ZORAN TADIC

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Residence: Sacramento CA and San Jose CA

Cell Phone: 408-***-****

E-mail Address: ac2tbz@r.postjobfree.com

Status in USA: US Citizen

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Over 25 years of experience in Network/System Design, Implementation, Engineering/Architectural and Analysis in different platforms, with a strong background in managing and developing Projects.

• Professional experience in Project Management life cycle i.e, Requirements Management, Configuration Management, Risk Management, and Network/Systems Development Life Cycles, Release Management, Change Management, Business Process Re-engineering, ITIL, Solution Architectural Design.

SPECIALIZATION:

Architectural Design to support customers’

requirements. Technical Marketing.

Design and implementation Data Center environment (End-To-End Solution, Ground up projects)

Data Center active equipment: networking, computing, storage.

Data Center all passive equipment.

Data center virtualization and migration.

Design and implementation Storage Solutions, and Software Defined Storage Solution.

SAN, NAS, Cloud S3 Storage.

FC. FCoE, iSCSI, NFS, SAS

SSD, PCIe, NVMe, HDD - JBOD

HGST, WD, HP, IBM, EMC, Brocade, Dell, Cisco,

Cloud Environment (Private-Hybrid-Public).

AWS, AZURE, vCloud Air.

Design and implementation VMware vSphere products:

High Availability; Fault Tolerance; Data Protection; DR Replication; vMotion; Storage vMotion

ESXi, vCenter Servers

vRealize Suite; vRealize Automation; vRealize Orchestrator... Private/Hybrid/Public cloud integration.

Cloud Automation: Jenkins, Puppet, Code Stream, Docker Container, Artifact Repository, Admiral

VDI Solution: VMware Horizon View; View Composer; View Mirage; View Security, View Workspaces

vCenter Configuration Manager; Operations Manager; ChargeBack Manager

VMWare NSX; vCloud Networking and Security; vShield; VXLAN; Load Balancing;SDN...

vCenter Site Recovery Manager; vSphere Replication... Design and implementation Microsoft Server/Service platform:

Microsoft Hyper V Solutions, SCVMM, Clustering

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure Stack

Server products (NT, 2000, 2003, 2008, 2012, 2016)

Microsoft messaging platform Exchange Server

Microsoft Active Directory enterprise domain environment

Microsoft System Center, TGM, SQL, Visual Studio, SharePoint

All network infrastructural service DNS, DHCP, CA. Design and implementing Public Key Infrastructure; Document Signing; Smart Cars, IPSec... Highly experienced in Networking and SDN

Experienced with VoIP, IPTV and Video Surveillance Technology Highly experienced in SE, Pre-Sales, and Sales.

Highly experienced in IT Education

Highly experienced in managing Microsoft IT Academy, Cisco Systems Networking Academy, and VMware academy.

Highly experienced in IT Education.

Author of three professional books; “Protocol for IP Routing”, “3Play services on Wi-Fi and optical Network”, and “Human Aspects of

Computi ng”.

Reference Video Library: vRealize Video Series by Zoran Tadic on YouTube Channel

- vRA NSX Integration https://youtu.be/uV9lT-BlCF8

- Advanced vRA7 https://youtu.be/8qEC1ek0Rl4

- Advanced vRA NAT and Secure Zone https://youtu.be/8QcuwfvKYr0

- Advanced vRA Application Authoring https://youtu.be/vT-uUZHhVf4

- Advanced Service Authoring with XaaS https://youtu.be/PZu3vwN4PwA

- Advanced Service Authoring with XaaS and Puppet https://youtu.be/Z34M4VA6YuM

- Deploying a Container Host using Admiral in vRA 7. 2 https://youtu.be/6cJdBbPcvuU

- vRA Scale-OUT Scale-IN Application https://youtu.be/CSyldFI899s

- NSX SRM and vSphere Replication for DR part 1 https://youtu.be/BjTtIe1vvQU

- NSX SRM and vSphere Replication for DR part 2 https://youtu.be/69mNR4DgaQY EDUCATION SUMMARY

Master Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University in Belgrade

B.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering

University in Belgrade

B.S. Degree in Economics

University in Belgrade

Other Courses and Training:

Microsoft IT Academy, Belgrade.

