Summary: Virtualization Storage Engineer with 19 years of IT experience. Experience as a Windows Administrator, VMWare administrator, and EMC storage administrator. Proven ability in virtualization, storage, and compute design and implementation. Design and implementation of DR strategies.

Experience

Confidential

• Datacenter Virtualization Consultant
• Application migration to new servers in a Rackspace cloud environment
• Data migration to new servers in Rackspace cloud environment
• Managing private and public Rackspace cloud environments
• VMWare administrator
• Event log and system monitoring
• Data separation
• Application Discovery
• SQL cluster administrator
• Server standardization
• ESXi 5.1 and 5.5 installation and configuration
• SQL support
• Vendor management
• P2V and V2V virtual machine and data migrations
• Storage administrator Dell Powervault, Synology, EMC VNX 5700 and 5500, Isilon
• Remote storage and systems administrator support for clients

Confidential

Server Manager

• Technical Lead for a team of three Server Managers. One manager was dedicated to the Cisco Call Manager system and the Odyssey Justice System. One manager was dedicated to Exchange 2010. I was his back up in times of coverage needs.
• SAN Administrator Administration of two EMC VNX5700s Code 7.1.72.1/R32 P207 . Creation and daily management of Storage pools, storage groups, LUNs, disks, host initiators. Responsible for all SAN connectivity and zoning on Brocade 300, 5000, 5100, and Cisco 5k switches. Remote management of arrays through Unisphere.
• DR and Data Protection Design Engineer - Implementation and configuration of 2 EMC Recoverpoint Appliances at each site, version 4.0 SP1. Configured and maintained consistency groups. Monitored and maintained traffic.Installed VMware Site Recovery Manager. Configured and maintained connection to accept pairing with protected site. On protected site, configure array managers, inventory mappings, and protection groups. On secondary site, configure and test recovery plans. Implemented an EMC Isilon grid version 6.5.5.4 for surveillance video. Configured SMB shares, with quotas to attach to hosts and use for video surveillance storage. Implemented 2 EMC Avamar grids, version 6.11.87, for backups and restores. Created State of DR and Data Protection Documentation, including failover procedures, DR implementation team and roles, and third party roles.
• VMWare Administrator Vsphere 4.1 and 5.0 currently on 5.0 U2 . Configure clusters, resource pools, Hosts, Distributed Virtual Switches, DRS, HA, VSI storage plugin to manage storage, and datastores. Vmotion and Storage vmotion. Data Migration. Thin and Thick provisioning. VKernel Foglight for monitoring the virtual environment. Environment is 95 virtualized.
• VMWare View Administrator provision and deploy virtual desktops to 25 users. Created and maintained desktop pools for IT group. Configured working templates and datastores to be used by View.
• Responsible for budgeting, trending, and capacity planning for servers, SAN HW, backup HW, and expansions.
• Work directly with assistant director of IT on product licensing, renewals, and new purchases.
• Attend VMWorld, annually, and many local IT events to continue to evaluate current and new products for the organization.
• Direct relationships with account reps and engineers at EMC, VMWare, and Presidio.
• Systems Administrator Active Directory New accounts, account access, group creation, and more , DNS Creation on DNS groups, scavenging of stale entries, new entries, editing entries , DHCP Creation on scopes and resources. Monitoring the percentage of leases in use , antivirus, Solarwinds Orion system monitoring, and patching.
• UCS Administrator 6 UCS chassis' version 2.1.2.c. Service profiles, configuring pools WWN, IP, Storage, vlan , configuring blades, code upgrades.

Confidential

Windows Systems Engineer

• Application Migration engineer. Planning and executing application and data migration. Testing after application has been migrated
• Provision servers and IP addresses for new requests. Handle user and group creation, access, and security. Monitor servers and remotely manage them.
• Build Physical HP servers and virtual VMWare servers for the enterprise. Install and configure OS Server 2000 and 2003 enterprise, standard, and advanced and applications. Test deploying Server 2008 and testing applications against it.
• Rack and configure Avocent switches. Administer Avocent DSView software to remotely administer servers.
• Work trouble tickets in Remedy
• One of the Data Center Consolidation engineers responsible for the planning and scheduling the reduction of 2000 servers to 500 physical and virtual servers

Confidential

Windows Systems Administrator

• Rack, cable, and maintain 100 IBM servers.
• Procedure documentation
• Sitescope Administration
• Application support
• Windows administration including Active Directory
• IIS support
• Server and application monitoring
• Web application support including production promotions
• Build and configure Windows servers from CD
• Remote management with Remote Desktop and Avocent switches and DSView software
• Work group tickets in HEAT
• Train new employees
• DR design and implementation
• Helped get site PCI compliant
• Installed and implemented an EventlogAnalyzer software, and Tenable Nessus network monitoring software
• Supported Time Clock Management Software working directly with HR
• Supported several remote locations on site and remotely
• Minor Exchange Administration

Confidential

Windows Systems Engineer

• Rack, cable, and support 200 HP 2000/2003 Windows Servers
• Procedure documentation
• Printer management
• Application support
• Windows administration including Active Directory
• IIS support
• Server and application monitoring
• Windows patch management with Shavlik
• Build Windows servers using Altiris
• Remote management with Remote Desktop and RI-LOE II cards
• Work group tickets in remedy
• Build VMWare servers
• Train new employees
• Perform Restores

Confidential Server Installation and Administration Team Lead

• Rack, cable, and support 200 Dell, Sun, HP, IBM, and Apple 2000/2003 servers
• Procedure documentation
• Network troubleshooting
• Tape vaulting
• Hardware Shipping and Receiving
• Work group que in remedy
• Windows administration
• Build and maintain Application Server and DNS server
• Monitor servers and applications using HP Openview
• Monitored SAP activity on 100 enterprise servers
• Train new employees
• Install OS and applications on servers