VMware, ESXi, vCenter, SRM, Windows, Architect, Engineer, Pre-Sales
Resume:
DMITRIY FAYER
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SUMMARY
•Experienced IT professional with leadership roles in financial services, medical, and retail industries as well as consulting engagements
•Participated in a broad spectrum of infrastructure management including implementation, operations, migrations and support
•Focus areas include assessing IT environments and teams, looking for opportunities to enhance productivity and operational efficiency
•Record of expanding skill-set, handling increasing levels of responsibility and ability to learn and rapidly adapt to new challenges
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
•Leading Data Center consolidations, relocations, and migrations
•Holistic understanding of Data Center Operations (i.e. Production operations, Server, Storage, Network, Database Mgt., Systems Mgt., Helpdesk, DR/Business recovery practices etc.). Infrastructure discovery and assessments providing technical solutions / recommendations
•Expert VMware Engineer since ESX 1.x
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
OpticsPlanet 01/2017 - Present
Senior IT Engineer / Consultant
Reporting into Head of Technology; was brought in to complete a series of assessments and strategic initiatives as a part of a large internal infrastructure overhaul effort. Responsibilities include:
•Performed datacenter and infrastructure health assessment, presenting recommendations and cost benefit analysis to stakeholders
•Delivered vSAN solution architecture document and migration playbook
•Worked with heads of infrastructure and applications development to create future state system documents
•Evaluated vendors and solutions
•Completed vSphere upgrade (to version 6.5)
•Optimized resource provisioning in existing (legacy) environment, resulting in measurable application performance gains
•Assisted engineering teams with systems and operations support; provided post-mortem outlining proposed long-term solutions
Hewlett-Packard (HPE) 1/2016 – Present
Solutions Architect (Data Center Transformations)
Provided end-to-end data migration/transformation solutions for internal and external customers. Responsibilities included:
•Delivered / reviewed / presented architectural solutions to customers and stakeholders
•Led transformation and migration of clients from multiple North American and European data centers due for decommissioning into strategic data centers within the HP Global Enterprise Services organization
•Responsible for creating migration strategy, move groups, run-books, and application mappings
•Prepared and delivered audience specific presentations to clients’ engineering and business heads
•Served on the Global Architecture Governance Board, which has final approval for all migration and transformation strategies for the North American and European portions of the global initiative
•Provided architectural direction for multiple medium to large sized projects concurrently
Datalink, Inc. (Data Center Transformations & Relocations) 03/2012 – 01/2016
Senior Engineer (Pre-sales and delivery)
Served in pre-sales and engineering team lead capacities, owning delivery of customer data center migrations, transformations and virtualization projects for Datalink customers. Responsibilities included:
•Technical lead of a multi-phase data center relocation project during Google/Motorola acquisition
•Developed data migration strategy for a number of critical application environments, with near zero downtime requirements
•Led migration of hundreds of terabytes of data between various storage vendor platforms across long distances (WANs) utilizing tools such as Qlogic ISR, and Cirrus Data DMS, NetApp, IBM, HITACHI replication
•Migrated entire vCenter environments across locales
•Led migration day triage rooms/conference calls
•Consolidated multiple vCenters at various sites into one
•Identified gaps in the IT Operations process and documented improvements to insure a successful migration
•Responsible for pre/post-sales technology consulting, architecture, and design of infrastructure solutions
•Architected and built VMware environments from ground up
•Performed thousands of Windows / Linux migrations via V2V, P2V and P2P
Medline Industries, Inc. Mundelein, IL 10/2007 – 03/2012
Engineering Lead - IT (2010-2012)
Senior IT Engineer (VMware) (2007-2010)
•Managed VM infrastructure consisting of 5 Virtual Centers, 50+ ESX hosts, and over 1000 guests
•Designed, built, and administered VMware View environment (from View 3.x to View 4.5)
•Architected, planned and executed upgrades from ESX 3.0 to ESXi 4.x and vCenter 4.x
•Created and documented ESX 4.x build procedures; created kickstart scripts to automate host builds
TEKsystems 03/2006 – 10/2007
VMWare Engineer (Abbott Labs)
•Planned and executed migration from ESX 2.5.3 to ESX 3.0.1, Virtual Center 2.0
•Developed kickstart scripts to fully automate ESX 3.0.1 server install
•Managed VM infrastructure consisting of 5 ESX farms, 1 GSX farm, 50+ hosts, over 500 guests
•Performed P2Vs, disaster recoveries, and farm/LUN migrations
IT Engineer (International Truck and Engine)
•Staff aug. server engineer
IT Engineer (Navistar)
•Staff aug. server engineer
Washington Mutual Bank, Vernon Hills, IL 12/2004 – 03/2006
Senior Server Engineer
•Provided core server engineering services in two regions supporting over 2000 servers
•Provided VMware support for the WAMU VMware team
•Led the patching team for enterprise wide monthly Microsoft patching
•Provided final level escalation for Wintel servers OS and Hardware troubleshooting
Zurich Financial Services, Schaumburg, IL 12/2000 – 12/2004
Systems Engineer / Security Administrator
•Researched, designed and implemented VMware server consolidation
•Technical lead for implementation of VMware virtual server infrastructure
•Built and configured infrastructure, web, application, and database servers per specifications
•Developed scripts to automate the NT user ID creation process; cut administration time by 400%
ROE DuPage County, Addison, IL 02/2000 – 12/2000
IT Administrator
•Set up and maintained a LAN of about 50+ users
•Backup and restore administration
•Management of Microsoft Outlook 2000, email accounts and groups
•Installed, troubleshot, and maintained all the PCs and Technology
EDUCATION
DeVry University, Addison, IL 09/1999 - 06/2001
Bachelor of Science - Telecommunications Management
CERTIFICATIONS
VCP, MCSE
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