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San Diego, Ca, Us

San Diego, Ca, Us

Raleigh, Nc, Us

San Diego, Ca, Us

San Diego, Ca, Us

• Responsible for all Development Operations in the Office of the Chief Scientist department• Work closely with development team to support deployment of applications • Implemented a Chef environment to deploy and standardize server and application installs• Involved with assisting and testing in a development environment • Responsible for all hardware support including ordering, planning, and installing• Performed all Ubuntu upgrades, installs, and migrations to a virtualized environment or new hardware• Introduced, deployed and configured a new collaboration application now being adopted by several groups in Qualcomm (Atlassian Hipchat)

San Diego, Ca, Us

• Responsible for the architecture and daily operations of the virtual desktop environment (approximately 4,000 users)• Supported and deployed all Linux based Atlantis ILIO appliances for data de-duplication and storage acceleration• Implemented a tiered support model enabling ITCS to resolve operational user issues. The success of this model defined an escalation path resulting in improved support to the user community• Created PowerCLI scripts to help automate daily and monthly tasks for resource reclamation• Managed company initiative and project to migrate all vDesks to use Windows 7• Wrote PERL script to facilitate the user communication for migration• Deployed eight new ESX View clusters to support migration efforts

San Diego, Ca, Us

• Served as lead engineer, overseeing all activities related to two data centers in Las Vegas. This included budgeting, ordering, planning and installation of all networking, blade, and storage hardware• Provided IT support for several remote sites: Austin, TX; Clemmons, NC; Bridgewater, NJ• Provided training on UCS and VMware to groups new to the technology• Performed as overall lead for UCS blade deployment in Las Vegas; helped define the corporate standard for installs and configuration • Administer Catalyst and Nexus switches• Worked with vendors to discuss product roadmaps, future deployments and participation in evaluations and proof-of-concepts of new technologies• Managed day-to-day administration over large scale HP and UCS deployments• Was nominated (and accepted) into Qualcomm’s ‘Emerging Leaders’ Program

San Diego, Ca, Us

• Supported the Enterprise Solutions business unit which runs out of our site for disaster recovery• Defined host standards for the Enterprise Solutions business unit• Provided Company IT presence at several tradeshows and events (CES, CTIA, Uplinq)• Traveled monthly to San Diego to consult with various teams on challenges and new solutions • Provided input to site lead for data center space planning• Planned and deployed full VMware disaster recovery solution for Mexico City business unit

Denver, Colorado, Us

• Support cloud migrations from either customer on premise or another cloud provider (AWS, VMware, etc) to the Tuliva public cloud using several automation application API's• Support build outs and configurations for new OpenStack clusters (Nephoscale) • Attended training for Apache Cassandra• Provided Tier-3 support for the Tuliva cloud platform

Las Vegas, Nevada, Us

• Architected robust, reliable, and scalable engineering solutions for servers and host systems• Defined and documented technical standards for the corporation• Defined strategic direction for servers, hosts, and system infrastructures• Evaluated and recommended new technologies• Performed analytical skills pertaining to troubleshooting, problem resolution, risk definition, and decision matrix• Introduced new technologies into company as appropriate to improve business processes• Provided technical leadership within Information Systems by hosting classes and mentoring other IS members• Provided third-level support on servers and host systems • Project management• Remote property liaison for WAN locations

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Hired to take technical support calls for the Microsoft Word application. • Promoted to technical lead; started internal classes to teach advanced operations in Microsoft Word. • Within two years employed, passed test to move to Windows NT server support and then finished out final two years supporting calls for Microsoft Small Business Server.