Jaime Gurrola Email & Phone Number

Culver City, California, United States

As a seasoned leader and mentor, I have a proven track record of driving new technologies and leading top-skilled engineers to success. My extensive experience in the field has provided me with a deep understanding of the technical landscape and the ability to identify and implement new technologies that drive business growth and efficiency. I pride myself on my ability to lead, inspire and mentor a team of engineers, fostering a culture of learning and professional development. With my guidance, my team is able to achieve exceptional results while continuously pushing the boundaries of what is possible. I am committed to staying on the cutting edge of technology and utilizing my skills to drive innovation and progress within the industry.

Culver City, California, United States

Achievements:• Strong background in disaster recovery, micro-segmentation and network infrastructure• Successfully designed and deployed a disaster recovery process, and have conducted successful tests in both isolated and live network environments• Re-platformed the disaster recovery process to reduce recovery point and recovery time objectives, utilizing cutting-edge technologies• Implemented micro-segmentation in all data centers and have been successful in promoting new technologies to key stakeholders• Developed a method to efficiently enroll applications into the micro-segmentation platform without causing interruptions or outages

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Manage Product Budget and Contracts • Manage/Mentor Large Global Team across several countries• Strategic role/implementer/architecture/risk assessor• Product/Platform Manager of on-prem ERP System Hardware and Virtualization platforms• Engage Vendors for Road Maps• Product Manager of IaaC Platforms (Ansible + Ansible Tower)• Speaker at VMworld 2017 - VSAN Customer Roundtable• Speaker at VMworld 2017 - Keynote Session Showcase• Speaker at VMworld 2017 - VSAN Technical Customer Panel • Speaker at VMworld 2017 - U.S. Press Session• Speaker at vForum 2017• Transitioned 95% of physical workloads to our virtual platform using the Vsphere Suite.• Product Manager for the EUC platform using Horizon 7 on Flash VSAN• Manager of two technology verticals.• Responsible for Architecture of both verticals.• Establish technical road map for Linux and VMware.• Provide solutions to new technical challenges and requirements.• Provide solutions to current technical challenges and requirements.• Scale current technology platforms to provide expand ability with minimal downtime.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Technical lead of Gloabl Linux and VMware teams in Mexico and India• Guide and Mentor Engineers and provide technical growth.• Design and Procure hardware for new and current infrastructures.• Engage vendors for quotes and technical requirements.• Travel internationally in order to mentor teams.• Provide solutions to new technical challenges and requirments.• Provide solutions to current technical challenges and requirements.• Scale current technology platforms to provide expandability with minimal downtime.• Manage and Procure Data Center hardware.• Final escalation point.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Tier III Engineering and Support of Global Linux infrastructure.• Tier III Engineering and Support of Global VMware infrastructure.• Create Processes and Procedures to streamline new and existing environments.• Liason betwen technical teams and application owners.• Engage vendors and faciliate deployment of new environments.• Member of the Architectural Review Board.• Escallation point.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Tier III Engineering and Support of Global Linux infrastructure.• Tier III Engineering and Support of Global ESX infrastructure.• Forensics and Root Cause Analysis of production nodes.• SAN Provisioning - Create Meta(s) & Meta Members, Storage Groups, Initiator Groups, Masking Views, Composite Groups, Device Groups, R1/R2, SRDF Relationships, and the scripts to automate the clones. All on EMC VMAX storage. Tiers consist of SATA, Fiber Channel, Flash Drives, and Fast Cache with redundant configurations of R5, R6, and R10 according to the needs of the project.• Design & deploy new ESX datacenters globally. • Administered a VMware infrastructure consisting of over 1250 Guests.• Administered a VMware infrastructure consisting of over 90 Hosts across 5 global datacenters.• Linux Project lead for Oracle DB on HP DL980’s with Infiniband 10GBE in a cluster Configuration.• Linux project lead for Global telecommunication roll out using Aspect hardware. • Co-Lead - Global migration and conversion of Red Hat Linux to Oracle Enterprise Linux.• Assisted in the deployment of corporate taxation cluster using Red Hat 5.3 and Vertex.• Configure HP Virtual Connects and Server Profiles.• Configure HP Onboard Administrator and Firmware Upgrades.• Migrated physical nodes to virtual nodes while maintaining zero down time.• Deploy HP c3000/c7000 Enclosures while identifying and minimizing possible point of failures.• Wrote scripts to automate and streamline nightly ERP cloning using EMC Symclone technology.• Wrote intuitive applications in order to delegate complex tasks to Tier I/II operational staff.• Administered department asset database.• Create low and high level Documentation of new deployments, topology maps, technical briefs, failover manuals, and Proof of Concepts performance analysis.• Globally Train & Mentor peers and Tier I/II staff on process’s, procedures and navigation of our complex environment.

