Senior Virtualization EngineerOCI/AI - Federal

 Architect, implement, and support vSphere Infrastructure solutions  Design, implement and support vRealize Suite (vRA, vRO, vRopS) Upgrade vCenters, hosts, SSL Certs and Licensing Utilize vRA and Ansible for host deployment Implement and support vSAN Clusters (HCI) Providing vCloud Foundations support (SDDC Manager 4.0 and Cloud Builder) Part of the “Day One Project” for TDAmeritrade merger

 Support customers with configuring virtual machines, storage accounts, resource groups, File Share, File Sync, AzCopy, and more Support customers with planning, designing, and transforming environments from on-premises to cloud-based Support customers to review and validate network requirements, VNETs, and network security groups (NSGs) Support customers deploy and configure network and firewall configurations (Private and Public) Develop cloud automation tailored to customer’s needs Member of Government Special Cases Team. Part of the new NFS creation process Team to implement NFS Azure.

 Responsible for the Technical Strategy and Solution for Fujitsu Americas and all of its vSphere external clients including Large Enterprise, Commercial, Government, and ITAR accounts Lead client discussions on virtualization principles, process, automation, strategy & design. Design, architect and implement vSphere Infrastructure solutions for several environments, both Internal and Customer facing Maintain PCI compliance and security updates and maintain proper documentation Automate vCenter and ESXi host builds utilizing scripting expertise (PowerCLI) Provide virtualization data and capacity management utilizing VMware vRealize Operations Manager Provide thorough documentation and knowledge transfer sessions to team members and add to their Virtual Infrastructure knowledge base Follow ITIL best practices for change & incident management

 Managed 15 vCenters with over 500 ESXi Hosts in geographically dispersed Data Centers Migrated over 10 6.0 vCenters to 6.5 using custom scripts with zero downtime Utilizing VMware vRealize Operations Manager on a daily basis. Add/remove hosts/clusters in environment as needed. Create/delete datastores as needed. Determined Storage Capacity and planning for current and future needs. Managed Service License Agreements. Established several methodologies that have increase cooperate wide efficiency more than 100%. Followed ITIL best practices for change & incident management Provided contact, support, metrics, and relations for all Platform vendors (ie: Dell, HP, VMware).

Provided corporate wide support for all Production Environment Systems. VMWare ESXi Administration and Support, Active Directory, Network and maintain Proxy and Firewall instances. Migrated vSphere 5.5 to 6.5 Project. Further develop and maintain Active Directory Environment. Create and maintain backups and tapes using Commvault and Veritas. Maintain Enterprise environment: Windows SCCM, Firewalls.

Provided Tier Level 3 support for Enterprise Windows Production Environment (over 5000 Windows servers) for Dell’s Largest Account. VMWare ESX Administration and Support. Active Directory: Created and supported Group Names and Objects Migrated over 5000+ servers to Symantec Endpoint (SEP 12) using Powershell and Kace. Project was completed a week early. Monitored and tuned the system to achieve optimum performance levels in standalone and multi-tiered environments. Conducted system analysis, configuration management and developed improvements for system software performance, availability and reliability. Performed incident resolution, problem determination and root cause analysis in accordance with Service Level Agreements. Designed, developed, recommended and implemented new or revised system software, utilities and automated processes as necessary. Provided in-depth diagnosis for operating systems software/hardware failures and developed solutions. Ensured server data integrity by evaluating, implementing and managing appropriate software and hardware solutions. Prescribed system backup / disaster recovery procedures and directed recovery operations. Implemented appropriate levels of system security.

Event Monitoring and Capacity Management 2010–2011HP OpenView – (OpenView Operations, OpenView Storage Area Manager, OpenView Performance Manager, Network Node Manager, OpenView Client Configuration Manager, etc.)Windows Production Servers Support 2008-2010 Provided Tier Level 3 support for Enterprise Window Production Environment. Participated in Microsoft SP2 Patch upgrade project. Repartitioned Drive space for physical and virtual servers. Participated in CAB interactions and Peer Review meetings.Server Refresh Project  Participated in Project Management for new and refreshed servers. Contributed to customer analysis and design of current project needs and key integration. Managed Full Life Cycle of new and refreshed servers. Documented processes and procedures for server refreshes in multiple environments. Created and provisioned virtual machines in multiple environments (Microsoft and Linux). Converted physical servers to virtual servers. Maintained and assisted in the VM environment. Documented processes and procedures for converting and building VM servers. Decommissioned cycle of retired servers.Identity Management Support Project Provided Local Administrative Access to current and new Enterprise wide servers. Created and supported Group Names in Global Active Directory. Maintained PACT and IDM queue for Local Admin Access requests.HPOV Implementation Project 2007-2008 Acted as primary contact for Windows Production Services for HPOV. Implemented HPOV agent to over five thousand servers globally. Provided troubleshooting and fixing of broken nodes (hundreds). Implemented various severity levels and node groupings on servers. Maintained and updated Windows SPI as necessary.