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Professional Summary:
Senior Systems Engineer with over 20 years
of experience managing enterprise data center infrastructures. Combined
strong analytical and troubleshooting skills along with experience
spearheading technical projects delivering high quality solutions including
three patent filings.
WORK
HISTORY:
Hewlett-Packard
/ Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Fort
Collins, CO
Lead Systems Engineer (Labs) April 2011 – Present
Responsibilities:
- Lead a
team of Systems Administrators responsible for supporting software
development teams around the globe.
- Manage
an entire core infrastructure including large VMware clusters (over 150 ESXi hosts), DNS/DHCP servers, storage arrays, SAN,
L2 network switches and monitoring tools.
- Continuously
creating, maintaining and troubleshooting complex test environments in a
50,000 square foot heterogeneous datacenter using HPE’s entire fleet of
hardware and “next generation” prototypes.
- Implementation
of Open-Source solutions such as Squid proxy, KVM and Zabbix monitoring
- Provide
end-to-end setup including integration, configuring SAN and network
architecture, storage array setup and allocation, OS installations and
custom configurations, virtual and physical.
- Constantly
learning exciting new technologies from the rudimentary stages of
development through final product releases. Continuously playing a large
role through the entire life cycle of lab environments.
- Project
planning, budgetary advice, lab space management, hardware purchasing,
shipment receiving, hardware setup, environment configurations,
environment maintenance, and equipment recycling.
Specific
skills:
- Hardware
- Synergy
12000 Frames
- OneView
management
- Multi-Enclosure
rings
- Next
generation interconnect modules
- C7000
Platinum Enclosures
- Virtual
Connect Manager
- VC FlexFabric
- VC
Flex10
- 4/8GB
FC modules
- OneView
management
- HPE
Blade servers
- Rack
mount servers
- Intelligent
PDU
- VMware
systems administrator
- ESX 7
/ vCenter 7 / vCenter Server Appliance
- Implementation
of HA, DRS, vSphere Distributed Switches, vSAN
- Upgrade/Patch
management using Update Manager
- VMware
Plug-ins
- Network
management
- Setup
and maintain networks using a mix of Cisco, Procurve,
and 3COM switches
- Network
Address Translation
- LACP
(Link Aggregation)
- Storage
Area Networks
- Brocade
and Qlogic
- Port /
WWN level zoning fabrics
- Flat
SAN configurations
- Storage
Arrays
- HPE Alletra
- HPE
Primera
- 3PAR
- F-Series,
V-series and 7000 series
- Remote
Copy implementation for data migration
- EVA
- Windows
OS
- Windows
2012-2019
- Windows
AD, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy
- HyperV
- SCVMM
- Cluster
Shared Volumes
- Linux
- Rocky
Linux
- CentOS
- Redhat
- Scripting
- Python
- PowerCLI
- Shell
scripting
- PHP
- PowerShell
- Monitoring
- Zabbix
- Grafana
- Splunk
- SNMP
- Documentation
/ Training
- Create
lab level training modules
- Conduct
presentations via video conference and classroom environments
- 1:1
impromptu training
EchoStar
Broadcasting Corporation Cheyenne, WY
Systems Engineer May 2009 – April 2011
Primary
duties: Systems Engineer in a mixed OS
environment consisting of physical and
virtual Linux and Windows 2003 and 2008 Servers; Windows domain management
including Active Directory, Group Policy, Exchange 2008/2010, DNS, DHCP, IIS
and Terminal Services; VMware ESX/vSphere virtualization configuration and
management; Storage Area Network architecture; Management of application
upgrades and migrations across multiple platforms in a real-time production
environment; Lead engineer for multiple projects including hardware upgrades,
hardware infrastructure design and deployment, 3rd party software testing and
process improvement; Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation to ensure the
stability and integrity of operations and quickly troubleshoot and analyze
failures to minimize outages and service interruptions.
Specific
duties:
- Primary
VMware administrator for ESX 3.5 and vSphere 4.0
- Migration
of over 130 virtual machines in a live enterprise environment
- Installed
and configured a dual HP c7000 chassis environment with 6 dedicated
blade servers consisting of 24 sockets for VMware vSphere and 64
sockets for ESX 3.5.
- Implemented
an external storage solution using HP LeftHand
SAN technology.
