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Omar Bajwa

Senior Systems Engineer

With over 10+ years of Data Center experience, I thrive on delivering exceptional value and solutions to help our customers select, deploy, and manage technology. Self-motivated with strong consultative & communication skills to collaborate with executive and technical personnel to effectively translate business requirements into end-to-end solutions. Making sure that the right solution is applied to the customers’ business problem. Specializing in VMware, HCI solutions Servers, Storage & cloud Platforms.

Technical Skills

Operating Systems : AIX 5L, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/2003/2008/Win 10/Win Server 12/16/19, Mac OS 9 ~ X

Server Applications: VMware ESXi 6.5, 7.x /vSphere /Server/ VMware View 5.x, ServiceNow, ITOM, ITAM, ITSM. Exec 12.d, Citrix MetaFrame 3.0, EMC Replication Manager/PowerPath/VisualSRM/ SnapView, Legato Networker, MS Office/Visio, PC Anywhere 10/11, ARCserve, BlackBerry, MS Exchange 2000/ 2003, SUS, MBSA, SMS 2003, Track- It, VNC Server, Wise Packaging Studio 7

Hardware/MISC: HCI, IBM, Dell- EMC, HPe, Nutanix, Nimble, Pure, NetApp

Networking: TCP/IP, Ethernet, NSX-T, NSX-V,

Languages: C, C++, HTML, Cobol, Fortran, Pascal, VB Script, Scrum, DevOps

Databases: Oracle 10g, MS SQL 2000/2005, MS Access LDAP, SQL Server, ODBC, Microsoft Access

Professional Experience

SHI INTL Feb 2016 – Present

Data Center Engineer

Architect, Design & implement server storage solutions with supporting technologies while maintaining customer’s budget and environment restrictions.

Manage and operate our Customer Innovation Center, which is a 8000 Sq Ft Data Center in Somerset NJ with all the greatest Hardware & Software.

Manage all alerts for IT Infrastructure coming in thru SolarWinds & ServiceNow.

Manage all incidents & critical incidents coming in and doing triage on all Severity 1 incidents.

Manage & Troubleshoot complete VMware infrastructure with over 10K Virtual Machines including vMotion & storage vMotion.

Implement & Manage of DP solutions Cohesity, Rubrik

Implementing & Managing Nutanix environment with AHV/VMware workloads.

Install, configure & troubleshooting Nutanix & VMware environment.

Managing full internal Network which consists of Cisco & Palo Alto technology

Managing all Data Protection solutions Dell-EMC, DP 4400, Cohesity, Rubrik

Architect, Design & Implement full VMware SDDC stack including NSX-T&V

Implement large scale Windows 10 deployment & Upgrade for 4000k+ users across different offices via SCCM for all end user devices.

Pre-Sales & Implementations for Dell EMC solutions including IDPA, DD & Unity

SME for all HCI solutions- VxRail, HPE Simplivity, NetApp HCI & Nutanix

Design solutions & plan implementation with the sales team & customers

Pre-Sales activity of full VMware stack & VMC on AWS

Designing and Implementing applications for AWS, Azure & GCP

Pre-Sales activities with ServiceNow platform: ITOM, ITSM, ITAM, SAM etc.

Managing internal SN instance for CIC

Leading cross-functional project teams to drive design, development and launch of systems and solutions in support of Corporate Functions with a focus Digital Workplace/ Corporate Internet, and Collaborative technologies.

Deliver workshops to internal Account Reps & External Customers

Assist with development of formal sales plans & proposals for assigned opps.

Perform technical presentations scope of work, BOM for customers, partners & sales team.

Received Social Media Award by Nutanix while at SHI at their national conference

Maintain healthy Vendor relationships & training with vendors & training of Internal Sales teams.

VMware Inc Jan 2014 – Feb 2016

Systems Engineer SLED NY/CT

Responsible for all Pre-sales activity evaluating client needs and developing a comprehensive solution from VMware’s SDDC stack.

Responsible for definition, development, rollout and enablement of virtualization, cloud infrastructure and management (CIM) solutions and services powered by VMware.

Responsible for all Pre-sales activity evaluating client needs and developing a comprehensive solution from VMware’s SDDC stack.

Requirement gathering, sizing of virtual infrastructure & working without partner ecosystem to deliver these solutions.

