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Denver, Co, Us

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

· Solutions design for Private and Hybrid Cloud deployments for customers using VMware or Hyper-V, Kubernetes, and Docker on IBM Cloud or AWS· Deployed Automation and monitoring with tools consisting of Nagios, System Patching with WSUS and Ansible, PowerShell scripting for VM creation and deployment· Deployed Bare Metal compartments using either VMware or Hyper-V virtualization and SAN Storage depending on customer requirements· VMware to Hyper-V Migrations for numerous clients from on-premises to cloud· Active Directory administration for hundreds of clients including Group Policies, AD replication and Certificates· Ensured security compliance with PCI, SOX, and HIPPA based on SLA agreements

Houston, Texas, Us

Managed Private Cloud Group (MPC) within the HP Cloud Organization• Offering Engineer with the Managed Private Cloud offering.• Developed the Deployment, Operations, and Technical Reference Guides for use with the Offering.• Built out the Windows infrastructure servers in the management compartment for the Offering. This included Active Directory, DNS, SQL Servers, HP CSA and Operations Orchestration servers, Hyper-V hosts, System Center, VMware hosts and vCenter Servers, and the backup and monitoring servers.• Developed and integrated Microsoft Hyper-V as an optional sales uplift for the offering.• Performed numerous test activities to ensure proper integration and functionality on everything from server subscription creation to monitoring and backup of each service.

Houston, Texas, Us

Windows Hyper-V and VMware ESXi Virtualization technology engineer for HP.• Offering Engineer with the Windows Server Services (WSS) VMware, and Hyper-V Capabilities.• Developed the Deployment, Operations, and Technical Reference Guides for use with the Windows Offering.• Offering Engineer for the Microsoft Hyper-V offering. Wrote all of the documentation, test processes, and procedures for Hyper-V 2008 R2 through 2012 R2.• Performed numerous test activities with Microsoft Hyper-V to ensure proper integration and compatibility within HPES Datacenter locations (Backup, Monitoring, Inventory, etc.).• Performed HPES Windows Server Gold Disk testing and certification.

West Hartford, Us

• Designed and implemented an enterprise level Exchange 2003 system. Migrated the existing multiple-site Exchange 5.5 Organization to Exchange Server 2003.• Developed system design and procedure documentation for the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) audit compliance.• Architected a redundant ISA Server 2004 platform for secure external access to the Outlook Web, Office Communicator, and SharePoint Portal environments.• Worked with Microsoft to architect a 4 tier (Production, QAS, Test, and Development) Microsoft Sharepoint Portal 2003 environment used for B2B and B2C sales transactions.• Designed an enterprise Windows 2000 Active Directory. Migrated the existing multiple NT 4.0 domain environment. Have since upgraded the Active Directory to Windows Server 2003.• Architected and deployed a Citrix MetaFrame XPe server farm with Windows NT 4.0 TSE for mission critical ERP and CRM applications.• Worked with StorageTek Professional Services to design and implement a Storage Area Network for the client. Technologies included Microsoft Cluster Services, Veritas Volume Manager, and Veritas NetBackup for 6,000 users and over 70 Terabytes of data.• Consulted at the Weyerhaeuser account in Seattle for the deployment of a global Citrix MetaFrame server farm for their enterprise ERP applications.• Assisted in the deployment of a multiple site highly available SQL Server environment.• Worked with the desktop engineering team to deploy the SMS server infrastructure. Created the SMS site layout for geographically dispersed customers.