Dinesh Mehra

701 Fallsgrove Dr, Rockville, MD 20850

301 272 4104

mehra_ent@hotmail.com

 

 

Education: B.S with Major in Computer Applications

 

VISA Status: Citizen of USA

 

Certified in several industry acknowledged technologies including,

 

·VMWare Certified Professional CLOUD – VCP-CLOUD (2013)

·VMWare Certified Professional – VCP 510 , VCP410 (vSphere) and VCP3.5

·VCE-CIA (Virtual Computing Environment Company Converged Infrastructure Associate) - 2014

·ITIL Foundation (2014)

·Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Virtualization MCSE

·Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, Virtualization Administrator

 

Highlights:

Mr. Mehra has more than twenty years of proven success in Architecture, Enterprise Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Datacenter Technologies, Systems, Networks, SDN, Databases and Strategic Planning. Worked with Sybase, AOL Time Warner, VCE, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, HP, FedEx, Hughes Network Systems in diverse roles from individual contributor to Team Lead, Project Lead. Cloud Solutions Architect, Virtualization Architect etc.
Core Competencies:
Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture, Cloud Architecture,
Solution Architecture (Cloud, Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, VDI)
CISCO UCS , Nexus 1KV

Converged Infrastructure : VCE vBlock, NetApp FlexPod, HP Blade Systems. Familiar with Nutanix

 

 

 

 

 

VMware vCloud Suite:
VMWare vCloud Director (5.1,5.3), vCAC 5.x, 6.0/6.0.1.1/6.0.1.2 vCNS (vShield Manager/vCloud Networking and Security), vShield Manager, VMware NSX, VCO (orchestrator, automation), VCOPS, VMware vFarbic Appln. director, Site Recovery Manager (SRM), VMware Operations Managment suite (VCOPS), Hyperic, Infrastructure Navigator, Log Insight,
Load Balancer vShield Edge, VCNS, Netscaler, F5
Cloud Governance and Cloud Security
Roadmaps (IT, Cloud, Tech, etc.)
Cloud Framework and CoE
Cloud Management and Orchestration
Service Catalog, Service Delivery
End to End Architecture, Logical, Physical Design, Security (edge/app)
Software Defined Networking (SDN), Software Defined Data Center (SDDC)
Collateral Development and Delivery (Create content and deliver Customer Workshops)
IT Strategy, vision and goals.
Experienced in C level communication, Executive Consulting, Strategy advisory

Routinely evaluate new technologies and IT Trends, make recommendation to Management

Experienced with Customer Interaction/Conduct workshops to understand customer needs/expose/train to new technologies, define requirements, and designining solutions to satisfy customer requirements.

VDI: VMWare VMWare View 5.x/4.x, Personna Management, Roaming Profiles, Folder redirection, floatingVDI Pools, dedicated pools, TS Pools.

CLOUD- Architeture, Strategy, Framework and governance. Public cloud deployment (AWS). VMWare vCloudDirector, VCNS, vShield, vCAC, vFabric App Director, Ops Management, vCloud Connector, VMware ITBM, vCenter Chargeback Manager, VCO

Storage Expertise: 10+ years of Designing, Installing/implementing and maintaining a storage infrastructure, (NAS, SAN, Fiber Channel, iSCSI) , EMC VNXe, VNX, VMAX, HP, 3Par, NETAPP, DATACORE.

Networking Expertise: Have sound understanding of IP, VPNs, DHCP, DNS, network routing, Switches (install/configure/design) and firewalls, CISCO Nexus and Catalyst, N1KV, ASA/VSG, VXLAN, PVLAN,vCloud Networks, SDN, VMware NSX

Database Expertise: Strong experience in SQL Database Administration, design, performance tuning, automation, monitoring and production support of both MS SQL Server (2000, 2005, 2008, 2012)

HA/DRS/Clustering: VMware HA/DRS, FT and Microsoft Failover Clusters.

Windows: Win 2000, 2003, 2008, 2012, powershell, powercli

Linux: RHEL , scripting

Unix

Strong VISIO and Powerpoint skills

DataCenter Hosting Expertise: From Racking hardware, installing firmware, installing, upgrading, monitoring, chargeback accounting, web servers, portals, automating customer support, etc.
 

Experience:

7/14 – Present (VMware Global Professional Services) Senior Advisory Cloud Consultnat

Working as Senior Architect on VCAC/NSX project for major Bank IaaS project. Advise, Architect, Design, implement, document the IaaS VCAC private cloud environment. Working as a team of Architects.

