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 reduction projects.Perform patching and upgrades of vCenter and ESXi Hosts and VMware vRealize Operations and Loginsight. Work with other teams to provision virtual infrastructure for applications and database servers and monitor performance during test and development phases of deployment. Build production environments to match or exceed KPIs obtained during previous phases. Manage and deploy Palo Alto Firewall rules for all environments making sure the implemented rules adhere to corporate security standards. Develop Powershell scripts to report and manage the virtual environments. Perform capacity planning, rightsizing and data center planning and management. Coordinate with data center personnel for host repairs, deployment and decommissioning projects. Assist Network Engineering Team with Cisco Router and Switch upgrades using documented procedures and validation processes.

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 Hewlett Packard Synergy 5.0 Environments each consisting of 6 Chassis, 72 Blades, vCenter 6.7 and ESXi 6.7. Used HPE Management tools and powershell to bring firmware to latest version and deploy and configures ESXi on each host. Deployed multiple smaller VMware Environments with vCenter and up to 6 hosts for specialized Broadcast Teams working with Networking and Security Team on Security Design and Standards for these Environments. Integrated existing vRealize Automation in to a new datacenter to deploy Virtual Machines, upgrade installed software and integrated vRealize Automation and Orchestrator with Infoblox and Service Now. Upgraded vCenter from vSphere 6.5 to 6.7 and hosts installed in environment to ESXi 6.7 making sure all firmware, drivers and operating systems are at the latest HCL versions and patch levels. Worked as a team member to deploy and test VMware NSX-T with the guidance of VMware Professional Services and attending more than 40 hours of install and configure knowledge transfer sessions. Develop documentation and Standard Operating Procedures for NOC and Help Desk Teams to respond to Service Now Tickets and bring to resolution. Worked with Monitoring Application Team to integrate vRealize Operations 7.5/8.1, Loginsight, HPE Oneview and vCenter alerting with Moogsoft and Service Now. Acted as member of multi-cloud team to build and deploy virtual machines in Amazon Web Services EC2 and Azure Clouds. Integrated vRealize Automation with AWS for Server Deployments and configured Azure SRS and Backups for workloads in Azure.

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 as host firmware updates.• 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 datacenter hosts and 34 remote office hosts running over 800 virtual machines.• 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.• Deploy and manage vRealize Automation 6.x, 7.0 and 7.1, vCloud Orchestrator and vCloud Network and Security for DevOps and private cloud implementation. Role included System, Tenant and Infrastructure administration managing entire private cloud implementation for various business groups and tenants. • Act as backup SAN administrator using EMC XtremeIO and VMAX3 and work with Storage, Network and Architecture teams to deploy new network and storage architectures.• Deploy, diagnose and manage virtual machines for customer and internal use.• Deployed Zerto Replication to manage and test Disaster Recovery of Tier 1 applications. Deploy vSphere Data Protection for backups of private cloud virtual machines.• Write and schedule Powershell scripts to report health of virtualization environment and machines running within the environment.

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.• Monitoring of performance and cluster status using Virtual Center client and vCloud Operations Manager.• Work with Storage, Network and Architecture teams to deploy customer solution for a global client.• Deploy virtual machines for customer and internal use.

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.• Write Powershell scripts to manage virtualization environment to deploy virtual machine, report cluster statistics and change VM configuration settings as needed.• Upgrade all clusters, vCenter Servers and hosts to vCenter 5update 2, manage storage allocation and snapshots.• Planned, managed and implemented project to migrate 100 VMs and 7 customers between two ESX platforms with no downtime.• Monitoring of performance and cluster status using Virtual Center client and vCloud Operations Manager.• Installed Proof of Concept Oracle Virtualization 3.0 (OVM 3.0) and Microsoft Hyper-V 3.0 platforms and tested implementations of each platforms capabilities.

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 twenty-seven ESX Host Virtual Infrastructure. Use VMware VIC, Power CLI, CLI, VMA and Powershell to perform maintenance and changes.• 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 troubleshooting, performance monitoring and maintenance of VMare Infrastructure.• Act as part of a team managing more than 500 Dell, HP and VMware physical and virtual Windows 2003/2008 Servers in 14 locations managing all aspects of a Windows 2003/2008 Domain architecture.• Assist Unix/Linux Team monitoring performance, mount/un-mount CDs and NFS exports, configuring network interfaces and expanding volumes on RedHat Server.• Maintain, patch, repair and upgrade VMware, Terminal Servers, Citrix Presentation Server, Exchange and SQL Server. • Managed NetApp Storage Devices using Data OnTap and MMC, Create Aggregates, create, manage and grow; VFilers, Volumes, CIFS Shares, NFS, iSCSI LUNS and user shares in support of various projects, servers, Exchange and VMware storage requirements.

Lake Mary, Florida, Us

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Scottsdale, Arizona, Us

Vcp, Vmware Vcp 5.0

Microsoft Windows Server 2012

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