The IT and Technology industry has been my home for over 20 years now. I feel right at home leading large, complex projects under high pressure and tight deadlines. I have an Enterprise-Grade lab in my home office for self-learning, training, and reproduction of customer issues. Subject-Matter-Expert areas: Data Center design, co-location hosting, routing, switching, security, virtualization, "stack" design and implementation, data center capacity planning, business continuity planning, disaster recovery planning, infrastructure design (IE: "stack" development), implementation & management, backup & recovery, infrastructure performance tuning, Oracle DBA & performance tuning, server & storage management, tailoring infrastructure to meet current and future needs, vendor management & procurement. Specifics: Server & Virtualization Platforms: Windows NT thru Server 2022, Mac OS X, Linux (RHEL & its derivatives, Debian, Gentoo, CentOS, Ubuntu) VMWare vSphere, vCenter, Hyper-V, Exchange Server versions thru 2016, Sharepoint, SIP Phone systems, Atlassian products: Jira & Confluence, Amazon Cloud platforms: EC2 & S3, Rackspace Cloud, Engineyard AppCloud & XCloud, SQL 2008, 2012, Oracle Database Administration & performance tuning: 8, 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g, 12c, Dataguard, RAC, Oracle EM & Grid Control. Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, OpenShift, InfluxDB, Grafana, CyberArk EPV/PSM and many others. Storage Platforms: Hitachi, Dell/EMC, Netapp, HPE, IBM, FusionIO, Texas Memory Systems, various IP Systems & Flash Systems.Hitachi HCP, Hitachi HCP for Cloudscale, Hitachi HCPAnywhere Enterprise.Networking Platforms: Ubiquiti: USG Security & Wireless product sets, Juniper Networks: QFX & EX Switches, SSG & SRX Security Appliances, SSL-VPN Appliances, iVanti/Brocade/Pulse Secure vADC/VTM, Arista Networks, F5, Cisco Nexus, Cisco Zero-trust ACI/APIC, Cisco Secure Workload, Coyote Point, McData & Brocade, Mellanox, QLogic, JunOS, Kemp Loadmaster, Venafi.Desktop: All Windows platforms, Linux, Mac OS X, Office, Office 365.Misc: APC, Eaton, Schneider and Liebert UPS Systems, Venafi SSL, Infoblox IPAMCloud Platforms: Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace
Listed skills include Data Center, Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Vmware, and 46 others.