Engineer Active Directory

Gene Yazgur, MCSE, CCNA

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Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Highly skilled, reliable systems and virtualization engineer with years of experience supporting systems, storage, networks and end-users combined with expertise in and professional certifications from Microsoft and Cisco Excellent server, storage, system analysis, problem solving and client relation skills Exemplary work ethic

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Active Directory

SQL server

Cisco Routers/Switches

VMWare vSphere

HyperV

Microsoft Exchange

NetApp/EMC/Dell/HP Storage

Blade Chassis/Servers HP/DELL/IBM/SUN/CISCO

Network Hardware

Citrix ZenApp

Virtual Connect

Technical Support

Cisco UCS

Firewalls/PIX/ASA/ISA/ SonicWall/Firebox

IIS/MS Back Office

Terminal Services

Load balancers

Riverbed WAN optimizers

Windows Server 2008/2012

Red Hat/Centos 4/5/6/7

Cisco IOS

TCP/IP/DNS/WINS/DHCP

Symantec NetBackup and Backup Exec

Sophos email security appliance

Nutanix

VCOPS/VRO

VCE VBLOCKS 320/340

VMware VCD/VRA

VMware Lab Manager

VMware View

VMWare Heartbeat

vRanger backup

Quest Automation Platform

VMTurbonomic (VMTurbo) Automation

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

TJX Corporation (Via A&A Search), Marlborough, MA November 2016 Present

Senior Virtualization Consultant, Virtualization Team

Support for hundreds of physical servers and thousands of Virtual machines between multiple Datacenters and remote sites

Built and configured 14 Remote Sites

Building and provisioning new vm’s, ESXi hosts, clusters and storage.

Powershell and Powercli scripting

vRealize Automation and vRealize Operations Manager

Oncall rotation and incident handling as part of Virtualization Team

Upgraded all Virtual infrastructure across 10 vcenters to vSphere 6.5. Decommissioned older vcenters

Wayfair, Boston, MA August 2015 August 2016

Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Global Server and Storage Team

Supported for hundreds of physical servers and thousands of Virtual machines across 3 Datacenters.

Discovered a major issue in Wayfair FCOE implementation, and switched all customer facing web traffic servers in 3 datacenters from FCOE to Fiber Channel

Provisioning new vm’s ESX hosts and storage

Powershell and Powercli scripting

Built and configured 20+ global remote sites, vmware clusters, servers and storage

Built and configured 4 global 6.0 vSphere instances running on vcenter appliance in linked mode with custom signed certificates. Managed and installed custom signed certificated across all virtual infrastructure

Implemented VMTurbo Automation for efficient virtual machine hosts and storage operations and load balancing

Worked with access switches, including port trunking and vlan management

Oncall rotation and incident handling as part of Global Virtualization Team

PTC (Parametric Technology Corporation), Needham, MA March 2012 July 2015

Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Global Server and Storage Team

Supported hundreds of physical servers and thousands of Virtual machines across 23 Global Datacenters

Windows, Linux, Centos, Unix, Solaris Operating Systems

Managed templates and catalogs for Windows (2008r2\2012r2\7\8) Linux (CentOS, RHEL) VMs

Supported VCE vBlocks 320 in Blaine MN, Slough UK, Pune India and Singapore. Support for Global Production Datacenters and Lab environments

Built and configured 5 production VMWare vCloud Director Implementations, in Needham MA, Munich and Shanghai, utilizing SSO and VMware Heartbeat. Designed migration procedures from legacy VMware Lab Manager to vCloud Director, and oversaw to successful completion.

Point engineer for support of VMWare vCloud Director, VMWare Lab Manager and Quest Automation Platform (Dell) private cloud solution

Build and configured several production and lab vcenters, including core production vcenter with distributed switch networking, 15 HA clusters, 120+ hosts and 2000+ vm’s utilizing EMC VMAX 40k and VNX for back end storage. Migrated over a thousand vm’s from legacy 4.0 and 4.1 vCenters to 5.1 current production vCenters.

