Damon B. Gatewood

Washington, D.C.

mr_damongatewood@hotmail.com

http://www.linkedin.com/in/damongatewood

202-596-5097

 

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

×          Security clearance: Active DOD TS based on SSBI - 01/13/2012, NATO issued Clearance – 01/2014

×          Extensive knowledge in the areas of Intel / AMD/ Itanium servers and blades/ SAN/ NAS network and systems design, and experience implementing FC, iSCSI target and initiators with VMware and other OS types

×          Seven years+ hands-on design, implementation, development, migration, upgrades and support of VMware ESX 2x, VI3, vSphere 4,5, View, Citirx Xenserver, Xenapp, Xendesktop, and MS Hyper-V

×          Six years+ design, implementation, development, migration, upgrades and support of other hypervisor related products , VMware, MS Virtual Server, Hyper-V, and Citrix Xen Server and desktop

×          Six+ years working with server/desktop consolidation efforts into VMware Virtual Infrastructure, MS and Citrix environments

×          Nine years+ of progressive design, implementation and support of NT4, NT2000, 2003, 2008R2 and 2012R2 server.  Linux open source systems.

×          Four years design, implementation and support of Novell 3x and 4x with NDS

×          Two years of J2EE and java development with ERooms, and Documentum 4i

×          Five+ years of Project Management leadership experience

×          Seven+ years management and team leadership experience in a production data center environment

×          Ten+ years providing trouble-shooting and customer service and support

×          Four years supporting physical- and virtual-switched network environments

×          Five+ years design, implementation, development, migration, upgrades and support of Mac servers and desktops

×          Five+ years design, implementation, development, migration, upgrades and support of MS Windows and Mac desktop hypervisors such as VMware Workstation and Fusion

 

COMPUTER SKILLS

Cloud Providers: Amazon AWS Cloud, Cloudstack, Rackspace, etc.

Hyper Converged Technology: Nutanix, VMware EVO: Rails

Virtualization/ Cloud:

·          Open Stack, Virtustream Xtream4

·          VMware’s vCoud Air, Virtual Infrastructure 3 and vSphere 4, 5, 6 (ESX, ESXi, VMotion, HA, DRS, Consolidated Backup), VM Ware ESX 2.x, GSX, Workstation5/6/7/8/9/10, ACE, P2V, Importer 2, Converter 3, 4, 5, Player and VMware Fusion1/2/3/4/..7 (for Mac), 3i, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, (View2, 3, 5, Horizon) and Thin App

·          Citrix’s Xenapp4/5/7, Xendesktop4/5/7, XenClient2/4 XT, Provisioning Server5/6/7, Citrix WAN Optimization products such as NetScalers, VPX and Branch Repeater/ Cloud bridge,

·          Mobile Management: Citrix MDM, Airwatch

·          Microsoft’s Virtual Server 2005, 2012 R2 Hyper-V, App-V, Client, VSMT and MDOP

Operating Systems: Windows 95, 98, XP, NT 4.0/2000 Professional, 7/8.1, Mac OS X and Linux

Network Operating Systems: Windows NT 3x, 4.0,2000, 2003, 2008 R2and 2012 R2; Server/Advance Server, Active Directory Design, Linux, Mac X and Novell Netware 3x, 4x, NDS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), SUSE Enterprise Linux.

HP/IBM/DELL: Servers, Blades, Desktops, Thin clients, PDA, tablets, and smart phones.

Deployment software: ADS, Ghost, WYSE Device Manager.

SAN & NAS: Storage: Hitachi 9200, 9570v, EMC Symetrix, HP MSA, EVA Storage Works Systems,

IBM DSS6000, and Dell EqualLogic

Switches: Brocade 2800, 3800 Compaq Loop FC Hub, and MSA controller Cisco MDS 9500.

