Anthony Fuller-Bey

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VMWARE VIRTUALIZATION AND IMPLEMENTATION ARCHITECT

SUMMARY

To be part of a cutting edge fluid information systems team environment that truly appreciates continuous growth, motivation, encouragement, trusted values, high project SLA dedication, and the contribution of incredible new conceptual ideas that attribute to an organization’s explosive growth thereby enhancing all facets of my continually expanding expertise.

PROFESSIONAL CREED

Highly versed in VMware architectural implementations, scoping, proof of concept planning, vSphere deployment strategies, and evangelizing the importance of using and relying on VMware product lines, providing support documentation, operations management, change management practices and ITIL v3 methodologies, personnel project resource scheduling, with an emphasis on datacenter consolidation efforts, windows server implementations, high availability scenarios and configurations, VMware virtualization mentoring, systems engineering, expert level IV troubleshooting and diagnostics of servers and network infrastructure devices.

PERSONALITY SKILLS MATRIX

 Global datacenter infrastructure scoping and consolidation expertise in Windows 2000, 03, 08, Suse and Redhat Linux.

 Implementing, configuring, and supporting Windows 2000/2003/2008 AD, VMware ESX 3.5, vSphere 4.0 and vCenter including HA\DRS.

 Highly proficient in performing physical to virtual (P2V) and virtual to physical (V2P) migrations using dissimilar hardware.

 Performed virtualizations of Oracle, SQL, Active Directory, Redhat and Suse Linux, IIS, and Citrix Presentation servers.

 Keen understanding of internet services such as IP, DHCP, WINS, DNS, SSH, and VPN as well as varied IBM and HP blade server hardware.

 Highly specialized skills in building customized non vendor based vSphere based hardware (vSphere white boxes) for small businesses.

 IBM AIX virtualization using single and dual VIO LPAR/DLPAR using HMC.

 Software management and monitoring expertise using HP Openview, Sitescope, Nagios, and HP SIM.

 Understanding of change control management processes using Remedy 7.5 and ClarifyCRM e 12i.

 Experienced performing bare metal restorations of dead servers to similar or dissimilar hardware.

 High understanding of disked based replication and disk de-duplication in disaster recovery (DR) exercise scenarios.

 Performance of client level support practices according to the best of six sigma, FDA and ITIL v3 regulatory standards.

 Project management planning skills during project activities and initiatives which include personnel resourcing and meeting deadlines.

 Ability to quickly understand key technologies in regards to providing return on investment for any corporations benefit.

 Performance of technical support and software installation documentation and up keeping of said documentation.

 Ability to work independently or as a member of a team managing multiple projects or resources and discerning workload priorities.

 Expert in the ability to motivate and encourage staff/co-workers to perform successfully under stressful situations and deadline pressures.

 Open minded ingenious thinker with the ability to provide innovative imaginative, "outside the box" technical solutions where needed.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES:

SIEMENS IT SOLUTIONS AND SERVICES, Norwalk, Connecticut

VMware Implementation and Solutioning Architect December 2008 to Present

 In depth VMware SME service delivery and process management lifecycle expertise used to facilitate the architectural planning, scoping, and implementation execution of a new deployment of vSphere-vCenter to the exisiting ITIL v3 global datacenters with emphasis on decommissioning and replacing existing legacy VMware hardware environments that consists of ESX versions 2.5, 3.0, 3.02, 3.5 and Virtual Center 2.0/2.5 and replacing ALL legacy ESX hosts with vSphere 4 managed by vCenter instances for a global Siemens client located in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, and Germany as well as providing high level technical advice for other various Siemens clients.

 Acting as a liaison between varied I.T. group’s technical subject matter expert teams and solutioning teams to ensure that the current virtualization infrastructure project initiative meets extensibility, complexity reduction goals, and returns on investment.

 Providing support direction in regards to the existing legacy virtual environments in conjunction with guiding the current vSphere upgrade initiative using HP c7000 blade enclosures/HP DL380 G6 and re-formatting ISCSI NetApp filers from 1MB/2MB to 8MB block size.

 Highly experienced with Windows Window Os administration and clustering support, VMware related capacity planning, and scoping of physical servers that could-would be converted to virtualized instances which also included rolling out of test virtual desktop deployment environment (VDI) of 400 clients using VMware view 4 and ThinApp 4 in conjunction with using Avamar Virtual edition for VMware.

