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Vancouver, Wa, Us

United States

consulting SRE supporting exascale cloud ops for a leading security product.

Vancouver, Washington, United States

• Leveraging DevOps and Agile practices to improve critical systems reliability.• Implementing improved monitoring and alerting for business and customer facing systems.• Automating deployment and business processes for on-premises and cloud based systems using continuous integration and delivery methods.• Contributing to systems and application architectural roadmaps and designs with emerging technology and business driven requirements.

Portland, Oregon Area

Creating and evolving solutions for secure communications and computing systems in highly demanding environments. • Evaluate technologies for integrated solutions• Integrate standard and emerging technologies to demonstrate fitness for inclusion in standard and custom solutions• Create and run performance testing system for solutions qualification• Assess and qualify systems for DoD interoperability and security• Manage development of solutions demonstration systems• Deploy customer solutions on production systems for VMware vSAN and Horizon environments• Develop cloud based solutions for integration with product lines.

Portland, Oregon Area

Managed VMware vSphere Cisco UCS Hyperflex production systems. Implemented recommended practices to increase resiliency, security, performance, and integration with agile processes. Instrumented and monitored critical systems.Major wins:- Migrated Commvault backup systems from file based backups to VM based backups by my 4th week on the job.- Extended DevOps capabilities to VMware Hyperflex environment for provisioning and upgrades with Ansible.- Automated New Relic monitoring deployment for Hyperflex, NetApp, and virtual machines.- Automated syslog monitoring deployment for environment with Loggly- Major contributor for process to repatriate AWS and Azure systems, including Elasticsearch clusters.- Owned Elasticsearch cluster deployment responsibilities for repatriating for rolling restart, snapshots, monitoring, and system logging.

Consulted under Marquam for NW Natural.Researched and delivered Infrastructure Strategy documentation covering the following recommendations* vSphere enhancement project including monitoring and automation with vRealize Operations and Automation and network micro-segmentation with NSX* Technology refresh for high performance systems with Pure Storage* Consultant onboarding with Horizon virtual desktop systems on Dell-EMC VxRack systemsDeveloped headquarters data center migration playbook covering multiple scenarios and technologies. These included the following:* Migration of primary on-premises data center services to current secondary site* Sourcing company owned vs colocation of DR sites for physical equipment outside the Cascadia Subduction Zone for seismic risk reduction* Developing system designs, cost models, and technology recommendations to support DR services on Microsoft Azure, colocation, or company site.Consulted on business and technology needs for architectural designs for Microsoft Dynamics CRM, J5 Operations Logbook, Quadient

Consulting on cloud, monitoring, and automation technologyDesign and implementation of large scale Splunk deployments and upgradesImplementation, upgrades, and customization of SciencLogic monitorningVMware projects including vSphere, vRealize, Site Recovery Manager

Provided demonstration, proof of concept, and in-depth engineering support for Sales, Engineering, and Product Management stakeholders at VCE. We accomplished this with an agile approach to integrating VCE offerings with management and orchestration technologies from VMware, Cisco, EMC and our valued Vblock-Ready partners.Our demo systems showcased VCE and allied solutions running enterprise environments including SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft applications. We also developed enormous expertise in delivering multi-thousand scale End User Computing environments with VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop based on my experience with customer use cases and expected customer need.We were often called on to assist with high profile deals and customer engagements because of the strength of our experience integrating these environments with tools like VMware vRealize suite. Our experience with finding optimal hardware and tuning configurations for customer workloads was a huge asset, and our customers came to use our labs to validate their workloads on VCE systems.My task was to manage the day to day operation of these systems with my team and provide new value by adding, upgrading, and integrating with new releases and products available to enhance our offerings. Whether it was rolling out a new version of our Vision Intelligent Operations software or creating a multi-Vblock enterprise demo platform with EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud solutions, our team architected, designed, implemented, and supported our creations with the goal of delighting our customers.

Pdx/Global

Managing a team of technologists building hybrid cloud technology on VCE systems. Supporting our demo systems and software used by sales, support, and partners. Architect and develop future cloud strategy for content delivery.

Pdx/Global

My main responsibility is field enablement and evangelizing Vblock solutions. I work with internal development teams to learn about new solutions and product offerings, then develop presentations, demos, and training to educate our sales teams, partners, and customers.I work with complex integration and software projects on the VCE Vblock infrastructure platforms. I'm familiar and work deeply with all the VMware, Cisco, and EMC products in our converged stack. This includes VMware vSphere, View, vCloud Director in the virtualization stack, Cisco Nexus and MDS network and storage switches, Cisco UCS blade systems, and EMC Symmetrix and VNX storage platforms.

Responsible for customer education and demos for EvoStor storage systems. Configure, install, and troubleshoot storage products, virtual infrastructure, and associated infrastructure. Responsible for developing training and technical programs to educate customers and internal staff. Provide input and guidance to product engineering. Deliver pre and post-sales support to customers in support of sales team.

My responsibility is to design and implement virtualization solutions for small to enterprise businesses using current best practices and state of the art technology. Our solutions include server consolidation, systems management, virtual desktop infrastructure, Lab Manager, Site Recovery Manager, and consulting on all aspects of your datacenter virtualization projects.We represent best in breed hardware offerings from HP, IBM, NetApp, and Cisco. We have local experts in storage, networking, and server platforms available.

Responsible for architecture and design of VMware virtual infrastructure, Citrix presentation server, and other IT systems for engineering.

Designed and implemented mechanical systems for color and medical imaging systems. Implemented low tolerance tooling for printhead R&D.