SUMMARY

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Solution Architects Manager

Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, and operate applications and infrastructure on various Cloud Management Platforms (CMP) as POCs/POTs per customer use cases.
• Develop use cases and product requirements to communicate these needs to engineering teams.
• Served as a subject matter expert for IaaS, PaaS, and XaaS automation and orchestration solutions
• Provide Architecture solution to develop Self Service Portal and Infrastructure automation.
• Design and Deployment of VMware ESXi, Vcenter, VRA/VRO, SRM,NSX, and Codestream supporting PaaS, IasS, Xaas, and SasS
• Design and Deployment of disaster recovery solutions and integrations using VMware SRM
• Manage the implementation and day - to-day functions related to creating Business Continuity Plans and
• Procedures, while also managing Disaster Recovery operations within the firm.
• Responsible for interfacing with senior management and regulatory auditors.
• Identify potential Business Interruptions, develop safeguards against these interruptions, and implement recovery procedures in the event of a business interruption. Provide documentation and training on Contingency Planning concepts and procedures.
• Safeguard data processing operations by identifying potential problem areas and single points of failure that may result in interruptions to critical data processing operations.
• Develop and implement Disaster Recovery, Data Sensitivity, Library Management, Back-up and Recovery, and Disaster Recovery Plans and Procedures.
• Develop safeguards and Business Recovery Plans and Procedures governing the remote Business Offices and Operations associated with the organization.
• Ensure that Corporate Asset Protection procedures cover critical Business Resources located at Business Offices.
• Identify and Categorize outage exposures that could cause a business interruption, then obtain Insurance and Vendor agreements to safeguard against a disaster event.
• Responsible for insuring that Business and Regulatory Requirements are adhered to and that implemented recovery procedures and contracts are cost justifiable.
• Managed and maintained COE SDDC lab for development and POC development and demonstrations
• Developed clear written policies and procedures for tier support and SDDC technical documentation
• Implemented OS Automation including deployment, and configuration management for Service Now and Puppet Integrations
• Ability to design, engineer and support the environment including kernel settings, develop automated processes and integration solutions
• Define and implement efficient end-to-end provisioning Automation solutions.
• Serve as senior ESXi/UCS/Nutanix, Simplivity resource.
• Accomplish human resource objectives by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counseling, and mentoring architects; communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions; planning and reviewing compensation actions; enforcing policies and procedures.
• Achieve operational objectives by contributing information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; completing audits; identifying trends; determining system improvements; implementing change.
• Meeting financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
• Updating job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
• Enhancing department and organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

Confidential

Hyper Convergence Cloud Migration Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Served As Senior Technical Project Manager and Senior Engineer for Enterprise Stand Up and Separate Project involving application migration to AWS platform and virtualization of infrastructure project.
• Design, implementation, and migration of infrastructure and applications from existing Simplivity Cube environment to Nutanix VMware hyper convergence solutions from Canada to USA.
• Redesign of LAN/WAN for migration of existing environment.
• Separation and creation of new Active Directory from Canada, India, and USA
• Migration of current AD to new AD. Redesign of storage solution.
• Deployment of new VMware ESX 6.0 environment to accommodate incoming applications and virtual servers. Implementation of VMware Site Recovery Manager for Disaster Recovery solution with VMware VCloud
• Management of offshore teams via email over chat, chat over live meetings with bullet points, pictures, color code comments.
• Managed expectations through team consultations, setting fallback strategies, agendas, and giving constructive feedback.

