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San Diego, CA, US

San Diego, California, United States

San Diego, California, United States

• Managing multi-vendor virtual infrastructure maintenance, support, troubleshooting
• Monitoring IT environment for security vulnerabilities and performing best practices to minimize the attack surface
• Implemented, designed, and planned new Hyper-Converged infrastructure contains 5 VxRail node
• Implemented various Business Continuity Recovery Point Objective (RPO) & Recovery Time Objective (RTO) strategies as per the mission-critical applications.
• Managing, monitoring, and… Show more
• Managing, monitoring, and improving security with implementing best practices on different solutions like Rapid7, Qualys, Tenable, and Barracuda

Fishkill, New York

• Migrating, Documenting, Knowledge Transfer and performing Best Practices on Converge/Hyper Converge Infrastructure.
• Working with software and hardware vendors for technical issues related to backups/restores.
• Addressing all tickets & technical issues such as down drives, media and master server performance issues, such as slow backups, restore failures
• Tutored 15 employee and coworkers to grant their Nutanix, ScaleIO (VxFlex OS) and VxRail certifications
• Performing… Show more
• Performing essential firmware, flare code and all the required code upgrades essential to the virtual environments.

• Worked with AD, SCCM, VMware vSphere, vRealize, Cohesity Recovery Plan, Pure Storage, Cisco UCS, Kaseya, Unitrends DR and a great team of experienced engineers.
• Managed multi-vendor virtual infrastructure maintenance, support, troubleshooting, and repair.
• Executed daily production and development administration and changes in an end-to-end VMware virtualization stack with zero customer impact.
• Utilized VMware vSphere CLI, and VMware vSphere PowerCLI to script and automate… Show more
• Utilized VMware vSphere CLI, and VMware vSphere PowerCLI to script and automate builds and changes to the environment.
• Organized lifecycle management for all server systems, keeping configurations consistent, current and running optimally.

Richardson Texas

• Implemented various Business Continuity Recovery Point Objective (RPO) & Recovery Time Objective (RTO) strategies as per the mission-critical applications.
• Worked with EMC customer support to troubleshot issues in the environment.
• Implemented a backup strategy along with a disaster recovery plan in the event that the servers or critical network components should go down to prevent lost revenue.
• Deployed Recover Point, RP4VM, vSphere Replication and SRM on VSAN, VxFlex OS… Show more
• Deployed Recover Point, RP4VM, vSphere Replication and SRM on VSAN, VxFlex OS, VxRail and VxRack Flex environment Show less

• Launched Start-Up company to deliver clients a virtualized lab to educate employees or as a test environment
• Deployed Hands-on Lab Environment for 3 Clients and around 60 employees
• Involved in Knowledge Transfer sessions with customers.
• Understand customer requirements and work on the solutions proposals for Public and Private Cloud

• The company was previously known as Nakhl MehrAndish Co. PJS
• Participated in a team of Engineers to Deploy Private Cloud and Virtualization environment for 12 companies in 16 projects
• Architected, design and implement more than 100 ESX servers on a Cisco UCS Blade server. Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect upstream connectivity with Cisco Nexus 5548 for LAN and MDS9148 for SAN.
• Deployed Dell EMC All-Flash array for VDI infrastructure.
• Configured array monitoring and… Show more The company was previously known as Nakhl MehrAndish Co. PJS
• Configured array monitoring and reporting.

• The company was previously known as MehrAndish Co. LTD.
• Managed multi-vendor virtual infrastructure maintenance, support, troubleshooting and repair for 150 host machines (hypervisors) and 4000 guests during onboarding and transition to external support
• Worked on monitoring, patching and updating ESXi hosts and vCenters
• Planned, designed, and manage all LAN/WAN related projects
• Proactively standardized network devices to influence efficient troubleshooting procedures and… Show more The company was previously known as MehrAndish Co. LTD.
• Proactively standardized network devices to influence efficient troubleshooting procedures and educate on network topology.

Performed PC support and maintenance for diplomatic staff for 9 separate embassies Diagnosed, troubleshot and resolved a wide range of software, hardware, and network issues

Master Of Science - Ms, Information Technology, 3.95

Cybersecurity Concentration

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.70

Academic Excellence Awarded student