VCAC 6.0.1.1/6.0.1.2, NSX, Vsphere 5.5, EMC vBlock, Cisco.

 

8/2013 – Jun 2014  VCE (Virtual Computing Environment Company),

Cloud Solution Architect (Global Cloud Practice/Professional Services)

 

·      Conducted customer workshops (requirments/LLD ) for Private Cloud Solution for one of the largest Cloud Service Provider in UK

·               vCloud Director

·               vCenter Operations Manager

·      Lead Implementation Cloud Architect - Successfully implemented a multi-million dollar, private Cloud Solution for a very large Cloud Serivce Provider in UK utilizing VCE vblock, VMware VCD 5.1, CISCO CIAC, VCAC, VCNS, VCOPs, VCO, Cisco UCS Blade Servers,  Cisco Networking , N1kv

·      Based on SOW, HLD review and implementation of Private Cloud Solution, created following documentation as part of final handoff to Customer

·  vCloud Director Architecture design

·  vSphere Architecture design

·  As-Built Document

 

·      Part of two member Architects team for Cloud DR solution. Created the Disaster Recovery Design/architecture for the multi-site Private Cloud Solution using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM).

·      Create Jumpstart and Functional Spec workshop content for a major Healthcare Provider Client

o       VMware VCOPs (vCenter Operations Manager)

o       Hyperic

o       vCloud Director

 

    VMware Service Catalog

    VMware Management and Orchestration

    VMware Auto-deploy

   

 

 

 

 

 

VCAC: Part of team of Senior Cloud Architects , responsible for  vCloud Automation Center POC, pre-prod and Production implementations. Experienced in vcloud Automation Center (Install, configure, design, architect, troubleshoot) of VMware vCloud Automation Center (5.2, 6.0,6.1)

     vCAC blueprints (single and multi-machine), Endpoints (vsphere, AWS)

     Define and configure workflows in vCAC portal for automated operations

VMware NSX : Deliver NSX customer introduction workshops.

NSX deployment on existing IP Network, install, configure and migrate workloads from physical to virtual software defined network. Build 3-node control clusters, service insertion/ micro segmentation.

·   Architect, design and implement Cloud Acceleration Services for VCE customers using leading converged infrastructure technologies EMC vBlock, EMC VNX, EMC VPlex, Cisco UCS Blades, HP Blades, F5 Load balancers

Strong CISCO UCS Manager, Blade Servers, N1kv, nexus switches, UCS Profiles

Strong vBlock , AMP, L-AMP, C-AMP and HA-AMP design/implementation experience.

 

 

Sep 2011 – July 2013 : Sr. VMware Cloud Architect Consultant- Simtek Resources

July 13- Sep 13 – Consult /advise with cloud migrations.

Sep 12- July13: Sr. VMWare/ Cloud Architect – Medimmune/AstraZeneca

Key responsibilities include the following:

Build/identify Business Cases/use case for Cloud

Developed Roadmap for the Cloud (Public, Private and Hybrid)

Architect/ Design and build  Internal Private Cloud Environment, Private Cloud offering with Service Catalog and governance. Build Private Cloud service offerings for Web, DB, App services using vCloud Director, chargeback, vCNS, vApps, VCO.

Developed criteria to identify best Public Cloud Service Providers (based on Cost/ Service/ Security/ Ease of on-board / off-board and other requirements, including flexible Contract verbage)

Architected, planned, implemented the upgrade of multiple sites from vSphere 4.x to 5.1 including CISCO Nexus VSM upgrade, vCenter Upgrade and over 85 ESXi host upgrade.

vSphere 5, 5.1, ESXi 4.x, 5.0, 5.1, SRM 5, VCD 5.1/2, VCNS, VCO, VCOPS, VCAC

CISCO UCS, CISCO NEXUS SWITCHES, CLOUPIA, INTERCLOUD, VSG/ASA and ISE. NETAPP STORAGE.

Manage Enterprise Virtual Infrastructure 100+ hosts, over 2400 VMs, 3 Datacenters.

Distributed Switches (Nexus 1000v), PortGroups, vDS, vMotion, Storage vMotion. NFS, VMFS and RDM disks.

VMWare Update Manager, Standard templates Win 2K8 R2, Win 2003, Linux, Win 7, Win 8, DB Server, Web server – Create, deploy VMs using templates and guest customization.