Customer facing and presentation with suitable solution delivered to customer staff and CIO’s

GreenPages Jan 2013 – December 2013

Virtualization Consultant

Designed and implemented VMware virtualization technology solutions to various customers thru out the US.

Pre-Sales & Post Sales of AWS solutions to various customers in the US.

AWS SME to our internal consultants.

Assisted organizations with architect and delivered technical solutions such as core Server Virtualization, DC Networking & Enterprise solutions.

PepsiCo May 2005 – September 2012

Systems Engineer: PepsiCo – on-site @ Frito-Lay DC

Managed, designed, and implemented the following enterprise infrastructure solutions in coordination with internal teams and outside vendors. Managed hybrid resources to ensure on-time successful completion of project goals

Acts as Intel and UNIX Subject Matter Expert (SME)

Disaster recovery design for 1000+ VM datacenter(s) hosted on EMC Symmetric with SRDF/S

Design and engineered various enterprise projects as part of engineering team, projects included design of SAN/NAS implementation, MS Exchange, COTS, BES, SharePoint, Citrix, etc.

Provide cross-divisional level 3 operating system and hardware support for Intel & UNIX servers at local and remote sites

Responsible for Windows & RHEL server build/rebuild of data center hardware

Manages HP Open View monitors and escalates issues to proper backline team

Provides support for OS/2 Exit Infrastructure (virtual OS/2 Client & Server)

Monitors production CNTRL-M batch schedule to ensure timely job completion

Administer, support and maintain Windows NT 4.0, 2000 & 2003 servers

Administer & support OS/2 servers at local and remote sites

Provide backup administration and support using HP Storage Data Protector, Tivoli Storage Manager & Backup Exec

Administers and supports Active Directory domain

Provide cross-divisional lead and support on all Citrix issues

Field Consulting Engineer: Navco Security Systems – Feb 2003 to 2005

Planned, Designed and Installed all Analog & Digital Navco, GE INTERLOGIX products, PELCO, Image Vault, 13 DVR, Dedicated Micros, March Networks Recorders in the financial services vertical.

Installed CCTV Digital Recorders for JP Morgan Chase, Apple Bank, Emigrant Savings Bank, HSBC, Indep Savings Bank.

Network Engineer (PSO) : Nortel Networks – October 2002 to Jan 2003

Design and installed Fiber Optic equipment in the field (ABM, TBM, Switches, Optera Metro installations, AccessNode System Setup, Broadband Installations, and maintenance).

Design and installed all Passport Switches, OC-48, and OC-192 Switches.

Performed hardware and software installation of DMS Switches and Optera equipment.

Field Service Engineer: BLOOMBERG L.P. – July 1999 to Jan. 2002

Installed and maintained CISCO 1600 series and Bay ASN/ARN/BLN routers on client LAN.

Assisted and advised clients in the configuration of their LAN/WAN connectivity to Bloomberg Network (cabling requirements, software and hardware issues, firewall modifications, and IP addressing).

Actively provided hands-on field level training to 5 junior technicians.

Managed a team of 5 Technicians in the Stamford and Greenwich area of Connecticut (assigned service and installation calls).

Installed BLN backbone node routers and Nortel Switches.

Installed External TSU for new installations of all T1 lines (MUX and customer sites).

Supervised all technical issues related to T1, 56K, and ISDN lines.

Provided support for over 2000+ Bloomberg terminals at Deutsche Bank.

Installed and maintained Bay BLN backbone node routers, Nortel Switches and local cache servers acting as gateways on the client’s Local Area Network.

Assisted in the sniffing and monitoring of the Deutsche Bank Network for TCP/UDP connection issues.

Installed, relocated, and upgraded the onsite Bloomberg terminals on a daily basis.

Systems Engineer: Uni-Data & Communications Inc. – July 1998 to July 1999

Lead a companywide migration from Windows 3.1 to Windows NT.

Administered the NT domain and provided PC Support for desktop applications.

Installed and configured Microsoft Windows based software and hardware (Win 3.11, Win 95, Win NT Workstation and Server).

Trained new employees on the Y2K team as well as Chase end users all over the East Coast region.

Education / Awards/ Certifications

New York Institute of Technology - 1996-1998

VMware Certified Professional - VCP 5

Novax Technologies Center - LAN/WAN setup and maintenance training, 1998

2016 - Social Media Award by Nutanix 2016- Awarded at .Next show in Las Vegas.

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