 Mentoring and providing knowledge transfer training and guidance to senior and junior systems engineers locally and remotely on best practices during vSphere4 host install and support considerations along with the VM guest P2V, V2V migrations from the old legacy ESX external storage volumes to the new vSphere 4 farm storage environments.

 Motivating, encouraging, training-engaging all support staff regarding day to day management support of the new vSphere infrastructure.

 Managing, planning, and scheduling off hours p2v migration moves with system engineers in the United States, Canada, Brazil, and Germany as part of the virtualization initiative that’s currently in place as well as creating and continually updating step by step documentation on refinement procedures, and troubleshooting techniques regarding VMware’s best practices when performing physical to virtual (P2V/V2P) server moves using the VMware converter or Platespin on Windows and Linux based servers.

 Managing and planning of forklift and (P2P) physical to physical server moves from remote satellite U.S. sites to the main tier1 Datacenters in Chicago and Mobile Alabama as another part of the Datacenter consolidations project.

 Meeting with business technology unit application owners to review applications/app servers that are or that are not candidates for virtualization now that the new vSphere environment supports 64bit CPU processing.

 Helping solutions teams prepare for proof of concept management reviews which will in turn help to further refine IT processes and SLAs.

 Adherence to technology corporate planning policies and practices in all activities and when appropriate make recommendations for improvements to increase efficiencies and effectiveness of the newly implemented vSphere global farm infrastructure.

COMCAST GUIDEWORKSTV, Radnor, Pennsylvania

Remote VMware Implementation Architect PM July 2007 to November 2008

 Spear headed various project implementation deployment responsibilities including but not limited to upgrading and architecting ESX 3.5/VC. 2.5 upgrade from the existing ESX 2.0/3.X/Virtual Center 2X virtual infrastructure, and adding Active Directory 2008 to the existing Windows 2000/2003 server datacenter environments and evaluating requirements for virtualization, local and optimized SAN disk storage allocation, redundant pathing, high availability and Distributed Resource Scheduler.

 Meeting with upper and regular level management personnel to give updates on SLAs, and target dates and ideas regarding vSphere4 migrations, Active Directory 2008 upgrade considerations as well as using newly purchased HP C7000 blade center enclosure hardware.

 Working with applications owners to effectively plan, virtualization activities, and troubleshoot/support 225 Windows and 75 Suse Linux Enterprise that will be virtualized by the end of September 2009.

 Creating new virtual and physical Windows 2008 servers to replace legacy Windows 2000 and 2003 IIS/Apache Web application servers, SQL and Citrix presentation application servers.

 Creating living documentation on best practices when performing physical to virtual and virtual to physical (P2V/V2P) server consolidations using the VMware converter and Vsphere step by step installation instructions.

 Working with various internal and external IT groups to allocate resources to perform P2V conversion scheduling and managing a team of consultants to perform the actual P2V moves as well as being a technical point of contact during and after the move phase is completed.

 Performing rollbacks of new virtual machines with proven cause due to poor performance to dissimilar physical hardware.

 Using Platespin Forge as a disaster recovery exercise solution to insure minimal downtime with the newly created virtual and physical servers added to the existing DR environment.

JOHNSON & JOHNSON NCS-ITS, Raritan, New Jersey

Datacenter Virtualization Consolidations Architect June 2007 to July 2009

 Expert level in depth planning, documentation and management of virtualized Windows 2000, 2003, 2008 and VMware ESX 3.5 and Virtual Center 2.5 environments.

 Management duties performed with strict adherence to ITIL v3 service management procedures, Sarbanes Oxley compliance processes and change management controls in a validated, FDA regulated, and globally managed datacenter environment.

 Technical documentation of all installations, updates, and troubleshooting methods and procedures with an emphasis on best practices.

 Lead charge in the effective upgrading of Global VMware 2.X environment to 3.02 and 3.5 ESX farms connected via SAN, or locally connected storage as part of the J& J Datacenter consolidations initiative.

 Setting up High Availability Datacenter vSphere clusters using HP blade center enclosures with DRS capabilities.

 Vsphere 4 and vCenter 4 implementation with labmanger in the development test lab environment.

