SUMMARY

Driven Network / Systems / Devops engineer with strong networking and virtualization background. Proven passion for new technologies and building new skillsets. I strive to continue to improve my knowledge and skills. Over 18 years experience designing, building, scaling, and supporting enterprise networks and applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Networking/Hardware: Cisco 3048, 7010 and 7018 Series Nexus Switches. Cisco MDS Series Fiber Switches, CSS - 11000 Content Service Load Balancers, Cisco ASA Firewalls, Catalyst Switches, Cisco 4200 Series Intrusion Prevention Systems. Palo Alto PanOS 7. HP Procurve Switches and SonicWALL VPN appliances. Big IP F5 and Citrix Netscaler Load Balancers. Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers, IBM X Series, Dell Poweredge and FC Blade Servers.

Storage: Dell Equallogic, EMC Unity, IBM V5000 and PURE Storage.

Server: DNS, DHCP, IIS, Apache, FTP, SMTP, SNMP, Active Directory, Sharepoint.

Operating Systems: VMware ESXi with VCenter Server 5.0-6.5 including HA and DRS setup. Microsoft Windows Servers 2000-2012. Red Hat Enterprise server and CentOs.

DevOps Tools: Microsoft TFS, Octopus Deploy, PowerShell and SQL Server.

Applications: Confidential Orion, Virtual Machine Manager and Storage Manager. What’s Up Gold, Symantec and Trend Micro Corporate Antivirus. Trend InterScan Web Security Virtual Appliances. Intel/McAfee SIEM Appliances. Qualys Vulnerability Scanner. Zerto Virtual Replication. Confidential Backup and Replication.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Delray Beach, FL

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Built out secondary data center for disaster recovery purposes including management and configuration of Dell FX blade servers, Pure SAN Storage, Cisco Nexus and Force 10 switches.
• Upgraded and consolidated VMware vSphere 5.5 clustered environments to vSphere 6.5 SP1.
• Converted existing Hyper - V server environments to VMware.
• Migrated existing storage infrastructure consisting of EMC VNX and Dell Equallogics to PURE Storage.
• Configured disaster recovery and virtual machine replication for VMware servers using Zerto Virtual Replication.
• Configured Trend InterScan Web Security Virtual Appliance for web traffic filtering using Proxy Auto-Config scripts and Active Directory Group Policy.
• Setup remote access VPN for employees and contractors using Cisco ASA 5525x Firewalls.
• Migrated existing server and virtual machine backup infrastructure from Unitrends to Confidential Backup and Replication software.

Confidential, Coral Springs, FL

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Maintained E-commerce environments including QA, UAT and Production web server and application server farms.
• Worked with development teams to automate .NET code deployments for various environments using Microsoft TFS, Octopus Deploy, PowerShell and SQL Server.
• Worked with development teams on application security and vulnerability scan remediation.
• Setup various web sites for load balancing using Citrix Netscaler load balancers.
• Implemented external website and transaction testing solution using Monitis application monitoring platform.
• Monitored Palo Alto Firewall logs for communication issues and opened ports between zones as needed for web application functionality.
• Configured IBM System X Blade and Rack Servers for VMware ESXi deployments.
• Configured Cisco Nexus switch ports for blade and rack server deployments.
• Managed and performed weekly AIX and TIBCO code deployments.
• Supported Dell Equallogic SAN infrastructure including PS6100 and PS6610 appliances.
• Implemented new EMC Unity 500 SAN solution for VMware infrastructure.
• Supported VMware vSphere environment including complete vSphere upgrade from version 5.1 to 6.0 Update 3c.
• Performed alert and application monitoring setup for various applications in Confidential Orion, Confidential Storage Manager and Virtualization Manager.

Confidential, North Palm Beach, FL

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Maintained network operations for remote office locations including two datacenters.
• Implemented new virtualized production server infrastructure using Cisco UCS B series blade servers, Netapp SAN, Cisco MDS fiber switches and VMware ESXi and VCenter 5.0.
• Setup HA, DRS and VMOTION for VMware enterprise infrastructure.
• Upgraded VMware enterprise infrastructure from version 5.0 to version 5.5 Update 2.
• Implemented SecureAuth two-factor authentication VPN solution for remote user base.
• Installed, configured and maintained Cisco 4200 Series Intrusion Prevention Systems for corporate PCI and SOX compliance.
• Implemented new network core switching infrastructure for datacenters using Cisco 7018 series Nexus switches.
• Implemented Equallogic SAN infrastructure for backend SQL cluster environment.
• Implemented McAfee SIEM Appliances for event log auditing and correlation.
• Used Qualys Vulnerability Scanner to scan websites for vulnerabilities and security risks.
• Configured F5 load balancer nodes, pools and virtual servers for company websites.
• Setup F5 irules to redirect multiple company website urls.
• Extensive work in IIS for .NET application web servers including various website migrations.
• Experience installing and managing Red Hat Enterprise Server and CentOS for Wordpress blog websites.
• Maintained 500+ user Active Directory Infrastructure including WSUS server, corporate Antivirus, Confidential Backup Exec, Blackberry Enterprise Server, Microsoft SQL Enterprise Servers and Microsoft Exchange Server 2003.
• Migrated Windows 2003 Active Directory Domain to Windows 2008 Active Directory Domain.
• Implemented Microsoft Hyper-V server infrastructure for virtualized QA and development environment.
• Implemented Tridion content management system for corporate website redesign and launch.
• Implemented Sunbelt Exchange Archiving solution for corporate email.
• Implemented Symantec System Restore rollout for server imaging solution and disaster recovery.
• Dell Open Manage and SNMP rollout out for server monitoring solution.
• Experience installing and configuring What’s Up Gold network monitoring software.

Confidential, Boca Raton, FL

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed company infrastructure including home office, datacenter and over 100 remote locations.
• Managed junior network administrator.
• Managed 75 + servers including Active Directory, DNS, Exchange, Blackberry, Mail Marshal Web, FTP, SMTP, SQL, Transaction and File Servers.
• Upgraded web server farm from Windows 2000 (IIS 5.0) to Windows 2003 (IIS 6.0).
• Upgraded Windows 2000 Active Directory Domain to Windows 2003 R2.
• Rolled out Exchange 2003 with Mail Marshal Spam Protection and Blackberry Server.
• Managed Cisco routers, Cisco Catalyst switches, PIX firewalls and CSS-11500 load balancers.
• Setup What’s up Gold monitoring software with Dell Open Manage to monitor 65 + server group at data-center.
• Managed 100 + IPSEC VPN tunnels using Cisco ASA Firewall.
• Setup and managed Cisco 4200 Series Intrusion Detection Systems and Cisco MARS appliance.
• Implemented network security policies and procedures for PCI compliance.
• Setup and managed MRTG and Cacti bandwidth monitoring software.