SUMMARY:

• Over twenty (20) years’ experience in the computer industry. Extensive experience supporting\ VMware product suites including vCloud Advanced, ESX 2.0 - vSphere 6x, VMware Site Recovery Manager, VMware vRealize Automation, Orchestration, and Operations, NSX 6.x.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SKILLS: Windows Server 2000/2003/2008/2008 R2/2012 Microsoft Active Directory HP/IBM/Dell/Cisco UCS Server Hardware Apache Web Server Microsoft IIS Symantec System Center McAfee Move Anti - Virus Citrix MetaFrame XP Microsoft SMS 2.0 VMware ESX 2.x- vSphere 6 VMware Site Recovery Manager VMware View Shavlik NetChk Protect VMware vCenter Operations Manager 5.x vRealize Operations Manager 6.x FusionIO hardware with IOTurbine management software\ Confidential Flashsoft VMware vCloud Director 1.2 VMware vRealize Automation Center 6.x-7.x VMware NSX 6.x VMware vRealize Orchestrator 6.x-7.x Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2008 Simplivity 2.0 SA EMC VCE associate DellEMC Core Client Solutions

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

VMware vRealize Engineer / Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Architect\Design VMware vRealize Operations Manager and VMware vRealize Operations Manager for Horizon for VDI as a global solution
• Facilitate meetings with security teams to implement firewall changes to allow monitoring of firewalled environments
• Deploy VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon globally
• Design\Deploy VMware vRealize Orchestrator for ServiceNow integration
• Deploy\Design VMware AppVolumes globally for end user compute consumption
• Create\Design Vrops custom dashboards for monitoring specific EUC use cases
• Create\Design Vrops custom reports for scheduling reporting
• Strategize and coordinator cross IT business unit discussions for vRealize solutions
• Validate global licensing requirements and ownership with VMware Support
• Facilitate VMware support requests and bug fixes regarding vRealize solutions

VMware Hybrid Cloud Engineer / Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Architect\Design VMware vSphere lab environments using NSX, vRealize Operations Manager, vRealize Automation and vRealize Orchestration for customer demos.
• Plan and Execute VMware Optimization Assessments\Hybrid Cloud Assessments\Virtual Network Assessments for customers and present the solutions to fulfill customer needs
• Plan and Execute VMware Health Check Assessments and generate extensive reports to show VMware best practice recommendations for our customers
• Architect\Install and configure Simplivity systems for customers environments
• Install and configure HP hyperconverged 250HC\380 systems for customer presentations and demonstations
• Install and configure Dell VxRail system in demo lab for customer presentations
• Design\Deployed NSX guest introspection with McAfee MOVE endpoint protection
• Integrated Checkpoint vSEC with VMware NSX for network security demos
• Completed projects include: VMware NSX stretched VXLAN across datacenters\hybrid cloud ready deployment, vCloud Director multi-tenant migration to NSX fenced network with vRealize Automation integration and hybrid cloud ready, VMware Network Accessment, several VMware Health Checks for commercial and Enterprise accounts, vRealize Log Insight and vRealize Business POC, VMware health checks\assessments and remediation for a large medical customer on EMC VCE environment including VCE Vision and RCM upgrades, VMware Optimization Assessments, VMware Health Checks
• NSX Social lab trained by VMware to provide customers for both NSX networking and security
• Create Statements of Work for Works Computing customer projects
• Partnered with VMware SLED team on a SDDC project and created VMware length or (LOE) and Statement of Work(SOW) documentation
• Attend Pre-Sales engagements at customer sites with Sales team to offer services and show value of VMware product suites including NSX, vRealize Operations and Automation
• Collaborate with VMware technical and sales teams for customer engagements
• Coordinate vendor meetings to discuss new VMware technologies and strategies
• Create company strategy and service offerings for VMware products, including VMware vRealize Suite (vRealize Operations Manager 6.x, vRealize Log Insight, vCloud Suite (vRA 7/vRO 7) and NSX 6.x
• Professional Services engagements: Design\Deploy a multi-tenant NSX deployment via vRealize Automation, NSX implementation for active\active L3 datacenters, and McAfee MOVE deployment using NSX guest introspection

