Mike Tucker Email & Phone Number

Chandler, AZ, US

San Francisco, CA, US

Sr. Infrastructure Engineer, VMware SME Manage Multiple VMware version 6.7 and 7.x clusters for Production, Test and Development Environments. Manage iSCSI storage, provisioning, capacity and performance using Dell/EMC Unity and Powerstore, Tintri and HPe Nimble Storage arrays. Manage and execute datacenter hardware refresh and datacenter footprint.

New York, New York, US

Fox Broadcasting, Tempe, AZ October 2019 – Present Media and Broadcast Sr. Systems Engineer, VMware SME Manage, deploy and upgrade ESXi and vCenter versions 6.5 and 6.7 using Virtual Infrastructure Client, Web UI, ESXi CLI, Powershell and Power CLI. This included managing VM Tools and VM Hardware Versions as well as host firmware updates. Deploy two new.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Manage, deploy and upgrade ESX/ESXi and vCenter versions 5.1, 5.5 and 6.0 using Virtual Infrastructure Client, Web UI, ESXi CLI, Powershell and Power CLI. This included managing VMtools and VM Hardware Versions as well.
• Utilize the vRrealize Suite including, vRealize(vCenter) Operations Manager, Log Insight, Infrastructure Navigator, VMware Update Manager, Dell Open Manage and Cisco UCSM to monitor and manage 4 vCenters including 56.
• Manage Dell R710 and R720 rack mount hosts and Cisco UCS Chassis, B200 Blades and 6200 series Fabric Interconnects.
• Member of Windows Administration team to diagnose application, Windows 2003, 2008 and 1012 operating system and virtualization performance. Acted as first level support for BigIP F5 load balancer and Netbackup.
• Manage Distributed vSwitches, LUNs(VMFS volumes) and Storage Policy Based Management to keep virtual platform meeting company operational criteria.
• Configure cluster settings for DRS, HA, DRS Affinity rules and groups and VM Component Protection settings.

Montreal, Quebec, CA

• Manage ESX/ESXi versions 4.1, 5.0, 5.1 using Virtual Infrastructure Client, ESXi CLI, Powershell, Power CLI and vCenter Operations Manager, VMware Update Manager.
• Member of support team to diagnose application, operating system and virtualization performance.
• Manage vSwitches and Distributed vSwitches and Portgroups.
• Configure cluster settings for DRS, HA, VM fail-over and DRS Affinity rules and groups.
• Deploy Microsoft Fail-over Clusters using Server 2012.
• Deploy Active Directory and DNS for Fail-over cluster configurations.

Madison, Wisconsin, US

• Sr. VMware Engineer
• Manage VMware implementation in four locations consisting of 40 hosts and 4 clusters.
• Deployed new ESXi hosts, Distributed Virtual Switches (dVS) and Nexus 1000v Virtual switches, Deployed vCloud Operations Manager.
• Manage ESX/ESXi versions 4.1. 5.0 using Virtual Infrastructure Client, ESXi CLI, Powershell, Power CLI and vCenter Operations Manager, VMware Update Manager.
• Deploy Site Recovery Manager for disaster recovery implementation of 32 virtual machines between 2 sites.
• Member of support team to diagnose application connectivity and core OS performance.

Phoenix, AZ, US

• Part of a team managing 48 clusters, 300+ hosts and 6000 virtual machines. Add storage, perform V2V migrations, analyze performance and resource utilization of VMs, hosts and clusters.
• Manage ESX/ESXi versions 3.5, 4.0 and 4.1 using Virtual Infrastructure Client and Power CLI
• Member of Windows/Linux Support Team to diagnose application connectivity and core OS performance.
• Write Powershell scripts to pull real-time ESX stats for Disk IOPS to assist storage team in storage refresh project and public cloud project..
• Deployed ESX 5.0 for QA environment with18 hosts in two clusters using NAS storage and distributed virtual switches.
• Team member performing VMware Health Check Analysis.

Fairfax, VA, US

• Lead System Administrator of VMware ESX/ESXi infrastructure consisting of 7 VMware Clusters including 27 hosts and 300+ Virtual Machines.
• Sr. Windows System Administrator managing all aspects of AD, DNS, DHCP and Windows 2003/2008 operating system.
• Lead Microsoft Exchange Administrator managing four Exchange clusters hosting 6000 mailboxes.
• Sr. Team member on Microsoft Exchange 2010 upgrade. Deployed Exchange 2010 in lab environment including CAS load balancing and DAG storage. Working on plan for cross-domain migration from Exchange 2003 to 2010.
• Managed all aspects VMware ESX/ESXi 3.5/4.1 Virtual Server Infrastructure, deploy and maintained virtual machines, distributed virtual switches, NFS and iSCSI drive mounts, VMotion, Storage VMotion and HA/DRS on a.
• Completely redesigned and rebuilt Virtual Infrastructure to provide full network access redundancy, server consolidation and meet performance metrics for servers and applications. Perform patching and daily.

Lake Mary, Florida, US

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Scottsdale, Arizona, US

Vcp, Vmware Vcp 5.0

Microsoft Windows Server 2012

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