Cisco Systems Networking Academy, Belgrade.

Certifications:

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP).

Microsoft Certified System Administrator (MCSA).

Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE).

Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD).

Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist -

Dynamics. Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT)

Certified Technical Trainer Plus (CTT+)

CompTIA Cisco Certified Network Associate

(CCNA) Ex. Cisco Certified Network

Professional (CCNP) Ex. Cisco Sales Expert

(CSE) Ex.

Cisco Quality Specialist for Routing and

Switching (CQS) Ex.

Publications:

Author of three professional books;

- Protocol for IP Routing - Regular curriculum in university for students

- 3Play Services on Wi-Fi and optical network

- Human Aspects of Computing

DETAILED EXPERIENCE

Company: “VMware” Palo Alto, CA

Position: “Senior Solution Architect” October 2017 – Present Duties/Responsibilities:

Company: “Western Digital – HGST” San Jose, CA

Position: “Senior Solution Architect” December 2014 – Present Duties/Responsibilities:

Responsible for planning, design and implementation of virtual environment to highlight Storage products and Software Defined Storage.

Responsible for planning, building and leading "Data Center" Customer Briefing Center and customer’s solution showcase LAB infrastructure.

Responsible for Design, planning, building and implementation "SE Cloud" VMware-vRealize

(vCloud) and depends infrastructure services for worldwide SE Team, Pre-Sales, Sales and Customers facing.

Build POC and Customers Solution.

Build solution design for particular customer’s case.

Do expert support for worldwide SE_s and Sales during Pre-Sales and Sales activities.

Object Oriented Storage S3. Cloud Storage.

Software Defined Storage integration.

All Flash, SSD, NVMe, SAS, HDD

JBOD

Platforms: VMWare, Microsoft, Linux.

Company: “Skyera inc” San Jose, CA

Position: “Senior Solution Architect” April 2013 – December 2014 Duties/Responsibilities:

Responsible for customer solution design and implementation.

Responsible for build and demonstrate a virtual solution using Skyera technologies. Virtual Servers Environment, VDI Environment, vCloud Environment, Enterprise and BigData Environment, Virtual SAN Environment.

Responsible for stability and performance testing Skyera product in virtual environment.

Responsible for integration with other storage systems.

Responsible for developing technical collateral to highlight Reference Architectures and Best Practices to highlight the salient features of Skyera products. Solutions:

Flash Array Enterprise Storage.

Flash Array for VMware View Horizon Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). Flash Array for Backup Solutions (VMware,Microsoft Hyper-V) Flash Array in Virtual SAN Environment. (VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Data Core) Flash Array for Data Replication and Disaster Recovery (VMware, Microsoft Hyper- V) Flash Array for vCloud Environment (VMware)

Flash Array for Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Environment and Storage Space Company: “Sierra Corporation - Xogenous” NV

Position: Senior Data Center System Engineer 2012 – 2013 Duties/Responsibilities:

Design-Planning-Implementation-Migration, New Data Center Environment. Virtualization platform: vSphere 5.1; View 5.1; HA; FT; Data Protection; vCloud; vCloud Director; vCenter Configuration Manager; vCenter Operations Manager; vCenter Operations Manager for View; vCenter ChargeBack Manager; vShield; vStorage; vClaud Automation Center; ThinApp; vCloud Networking and Security Windows Server 2008, 2012; SQL Server 2008; Microsoft Exchange 2010. Microsoft System Center 2012 Storage: IBM DS SAN FCoE, iSCSI. SAN Switching Brocade. Networking: VXLAN, VLAN, EtherChannel, LACP, Routing and Switching, POD and Aggregation layer network. Dell, Brocade, HP-Procurve, Cisco, Virtual Router Environment. Application: SharePoint Server 2010.

