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New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

vOps & Enterprise Compute Operations and Shared Infrastructure (CPDS)• Member of the team that achieved a smooth changeover with minimal turmoil during the acquisition of Ipreo LLC by IHS Markit. Due diligence and forward planning during different acquisition stages were conducted appropriately for uninterrupted business operations with minimal risk or disruptions.• Awarded the “IHS Markit 2018 IT Excellence” Award.• Deployed and administered VMware environments in VMC on AWS (SDDC) and on-prem using Cisco UCS & Dell PowerEdge servers to maintain a 99.999% production uptime.• Virtual Machine (VM) Migrations using HCX, vMotion and svMotion, site to site & site to cloud migrations.• Virtualization tools: vSphere 6.x & 7.0, vCenter, ESXi, HA, DRS, vSAN, vROps, vMotion, svMotion, snapshots, templates, Update Manager, HCX, VRNI, Skyline Advisor, VMC SDDC, vSphere CLI, SDDC Manager, RV Tools.• Administered Pure & Dell SAN storage devices to maximize uptime.• Maintained legacy Ipreo LLC systems; Windows Server 2012-2019, Disaster Recovery, Active Directory, Domain Services, DNS, DFS, DFSR, Group Policy, SSO, Powershell, Windows clusters running SQL Server, physical data centers.• Worked in a global team setting to achieve a 24/7/365 shift coverage.• Lead datacenter consolidation projects to minimize the number of on-prem datacenters while maintaining full site and application redundancy.

New York, Ny, Us

i-Deal LLC and Hemscott merged to form Ipreo• Lead engineer of a five member Systems Engineering team.• Designed, deployed and administered VMware environments in VMC on AWS and on-prem using Dell PowerEdge servers to achieve a 99.999% production uptime. vSphere CLI.• Utilized VMware VMC on AWS to migrate an on-prem datacenter into a VMC SDDC to reduce site operating costs.• Designed, deployed and administered Pure, NetApp & Dell SAN devices and associated infrastructure.• Collaborated with vendors for installations and upgrades, reducing installation time and associated costs.• Responsible for equipment deployment and maintenance in five US data centers. Oversaw three UK data centers.• Experience with Windows Server Administration including Active Directory, Domain Services, DNS, DFS, DFSR, DHCP, Group Policy, SSO, Powershell, Windows clusters running SQL Server, backup and recovery using Veeam.• Experience with Windows Server 2000 through Windows Server 2019.

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• Designed, built and maintained a global server infrastructure for corporate, production, disaster-recovery and QA environments.• Purchased, deployed and maintained Dell PowerEdge servers in multiple datacenter environments.• Performed Windows Server Administration including Active Directory, Domain Services, DNS, DFS, DFSR, DHCP, Group Policy, Windows clusters running SQL Server, backup and recovery.• Documented Windows server build process to minimize build issues.• Designed and maintained automated Windows Server builds on Dell PowerEdge servers.• Fax server design, deployment & maintenance for production environments.