SUMMARY

• An accomplished IT professional, 10+ years of experience with a strong mixture of extensive experience and background in IT project management, design, architect and implement public and private cloud, enterprise virtual and storage infrastructure, systems management/integration, and automation.
• A team player focusing on team building and technology innovation to achieve business/customer objectives.
• An effective facilitator with achievements covering the full life cycle of services/systems from concept, strategy, design, operation and continual improvement.
• Design, architect, and implement Enterprise Solutions meeting
• Provide Tier 3 support for large - scale Enterprise infrastructure
• Experience leading a team of system engineers
• Provide guidance, leadership and mentor junior level engineers
• Manage and fulfill of projects requirements, meeting project deadlines exceeding the clients’ expectation
• Extensive experience in managing both Public and Private Cloud, Enterprise virtualization/storage/network infrastructure, Microsoft Windows servers, Database, and Enterprise Backup
• Experience with project management using PMP artifacts
• Experience with design, architect and implementing Public and Private cloud solutions, Enterprise virtualization and storage infrastructure, and Office 365 migration
• Extensive experience in automation using PowerShell and VMware PowerCLI

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Platforms: Windows Servers 2008 R2/2012 R2/2016

Enterprise Storage: Nimble, NetApp, Hitachi, EMC, Confidential

Virtualization: VMware Enterprise solution, Hyper-V

Enterprise Database: Microsoft SQL

Disaster Recover: Nimble replication, Veeam, NetApp Snapmirror, NetBackup, Veritas Backup Exec

Network: Cisco switches, Cisco ASA Firewall

Microsoft Technology: Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, IIS, RDS, WSUS

Scripting: PowerShell, VBScript, HTML, Batch

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chantilly, VA

Senior Project Implementation Engineer/Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Perform project management for projects using PMP artifacts and project management methodologies.
• Managing and executing several projects simultaneously.
• Project Technical Lead engineer for various projects:
• Office 365 migration
• Upgrade VMware infrastructure to the latest vSphere/vCenter version
• Design and implementation of Enterprise storage infrastructure and replication
• Design and implementation Microsoft Remote Desktop Services
• Enterprise Backup solution
• Upgrade NetApp Data ONTAP version
• Migration of On-Premises systems to public cloud (Azure)
• Upgrade Active Directory
• Deploying Enterprise security solutions
• Involve with Sales meetings as a technical Subject Matter Expert (SME).
• Develop Project Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and schedule, Statement of Work (SOW), Standard Operation Procedure (SOP).
• Develop detailed Disaster Recovery SOP.
• Design, architect and implement state of the art internal lab infrastructure.
• Manage a team of junior engineers.
• Train junior engineers on project processes from initiation to completion status with minimum business impacts.
• Involve and participate in Company interview process.
• Mentor and provide guidance to junior engineers.

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Systems/Storage Architect

Responsibilities:

• Worked on a government contract supporting the US Air Force.
• Designed and architected the new data center storage infrastructure satisfying the requirements.
• Individual contributor as a part of team collaboration in developing best practices, Security Hardening, Engineering Design Plan (EDP), Concept of Operations (CONOPS) and Upgrade Procedures.
• Involved with implementing and building out the new data center satisfying the client’s requirement.
• Worked on a government contract supporting GSA IT infrastructure.
• Led and oversaw a new storage and backup infrastructure deployment as well as developing detail documentation throughout the project meeting the requirements.
• Led and executed Data Center Health Check (DCHC) for the client data centers. Analyzed and measured the data center requirements to comply with the Uptime Institute Tier 3 Data Center benchmark.
• Worked closely with the Project Manager throughout the acquisition life-cycle, to include review of Requests for Change (RFCs), Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs), Engineering Implementation Plan (EIP), related security Certification and Accreditation (C&A) activities, development, testing, transition, and operations.
• Provided broad systems engineering SME support to the Government and program office representatives at meetings.
• Provided detailed technical input at design/development/test/operational readiness reviews.
• Identified potential issues, ensure sufficient understanding of requirements and apply appropriate design techniques and procedures.
• Performed technical planning, system integration, verification and validation of requirements and technical designs, cost and risk analysis, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems.

Confidential, Bethesda, MD

Senior Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed and implemented custom application integrated with SQL database to record the storage arrays performance metrics.
• Performed improvements to the corporate storage infrastructure by re-architecting and adjusting the configurations
• Developed automation scripts utilizing NetApp PowerShell API.
• Responsibly for the performance and reliability of the cloud platform storage infrastructure and information life cycle management solutions.
• Assisted in all storage and backup solutions, helped refine and developed go to market solutions for ILM services, as well as developed operational procedures and best practices around storage management and backups.
• Worked hand in hand with the day to day operations team to optimize the utilization of storage solutions, troubleshot and resolved storage issues, optimized and automated storage related functions.
• Coordinated with customers to perform storage maintenance during the maintenance window.
• Provided guidance and leadership to develop and refine best practices around existing storage solutions and ILM offerings.
• Ensured delivery of tier 3 support as needed when storage or ILM issues are suspected, leveraging vendor support as appropriate.
• Provided leadership in the automation of operations tasks related to storage and backups.
• Responsible for reporting metrics on storage performance, stability and utilization.
• Responsible for capacity planning for storage infrastructure.
• Provided thought leadership on high availability and business continuity options for storage and backups.

Confidential, Reston, VA

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the Xen to VMware migration with over 5000+ servers to migrate.
• Designed, developed and implemented several scripts written in VBScript to automate various migration stages. The automation scripts sped up the migration process and increased the number of servers for migration.
• Managed and supported VMware infrastructure as a member of the operation team: Installed, and configured the VMware hosts as well as provisioning new datastores, and created/updated the VMware distributed switches.
• Developed and implemented VMware PowerShell scripts to automate applying new settings across the VMware and datastore clusters and collecting VMware infrastructure information.
• Administered the Windows servers including performance monitoring/tuning, troubleshot issues, and applying new configurations to mitigate security vulnerabilities.
• Deployed new Windows server 2008 R2/2012 R2/ and decommission of server 2003.
• Managed, maintained and supported the corporate enterprise storage architecture comprises of Confidential, Confidential ( Confidential ) and Confidential storage arrays.
• These arrays were the backbone of the company IT infrastructure providing several petabytes of storage capacities.
• Managed Cisco SAN switches (Nexus, MDS) and responsible for creating, updating and removing of the FC zones, and performed firmware upgrade utilizing DCNM.
• Co-ordinated with vendor for the arrays firmware upgrades eliminating any storage outage with minimal business disruption.
• Improved the backup process of the HCS databases and refreshing of the arrays by converting the existing scripts to the PowerShell scripts. Not to include in implementing several other PowerShell scripts that checked the status of the backup and refresh status.
• Led engineer for Hitachi Data Ingestor (HDI) and Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) projects in planning, testing and applying proper configuration.
• Served as a lead engineer for HDI/HCP and responsible for mentoring and providing training to the team members.
• Installed, configured, upgraded, and troubleshot NetApp Data ONTAP Clusters including Vserver, LIFs, CIFS, and Snapmirror configurations.
• Experience with NetApp OnCommand Products such as System Manager, Unified Manager, Performance Manager, Workflow Automation (WFA) and Config Advisor.
• Developed NetApp PowerShell scripts to efficiently automate tasks creating CIFS shares, CIFS shares validation between the source and target volumes.