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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

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.

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*.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.