Build and deployed multiple vSphere clusters, running on HP BL465 G7\G8 blades, clustered across different blade chassis via virtual connect. Configure and support HP/DELL/SUN/IBM/Cisco blade chassis, and rack servers

Deployed VCOPS across the Enterprise. Support for Cluster mode and HA mode NetApp (including ONTAP, c-node and firmware upgrades, troubleshooting, physical configuration, cabling and adding/removing disk shelves)

Consolidated 46 Global vCenters into 10, migrated from Legacy Cloud solutions to VMWare vCloud 5.5, P2V hundreds of servers.

Oncall rotation and incident handling as part of Global Server Team

Goulston & Storrs LLC (Via SmartSource), Boston, MA 4/11 to 11/11 System Engineer/Contractor

Built and managed VMWare/clustered NetApp environment. HP ProLiant BC 460c G7 blade enclosures with clustered 3240 NetApp. Configured redundant and replicating NFS datastores

Implemented 4 site storage replication

Implemented Exchange and SQL application aware DR and backup solutions with snapshots and replication to DR site done at the storage level, with multiple Exchange 2010 servers, and SQL servers in Boston, New York, Washington DC

Played essential role in Exchange 2003 to 2007 to 2010 migration and upgrade, configured Barracuda Email load balancers.

Managed company wide backups and restores.

2nd level support for helpdesk with various end user issues, email, email archiving, document restores, pc issues and upgrades, massive companywide laptop and desktop upgrade and new image technology (Wanova) implementation.

Helped with implementing RiverBed Steelhead WAN optimizers.

Reconfigured Active Directory for more efficient replication

P2V migrations, Active Directory, DNS, Backup Exec, GPO

Joseph M Smith Community Health Center, Allston, MA 2009 to March 2011 Infrastructure Engineer

Active directory, Exchange/ Domain Services, Backup exec, DNS, Group Policy administration

Server builds and virtualization projects, Hyper V, ESX 4 VSphere / Shared Storage implementation

Built Terminal Server Farm for Electronic Medical Records.

Built and implemented BlackBerry server for mobile security

Implemented high speed internet at 6 locations

Deployed 2 new sites. Configured Network and site to site connectivity

Installed new firewalls in several sites, with remote access and failover VPN

Managed clustered VMWARE/Net App Infrastructure

Set up and configured SQL DB servers

Configured networked medical equipment

Boston Phoenix/WFNX, Boston, MA 2002 to 2009 Network/System Engineer

Server builds and virtualization VMWare/ESX

Server, Storage, Network, Backup, deployment, support and complete lifecycle management

Active directory, Exchange/Postini, Domain Services, DNS, Group Policy administration

Upgraded and redesigned Exchange to enterprise version, reconfigured mail flow, split Exchange into separate databases, and migrated the databases to IFORSTOR SAN

Implemented Enterprise-Wide Patch management WSUS

Installed and configured multiple T1 lines on CISCO 3600 routers

Upgraded backup system and procedures, managed SAN

Increased repeat and new business by optimizing efficiency and reliability for customers by providing effective diagnosis of phone and LAN troubleshooting using specialized diagnostics at physical level

End user support in AD/Mac environment across 7 sites

Openpages, Westford, MA 1999 to 2001 System Engineer

Traveled and interacted with clients, designing and building OpenPages content management database systems.

Created and managed user and group accounts, including user rights to logon scripts, set up share and NTFS resource security, established trust relationships between multiple domains

Implemented IIS security features for Internet access, auditing and web hosting. Configured virtual directories and servers. Installed, configured, modified and maintained Oracle database systems

Built administrative, client and peripheral function machines. Implemented native applications. Installed, configured and tested frequently changing custom code. Worked with DLL level errors, database connectivity issues, documented corruption and retrieval.

EDUCATION

New Horizons Computer Learning Center, Boston, MA MCSE/CCNA Program

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer MCP ID # 1761177

Cisco Certified Network Associate # CSCO11225057

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA BS in Exercise Science

Boston University, Computer Career Programs, Boston, MA

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