Cory Barker Email & Phone Number

Charleston, SC, US

United States

• Consult, augment, and act as a trusted advisor to VMware customers through the Professional Services.
• Modernize customer infrastructure through design and implementation of VMware Cloud Foundation and vRealize/Aria suite.
• Enable customers to modernize their applications through design and implementation of vSphere with Tanzu, allowing organizations to host containerized applications in their data centers and cloud.
• Implement DR with Site Recovery Manager and DRaaS with VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery, and deploy recovery SDDC in VMC on AWS.
• Troubleshoot and Diagnose VMware Cloud Foundation deployments, restoring connectivity and management of workload domain NSX, edges, and vCenters.
• Presented at VMware Explore 2023.

United States

• Joined IntegraTouch LLC, a VMware Professional Services Organization Preferred Sub Contractor, as a Senior Consultant working on key customer engagements around the United States on behalf of VMware. My daily.
• Worked with customers in the following industries to design and deploy new VMware environment architectures, and lead projects to upgrade existing environments: Insurance, Healthcare, Gaming, Financial, Federal and.
• Conducted discovery and planning sessions with customers, designing overall architecture of new vSphere 6.7 environments, and deploying the new environment while training best practices.
• Conducted discovery and planning sessions with customers, designing and deploying new VMware Cloud Director (vCD) 9.7/10 environments establishing private customer clouds for development, production, gaming, and.
• Helped customers with their local and colocation VMware based data centers by identifying, establishing and testing disaster recovery plans, and assist customers with data migrations and data center evacuations.
• Provided training and consulting services to customers, enabling their IT organization to ramp up quickly, establishing new skills in administration and troubleshooting in vSphere, ESXi, vSAN, vRealize Operations.

San Antonio, Texas, United States

• Joined Rackspace, a VMware Cloud Provider Partner (VCPP), as a Product Engineer III, to engineer private customer clouds built using VMWare Cloud Foundation (VCF) SP, SDDC, vSAN, NSX-V and vROPS. Contributions included:
• Built new private VCF clouds for new and existing customers utilizing scrips to automate builds.
• Demonstrated technical and architectural expertise by delivering against multiple projects, working cross functionally and globally with numerous teams.
• Researched, engineered, tested and documented new Microsoft SQL cluster as a new offering for customers, running on VMware vSAN.

Syracuse, New York Area

• Joined Navisite, a VMware Cloud Provider Partner (VCPP), as a Cloud Engineer in the R&D division, to design, prototype, deploy and maintain Cloud product offerings built on top of VMware technologies including: vCloud.
• Expertly prototyped, deployed, upgraded, and streamlined new VMware cloud offerings into five multi-tenant SDDCs located in the United States and Europe, supporting over twenty thousand customer virtual machines.
• Deployed, upgraded and maintained DRaaS configuration and management utilizing Zerto and vCloud Availability. Was one of the first in the VCPP network to offer vCloud Availability to customers, working closely with.
• Point of escalation for data center outages, and achieved100% successful restoration of three cloud provider data centers from complete outages.
• Lead architect, and subject matter expert for the vRealize Hyperic, and vRealize Operations Manager virtual infrastructure monitoring solutions.
• Worked closely with others in Development, Product Management and Product Operations to build out new production and QA environments, and deliver upgrades to existing cloud data centers, and managed the life-cycle of.

Rome, NY

• Integral role as technology consultant for multiple clients, discussing technical concepts to leaders and administrators, and traveling onsite to customer locations consulting in multiple environments such as local.
• Served as resident consultant for the Utica Police Department, maintaining VMware infrastructure, physical servers and police car terminals.

Sherburne, NY 13460

• Served clients around central New York, offering troubleshooting, deployment and repair of computer systems and servers in a variety of environments, including healthcare, chiropractic, K-12 education, e-commerce, and.
• Built home virtual laboratory utilizing VMware workstation with multiple sites, domain controllers, and Exchange 2003 mail systems for multi-site environment simulations.

New Berlin, NY

• Hired as an IBM mainframe operator and was quickly promoted to the systems engineering group to staff the help desk, supporting VMware and Citrix infrastructure, Novell, Active Directory, DNS, Avaya PBX and Cisco VOIP.
• Performed company-wide migration from Novell to Active Directory, and phone system migration from Avaya PBX to Cisco VOIP.
• Established baseline laptop and desktop configurations and purchased same from Dell.
• Designed and administrated Symantec Altiris, and developed automation scripts for untended workstation imaging, deployments and upgrades.

Central New York State

Worked with clients across New York state, replacing servers, network switches, routers, and point of sale (POS) systems. Conducted server-to-server data migrations and server decommissions.

Hamilton NY

Delivered expert hardware and software support on Dell and Apple computers, proactively participated at trade shows to evaluate new products to sell to the University staff, faculty and students.

Bachelor Of Science Degree

Associates Of Applied Science