Cloud Architects combine deep technical knowledge and strategic thinking to align customer business and technical goals, delivering expert guidance to achieve these with the VMware Cloud Foundation platform.

The VMware Systems Engineer plays a critical role in building and sustaining customer relationships while driving the adoption of VMware solutions to surpassing our revenue goals. The SE works very closely with sales to build long-term business relationships within assigned Named accounts. The SE is a high impact, very visible role responsible for ensuring pervasive enterprise adoption of VMware software and solutions, and closing enterprise transactions within assigned accounts.

I am the core technologist who works in collaboration with internal and external teams to ensure success in sales and techical opportunities. I hold a role in the critical part of the sales process in helping identify future opportunities based on technical solutions that are aligned with my customer’s business requirements. I work to build a strong partnership with a Global Account Manager in order to consistently overachieve with pride, purpose, and passion.

Manage multiple simultaneous projects spanning the installation, upgrade and maintenance of data center and route switch technologies. Coordinate deliverables of engineers for projects and service related issues for Data Center focused projects. Deliver End to solutions in the Data Center space covering storage, virtualization and networking requirements.• Participate in a design team responsible for the design of a private cloud infrastructure for commercial organizations built on VMware vSphere and diverse server/SAN hardware platforms.• Development of technical scoped proposals including the estimating labor, hardware and recurring costs related to the implementation and sustainment of proposed solution.• Conduct peer reviews of technical proposals for both new opportunities and existing on contract growth.• Develop disaster recovery solutions for technologies including RecoverPoint, Site Recovery Manager, Exchange, Files sharing and Citrix Solutions.• Participate in pre-sales calls or meetings.• Interface with C-Level executives to help develop IT strategies and services strategies for emerging technologies.• Define client issues and business/ IT requirements for Data Center infrastructure• Identifying and defining technology solutions.• Prepare statements of work, Visio diagrams and presentation documentation to articulate multi-tier solutions.• Assist in sales process by defining technical requirements and best practice solutions in the Data Center space.• Design and Implement Virtualized Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) based on Citrix XenDesktop 7 and Windows 7,8 for commercial and municipal entities.• Support national product /business development thru participation in meetings and as part of business development teams on technology.• Subject matter expert on a variety of Data Center technologies and integration mechanisms.

Senior Microsoft engineer for Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange implementations, storage design and implementations, and Data Center projects.• Design, install and maintain active Directory infrastructures for customers on site.• Plan, implement and maintain VMWare product solutions utilizing a variety of supported hardware platforms and back end storage solutions. These solutions include ESX 3.x and VSphere 4.x, 5.x, 6.x products to include VCenter and PSC installations and P2V migration scenarios.• Design, execute and maintain Exchange server migrations from 2000 to 2007, 2003 to 2007, 2007 to 2010 utilizing Microsoft best practices.• Design and implement SAN solutions to customers to include hardware and software implementations, SAN fabric switch configurations, LUN provisioning and data migration scenarios. These scenarios include both VMWare and Microsoft windows hosts.• Implement and troubleshoot EMC, HP, and IBM, NetApp storage arrays in conjunction with a Virtualization environment.• Utilize and supervise subordinate technicians to implement enterprise solutions for customers• Install, configure and troubleshoot Cisco UCS Blade server chassis in conjunction with VNX and NetApp storage arrays. (VBlock, Flexpod)• Design and implement Citrix XenApp 6.x, 7.x, XenDesktop 5.x, 7.x, PVS solutions.• Design, install and configure Cisco UCS based solutions for Data Center solutions.

One of the largest Department of Defense contractors of US Defense systems, IT Systems design and weapons design.Multifaceted role driving strategic technological design and enhancements, while simultaneously project managing hardware developments, help desk support mechanisms, and system rollouts. Major catalyst for infrastructure improvements, including systems support and quality assurance of service based applications• Manage and maintain Active directory infrastructure services for 3000+ users • Designed, built and deployed Windows 2003 Clustered Exchange implementations• Manage and maintained EMC SAN Storage environment of Clariion based arrays• Managed and maintained Brocade Silkworm SAN Switches to include zoning and LUN's• Maintained Brocade SAN fabric switches, allocated and presented SAN LUN volumes • Designed and purchased all SAN attached hardware to include servers, HBA’s, and multipath software licenses• Built and maintained Microsoft clustered file servers utilizing DFS for a Domain Based root file structure• Designed and implemented SNMP based monitoring on all service based hardware• Utilized Microsoft SharePoint 2007 portal to track, document and coordinate team assignments and administrative responsibilities. • Created a technically competent, energized team of systems administrators, help desk operators, and implementation technicians by eliciting feedback, creating incentives for excellence and encouraging participation in all project phases.• Established regular communications by planning a series of status meetings and written feedback components. This initiative served to strengthen customer partnerships, increased mutual respect/understanding and virtually eliminated potential for conflict or misconceptions.• Acted as the direct liaison between military forces and team members to coordinate the transfer of information and documentation and provide periodic updates on project status to the senior management.

Reported to Director of IT Network Operations and Support. Provided support and planning for critical requirements including: Enterprise Server Administration, Server Builds, Software Loads, Product Testing, Email Appliances, Help Desk Support & Training, Vendor Relations, Project Management.• Managed and configured HP rack mounted server models to include P and C class blade systems• Managed and maintained print services (print appliances and windows print server), file shares (Clustered DFS clusters), and backup services (VERITAS NetBackup with HP ETL)• Established communications with departmental project managers to help facilitate project coordination, hardware and software details and establishments of project timelines.• Established communications with departmental project managers to help facilitate project coordination, hardware and software details and establishments of project timelines.• Utilized Microsoft SharePoint 2003 portal to track, document and coordinate team assignments and administrative responsibilities.• Manage and maintain Active directory infrastructure services for Banner Health throughout the enterprise• Utilized enterprise application for monitoring core services servers thru Microsoft Operations Manager 2003, HP Insight Manager, Solar winds, and HP Open View.• Designed and Managed Banner Health’s first enterprise implementation of virtualization using ESX 3.x. Utilized HP C-class blades to deploy and manage company wide initiative to virtualize 20 percent of data center wintel platform servers.

Maintained and administered a mixed Microsoft and Novell environment.• Managed and maintain core infrastructure hardware and software in support of the Department of Emergency and Military Affairs disaster planning and infrastructure management scenarios.• Maintained and configured all hardware associated with Novell 6.x and Windows infrastructure to include all peripherals and networking equipment.• Administrated user and services accounts in both Active Directory and Novell Netware directory structures • Managed Border manager firewall appliance in support of remote user and application requirements

Repaired and replaced electronic equipment for the Arizona Army National Guard. PC, printer and peripherals equipment repair as well as service ticket management.