Senior Systems EngineerBed Bath & Beyond Corporate, Union, New Jersey• Proposed technical feasibility solutions to IAAS leadership, for new system designs and suggested options for performance improvements.• Over the course of 6 months, served as point person communicating with business stakeholders and internal teams across Network, Security, Datacenter, IT leadership to implement HCI rollout of Hyperflex via Intersight for VDI and Production workloads.• Championed and implemented streamlined troubleshooting processes to improve system support and enhance communication between support team and end-users.• Within IAAS environment performed root cause analysis to provide resolutions for production issues.• Collaborated with internal clients regarding implementation of software and sunsetting of legacy systems.• In an effort to maintain corporate resilience, orchestrated integrations, upgrades of hardware, business applications, and security tools (i.e. Migrate from commodity servers to UCS, deploy monitoring tool for Service Express). • Served as Consultant via TekLink for initial two years before being hired.

• Assisted customers in identifying issues and explained solutions to restore service and functionality.• Created Command Post of the Future training programs for Brigade S6, which improved skills and deployment options as well as end user morale.• Developed leadership within S6 team. Maximized effectiveness of existing staff and equipment to improve readiness.• Managed Brigade’s IT assets for 10 months during Operation Iraqi Freedom 2004.

• Successful deployment RSA Authentication Manager 8 to update existing ASA VPN Access. Leveraged AD authentication for seamless user login.• Architected, designed, installed, configured VMware ESXi within vSphere 4 and vSphere 5 environments with VirtualCenter management.• Traveled to iQor Philippines to lead install and configuration of VMware View desktop virtualization infrastructure (VDI).• Built, configured and deployed VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows NT, 2000, 2003, 2008, and 2012 and legacy hardware

• Hired as a LAN/WAN Specialist, promoted to LAN II, and ultimately promoted to Senior Systems Engineer. • Supported 500 users (end user and executive) in Novell environment and later migrated all users to Windows AD, as part of company-wide initiative.• Collaborated with shareholders in Facilities and Networking to plan, design and expand building footprint to accommodate new Insurance Services and IT Application Development team within 18 months.• Streamlined troubleshooting processes to improve system support and enhance communication between support team and end-users.• Coordinated with facilities and Telecom vendors to expand networking closet to accommodate additional servers, and additional PBX.• Followed ADP Corporate protocols and procedures while working to enhance onsite assets of ADP’s largest division.

• Implemented VMware ESX server to provide multiple virtual hardware platforms while keeping hardware costs and energy consumption down. Migrated obsolete hardware platforms to VMs via VMware Converter.• Designed and implemented enterprise file, print, and directory services migration to Windows 2003 R2 VM. This project involved migrating the existing enterprise file server and file permissions to the new Windows VM, migrating Printer Services to a new 2003 printer server VM.

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