Support my groups various projects with required daily IT support of Windows 10 - 7, and multiple flavors of Linux; Red Hat v7.x, CentOS v7.x and Ubuntu 18.x and 16.x with installations, upgrades, patchings, permissions, etc. Complete setup, configuration and daily support of a VMWare Virtual Center Appliance v6.7 environment tied into a Windows Active Directory 2012R2 domain for authentication. • VMware vSphere ESXi responsibilities included setting up and deploying various VMs supporting different tasks and projects. Administration including Cloning, Snapshots, vMotion, Storage vMotion, etc. and Physical to Virtual (P2V) migrations via the VMware converter tool. • Work in both Classified and Non-Classified environments to support my groups’ government secured programs. • Provide full technical documentation, training and level 3 daily support to peers and junior staff.• Infrastructure support of groups applications; Gitlab, Matlab, Sharepoint, Confluence.

At a Service Provider and VAR with Cloud hosted services, my responsibilities include providing full customer support for the designing, implementing and daily support of their VMWare Horizon Air (DaaS /View) VDI offering. This solution spans across three different datacenters worldwide. Complete setup and configuration of VMWare Air (DaaS /View) to include VMWare vCenter 6.0, Windows Active Directory 2008, 2012 and various Windows Desktops and Windows Server OSs for DaaS Hosted VMs. Our VMWare VDI Cloud hosted environment is accessed from multiple customers from various PCs, Thin Clients, Zero Clients, IPads, and Android Devices (BYOD) worldwide. • Team lead for additional value added resources (VAR) from Trend Micro Deep Security for AV protection, Trend Micro Interscan Web Security Suite (IWSS) for web filtering and IBM BigFix for OS patching and application deployments. • Responsibilities include full design, engineering, implementing and daily support of all three value added resources mentioned above.• Provide full technical documentation, training and level 3 daily support to peers and junior level staff.• Engineering and daily administration of over 5000 Windows server and workstation VMs spread over more than 300 VMWare ESXi v6.0 hosts administered from over 5 VMWare vCenters v6.0.

Responsible for complete engineering, implementing, and supporting of multiple Citrix XenApp farms all versions from v6.5 through v4.x, and Citrix XenDesktop all versions v7.1 through 5.x hosted on various Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) hardware - PCs, Thin Clients, Zero Clients, IPad, Android Devices. VDI engineering and administration on all hypervisors including ESXi v5.x and v4.x, MS HyperV 2012R2, 2008 and Citrix XenServer v6.x all connected backend to Dell Compellent and EMC Clarion SAN solutions. • Team lead Citrix, VMWare, Microsoft Engineer and Trainer to junior staff in supporting proprietary OneSign SSO application running against multiple VDI infrastuctures. • Create and support complete QA lab performance testing in various VDI Lab environment running various hypervisors and virtualization platforms to match our customers environments. • Develop IT and QA documents and execution of Test Cases, User Stories (requirements), Defect Tracking, and Citrix / VMware / Microsoft qualification documents for formal OneSign support acceptance.• Engineering and daily administration of over a 1000 server and workstation VMs spread across more than 40 various VMWare ESXi, Citrix XenServer and Microsoft HyperV hosts• Full directory services install and support Microsoft Active Directory 2012R2, 200x and Novell NDS

Provide technical Windows 2000/2003/2008 server OS consultation, implementation, documentation and 3rd level support for multi-HP Proliant server infrastructure. HP Proliant Server hardware to include C and P class Blades, DL and ML series. Project management for planning with clients, vendors and various supporting computer infrastructure teams for application integration. Manage interns to assist in multiple IT projects that required additional resources.Capacity planning involving the monitoring of disk, CPU and memory usage via HP Openview, CA eHealth SystemEDGE and Disk Performance tools to ensure client applications operate seamlessly.Provide virtual VMware OS support and administration with ESX running in large VMware infrastructure via the Virtual Infrastructure Client (VIC).Responsible for the building, deployment and supporting of Windows 2003 64Bit Enterprise server onto many Stratus FT 4400 and 3300 servers. Responsible for administration in a Citrix server farm on different versions to include XenApp and previous Presentation Server versions.Design, implement, and administer various research applications with great working knowledge to include but not limited to: - Waters NuGenesis archiving and restore / Cambridgesoft e-Notebook - Sassafras KeyServer / DNA Star / Pharsight app metering, monitoring and licensing.

Completely responsible for all design, testing, documentation and implementation of any Windows related activities pertaining to my site location.Backup lead engineer for all Novell NDS, Netware 5.x and 6.x, and GroupWise systems that use various EMC Clarion and Symmetrix DMX Storage Attached Networks (SAN).Responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting full virus protection system with multiple McAfee products. Assisted with implementing a cross platform Tivoli TSM backup solution for Windows, Netware, and Unix.

Daily Microsoft Windows and Novell Netware Server and PC administration in an FDA qualified and regulated environment.Performed daily administration of multiple NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 domains. Project planning and migrated multiple NT 4.0 domains into a Windows 2000 Active Directory domain by use of Quests Active Directory migration tool.Novell Netware 4.x and 5.x Engineering and Administration in large e-Directory - NDS environment.

Team Leader for System Engineers and Customer Engineers. Primary operating systems include NetWare 3.x, 4.x and Windows NT 3.5x and NT 4.x., TCP/IP Subnetting.Project manager for client network installations. Determined file server specifications and evaluated server and peripheral utilization. Provided management and project execution for customers including but not limited to the following companies: Fidelity Investments, John Hancock Investments, Putnam Investments, Bose and Polaroid.

Lan Administration on a 50-node network on all versions of Netware in a DOS and Windows For Workgroups environment. Purchasing agent for all computer and network related products. Provided customer support for in house software packages that included Wanderlink, Proxy, and Appmeter.

Honorable Discharge