Engineer Manager

Gerry Bennan

Email: *********@********.***

Address: **** ******* *****

City: Colorado Springs

State: CO

Zip: 80920

Country: USA

Phone: 719-***-****

Skill Level: Experienced

Salary Range: $120,000

Willing to Relocate

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Educational Background:

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Job History / Details:

Gerry Brennan

3578 Hartsel Dr Unit E-214 Colorado Sprins, CO 80920

719-***-**** *********@********.***

Certifications:

VMWare Certified Professional (VCP5)

VMWare Sales Professional (VSP5)

VMWare Technical Sales Professional (VTSP5)

VMWare Certified Professional (VCP4)

VMWare Sales Professional (VSP4)

VMWare Technical Sales Professional (VTSP4)

VMware Certified Professional (VCP-310)

IBM Certified Solution Developer

CompTIA Security+

Compellent Certified Sales Professional

Compellent Certified Storage Architect

Objective:

A VMware Architect/System Engineer or Project Management position where excellent analytical problem solving skills and a strong work ethic can enhance the company's bottom line.

Summary:

Compellent Certified Storage Architect

Compellent Top Gun Sales Certification

VMWare VCP Certified for version 4

VMWare VCP Certified for version 3

VMWare Technical Sales Professional (VTSP4)

VMWare Architect and Design for 3.5 and vSphere 4

VMWare Customer System Evaluations, Capacity Planning.

VMWare Partner Solution Provider

IBM Business Partner

Security+ Certified

IBM WebSphere Certified Designer

Design, architecture, installation, consolidation of VMWare / vSphere 3.5, 4.0, and 5 for over 12 enterprise companies.

Multiple installations, configurations, and testing using VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager.

Multiple Blade technology experience:

IBM X-Series Blades (LS20/21 and HS20/21)

HP Blades C3000 (BL200, BL460/465)

Sun Blades (X6450, 8000)

Design, architecture, installation of VMware View (VDI) for both 3.5, 4.0, and 5.0.

Provided virtualization tools: including LabManager, VMWare Consolidated Backup and Update manager.

Implemented of vShield

Integration of LDAP within Websphere

Implementation of Development Lifecycle solution; including checkout procedure for scripts and Quality Assurance.

Wrote project plan and proposal to take over 22,000-user environment to be moved from T.O.S.S to Lotus Notes 4.5.

Security implementation for SUN, AIX, HPUX, and Linux servers.

Disaster Recovery planning and implementation.

Experience:

Contractor for VCE (EMC).

PS Residency Practice

November 2011 - Present

Support of the VCE VBlock 300 and 700 Series, running either VMAX or VNX Unified storage.

Provided post-Delivery and Installation onsite support

Configuration of AMP and Mini AMP to be used for installation of vCenter and components.

Configuration of VNX and VMAX storage via Unisphere for storage pool, boot LUN's and other necessary configurable parameters.

Verification of components in UIM (UCS, MDS, SAN, etc)

UIM to configure resources for the VBlock (UCS, MDS, SAN, etc)

Installation and configuration of the Nexus 1000v

Configuration and Provisioning using UIM

Consistently showed the value of VCE PS Residency Practice

Perform customer education sessions

1st level troubleshooting of core technologies

Upgrade firmware & software as needed

Perform regularly scheduled system health checks on all components of Vblock.

Act as interface between customer & VCE Seamless Support

Assist with Vblock integration (Backups, App/VM migrations, etc)

Provide assistance with administration & management of the Vblock (UCS, Unisphere, SMC)

Configuration, implementation, support of vShield (including Manager, Zones, Edge, App, and Endpoint). I was the go to person in VCE for vShield.

Dell, Inc.

On-Site Systems Engineer III, LE Tiger Team

December 2010 - October 2011

Tiger Team is a Pre-Sales, non-commission position. Tiger Team is the high level engineers (12 currently in US / CA) that provide White Glove Service and Server Out of Box.

Technologies include Blade Servers, Rack Servers, Equallogic, Compellent, OEM products, VMware 4.x, VDI, and Linux.

SalesForce trip reports and lead generation.

Built out AIM (Advance Infrastructure Manager) POD for Toronto Canada demo (customer) data center.

High level support for customers who experienced hardware / software issues that could not be resolved via level 1, 2, or 3 support.

Out of scope support for prospective and current customers, which includes the following: VMWare, Oracle GFS / RDAC, Linux, UNIX, and SharePoint Support.

Documentation, PlayBooks, and Site Checklists for Customer support and Team Support for Equallogic, VMWare, EQL ASM/VE, EQL ASM/ME, Compellent, and Dell Virtual Plug-in.

Contractor for IBM (Global Services)

VMWare Engineer and Architect / Linux Administrator

October 2009 - October 2010

Shared Health: Installed, configured, QA, Administration of RedHat EL 4 and 5 servers for customer account. Once Servers were built, they were turned over to me to validate, install necessary software (ISS, ESM, SRM), backups, and other general tasks. In turn servers were put into production. Ongoing support of these servers while in production.

FEMA: Installed, configured, kernel tuning, and securing ESX 3.5 and on IBM Blade servers. Installation of ESX was on local storage and VMFS Datastores were on SAN storage. There was no vCenter Server purchased or installed, all configurations and troubleshooting did take place via the command line utilizing Linux and esx-cfg commands.