 Managed resources responsible for global datacenter consolidation of local and remote physical hardware to virtual machines that required the conversion of IBM hardware with Suse Linux Enterprise, and various HP hardware with Windows NT4.0, 2000, 2003, and 2008 servers into virtual servers using the following conversion tools: VMware converter, PlateSpin Powerconvert, NTbackup, and Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery.

 Meeting with various levels of upper management and application owners locally and remotely to effectively plan (hour to hour meetings to scope and plan various types of global DCC physical to virtual, virtual to physical, physical to physical (P2P), and forklift moves), and discuss best practices when deploying physical to virtual/virtual to virtual and physical Windows and RedHat server moves from local and remote locations into the Raritan NJ Datacenter along with engaging remote and onsite engineers to perform scheduled moves and troubleshooting when necessary.

 Virtualization of Citrix, DNS, IIS, Oracle, SQL, Redhat/Suse Linux, file, print, employee benefit, and payroll servers globally.

 Global SWAT team resolution and troubleshooting VMware point of contact, and solutions support during critical outages and emergencies.

 Performance of Disaster Recovery preparation readiness exercises using disk deduplication of hot VM migrations in the same cluster across 2 sites.

 Level 3 support project lead interface for varied internal and external J&J off site operating companies in regards to server virtualization and physical server support, Windows Os, Active Directory, Windows Group Policy, High Availability Windows Clustered servers, Mom, Scom, veritas netbackup, global DNS and WINS troubleshooting.

 Meeting with various levels of corporate management to refine, scope, reset targeted deadlines as needed, and to discuss the status of current and future infrastructure projects.

 Change control, configuration management and Helpdesk ticket tracking maintained using Remedy/Picasso/ITSM databases.

ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY & HOSPITAL, New York, New York

Lead VMware Implementation Engineer September 2006 to June 2007

 Provided planning and proof of concept regarding support solutions for all hospital, and college campus labs, and faculty offices using Dell and IBM bladecenter server systems in the production and development datacenters.

 Introduced and managed newly configured VMware ESX 3.5 and Virtualcenter 2.5 into the datacenter and campus lab environments along with providing training in use of the new virtualization infrastructure attached to ISCSI NetAppfilers and Linux based NFs tools repositories.

 Instructed support personnel on performing bare metal restore recovery, physical to virtual and virtual to physical migrations using Symantec Backup Exec Recovery System Recovery, VMware converter, and other utilities as well as providing solid howto documentation.

 Implemented Symantec Livestate System Recovery servers to perform full and incremental server based image backups of select critical physical and virtual machine Windows 2000, 2003, and beta 2008 server images as a DR solution policy. This also and more importantly allowed for placing said disk based images on dissimilar hardware as well which truly minimized critical server outages.

 Lending a hand when needed to provide high level support to the existing Windows, Linux and Solaris support areas.

 Managing 7 desktop and 5 server engineers on various project related tasks or high priority incidents.

 Working with all IT solutions teams, groups, and vendors to better manage technical support resolution issues as well as refining coordination of myriad project tasks deadlines which most times involve interdependencies between various internal and external IT support liaisons to successfully complete project scopes.

 Well versed in making IT team members feel motivated to succeed and respond positively to day to day infrastructure demands as well as having an open door policy-open mind when it came to fresh technical advice or new support ideas raised during weekly tech meetings.

MFX FAIRFAX, Ridgefield Park, New Jersey

Disaster Recovery Engineer 3rd shift April 2006 to August 2006

 Support of a disaster recovery site that housed varied corporate clients networked servers and equipment.

 Management and support of varied corporate entities’ Windows NT 4.0, 2000, and 2003 servers and Active Directory domains.

 Deployment of Os images/rebuilds on various models of Dell, HP/Compaq and IBM server hardware using Symantec Livestate Recovery Advanced Server.

 Managing and supporting Windows server in a multi AD domain forest as well as dealing with site replication issues.

 Windows clustering configurations using SAN/NAS technology.

 Disaster recovery site replication and fault tolerance testing and support for various corporate clients DR exercise engagements.

 Vmware ESX 2.X server planning, deployment and support as well as troubleshooting new conversions of physical servers to virtual instances.

 System monitoring of entire enterprise using Nagios, and Compaq insight manager.

 Planning and creation of Active Directory and Vmware ESX rollouts, upgrades and on-site support for various MFX corporate clients’ Windows networking topologies.

