SUMMARY

• A result driven IT Professional with over eighteen years in administration, architecture engineering, virtualization and technical support.
• In depth knowledge in windows administration, analysis, architecture, data center, design, disaster recovery, engineering, implementation, management, optimization, troubleshooting and documentation of enterprise Applications, Shared storage SAN/NAS/Enclosures, LAN/WAN systems and network.
• Strong hands - on knowledge supporting IT infrastructure and operations and possess teh following certifications in A+, CCNA, CNA, CNE, MCP/MCSE, VCP, LINUX (LPI) and JAVA in progress.
• Ability to lead, motivate analysts and engineering teams to success.
• Proven track record to diagnose/troubleshoot and resolve complex problems and consistently deliver effective solutions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware/Systems:f5 Load Balance, Alteon, Desktops (Dell/HP/ Confidential ); EMC/SAN (Clariion/DMX/Symmetrix), NetApp, Ethernet, RSA (iLO/RILO), HP Virtual Connect Flex10, Linux, Mac OS (5/6/7/8/9X), MS Operating Systems (Pre-NT/NT4/PE/Vista/Win2k/Win2k3/2008/Windows7/XP), Novell 3x and 4x, Routers-Switches-Hubs (Avocent/BayNetworks/BelkinCisco), Blade/Servers (Dell/Gateway/HP/ Confidential ), VMWare (ESX(me) 2x3x4x/GSX 3x/VC 2x/VMServer 1x2x/Workstation 4x5x/P2V), UNIX.

Software:Moab Web Services (MWS), AWS (EC2), VMWare ESX/ESXi/vSphere/vCenter, Active Directory 2000/2003,2008 Altiris/RDP Management Suite, ASP, Citrix 3&4x and XenApp5, AppSense, Desktop Services, DotNet, DRA, DSView, Emperix, IIS 5&6, Firewalls, Fiserv/Communicator, HP CIM, Hyena, Lotus Notes/Domino Server, Mercury/Load Runner, MS PerfMon, MS Clustering, MS Hypervisor, MOM, MSMQ, MS Project, MySQL, MSSQL 2000/2005, Nautilus/OnBase (Hyland), NetIQ, Peregrine, Platespin, PHP, PowerPath, Remedy, Repliweb (R1), SharePoint 2000/2003, Site Scope, Site Server, SMS 2000&2003, SSL/CA Server, TSM/ArcServe, VM Converter, VEA/VSF, Netbackup, Visio, VSS, VB 2003,2005&2008, WMI.

Networking:TCP/IP, WINS, DNS, DHCP, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, RIP, ICMP, IGMP, TELNET, SNMP, Cat 5&6.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Virtualization & Systems Engineer / DevOps

Responsibilities:

• Daily management of virtual infrastructure and resources (me.e. DRS/HA, storage provisioning, NFS AND CIFS shares and clusters, SAN/NAS - Clariion - Celerra - Isilon - NetApp and Tintri, CPU and RAM allocation, VM optimization, Wireshark (network traffic).
• Daily management of on premise AD/DCs - User/Groups (GPOs)
• Windows Server Patching (WSUS)
• Powershell and PowerCLI scripting (me.e. health checks, status, inventory and reporting)
• Server provisioning (Linux and Windows)
• Daily management and support of AWS/Azure, administration and migration (me.e. Environment Buildouts, Account Management/IAM, Auto Scale, EC2, Import/Export, RDS, Route53, S3, Terraform, VPC, Snowball, App Service/Web App, Azure AD, Blob Storage, Custom Domains, ELB, OMS, Slots, Service Fabric/Micro Service, Storage Accounts, SSLs, Traffic Manager, VNet, Web Jobs and etc.)
• Daily monitoring/Logging and workflow tools (me.e. AppDynamics, Catchpoint, Nagios, Splunk, Syslog and Confluence, Jira and Slack)
• Daily support and troubleshooting any reported production issues
• Spearheaded teh data center consolidation and closures
• Working knowledge of Linux, Mac OSX, Windows
• Daily ticket request management (RT and Service Now)

Confidential

Sr. Engineer (Virtualization)

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for teh health and stability of teh virtual infrastructure for both production and disaster recovery data centers.
• Daily management of Windows and Linux Virtual Infrastructure, Citrix/XenApp Farm, Monitoring,, Server Patching (WSUS) Office 365 and resources (me.e. vSphere 6, UCS/vBlock, DRS/HA, Storage/VM provisioning, shared storage and clusters, NAS - Celerra - CIFS, Panzura CloudFS, PRTG, Solarwinds, Splunk Logging, Wireshark, CPU and RAM allocation and VM optimization, Powershell and PowerCLI scripting.