BlockBuster Online: I originally built this account with ESX 2 and 8 IBM Blades in 2003. This account was turned back over to me and now is built with VSphere 4 and 35 blades. I handle all aspects of the environment; Virtual Center, ESX, Patches, Backups. 35 ESX Servers / 170 VMs

Victoria's Secret: the current environment consists of 15 Sun servers, 13 T5220s and 2 M5000s. Handle day to day maintenance, global and non-global zones.

I was the only VMWare expert on the team, so I handled all issues related to VMWare and ESX. This includes disaster recovery situations, upgrades, and installs.

Mentor to India personnel to instruct Linux and VMWare. This included technical sessions with personnel on how to use, install, troubleshoot, and tips and trick of Linux and VMware.

Contractor for GISC/STRATCOM

VMWare Engineer / Architect

April 2009 - September 2009

Installed, configured, kernel tuning, and securing ESX 4 on Sun Blade x6440. These blades use a NEM blade (10GB) HXGE driver, which was not available for ESX 4. A driver for 3.5 had to be used and integrated with vSphere to allow connectivity to storage. Due to this issue, I was unable to utilize iSCSI as a storage solution. In place of iSCSI and lack of funding for HBA's, I was forced to use NFS Datastore.

128 Blades vSphere (700+ VM's)

128 Blades ESX 3.5 (700+ VM's)

V Center was installed on a Windows 2003 64 Bit (SR2) blade to manage the ESX 4 servers and VM's. Approximately 25 VM's were managed for a development and QA environment. I was unable to deploy the vSphere environment in a production or Internet facing environment due to the lack of a DOD STIG that is not available for vSphere. Tools that I have used include HA and DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler, High Availability), Update Manager (Patch Management), and vMotion (to move disks easily)

SRM to automate recovery to / from the AirForce Academy using NFS data store.

vSphere is rebranded version of VI 3.5, with more enhanced tools and the ability to run servers over the internet (hence the Cloud Computing reference).

This position is to support the collaboration of agencies following the events of 9/11.

Installation, configuration, testing, and support SUN X6000 Blade Center with X6440 Blades and 10GBe NEM Blades.

Installation, configuration, testing, and support of SUN Unified Storage 7410 with NFS storage to VMWare,

Installation, configuration, testing, support of VMware ESX server3.5 and Virtual Center running Solaris 10 x86, Linux (Centos and RHEL) and Windows 2003 (x86 and X64) servers.

Extensive LVM in the Centos and RHEL for applications.

Current environment is 16 physical blades with ESX Server on Compact Flash drives. At the time of this resume there is currently 61 Virtual Machines of mixed OS installs.

Applications / software include: DC's, Exchange 2007, SharePoint 2007, Oracle DB's, FAST (Microsoft), Palantier, MS-CAD, Terminal Services.

VMware use of P2V, HA, Vmotion, Storage Vmotion, Update Manager, Lab Manager, and VMWare Consolidated Backup.

LDAP integration with Windows Active Directory for AD authentication for use with ESX Server and Virtual Center.

Use of DISA STIG requirements to secure all

Customer presentations on VMWare and server consolidation.

Documentation of the entire site, posted on SharePoint for customer use.

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Mainline Information Systems (CornerStone Systems)

September 2007 - March 2009

Sr Open Systems Engineer

This position was remote and telecommuting support as well as travel to several customer sites.

Installation, configuration of HP BladeSystem c-Class enclosures (racked and non racked). This installation included Intel and Integrity Blades with additional storage.

Installation, configuration, testing, and support of IBM System X; 3650, 3850, and 3950 (MP).

Consolidation and Virtualization solutions for clients to help them reduce cost and space.

Installation, configuration, testing, support, and documentation of Blade Center with Blade Servers.

Installation, configuration, testing, support of VMware ESX server and Virtual Center running both Linux and Windows 2003 servers.

With VMware use of P2V, HA, Vmotion, and Storage Vmotion.

LDAP integration with Windows Active Directory.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Services 2007 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2003 in the same VMware environment.

Brocade Module and Switches

DS3400 Installation, configuration, testing, support, and documentation

Installation, configuration, and security setup for DataPower SOA.

Installation, configuration, testing, and support of RedHat and SUSE Linux.

Installation, configuration, testing, and support of IBM's TS line of tape libraries.

Architecture, Installation, and configuration of these same servers with SAN attached storage, including boot from SAN and LUN mapping.

Support of the middleware group with installations of WAS 6.0 and 5.1.

Support of SUN servers (including V and E12K).

Customer presentations on VMWare and server consolidation.

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Contractor for IBM Global Services

October 2006 - August 2007

Transition Engineer

LSI Logic

April 2005 - October 2006

Sr Unix Engineer III

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CD-Telecom (AKA Cendant)

April 2004 - April 2005

Sr Security Engineer

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Contractor for IBM ODCS

September 2003 - April 2004

Websphere, AIX, Linux Engineer

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Contractor for Accredo Health

September 2002 - January 2003

Sr Unix Engineer

-

Contractor for IRS

May 2001 - July 2002

Systems Administrator / Security Analyst

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V-Tel Corporation

February 2001 - May 2001

Sr Network Engineer

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ICGate, Inc

September 2000 - February 2001

Sr Systems Engineer

Computer Horizons Corporation

September 1996 - September 2000

Sr Systems Engineer / Project Manager

J Crew Retail

September 1995 - September 1996

Systems Administrator

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Bonanza Trading

September 1992 - September 1995

Telecom and Systems Administrator

Education:

Bachelor of Computer Science, University of Phoenix

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