KEY AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Architecture: System Automation, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Modernization, Network Assessment/Remediation

Frameworks: ITIL, CMMI, Agile, Scrum, Change Management

Platforms: Windows 2008/2012 Server, Vista, Windows7, VMware vCenter 5.x/vSphere 5.x, Centos 6.3/6.4,6.5, RHel, SuSe Linux, MS - SQL Server, Microsoft Hyper V Server, Apache, PEAP, WiMax, UIM, SMC, UCS, Nagios, Cactii, Zenoss, HPOpenview, Network Node Manager, Arcsight, NetMRI, Netscreen, Action Remedy Trouble Management System, Raptor, RSignia,Spectrum Analyzer, IFS, Symantec BackupExec, Newbury Watchdog, Vernier Networks, HawkEye|G, Network Observer, Sonicwall Viewpoint, Puppet, Dell VIS, MRTG, Rancid, Splunk, CatBird, Spiceworks, Vyatta Routers, SenSage, Cloudera

Hardware: Cisco 5500 ASDM, Dell R620/720/810 Blade Servers, Juniper EX3300, IXIA, BreakPoint, NetOptics Bypass, Dell 6100 SAN, Fujitsu Eternus DX80/90, SAN, EMC Symmetrix, DPI, EMC VNXe Storage, Vernier CS6500, Aruba 5000, Protego Networks MARS HP 520 ProCurve Access Point, Dell Server; Netopia, Flowpoint/Efficient, NetApp, Intel 54728x Server, Cisco 4505e Switch, Cisco 3750G 48Port

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Infrastructure Analyst Consultant

Confidential, Hanover, MD

Responsibilities:

• Worked independently and built/engineered environments from the ground up. Installed, configured, and managed Cisco ASA firewalls and VPNs, Cisco Switches and Routers, and VMWare vSphere. Installed, configured and managed various flavors of Linux.
• Supported 30+ developers with infrastructure support requirements including the orchestration and maintenance of a 500+ virtual machine environment. Administered vCenter 5.1, Virtual Switch, DVS, and ESXi 5.1 hypervisors.
• Administered Cisco 5500 ASA and network infrastructure products, used knowledge of VLAN Tagging, VLAN Trunks, NAT, IPsec tunneling protocols methodologies. Performed administration of various flavors of Virtual Machines (Red Had Linux, CentOS, and Windows). Administered Active Directory / OpenLDAP servers and services. Utilized Windows System Administration experience to install, configure, and manage Microsoft Windows 2008/2012 Server.
• Successfully delivered , a production-grade SIEM management platform. I installed and configured early adapter’s of HawkEye|G - Active Defense Grid. Successfully implemented at Inmarsat , Safenet , Bamco Financial , Babcock & Wilcox and KEYW Corporation .
• Administered SAN Technologies: Dell 6100ps, Fujitsu Eternus DX80/90, NAS (iSCSI, NFS) Technologies. Maintained regular backup schedule for production instance, monitored health of environment and act as POC for all troubleshooting.
• Managed VMware VCenter Server and administered VMware ESX/ESXi 5.1 Host. Created and managed VMs (Virtual Server) and maintained Virtual Servers.
• Conducted routine datacenter lifecycle maintenance duties (UPC power loads, environmental monitoring, rack installation, data cabling). Responsible for the oversight, monitoring, troubleshooting and resolution of all scheduled updates to client G instances from the central production infrastructure. Created and maintained baseline "snapshots" of “DEMONET “and “ TESTNET ” environment.
• Responsible for production support of Active directory (AD), GPO, Domain users, Users, groups, permissions, shares and privilege to access LAN and Domains. I created and modified DNS records, and DHCP scope reservations.
• Served as POC between Sales, Product Management, Engineering and Support to recommend architecture updates to enhance client facing demo capability. Ensure that the HawkEye|G instance and all associated infrastructure are available and operating for scheduled demonstrations.
• Responsible for the oversight, monitoring, troubleshooting and resolution of all scheduled updates to client G instances from the central production infrastructure.
• Validate updates from Engineering following QA and prepare central infrastructure for new code and feature rollouts; Provide continuous feedback to Hexis Engineering, Development, including documentation of issues to enable continuous improvement to product release processes.

VBlock/VMware Consultant

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

• Assisted in Proof of Concept for a 24x7 Pro­duc­tion Data Cen­ter, includ­ing: roll out of server plat­form (Cisco UCS Blades) and EMC (UIM) for service console creation in a remote man­age­ment model. Managed VBlock 700MX series IAAS deployment and implementation of projects in support of Enterprise cloud computing initiatives.
• Managed Cisco UCS, Nexus 1000v, EMC VNXe, VMware ESX, ESXi, VSphere, VCenter and VCloud Director solutions. Worked technical and Business SME’s to automate the management of heterogeneous environments - physical and cloud. Obtained metrics of various technical approaches in solving system wide issues via Architecture Design Document’s (ADD).
• Participated in hands-on implementation of configuration and scripting for customer assigned project work involving VMware vFabric Spring and Data Virtualization Technologies (PostgreSQL or VMware vFabric Data Director or VMware GemFire).
• Provided expertise Architectural Design Team on logical configurations and design review of their VBlock Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
• Developed over 50 reference scenario based test cases for VBlock 700 platform cloud infrastructure. Developed multiple client facing gap analysis documents with conclusive results for: storage, network, compute, and virtualization. Provided Product review and recommendations for VBlock 700 platform covering functionality, operations, high availability and disaster continuity, automation planning and testing.

Sr. VMware Consultant

Confidential, Herndon, VA

• Successful delivered a production-grade Cloud Computing and application management platform, configured intuitively: vSphere High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and Fault Tolerance (FT) configurations for optimal performance. Ensured BOM/SLA’s were configured and tested to specifications.
• Established operating standards ongoing effort in deploying RHEL systems. Managed MDS Switches, SAN Channel switches. Managed EMC Clarion CX4-240 - Utilized EMC Unified Storage Platform for LUN Array management and manipulation.
• Utilized knowledge in VBS scripting (Windows) and Powershell vSphere pwercli (VMware).
• Utilized knowledge of VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM). Utilized knowledge   of servers, networking, clustering, storage replication, backup and other technology capabilities to plan for Enterprise Disaster Recovery requirements. Assisted in architectural design DR environment
• Led a SWAT team to diagnose and improve performance issues of a major accounting application (Timberline), resulting in performance improvement and 99.99% uptime. Maintained Citrix Server’s XenApp 4.5 running 40+ Windows 2003 servers. Ensured servers were up-to-date with latest hot fixes and service packs.

Network Manager

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

• Configured TCP/IP, WINS, DNS, and DHCP servers in a sub-netted network environment. Performed hardware maintenance, upgrades, and component-level testing and troubleshooting of workstations and servers. Prepared Technical Methodology document for the HIPAA implementation. Assisted in CMMI level 4compliance.
• Administered Avaya Site Manager to provide telephony support and administration: telephone extensions and voicemail activation. Configured Avaya Modular Messaging via Active Directory for voicemail recovery.
• Supported Windows Server Update Service (WSUS). Configured and implemented Group Policy. Administered NetApp 3020, utilized knowledge of Perfstat utility to gain detailed information and performance metrics.
• Responsible for configuration and ongoing support end user Blackberry handhelds managed via Blackberry Enterprise Server. Designed architecture and implementation phases for VMware ESXi 3.5 deployment, SAN Array (HP Lefthand), Private/Public Cloud Computing and designed proposed LUN Aggregate naming schema.

System Administrator

Confidential, Woodlawn, MD

• Administered the networking system in a multinational company, Windows 2003 Application & Exchange servers. Configured TCP/IP, WINS, DNS, and DHCP servers in a sub-netted network environment. Performed hardware maintenance, upgrades, and component-level testing and troubleshooting on workstations and servers.
• Involved in preparing the Methodology document for the HIPAA implementation.
• Provided strong working knowledge of a variety of technology platforms in a distributed environment including: Microsoft systems, Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint, Linux/Unix, SQL Server, database architectures, TCP/IP, VPNs, Mainframe, and LAN/WAN technologies and architectures. Configured Avaya Modular Messaging via Active Directory for voicemail recovery. Gained exposure and knowledge of CMMI level 4compliance.

Network Operations Center Analyst

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

• Documented and tested policies and procedures required for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Planned and executed technical and general system, IT audits, systems development, conversion reviews, business process applications controls reviews, and supported non-audit consulting engagements.
• Provided hands-on experience in ITSM(IT Service Management)/BSM(Business Service Management) tool administration and support for Constellation Energy’s NOC. Directly worked under CEG’s agile process - worked HP Network Node Service Manager provided escalation and support in: Incident Management, Problem Management, Request Management, and Change Management.
• Performed Quality Assurance testing of various stages triage and response: including power outages, network outages, Circuit testing as well as quality of service and improvements. Reported issues to Triage support, performed regression testing of implementations and network changes via Change Management Process. Successfully resolved hardware, software, connectivity, statistical, and other technical issues within Networking Infrastructure.
• Provided system management and administration support consisting of proprietary, COTS hardware and software, networked via global terrestrial and RF/satellite communications in support of critical 24x7 operations.

Network Manager

Confidential, College Park, MD

• Developed technical information materials and workshops on security trends, threats, best practices and control mechanisms for IT, as appropriate. Secured project’s, provided expert guidance on system matters. 
• Key responsibilities included personnel and materials allocations, identification and engagement of vendor software, hardware providers, system installations and configurations.
• Primary web application server administrator on Windows and Apache/WebSphere. Worked with software Developed content for and managed Intranet and Internet servers, developed content, enhanced functionality, maintained security, and performance of the NT and web servers. Performed day-to-day administration of NT network consisting of 5 NT servers hosting “Microsoft Exchange” e-mail, “Internet Information Server”, “SQL Server” as well as various file shares and applications. (Created user accounts, e-mail accounts, shares etc.).

Technical Support Specialist

Confidential,  New York, NY

• Configured and updated Cisco Pix 515 Firewall ensured that new applications and services had the necessary access; Created VLAN’s on switches and configured span sessions on switches that interact with firewalls.
• Managed and monitored Cisco routers (26xx, 36xx, 6500) and switches (3550, 4006). Maintained multiple Cisco Routers and Firewalls handling complex network traffic with multiple subnets, gateways and VPNs.

Technical Support Specialist

Confidential,  New York, NY

• Maintained Lotus Notes servers, OS/2 Warp Connect, and OS/2 Merlin operating systems.
• Performed Y2K testing and resolution for Confidential global solution. Successfully delivered prototypes images for Y2K compliance in: Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, OS/2 Warp Connect, OS/2 Merlin and Lotus Notes.