Engineer Information Technology
Resume:
Kevin L. Berry, CompTIA A+,
Net+, Server+,
MCP, HP APS
Loganville, GA 30052
770-***-**** Cell
*****.*****.**@*****.***
OBJECTIVE:
To continue my career path as a Systems Engineer / Network Administrator, accelerating further into the virtualization engineer, and datacenter areas, as an infrastructure engineer and architect. Developing datacenter strategies, optimizing efficient performance of a LAN/WAN technologies with various vendor equipment and developing the best solutions for growth and capacity considerations are also chief objectives. I also desire expanding into leadership roles, directing teams of others, to direct organizations or departments in the most efficient measure possible, to allow IT strategies to be most efficient as an organized and cost saving improvement.
EDUCATION:
1988-1990, Edison State College, Associates in Arts
1990-1994, Florida State University, work towards B.A. – Music.
Further studies include work towards a minor in Computer Science and a certificate in
Computer Music Research.
2001 MCP, Win2K Professional & Server,
CompTIA A+, Server+, and Net+ Certified.
2004 HP / Compaq Certification for Workstation, Laptop, & Proliant Servers
EXPERIENCE:
Data Center & Systems Engineer
Senior Software Engineer
M*Modal - 8/1/2012 to 3/3/2016
5430 Metric Place, Suite 200
Norcross, GA. 30092 Supervisor: Nicholas Starr
http://www.mmodal.com 615-***-****
M*Modal is an International leading provider of dictation services, and software in the healthcare field. M*Modal is based in Franklin, TN, but has offices in Norcross, GA, with a Quality Assurance and Development Datacenter there, and production Datacenter in Alpharetta, GA as well.
Additionally, a third datacenter is located in Pittsburgh, PA. and also a Non-Production
Datacenter just completed in Philadelphia, PA. Pittsburgh is too be Philadelphia’s Disaster Recovery site. Other offices are in the Malvern, United Kingdom, as well as Bangalore, India.
Career Highlights:
Assisted in the management of the Product Development and Quality Assurance Infrastructure. This consisted of maintaining the physical availability of all virtual and physical servers in use for the Enterprise.
Deployed the use of Hewlett Packard C700 Blade enclosures for the use with HP BL20p class Blade BL20p servers, as well as the entire DL Series of physical servers.
Racked, cabled, deployed Operating Systems and maintained all physical servers as needed. This included HP and Dell servers.
Maintained common change control practices.
Created new cluster for this hardware, as all servers were then deployed as ESXI hosts for vmware.
Redesigned network infrastructure to provide a more robust, redundant environment with the use of spanning tree network protocol, and additional VLAN’s to distribute traffic accordingly, separating storage from standard network, with both HP and Cisco switches.
Implemented iSCSI, and additionally new NFS storage.
After new NFS storage was brought on-line, new VLAN was created to segregate traffic, primarily for expanding virtual machines where cluster was growing rapidly. This was also done in a redundant architecture.
Managed the vmware environment, suggesting and implementing changes for 2 existing clusters to result in fine tuning and implementing High Availability in each, resulting in robust and redundant environment for vmotion as needed, with HA.
Assisted in the relocation of these assets as the firm was planning on moving to a new physical location. The project calls/called for about an 85% reduction in both physical and virtual servers. VM’s were migrated to a new site located in Philadelphia, PA. Physical servers were either P2V’d when possible, decommissioned, or if still required, are being retained at the new facility, where yet to be determined, in the local area, with a much smaller footprint. Current location has since reduced square footage to accommodate this.
Reduction in power / cooling costs exceeded 80 % as project continued in successful pattern. Small footprint will remain, but managed remotely by Philadelphia team.
Developed, documented and deployed methods for patching Microsoft systems to maintain up to date Operating Systems using Microsoft WSUS and Powershell.
Served in an on-call position. Since this office provided servers for locations around the world, this was around the clock.
Focused on meeting SLA requirements
Monitoring with Nagious, What’s Up Gold, & Solar Winds
Authored and maintained documentation for environment, publishing to Confluence and Jira for others to access as needed. Visio utilized for network drawings, Excel for spreadsheets and Word for documenting all capacities as needed.
For example: Asset tracking, Asset management data, IP tracking, Rack mapping, License assignments, Audit support, Review products for future consideration in streamlining the environment to achieve directed, or suggested goals.
Data Center & Server Provisioning Engineer
Technical Specialist II
SunTrust Services Corporation - 5/20/2008 to 7/31/2012
303 Peachtree Center Ave, Suite 450
Atlanta, GA. 30303 Supervisors: Joe Castillo & Rob Thompson
http://www.suntrust.com 404-***-**** 404-***-****
SunTrust Bank is the 10th largest bank in the U.S. with assets of more than 130 billion dollars. SunTrust has clients of great diversity, most notably, Coca Cola Enterprises.