HBAs: JNIs, Troyka, Emulex, and QLogic)

Web Applications: IIS, Tomcat

Mail: MS Exchange2000, 2003, Lotus Notes 3x, 4x & 5R

Data Base: SQL 6, 7, 2000, etc and Oracle 8i, 9i

Document Management Development with J2EE and java for: ERooms, Documentum 4i, MS Biz

Talk Server and SharePoint

Vulnerability and Compliance: Retina Scan, Nessus and ACAS (Assured Compliance Assessment Solution)

Security: Check Point Firewall, Nokia Firewall (HD)

Backup: Commvault, Legato, Arc serve, and Veritas Net Backup4.5, 5.1MP3 and MP4.

Internet Services/Protocols/Networking: IIS, FTP, HTTP/HTTPS, SMTP, SSL, TCP/IP, IPX/SPX,

DNS,DHCP, WINS, and SNMP.

Wireless/ Cellular: TDMA, CDMA, CDPD, GPS, WAP and Wi-Fi

Software Applications: Office 97/2000/XP/2003-2014, Lotus Smart Suite, Symantec

Antivirus Corporate Edition 10 and End Point.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

GDH Government Services,  (EMC Corporation @ DOD)Franklin, MA10/2015- Present

 

Sr. Cloud Solutions Architect

×          Member of the EMC (Cloud/ Hybrid Cloud) Managed Services Federal Team charged with contributing to the success of the DOD cloud meeting FedRamp + Impact Level 5.

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Bay State Computers, L.L.C.    (Convergent Solutions, Inc. @ US Air Force National Guard)

, MD11/2014-10/2015

Sr. Virtualization Integration Architect

×          Member of A6XP Engineering and Integration Team, Providing enterprise level strategic high level and hands on engineering design, approach, implementation and influence to US Air Force ANG Enterprise modernization/ integration into the AFNET, JIE, JRSS, refresh for over 100 locations and other related projects.

×          Supported many distributed cyber system initiatives such as LVC- DTOC, MHS EHR,etc

×          Providing design engineering insight to distributed enterprise EMC VNX deployment, Vmware environment upgrade and new emerging technologies like hyper converged VDI solution.

×          Physical implementation of vSphere 55, EMC VNX 5200, SuperMicro services and integration, etc.

×          Working with Temable’s ACAS, Nessus and Security Center to scan and remediate vSphere 55, EMC VNX and SuperMicro management host working thru IA required accreditation.

 

 

Bay State Computers, L.L.C.(Lockheed Martin @ NATO Active Network Infrastructure)

Springfield, VA.01/2014-11/2014

Sr. Virtualization/Client Provisioning (VDI) Architect

×                          Provide, contribution to end-to-end enterprise solution, hands on implementation and consulting services around innovation and emerging technologies.

×                          Participate in daily Agile/ SCRUM calls/ meetings, contributing, capturing working product, release and sprint planning/ tracking/ review in Version 1 Agile tool.

×                          Coordinate/ meet day-to-day with local team and client side contractors on ANWI Team, key stakeholders, vendors locally and globally to work through logistical details.

×                          Team Lead, implementation architect, providing Client Provisioning by way of selection of small form factor mobile devices, tablets, laptop, thin clients, desktops, high performance workstations and backend Citrix infrastructure Virtualized on Hyper –V 2012 and VMware 5, supporting optimized delivery of virtualized application and desktops to 5700 devices isolated in 4 domains utilizing cross domain gateway solution.

×                          Delivery of NATO ANWI Enterprise Client Provisioning solution consisting of MS Windows 2012R2, MS Workstation/ Mobile 8.1, MS SCCM/ VMM, MS Hyper-V, VMware vSphere Virtualized server environment running on Dell blade servers supporting Citrix Xenapp 7 / Xendesktop 7 / XenClient 4/ Citrix PVS 7/ Citrix NetScalers / Citrix MDM, NetApp SAN.

×                          Infrastructure Virtualization SME, Participated in enterprise integration efforts supporting all products working stack, working thru cross domain secure multi domain solution addressing environments staging for Information Assurance (IA) acceptance, proof of concepts, and the enterprise integration for approx. 6K users locally (to Belgium) wired/ Wi-Fi, MDM and remote to HQ site rollout plan. Assure implementation, administration, maintenance, and operation support of all enterprise-wide operating and support system environments.

