Grew a small (8k VMs) private Sales demo cloud platform into the standard for VMware hybrid cloud deployments used for QA / Sales / Education / IT. (100k VMs) . Workloads ranged from internal finance Oracle clusters, educational labs for VMware customers, to QA regression testing of new products. Overcame scaling issues while dogfooding VMware products. This allowed a direct feedback loop to R&D using our products at scale.• Deep knowledge of VMware application stack ( ESXi, vServer, vRops, vCould Director, NSX, MSSQL, Log Insight, vSAN, vShield )• Virtualized workload troubleshooting, including nested virtualized servers. (RHEL, CentOS, SUSE, Ubuntu, Win2k3, Win2k8, Win2k12, OSX)• Broad depth of knowledge with hardware platforms (Cisco UCS, HP Blade servers, F5 Load Balancers, Brocade fiber switches, EMC Celerra, VNX storage, Nexus 5k, 7k networking switches)

Provided systems and storage support for IT needs within the R&D department.• Provided RHEL support for Helpzilla and Bugzilla internal platforms• Maintained and scaled EMC storage platforms for DevOps use.• Migrated a Lab Manager instance into vCloud Director and provided support and maintenance for both private cloud instances• Used shell scripting, Python and Powershell to manage environments

Scaled and maintained build systems for VMware using the following technical solutions: RHEL / Win2k3 / Perforce / HP / Brocade / Celerra / RamSAN

Scaled back-end servers to accommodate Hotmail's growth from 20 to 300 million users in the span of 5 years, Implemented new storage and server technology to keep up with expansion. (SUN / EMC)• Worked with HP blade servers, LSI iSCSI storage, EMC 1st gen Clariion, Legato backups• Worked with bash and java scripting for automation and internal tools

Wrote packaging scripts for deployment of Java currency exchange software.• Used Java and shell scripts to deploy and populate db instances to work with Tibco beta products• Worked closely with developers to identify and triage product bugs

Helped grow an internet provider at the beginning of the internet rapid expansion. Monitored and maintained a large deployment of leased lines for modem banks for points of presence throughout the continental US.• Deployed leased network circuits for customers and points of presence for a large internet service provider.• Worked closely with telecommunications companies across the US