SUMMARY

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

PGTEKTechnical Consultant – Infrastructure Services              July 2015 – current

Traveled US deploying Hitachi UCP converged solution for virtual networks, and services 

·         SuSE Linux 10.x and 11.x as well as Red Hat 6.x.

·         Deploy SAP HANA TDI MCOS/MCOD solutions.

·         DR and replication deployments.

·         Deploy Hitachi Converged UCP CB500, CB2000 and CB2500 compute hardware.

·         Hitachi HUS-VM and VSP storage implementations.

·         Brocade and Cisco switch configuration and implementation.

Sr. Unified Infrastructure Systems Administrator for Associa, Inc. – TX    Feb 2014 – July 2015

Design deploy systems to meet business requirements, Support virtual migration of UC/Call manager, Daily administration of UCS network Infrastructure, Exchange 2010-2013, Solar-winds, Active Directory, VMware vm, migration, compliance upgrade and patching of environment and esxi hosts, host preparation for Citrix server farms support for load balancers, Palo Alto firewall, and troubleshooting version upgrades on UCS, storage troubleshooting management, migration, implementation, re-active/pro-active support day-week-month-year for hardware, software, security , server hardening, management life-cycle, vendor management.

·         Manage 3 UCS fabrics, Production – VDI - Development

·         Manage Virtual environments, consisting of VMware 4/5/6, Hyper-V, Citrix

·         Manage Storage systems Local, Networked, or SAN. Pillar-Netapp-EMC-VNX5400-Data Domain 2500.

·         Manage UCS and Network Equipment.

·         Manage MDS9148, Brocade5000,  Cisco 5010 switches

·         Implement new datacenter equipment

·         Manage and support technical direction for resources in India both National and Global initiatives.

·         Provide day to day technical support in operational decisions and management

 

Technical Consultant Outsourced to VCE, Cisco, VMware, EMC, & VARs – TX               Nov 2011 – Jan 2014
Unified Infrastructure Consultant

Configuration of Advanced management pod hardware layer, firmware, and esxi host configuration vShere5.x. configured storage array VNXe, UIM/P verifying router configuration TACAC, and management switch, deployed vm’s AD/DNS, AMP SQL, vCenter, VUM, ACS appliance, smart call home, UCS fabrics and compute components, policy discovery, syslog, time zone, vlan, configuration of virtualization infrastructure, add hosts to vCenter patch configure VMkernal nic, hardening, and advanced settings.   

·         Implementation, Provisioning & Partner mentorship

·         Work on 2-3 man teams to perform requirements gathering with clients/partners, translate those requirements into logical configuration documentation and perform implementations remotely or at customer sites.

·         Act in a consultative role with pre-sales architects, partners and customers to achieve an optimal, best practice solution.

·         Install new or rebuild existing Vblock hardware, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project requirements using VMware vSphere & vCenter related products.

·         Contribute to and maintain Best Practice process and procedures related to Vblock logical configuration.

·         Research and recommend innovative, and where possible automated approaches for implementation tasks. Identify approaches that leverage our resources and provide economies of scale.

·         Provide As-Built documentation to clients.

·         Mentor VCE Partners and junior staff member in VCE & VMware best practices.

 

Cisco – Richardson, TXOct 2011 – Nov 2011

Datacenter Engineer II Rack/stack/patch/labeling of Cisco UCS equipment. Configuration and Software installation consisting of LAN/SAN/Blade Servers of UCS systems in Production Data Centers in accordance with Cisco-IT provided standards. Hardware installs (Rack, Stack and Label). Troubleshooting and ticket resolution.

·         Installation, configuration, testing and deployment of UCS clusters. Implementation and operational support of surrounding technologies including SAN, NAS and VMware. Onsite consulting.
 

Firefly Communications              Jan 2011 – Oct 2011

IT INSTRUCTOR/CONSULTANT-SERVER/STORAGE

·         Professional Services Technology assessment, design, and implementation. Advanced Technology Education Site-specific training with hands-on consulting services.  Delivery of 5 day courseware and onsite installation of Cisco UCS systems. Intelligent IP Infrastructure, Application-Aware Networking, Security, Storage Networking, High Performance Computing, Unified Communications Strategic Consulting services to align vision, strategy, and execution.  CCNA, CCSI, DCNI2, DCSNS, DCNID DCUCI DCUCD.

