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Chantilly, Virginia, United States

Chantilly, Va

● Responsible for providing engineering, maintenance, and operations support on a fiber channel\ISCSI network.● Strong knowledge of VMware vSphere, ESXi, VUM and VMware Data Protection.● Administer a VMware View 5.X environment with 2600 users and 3 View Connection servers.● Utilize VMware Operations Manager to monitor the current environment’s performance, risk and to make future planning decisions.● Work with Teradici PCoIP zero clients and Wyse thin clients.● Responsible for backup and restore efforts using Commvault Simpana backup.● Administer and make configuration changes on Brocade virtual switches ● Act as an escalation point for the service desk and system administrators for complex issues.● Responsible for building, configuring and troubleshooting servers Window Server 2008R2/2012R2.● Configure and administer Dell and Supermicro servers.● Work with DNS, DHCP, SSH, Telnet, Active Directory, Exchange 2010 and SQL.● Manage EMC, Dell Equallogic, Dell Compellent and Hitachi Data Systems SAN’s.● Utilize SCCM and SCOM to monitor the environment and push patches\updates.

● Responsible for providing operations, maintenance, and engineering support on a fiber channel network.● Strong knowledge of VMware vSphere, ESX\ESXi, VUM, VDR and SRM. ● Engineered and implemented a full scale upgrade to our VMware vSphere environment.● Responsible for all backup and restore efforts using Symantec Netbackup. ● Engineered tape encryption solution using Netbackup Key Management Service (KMS).● Strong knowledge of HP Proliant Blade c7000 chassis, servers, virtual connects and HBA’s.● Strong knowledge in configuring and administering HP Proliant BL\DL servers.● Managed HP/3Par Storage Area Network (SAN) including SAN replication to disaster recovery site.● Responsible for building, configuring and troubleshooting Window 2003/2008/2008R2 servers.● Administered Windows server patching using VMware Protect and workstation patching using WSUS.● Administered and make configuration changes on four Brocade virtual switches.● Acted as an escalation point by providing Tier 3 technical support for complex problems.● Worked with DNS, DHCP, SSH, Telnet, Active Directory, SQL and Infoblox.● Administered Microsoft Exchange, BES, MAAS360 and Good Messaging. ● Working knowledge of Windows PowerShell, EPO, GPO’s and LANDesk.● Used Orion Solarwinds network monitoring tool to configure alerts and monitor the entire network. ● Successfully performed environmental upgrades to VMware, 3PAR, HP firmware and Windows 7.● Configured new network printers on print server and provide Windows Terminal Server management.● Developed and presented engineering and implementation plans to the change control board.