
• Maintain SWITCH Firmware, NAS Updates, and ESX Updates for Cloud Infrastructure
• Implement VMware View deployment for the main city hall building. Tested deployment options and drafted a roll out schedule for the City which included over 275 desktops and 500+ users.
• As Network Manager, managed TCP/IP issues, DNS, DHCP, NTP, SSL, Firewall, and various protocols as needed.
• Upgraded Active Directory (AD) 2003 to AD R2 when I started with the City.
• Managed Roles, OU, user profiles, and computer profiles for the City of Griffin
• Developed White Papers for team and the Director requirements. Complete documentation for the VMware environment, Windows Clusters (SQL and Terminal Server)
• Used WSUS for monthly Windows Server patches
• Automated migration and site recovery to a Hot Site off campus using Vmware Site Recovery Manager

Confidential, Decatur, GA

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead field engineer in installation of companies’ hardware and software solutions. This included Windows 2000/2003 web servers hosting IIS 5,6 as well as SQL Server 2000, 2005.
• AD migration on many clients usually from .
• Managed Roles, OU, and user profiles for different clients depending on requirements
• A full understanding of the Microsoft O/S suite of products, including Clustering, DNS, DHCP, IIS, SQL design, administration, disaster recovery, and maintenance.
• Implemented Active Directory policy structure from Windows 2000 to Windows Server 2003. Created policies that took into account Windows 2003 strict password scheme and Internet Explorer's Enhanced Security.
• At the client’s site, I installed the servers, network infrastructure and configured all the workstations to connect to our Computer Aided Drafting Server (CAD), WebCAD Server, and Report Management Server. These are all based on Windows 2003, SQL 2000/2005, and WinXP on the workstations. Also worked closely with Bellsouth and their techs to install Interact’s 911 System in conjunction with Bellsouth phone system.
• Working with Northrop/Grumman in Baltimore on designing a country wide Emergency Response system for a country in Africa. This project is projected over 20 billion dollars and includes our suite of products on many cluster DELL PowerEdge, HP ProLiant servers. Our database is also clustered on a DELL SAN (Storage Area Network) with replication throughout the network to many subscribers of our data.
• Northrop/Grumman project provided SQL Server database design and implementation plan related to the size and usage characteristics related to requirements defined for the Country of Algeria’s needs
• Design database model for 20TB for Northrop’s database that included normalization, table design, security design and indexing based on clients’ needs
• Installed multiple DELL PowerEdge 2850/2950s with PowerVault 220s with fiber-channel Disk Array.