Mortgage Bankers Association (Short Term Consulting) Washington, D.C.11/2013-01/2014

Sr. Optimization and Monitoring Engineer

×          Provided pre-cloud VMware VDI (Horizon) assessment for off-premise migration, support to aid in stabilizing existing on-premise VMware VDI solution and infrastructure scale back. Executed implementation of no cost solution of Dell Operations Manager and HP Insight Manager to add in proactive monitoring and hardware monitoring and failures.

 

Optimal Solution (Accenture @ DLA)Merrifield, VA.         03/2011 – 09/2013

Sr. Enterprise Infrastructure Architect/ Virtualization/ Cloud SME

×          Provide contribution to end-to-end virtualization of applications and desktops in an enterprise solution, hands on implementation and consulting services around innovation and emerging technologies. Coordinate and meet day to day, with key stakeholders, vendors locally and globally to work through logistical details. Team member providing delivery of DLA Enterprise solution consisting of VMware vSphere 5 Enterprise Virtualized server environment running on blade servers supporting Citrix Xenapp / Xendesktop / Citrix PVS / Citrix NetScalers / Citrix branch repeaters.

×          Adhering to DIACAP, NIST security best practices supported by Tenable’s ACAS vulnerability scanning tool aiding in remediation of system and enterprise environment.  Working thru environment staging for Information Assurance (IA) acceptance, proof of concepts, and the enterprise integration for 28K users centralizing 5 CONUS sites into 2 sites including legacy systems and production rollout plan. Assure implementation, administration, maintenance, and operation support of all enterprise-wide operating and support system environments.

×          Serve as a technical lead and SME on issues involving legacy points (Cisco, Avaya, VOIP, OCS, and Movi) of integration with new technologies introductions from VMware, Citrix, Microsoft, involving SAN’s, dense processor and memory blades /Servers, VDI, SAN, Liquidware Labs, data center consolidation and WAN optimization.

Deloitte Consulting  (@ CTO Office MHS) Falls Church, VA.         09/2010 – 03/2011

Sr. Virtualization / Cloud/ Infrastructure SME/Architect

×          Provided virtualization consulting in the area of, but not limited to, server, desktop, application virtualization, cloud, storage, blade, and server infrastructure.

×          Member of CTO’s EA Team, focusing on (Military Health Systems, Electronic Health Record), Technical Infrastructure Architect SME, focusing on Virtualization/ Cloud initiatives.  Providing insight and concepts in technological innovations like, Virtual Data Layer, Data/ Desktop Performance, Data Protection De-Duplication, On Demand Computing, Virtualization, WAN Optimization, and Replication.

 

NetStar-1 (SPAWAR, Department of Navy) Falls Church, VA.         08/2009 – 09/2010

Sr. Virtualization/ Infrastructure Principal

×          Provided, end-to-end server, desktop and application virtualization/ consolidation solutions for multiple accredit solutions; Lead infrastructure design, support for servers, blades, SAN, NAS, switch, network, support, design and hands-on configuration oversight for SPAWAR/ DOD Military Health System and TIMPO projects; Member of Tiger Team charged with providing insight on best-of-breed virtualization and blade server design and implementation solutions efforts.

×          Blade SME implementing and designing scalable Blade solutions, hardware monitoring and Network/ SAN interconnect solutions.

×          Virtualization SME implementing and designing of VMware, Citrix, and Hyper V solutions.

×          Provided STIG support for VMware, MS Windows Server OS, etc. to accelerating the accreditation process.

×          Provided support and insight for DR/ COOP and Backup/ De-duplication efforts.

 

TAC Worldwide (Hewlett Packard @ IRS)Rockville, MD.         06/2009 – 08/2009

Enterprise Architect - (Virtualization Consultant)

×          Provided end-to-end physical hardware (blade servers) and virtualization environment monitoring solutions and introduced value added support tools via integration, design and implementation of distributed multi-site environments.

