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Burlington, Ky

• Deployed VMWare ESXi in 3 major datacenters as well as smaller sites across the country.• Supported VMWare ESXi hosts (>10000 Physical); hypervisor and hardware issue resolution.• Supported 10+ vCenters in 3 major datacenters as well as a few smaller sites.• Interface with internal customers to facilitate needs on our VMWare infrastructure.• Work with cross functional teams such as firewall, networking, DNS, SAN, AD, Security, etc., to provide internal customers the functional and secure systems they require.• Established password rotation on new host builds using CyberArk.• Built ESXi hosts using combination of media and scripted installation routines.• Managed hosts in vCenter with the aid of VROPS (vRealize Operations Suite, now Aria)• Collaboratively patch >10000 hosts per month as well as vCenters and associated applications in the VMWare stack.• Upgrade ESXi, vCenters as new versions are released.• Work on call rotations

Burlington, Ky

• SME and acting team lead for SCCM infrastructure• Updated from SCCM 2007 to 2012 while staying in production status.• Implemented Adaptiva for enterprise file sharing to assist SCCM environment.• Maintained infrastructure for 65k+ endpoints.• Patched 10k+ Windows Servers per month• Implemented Microsoft SCVMM (System Center Virtual Machine Manager)• Implemented Microsoft SCORCH (System Center Orchestrator)• Maintained environment health across entire System Center stack.• Managed workload across team of myself and peers with direct oversight of ongoing projects• Periodic ROI analysis of product stack versus competitive products

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Focus on automation tools and strategies for deploying Windows and Linux O/S• Specialized in automated deployments of Windows hosts to hardware at remote sites.• 2nd Specialty of automating ESXi deployments to hardware at remote sites• Consolidated remote operations stacks into small VMWare clusters at remote sites.• Travelled as needed to remote sites across the country to handle hardware installs.

Tampa, Florida, United States

• Primarily responsible for site surveys for the 3C project• Documented each call center MDF and IDF room across the country.• Documented power, rack space, HVAC requirements and nuances per site to ensure a smooth rollout of the hardware later.• Oversaw all technical requirements docs per site and ensured accuracy and completeness.

Tampa, Florida, United States

• Travelled to call centers across the country to install call monitoring hardware.• Connected hardware to new and existing infrastructure (Cisco 6500) and worked through any errant or missing equipment to keep project on schedule.

Clearwater, Florida, United States

• Responsible for literally everything IT related in the company; Desktop builds, server builds, Windows Server administration, AD, DNS, Firewalls, PBX, Network cabling, RightFax servers, Trunked data and phone lines, Cisco PIX, Sniffer, LAN/WAN, Disaster Recovery.• Oversaw all hardware at 3 main locations and 27 branch locations across the country.• Oversaw a team of 3 other admins as company grew in order to maintain quality of systems.• Liaised with customer IT departments to integrate cross company communications of Title/Mortgage paperwork, reducing human workload substantially.• Responsible for all IT related purchases.• Reported directly to CIO and owner of company

Education record

Education record

Education record

Computer Science