Manager Engineer

Senior Systems/Virtualization Engineer

Solutions-oriented, fully-certified Senior Systems/Virtualization Engineer with more than fifteen years of demonstrated success designing and implementing database, network, system and virtualization solutions that improve business functionality, decrease costs, increase performance, and positively affect the bottom line.

Core Competencies: Network & Systems Security; Data Integrity/Recovery; Disaster Recovery Planning, Managing,

Architect, and Implementation; Contingency Planning; Research & Development; Risk Assessment; Cost Benefits Analysis, Training Peers and Clients, Skill Set Resource, IT and Project Management Supervision, Database Development and Design Virtual Infrastructure, Manage IaaS using Amazon AWS, Certified VMware Professional (VCP) and VCP6 Network Virtualization. Data Center Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructure. Data Center and Cloud Management including vCenter Site Recovery Manager 3.5 thru 5.5.

*Platforms: Microsoft Windows® Operating Systems 3.1,2000,2003,2008,2012, Windows 7, Vista, XP, Linux (Red Hat,

SuSe, Debian), Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, OS2 Warp, ESX 3.5,Hyper-V, vSphere 4.1,5,Citrix, XenDesktop, XenApp

6,6.5.7, EMC CLARiiON (CX3, NX3, NAS NS20, NAS, Clariion ISCSI and Compellent SAN

*Networking: TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, Ethernet, VPN, IPSec, SSH, IIS 4, 5, 6, 7, FTP, HTTP, Network Cabling- Cat 5E, 6, Foundry

FESX, GS, Cisco

*Languages: Windows Shell Scripting (WSH),Powershell 1&2, C, Basic, HTML5, C#, C++, VBScript, JavaScript, VB.NET, TSQL, ASP, ColdFusion, XML, MSDOS, Various SDK (Android, iOS, PowerCLI, Win8), Java SE, EE, iOS, Android, HTML/CSS, vCloud Suite, vRealize Suite, PowerCLI

*Tools: Norton Firewall and Ghost, McAfee/Norton Virus Protection Utilities, Symantec Endpoint Protection 9,10,11,

Microsoft Office,Putty, MS SQL 7, SQL 2000 thru 2012, Zetafax, Pagegate, Symantec Backup Suites, PCAnywhere, MS

Clustering, IIS 4,5,6,7,SolarWinds (Orion), EMC Software: EMC ControlCenter, Navisphere Analyzer, NaviSphere Manager

6.x, UniSphere, DELL Compellent Management Suite, Enterprise Manager, Replay Manager, Dynamic Capacity, Storage

Center and VMware View 4.5, vCloud Suite, vRealize Suite, Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp, Citrix NetScaler, Citrix Storefront, Microsoft SCCM 2007 -2012

Professional Experience

Independent Contractor

Atlanta, GA

Aug 2011 – Present

VMware Consultant/Network Deployments

VMware vSphere architecture, implementation and support for commercial and government clients utilizing best practices for availability, reliability, and performance of compute, network, and storage resources to achieve dense virtualization ratios while maintaining SLAs and surpassing disaster recovery RTO/RPO’s. Specific tasks include:

•Identity & Access Management and lead direction for SSO for Office 365 and internal login. Lead Active Directory migration from 2003 functional level to 2008R2. After XP was migrated to Windows 7, raised the functional level to 2012. Cleaned stale objects and populated AD data with clean data (Usernames and email) in preparation for Office 365 migration for a Fortune 500 company.

•SCCM migrations from Win 7 to Win 10 on site for Flowers Foods. Approximately 250 migrations over a 3 day weekend.

•Upgraded VMWARE 4.1 to VMWARE 6. Implemented vRealize and vCloud suite for a Fortune 500 company.

•Lead Systems team and Project management responsibilities in desktop migration and transformation to Citrix and VDI solutions. Led West Georgia Health’s team and Illuminate360 contractors in the migration of 1250+ Desktop from Windows XP to Win 7 using Microsoft SCCM. Helped in creating the image and procedures in migration process. Also, championed the process of transforming 500+ current XP desktops and transforming them on WYSE hardware, Citrix Receiver, Hyper-V, and VMware VDI platform.

•Implement Citrix Rollup Pack and Feature packs as per Citrix recommendation.

Trouble-shoot various issues related to Citrix resource manager, Printers etc.

Monitored Citrix server’s health by using Citrix Edgesight.

Performed Citrix Farm and server health checks on regular basis

Developed Virtual apps for in-house client server applications through Citrix Streaming profiler 6.5/6.0/5.2.

•Remote design, implementation and administration of multiple Citrix farms including Presentation Server 4.0 and 4.5, XenApp 6.0 and 6.5. Responsible for the day-to-day operation of the Production, QA and Development environments utilizing tools such as AppSense, EdgeSight and performance monitoring software. Implement disaster recovery solution that provides automated orchestration and non-disruptive testing of centralized recovery plans.

