Ryan Smith Email & Phone Number

Boise, Id, Us

Senior Release Management Lead for UCS, Dell, Pure, Brocade, Vxrack, Cohesity and VMware with over 1300 Hosts on 30 VCSAs.Plan release cycles, coordinate release content, define Level of Effort & dependencies between teams.Lead a team responsible for the hardware replacement, patching, updating, security & compliance remediation, monitoring, & reporting of large infrastructure.Planning, testing, documenting & implementing updates from VMware 6.7 to 7.0 & 7.0 to 8.0 for over 1300 devices & 30 VCSAs.Responsible for security remediation, testing and implementation of patches.Responsible for documenting update & hardware replacement processes.Coordinating between multiple teams to ensure no business impact.Using Powershell to script and automate monitoring, compliance reporting, & remediation processes.Lead on vRA/vRO migrations.Lead on Azure and Intune Pentest Security Remediations.

Responsibilities include managing, patching, security & compliance remediation, updating Active Directory, Group Policy, VMware, Exchange, Domain Controllers, DNS/DHCP servers, Web Servers (IIS), Security servers, SQL servers, File servers, RDS HA.Designed Shavlik patching solution. Upgraded servers in the environment from Server 2003 to Server 2008, then later to Server 2016 or 2019. Upgraded Exchange versions & redesigned environment including adding redundancy, redesigning the databases, mail routing, GSLB DNS. Designed, deployed, and managed HA RDS environment to support over 5000 Thin Client devices & managed company wide migration to new multi-site environment. Utilized VeeamOne backup and replication. Deployed new PrinterLogic Print Management solution & managed migrating printers and users. The Engineer team is responsible for a wide range of Servers & Applications including ESXi 7 on UCS & Pure storage, Confluence, Jira, Sharepoint, Solarwinds, SCCM, vSphere, Splunk, WhatsUp & ADaudit.

San Francisco, Ca

Handled all AD, GPO, Exchange, VMware, Storage, Backup, & DR design responsibilities as well as patching and security updates. Designed Disaster Recovery solution & testing plan. Upgraded AD Schema & Exchange to latest versions. Designed & Managed Veeam backup & replication solution. Installed, maintained & upgraded EMC VNX's at local and DR site. Reduced storage space needs by reconfiguring backups & utilizing Deduplication. Standardized system builds & deployment. Designed BitLocker solution for laptops and mobile devices. Responsible for VMware ESXi environment hosted on UCS.

Boise, Idaho

Member of an Engineer team responsible for designing & supporting Juniper Networks VMware infrastructure, Storage infrastructure, Citrix servers, Domain Controllers, AD, DNS on Infoblox. Managed backups, patching, & migrations of 130 storage servers totaling 13+ Petabytes across various vendors including NetApp, EMC, Hitachi, & HP. Managed a 50+ Infobox device environment. Handled all aspects of the design & build for DR site hosting Citrix and Domain Controllers on VMware. Documented how-to’s, SOP’s, & Runbooks for Admins & Helpdesk.

Architect for data center design of 100+ C-Class HP blades with HP EVA SAN storage for VMware ESXi environment. Configured ESXi VM Clustering/Failover/vMotion (versions 3.5 – 4.1). Setup, patched, & monitored an Enterprise level lab hosting multiple replicas of clients environments for testing printer driver updates scaled to handle up to 10,000 active users per client environment.Projects included converting 300 physical servers to virtual machines. Migrating 700 virtual machines to new data center. Ran infrastructure audits on HP's largest clients, this included networks, users, Exchange, Citrix, SQL, etc & recreated them in our 'virtual labs' for testing purposes.

Lead of 5 other admins/engineers. Handled consulting & design of clients data centers including server layout, cabling, ensuring adequate power & cooling. In charge of setting up process flow & SOP’s. Designed, managed & documented deployment of Linux Primary Domain Controllers. 50+ user Google Apps deployments. Advanced the company service offerings from basic Microsoft server administration to Managed Services & Hosting solutions on both Microsoft and Linux. Examples include migrating from MS SBS's to Linux PDC's, moving from on-site MS web servers to hosted Linux/LAMP web servers, moving clients from workstations to thin clients, & migrating from Exchange to Google Apps.

6 month contract.iGel & thin client administration. Managed Services company hosting services like Active Directory, Exchange, Postini spam filtering, Terminal Services & Web Servers. Updated & Patched VMware ESX environment hosting clients servers. Migrated clients from Desktops to Thin Clients & VMware virtual workstations. Setup Nagios server for monitoring a large number of servers. Created scripts to automate processes specific to each client's environment. Configuring High Availability, QoS, Automation, & Lowering TCO for clients were primary job functions. Maintained & monitored off-site backup solutions for clients.

Responsible for setting up process flow & SOP’s. Managed co-located data center & the design of new clients data centers. Responsible for migrating Domain Controllers from Server 2003 to Server 2008 & Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007. Install, configure, & maintain Windows AD & Exchange 07 Servers, Windows Web Servers, Windows File Servers, Linux Web Servers, Linux Email Servers, Linux File Servers, Backup Servers & Monitoring Servers. Setup site-to-site VPN’s for clients. Created scripts to automate daily processes like backups, system process monitoring, & uploads to off-site backup solution.

Coordinate, schedule & oversee projects. Install, configure, & maintain servers for mission critical applications & services. Migrated from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007. Provided fail-over & monitoring capabilities for mission critical applications. Configured Linux DMZs/Gateways for application & network security. Setup site-to-site VPN’s. Responsible for asset inventory standards & procedures. Responsible for VoIP Data Center Infrastructure design including - Projecting costs, choosing the applications & hardware to use, patching solution, setting up the POS billing & payment servers. Designed SIP Switch & UM systems.