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Oakland, Ca, Us

Responsible for completely upgrading their legacy infrastructure to modern hardware and technology. This included upgrading their Windows Active Directory to functionality level 2016 by upgrading everything to Windows 2019 core. Completely overhauled all Sites and Services to allow Trust relationships to their DR site within another on-prem datacenter. Introduced DHCP and maintain their DNS records for both internal and external records that work alongside AWS R53. Upgraded their Windows SQL and File clusters to 2019 and work to maintain that infrastructure with RedGate monitoring and event tracking with New Relic.Working daily to automate deployment of web applications and configuration management of the infrastructure in a hybrid cloud solution. Daily applications and tools include:AD DS (Site and Services, DHCP, DNS, Certificate Services, ADUC)MS Clustering (File Server and MS SQL)Docker SwarmECS AnywhereTerraformLogging (Kibana, Fluent-Bit, ElasticSearch)AnsibleJenkinsGITBitbucketJiraConfluenceDockerPowerShellBashVSCODEESNANT/MSBUILDLinux (Centos, RHEL, Ubuntu)Windows (2008, 2012, 2019 Core)vSphere (on-prem infra)AWS (EC2, R53, VPC, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, File Storage Gateways, ASG, ALB, etc)

London, England, Gb

Working as a Senior Virtualization Engineer and my daily work includes the following: Working as devops and automating VMware 5.5 and 6.5 inventory needs for Day 1 and 2 tasks. This work requires utilizing tools such as SAMI GIT, Postman, PowerCLI/PowerShell, JAVASCRIPT, Ansible, vRealize Orchestrator, and vRealize Automation. I am also responsible for internal web development in C# and ASP.NET and utilizing web services for vSphere, HP Network Automation, ServiceNow, GOTMON, vRO, and vROPS through RESTFUL APIs and SOAP APIs.

Toronto, On, Ca

Working as a Software Engineer and utilizing tools such as SAMI GIT, Postman, PowerCLI/PowerShell, JAVASCRIPT, Ansible, and vRealize Orchestrator and vRealize Automation to automate the VMware infrastructure. My role at TR is converting over to DEVOPS.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Us

Skill set include: NetApp ONTAP 8 and 9 Cluster Mode DR requirements for VMware and storageVMware 5.5, 6.5UCS-B Infrastructure including deployment and administrationDeveloping PowerShell automation scripts that include NetApp, UCS, and PowerCLI.VMware SRM configuration and maintenance vRealize 6.1OnCommand Unified Manager w/ Performance Manager for ONTAP 8.3Currently investigating cloud solutions such as Azure and AWS. In the process of completing POC for HyperConverged solutions which include Nutanix and vSAN from VMware.

New York, Ny, Us

Responsible for Lync 2013 administration and other daily server analyst tasks.Work with Xen Server from a VM build perspective. Daily Server Engineer tasks include:Troubleshooting Tier III support calls.Work with PMs to complete projects in a timely manner.

Stamford, Ct, Us

Working as Team Lead for Server Operations.Other tasks include:Administrating NetApp with 8.1 and 7.3 which includes all server storage setup via iSCSI and CIFS sharesWorking with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2Working alongside SAP implementationPlanning and building of new corporate offices Building Hyper V ClustersDocumentation of existing and new proceduresMigrating systems from Virtual Server 2005 to Hyper V 2008 R2Responsible for corporate Active Directory(DNS, DHCP, GPOs)Responsible for maintaining the MIIS environment and all interconnected communication

Us

Main responsibility is working with SCCM 2007. Updating and managing OSD for new Windows 7 deployment, companywide. Manage Monthly desktop patching through SCCM for all sites.Administrator of Blackberry Enterprise Server.Administrator of all Printers and File Servers,Tape Rotation and Backups.Exchange 2010 administration.Help with day to day Active Directory Administration tasks.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Setup and Maintain database mirroringSSIS deploymentDTS to SSIS migrationsSQL 2008 Installation and ConfigurationSome stored procedure workMonitor SQL performance and manage alerts.Troubleshoot SQL Clustering issues.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

My first responsibilities began with corporate infrastructure and then I quickly moved to Hosted services. Corporate included some of the following systems. Public and Private e-mail, VM Infrastructure Design and implementation, Cluster administrator for both File and SQL clusters.Hosted services includes F5 configuration for load balanced web sites, IIS 6.0 and 7.0 administration, assisting in web site design and how it relates to the existing infrastructure, PCI remediation, and VM administrator.Hosted also includes creating all servers for necessary projects, administrating all clustered SQL servers, providing resources and assisting in code pushes for production web servers. We provide solutions for Code deployments to have as little down time as possible. We also configure all web servers including IIS and provide the developers with the platform and third party apps.

Oklahoma City, Ok, Us

Main responsibilities included day-to-day Active Directory task, Exchange 2003 Management, SQL databases restores/backups/queries, VM Administration and all other aspects of server management.To perform day to day maintenance on all Servers that may contain any Windows OS. Including updates, troubleshooting, and upgrades. Maintaining performance of all Virtual Servers and Hosts.Making sure that all cluster servers have fail-over capability and testing fail-over.Maintaining the Intranet with updated content. Plus, maintaining the public website of any new design changes and content.Maintaining Mission Critical applications to the hospital which include the following: Exchange, SQL, Active Directory, Print Server, Terminal Server, Impact Server, MIDAS, MEDSTAFF, WEB Server, Great Plains, and all VM Servers (which include 60 virtual servers

Responsibilities including going to off-site clients and upgrading the existing server infrastructure. Maintaining upgraded sites (which would included exchange and any other critical software that was specific to the client)Troubleshooting PDAs and Smartphones.Helping with client build outs or moves (which included setting up communication closets and helping with the design plans for network runs

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Us

Primary Duty consisted of installing SMS and rolling out all agents. Once installed duties including maintaining all updates, software packages, virus definitions, and image deployment. Server Maintenance including nightly review of all event logs, windows updates, and troubleshooting any known issues.Responsible for all RMAs and Equipment inventory.Last official duty was heading up the expansion of build which included the following: Network Wiring, switch configuration, communication closet setup, phone and data jacks, and equipment purchase for all PCs.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Management Of Information Systems And Ethics

Associates In Applied Science; A.A.S, Computer Information System

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