 Working with various corporate clients’ servers to assist with many technical issues that varied from company to company.

 Testing of server hardware before placing in production environments and providing 2nd and 3rd level technical support.

 Documentation of technical procedures and best disaster recovery practices and support in regards to multiple Windows environments.

IBM-ING Server Consolidation Project, St. Louis, Missouri

Remote Datacenter Virtualization Consolidation Engineer January 2006 to July 2006

 Worked remotely from home and travelled to Missouri datacenter occasionally to consolidate legacy Windows servers into VM guests and legacy physical servers to updated IBM X-series hardware as well as creating PXe based Windows server images for install deployments.

 Planning and implementation of physical hosts into virtual machines in an ESX 2.x and GSX environments as well as performing IBM AIX virtualization micro partitioning LPARS/DLPARS as well as creating VIO server and clients LPAR using HMC on Power 5/6 equipment.

 Assisted local engineers with various server support issues after hours and weekends after completed migrations.

 Performed Windows NT4.0 upgrade to a Windows 2003 Active Directory environment and implementing group policy.

 Executed server builds of IBM servers using GHOST and Altiris throughout the entire U.S. ING enterprise.

 Performance of server validation/system readiness before server is passed into production environment according to runbook specs.

 Installing and consolidating 2-3 NT server applications into one new existing Windows 2000/2003 server and configuring load balancing, clustering, web servers and Citrix Presentation server.

 Monthly traveling to ING/IBM datacenters in Boulder Colorado and St. Louis Missouri to receive IBM training and to provide onsite support.

 Assisting remote IBM technicians throughout the U.S. and Argentina with 3rd level technical support issues that occurred daily.

MERRILL LYNCH, Hopewell, New Jersey

QA Datacenter Engineer February 2005 to January 2006

 Developing test plans and test scripts for testing of all Windows 2000/2003 application servers before production placement.

 Executing test scripts for Wealth Management Technology Platform (WMTP), Global Private Client Core (GPC), Wealth Management Workstations (WMW), Trusted Global Advisor (TGA) and call centers.

 Running test efforts in different staging environments -- Pre Production, Dark Pod and Swing or Live Production

 Performance of functional regression testing, smoke tests and written documentation of testing and trouble shooting methods.

 Installation and configuration testing ¬– Validation of build versions that are installed by examining the appropriate registry files, about screens etc. to verify the correct version exists by matching what is listed on the release manifest.

 Performing QA Datacenter server systems stress, utilities, application and system monitoring testing using LoadRunner, WinRunner, Merrill Lynch in house applications and NETiQ/HP CIM applications to monitor the performance of QA servers.

 Automated Windows 2000/2003 server builds using IBM Tivoli and Altiris Rapid Deployment.

 Certification of servers that passed all QA testing cycles successfully were passed off to server teams to implement in production/development environments.

HORIZON BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD, Newark, New Jersey

Lead Datacenter Engineer 3rd shift May 2003 to April 2006

 HP Windows 2000/2003 server support rendered to Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield Datacenter.

 Monitoring and supporting VMware GSX and VMware workstation lab environments.

 Windows NT4.0/2000/03 Domain management in a HP server Wintel HIPAA compliant environment.

 Supported and engaged in multiple infrastructure enhancement projects.

 Troubleshooting AD group login failures, Citrix access issues, and disk replication problems.

 Management and support of Windows 2000/2003 Active Directory.

 Server install deployments performed using PXE Altiris Remote Deployment on various HP server models including blade center hardware.

 Mission critical management and support of Windows 2000 high availability clusters via SAN connected to Unisys ES7000 hardware (dual nodes) in conjunction with support of SIEBEL and QBLUE/QMACS thin client servers as well as monitoring SIEBEL application performance.

 Windows 2000 Terminal services and Citrix Metaframe Farm management and support.

 Liaison and point of contact for various application and hardware vendors on and off site and monitoring and support of enterprise servers, switches, HP SAN cabinets, tape libraries and applications using Sitescope, NetIQ Appmanager, Cisco Works and HP Insight Manager.

NYC POLICE DEPARTMENT (Dept of Information Technology and Telecom), New York, New York

Infrastructure Deployment Engineer October 2002 to April 2003

 Performed system implementation of the 311 Quality of life non-emergency response systems for the NYPD under the guidelines of the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications.

