Provide engineering guidance, design, architecture and documentation of Dell POWERFLEXHyper-Converged Infrastructure Solutions using best of breed Cisco/Dell Networking and Dell/EMC Compute and Storage products. Work closely with Product Management to ensure new hardware and software feature requests are being properly prioritized, scoped, engineered, tested and documented to fulfill the demands of our customers. Provide support for external teams on the implementation of Dell POWERFLEX OS (formerly ScaleIO). Ensure the accuracy and quality of VxRack supporting documentation, setup and feasibility testing for customer and product management use cases.

The Clearing House is a banking association and payments company owned by the largest commercial banks, and dates back to 1853. The Clearing House Payments Company L.L.C. owns and operates core payments system infrastructure in the United States and is currently working to modernize that infrastructure by building a new, ubiquitous, real-time payment system. The Payments Company is the only private-sector ACH and wire operator in the United States, clearing and settling nearly $2 trillion in U.S. dollar payments each day, representing half of all commercial ACH and wire volume.•Third Level production support of VMWare Virtualization Platform, EMC Symmetrix Storage Environments, Site Recovery Manager, Avamar and DataDomain•Audit & Compliance - test and implement security settings to ensure server compliance with security and audit requirements•Server Operating System - design and implementation of VMWare and Windows Server platforms•Collaborate with IT Security to establish and implement VMWare hardening standards•Support Server Virtualization – research, design, test, implement, maintain, and upgrade VMwarevirtualization solutions•Responsible for security patch validation, Server Contingency Design & Testing & contribute to DR/BCP efforts•Test upgrades of all server components - hardware, O/S, drivers, firmware, patches, etc.•Server Documentation/Procedural Documentation - create installation instructions for Network Operations for server modifications in the production environment•Management and support of multiple Windows AD Domains

• Provide advanced technical support to VCE Engineering and Development teams on entire VCE portfolio of products.• Expert level knowledge of physical and logical build process of the VCE Vblock Converged Infrastructure (CI) platforms.• Primary technical focus on VCE CI stack architecture including; Cisco UCS chassis, C and B-series servers, FI’s, FEX, MDS, Nexus 9K-2K L2/L3 networking, EMC VNXe, VNX, and VMAX storage arrays, VMWare vCenter/ESXi 5.0-6.1.• Follow best practices for cabling, labeling, power distribution, rack/stack, naming standards and logical configuration.• Secondary technical focus on ACI, NSX, RecoverPoint, Avamar, DataDomain, VPlex, Isilon, XtremeIO, ScaleIO.• Provide Release Certification Matrix (RCM) upgrades and storage refreshes to Vblock systems for Platform Development, Corporate Engineering, Software Dev, Hardware QA, Tradeshow related events and POC engagements.• Mentor junior staff on installation, administration and support of a large scale multi-domain R&D lab environment.• Responsible for installation, support and management of core Cisco Nexus 7K switches across two data centers for VCE Internal R&D lab operations.• Hands on installation, configuration and management of over two hundred racks of VCE Converged and Hyper-converged cloud computing platforms maintaining detailed documentation to the port level.• Other projects included building and deploying a pair of infrastructure VB340’s in support of expediting frequent storage array refreshes thus easing the rotation of hundreds of storage system migrations, installations and decommissions.• Served as an adviser to the Director of Infrastructure for planning new data center infrastructure needed to support relocation of existing data center labs in Santa Clara, CA and Durham, NC.• Part of a small senior team responsible for corporate lab wide implementation of technologies from Cisco, EMC, VMWare, PRTG, Cattools, Infoblox and Splunk.

• Responsible for administration and maintenance of EMC Clariion and Celerra storage environment.• Coordinated the documentation, administration and hardware maintenance of Oracle 10g/11i ERP environment. • Administration of WAN/LAN/Voice systems for multiple distribution centers and furniture showrooms. • Administered Microsoft AD and Exchange for users of corporate divisions.• Interact with users at all levels including executive management, middle management, and end users.• Managed datacenter relocation project. This included datacenter requirements definition, the evaluation, selection and implementation of infrastructure systems

• Managed all aspects of WAN/LAN/Voice Services for a $300M multi-site wholesale furniture distributor. • Coordinated the architecture and implementation of all Information Technology environments.• Responsible for IT budgeting including hardware, software and voice/network services.• Managed a staff of two Network Administrators, four System Administrators and one Oracle DBA.• Created and maintained secure network infrastructure while ensuring compliance with internal controls.• Managed deployment, monitoring, maintenance and support of enterprise hardware and ERP software stack.• Managed Oracle 10g/11i ERP environment, staff and contractors. Provided guidance and mentoring to Oracle technical staff. • Provide direction by setting Information Technology Architecture Standards and planning for the implementation of new technologies and the retirement of legacy systems.