 

Instos, Inc. (@ Department of the Army) Rockville, MD.          04/2009 – 06/2009

Sr. Enterprise Virtualization Architect

×          Provided hands-on Enterprise Virtualization solutions, design and implementation end-to-end; Worked on system for Department of Defense/United States Army project – Digitizing Soldiers medical records during their Separations Processing, in support of DoD/VA Data Sharing; The solution will be deployed at ~200 locations in CONUS and OCONUS.

×          Implemented Virtualization, MS 2003 AD server solution platform hosting multiple VMs running the application platform to facilitate the digitalization of medical records of soldiers exiting the military.

×          Designed and implemented VMware VI3 environment using iSCSI attached Dell Equal Logic storage and backup via Commvault.

×          Designed, implemented, STIG’d and remediate total solution, Vmware hypervisor,, Commvault, MS SQL, MS AD, DNS, Windows Servers and XP workstations with DIACAP, DISA STIGS applied to be approved by GOLD DISK and eEye Digital Retina security scans.

×          Implemented, Symantec AV environment on servers and desktops mixed x64 and x32 bit systems.

×          Implemented, FDCC, HIPAA, DIACAP, DISA, NIST, ITIL compliance, checks and security to total delivered solution.

 

Trusted Force (Locked Martin @ the U.S. Mint) Washington, D.C.          04/2008 - 03/2009

Sr. Data Center Lead (Virtualization Consultant)

×          Provided innovative Enterprise solutions and architectural integration solutions for server, desktop and software virtualization; Managed technical direction and implementation of new initiatives and mandates integrated into the technology road map.

×                       As a Principal Lead, implemented Re-engineered and supported virtualization solutions for desktop, server and datacenter; Implemented 3-tiered designs for VI environment to further isolate high CPU, Memory utilization caused by test/ LE VMs; Configured Test/ LE and staging VI clusters to separate the functions in the VI space (Production, Test/ LE and Staging); Re-engineered SAN/VM framework and distribution; Maintained VI3 environment of 205 VMs running Linux Red Hat, MS Windows 2K, 2K3 Standard/Enterprise and Citrix environments; Maintained IBM x3950s, x445s and Blade Center; Maintained Cisco MDS 9500 SAN switch; Implemented VMware workstation 6 and ACE option pack creating sandbox for VI development and innovation; Identified problem areas and created get-to-green corrective actions and a roadmap for VI Datacenter; Implemented MAC OSX Server architecture enhancements made to desktop/laptop, security lock-down and user matrix, OSX, OD/ AD integration solution to support marketing and graphics departments; Open Director/ Active Directory integration; Metadata Controllers configuration; X-San implementation managing Promise RAID storage array.

×                       Provided engineering oversight, including:  Enterprise Virtualization Solutions ( VMware, Citrix, etc.); Apple (MAC) Enterprise solutions; Backup environment Upgrade-Veritas NetBackup software Upgrade, IBM hardware LTO4 upgrade and tape encryption; SAN Storage; Security mandate implementations (FDCC, 2 Factor Authentication for Domain accounts, McAfee USB Encryption drive deployment and Management Console, etc.; and Created various portable XP desktop images on McAfee USB Encryption drive to be used in place of laptop.

 

Fannie Mae Washington, D.C.          11/2001 – 02/2009

Systems Engineer

×          Provided consulting services and solutions for the Microsoft Windows Server O/S (Platform and Storage)

×          Team lead for VMware ESX 3x, 2.5 testing and deployment of ESX 2.5 server host configured with local disk configuration with VM SMP and PAM/AD access for support team access to the vmkernel.

×          Deployed more than 600 physical-to-virtual service conversions using VM Converter.

×          Team lead for Veritas Net Back-up 5.1, MP3 and MP4 upgrades rollout NT server platform.

×          VMware ESX, GSX, Workstation and Player Suites, MS Virtual Server 2005, R2 and supporting products for both.

