Systems Engineer

Stefan Rush

Sr Virtualization Professional

MCSE, VCP (VMware Certified Professional)

( NetApp Accredited Storage Architect Professional)

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

MS SQL DTS, SQL Publications,

Log shipping

SQL Triggers, SQL Indexing Tuning

Stored Procedures & Extended Stored Procedures

Windows 2012 Domains

VMware ESX & Virtual Center

Exchange 2012/2010

Cisco 2900,3500,4000 Switches

VLAN’s, IP Routing

IIS 4.0,IIS 5.0, IIS 6.0

IAS Server, ISA 2004 Server

DHCP, DNS, WINS

RAID 0,1,5,10,50

Net Backup

HP & Compac Servers

MS Clustering 2000

Server & PC Maintenance

Undelete 1-4, Diskeeper

Trend Micro Virus Wall

iSCSI targets

McAfee Virus

MS SQL 2005

Cloud Computing (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure)

Right Fax Servers

HP 3PAR, NetApp

Citrix XP

SQL Clustering

KIX, ASP, SQL, VPN’s & RAS

EXPERIENCE

NDS Costa Mesa, CA January 16 – July 16

Sr. Virtualization Engineer,

VMware Infrastructure 6.0

NetApp SAN migration to new

NetApp 8.2 Cluster mode with Cisco UCS

VM mostly Linux (RHEL 6.5)

Migration to new storage

MS Windows, 2003/2008/2012, MSSQL2K12, Linux/UNIX (RHEL 6.5)

Roles/Responsibilities:

This a data center migration of 600 VMs production and DEV environments from their old NetApp to new over NFS and fiber about 65TB of data moved in 1 month.

Daily build of Linux VMs and windows to support streaming video data.

Zenith Education Group\ECMC: Santa Ana, CA September 15 – December 15

Sr. Virtualization Engineer,

VMware Infrastructure 6.0

VBLOCK with Cisco UCS

VMWare engineer with vRealize Operations (VROPS) experience

VM MS Clustering of MSSQL w\ RDMs

Physical Clustering of MSSQL Cisco UCS

Citrix NetScaler 9.0 gateway Load balancer administration.

MS Windows 2003/2008/2012 MSSQL2K12

Roles/Responsibilities:

This a data center migration of all production and DEV environments from Dallas to Minnesota about 500+ VMs and physical servers.

The recreation of all environments it the new co-location data centers in the Support of CampusVue and Talisma Student portal applications.

Domain creation and extension into new VLANs on the WAN AD Sites and Services updates.

Reconfigure NetScaler to support the new data center configurations.

Deploy client CampusVue APP with XenApp and XenDesktop.

IBM / Kaiser Permanente: Long Beach, CA March 15 – August 15

Sr. Virtualization Engineer,

VMware Infrastructure 5.5

VMware HA, DRS, Vmotion, Svmotion, VCB, VMware Converter installations, configurations, admin.

MS Windows 2003/2008/2012

DL380, DL385, DL580,DL585,BL480,BL465

VMware ESX 5.5 & Virtual Center 5.5 Admin

Roles/Responsibilities:

Follow established Enterprise change management procedures (Remedy)

Manage & support IT infrastructure including the operation, troubleshooting and maintenance of hardware, and software systems.

Prepare physical servers for the P2V process.

Convert P2V servers across 2 data centers between TX and AZ using boot from SAN and Auto deploy.

Continually evaluate and assess applications, systems, network security, and security policies.

Understand Company’s short and long-term business goals and objectives; create an information technology strategy to support those objectives.

Capital Group / Randstad: Irvine, CA September 14 – March 15

Sr. Virtualization Engineer Architect,

VMware Infrastructure 5

Exchange 2013

VCE VBLOCK knowledge EMC hardware, particularly VNX and VMAX

VMware Horizon View 5.3, configuration, admin.

VMware HA, DRS, Vmotion, Svmotion, VCB, VMware Converter installations, configurations, admin.

SQL Server 2008/2012 DBA.

Experience with converged infrastructures like Cisco UCS, VCE VBlock

Microsoft Virtual Server 5.0 Admin.

Cisco USC Blades

DL380, DL385, DL580,DL585,BL480,BL465

VMware ESX 5.5 & Virtual Center 5.5 SRM Installation and config

Roles/Responsibilities:

Follow established Enterprise change management procedures (Remedy)

Participate in Business Continuation / Disaster Recovery infrastructure planning, building, and testing

Exchange 2010 migration to Exchange 2013 supporting performance and troubleshooting

Manage & support IT infrastructure including the operation, troubleshooting and maintenance of hardware, and software systems.