Career Highlights:
Assisted in the Data Center move project, migrating servers from one Datacenter to another new one, in 2003.
Assisted with deployment of a new Disaster Recovery Datacenter, in Durham, NC.
On-going responsibilities include the deployment of Wintel (physical and virtual ) servers in both Datacenters. Server hardware was everything from:
Compaq 7000 – HP DL 380’s, 740’s, and ML 370’s in conventional flavors.
For Blades, HP BL 20p Gen 2 – Gen 4, BL 460c Gen 1 – Gen 7.
Operating Systems were Microsoft Windows Server 2000 – 20008, and vmware ESX.
I was a member of a team of 5 individuals charged with this responsibility, for both our
Production and our Disaster Recovery site.
Assisted in an on-going QA migration of several hundred servers, from our production site, to our DR site, where we stood a new QA pod up.
Lead on-going decommissioning effort to retire 1000+ physical servers, getting them upgraded, P2V’d, and off the books.
My team also managed the deployment of ESX hosts, and their VM’s with multiple different Virtual Center environments.
Deployment of additional HP blade enclosures, and racks was performed as needed, with expansion of different environments, segregated into different pods.
Recipient of “Pat on the Back” award from my colleagues, for “One Team” initiatives.
I was one of 2 individuals chosen to attend vmworld 2011.
Rotated on-call position within my team.
Client Technology Specialist II
SunTrust Services Corporation - 3/02/2002 to 5/20/2008
25 Park Place / 250 Piedmont Ave
Atlanta, GA. 30303 Supervisors: Majed Gebara, & Mike Sampsell
http://www.suntrust.com 404-***-**** 770-***-****
Career Highlights:
Started at Tier I helpdesk and was quickly promoted to CTS (Client Technology Services).
Member of CTS team responsible for supporting 10 different sites, and more than 7000 users.
Support infrastructure encompassed laptops, desktops, printers, and servers.
Advanced to support servers in the Datacenter, both physical and virtual, totaling about 3000 devices.
Hardware and Software support of all Wintel Datacenter servers was my main role, which was primarily a HP blade, vmware, and Microsoft facility.
Required to meet SLA’s based on priorities with Remedy incident management.
Senior Systems Engineer II
Stonebridge Technologies, Inc. – 5/4/2000 to 7/13/2001
15301 Spectrum Dr. Suite 400 Supervisors: Corey Shackleford,
Dallas, TX. 75001 678-***-****
972-***-**** Daryl Blackwell, Director of IT
http://www.sbti.com (Now with Axyon 1-877-***-****)
Stonebridge Technologies is a cutting edge, Information Technology consulting firm providing “turn key”
solutions to clients such as Home Depot, Chick Fil-A, MedCenter Direct, etc, throughout the South
Central and South Eastern US.
Career Highlights:
Member of core engineering group, responsible for the upgrade, maintenance, and ongoing support of the corporate WAN/LAN (12 locations).
Administration and support (both remote and hands on) of NT & Win 2000 servers(30-40) and their respective networking equipment (switches / hubs / routers / CAT 5) in 6 cities in the SE, as well as 5 in the SC US.
Support of up to 600 clients in the domain, utilizing WinNT, Win98, and Win2000, & various software.
Pro-Active LAN/WAN monitoring to insure all aspects of the enterprise are up in working order, 24/7.
Continual troubleshooting of problems as reported by end users and the help desk analysts.
Evaluate, plan, & deploy network solutions to provide the most efficient environment for associates.
Maintenance and upgrade associates hardware as necessary (desktops, laptops, printers), including imaging.
Provided internal support to Stonebridge Employees for all information technology needs, hardware & software.
Recommended and assisted in the deployment of What’s Up Gold network monitoring software, enterprise wide.
Deployed and managed Enterprise wide Anti-Virus Software to provide the latest anti-virus files for each client machine, in real time. (McAfee E-Policy Orchestrator).
Developed and deployed inventory management system for the enterprise to track equipment, as allocated to employees and as utilized for training or otherwise.
As a member of Core engineering group, performed the flawless relocation of the base of the entire corporate WAN/LAN, located in Dallas Texas. This was a physical relocation, involving all equipment to a new data center, and a new physical office, as well.
Rotated an On Call 24/7 shift with 4 other department members.
Recipient of 3 CORNERSTONE AWARDS (Excellence twice, & Teamwork), as voted on & nominated by my peers and supervisors. I consistently provided the highest utilization and resolution rate for information service problems presented to the department.
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