Scale: 1000 concurrent users, 25 XenApp servers

Technologies: Citrix XenApp 6.0 and 6.5, Citrix Web Interface 5.x, AppSense Environment Manager, EdgeSight, Windows Server 2008 R2, Active Directory, Group Policy Objects

•Led solutions recovery team in architecture with Citrix and Citrix receiver in running West Ga Health specific applications. Covering over 125 specific applications including Meditech in a virtual app environment.

•Used vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and Veeam to implement One Click Recovery for several Hospital critical applications. Designed Centralized recovery plans. Automated disaster recovery failover and automated failback based on the Hospital's requirements. Planned migration and disaster avoidance. Disaster Recovery to the Cloud Services based on Site Recovery Manager.

•Using AppZero PACE for Automated Multi-server Discovery across W. Ga Health's Network while leveraging AppZero Features to Reduce Migration Effort.

•Worked with IS team and Illuminte360 team with migrating all Advanced Multi-tier Application(IIS + SQL) with AppZero. Meditech Software and various Hospital Dependent packages including legacy applications.

•Identifying Application Dependencies and Preparing the Target Server and Migrating the Application Components (IIS and SQL)

•Demonstrate expertise in VMware capacity planning, VMware ESX server, and Vcenter Server installations and maintenance as well as vMotion, StorageVM, sDRS, vCD, VM Orchestrator with PowerShell.

•Design, install, configure VMware ESX, ESXi, with vSphere 4 and 5 environments with VirtualCenter management, LabManager, Consolidated Backup, DRS, HA, DPM, vMotion and VMware Data Recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

•Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows NT, 2000, 2003, & 2008, as well as Linux servers from VMware, Hyper-V and legacy hardware.

•As Lead Architect, lead 150+ P2V migrations from Windows Server

•Designed implementation of vCloud Director 5.1 into infrastructure of software service provider with various requirements.

•Created Primary vDC, and various organization vDCs, organization catalogs with various vApp installs using VMware Orchestrator.

•Involved in project management and implementation for large, business critical IT projects. Provide infrastructure and system troubleshooting and support. Support a large, diverse highly available environment including: Windows Servers, ESX, SQL, and Exchange 2007, 2010, 2013

•Multiple VMware ESX Server hosts in a High Availability setting, Using VMware Vcloud Director 5-5.1 for Infrastructure as a Service. (IaaS)

•Used Capacity Planner that: Increased productivity while consolidating servers and optimizing capacity throughput. Used IT standardization practices that reduced IT complexity. Used capacity trends and virtualization benchmarks to improve predictability of issues

•Architect, Design and implement EMC Clariion (CX, CX3, and CX4) SAN environments to ensure HA and acceptable performance characteristics for VMware vSphere and SAN-backed applications.

Premiere Logic (Sep 2011 thru March 2012) –

I consulted with Managing Partner and obtained additional requirements from various staff. I recommended building a Private cloud, obtaining Compellent SAN, and VMware Software.

Worked directly with CTO and CEO (managing Partners) strategizing the move of their infrastructure to a pure Virtual

Environment. Proceeded to analyze Legacy Applications/Servers and converted as needed. I then proceeded to take the Physical machines and P2V them to the virtual environment after the vSphere and vCenter with SAN backend implementation was complete.

Implemented vCD 5.1 (upgraded from 1.5) for resource Pool provisioning in a SaaS environment.

Illuminate360 (various Projects 2012-2013) –

•Led the project for Illuminate360 and West GA Health in the transformation and migration of over 1200 desktops. Migration from XP to Win7 and also some into a VDI environment.

•Set Up Profiles to curb Bandwidth ‘hogs’ on the Network (streaming Radio/MP3, Facebook Gaming, and various non-essentials) that were taking bandwidth from needed resources.

•Created Clustered SQL Servers for clients and relieved slow/LAg issues with co-lo server.

•Implemented VLAN structure for Main Campus

While Consulting and Network Manager for the City of Griffin, I architected, implemented and maintained a 150+server, 100% virtualized environment supporting Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, Active Directory, and a mixed Microsoft and Adobe development environment. I also provided consultative architecture and troubleshooting support to our various clients running VMware-virtualized OLTP and OLAP SQL workloads, SQL Clustering, web portals, and data analysis environments.

City of Griffin, GA

Griffin,GA

May 2007 – August 2011

Network Manager/Engineer

Ensure the stable operation of the City of Griffin computer network. This includes planning, developing, installing, configuring, maintaining, supporting, and optimizing all network hardware, software, and communication links. Manages Local Area Network (LAN) performance and maintains LAN security. Recommends and implements LAN policies and standards, ensuring adherence to security procedures. Championed virtualization of the City's data center and creating planned recovery and hot site's using vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and Veeam

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

•Preventative maintenance on Switches, Routers, Firewalls, Telephony, and Windows Servers (including

2003, 2008, 2008R2, SQL, Exchange, Terminal, AD, DNS, and DHCP)

•Started and completed the initiative of moving from a server based environment and converted 25+ servers onto a solution that involved virtualization. Hyper-V ESX 3.5, vSphere4, and EMC SAN

•Took their physical servers of over 50+ Windows 2003 servers and upgrading and converting to Windows 2008 and using P2V and including them in a new VMWare structure with VMWare Infrastructure 3, ESX 3.5 and 4 servers. Converted over 50+ servers from hardware bound into a virtual VM.

