VIRTUALIZATION ARCHITECT/ENTEPRISE SYSTEMS ARCHITECT

Strong acumen for solving complex IT problems across various industries

Highly motivated Lead Infrastructure Architect specialized in delivering highly available solutions on Linux, UNIX and Windows platforms on Virtualized Infrastructures VMWare VSphere, OpenStack with KVM, XEN in large corporate and datacenter environments. Energized by challenges, steep learning curves, and high pressure deadlines. Outstanding analysis, design, installation of highly available technology solutions, encompassing a wide array of enterprise products, cloud delivery, orchestration and datacenter consolidation. A Reliable team player with effective troubleshooting and problem solving abilities. Strong work ethic coupled with flexibility to adapt to all technical environments.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

KEY PROJECTS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Senior Architect, Intelligent Data, Virtualization Services
• Earnst and Young Atlanta, GA June 2014 to Present
• Automated IT workflows for auditors reducing deployment time
• Automated workflows with VMWare Orchestrator
• Designed and implemented self service portal for auditors
• Optimized deployment provisioning from weeks to hours, including approval process
• Designed and implemented chargeback, utilization, and performance portal
• Designed and implemented unit testing and code automation within vSphere incorporating source code into agile project practices
• Designed and developed custom workflows for cloud management utilizing vSphere products, DRS, vMotion, vCO and custom scripting
• Converted physical hardware to virtualized environments vSphere

Confidential

Senior Virtualization Architect, Data Center Consolidation, Continuous Integration, build automations and testing.

• Datacenter consolidation encompassing a wide array of hardware.
• Built and configured a series of Sun 6000 Chassis with T6270/T6250 x86 64 Blades .
• Installed, and configured vSphere 5.0/5.5, Opentack Folsom/Grizzly/Havana, ESXi. KVM, XEN Hypervisors.
• Orchestrated/Automated VM deployments with Python and Vendor APIs.
• Migrated VMWare infrastructure to Openstack for software gateway.
• Wrote custom test cases in Python for unit testing with RobotFramework.
• Automated build infrastructure with Cobbler, Spacewalk Buildbot, kickstart and Jenkins.
• Built automation and testing framework with Jenkins, Robotframework and Python.
• Built custom Linux appliances as per individual customer project requirements.
• Designed and integrated a Linux build configuration and deployment system.
• Designed and integrated Open Source cloud solutions with OpenStack, Nova, Glance, Cinder, Quantum
• Essex, Folsom, Grizzly for ESXi, KVM and Xen Hypervisors.
• Built custom Linux RHEL images for Virtualization based on external customer needs. Encompassing custom OVA deployments and virtual machine automation.

Confidential

Senior Solaris/Linux Engineer VMWare, Datacenter Consolidation Nextgen Datacenter

• Designed and deployed custom VMWare provisioning and Solaris Jumpstart environments.
• Built Logical Domains LDoMs on T6000 Chassis, T4/T3/T6320 Blades. Solaris 10, Solaris 11
• Developed Perl/Python scripts for build automation and continuous integration.
• Developed Perl/Python scripts for PCI/VISA compliance
• Provide third level support for operations teams for Solaris, RHEL and VMWare.
• Developed deployment strategies for VMWare ESX/ESXi environments. Build and Automation
• Provided hardware support for IBM/Sun/HP Blade technologies for RHEL database environments. .
• Developed and deployed monitoring scripts for Solaris and RHEL.
• Successfully migrated environments from London Datacenter from Solaris to ESXi to Atlanta.
• Developed strategy and scripts for data migration.

Confidential

Lead Systems Engineer

• Deployed and administered enterprise class servers with both Linux and Solaris operating systems.
• Deployed and administered Sun Cluster and Veritas Cluster Server VCS .
• Deployed and administered custom data services and resources for clustered applications.
• Deployed and administered high availability filesystems, multipathing and other highly availability technologies.
• Designed, tested and provided third level support for off shore resources.
• Automated server installations with custom Jumpstart, JET and Kickstart.
• Automated processes with Perl and Korn shell scripts.
• Migrated data and decommissioned legacy environments to virtual environments.
• Provided security and performance audits.
• Managed broadband network management systems.
• Configured and managed Solaris global and local zones.
• Clustered Solaris zones for high availability.
• Architected and implemented disaster recovery plans.
• Tested, documented and deployed new technologies.
• Implemented virtualization technologies, VMWare, Solaris Zones, LDOMS.
• Veritas Storage Foundation for LINUX, including Veritas Cluster Server.
• Developed custom data services for VCS on RHEL.
• Built infrastructure for Oracle 10g RAC, ASM, OCR.

