Systems Administrator/Engineer
Resume:
Korey R. Rosales
**** ******** **, **********,** 60565
***********@*******.***
https://www.linkedin.com/in/koreyrr
Sr. Infrastructure Administrator/ Systems Administrator
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Experienced and versatile IT professional with 8+ years of background in Enterprise physical/virtual IT environments. Solid background in Mid-level Active Directory Administration. Team-player that see’s the bigger picture and highly motivated self-starter interested in obtaining a dynamic IT position to showcase my leadership/ technical skills to become an asset to your organization.
TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE
Operating Systems: Windows X -Windows 8.1 and Surface Mobile version. Windows Server 2003R2-2012 R2, Linux DSL, VMware ESXi 4.0-6.0, wyse thin cient,
Hardware: Mother Board/Hard drive/ Dell Optiplex Computers HP Elite Books
Multiple memory upgrades-hot swaps/Cisco Switch/Catalyst; physical Data Center installations-build outs -moves racking/switches /cable management. HP Proliant Server installations and maintenance. Mobile support-Android/IOS/Blackberry
Software: Windows Server 2003-2008/2012R2 Edition, Barracuda spam filtering, Web sense internet filtering software, MS Exchange 360, System Center Configuration Manager 2007-2010, Acronis Imaging Software, RDS server 2003-Server manager remote software, VMware View 5 &6 suites, VMware Workstation, vCenter 5.5-6.0, vCenter Ops, vRops, vSphere 4-6.0, SharePoint 2010 Content Management, SQL Server 08-14.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
(Consultant) Infrastructure Engineer December 23rd,2016-Jan 21st, 2017
GDH Consulting firm/Spencer Stuart (Client)
353 N. Clark Street, Chicago,IL
• As a Consultant, acquired to perform a major VMware vCenter/ESX upgrade from 5.1 to 6.0 @ Remote Sites internationally.
•Maintain/Manage Spencer Stuart's International Virtualized Remote Sites in 63 Locations Across the Globe for entire project
•Key Player in creating VMware white papers for client as needed, utilized for knowledge transfer for client's IT admin's .
* Client lost its Budget to complete project due to prior quarter's deficit.
Sr. Infrastructure Administrator/Consultant-Self Employed April 16th2016-Aug 29th 2016
Ariens Company (King Of Snowblowers)
Brillion, Wisconsin 54110
•As a Consultant, acquiredto to Perform a deep analysis & damage control of Ariens’ Enterprise wide, on- premise vSphere/ESX environment consisting of 300 VM’s residing on 25 hosts spanning over 6 VDC’s, predominantly In the Midwest, Headquartered in Brillion, Wisconsin
•Deployed vRealize Operations suite as an OVA in vCenter thick client to observe all ESXi’s environment’s Metrics and observe predictive analytics, utilizing smart alerts and guided remediation to correct the lacking environment as needed providing feedback to CIO for continued resolution/solutions to the environment
•Tasked with streamlining and automating vSphere/vCenter while correcting and implementing proper resource pooling, Fault Tolerance, and High Availability to specific clusters as needed for all ESXI Hosts across all VDC’s
•Educated IT Staff and Implemented first ever IT Maintenance window’s for reasons of Patching and Overall virtual Infrastructure performance tuning as needed
•Assisted In adopting a new SDLC for IT department as a whole to gain understanding of processes and ownership of technology implementation projects & timelines
•Maintained and Managed the Barracuda spam filter utility and the Web sense content filtering utility throughout environment.
•Cleaned up DNS environment and maintained GPO and AD environment
•Tested & Deployed VM patch project utilizing WSUS to correct and deploy patches as needed to specific VM’s.
•Performed a 1400 Exchange Mailbox Migration Project from 2010 to 2016 on 3 2012R2 VM’s carved to spec. Utilizing the EMC to sync and migrate to new version/ on premise. Depricating 4 Exchange 2010 Servers
•Communicated & Worked with SQL DBA’s on moving from a RDM file solution to an VMFS solution
•Maintained Exchange 2016 environment; sharing mailboxes, relays, mailbox delegation
•Provisioned/Managed an Over provisioned and under managed RDS environment spanning of 22- 2003R2 RDS VM’s with only 100 end users utilizing RDS via legacy Wyse thin clients, to 10 RDS servers
•Tasked with Analyzing Companywide Backup solutions and how they perform and report back to CIO for further solutions to enforce a proper Disaster Recovery plan
•Spearheaded a full Physical Datacenter move from one physical Datacenter to another, housed in the same bldg. Three Datacenter racks consisting of 4 HP Proliant servers, Dell Storage Server, Multiple Cisco switches, Fortigate Firewall utility, and Phone system; Fiber pulled back and terminated by vendor.
Software Implementation Engineer/ EUC Administrator October 30th 2015- January 30th 2016
Thatcher Technology Group
Naperville, IL 60563
•Software Specialist of Proprietary Software on Virtual/Physical levels
•Perform Work Statement analysis from Project Management to billable issues with the software/applications discretionary to their sales model and resolve software enhancement issue in accordance to that ws
•Perform moderate T-SQL queries that include but not limited to stored procedures, select statements, inner/outer joins to Database tables in any and all SQL databases 08-14 as it pertains to the Issue needing solution for Client
•Configured the environment’s first SQL events database to Horizon View to analyze EUC events.
•Served as main point of contact for all vSphere administration solutions running version 6
•Managed VMware vSphere ESXi environment/Multiple hosts-Implementation of VSAN on Hp Proliant Servers
•Maintained VM Templates/Linked Clones and resource pooling for VM’s in regards to Client needs in the Virtual Data Center.
Sr. Windows Administrator March 2014-Aprilth 2015
Comprehensive Pharmacy Services-Rx Remote Solutions
Naperville, IL 60502
• Enterprise Administrator main IT point of contact for Nationwide Rx Remote Order Entry Pharmacy supporting 75 Pharmacy staff and C level management team.
• Active Directory Management GPO/OU, Domain trusts, DNS administrations, forest/tree –domain design, site replications as needed. Exchange Server 2010 Mailbox Creation/Flow administration as directed.
• Setup, configure and deployed VMware-based systems for high-availability and efficiency, including vCenter, vSphere, and ESXi v5.x
• Provided 24X7X365 IT Support for vSphere/vCenter environments. Maintaining vSphere/VM resources
• Create & maintain SSL VPN tunnels from client side to hosted environments in medical facilities across the country.
• ITSM Knowledge base and Ticketing input/resolution for multiple Desk side Issues in environment
• Create/maintain resource pools/affinity-anti affinity rules across vSphere environment
• Performed P2V merges/analysis as requested
• Deployment and implementation of Windows Server2008R2 Bare Metal as type 1/type 2 guest hypervisors
• Provided root cause analysis for ongoing CPSI (host order entry) CPOE remote order entry issues to Pharmacy staff.
• Provided Technical communication efforts between IT departments to Rx IT to identify ongoing IT issues with multiple medical facilities across the country.
• Deployed, managed, monitored, and troubleshooting ESXi hosts through vSphere and desktop environments.
• Completed and led highly visible software/workstation infrastructure projects for Pharmacy personnel.
•In between these rolls, for 5 months I attended Microtrain Technologies full-time to adopt in depth Virtualization and SQL skills to apply in the environments I worked in.
Systems Administrator July 2012-September 2013
Ulta Beauty Corporation, Bolingbrook, Illinois
•Utilized Active Directory to add/remove users, computers, with OU’s and GPO’s as needed.
•Created GPO links to domains/maintain AD accounts/created forest trusts/site replication
•Deployed/Maintained VMware View 5 environment from scratch/Host management 500 Node environment
•View Connection Server Installation-Linking to vCenter -Created Manual pools/Configure automatic pool environment
•Remediated/Deployed Windows Server 2008R2 AD application in Virtual Desktop environment
•System Center Configuration Manager 2007 for Deployment packaging, Enterprise OS update deployments
•Created Vendor relationship’s to maintain consistency with site projects and clear communication throughout the process
•Investigated equipment specifications and evaluated equipment durability, performance and efficiency
•Maintain and managed daily graphs/status reports for project’s taking place for management and PM as requested during project season
•Utilized DRS features to balance resource loads between ESXi hosts running 200 VM.s
•Played significant roles in retail projects both small and large sized in detail, ie;2 D Scanner, POS Ready Touch screen, Back office Workstations
•Provided POC to management in adopting and upgrading VMware Horizon View 6 and vCenter for centralized mgmt of ESXi hosts.
Sr.Windows Administrator September 2008-May 2012
La Mortgage, Inc., Aurora, Illinois
•Supported 100 Finance staff and management teams with various Workstation/Outlook email issues.
• Setup, configure and deployed VMware-based systems
•Converted IT environment from P2V ESXi 4.0/VMWare View 4.5 running 3 ESXi hosts & 50 VM’s
•Deployed and implemented VDI infrastructure. Deployed Server 08R2 using VDI.
•Active Directory Administrations/GPO/OU, Zone delegation-Stub Zone, Primary-Secondary Zone maintenance
•Utilized AD to create users and passwords, created GPO’s to OU groups as requested by management.
•Supported multiple mobile devices with Active SYNC With Exchange 2003/Exchange Server 2003 User Mailbox Setup.
•Implemented first Helpdesk environment consisting of Remedy Ticketing CMS with realistic SLA’s.
•Sexy /vSphere Host management FT, HA, DRS, SDRS, vMotion.
Certifications:
•VMware Certified- Data Center Virtualization
VMware ID: VMW-01609004I-00510793
•MCP
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