Microsoft Project Server.

Company: “Nelson Technology” Sacramento CA

Position: Senior Microsoft System Engineer 2011 - 2012 Duties/Responsibilities:

Planning, Installation and maintaining new IT Systems Company: “IT Professional” (System Integration Company) Position: CEO, Solution Architect. 2000 – 2011

Duties/Responsibilities:

Lead the company.

Several large projects in this company:

Solution Architect / Project Leader in the GREENFIELD-Ground up Data Center project End-toEnd. Design and Implementation full Data Center environment which include:

- Design DC environment according to TIA-942 standard.

- Design and implementation passive network infrastructure for DC.

- Design and implementation active network infrastructure for DC.

- Design and implementation hardware/server platform for DC.

- Design and implementation SAN solution for DC.

- Design and implementation virtualization solution for DC.

- Design and implementation infrastructural services for DC.

- Design and implementation security and disaster recovery solution for DC.

- Implementing all active network infrastructure for DC which include; o Interior access network switches Cisco 4500 class full redundancy. o Network aggregation switches Cisco 6500 class full redundancy. o VLAN segmentation and IP/VLAN address matrix.

o Implementing Core Routing on Perimeter Network with Cisco 7600 class redundant routers.

o Access and aggregation administration network and Wi-Fi network for DC. o High-performance 10 Gigabit Ethernet.

o Cisco Nexus 5000 series switches in full redundant configuration and Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) capability.

- Implementing Data Center Blade Server platform which include; o HP Blade System c7000 Enclosures.

o 300 physical HP Blade Servers with (CPU Intel® Xeon® Processor X5670 600 x 2.93 GHz= 1,758.00 GHz – 1.75 THz), (RAM DDR3 Registered 300 x 192GB=57,600.00 GB – 56.25 TB), (Networking 300 x (2 x 10GBps – HP Flex10 = 8 VNICS Total 20GBps throughput per server))

- Implementing SAN network which including;

o HP EVA4400, EVA6400, XP 24000 storage with capacity 2.26 PB* raw 1.98 PB* usable; numbers of disk 1148, Cache: 128 GB, Full fault tolerant solution.

- Implementing full VMware Virtual Solution for DC which including; o VMware virtual platform covers 300 hosts infrastructure, utilizing vSphare Enterprise Plus 4.1 for Server platform and VMView 4.5 for desktop virtualization, 1200 HP Tin Clients PCoIP.

o VMware High Availability; VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler; VMware Distributed Power Manager; VMware Vmotion; VMware Fault Tolerance; VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch + Cisco Nexus 1000v; VMSafe anti-virus for VMKernel- level protection; VMware Data Recovery.

o Testing wholly Virtual Environment with 2000 Virtual machines. Data center’s maximum number of virtual machines is 10.800 VM.

- Implementing Infrastructural and other Services/Servers which including; o DNS, DHCP, Active Directory on Microsoft Windows 2008 Servers platform, Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway, Microsoft Exchange Serves 2007, Microsoft SQL Servers, Microsoft System Center Operation Manager

- Implementing ISP Solution for Data Center and Integra Telecom Operator.

- Implementing VPN Solution for Remote Access and Remote Locations.

- Testing wholly DC and putting them into production. Solution Architect / Project Leader in the project: “Design and Implementation Security PKI Systems for Government”

- Design and projecting Public Key Infrastructure in Enterprise Government environment.

- Implementation hardware environment for PKI enterprise service.

- Implementation PKI in Enterprise Government environment, including Root, Policy and Subordinate Server, Certificate enrollment policy and procedure, recovery process.

- Implementation Smart Card authentication and authorization.

- Implementation Smart Card remote access authentication and authorization.

- Implementing IP Sec protocol for secure data transmission.

