Gary Self Email & Phone Number

St Petersburg, Florida, United States

Managed and maintained IT infrastructure, ensuring optimal performance, reliability, and security and played key role in disaster recovery planning, performance tuning, and ensuring infrastructure scalability to meet business needs.• Designed and executed multiple production datacenter moves, increasing capacity by 400%.• Created a cluster layout allowing 50% resource failure without service disruption.• Migrated all production VMs to a new ESXi cluster during planned outage.• Decommissioned 6 datacenters, reducing operational costs and support efforts.• Deployed new datacenter seamlessly after a lease termination, ensuring 50% power, network, and host failure resilience.• Maintained 99.9% uptime over 4 years.• Deployed and configured Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and vSphere Replication for business continuity.• Managed snapshot best practices, preventing datastore failures.• Performed quarterly firmware updates and ensured compliance with VMware HCL.• Upgraded ESXi and VCenter servers’ company-wide to v7.0.• Handled monthly and ad hoc patching for vulnerabilities and maintained hardware.

United States

• Responsible for assisting all vSphere Versions 4.5-6.0 maintenance. including vSphere patches, upgrades and hardware firmware updates.• VCenter upgrades from version 5 to 6.0.• ESXI installation, configurations, upgrades and support from V4.5- through V6.3• Distributed Virtual Switch (DVS)/Virtual Standard Switch (VSS) and portgroup creation, configurations/migrations and maintenance. • VCenter installations and making all necessary database connections.• VCenter folder structure and permissions architecture and maintenance.• Participated in multiple projects, achieving many goals/tasks ahead schedule.• Maintain IDRAC configuration and firmware updates according to all internal procedural schedules.• Configure and maintain SAN Datastores across VCenter clusters.• Maintain host profile compliance across all environments.• Participate in on call rotation. Responsible for providing support for all 4,000+ hosts, 100K+ Virtual Machine’s, 40+ VCenter servers and storage• Participate in tech refresh projects affecting 4,000+ ESXi hosts.• Familiar with capacity and resource managing for projects and upgrades.• Have understanding of VMware NSX installation, configurations and troubleshooting.• Managed enterprise wide Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployments ensuring fast turnaround of requests as well as managing utilization across all VDI infrastructure.

United States

• Responsible for all aspects of vSphere deployment and maintenance of the Private Cloud Enablement project (PCE) project hosting the OpenStack offering.• Responsible for all ESXi 5.x and 6.x server builds following approved standards.• Developed synergistic relationships with other teams to reduce deployment times.• Participated in multiple projects, achieving many goals/tasks ahead schedule.• Deployed and configured multiple geographically dispersed VCenters 5.x and 6.x servers following approved standards for the PCE initiative.• Configured all Distributed Virtual Switches for VCenter management Vmotion, OpenStack, and NSX. • Responsible for maintaining patching schedules on all ESXi hosts and VCenters according to corporate wide standards.• Maintained all IDRAC configuration and firmware updates according to all internal procedural schedules.• Configured and monitored alarms for hardware failures.• Deployed and maintained VMware Update manager across all VCenter servers.• Maintained 100% uptime for 3 years of all aspects of the VMware infrastructure providing 100% availability of infrastructure for OpenStack.• PowerShell scripting to automate monthly password changes on ESXi hosts and DELL IDRAC systems as well as other multiple tasks to increase efficiency. • Successfully deployed and tested Vmware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) with array-based replication.• Maintained Internal records with Remedy.• Migrated servers across VCenters to meet the everchanging needs of the PCE initiative.• Configured and maintained all SAN Datastores across all VCenter clusters.• Maintained 100% host profile compliance across all environments.• Installed, configured and maintained NSX virtual networking across internal clouds.• Created ad hoc virtual center for temporary use to ensure vendor work could begin on time.• Awarded many accommodations for producing results far and above expectations.

Computer Science

Computer Engineering