 Upgraded all Police precincts to fast Ethernet topology to coexist with existing token ring environment.

 Installed and configured Cisco 3745 Ethernet routers in all NYC Police precincts.

 Novell 3X bindery support, creation of IP segments, DNS and DHCP servers.

 Rollout of 2 to 4 Windows XP Professional workstations per NYC area precinct and tested workstation connectivity testing to the 311 non-emergency Siebel database.

 Performed physical monitoring and technical support of 311 systems after implementation was completed.

 Management and support of Windows 2000 /2003 AD folder permissions.

NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL, New York, New York

Lead Support Engineer May 2000 to June 2002

 Held permanent engagement with First Consulting Group providing level III support and team leadership in a change management, service level agreement environment.

 Multifaceted responsibilities at N.Y. Presbyterian Hospital consisted of providing support to mission critical systems within a mixed environment that included Cisco, Windows, Novell and Citrix systems.

 Effectively planned, documented and completed a migration to Windows 2000 Active Directory from WindowsNT4.0.

 Functions included building and configuring of various Compaq servers to a particular standard, creating Ghost desktop images for rollout teams, constant telephone and meeting with various software and hardware vendors.

 Provided on-site and remote user support for enterprise level Windows NT4.0, and Windows 2000 servers; Netware 4x and 5x servers; MS SMS 2.0, Exchange 5.5/ 2000 support; and Citrix server and associated applications.

 Remote management of servers, workstations and IP addresses provided using NetiQ Appmanager, QIP and SMS 2.0 and RDP and performed VMware testing of virtual servers using VMware workstation.

 Diagnosed network connectivity issues using hardware fluke and maintained a wide variety of applications and hardware including Cisco Routers, Catalyst switches, Compaq servers, wireless LAN servers, notebooks, and software rollouts and performed installation and configurations of Windows 2000 cluster servers for mission critical application integration. Special hospital critical care applications supported included Eclipsys, and Cerner.

JOHNSON & JOHNSON HCS, Piscataway, New Jersey

Desktop Support Analyst November 1999 to May 2000

 Provided Y2K technical support for Johnson and Johnson Health Care Systems under IBM Global Services.

 Assisted users with various desktop/laptop hardware and software issues and concerns.

 Worked in conjunction with helpdesk to resolve all kinds of support problems.

 Provided telephone support for remotely connected sales personnel.

 Server and desktop support within Windows 98/NT4 and Novell 4X environment.

 Hardware repair of various models of Compaq servers and IBM desktops.

 Rolling out and retiring of Compaq servers, IBM desktops and notebooks.

 Performed system configuration and trouble-shooting of various user applications such as e-mail clients, MS Office, Rhumba, Novell client and auditing of all hardware and software for Year 2000 readiness.

 Trained and supported employees using VPN remote access locally and remote.

 Adding new users to the domain, modifying existing user accounts, assigning rights to groups and directories.

PFIZER PHARMACEUTICALS, Brooklyn, New York

Server and Desktop Engineer September 1997 to November 1999

 Senior technical consultant to Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Brooklyn N.Y. production plant.

 Charged with facilitating technical support and administration functions for hardware, Windows NT4 desktops, servers, and Novell Netware.

 Assisted users with various desktop problems that occurred from day to day including failure to login to Novell server, account lockouts, viruses, and restoring user data from crashed desktops, laptops, and desktop hardware failure.

 Performed server builds, Microsoft Exchange administration, user account creation and modification, rights assignment, login script administration and carried out desktop support lockdown security policy and procedures.

 Documentation of troubleshooting and server software installation processes.

 Assisted users by providing all levels of desktop hardware and software technical support and application training.

 Rollout and administration of Systems Management Server 1.2, SQL 7.0 and Secure ID VPN.

 Performed Arc serve tape backups, application testing, Year2000 auditing and on call support rotation.

SERVER BASED CERTIFICATION TRAINING:

VMware ESX 2.53 VMware.com Class Completion 08/2006 - VMware vSphere VCP4 Class Completion 06/2010

CCNA Class Completion 10/00

Citrix Metaframe XPE Class Completion 08/01

Windows NT 4.0 MCP 09/98

OBTAINED UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INTERIM SECURITY CLEARANCE:

Interim Secret Clearance Eligibility was received on 2009 12 02 DISCO/201*-**-**-**** <-------RECENT!

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