Confidential

Sr. Systems Engineer, Lead

Responsibilities:

• Design and implementation of enterprise solutions.
• Daily management and support (me.e. App/IIS 6&7 administration on .Net Framework/MSSQL administration, Servers management and administration, AD Root, Child Domain, DCs, FSMO roles, Site links/replication, GPO’s and OU’s, DNS/DHCP, Citrix 4.5/XenApp 6.5, Exchange 2010, Office 365, Linux administration 5&6x, Powershell Scripting, vSphere 5.5, HPSIM and Nagios/Solarwinds monitoring and Systems Updates via WSUS etc.)
• Daily storage management and support (me.e. configuration, migration, provisioning and allocation - SAN storage (EMC Clariion, VNX(e) and HP MSA)
• Daily management of teh virtual environment via vCenter, VI, and or ILO, P2V/V2V migration via VMConverter
• System updates/upgrades via SUS and or Manual (me.e. OS, firmware and device driver).
• Design, documentation and reporting (me.e., diagrams, deployment, process and procedures, support and project status to management).

Confidential

Sr. Technical Consultant Engineer - Compute Hosting Platform

Responsibilities:

• Design and implementation of enterprise solutions.
• Daily management and support of teh cloud infrastructure.
• Daily management, support and upgrade of virtual infrastructure (vCenter, ESX/ESXi/vSphere, PlateSpin Orchestra, storage and network).
• Daily management of teh virtual environment in teh following locations: 14 DCs in North America, 3 DCs in Europe and 2 DCs Asia.
• Daily management of storage (me.e. configuration, provisioning and allocation via NetApp/Filer and Storage Black Box (SBB) for NAS/SAN).
• Daily management and support of Linux (LAMP - Rhel 5 -6x, Apache/Tomcat/Websphere) and windows (WAMP – win2k3 and win2k8 standard, enterprise and r2 – App, Powershell Scripting, Web/IIS 6&7-ASP.NET6&7, SQL and clustering etc.).
• Daily management of P2V and V2V migration via Platespin, VM Converter and or in-house automation through teh cloud infrastructure.
• System updates/upgrades (me.e. OS, firmware and device driver).
• Spearheaded teh Data Center Integration Project (DCI) of virtual and physical migration (P2V, V2V, P2P and V2P) of systems and servers throughout teh nation.
• Managing and supporting multiple domains via AD (OU/GPO/Objects).
• Providing support to ensure system stability (me.e. Dev, Contingency, Prod and QA).
• Documentation and reporting (me.e., diagrams, process and procedures, support and project status to management).
• Providing security guidelines on system vulnerability.
• Oversee contractors and provide training to peers.

Confidential

Sr. Solutions Engineer, Lead – IT Operations

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded teh HP/Wyse Thin Client Project - Architected and implemented solution to integrate thin client devices to AD. Welch Allyn Spot Monitor is an instrument for teh patient’s vital record.
• Lead, managed, planned and implemented Impravata’s Single Sign-On (SSO) application to manage user’s ability to access web applications with LDAP.
• Upgrade AD/DCs from win2k3 to win2k8.
• Lead teh security deployment of Change Auditor for AD and Exchange.
• Assessed, diagramed and documented teh VMWare vSphere5 architecture and configurations.
• Managed storage and shared disks through Windows Storage Server on a NAS Gateway P4000 G2 (NetApp V3140 and HP Storage Works P4000-Centralize Management Console).
• Managed Active Directory (2008), OU structure, GPO and enhance security guidelines.
• Managed and supported Citrix (CPS 4.5) and VMWare (ESXi 4.5 and 5).
• Monitored systems state/events via HP CIM and Orion (SolarWinds)
• Network Administration – LAN/WAN and inter-site technologies (Switches and Routers)
• Maintained VM environment backups via vRanger (version 5.2) Assisted in managing Netbackup 2010 application, backup servers and tape libraries (HP MSL2024-LTO 4/5 and Quantum/Scalar 50-LTO 3) and windows updates via WSUS server.
• Daily support of Web Applications GE and Allscripts medical applications (Advance Web, GE Centricity modules, IDX/Smarterm Telnet Connection and Fuji/SynApps – x-ray laboratory imaging).
• Ensure teh infrastructure health and stability of servers and systems in multi platform operating systems Windows 2003/2008 and RHEL 5X.
• Built a LAB/Sanbox environment for POC and testing (me.e. IT Enterprise and or Business Applications).