VCOPS, VCO, VCLOUD Director. VCAC.ESXi 5.1

Windows 2003, 2008, Win 7, Linux

Powershell, vCLI, PowerCLI,  AD, DNS, DHCP, Commvault. VISIO, Powerpoint.

MS office Suite.

 

Catamaran (pharmacy benefits company)

Responsible for supporting Enterprise Virtual Infrastructure across Sites and Datacenters.

Architect, Design , Implement key solutions: DR, VDI. Cloud (POC)

Enterprise Virtualization Strategy, roadmap.

Upgrade virtual environments from vSphere 4.1 to 5, vcenter from 4 to 5, ESX/ESXi from 4 to 5.

Configure vSphere clusters as per best practices HA, DRS, FT, vMotion, Storage vMotion, Cluster rules (affinity, anti-affintiy, host groups etc.). Setup FC Storage, iSCSI storage, VMFS, NFS and RDM volumes.

Standard switches, Distributed Switches vDS. PortChannel, VPC, Trunking, HP Service profiles etc.

Datacenter migration : Architect/plan and implement datacenter migration of Physical as well as Virtual Infrastructure. P2V , V2V, P2P using Platespin or VMWare Enterprise Converter, SRM.

VMWare Update Manager, Standard templates Win 2K8 R2, Win 2003, Linux, Win 7, Win 8, DB Server, Web server – Create, deploy VMs using templates and guest customization.

Storage related VM/Host performance issues.

VDI Project: Upgrade VDI from 4.5 to 5.0.

Architect, design and build a new VMWare View 5.0/5.1 environment, using both floating and dedicated pools, thinapp, security server (external access), pools  for various applications, projects.

Network Configuration of Switches, Routers, VLANs, Distributed Switches.

DHCP, DNS, AD.

Design, Deploy, Implement and maintain Virtual Infrastructure including HP Blades C7000 BL620c and BL680c, BL980

CISCO Nexus Switches, NetAPP and HP 3PAR SAN. vSphere 5.0, ESXi 5.0. install and configure multi-node (8-10) clusters.

AD, DNS, DHCP.

Windows, Linux, VMWare vSphere 5.0/4.0, Commvault, Foglight, vizioncore etc.

VISIO, Powerpoint

 

Apr 2008 – Aug 2011    Sr. Network\Virtualization Architect -The Asbury Group, MD (Inhouse at hosting site as well as Customer facing at various client sites)

Responsible for supporting internal DataCenter Operations and external Clients as well as Hosting Customers. Job responsibilities include Architecture, Design, Install, Implement, Monitor and Support of VMware Enterprise Farms, Systems Support, Server Support, upgrade, SAN/Storage upgrade/support and Database administration and support.

Lead for Enterprise VMWare Infrastructure farm upgrade from 3.5 to 4.0 (vSphere). Architect, Plan and Implement the upgrade of over 30+ ESX hosts from 3.5 to vSphere 4.1.

Architect /Design and Implement a VDI Infrastructure for Financial and other Apps.

vCloud Director POC.

Resource Pools and Multi-path SAN setups.

vMotion and Storage vMotion.

VMWare VIEW : Install, configure, maintain and monitor the VIEW VDI environment using linkd clones.

VMware ESX 3.5 , vSphere 4.1 update ,, vCenter 4.1  Server, vMotion, HA, DRS, Fault Tolerant VMs, SRM, VCB, Update Manager, Enterprise Converter, vClould Director, SRM,  LifeCycle Manager, VMWARE View/VDI , vCenter Heartbeat, Host Profiles.

ESX/ESXi installs , upgrades and support.

Server P2V, Templates, Clones , VMOTION, Storage Vmotion.

Installing VMware Servers, Hosts, Clusters and Fault Tolerant VMs.

Physical Server installs/upgrades and P2V.

Linxu, Shell Scripting, CLI, Powershell.

VMWare VIEW project: Architect and install VMWARE View Environment(4.5/5.1), VIEW connection server, VIEW composer and VIEW Security Server setup/ firewall configuration, create parent (golden) image, manage images, provision/ deploy linked clones for storage optimization, desktop pools configuration. Monitoring and support of pools/images.

Utilize VMWare Thinapp to stream portable applications, Adobe Reader etc, older applications.

VMWare Lab Manager/vCloud Director and VMWARE View project for Online Training Application.

Perform P2V, Cloning, snapshots etc.

Performing SAN Upgrade from older SAN to newer HA SAN (Datacore SAN Symphony)
Microsoft Windows 2003/2008 server and Active Directory

Networking/IP /DNS, DHCP/ TCP/IP port configuration. Configuring Mgmt and VM traffic network IPs, TCP/IP ports in ESX firewall.

