Duane C Decker Email & Phone Number

Coral Gables, Florida, Us

• Responsible for designing, building, supporting and maintaining complex enterprise level virtualized and physical environment on hardware architecture including Cisco UCS, EMC/Dell/Super micro hyper-converged technologies with software solutions in VMware, MS Hyper-V, MS Windows Server, Linux Rhel. • Provide technical leadership, guidance and hands-on in the installation, configuration, and implementation of VMware core products and technologies. Collaborate with Architecture leads to engineer enterprise level vSphere ESXi multi-clustered dev, test, production environments, leveraging VMware Single sign-on platform appliance, inventory services, VMware HA, Distributed Resource Scheduler, storage DRS, and VMware Operations Center.• Provide technical documentation (SOPs), training, support and guidance to System Administrators and help desk personnel, during daily steady-state activities, business escalations, Sev1 troubleshooting, project deployments, and root cause analysis. • Planned, designed, built and supported VMware Horizon View virtual desktop (VDI) core infrastructure solution. Lead Engineer in the cleanup, consolidation, and migration efforts moving from an outdated VDI environment to new VMware Horizon multi-pod environment. • Technical team member on a wide range of IT technology projects including Cisco UCS domain integration, VMware environment refreshes and buildouts, EMC/DELL/Supermico hyper-converge implementations (Vxrail, ScaleIO), Windows server end-of-life, storage refreshes, VMware vRealize automation and self-provisioning implementation.• Establish close vendor relationships during Proof of Concept engagements, on and off-site technical discussion meetings for new product introductions, new business requirements, technical problem escalations and root cause analysis.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Operations Systems Support Engineer responsible for deployment, management of complex windows environments for 1900+ servers. Environment Infrastructure includes standalone, blade, and virtual servers.• VMware Virtualization Subject matter expert utilizing VMware technologies ESX, ESXi, vCenter, SRM, vCloud Director, and vCenter Operations. Responsible for the design, deployment, and administration of ESX, ESXi Hosts, window, Linux, OS VMs, vCenter Servers, appliances.• Daily Steady State Operational responsibilities include server administration, problem management/resolution, installation and maintenance of Windows Server 2003/2008/2008 R2 infrastructure.• Design, engineer, build, and deploy Microsoft SQL Clusters, with highly available enterprise SAN-connected storage arrays, utilizing Veritas Storage and MS Windows storage solutions.• VMware Operating System IT Security focal responsible for UserID management, IBM ITCS104, GSD331 Security requirements. Maintain server compliance and audit readiness.• Project Perform OS Support Lead; responsible for managing VMware/MS/Linux Server Activation, de-activation, and re-fresh project initiatives.• Scripting proficiency MS Powershell, VSphere PowerCLI, Unix/Linux shell, bash, Korn, Perl. Developed and deployed production scripts to automate, server administration, server deployment tasks, steady-state duties, server security scans, and environmental audits.• Team with customer technical contacts, vendors, and department SMEs to analyze current environmental issues relating to Operating Systems, storage configuration, network topology, provide and maintain uptime SLAs, system consistency, scalability, and monitored performance growth for overall end-user satisfaction.• Server Hardware expertise includes IBM xSeries, IBM Blade Center, HP blade, IBM HS Series, HP Proliant. HP Virtual Connect and server profile administration. Configuration and remote administration setup on ILO and Remote Card access.

Monroe, La, Us

• Responsible for the overall System Software Administration of UNIX HP Mid-range development, test and production systems. Duties and responsibilities consist of installation, configuration and day-to-day administration of HPUX operating systems and applications. Certified and professional experience includes configuration and implementation of HP Service Guard cluster environments; Logical Volume Manager; online JFS; Netscape Enterprise Server; EMC Symmetrics and various vendor disk arrays; System performance and tuning; System kernel configuration and tuning; Korn shell, and Perl, scripting.

• Responsible for the Application Support Service Center function for TANDEM based applications. Install, configure and maintain application software, as well as performance and tuning. Provide advanced technical support for computer communication failures. A key member of application development and support team.

• Provided first and second level technical network-wide system support, in maintaining various major Class 1 Railroad communication network projects. Duties included configuring, monitoring, and maintaining; Tandem front-end processors (FEP), RF spec 200 networks, AT&T paradyne 6800nms 3900 series modem network, onboard, yard, baser, and trackside equipment.

• Responsible for providing national system support to aid over 5000 system users throughout Union Carbide’s “LINDENET” network. Responsibilities included training, analyzing, problem-solving, managing and documenting infrastructure and application related problems using applied technical knowledge.

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

• Shift Sergeant Supervisor, Tandem Computer Operator, Tape Operations administrator, backup, and recovery specialist.Missile Warning Computer OperatorTop Secret -SBI Clearance 4/92.Gulf War Veteran, Honorably Discharge April 1992

Masters Of Science, Mcis, Computer Security And Project Management

B.S. Computer Information Systems

B.S. Business Administration

A.A. Computer Information Systems Operations