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Hartford, Ct, Us

Somerset, Nj, Us

I work with customers of all sizes as they investigate, purchase, and adopt VMware solutions. Some aspects of the role include:▪ Leading workshops that evangelize VMware solutions for both customers and SHI teams.▪ Acting as a technical specialist for VMware's Anywhere Workspace solution and VMware’s security portfolio. Product specialties include VMware Horizon, Workspace ONE, vSphere, Aria (formerly vRealize), NSX-T, SD-WAN, Avi, and SASE.▪ Responsible for technical customer presentations, product demos, proof of concepts (POC), environment health checks and assessments, demand generation events, and product enablement.▪ A focus on customer relationships to ensure customers are happy with their VMware solutions.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

As a Customer Success Architect, I work with enterprise customers through their adoption and growth of VMware EUC products, focusing on VMware Horizon. Key aspects include:▪ Removing technical roadblocks as customers adopt and expand their Horizon environments.▪ Guide 3rd party integration with Horizon and other Digital Workspace products.▪ Perform design workshops through interactive whiteboards, presentations, and live demos.▪ Assist with multi-site and hybrid cloud Horizon design and upgrades.▪ Started and co-ran internal bi-weekly Horizon enablement workshops for peer training.▪ Maintain multiple lab environments to allow for testing customer scenarios and running demos.▪ Collaborate and provide feedback with Program Management and Engineering.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

As a Senior Solutions Engineer, I was responsible for pre-sales technical validation of VMware Virtual Cloud Network (VCN) products. Covering SLED customers in the PacNW. Key aspects included:▪ Technical specialist for the VCN portfolio which includes VMware NSX-T DC, NSX Cloud, vRealize Network Insight, NSX ALB (formerly Avi Networks), SD-WAN (VeloCloud), SASE, and HCX.▪ Responsible for technical customer presentations, product demos, proof of concepts (POC), demand generation events, and product enablement.▪ Collaborate with NSBU Product Management and Engineering, as well as the VMware SDDC Field Sales teams to drive the technical sales of our VCN products in private, hybrid, and public clouds.▪ Build and maintain customer relationships to ensure product adoption and customer value.

Meridian, Idaho, Us

As a Data Center Engineer for CompuNet, I designed and implemented solutions to achieve client business objectives. Some critical aspects of my role were:▪ Acted as the Technical Lead for our VMware EUC business and SME for other VMware products. ▪ Mentored junior engineers in core DC technologies, as well as pre- and post-sales responsibilities.▪ Managed the VMware partner relationship including training, enablement, incentives, and active participation on the Partner Technical Advisory Board (PTAB).▪ Organized and led workshops on key and emerging technologies for customers and CompuNet employees. Regular VMUG attendee and presenter, and expert speaker at VMware EMPOWER.▪ Sold and delivered multiple EUC projects that focused on documentation and customer enablement. Worked closely with new EUC teams to restructure and prepare for their new roles.

Independence, Ohio, Us

As a Delivery Consultant, I specialized in assessing, designing, and implementing enterprise data center solutions focused on virtualization.▪ Designed and implemented Horizon VDI solutions in business-critical environments.▪ Deployed highly available vSphere and Horizon data centers including active failover testing.▪ Led customer demonstrations and proof-of-concept installations to secure technical buy-in and ensure customer success. ▪ Documented and delivered as-built primers with all relevant configuration information, design and architecture diagrams, best practice info, etc.▪ Assessed customer environments and provided health checks to review and remediate issues.

Us

• VMware administrator focusing primarily on VDI administration.• Responsible for maintaining and optimizing 4000+ virtual machines.• Create and manage virtual machines for production use as well as test/QA work.• Optimize images for VDl Environment; Windows XP, 7, and 8.• Maintained VMware View, Lab Manager, vCloud, and vSphere virtual machines.• Responsible for monitoring and maintaining performance and capacity for the VDI infrastructure.• Provide top tier support for VDI as well as virtual servers.• Project lead for high speed storage testing for VDI with Hitachi, NetApp, Violin, Atlantis, and Fusion.• Team lead for triaging, assigning, and building out new VM requests for users.• Worked to create and define standards, guidelines, and best practices for VDI at UHC.• Assisted with ESX and View patching and upgrades. (View 4.6 > 5.0 > 5.1)• Assisting with View 5.2 Beta testing as well as Windows 8 within View 5.2.• Assisting with initiative to provide a fully automated VDI request and deployment system.• Assisted with design and implementation of additional VMware infrastructure. Most recently implemented a new vCloud and View 5.1 environment capable of housing an additional 2000+ virtual machines.

East Hartford, Connecticut, Us

Perform help desk related tasks for internal computers and network.Manage imaging and configuration of client desktops and laptops.Designed and configured a vSphere test environment with VMware View.Assist with office build outs including desktop computer and telephone equipment.Perform hard drive data sanitization to meet customer requirements.

• Worked with clients from the sales, design, implementation, and support perspectives on various forms of virtualization and cloud services.• Responsible for daily datacenter operations within the NOC• Team member at one of VMware’s largest financial clients implementing installing ESX servers• Implemented a vSphere environment on HP servers, SUN storage, and HP switches for a mid-size financial firm.• Team member in performing VMware 3.5 upgrade to vSphere for multiple clients.• Implemented new hosts to VMware environments for multiple clients.• Assisted with performing VMware’s health check for multiple clients.• Assisted with VMware Capacity Planner analysis.• Administrator for internal VMware environment, including VDI with thin clients and external access.• Desktop support engineer for company employees.• Junior network administrator.• Performed level one troubleshooting for clients and their virtual infrastructure.

New York, Ny, Us

• Provided help desk support during critical trading hours.• Tested and prepared desktop images.• Team member for a SAN and replication hardware upgrade.• Team member for development of a disaster recovery plan and build out of DR site using SRM.• Assisted network administrator with daily tasks.• Assisted SAN administrator with daily tasks.• Team member for VMware development lab.• Team member for Windows 2008 build out.• Various datacenter related tasks including; installing servers, running cables, creating Visio drawings, telecom system work, and basic configuration of Windows 2003/2008 server.

Associates Degree In Information Technology, It Networking

Computer Engineering

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