City Of Industry, Ca

• Design and maintain Active Directory structure in accordance with corporate policy.• Purchase hardware for the deployment of Oracle. Hardware consisted of 15 Dell Poweredge servers, 2 EMC CX300 Sans, 3 APC 3000XL, Fabric Switches by McData, Backup Software by Veritas Net Backup 6.0 and Dell Powervault 124T LT03.• Plan, design and write the programs that will maintain backup procedures in a constant updated state.• Install, configure and fine tune all Linux servers for deployment of Oracle DB 10.5 and Oracle E-Biz Suite 11i• Designed a MySQL server to manage all internet content filtering. • Established a MySQL Master/Slave environment for redundancy• Configure all Cisco Switches, Routers, and Pix for optimal performance in a secure environment.• Deploy,Configure, Maintain, and Backup all Oracle Databases and Oracle E-Biz Suites.• Create procedures and write programs to automate the cloning of all 5 Tiers of Oracle E-Biz Suite.• Document all work done in both a high level format for corporate budget presentations and Low level format for recovery procedures.• Clone Production Oracle instance from backups to verify backup integrity.• Administer the functional side of Oracle E-Biz Suite.• Troubleshoot issues ranging from Concurrent manager to the resizing of table space issues.• Test, then test, then tests again all corresponding Oracle patches on Dev environments before deployment onto production.• Research issues on Metalink before creating TAR’s.• Manage the day-to-day issues consisting of Email, User Accounts, Printing Access, Hardware/Software Purchasing, GPO creation and modification and Systems Integrity Checks.

Diamond Bar, Ca

• Implement, maintain, and secure Red Hat Linux and Fedora Servers• Setup Windows workstations and LAN which consists of over 150 local nodes• Samba installation and configuration, Sendmail, DNS, DHCP, Apache, and VPN support• Install, maintain, and perform disaster recovery of Sendmail and File servers including support for email clients such as Evolution and Outlook 98/2000/2002.• Install, secure, and maintain ColdFusion Enterprise servers• PC/Desktop support including software and hardware troubleshooting/maintenance• Linksys Wireless router installation, configuration and troubleshooting• IPTables firewall installation, configuration, and troubleshooting• Switch installation, configuration, and troubleshooting• Perform security and log audits daily• Assist other team members with mission critical tasks

Victorville, Ca

• Implement, maintain, and secure Red Hat Linux and Fedora Servers• Setup Windows workstations and LAN which consists of over 150 local nodes• Samba installation and configuration, Sendmail, DNS, DHCP, Apache, and VPN support• Install, maintain, and perform disaster recovery of Sendmail and File servers including support for email clients such as Evolution and Outlook 98/2000/2002.• Install, secure, and maintain ColdFusion Enterprise servers• PC/Desktop support including software and hardware troubleshooting/maintenance• Linksys Wireless router installation, configuration and troubleshooting• IPTables firewall installation, configuration, and troubleshooting• Switch installation, configuration, and troubleshooting• Perform security and log audits daily• Assist other team members with mission critical tasks

Certification, Management

Certification, Ccna, 4.0

Obtained CCNA

Associates (Incomplete), Computer Science, 4.0

General and Computer Science Classes.

Associates (Incomplete), Computer Science, 3.0

General Education

Rhct, Linux

Rhcsa, Linux

Vcp4, Virtualization