Confidential

Cloud and Data Center Integrated Practice Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for working with the different business units to develop the engineering design to support the business and operational requirements for either new systems or enhancements to existing systems.
• Responsible for defining standard engineering designs, templates, processes, and procedures for implementing projects that follow existing company architectures.
• Analyzes system performance, modifying parameters to improve throughput and effectively utilize system resources.
• Responsible for VMware, VDI, and Citrix Infrastructure Operations.
• Responsible for Cisco UCS/HP UX Blade support as it relates to VMware and new OS deployments.
• Provide networking and security gateway services, such as firewall, NAT, load balancer, VPN and DHCP. Configure Edge High Availability appliance to protect against network, host and software failures.
• Utilized NSX manager virtual appliance to configure logical switches, connect virtual to logical switches, and use the management UI and entry point for API to automate deployment and management of the logical networks through a Cloud management platform.
• Coordinates activities with vendors as required.
• Implementation of HP Flex fabric Solutions w/ HP UX Gen B/C Blades
• Implementation of VMware VSOM, VCAC, and Vsphere Solutions
• Assists and/or leads the development of architecture blueprints, design specifications, migration plans and operational best practices guidelines based on detailed requirements gathered onsite
• Leads the installation, configuration, testing and deployment of VMware Network Virtualization products based on documented designs
• Provide technical leadership to VMware professional services consulting project teams, which will include project work at customer sites
• Design and develop solutions to customer requirements related to VMware Network Virtualization products and solutions, with assistance from our internal engineering group as required
• Maintain current knowledge of the entire VMware product line
• Assist in the development of standard reusable VMware “productized” consulting service offerings, including definition of tasks, deliverables and standard estimate
• Network Security Tool and Networking Concepts such as firewalls, IDS/IPS, Load Balancers, Security/Trust Zones, L2 Switching and L3 routing. VLANs, Unicast vs Multicast, Management Networks, routing fundamentals, IP sub netting, routing, VPN and network design.
• Served as solutions architect for Vantiv IVR Project Mar-April 2014
• Utilized Unisys Unified Endpoint Management Services to provision, track, image, secure, deploy and manage all endpoints and applications in environment for PC, virtual and mobile devices.

Confidential

Virtualization Solutions Services Delivery Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design architecture of VMware infrastructure initial deployment (VBlock)
• Conduct capacity planning for ESX hyper visor hosts and resident virtual machines (VMware Capacity Planner)
• ·Utilized VMware vCloud Director for provisioning of virtual datacenters
• Utilized Dell Rack mounted and Dell Blade Servers for server deployments
• Utilized vSphere Thin Provisioning, Resource Pools, Host Profiles, and EMC plug-ins in deployment of VDI instances to thin clients.
• Performed daily virtual server and host administration for HP and Cisco Blade environments
• Prepare Project strategy and business case for client to define the overall project business requirement and propose the approach.
• Work with key stakeholders and project team members.
• Develop and build the components to test to confirm that they work as they should.
• Complete documentation and knowledge transfer
• Carry out a Post-Implementation Review
• Provided centralized on-ramp/off-ramp routing
• between the logical networks deployed in the domain and the external physical network infrastructure.
• Supported various routing protocols (OSPF, iBGP and eBGP)
• Configured stateful firewalling capabilities to complement the Distributed Firewall
• Configured the DFW to enforce security policies for
• communication between workloads connected to logical networks
• Configured load-balancing services for server farms
• Configured VPN capabilities, both at L2 and L3 positioned to extend L2 domains between separate DC sites.
• Implemented L3 VPNs deployed for allowing IPSec site-to-site connectivity between VPN terminators, and to permit remote users to access the private networks behind an SSL VPN connection.
• DHCP, DNS and IP address management (DDI)
• Deployed Unisys Stealth for Mobile to secure the data path for critical servers and virtual machines with Data Center Segmentation

Confidential

Windows 7 Migration/Mobile Device Deployment

Responsibilities

• Conducting Win XP to Win 7 migration planning/deployment/maintenance (1,600 seats)
• Utilized Big Fix 8.0 Endpoint Manager for desktop patch management, application catalogs
• Implementing Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Solutions (Verdasys)
• Gold Image design & deployment utilizing (MS SCCM 2012) with PXE boot
• Develop/Deploy/Manage Physical and logical security solution (AD-RMS)
• Migration of live Siemens Team center\NX architecture (licensing, application, databases)
• Incorporation of MS Office 2010 upgrade
• Conducted MS Lynx server deployment w/ Active Sync for existing AD OUs
• Utilized Airwatch to Integrate mobile delivery solutions within infrastructure for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Apple IOS, Android, Blackberry BES, and Microsoft Windows CE operating platforms.
• Integration of BYOD devices (Samsung and Apple tablets) security designs
• Maintained mobile device services, hardware certification, imaging, asset management, testing and certification, inventory, software distribution, and policy compliance
• Wrote customized start up scripts
• Managed desktop upgrades or replacements inventory
• Utilized Puppet 3.0 software in conjunction with VMware Vcenter/Vsphere to deploy and manage virtual servers
• Deployed virtualized desktop application packages within VMware View and ThinApp software
• Created Red Hat 7.0 VMs with Vmware workstation and Red Hat installation CDs
• Enable/disable CDP on corresponding interfaces and document results/topology
• Enable port security on switch - go through the different violation modes and test
• Setup RIPv2
• Setup NAT using SDM for hosts
• Encypt all passwords on a Cisco device
• Enable and setup SSH2 for remote access
• Secure access to both console and remote management
• Setup static routes and dynamic routing
• Setup "default gateways" for both routers and switches