Sr. Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Support\Build\ over 6000 virtual machines and 400 vSphere hosts
• Implemented Enterprise-wide vSphere host monitoring for CA Spectrum alerting
• Build\Test CA VAIM vSphere
• Build\Test CA Unified Infrastructure Manager
• Architect\Design\Implement VMware vSphere environments
• Build Windows 2003\Windows 2008 servers
• Upgrade\Patching of Windows\ESX hosts
• Use Infra Enterprise for asset tracking, Change Management, Inventory Management
• Planned\Executed more than 100 P2V migrations to VMware ESX virtual machines
• Administered and supported Active Directory Domain
• Assisted in supporting and administering Microsoft Operations Manager 2007
• Projects included: VMware vSphere 6.0 installation\testing, and VMware SRM(Site Recovery Manager) Beta testing, VMware vRealize Operations Manager Beta
• Built NSX test lab, VMware vShield Manager appliance deployment for guest anti-virus protection
• Build\Test\Architect VMware vCenter Operations Manager Advanced 5.x\vROPS 6.x, Enterprise wide
• Installed\Tested VMware SRM and participate in beta program
• Participated in Corporate DR exercises
• Participated on a team for corporate McAfee\vShield planning and testing
• Migrated nearly one hundred VMware datastores from VMFS3 to VMFS5 with tight cooperation with our storage team
• Build\Test\Implement UCS central
• Build\Test\Implement IOTurbine\FusionIO server side cache environment
• Administered multiple UCS manager environments for Windows and VMware hosts
• Tested\Evaluated vCloud Director in lab environment
• Upgrade\Migrate vCenter Operations Manager 5.8 to vRealize Operations Center 6.0 for the Enterprise and configure management packs for LogInsight\NSX

VMware implementation specialist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Build\Test\Implement VMware ESX 3.x environment as part of the Virtualization team
• Build\Tested boot from SAN on VMware ESX
• Assisted in collection of virtualization data for 3500 hosts using Platespin PowerRecon and VMware Capacity Planner
• Build Windows 2003 application servers for 3rd party application testing
• Upgrade\Patching of ESX hosts
• Performed several hundred P2V migrations
• Plan\Architect P2V migrations with a wide variety of business units

Intel System Administrator IBM

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided System’s Administration for over 800 servers
• Supported Windows NT 4.O\ Advanced\ 2003 and 2003 Advanced servers
• Supported\Administered\Built VMware ESX 2.1.2 servers and Virtual servers
• Supported\Administered\Built Citrix Metaframe XP servers and Citrix Farm
• Documented Administration processes and procedures
• Provide support for Windows 2000, 2003 and NT 4.0 servers, as well as Citrix and VMware platforms.
• Assist with the implementation and support of a server consolidation project involving the virtualization of servers and applications using VMware, HP Print Server Appliances, HP NAS Gateways and IBM SAN technologies.
• Participate in with server ongoing patching operations.
• Responsible for implementing Windows 2000 and 2003 servers.
• Citrix administrator for a multi-farm environment.
• Evaluate\Implement\Document processes for new technologies such as IBM Director, HP Print Server Appliances, VMware, IBM Bladecenter, Patchlink and HP NAS.

PC\UNIX System Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided second and third level support for customer Mailhub servers and web servers
• Performed Unix\Windows server administration for a proprietary Mailhub product
• Monitored and administered customer websites
• Provided Lotus Domino Account administration
• Provided desktop support for remote clients using Citrix shadowing and VNC Tools
• Provided support for Citrix servers for clients and perform server administration
• Designed and administered multiple Lotus Notes databases for team documentation
• Documented team process and procedures
• Assisted web server team with MySQL account administration
• Monitored and administered customer Windows NT\2000 servers
• Administered customer Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX servers
• Updated and maintained documentation websites
• Participated in a corporate team with the objective of developing a database tool to collect archived customer data and centralize documentation for multiple teams

PC\UNIX Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Migrated Windows NT Domain Servers to Windows 2000 Advanced Server
• Provided applications and computer support for a large WAN CAD environment which consisted of Windows NT\2000, HP-UX, and SGI-IRIX
• Supported file\print\plot services for both Windows\Macintosh\Unix workstations
• Plan\Deploy multiple upgrades of Lotus Notes to 200 clients
• Migrated from multiple email packages from VAX-based to Lotus Notes
• Created Lotus Notes databases for support surveys, and documentation
• Participated on a team to create and present Lotus Notes seminars
• Supplied primary application support for Unigraphics, Pro Engineer, ANSYS, and other CAD applications
• Worked on a team to deploy multiple CAD applications via a variety of tools including PERL, Unix shell scripting, SMS, Tivoli, and other scripting tools
• Assisted in the conversion to a DHCP network from static IP for a division of 3M
• Assisted in the conversion from a standard 10 base-T network to a switched Ethernet