×          Server sizing, best practice methodologies for a stable platform supporting HP server hardware (ML, DL and Blades).

×          Scalable hardware configuration based on clients application requirements.

×          MSCS (Microsoft Cluster Services), (File and Print, SQL, and Exchange)

×          SAN/ NAS design (HP, Hitachi, EMC, HP ,Brocade, Troyka, Q Logic)

×          Supported Windows 2003 AD application/ dmz environment/ file and print

×          Windows 2000/2003 Standards.

×          Support 2 Data Center Consolidation Moves Shifting of servers to be housed in new data centers.

×          Re-engineer server deployment process and standard server build process. (Ghost, ADS)

×          Project Manager / Team Lead Virtual Infrastructure 3 Project implemented, configured and tested both local disk and VMFS SAN volumes, using VM SMP, Vmotion, DRS, HA, P2V, Importer, Converter 3 and Consolidated Backup.

×          Resource team member for VMware workstation testing and certification for business use.

×          Resource for Citrix Presentation Server 4x migration project and support.

×          Managed new server deployment team engaged in direct and indirect client support.

 

PricewaterhouseCoopers L.L.P, Tysons Corner, Virginia 1997-2001

E-Business Systems Engineer

Designed, implemented and supported co-located E-business infrastructure consisting of secure web servers, database servers and mail servers in both production and development configurations.

Engineering and Design Responsibilities:

·          Led Internet based collaboration effort including E-Rooms & Microsoft Biz Talk. Managed the US R&D Lab ensuring flexibility and technical support for new technologies.

·          Maintained controlled Windows 2000/NT4 NOS platforms configured in a mixed

mode active directory configuration for full lifecycle testing and development.

·          Provided third-party application support.

·          Managed implementation team responsible for production and development

environment consisting of 50 servers.

·          Technical advisor for Internet hosting services.

·          Provided technical assistance and training to senior officials.

·          Successfully managed the wireless PDA pilot project using PALM OS and

Windows CE.

Network Operations Specialist

·          Provided a wide variety of technical support, systems management and training to end users throughout the global franchise.

·          Participated in switch migration from DEC (Digital) hubs to Cisco switches.

PC LAN Network Consultant

·          Provided troubleshooting and technical support to all lines of service.

Managed approximately 500 client workstations and 20 server migration/upgrades.

Management Responsibilities:

·          Managed $2.5 Million off-site hosting facility.

·          Delivered demonstrative presentations to clients on technical capabilities of the E-business infrastructure

·          Managed over 10 vendor relationships to ensure infrastructure was built to

intended specifications

·          Responsible for procurement of all hardware/software in support of the multimillion dollar E-business site

 

Aerotek Engineering Services Group, Inc (@ Black Entertainment Television)1996- 1997

PC/LAN Network Technician

 

×                       Provided services to approximately 300 users in a diverse LAN/WAN Novell Net Ware 4x, AS400 and Windows Server environment.

·Primary administrator of the daily functions within the NOS environment.

·Installed and configured software and hardware on desktop workstations, (Windows and Apple).

·Managed software installation and configuration process.

·Maintained all hardware maintenance and support.

·Built PCs and file servers

 

Integrated Designs Systems Inc. 1996

Systems Administrator

·          Utilized administration skills on a NetWare 3x network supporting 35-40 nodes.

·          Acquired knowledge in managing user access rights.

·          Created login scripts and loading applications.

·          Configured printers and diagnosed command problems.

·          Performed system upgrades and replacement of client file server hardware.

·          Provided trouble-shooting network topology.

 

Americom 1994-1996

Wireless Communications Field Engineer

·          Provided independent on-site technical services and sales in support of business and residential cellular communication base equipment.

·          Ensured quality workmanship on all installs, removals, troubleshooting and repairs of cellular-base, PCS and satellite-base equipment, etc.

·          Responsible for sales of new line cellular services, price plans, equipment and accessories (authorized agent for Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile).