PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• I am a resourceful and energetic individual that possesses outstanding communication and organizational skills with the ability to solve challenging Hardware and Software problems.
• I consistently achieve excellent customer service while providing strong technical leadership.
• Core accomplishments include building multiple virtual clustered environments, migrating production data sets to new platforms, and facilitating the decommissioning of the legacy environments.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr.System Engineer\Administrator

Confidential

• Good understanding of SRM Concepts/Architecture.
• Participated in SRM Site Recovery Project to Install,Configure, setup Site Pairing and also configure Storage Replication as well.
• Help troubleshoot SAN storage and networking issues in a VMware 6.0 environment.
• Experience with building/ configuring esxi host in bow tie multi cluster VMware 6.0 environment.
• Ability to work with multiple departments application owners to formulate remove snapshots and troubleshoot issues in a prod/Dev environment.
• Provide daily support administration of servers workstations a VMware 6.0 environment.
• Create and maintain SOP's for standard practice with in FDIC.
• Configure new and rebuild windows 2008 R2 and 2012 R2 virtual machines and decommission existing Windows 2003 servers in FDIC environment. Also configure Hardware peripherals service settings directories in accordance with standard and projects and operational requirements.

Sr. Server Support Engineer

Confidential

• Troubleshot P1, P2 and P3 issue in a VMware\ Windows production environment.
• Experience with Symantec EPO in a Windows Production environment.
• Used Robo copy to copy folder and file to a new Windows 2012 server.
• Created VM's in an ESXi 5.5 environment uses Windows 2k8 and 2012 in Production and test environment.
• Help team in finding resolutions of complex VMware and AD issues and provide access to Network Shares including File and folder access to user.
• Worked with project manager and business to deploy VM in a VMware 5.5 environment.
• Used SCCM to patch servers in different domains. Work VMware and AD tickets in Connect now System.
• Responsible for installing, modifying, removing and analyzing networking hardware and software.
• Work with various internal groups and customer to troubleshoot issue, provide resolutions and implement solutions.

Sr System Engineer/Admin

Confidential, Irving, TX

• Managed eight HP Left Hand Storage servers. Racked and configured new storage server in the Colo DR site. Order new drive when alerts show in Left Hand console that the drive or drives are degraded. Verify that raid has been completed after drive has been replaced. Carve out new lungs to add additional storage to the existing environment.
• Create new windows server 2012 gold template with SCCM, SCOM agent and Solarwinds snmp trap services applied for monitoring purposes. Clone and migrate VM’s from one cluster to another pure business request in VMware 5.5 environment.
• Perform p2v to convert physical machine to a virtual machine in VMware 5.5.
• Identify root cause analysis for incidents and alerts that disrupts windows AD and ESXI 5.5 environment.
• Continue to provide high level Windows and VMware software/hardware consulting to the business for new projects, which adds pricing and implementation.
• Configured SCCM and SCOM to auto discovery and add agents to older server in different domain. Also add new applications to SCCM for auto deployment to new or older laptops.
• Used ticketing system MS service manager to manage business request and incidence.
• Managed and configure new and existing vm’s in Acronis (nScaled DR solution) for emergency situation. Also used to retrieve data files and system state for mirror drives snapshots that are taken hour and daily.
• Configure Kemp load balancer to provide redundancy to SQL servers and Web servers for Santander business request.
• Managed phone system (interactive intelligence) and add and remove phones, witch new and old extensions and mange user and phone numbers associated with EFG.

Sr. Virtualization\ESXI Escalation Engineer

Confidential, Dallas, TX

• Used vCloud Director 5.1 to create Provider vDC for tier structures. Also added customer organization virtual datacenter to the existing tier structures.
• Installed and configured vCloud Director to vCenter and Vshield.
• Experience and knowledge with designing, installing and implementing VMware VSphere ESX/ ESXi 5.1, VMware VCenter.
• Experience with VMware Converter standalone client (P2V) to convert physical machine to a virtual machine in an enterprise environment.
• Perform firmware updates using HPSIM System Insight Management 7.2. Upgrade to VMware ESXI 5.1 using ILO to HP Blade c7000's in a Europe Data Center environment. Also checked and cleared Alerts using HPSIM System Insight Manager.
• S uccessfully managed the upgrades of VMware ESXi 4.x to 5.x Servers. Performing upgrades of ESXi 5.1 to 5.1 U1 patch3 in Production and testing upgrades from 5.1 to 5.5 in a lab environment.
• Experienced in installing and configuring VMware ESXi on HP and Cisco UCS Blades.
• Worked on UCS, Alerts, troubleshooting, Memory, Hardware Replacement and Re - acknowledge the blade. Also Added, Managed and Configured UCS Vlan.
• Leads projects in an ESXi 5.1 environment and manage activities for new systems requirements, RFP responses, data center migrations and new technology exploitation.
• Proactively assesses exposure areas in ESXi 5.1 and takes steps to reduce vulnerabilities.
• Provides ESXi 5.1 high-level software / hardware consulting services to customers, including development, negotiation and implementation of proposals.
• Investigate, identify and document root cause analysis for incidents that result in a service disruption in an ESXi 5.1 environment.
• Implement technologically advanced solutions to meet customer’s mission, objectives and requirements.
• Completes advanced analysis yielding leading-edge solutions to client problems.
• 5 years of experience administering and architecting VMware installations.

Sr. Solutions Architect

Confidential, Dallas, TX

• Used center Orchestrator 5.1 to create Workflows adding Actions, Attributes and binding it to Vim’s in question.
• As a Group Manager/Administrator I have Granted authorized user to New/existing Business Groups. Also added new Service Blueprints to different Business groups using vCloud Automation Center 5.1
• Also edit the workflow and add new schema elements to the workflow.
• Worked directly with the client to ensure the implementation team, developed and implemented VMware ESXi 5.1 hosting environment with Windows 2008 r2 64bit according to contractual obligations.
• Design technologically advanced solutions with Microsoft Visio to meet customer’s mission, objectives and requirements in VMware ESXi 5.1 with Win2008 r264bit guest operating systems.
• Able to transfer knowledge to team members and provides leadership for implementation of ESXi 5.1, new hardware, software and Win 2008r26bit operating systems.
• Keeps abreast of new VMware technology and make recommendations as to how best to utilize ESXi 5.1 with new technology to benefit our customers.
• Provides technical leadership on a high level on complex projects involving a broad range of expertise and disciplines.
• Leads projects requiring a wide application of theories, concepts and principles.
• Participates in Enterprise project meetings as the technology architect in order to maintain strategy, governance, and overall technical leadership.

System Administration Engineer

Confidential, Dallas, TX

• Worked multiple projects for the Fujitsu VMware4.1-Windows 2008 R2 64bit project to build out a multi-tenant VMware4.1-Windows2008r264bit environment. Worked directly with the client, setting expectations, handling process, procedure and technical problems. Help the team in finding resolutions of complex VMware issues. Helped team members to learn, grow and be better at their job.
• Worked with project manager to deploy VMware 4.1 platform for Windows server 2008 R2 64bit
• Worked directly with Fujitsu Management and Client to ensure Planning, Installing and Configuring VMware ESX-ESXi4.1, Windows 2008 server and vCenter Server with Updates. Also Created and Managed Virtual Networks, Storage Devices and Virtual Machines (Windows 2008) guest.
• Worked directly with the client to Migrate and Import Virtual Machines from one cluster to another.

Windows Administrator

Confidential, Plano, TX

• As a Windows Administrator I coordinated tasks to solve server issue from Financial Center, National Center, Regional Center and Home Office.
• Created a custom MMC console that contains add/remove snap-in to navigate Active directory domains and trusts, Active directory sites and services, Active directory user and computers for each domain and Group policy management.
• Using HPSIM System Insight Management 6.0 to installing firmware updates and patches for 431 2003\2008 servers.
• Adding a New ESX/ESXi3.5 HP Blade c7000 with 16 half height and a c3000 with 8 half height enclosure to a data center environment.
• Created VM's in an ESX/ESXi 3.5 environment for Windows 2k3 and 2k8 in Production and test environment.
• Clone Windows 2008R264bit server's to template and convert from a template to an updated VM in VMware 3.5enviroment.
• Created and presented storage from multiple EVA’s and MSA 1000 to multiple different ESX/ESXi host running different operating systems through the Storage works Command view EVA\MSA 1000 GUI interface software. Also presented storage from an XP 24k array to multiple hosts running different OS’s
• Assisted in the configuration and bring up of Brocade Fiber Channel Mass Storage switches. Zoned out windows, Exchange and Linux servers to MSA 1000, EVA and XP24K storage devices on the production SAN.