Confidential

Project Lead Engineer

• Configured and deployed Sun M5000, M8000 Enterprise Class Servers.
• Installed and Configured Sun Cluster.
• Configured Solaris Zones for Failover with EMC disks.
• Configured environments to boot from SAN, with Qlogic and EMC PowerPath.
• Developed custom data services for Sun Cluster for Solaris zones.
• Wrote Perl scripts to automate the building of QFS filesystems from EMC storage shared among several environments.
• Scripted a disaster recovery solution in Perl for EMC timefinder and EMC BCV.
• Configured link aggregation and IPMP for Sun Cluster.

Confidential

Lead Systems Engineer

• Deployed and administered enterprise class servers with both Linux and Solaris operating systems.
• Deployed and administered Sun Cluster and Veritas Cluster Server VCS .
• Deployed and administered custom data services and resources for clustered applications.
• Deployed and administered high availability filesystems, multipathing and other highly availability technologies.
• Automated server installations with custom Jumpstart, JET templates.
• Automated processes with Perl and Korn shell scripts.
• Administered Cisco CSS 1100 series load balancers
• Managed broadband network management systems.
• Tested, documented and deployed new technologies.
• Implemented virtualization technologies, LDOMS.
• Veritas Storage Foundation for Solaris, including Veritas Cluster Server.
• Developed custom data services for VCS.
• Administered Sun Enterprise class servers 6800, 10k, 25k.

Confidential

Project Engineer

• Deployed and administered enterprise class servers with the Solaris 8, 9 and 10 operating systems.
• Deployed and administered Sun Cluster and Veritas Cluster Server VCS .
• Deployed custom data services and resources for clustered applications.
• Deployed and administered high availability filesystems, multipathing and other highly availability technologies.
• Automated server installations with custom Jumpstart and JET templates.
• Automated processes with Perl and Korn shell scripts.
• Provided security and performance audits.
• Managed broadband network management systems.
• Configured and managed Solaris global and local zones.
• Clustered Solaris zones for high availability.
• Implemented virtualization technologies, VMWare, Solaris Zones, LDOMS.
• Veritas Storage Foundation for LINUX, including Veritas Cluster Server.
• Developed custom data services for VCS.
• Administered Sun Enterprise class servers V1280 E 25K.

Confidential

Project Engineer

• Participated in many datacenter moves and consolidations projects throughout the mid-Atlantic region.
• Deployed and administered enterprise class 6800 servers.
• Deployed Sun Cluster version 3.0.
• Deployed custom data services and resources for clustered applications.
• Deployed high availability filesystems, multipathing utilizing HP SecurePATH.
• Automated server installations with custom Jumpstart, JET templates.
• Architected and implemented disaster recovery plans.
• Veritas Storage Foundation for LINUX, including Veritas Cluster Server.
• Developed custom data services for VCS.

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Confidential

Project Engineer

• Deployed and administered enterprise class 6800 servers.
• Deployed Sun Cluster version 3.0.
• Deployed custom data services and resources for clustered applications.
• Deployed high availability filesystems, multipathing utilizing EMC PowerPATH.
• Automated server installations with custom Jumpstart, JET templates.
• Architected and implemented disaster recovery plans.
• Veritas Storage Foundation for LINUX, including Veritas Cluster Server.
• Developed custom data services for VCS.

PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT

Confidential

• Designed and implemented system, storage and network management technologies in the UNIX environment utilizing best-of-breed technologies and best practices for over 20 projects. Technologies implemented include:
• Netcool suite of products
• HP Openview suite of products
• IBM Tivoli suite of products
• Open NerveCenter
• Big Brother
• Remedy
• MRTG
• NetSaint
• BMC Patrol
• Tek-Tools
• SMARTS InCharge

CHIEF ARCHITECT

Confidential

• Designed, managed and implemented all aspects of professional services business practice encompassing UNIX services in an Application Services Provider ASP environment.
• Designed and implemented services within the ASP environment with UNIX services
• Planned, Designed and implemented UNIX mail, web and database services within the ASP hosted environment
• Managed profit and loss for business unit
• Managed over ten systems engineers and developers

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES MANAGER

Confidential

• Assembled and managed a professional services team of over forty engineers for Y2K implementations. Responsible for the development of technical policies and implementation procedures, which resulted in successful and timely deployments for assigned customers.
• Developed technical policies and procedures
• Allocated and managed resources to assigned projects
• Managed profit and loss for business unit
• Provided third level support for assigned field engineers

UNITED STATES ARMY

Confidential

• Performed the duties of an information technology specialist encompassing administration, performance tuning, capacity planning, disaster recovery and systems administration.
• Managed Banyan Vines network consisting over 200 physical nodes
• Deployed and supported Windows and DOS clients
• Managed assigned environments and network administrators
• Developed policies and procedures for assigned environment

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