Server hardware/OS/software configuration, Raid configuration, Microsoft Windows server clustering MCSC

Setup both iSCSI and Fibre Channel SANs using zoning, masking and VLANs.

Aug 07 - Mar 08                                            Sr. Network / Virtualization  Engineer Consultant (Sytel Corp- Client NIH)

Part of the Office of Director Information Technology Group. Responsible for supporting DataCenter operations within OIT/OD , Systems, Servers, Virtualization (VMWare), Storage, Databases.  Duties include system architecture, Install, Upgrades, monitoring and support of Datacenter and Virtual Infrastructure environment, SAN/Storage upgrade/support.

P2V of physical servers.

Networking/IP /DNS, DHCP/ TCP/IP port configuration. Configuring Mgmt and VM traffic network IPs, TCP/IP ports in ESX firewall.

Power configs, cooling aisle solutions, racking, networking, switch configuration , ESX installation and configuration, vctr configuration.

HP, VMWARE, CISCO, CITRIX, Windows, Linux, Active Directory.

UNIX/LINUX admin, shell scripting.

Mar 07 - Aug 07                                 Sr. Database Consultant COSTAR Group

Responsible for Database Administration of SQL Server Environments.  Day to day support of database system architecture, design, development, performance turning and production support.

SQL Server, Windows,

Unix/Linux, Shell Scripting, Windows, SQL, T-SQL

Jun 05 – Mar 07                        Sr. Software Consultant/Engineer PGI

Part of Systems and Database Operations group. Responsible for Systems Install, monitoring, support, Virtualization, Database System architecture, design, performance tuning, Production Support, automation of monitoring infrastructure.

As part of each DBA environment, setup/configure, troubleshoot TCP/IP Listener Ports for each database instance as well as IP configuration for each db instance.

HP, DELL, VMWARE, Linux/UNIX, Windows, Active Directory, MS SQL Server.

July 04 - May 05                                              Sr. Systems Consultant Trizetto Group

Responsible for automation of monitoring infrastructure, Database and Systems Support.

DB Administration, DB System architecture, design, development, Replication, performance tuning.

Client implementations of Faecets Claim processing application.

SUN, HP, Unix, Linux, Windows, VMWare, Sybase ASE, Shell Scripting, Perl.

Aug 03 - July 04                                    Sr. Database Consultant FedEX Corp.

Responsible for Database Administration of Key FedEX Database Systems, Database systems architecture, design, administration, Replicationo, performance tuning and production support.

Desgin RAID levels and storage type for optimal database performance.

As part of each DBA environment, setup/configure, troubleshoot TCP/IP Listener Ports for each database instance as well as IP configuration for each db instance.

HP, SUN, Unix, Linux, Windows, Sybase ASE, Oracle, Shell Scription, T-SQL, TOAD.

Storage/SAN.

Sep 01 - Aug 03                                   Sr. Software Engineer Freddie Mac

Part of the Systems and Database Group, responsible for Database Administration Support of key DB Systems inlcluding LP (Loan Prospector).

Database Systems Architecture, design, development, replication, performance tuning, production support.

Monitoring infrastructure automation. Database administration, sql performance tuning, server admin. Shell scripting on UNIX/LINUX. 

Design/troubleshoot storage /SAN for optimal database performance.

As part of each DBA environment, setup/configure, troubleshoot TCP/IP Listener Ports for each database instance as well as IP configuration for each db instance. 

SUN, HP, DELL, Unix, WIndows, Sybase ASE, MS SQL Server, Oracle, T-SQL, Shell Scripting.

SAN/RAID Levels/Storage design/architecture.

 

 

 

 

 

 

May 2000 - Sep 2001                                 Sr. Database Consultant AOL  Time Warner

Responsible for Database Administration, Production Support.

DB Architecture, Design, development, automation, performance tuning, replication, monitoring.

Setup/configure and automate Database Server farms. Database administration, perl and shell scripting.

Work with Storage teams to design/layout storage raid levels based on database performance requirements.

Solaris/SUN System admin/shell scripting.

SUN, HP, Unix, Linux, Perl, Sybase, Oracle, EMC.

Aug 89 – May 2000    Programmer Analyst, Lead Programmer, DBA, Sr DBA at various companies (US HUD, CDC, First Data, Sybase Professional Services, Hewlett Packard etc.)