SUMMARY:

• After 1 year of hands on labs and study, I have earned both AWS Solutions Architect Associate and Developer Associate certifications.
• I am seeking a position where I can utilize my AWS skills.
• I have experience in a wide range of technologies.
• I specialize in virtualization, cloud engineering, devops, software automation and problem solving.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Irving, TX

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provide services as the primary virtualization engineer assigned to a dedicated Confidential federal cloud client account.
• IaaS - Support large deployment of VMware vSphere v6.0, Cisco UCS, NFS shared storage and complex virtual and physical network infrastructure, ensuring that the customer cloud environment is running properly 24x7.
• PaaS - 1800+ Virtual Machines (Linux and Windows).
• Alert monitoring, resource usage and capacity management.
• Hardware and software configuration inventory documentation.
• Customized report generation.
• Log management, event correlation and early warning detection.
• Security vulnerability and remediation.
• Performance data collection and analysis.
• Hardware and software upgrade of a live environment - planning and coordination. (vSphere upgrades 4.1,5.1,5.5,6.0, Cisco UCS firmware updates).
• Coordination with storage and network engineering - seamless data migration.
• Scripting custom automated changes and writing procedures for others to carry out changes.
• Extensive automation with PowerShell (VMware PowerCLI, Cisco UCS PowerTool and NetApp SDK) for generating reports, troubleshooting and daily tasks.
• Made use of APIs (REST/SOAP) for data gathering and remote execution of changes. (SolarWinds, Cisco UCS, VMware, NetApp, MediaWiki, cloud management, etc.)
• Secure script execution website - Developed to allow support teams to leverage scripts from a large repository I developed to support the customer environment. - ASP.Net, C#, IIS, MS SQL, embedded PowerShell host, JavaScript, AngularJS, jQuery, Visual Studio.
• R data analysis and visualization of cloud performance and configuration.
• A suite of vulnerability remediation scripts used to automate the rollout of VMware vSphere hardening changes across multiple cloud environments.
• Infrastructure As Code - AWS CloudFormation, Red Hat KickStart, SaltStack, and custom scripting.
• Mentor team members to use and develop tools.

OS: Linux - Red Hat, Ubuntu and Microsoft Windows Server

Cloud: VMware VSphere, Confidential Cloud, Verizon Cloud, AWS, and Azure

Containers: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, ECS (AWS)

Tools: DevOps - CI/CD, Jenkins, Git

Monitoring: VMware VRealize, SolarWinds, Nagios, IPSoft and custom in-house tools

Languages: Powershell, C#, Go, Python, NodeJS, JavaScript, R, Expect and Java

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Sr. Compute Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provided top tier support for VMware ESX, Hyper-V, Xen and Citrix Xen Server.
• Troubleshooting and support of Solaris and Linux servers in large compute farms.
• Coordinated virtualization strategy to evaluate and document customer requirements for cost & budget guidelines, sizing requirements, network design, storage and server hardware allocation.
• Responsible for architecting, designing and selecting servers for deployment to internal worldwide compute farms.
• Expertise in hardware benchmarking, maximizing software performance and physical resource usage - Power usage requirements, network and storage subsystem(s), virtualization extensions and remote management.
• Provided top tier support for hardware and OS enablement.
• Defined and maintained each OS release as an official supported baseline.
• Release and patch management.
• Used Linux Internals experience to troubleshoot complex performance issues, such as SystemTap to trace kernel calls.

OS: Linux - Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu and Debian, Solaris 8, 9 and 10, MS Windows Server 2012

Virtualization: VMware ESX & ESXi, Xen, Citrix Xen Server, Hyper-V, KVM, Linux Containers (LXC)

Databases: Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite

Network troubleshooting tools: WireShark protocol analyzer, nmap and many others

Scripting languages: Python, Bash, Perl, R, Lua, Tcl, Ruby, Powershell, PowerCLI

Confidential

Integration Lead

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed an automated Build and Packaging System for Windows Mobile using NAnt, C# and Windows Shell Scripting.
• Troubleshooting and build optimization for Confidential Build Forge and Electric Cloud Build Accelerator.
• Virtualization: automated provisioning and de-provisioning of virtual build machines using Perl, Ruby, Tcl, Windows and Linux Shell Scripting and VMWare APIs.
• Linux and Windows performance and tuning, network and system monitoring and measurement.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Senior Staff Engineer/Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Tier 3 Customer Support (external customer base and internal development and testing groups)
• Senior troubleshooting and systems administration of Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Windows systems.
• Specialized in network design and troubleshooting of both voice and data networks.
• Perl and shell scripting for systems administration and automation.
• Installed and supported Samba for Windows and UNIX integration.
• Sybase, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MS SQL database administration and troubleshooting.
• Engineered disaster recovery backup and restore solutions.
• Network protocol analysis and network security.

Confidential, Richardson, TX

Systems Administration/Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed in-house system administrator and network support.
• Worked on optimizing platform booting for their wireless softswitch.

Confidential, Richardson, TX

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• In-house Sun server and network support performing interoperability testing with different IADs in conjunction with the Vocal Data Softswitch.
• Troubleshooting of various VOIP protocols with Network General Sniffer.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Principle Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided both internal and external support for landline and cellular based voice messaging and post and prepaid long distance calling card products in South America, United States and China.
• Worked closely with both the internal project management team and the customer to help see the projects through from beginning to end.

RAID management: Sun, HP, Veritas Software RAID, Sun Online Disk Suite

Databases: Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft SQL

OS: Solaris 7 and 8, HP-UX, Unixware, OS/2, NT

Scripting Languages - Perl, Tcl/Tk, Expect, ksh, and C

Confidential, Plano, TX

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performed System Administration of a large-scale, multi-vendor UNIX installation.
• Wrote programs with Perl, Tcl/Tk, ksh, sh, csh, bash, Oracle and C.
• Installed and configured Oracle and Sybase databases.
• Loaded, configured and maintained HP, Sun, Sun Sparc and Apollo servers with the following operating systems: SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX, and DomainOS.