•High availability (HA) for network services and applications (including Terminal Server and MS SQL 2008) by implementing failover clustering

•Deploy VMware and Hyper-V infrastructure consisting of over 100+ virtual machines with various O/S.

•AD, Group Policy and DNS Administration

•Perform Data Migration from EMC to Dell Compellent using Storage VMotion. Created LUNs and created disk space for new Hosts.

•Installing and configuring the Clariion and Compellent NAS

•Configuring Vmotion and Virtualcenter Infrastructure for Vmware ESX with EMC Clariion Environment and then migrating infrastructure to DELL Compellent

•Maintain SWITCH Firmware, NAS Updates, and ESX Updates for Cloud Infrastructure

•Implement VMware View deployment for the main city hall building. Tested deployment options and drafted a roll out schedule for the City which included over 275 desktops and 500+ users.

•As Network Manager, managed TCP/IP issues, DNS, DHCP, NTP, SSL, Firewall, and various protocols as needed.

•Upgraded Active Directory (AD) 2003 to AD 2008 to 2008R2 when I started with the City.

•Managed Roles, OU, user profiles, and computer profiles for the City of Griffin

•Developed White Papers for team reference and the Director requirements. Complete documentation for the VMware environment, Windows Clusters (SQL and Terminal Server)

•Used WSUS for monthly Windows Server patches

•Automated migration and site recovery to a Hot Site off campus using Vmware Site Recovery Manager

(SRM) and Veeam

•Responsible for backup procedures, which included Microsoft Data Protection Manager, Dell Tape Library, vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM). Once we migrated to all virtual environment, we started using VEEAM software and SRM for backups and recovery to SAN.

INTERACT PUBLIC SAFETY SYSTEMS

Decatur, GA

September 2005 – February 2007

Systems Engineer

Expertise in network architecture, maintenance, and support of IPSS hardware and software solutions, Microsoft 2008

Beta/2003/2000/XP, Microsoft SQL, and Microsoft Clustering. Dell PowerEdge 1850, 1950, 2850, 2950 servers;

PowerVault 114T, 122T, 136T tape libraries; PowerVault 220S direct-attached storage and PowerVault 2410 racks and components

Key Contributions:

•Lead field engineer in installation of companies’ hardware and software solutions. This included Windows 2000/2003 web servers hosting IIS 5,6 as well as SQL Server 2000, 2005.

•AD migration on many clients usually from 2000 to 2003.

•Managed Roles, OU, and user profiles for different clients depending on requirements

•A full understanding of the Microsoft O/S suite of products, including Clustering, DNS, DHCP, IIS, SQL design, administration, disaster recovery, and maintenance.

•Implemented Active Directory policy structure from Windows 2000 to Windows Server 2003. Created policies that took into account Windows 2003 strict password scheme and Internet Explorer's Enhanced Security.

•At the client’s site, I installed the servers, network infrastructure and configured all the workstations to connect to our Computer Aided Drafting Server (CAD), WebCAD Server, and Report Management Server. These are all based on Windows 2003, SQL 2000/2005, and WinXP on the workstations. Also worked closely with Bellsouth and their techs to install Interact’s 911 System in conjunction with Bellsouth phone system.

•Working with Northrop/Grumman in Baltimore on designing a country wide Emergency Response system for a country in Africa. This project is projected over 20 billion dollars and includes our suite of products on many cluster DELL PowerEdge, HP ProLiant servers. Our database is also clustered on a DELL SAN (Storage Area Network) with replication throughout the network to many subscribers of our data.

•Northrop/Grumman project provided SQL Server database design and implementation plan related to the size and usage characteristics related to requirements defined for the Country of Algeria’s needs

•Design database model for 20TB for Northrop’s database that included normalization, table design, security design and indexing based on clients’ needs

•Installed multiple DELL PowerEdge 2850/2950s with PowerVault 220s with fiber-channel Disk Array.

Installed Windows 2003 R2 in a cluster of multiple PowerEdge 2850/2950 and the PowerVault as the NAS or SAN

Independent Consultant

Atlanta Area

January 2001 – October 2005

March 2007 – Present

Owner PCTrends (various computer consulting work)

IT Manager/Developer, Database Administrator/Developer, Senior Systems Engineer

Designed, developed, and implemented networks, systems, databases, and programs as directed by various clients.

Education and Credentials

Southern Polytechnic Institute Marietta, GA 1992 – 1994

Computer Engineering Technology

Professional Training and Certifications

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer 2003

Microsoft Certified System Administrator

Microsoft Certified Professional

VCP VMWare Certified Professional (Feb 2010)

VCP-NV Vmware Certified Professional 6 Network Virtualization

Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Database Administrator

Amazon AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

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