Confidential

Data Center Migration Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

•  Responsible for the consolidation, virtualization, and optimization of 9 data centers and three corporations in the US and the UK into two data centers in the US.
•  Provided overall direction for establishing project requirements, priorities and deadlines.
•  Established roles and responsibilities within the core project team.
•  Allocated and coordinated resources across projects.
•  Managed budget for assigned projects, developed and monitored project/program plans, and adjusted resources and priorities accordingly
•  Established communication plan across the business, regions, support and technology groups.
•  Prepared and presented weekly progress reports for senior management through meetings and dashboards
•  Managed upgrade of PBX to Cisco ITP for 15,000 users
•  Acted as coordinating liaison between external and internal stakeholders
•  Facilitated handoff of all IT support operations to outsourced support.

Confidential

VDI Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the management and implementation of VMware based virtual desk top infrastructure across multiple GE domains.
• Provided overall direction for establishing project requirements, priorities and deadlines. Coordinated multiple concurrent projects:
•  Windows 7 Deployments, Migrations Utilizing Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) for operating system and application deployment.
•  VMware Vsphere Installation/Upgrade
•  VMware Infrastructure design and implementation for application packaging w ThinApp and VMware View
•  Win 7, XP, Server 2003, 2008 OS licensing management
•  VCenter Installation, View, Thinapp, Composer configuration
•  VBlock ( Cisco, HP, EMC) server, storage, and distributed switch design and installation.
• Administration of Siemens Team center\NX architecture (licensing, application, databases)
•  Performing existing infrastructure (physical and virtual) assessment
•  Understanding the current mechanisms and challenges around physical desktop management, including refresh durations and complexity, Windows 7 deployment, OS and application patching and maintenance procedures, offshore and non-employee access, and regulatory compliance
•  Creating and testing the new desktop user environment••
•  Identifying all costs associated with physical desktop management
•  Conducting an application virtualization assessment to analyze and capture important metrics such as executable size, device drivers installed per application, total number of application users and average load time.
•  Developing roadmap for implementation priorities
•  Examining the major architectural options available (vendor based solutions)
•  Evaluating protocol options such as Fibre Channel, iSCSI or NAS
•  Managing the POC to pilot implementation
•  Creating a framework for pilot implementation on a subset of users
•  Determining project management resources, scheduled a rollout date, develop project timelines and select the ideal resources to meet the business and IT needs

Confidential

Data Center Migrations Project Manager/ Sr Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed Migration/Consolidation of three data centers into one new location.
• Virtualized Existing Infrastructure Into VMWare VsPhere Virtual Data Center
• Upgraded Communications Infrastructure Exchange 2007, Cisco Unity, Server 2008
• Deployed SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure
• Migrated Exchange 2007 to 2010
• Developed Process Documentation
• Standardized DR Processes
• Implemented Microsoft Volume Licensing Program
• installation, configuration, and operation for connecting to a WAN from a remote location
• Establishing wireless network access, and protecting from basic security threats
• Work with network related protocols such as IP, Ethernet, VLAN, access control lists (ACLs), routing Information Protocol V2 (RIPv2), IP, and Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP)

Confidential

Data Center Manager/Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managed Consolidation of 6 data centers for global bio-pharma testing corporation. Virtualized 75% of infrastructure
• Planned, developed, installed, configured, maintained, supported, and optimized all network infrastructure hardware, and OS software in a corporate 24/7 NOC data center housing 900 physical and 1000 virtual servers in a Windows 2003 R2 Active Directory environment.
• Monitored network performance and automation of corrective actions across physical, virtual, distributed and mainframe environments. Managed multiple Windows Server 2000, 2003, SQL 2005, and Lotus Notes servers in a LAN/WAN/VLAN environment. Configured and managed Network Load Balancing for NLB Clusters (Server 2003). Installed Clustering Service application scripting configurations.
• Managed Active Directory, Web Servers, Terminal Servers and DMZ interface configurations.
• Installed Citrix ICA clients on workstations and administered clustered Citrix Servers
• Configured Citrix ICA connection
• Designed, deployed, administered 6 clustered servers with MSAs for Domino Lotus Notes network.
• Designed, deployed, administered load balanced 12 servers for Cisco Call Manager network infrastructure between two data centers.