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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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 Lead Engineer in the cleanup, consolidation, and migration efforts moving from an outdated VDI environment.
• 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).
• 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.

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.
• 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.

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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.

Masters Of Science, Mcis, Computer Security And Project Management

B.S. Computer Information Systems

B.S. Business Administration

A.A. Computer Information Systems Operations