Engineer Project Manager

Joseph N. Kasal

** ******* *****, ****** ***** Margarita, CA 92688

Cellular: 949-***-**** ********@*****.***

Senior Virtualization Engineer/ Senior Systems Engineer

Background includes 10 years of experience in design, implementation, troubleshooting and maintaining

of virtual and physical infrastructures. History of rapid promotion with previous employers due to

performance, work ethic and the ability to work well both in a team environment as well as an individual

with little or no supervision.

Technical Skills / Competencies

Hardware: HP C7000 Chassis’, Virtual Connects, Flex-10, Onboard Administrators, HP/Dell

Servers, EMC CLARiiON, Celerra, Iomega NAS Devices, Barracuda Spam

Firewall, Cisco Routers, Firewalls, Switches, F5 BigIP, APC InfraStruxure UPS’

Operating Systems: VMware vSphere 4.x, 5.x, VMware Infrastructure 3.x, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix

Xen Server, Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008,Windows XP, Vista, 7, RedHat,

CentOS, Ubuntu

Software: VMware vCenter, Site Recovery Manager, VMware View, ThinApp, VMware

Workstation, Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, IIS,

Apache, DNS, WINS, BIND, DHCP

Information Security: SOX, GLBA, FCRA, PCI, BitLocker, PointSec, TrueCrypt, SSLs

Professional Experience

Lender Processing Services (LPS) Irvine, CA January 2005 – Present

Fidelity National Real Estate Solutions

Go Apply, Inc

Senior Systems Engineer II December 2008 -Present

Primarily responsible for architecting, implementing and managing the VMware vSphere internal

cloud infrastructure that supports both internal use applications as well as a vast customer-facing

web presence. The entire environment is 90% virtualized.

The vSphere implementation for which I am responsible has achieved greater than a 13:1

consolidation ratio while still ensuring high availability.

• 33 vSphere 4.1 ESXi Enterprise Plus hosts making up an environment of 850 GHz of

processing power, 4TB of memory capacity and over 100TB of VMFS and NFS Storage.

• 450+ guests running a combination of Windows, RHEL, and CentOS.

• Supports 60+ VLANs utilizing Virtual Distributed Switching (vDS)

During my tenure as the Virtualization team lead, I upgraded our environment through several

versions of VMware Hypervisors, VI3.x, vSphere 4.x along with a multitude of other successes.

• Migrated large Physical Microsoft SQL databases to virtual machines on vSphere 4.1

saving $350k+ in Windows and MSSQL licensing costs each year.

• Migrated numerous MSSQL Database servers with 64GB+ RAM including Instances

with 128+ GB of RAM and 8 vCPUs (Limit in vSphere 4.1)

• Migrated hundreds of web, middleware, and mail servers to the virtual environment

I am required by LPS to attend yearly security courses on information security relating to SOX,

GLBA and FCRA to ensure my knowledge of these Acts is fresh and up to date as LPS is held to

the same standards as a financial institution.

Senior Systems Engineer I October 2007 – December 2008

Prior to being bought out and merged with LPS, I was a Senior Systems Engineer I for Fidelity

National Real Estate Solutions which later changed its name to Cyberhomes, in which I was

responsible for a large web facing platform that supported 150,000+ real estate broker and agent

websites.

I have several noteworthy accomplishments in this role.

• Consistently recognized for maintaining a high level of uptime

• Migrated the entire platform from a datacenter in Chicago, IL to our datacenter in Olathe,

KS under a tight budget and tighter timeline saving the company $50k month in hosting

costs.

• Instrumental in migrating the MSSQL database servers to new hardware and to a 64bit

platform using a 4 node Windows Cluster vs a 6 node cluster saving $90k + a year in

licensing and hardware costs.

Network Engineer/Network Administrator January 2005 – October 2007

My original position in the company was as a Network Administrator for Go Apply, Inc. I

quickly got promoted to Network Engineer with in two months and maintained that position

through a buyout by Fidelity National Real Estate Solutions (FNRES).

Accomplishments while I was a Network Engineer

• Instrumental in the integration of Go Apply assets in to FNRES’ infrastructure after it’s

acquisition.

• Responsible for the customer web facing environment during which time became the 3 rd

largest mortgage lead generating and selling portal in the nation.

• Implemented a highly available Exchange 2003 cluster.

FANG Clothing Inc. Gardena, CA March 2003- January 2005

Network Administrator

I was solely responsible for maintaining 150+ client workstations in a Microsoft and Apple

environment, spanning six locations in three countries. I administered network components

including Cisco routers, switches, PIX and several servers, including Microsoft exchange 2003

servers.

• In charge of the testing, purchasing, and implementing new technology.

• Project Manager of Due Diligence process for potential new company property.

Included being liaison to engineers, contractors and realtors. Reported directly to the

President/CEO.

Independent Contractor Denver, CO/ Lake Forest, CA June 2000 – March 2003

Worked with Small and Medium Businesses implementing desktop and server solutions during

and immediately after college

Education

Westwood College of Technology, Denver, CO

Bachelor of Science in Computer Network Management (2002) Dean’s List

VMware Training, San Francisco, CA

VMware vSphere: Manage for Performance [V4.x] Completed:

02/25/2011

Next Generation VMware Infrastructure: Install, Configure, Manage. Completed: 05/15/2010

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