Confidential

Sr. Solutions Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Daily operations in managing and supporting multiple domains on multi platform operating systems Windows 2003 and 2008. Ensure teh health and stability of teh environment (me.e. Development, QA, Staging and Production), managing Active Directory, Citrix/XenApp5, AppSense8x, NetApp/Filerview Storage Unit, VMWare ESX/ESXi, Nagios/Solarwinds System Monitoring, Network Administration – LAN/WAN (Cisco PIX and Switches), Mail Exchange Administration, Sharepoint, Web Support (IIS) and WSUS.
• Lead AD and Exchange upgrade path from win2k3 to win2k8 OS and xChange 2003 to 2010.
• Executed daily IT Operations meetings and planning, documentation, reporting to senior leaders, environment stability and enhancements, new applications and production releases and implementation.
• Automated general monitoring, reporting, support processes, server optimization applications and systems support through batch command, PowerShell and VB.
• Linux Administration (Redhat 5x support)
• Documented and published system security guidelines and requirements to standardized server/systems build.
• Managed 6 engineers and delegating daily tasks based on teh helpdesk requests, projects and priorities.
• Managed system/server patches and updates through Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).
• Spearheaded AD upgrade from 2003 to 2008

Confidential, Pasadena, CA

Sr. Technical Consultant Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed and supported multiple domains to ensure production and all other lower environments for home loans imaging systems were operational for users and other IT divisions to perform their day to day operations (me.e. EMC Documentum, EMC Captiva Document Capture, File Upload, Import/Export servers, granted access for mortgage document processing, QA and DEV groups for testing new and current codes, new products and configurations).
• Automated monitoring, reporting, support processes, server optimization applications and systems support, Active Directory administration using teh following methodologies (me.e. batch command, PowerShell, VB and .Net).
• Support and administration in a heterogeneous environment (me.e. AS/400, Citrix 4/4.5/Xenapp5, Linux, VMWare, Windows Servers, IIS 6/7 Administration and Security(SCAT) 2k/2k3/2k8, Oracle 10/11i and SQL 2000/2005 and other tracking and ticketing systems).
• Managed teh Data Center Integration (DCI) of virtual and physical migration (P2V, V2V, P2P and V2P) of systems and servers throughout teh nation.
• Gathered server data and coordinated schedules with teh business partners.
• Daily management and maintenance of virtual farms within 14 Data Centers nationwide.
• Daily management of VMWare Virtual Center, ESX/ESXi/vSphere, PlateSpin Portability Suite, Backup and Data Storage ( Confidential System X and DS Series-Storage Manager & TSM, Celerra-Celerra Manager, and NetApp/Filer/FlexClone/Rapid Cloning Utility/SnapManager), Veritas, Avamar, Servers (2000, 2003 and 2008).
• Daily configuration of PlateSpin workload configuration (scheduled or manual cold migration, take control and live transfer).
• Support and administration of Linux (RHEL 5x)
• Provided virtual migration processes and risks findings to teh business partners.
• Coached several engineers in managing and configuration of PlateSpin.
• Provided documentation, diagrams and project status to management.

Confidential - Burbank, CA

Sr. Enterprise Engineer, Lead

Responsibilities:

• Daily operations of managing, maintaining and supporting Burbank Data Centers, AD, DC’s, Citrix 4, Exchange 2003, IIS Management, VM’s (ESX 3.5/4.0 and Virtual Servers), Linux Administration (Redhat), Enterprise Applications, System Health and Uptime, Data Shared Storage ( Confidential System X/DS Series-Storage Manager/TSM, EMC Celerra/Clariion, and NetApp), Confidential and HP rack and blade center servers, Portal and External sites, Server Builds, and F5 Administration for Disney infrastructure (me.e., Production, ABC, Disney Studio and Resort environment).
• Key contributor on SAN and XIV Migration, VSF Upgrade and IIS Migration which involved planning, scheduling and implementation within teh SDLC processes and security guidelines.
• Managed and supported daily break/fix incidents on Wintel/Linux server environments on local and remote data centers through ILO/RILO and Avocent DSView (me.e. hardware and software).
• Managed outage scheduling for systems maintenance (me.e. patches and updates via WSUS).
• Key contributor for teh additional Citrix builds and supporting Citrix presentation and web servers to support teh off-shore IT group in India.
• Key contributor on relocating and decommissioning servers to and from other data centers.
• Managed and configured disk(s) allocation, added and named disk(s) group(s), cloned and resized (data stores and virtual machines) servers that were SAN/NAS attached via Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VSA/VSF), Virtual Center-NetApp Rapid Cloning Utility, SMVI.
• Oversaw Change Management processes that were related to project(s), issue(s), change(s) and outage(s) for on production environment.
• Documented newly found issues and solution and applied to teh documentation knowledge base.
• Mentored peers on new technologies and solutions.

