Network Engineer
CurrentHave lead deployments in the area's of: *Infrastructure Implementation Lead - Nutanix/vSphere 6 deployment of a Nutanix NX-3160 and NX-8235 cluster. This hyper-converged virtual environment sits on a vSphere 6 hypervisor platform. Role of this environment is to support applications/databases migrations from an IBM mainframe to a MS Server 2012 environment. *Infrastructure Implementation Lead - Nutanix/vSphere 6 deployment of a Nutanix NX-3460 4 node cluster. This hyper-converged virtual environment sits on a vSphere 6 hypervisor platform. Role of this environment is to support our virtual infrastructure at a Co-Lo site.*Implementation Lead - Commvault/Quantum backup/Recovery/Replication project. Deployed Commvault v 11 sp4 to replace vRanger and TSM backup solutions. Backup solution is integrated with a Quantum DXi disk array both on premise as well as at our Co-Lo site. *Implementation Lead - Nutanix deployment of two Nutanix NX-3060's consisting of a 5-node cluster across 2 blocks in one cluster. This Converged virtual platform will host a Sharepoint 2013 Farm, Active Directory as well as internal web applications with their respective SQL back-end database platforms. *Project Lead and primary implementation engineer - VMware Virtual Server Infrastructure Upgrade to vSphere ESXi 4.1. *Active Directory Upgrades (2008R2 in 2011 & 2003 in 2009).*WAN Optimization - Project Lead, including 3rd party contracting coordination of Riverbed Steelhead and Granite Implementation of 28 Remote Field Offices. Solution has provided enhanced application delivery to and bandwidth utilization to these remote offices. *Continuous server virtualization in order to prepare for a more DR resilient posture.