- Configured
VLAN trunking on Cisco 3020 switches for
multiple network availability
- Linux
engineer for bleeding-edge commercial insertion system
- Headed
the hardware and software implementation in a multi-node,
multi-networked environment
- Four
HP C7000 chassis (Production and Testbed)
- MSA
2300 Fiber channel SAN solution using client side MPIO (Windows and Linux)
- Four
DL685s running Windows 2008 server and SQL 2010 with direct connect
fiber access to SAN architecture
- Mixed
Linux platform consisting of RedHat 5.3 Enterprise and customized
Ubuntu OS
- Primary
engineer for continuous on-the-fly architecture changes as required by
software developers and business needs
- Testing
and configuration of additional proprietary appliances and
software
- Harmonic
ProStream ADI (data streaming spoolers)
- Collaborated
with international software developers to interpret corporate goals
and communicate specific business needs
- Installed
in production environment
- Migrated
from legacy hardware
- Interactive
Television for Dish Network
- Tested,
installed, and configured interactive applications specifically
designed for the Dish Network’s service
- Worked
directly with software developers to help troubleshoot application anomalies
- Implemented
the company’s first open source proxy servers running
RedHat 5.3 in a physical and virtual environment
- Squid
Proxy Server
- Connected
to Windows Active Directory for transparent domain authentication
using Samba and Winbind
- Automated
traffic reports using SARG and Webmin
- Installed
filtering agents connecting to Websense filtering servers
- Implemented
load balancing
using round-robin DNS configurations
- Windows
Domain Administration
- Migration
from Microsoft Exchange 2003 to 2010
- Remote
administration of domain controllers located at satellite uplink centers
in the United States
- DNS
and DHCP configurations
- Group
Policy / Active Directory
- Acronis
backup software
- SCCM
- Symantec
antivirus
- WSUS
- Terminal
Services
- GlobalSCAPE Enterprise FTP
- Custom
scripts used for monitoring and administrative tasks
- Linux
process checking
- Wrote
shell scripts to monitor processes to send alerts using syslog and Solarwinds
- Streamlined
database recovery from backup servers using built-in scripts
- Automated
file transfers
- Wrote
several Windows batch files to assist team members with individual
projects, cutting workloads significantly
- Created
batch files for automated file transfers for real-time data services applications
Systems Engineer June 2005 – May 2009
Primary
duties: Linux/Windows System’s Engineer for the
Dish Network’s Conditional Access System while maintaining zero production
downtime.
Specific
duties:
- IBM Power 5 and Power 6 built on multiple LPARS using VIOS,
HMC and NIM servers
- Principle team member responsible for installing and
maintaining Windows 2003 Servers with Terminal Services, Active
Directory, DNS and Group Policy management
- Management of multiple Windows 2003 domain controllers
- Implementation and maintenance of Active Directory
- Responsible for Terminal Services installation and user
account management
- Domain Name Service setup using forward and reverse lookup zones
- Managed over two hundred Terminal Server accounts among
several Organization Units, each with tailored Group Policy settings
- Proactively identified and recommended updates to software,
hardware, or architecture as necessary before reaching capacity limitations
- Developed and implement shell scripts for systems monitoring
- Configured and maintained Windows XP and Linux diskless terminals
- Lead and managed multiple complex projects, work with
engineering teams and vendors to develop and implement new features and
complete them on schedule
- Management of application upgrades and migrations across
multiple platforms in a real-time production environment
- Responsible for maintaining Linux based diskless hosts using Etherboot and PXE. The diskless architecture
includes mission critical computers such as:
- Dual
logging hosts for capturing log
files
- Email/Paging servers using Cups
- Diskless xterm workstations used
by engineering staff
- Participated in a 24x7 on-call rotation to ensure the
stability and integrity of the operations and quickly troubleshoot and
analyze failures to minimize outages and service interruptions
- Wrote detailed migration and operations guides, document
system installs, upgrades, and patches
- Acted at lead engineer while traveling to multiple remote
facilities located within the United States to perform inspections,
installations, and upgrades
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HARDWARE
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- HPE
Synergy
- C7000
- Blade
- Proliant
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- iPDU
- Brocade
SAN
- 3Com
- Procurve
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- Cisco
- 3PAR
- Primera
- Nimble
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SOFTWARE
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- VMware
- AWS
- KVM
- DNS/DHCP
- Active
Directory
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- Group
Policy
- HPE
OneView
- Matrix
MOE
- Zabbix
- Grafana
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- Linux
- Windows
Server
- FTP
- NAS
- SCCM
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EDUCATION AND TRAINING
- BA Degree
– Criminal Justice (2009) University
of Wyoming
- AA Degree
– Pre-Law (2001) Laramie
County Community College
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (2023) AWS
Certification
- AWS Partner: Accreditation Technical (2023) AWS Partner
Training
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (2021) A Cloud Guru
- AmeriTeach
(2009) VMWARE
ESX Virtualization Boot Camp
- Global Knowledge (2006) Microsoft
2003 Server
- Global Knowledge (2010) Microsoft
Exchange 2010
- IBM (2006-2007) AIX
and virtualization training
- Microsoft (1999) MCSE
Networking Essentials certification
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