Confidential

Sr. Technical Consultant - Lead

Responsibilities:

• Executed daily operations of managing, maintaining, monitoring, change management (me.e. break/fix, incident report, system health and maintenance) and supporting Enterprise Applications, eCommerce core websites and other proprietary web applications on a DotNet Framework, F5 and Alteon Administration, Linux Administration (Redhat – Apache/Tomcat/Websphere), tracked user issue requests through remedy, built, configured and administered Windows 2000-2003 and 2008 APP-DCs-DNS-FNP-SQL-WEB/IIS and WINS servers on HP rack and blade center hardware platform, backup monitoring and reporting, entry to mid level SQL database administration, administration and configuration MS cluster resources locally and or a network model, project status and deliverables, administrative reporting, 24x7 systems and network related support.
• Spearheaded VMWare deployment, Desktop and Server Automation, Data Center Buildout, Business Sites Buildout, Single Sign On to enhance security and access to applications and website/portals through Confidential TAM/Identity Manager and VerID, Release Management Enhancement, Personnel Relocation, Disaster Recovery (DR) Site, Data Center Closure and Audit, efforts.
• Designed and implemented VMWare farm that consisted of 34 ESX Servers v. 3.01 in multiple Data Centers (Texas and Arizona) to support teh bank core application, database and user accessibilities.
• VMWare integration with SAN technology (Clariion and Symmetrix) for disk allocation, storage capacity, and cross data replication.
• Managed and maintained teh virtual servers through Virtual Center.
• Key contributor on upgrading VMWare farm 3.01 to 3.5 in Texas data center.
• Key contributor on designing and implementing VMotion network configuration through dedicated VLAN.
• Key contributor in upgrading AD/DCs from win2k3 to win2k8
• Planned and implemented teh functional level of remote domain controllers to support teh business partners and their applications.
• Built and configured domain controllers on remote offices to enhance user authentication.
• Configured and administered Active Directory sites links, bridge head servers, global catalogs servers, domain and domain controller security, AD Objects, GPO schema and attributes, and implemented GPO’s and universal trusts between teh core and remote sites.
• Data Center Integration (DCI) - Key contributor to CFC and Merrill Lynch physical and virtual server migration to multiple data centers; Arizona and Texas. Cloned and converted 60% percent of teh physical servers to virtual servers using VMWare P2V, VM Converter and Platespin solutions.
• Configured and implemented teh master and client (Veritas/Netbackup) backup servers to Production and DR.
• Performed data backups, data logging and disaster recovery (DR) operations.
• Maintained and administered computer networks and any related computing environments, including computer hardware, systems software, applications software, and all configurations throughout teh bank’s technology operations and business partners.
• Planned, coordinated, and implemented system security measures (anti-virus/system required updates) in order to protect data, software, and hardware and applied teh recommended security patches and system updates via WSUS.
• Maintained teh system health and uptime.
• Operated master consoles in order to monitor teh performance of computer systems and networks, and coordinated computer network access and use.
• Monitored network performance in order to determine whether adjustments needed to be made, and to determine where changes will need to be made in teh future.
• Analyzed system performance records in order to determine teh need for repair and replacement.
• Trained and managed 5 retail server engineers and achieved significant improvements in their productivity.
• Researched new technologies and recommended its implementation (Repliweb, VMWare - ESX-Data Center, Citrix 4.0, MSMQ - Centralized Logging, IIS Monitoring Tool, Log Parser, Scripting, and other system enhancement tools and applications).
• Built, configured and managed Citrix farm that consisted of 2 Citrix Presentation Servers (CPS), 4 web servers, and 2 database servers to support teh Cash Management Financial Group and external community bank offices.
• Configured users and group permissions using active directory (GPO and LDAP).
• Configured and published applications through a WebUI and implemented Netscaler for additional network layer security and increased performance by managing network traffic.
• Diagnosed hardware and software problems, and replaced defective components.
• Maintained logs related to network functions, as well as maintenance and repair records.
• Maintained an inventory of servers and parts for emergency repairs.
• Designed, produced and documented teh engineering SharePoint server for doc sharing, change management notification, administrative function and a central knowledge base (wiki).
• Instrumental on transferring sensitive data through a secured channel via SFTP (IPSwitch).
• Implemented virtualization on teh eCommerce lower environment to increase and speed up QA testing for deploying new codes and products.
• Coordinated with vendors and with company personnel in order to facilitate hardware and software purchases.
• Structured and streamlined Release Management codes/contents (R1) deployment to Production, DR, QA, Staging and DEV environment.
• Recommended changes to improve systems and network configurations, and determined hardware and software requirements related to such changes.