Dennis Bray Email & Phone Number

Rancho Cordova, California

Sacramento, Ca

Recent Projects include:VMware vCloud Director and vSphere 5 for consolidated state agency datacenter California Natural Resources Agency/Department of Water Resources•Virtualization Architect and VMware Technical Lead.Project Summary: Worked with State IT staff and local Cisco engineers to design and implement a VMware vCloud Director 1.5 and vSphere 5 infrastructure for the consolidation of the 28 Departments, Boards and Commissions in the California Natural Resources Agency.•Responsible for architecting and implementing a comprehensive virtualization environment, creating an energy efficient, effective and reliable infrastructure capable of supporting tenant’s critical applications.•Responsible for designing and implementing required Microsoft Windows based services to support the CNRA-DC management systems including Active Directory, Key Management Servers and DNS.•Worked with TrendMicro and DWR staff on implementing TrendMicro Deep Security Manager and vShield Endpoint. •Responsible for creating and documenting and training CNRA-DC teams on standard implementation, deployment and tenant provisioning practices and migration/onboarding procedures.•Conducted extensive knowledge transfer sessions focused on:oThe physical HP c7000/BL490C/FlexFabric compute hardwareoThe vSphere 5.x elements including ESXi5, vCenter 5, vCenter Update Manager, vCenter Operations Manager Advanced, vCloud connector 1.5, vShield AppoThe vCloud Director 1.5 environment including multiple vCloud Director cells, vShield EdgeoThe integration of all of the above with the shared datacenter network and storage systemso Strategy and use cases for tenant organizations and the use of vApps to encapsulate application landscapes

Sacramento, Ca

Virtualization/Cloud Infrastructure Architect for California Natural Resource Agency Data CenterVirtualization Architect/Designer for State of California Department of Water Resources IT Infrastructure ModernizationResponsible for VMware vSphere 4 Infrastructure design and implementation on HP C7000 Bladesystems. Worked closely with Cisco datacenter and EMC storage engineers to ensure clean and consistent integration of physical and virtual networking and storage components.Provided technical and operational training to DWR datacenter operations staff.

Taught Novell and Microsoft Authorized courses as well as responsibility for network and general support for all systems on-site. Selected by Novell to provide pre and post release reseller partner training on NetWare 5 and NetWare 6. Frequent contributor to local Novell user groups.

Managed UNIX based computer systems at Distribution Center and eleven retail store sites throughout Northern California.Developed company wide computer operation procedures. Evaluated, installed and ensured functionality of all software and hardware modifications or upgrades. Implemented security measures to ensure data integrity. Assured compliance with POS/Inventory Control systems at store level. Provided training to all system users.