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Seasoned data center architect currently working for the second largest cable service provider in the United States. At present, my responsibilities include the design and implementation of multiple large-scale service provider data centers to support next generation customer applications and services. I am constantly developing my knowledge and experience with data center technologies identifying the best technology stack to support projects from application and customer product teams by deploying and testing new hardware, products and services. I enjoy the challenges of testing and designing new solutions or analyzing present ones, finding new ways to improve system performance, compliance, security and/or business continuity. Over the years, I have had the opportunity to train/certify and work with offering from various vendors allowing to become versed in many areas of large enterprise data center architecture and solutions. Recent projects have had me focused on developing and supporting large private/hybrid cloud implementations with a heavy emphasis on secure multi-tenant high-density and high-performance virtualization environments running on converged/hyper-converged platforms.Specialities:Converged/Hyper-Converged - FlexPod, vBlock, Hitachi UCP, HP ConvergedSystem, Nutanix, Simplivity, Pivot3, HyperFlex, and VxRail.Storage - NetApp FAS/AFF/SDoT/SolidFire, EMC VMAX/ISILON/SCALEIO/XTREMIO, Dell Compellent, Nimble, & Pure.Compute - UCS, HP, Dell, IBM, Oracle SPARCNetwork - Cisco Catalyst/Nexus/ACI, Big Switch, Arista, and VMware NSXVirtualization/Automation - VMware, OpenStack, Hyper-V, Cisco VACS, Cisco NSO, UCS Director, vRealize Automation and Chef

Listed skills include Data Center, Cloud Computing, Vmware, Microsoft Exchange, and 45 others.