Infrastructure Architect, DevOps Engineer.

Design, deploy Hyper Converged solutions using VMware and RHEL Open Stack. I actually take paper designs and implement them as actual solutions running at various customer sites for both dev/qa and production.Certified VMware engineer using numerous VMware technologies to build SDDC’s with many use cases from VDI, Virtual High Performance Computing (vHPC) to Big Data solutions.Well versed in developing/deploying and managing RHEL/CentOS, SuSE and Ubuntu based open source solutions.Develop and deploy, maintain medium to large virtual Converged Systems and Hyper Converged Infrastructure environments using vSphere 5.5, 6.Design/deployed and manage large VMware VIEW VDI environments for Windows 7, 8 10 as well as RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu VDI desktop’s.• Manage and monitor all installed systems and infrastructure VM’s using VMware vROPS, Nagios, Icinga2 and Ganglia.• Install, configure, test and maintain operating systems, application software and system management tools.• Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability.• Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers/vendors to implement fixes.• Maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies as well as security audits.• Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks.• Participate in the design of training classes for operations staff of information and operational support systems.• Provide 2nd and 3rd level support to operations staff.• Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution.• Proven working experience in installing, configuring and troubleshooting UNIX /Linux applications both proprietary.• Solid experience in the administration and performance tuning of application stacks (e.g., Tomcat, JBoss, Apache, Ruby, NGINX)• Cloud experience with VMware Cloud Director.• Experience containers using Docker

Systems design engineer for Sun HA systems, networking designer for systems interfaces such as SNA, x.25. TCP/IP. Ran the National Technology Center (NTC) that was stood up to perform the integration of non-Sun technologies as operational solutions. Transferred to San Diego to become the chief architect for Sun Federal

Hardware design engineer, responsible for designing many communication controllers for SNA, TCP-IP,x.25 and OSI. Started the Integration and Technology Center that allowed Tandem and non-Tandem technology to integrate as a solution for customers.