NetBackup Appliances 2.6.1.2 and NetBackup 7.6

Supports 8000 VMs across 20 clusters in 3 data centers between TX and AZ using boot from SAN and Auto deploy.

Continually evaluate and assess applications, systems, network security, and security policies.

Understand Company’s short and long-term business goals and objectives; create an information technology strategy to support those objectives.

21st Century Programming June 13 to September 14

IT Virtualization Systems Architect

Manage the rebuild and updating of the internal systems using the latest in what VMware and Dell have to offer. Also the offsite deployment of our in house software to over 500 clients using remote management tools to facilitate the deployment of virtual environments to support our clients.

Designing, configuring, deploying Data Center solutions for virtualized environments

V2V of 200 servers from vmware 5.0 to Hyper-V 2012

Designing, configuring, deploying Data Center Interconnect solutions

Cloud Computing (Amazon Web Services, VCP services)

Designing, configuring, deploying Wide Area Network solutions

VMware ESX 5.5 & Virtual Center 5.5

MS Windows 2003/2008/2012

Architect and design remote office solution using VMware Horizon View 5.3

VMware converter latest

VMware Update manager 5.5

VMware HA, DRS, Vmotion, sVMotion, VCB, SRM, VMware Converter installations, configurations

Dell SAN

Design, document, and deliver LAN and WAN connectivity solutions

Review and improve steady-stage environment

Provide occasional level-3 support for production incidents

Database administration (SQL-based)

Cloud Computing (Office 365 administration)

Network administration (Microsoft/Unix/Linux mixed environment; various servers including FTP and Web server, Network Security)

Writing and presenting reports to management

NOWCOM Aug 12 – June 13

Contract Virtualization Systems Architect

Designing, configuring, deploying Data Center solutions for virtualized environments

Designing, configuring, deploying Data Center Interconnect solutions

Designing, configuring, deploying Wide Area Network solutions

Citrix XenApp 5 - 6.0 and XenDesktop 6.0

VMware ESX 5.1 & Virtual Center 5.1

Cisco UCS Manager & HP C7000 Blades

Cloud Computing (Amazon Web Services, VCP services )

VMware SRM 5.1

NetBackup Appliances 2.5 and NetBackup 7.5

VMware View 5.1

MS Windows 2003/2008/2012

VMware Update manager 5.1

VMware HA, DRS, Vmotion, sVMotion, VCB, SRM, VMware Converter installations, configurations

NetApp SAN, EMC

Design, document, and deliver LAN and WAN connectivity solutions

Review and improve steady-stage environment

Provide occasional level-3 support for production incidents

Contribute to multi-disciplined teams to deliver modern data center solutions

Management and administration of network infrastructure and maintenance of equipment

Database administration (SQL-based)

Microsoft Exchange Server administration

Network administration (Microsoft/Unix/Linux mixed environment; various servers including FTP and Web server, Network Security)

Writing and presenting reports to management

Roles/Responsibilities:

Oversee and support all IT operations, with some involvement in China IT operations.

Heavy focus on help-desk issues and timely resolution of issues for supporting XenApp applications for car loan application.

Provide working knowledge for the implementation of IT-related initiatives.

Manage & support IT infrastructure including the operation, troubleshooting and maintenance of hardware, and software systems.

Vendor management

Support system upgrade/conversion

Continually evaluate and assess applications, systems, network security, and security policies.

Understand Company’s short and long-term business goals and objectives; create an information technology strategy to support those objectives.

LA County ISD May 11 – Aug 12

Systems Architect / Information Tech Specialist /Strategist

VMware ESX 5.0i & Virtual Center

Cisco UCS Manager & Blades

VMware recovery manager

VMware View 5.0

Citrix Provisioning Services 6.0

VMware vCO, vCD, vCAC

VMware ThinApp

VMware converter

VMware Update manager

VMware HA, DRS, Vmotion, Svmotion, VCB, SRM, VMware Converter installations, configurations

MS Hyper-V, Hyper-V Live migration, Hyper-V Clustering

SCCM and DDPS\MDT deployments

NetApp SAN, HP MSA, Equal Logic, Left Hand, EMC

Daily activities consisted of the maintenance and deployment of virtual servers and virtual host using the VMware platform in the two data center environments. My job function is to design new environments around the virtualization best practice and Microsoft systems. The systems would include all aspects of the network from firewall to mail and all underlying hardware and system software.

www.Amoretti.com : Oxnard, CA March 11 – May 11 – short project

Sr. Visualization Engineer,

vSphere 5.5 Infrastructure

Horizon View 5.3

MS Windows 2003/2008/2012

NetApp FAS2240 SAN Administrator

Roles/Responsibilities:

Upgrade from vSphere 4 to vSphere 5 to vSphere 5.5

Manage & support IT infrastructure including the operation, troubleshooting and maintenance of hardware, and software systems.

Preform Patching to all virtual systems as well as ESX host

Manage SAN snapshots and backups on NetApp

Continually evaluate and assess applications, systems, network security, and security policies.

Understand Company’s short and long-term business goals and objectives; create an information technology strategy to support those objectives.

CPI Solutions June 10 – Feb 11

Systems Architect / Strategist

VMware ESX 4.1i & Virtual Center

VMware recovery manager

VMware View4.5 installation

VMware ThinApp

VMware vCO

VMware converter

VMware Update manager

MS App-V 4.5

VMware HA, DRS, Vmotion, Svmotion, VCB, SRM, VMware Converter installations, configurations

MS Hyper-V, Hyper-V Live migration, Hyper-V Clustering

V2V of 50 servers Hyper-V to Vmware and V2V of 40 servers Vmware to Hyper-V

SCCM and DDPS\MDT deployments

NetApp SAN, HP MSA, Equal Logic, Left Hand, EMC, StorNext

5 years of experience designing, architecting, and implementing virtual and non-virtual Windows, Linux, UNIX, enterprise scale compute, network, storage, and endpoint architectures. This should include clustering, high availability, optimizing systems, high performance computing, and grid technologies

15+ years as a Systems Administrator or Senior Systems Engineer

9+ years of experience with virtualization technologies, including VMware, supporting scalable servers and applications

3+ years’ experience working with enterprise storage technologies, including SAN (EMC, 3PAR, IBM) and NAS (NetApp)

Experience with converged infrastructures like Cisco UCS, VCE VBlock, Netapp Flexpod

My job function was to design new environments around the virtualization best practice and Microsoft systems. The systems would include all aspects of the network from firewall to mail and all underlying hardware and system software.

Verizon – Navigant Tech Contract November 09 – Feb 10

Virtualization Architect / Business Analyst

VMware ESX 4.0 & Virtual Center 4.0

VMware VDI installation, configuration, admin.

VMware HA, DRS, Vmotion, Svmotion, VCB, SRM, VMware Converter installations, configurations

MS Hyper-V, Hyper-V Live migration, Hyper-V Clustering

My primary project was to evaluate the consolidation of 60 Datacenters to 8 datacenters using a combination of VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V. All datacenters are built to be SOX compliant and fully HA with active\active DR design. I also work on many different Projects with other Verizon clients to improve their systems.

Entertainment Partners Contract June 09 – November 09

Sr. Virtualization Engineer Architect

VMware ESX 4.0 & Virtual Center 4.0

VMware VDI installation, configuration, admin.

VMware HA, DRS, Vmotion, SVMotion, VCB, SRM, VMware Converter installations, configurations.

MS Hyper-V, Hyper-V Live migration, Hyper-V Clustering

My primary project was to build out and migrate 200 windows servers to 12 HP BL480 Blades using P2V and VMware vCenter 3.5. I also built out a 4 node Hyper-V cluster for testing and support for future projects.

LAUSD: Los Angeles, CA Contract June 08 – Feb 09

Sr. Virtualization Engineer Architect

MSSQL Server 2005 X64

VMware ESX 3.5 & Virtual Center 2.5

VMware VDI installation, configuration, admin.

VMware HA, DRS, Vmotion, sVMotion, VCB, VMware Converter installations, configurations.

MS Hyper-V, Hyper-V Live migration, Hyper-V Clustering

My primary responsibilities as Virtualization Architect are to design and integrate an environment to host the 4 thousand user Horizon POS cafeteria management system. This system will consist of a virtual environment using ESX 3.5, VDI and Sight recovery manager to bring DR to all levels of virtualization and where possible automate that process. There will also been an Active/Active cluster to host the main SQL database and the reporting SQL database. Also engineered thin clients to act as the POS device using win XPe as the main OS.

SIA Network: Van Nuys, CA Sep 07 – May 08

Sr. Virtualization Engineer Architect

VMware ESX 3.5 & Virtual Center 2.5

VMware VDI installation, configuration, admin.

VMware HA, DRS, Vmotion, sVMotion, VCB, VMware Converter installations, configurations, admin.

MS Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1

MS SQL 2005 Admin

Admin. IIS, DDNS, AD

Fiber & iSCSI SAN

EMC CX340, HP MSA, ipStor

Windows 2003 Active Directory Deployment

Exchange 2003 Administration

Managed and Implemented Network Security and Protocols; LAN to LAN, LAN to Host – AS/400

HP and Dell Servers

Daily activities consisted of the management of the engineering staffs’ daily work load of all our current clients. I designed, engineered, and implemented systems utilizing virtualization as a strong base followed by a solid backup and disaster solution. Also, conducted feasibility studies and performed necessary modification to align with the disaster solution. Implementation of new technology was coordinated with users to gain approval, further instructions, and procedures. I also developed manuals for testing the implemented technology and automated processes/developing systems, as well as the program documentation. One of my primary responsibilities as Virtualization Architect is to bring DR to all levels of virtualization and where possible automate that process. One way I accomplished this was to use SAN based synchronous and asynchronous replication to create copies of key virtual servers to a remote site (DNS, DC, File, Mail and SQL). These systems were then configured and set in a powered down state. I also cluster physical Mail and SQL servers to virtual servers whenever possible because doing this allows for very fast recovery of clustered applications in a complete disaster. I also create virtual remote domain controllers witch remain powered up and replicating ensuring minimal data loss in an outage. I also like to take full advantage of having a semi hot DR site to allow for load balancing for remote users and VDI or Citrix pools during brown outs or daily overload. I have also leveraged the use of VMware VCB for backing up VM’s to remote sites using combination iSCSI standard backup software over fast WAN connections. I architected these environments to easily transition in to the future automation models like Site Recovery Manager offering by VMware.

IndyMac Bank: Pasadena, CA Sep 04 – Sep 07

Sr. Virtualization Engineer Architect

VMware ESX 3.0.1 & Virtual Center 2.0.1

VMware VDI installation, configuration, admin.

VMware HA, DRS, Vmotion, Svmotion, VCB, VMware Converter installations, configurations, admin.

SQL Server 2000/2005 DBA.

Microsoft Virtual Server 5.0 Admin.

Robocopy Xcopy32 for data migration and replication

VMware ESX 2.5.3 & Virtual Center 1.3 Admin.

VMware Infrastructure 3

Unisys ES7000 – 200 Admin.

DL380, DL385, DL580,DL585,BL480,BL465

Setup and administration of Microsoft SQL2K Servers.

Windows 2003 Active Directory Deployment.

Windows 2003 Administration.

Implemented Network Security and Protocols; LAN to LAN, LAN to Host – AS/400

Daily activities consisted of the maintenance and deployment of virtual servers and virtual host using the VMware platform in the two IndyMac data center environments. I also worked with users to get approval on plans for proposed projects, instructions, or procedures. The ESX production and deployment environment which I implemented and designed consisted of multi host farm clusters which supported over 1,500 total Windows 2003 servers, Exchange Server, Windows XP and Vista VM’s on a mix of EMC storage and iSCSI storage servers. This installation has shown a ROI great enough to win the 2006 Virtual Vanguard Award for Best Overall ROI and Operational Benefits awarded at the 2006 VM World event.

As an architect, I also developed plans for testing manual and helped develop automated processes and developing systems. The other part of my job was to provide feasibility studies for data processing systems and performing modifications. All of our datacenter are HA and SOX compliant for the banking industry.

Edmunds.com: Santa Monica, CA Mar 04 – Jun 04

Internal Systems Manager - SQL DBA

SQL Server 2000 DBA.

SQL MAIL and Log shipping.

Setup and administration of Microsoft SQL2K Servers.

Windows 2003 Active Directory Deployment.

Windows 2000 Administration.

Exchange 2000 Administration.

Setup Network Security and Protocols; LAN to LAN, LAN to Host – AS/400

My main job was to update and maintain the Intranet and SQL2K Backend server that ran it. I also helped with Active Directory deployment and network management as well as providing the necessary feasibility studies prior to performing modifications. I discussed with users to gain approval for proposals on plans, instructions, in addition to procedures.

Directors Guild of America PPHP: Los Angeles, CA Oct 01 – Dec 03

NT System Administrator

SQL Server 2000 DBA.

SQL MAIL and Log Shipping.

Setup and administration of Microsoft SQL2K Servers

SQL Backups, database replication and publication.

Stored Procedures Extended Stored Procedures and DTS Creation.

Windows 2003 Active Directory Deployment.

Exchange 2000 Administration.

Network Protocols and Network Security; LAN to LAN, LAN to Host – AS/400

My main job function was to maintain 4 SQL servers for the daily operations of billing and accounting. The systems were legato and Solomon. I also did standard Windows 2000 Network administration. Other duties included discussing and gaining approval from users on proposed new plans, instructions, and procedures. Feasibility test were conducted along with analysis of data processing to perform necessary modifications. I developed plans for testing manual and automated processes in developing systems and overseeing program documentation.

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