- Implementing document digital signing process for Crypto-API enabled applications. Solution Architect / Project Leader in the project: “New Information System for National Health Institute”

- Design and projecting new information systems for National Health Institute, which include network platform design, server’s platform design, service platform design.

- Re-engineering existing work process.

- Design and projecting new workflow process and, Automate workflow process.

- Design and projecting enterprise document management process, repository and archiving.

- Design and projecting messaging enterprise platform.

- Design and projecting Enterprise Security System, which include; PKI Root enterprise server, Policy servers, Subordinate servers, certificate enrolment process, document signing process, recovery process.

- Implementing new network hardware platform which include new routing and switching environment based on Cisco products.

- Implementing new Servers platform based on HP server products.

- Implementing new persistent WAN connections between Headquarter and 54 remote sites by VPN.

- Implementing all infrastructural services.

- Implementing new automate workflow process and document management based on Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, Microsoft SQL Server, and Unified Messaging Platform based on full integration with Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Office Communication Server.

- Develop a Return of Investment (ROI) study, and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) study.

- Tracking all system during test phase, and putting into production.

- Organize and hold an event presentation of a new information system.

- Organize and hold education process for employees and administration staff. Solution Architect / Project Leader in the project: “New Government Administration Buildings” Whole Information systems”

Design and Implementation information systems for new Government Administration Buildings, which includes:

- Implementation all active network segments;

o Access Network (Cisco Catalyst 2960 with optical trunk to Aggregation Network Cisco Catalyst 4500, fully redundancy.

o Core Routing Cisco Router 7600 Class.

- Implementing logical network segments.

o LAN / VLAN networks.

o Wi-Fi interior networks.

o Perimeter network.

o Administration network.

- Implementing all Servers segments on HP Server platform G5

- Implementing SAN network with HP EVA 4100 Storage.

- Implementing Disaster Recovery by optical leas line on remote location.

- Implementing Infrastructural Services.

o DNS Servers/Services

o DHCP Servers/Service

- Implementing other Server/Services.

o Active Directory Service (LDAP)

o Exchange Servers 2007

o SharePoint Portal Servers 2007.

o Microsoft Operation Manager Server.

- Implementing VoIP Cisco CallManeger 7.1 with UC capability, and SIP capability.

- Implementing Video Surveillance System.

o IP Video Cameras PoE.

o Net Avis Servers for administration, managing and maintaining video surveillance system.

- Implementing Security Access Control Systems.

o RFID / PoE (Paxton)

o Servers for administration, managing and maintaining Access Control System.

- Implementing Corporate IPTV systems.

o Video encoding systems (Tandberg).

o Video Streaming Servers for IPTV and VOD.

o IPTV administration and management system.

- Implementation Wi-Fi networks.

o Cisco AirNet Access Points (64 access points).

o Cisco Wi-Fi Network Controller.

- Implementing Cisco Telepresence Solution.

o Telepresence for central location Cisco 3000 Series o Telepresence for remote locations Cisco 500 Series.

- Tracking all system during test phase, and putting into production.

- Organize and hold education process for employees and administration staff. Position: Solution Architect / Project Leader.

In the project: “Pilot – Testing project WiMAX network and 3Play Services for new Telecomface

Operator Integra”

- Design and projecting Pilot-Test environment for WiMAX mobile network and 3Play Service on WiMAX mobile network.

- Implementing and testing WiMAX network (Cisco NAVINI) and 3Play services (video, audio and data streaming for remote mobile users).

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Company: “Invent Export” Belgrade; Foreign Trade Company Position: System Engineer – Chef of IT Department 1996 – 2000 Duties/Responsibilities:

Chef of IT Department. Managing enterprise environment on Windows NT/2000 platform, Managing networking environment, routing and switching, and remote access for enterprise environment. Planning and implementation migration process on new Windows platform, and data recovery process. ADDITIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

As an Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) spent over 7000 hours teaching students with Microsoft Technology.

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