 

Pediatrix Medical Group  July 2008 – Oct 2010

Technical Services Analyst II

·         Technical infrastructure and proprietary application support - Pediatrix Medical Group, American Anesthesiology, MEDNAX National Medical Group, Children's Health Network.
Assess application, connectivity, topology issues and resolved or escalated for Mednax practice and Pediatrix Offices, in-house – hospital - terminal servers around the nation. Consisting of local DSL, sonic firewalls, hospital fiber vpn's, dell - Citrix farm of over 40+ servers - standard business equipment

·         Troubleshooting and analysis of network connectivity for hospital terminal servers around the nation. Consisting of local DSL, sonic firewalls, hospital fiber vpn's, dell - Citrix farm of over 40 clusters - standard business equipment

·         Troubleshot network connectivity for practices and Pediatrix Offices, in-house - hospital - terminal servers around the nation. Consisting of local DSL, sonic firewalls, hospital fiber vpn's, dell - Citrix farm of over 40+ servers - standard business equipment

 

Aztec SystemsJuly 2007 – Sept 2007
Support Center Engineer; Level I, II, and III support for local and national accounts.

·         XP-Vista-Office 2003-2007. Terminal services and Citrix environment. CRM customer tracking and documentation. 30 racks with separate power generators. Corporate and remote business internet service account management. RDP, POP, Daily administration of local and remote area networks, web site throughput and access management. Level I, II, and III support for local and national accounts. Support for remote user access internal and external accounts.
 

Art InstituteJan 2004 – Sept 2007

Technician II (Part Time)
Support for student and administration networks consisting of Windows XP sp2, Server 2000, Server 2003, and X-serve MAC G5 servers. Support for instructor and student issues. Hardware Setup and instruction use and guidelines.

 

Trillium Industries – South Lake, Texas                               Jan 2004 – Oct 2005
Systems Administrator / Security

·         Network Security, System Administrator of network policy and access. Maintaining US plants and Canadian plant. General duties

 

AMX, Children's HospitalJan 2001 – Jan 2004

Consultant

·         Perot Systems, Provided Help Desk services for proprietary software, Novell / Microsoft networks.
 

Trinity IndustriesJan 2003 – June 2003
Customer Support Engineer (Consultant)

·         Interim position, IT under transition to outsource IT

 

Independent Consultant 2001 – 2003

Connectivity Specialist / Level II SupportCompuCom 1999 – 2001

·         Escalation Point for Large accounts and on-site consultants for Citrix, Novell 2x-3x-4x-5x, AD/DNS, Microsoft 95, 98, 4.0 2000, XP. Reviewed, designed. Remote server maintenance and trouble resolution of systems: IBM/HP/Compaq hardware, backup solutions. Global and National system support for managed and remote server issues. Level II calls for help desk support. Technical writing and documentation for internal use. Troubleshot hardware, working with Compaq 6500/7000,Netfinity 5000, Dell Power Edge 500-1500
 

Brinks Armored Security & DiamondJan 1998 – Jan 1999

MRI Networks Field Engineer

·         Novell Upgrade and Roll out over twenty, million dollar sites in Canada for the year 2000. Imaged workstations using ghost software. Laptop, Desktop and Printer upgrades. Migrated data assured connectivity to network resources and upgraded old Software and database to new. Resolved site issues and made recommendations as needed. Installed network printers and assigned rights.

 

EDUCATION / CERTIFICATIONS	South University Tampa; 2006 – 2007
B.A., MIS (In Process)	Richland Community College; 1997 – 1998
Associates, CIS	Novell, Microsoft, Cisco
	Data Center Unified Computing Design Specialist (DCUCD)
Data Center Unified Computing Support Specialist (DCUCSS)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)4x, 5.5
VMware Technical Sales Professional (VTSP)4x,5x	Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)

 

Specialties:

Vblock 100/200	Vblock 300/320	Vblock 700	Cisco DCUCSS	Cisco DCUCD	VMware VCP5.5
VMware VCP4	VMware VSP4/6	VMware VTSP4	Microsoft MCP	Hewlett Packard2	Master Novell CNE