Sonny Pakdel Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

El Dorado Hills, Ca, Us

Responsible for VMware NSX and VCF tasks, including installation, configuration, management, and troubleshooting. Also accountable for NSX-V to NSX-T migration tasks using cITopus. SPJ Solutions2cITopus as the primary NSX-V to NSX-T migration tool to perform assessment, design, migration, testing and validation of NSX-V to NSX-T migration.• Design, deployment, and configuration of single and multi-site NSX-T including federation.• Deployed cITopus at customer environments to perform NSX-V to NSX-T migration analysis• Generated cITopus Pre-Migration Analysis reports including Micro-Segmentation Migration Reports, Network Virtualization Migration Reports, and Compatibility Reports.• Generated Topology reports from cITopus which help analyze customer’s NSX-V Network Topologies and provide solutions for migration to NSX-T• Generated Micro-Segmentation Simulation reports from NSX-V which helps analyze the migration-related complexities of NSX-V and how cITopus will migrate the Micro-Segmentation to NSX-T.• Participated in the design sessions with the customers on NSX-V to NSX-T Migrations• Participated in the migration sessions including maintenance windows for production migration of Micro-Segmentation, Networking, Load Balaning

Conducting Official VMware courses.- SRM- vCOPS- Design- Troubleshooting- Performance

- Senior consultant in virtualized computing with focus on VMware NSX deployment and design.- VMware Certified Implementation Expert - Network Virtualization (VCIX-NV)- Participated in numerous design workshops and implementations.

Senior Project Manager with focus on Cloud/Virtualization/SAN design and architecture.

Employed as a senior virtualization consultant and VMware certified trainer. - Leading projects involving different aspects of virtualization and cloud such as security hardening, networking, optimization, troubleshooting and implementation. - Worked as a VMware Certified Instructor in APAC and EMEA delivering over 60 VMware classes for VMware, EMC, Cisco, IBM and many independent VMware Authorized Training Centers (VATC's) - Designing and architecting virtual and cloud infrastructure- Last project involved building a cloud environment for a large education company.

Worked as senior security and communication consultant.- Building physical and virtual networks.- Designing security solution for public school and enterprise - Implementing secure Active Directory design for hosting companies- Hardening virtual infrastructures

- Responsible for secure customer logins and communications using smart cards and VPN connections.- Responsible for designing and creating a secure customer file storage using PKI.- Responsible for designing and implementing highly available firewalls.

Worked as security and network manager responsible for internal handling of the IT infrastructure.- Securing internal and customer networks - Implementing autodeploy solutions for server deployment- Designing Citrix solutions- Teamleader for internal IT-department

Oslo, Oslo, No

Employed as server manager for internal systems.- Deploying Citrix solutions- Designing Active Directory solution- Implementing automatic Software and OS deployment solutions

Higher Education Diploma With Specialization In Computer Engineering, Information Technology

System/Network Engineer, Information Technology

English, Business