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Reston, Virginia, Us

Hands-on highly-technical storage and virtualization specialist for an international multi-billion dollar construction and civil engineering company - the largest in the US! Supporting thousands of production datacenter servers on multi-petabytes of enterprise storage, I provide value to the organization driving a goal of 100% uptime and 100% self-service to the end-user. Leveraging my industry knowledge and ability to dive right in, I am very successful at data migrations, infrastructure security patching, monitoring, and tool configurations. My hands-on approach and enthusiasm in storage, network, and virtualization allows me to build multi-vendor production environments. Continue to build proof-of-concept infrastructure to evaluate them for performance, scale, and ease-of-use in our compute/storage environments. Current subject-matter-expert with multi-petabytes in Nasuni Global Filesystem, from proof-of-concept to now re-architecture of scale-out methodologies for future growth.

Design, build, and support of data-center enterprise servers, storage, virtualization, and networks for production support of worldwide hosting operations. Subject-matter-expert in multiple SAN vendors to help pre-sales customer fit, implementation, scale-out, continued optimization, and regular maintenance. Skilled at multiple major hypervisors Citrix Xen, Hyper-V, and VMware. Provide suggestions and plans for continued improvement of 20 regular customers in quarterly business reviews, making sure they are aware of past improvements.

Mclean, Va, Us

Infrastructure lead recommending, designing, planning, and executing government tech-refresh. Lead planning for projects in storage migration, database consolidation, backup implementations, and making the push onto virtualization.

Amsterdam, Nl

Team lead for 7 engineers specializing in Storage Area Networks, Windows, Linux, and Unix. Leveraged talent to design and implement total virtualization push onto Solaris Containers and VMware ESX. Hand's on engineer building and supporting clients in a datacenter hosting managed service.

Germantown, Md, Us

Server engineer responsible for ancillary support systems like provisioning CPE, satellite capacity planning, and user to server load balance. Experience in Linux, Windows, Oracle, Network, and SAN to drive SNMP integration and standards. Designed custom Coldfusion report and trending applications. Pushed scale-out with software engineering and tested beta iterations ensuring predictable end customer experience during auto-commission and browsing satellite Internet.