Engineer

A highly skilled individual with vast experience in information technology with extensive levels of technical expertise. Displays noteworthy leadership skills and brings more than 20 years of industry knowledge to bear. Has a strong customer focus and is able to direct and supervise work of others and operate in a team environment. Experienced in project management and has run projects from start-up to close-out. Actively identifies and mitigates risk, and successfully implements projects within budget and in line with agreed timeframes.

Areas of Expertise

Professional Experience

Technical Executive

• Oversee and direct technical operations to ensure implementation of competitive technology solutions.
• Collaborate with executive team to develop a view of the future technology strategy for the organization.
• Manage administration of information technology services.
• Develop and manage budget for technical department.
• Drive information security and ensure protection of company and client data.
• Manage client accounts and apply high level of attention and intimacyVirtualization using VMware.
• Install and configure VMware vSphere products ESX ESXi CLI, shell, Perl, Powershell scripting experience.
• Serve as support specialist on application server-related and web applications issues.
• Resolve system issues and provide advice on technical problem resolution.
• Apply knowledge of intelligence and scripting to manage change from development to testing to production.
• Oversee architecture, delivery and installation. Monitor IPsoft tools and day to day activities for multiple customers running Vblock 720 10K, 20K, and 40K.

Confidential

Senior Storage Operations Specialist

• Designed, installed and configured Isilon X-Series, S-Series, and NL-Series nodes. Installed and configured Isilon OneFS up to version 7.0.1.6.
• Managed operations and daily storage tasks in a complex environment.
• Improved processes and applied best practices to deliver the most appropriate solutions.
• Applied knowledge of tools for the WPA, MiTrend WPA, AutoSupport, and PerfCollect.
• Considered an expert on Isilon technologies including Access Zones, Smart Pools, Smart Connect, Smart Quota, InsightIQ, SyncIQ.
• Experienced in Isilon protocols including NFS, HDFS, HTTP, and SMB.
• Built, configured and deployed VMAX 10K, 20K, and 40K.
• Experienced in working with EMC ATMOS Cloud Technology.
• Designed and implemented VMware SRM 5.1 for multiple sites, utilizing VR and other SRM technologies.

Confidential

Contractor for VCE EMC

• Managed architecture, delivery and installation, and day to day activities for multiple customers running Vblock 300 VNX, 720 10K, 20K, and 40K.
• Designed, installed and configured VMware ESX, ESXi, within vSphere 4 and 5 environments with VirtualCenter management, LabManager, Consolidated Backup, DRS, HA, DPM, vMotion and VMware Data Recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager SRM .
• Experienced in the use of VMware View desktop virtualization VDI .
• Served as subject matter expert for VCE for vShield.
• Analyzed and identified complex problems, and performance of SAN-backed VMware ESX infrastructure to determine allocation of resources to a multi-department user population.
• Customized layer 2 and 3 networking between VMware, networking components and storage for high availability and maximum performance.
• Professional Experience Continued
• Developed, tested, and maintained a disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data.
• Trained and educated customers. Coached peers on technical issues.
• Maintained systems and performed regular check on all components of Vblock.
• Served as interface between customer and VCE Seamless Support.
• Completed Physical-to-Virtual P2V , Virtual-to-Virtual V2V and Virtual-to-Physical V2P migration of Windows NT, 2000, 2003, 2008, 2012 as well as Linux servers from VMware, Hyper-V and legacy hardware.
• Architected, designed and implemented EMC Clariion CX, CX3, and CX4 and VNX SAN environments to ensure high availability.
• NetApp FAS/V-Series Architecture, Configuration and Installation
• Configured AMP and Mini AMP, as well as VNX and VMAX storage via Unisphere for storage pool, boot LUN's and other necessary configurable parameters.
• Verified components in UIM UCS, MDS, SAN, etc . Installed and configured Nexus 1000v.
• Consistently showed the value of VCE PS Residency Practice.

Confidential

On-Site Systems Engineer III

• Served as member of the Tiger Team a team of high level engineers providing White Glove Service and Server Out of Box.
• Specialized in technologies including Blade and Rack Servers, Equallogic, Compellent, OEM products, VMware 4.x, VDI, and Linux.
• Compiled SalesForce trip reports and generated leads.
• Built out AIM Advance Infrastructure Manager POD for Toronto Canada demo customer data center.
• Provided high level support to customers and out of scope support for prospective and current customers.
• Worked with documentation, PlayBooks, and Site Checklists for Customer support. Supported customers on Equallogic, VMWare, EQL ASM/VE, EQL ASM/ME, Compellent, and Dell Virtual Plug-in.

Confidential

• VMWare Engineer and Architect/Linux Administrator Contract Position
• Shared Health: Installed, configured, QA, Administration of RedHat EL 4 and 5 servers
• FEMA: Installed, configured, kernel tuning, and secured ESX 3.5 on IBM Blade servers.
• Installed ESX on local storage and VMFS Datastores on SAN storage.
• BlockBuster Online: Built this account with ESX 2 and 8 IBM Blades in 2003. Managed all aspects of environment Virtual Center, ESX, Patches, Backups. 35 ESX Servers / 170 VMs.
• Victoria's Secret: Managed environment consisting of 15 Sun servers, 13 T5220s and 2 M5000s.
• Managed all VMWare and ESX issues including disaster recovery, upgrades, and installations.
• Served as mentor to India personnel to instruct Linux and VMWare. This included technical sessions with personnel on how to use, install, troubleshoot, and tips and trick of Linux and VMware.

Confidential

VMWare Engineer/Architect

• Installed, configured, kernel tuning, and securing ESX 4 on Sun Blade x6440.
• Managed 128 Blades vSphere 700 VM's 128 Blades ESX 3.5 700 VM's .
• Supported the collaboration of agencies following the events of 9/11.
• Managed SRM to automate recovery to / from the AirForce Academy using NFS data store.
• Installed, configured, tested and supported SUN Unified Storage 7410 with NFS storage to VMWare,
• ESX server3.5 and Virtual Center running Solaris 10 x86, Linux Centos and RHEL and Windows 2003 x86 and X64 servers.
• Oversaw environment of 16 physical blades with ESX Server on Compact Flash drives.
• Supported applications / software including DC's, Exchange 2007, SharePoint 2007, Oracle DB's, FAST Microsoft , Palantier, MS-CAD, Terminal Services.
• Implemented LDAP integration with Windows Active Directory for AD authentication for use with ESX Server and Virtual Center.
• Additional Professional Experience

Confidential

Senior Open Systems Engineer

Transition Engineer

Senior Unix Engineer III

Senior Security Engineer

Websphere, AIX, Linux Engineer

Senior Unix Engineer

Systems Administrator / Security Analyst

Senior Network Engineer

Senior Systems Engineer

Senior Systems Engineer/Project Manager

Systems Administrator

Telecom and Systems Administrator

Technology Skills Experience

• iSCSI, NFS, and Fiber Channel protocols, Fiber Channel cabling, switching, and zoning.
• CIAC, VBlock, and VNX Storage deployment and Administration for Disney / ABC group.
• Support of the VCE VBlock 300 and 700 Series, running either VMAX or VNX Unified storage.
• EMC Isilon NAS Scale-Out technology.
• VMware use of P2V, HA, Vmotion, Storage Vmotion, Update Manager, Lab Manager, and VMWare Consolidated Backup.