Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Experienced Information Systems professional with a demonstrated history in information technology and services industry. Skilled in Managed Services, Cloud, Data Center, Information Security & Compliance, VMware Virtualization Infrastructure, and Windows Server. Strong engineering and architecture professional with a Bachelor's degree focused in Computer Information Systems from Baruch College. Hardware: Cisco UCS Blade and Rack-Mount Servers 8+ years Cisco UCS vBlocks 8+ years Dell PowerEdge Servers and Blade Systems 7+ years Dell VxRail (Hyper-Convergence) 2+ years EMC Storage Systems/VMAX 7+ years HP Proliant, Blade and Integrity servers 15+ years NetApp Storage Systems 7+ years Software: VMware Enterprise Software Suite 10+ years VMware vSphere (2.5 thru 6.7) 10+ years VMware vRealize Operations Manager (vCOps) 4+ years VMware vRealize Automation (Self Service Portal) 2+ years VMware vRealize Orchestrator (Task automation) 2+ years VMware Site Recovery Manager 5+ years VMware vSAN 2+ years VMware vCloud Director 5+ years VMTurbo/Turbonomics 3+ years VEEAM Availability Suite 3+ years Plate Spin Recon and Migrate 6+ years HP Insight Manager 15+ years Foglight for Virtualization (vFoglight) 3+ years Microsoft Hyper-V 3+ years Zerto for Disastory Recovery 3+ years Operating Systems: Windows (NT 3.1 thru 2016) on x86 20+ years Security & Compliance: ISO9001, 27001, 27002, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC I & II Compliance 2+ years Compensating controls, Audits, SIG Management, RiskVision 2+ years
• Minimize system integration complexity while maintaining System reliability and business continuity objectives. • Lead the strategic technology transformation initiative and maps out strategies to leverage virtualization technologies in the server, storage, application, and networking environments. • Leadership & Results • Demonstrate ability to solve complex problems with technology and takes personal responsibility for technical solutions. • Technical Skills & Presence • Technical authority in multiple areas of IS. • Understands the strategic direction of the organization and the supporting IT systems and system architecture. • Lead technology innovation and implement improved technical solutions. • Designs and implements innovative solutions to advance business opportunities. • Teacher & Mentor • Actively seek, provide, and coordinate internal or external training for IS employees. • Maintains knowledge of emerging technologies and mentors system engineers on technical specialties. • Technical Strategic Planning • Coordinate the development of technical standards and processes between IS and business areas. • Demonstrate the ability to translate organizational structures to technical architectures. • Understands the impact of technology, biomedical devices, and applications on facilities. • Technical Alignment to Business Needs and Technical Solutions • Practical approach to solving business needs with an optimal technical approach. • Advocates for appropriate bleeding-edge technologies to solve business problems. • Quality & Initiative • Align and lead technical projects that have met quality standards for production. • Investigates areas for quality standards and decreases numbers of defects. • Implements standard repeatable processes
• Work on projects as subject matter expert on VMWare • Architecture, design, install, configure VMware suites of products (vROp, vRA, vRO, vSphere) • Hands on experience in iSCSI, NFS, and Fiber Channel protocols, Fiber Channels to vsphere hosts. • Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. • Experience with Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of 2008, 2012 and 2016 as well as Linux servers from VMware and legacy hardware. • Configure vSAN for production environment • Configure VMware 6.x host configuration (includes: startup profile, storage configuration, network connections and security settings • Support Microsoft Windows Operating System, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and other core technologies • Provide technical support for VMware for related project activities • Responsible for Architecture, Implementation, Monitoring and Maintenance of VMware ESXi environment. • Apply patches and upgrades to operating systems and layered software as required. • Provide advanced troubleshooting for applications and systems with emphasis on root cause analysis • Write and maintain documentation describing changes and modifications to all systems • Participate in meetings and conference calls related to project and troubleshooting activities • Research solutions to various business and technical problems, evaluate alternatives and be able to present recommendations and justifications to management to enable continuing innovation within the infrastructure and develop a road-map
• Plan/Build/Run WIPRO/Ensono’s DC&CS virtual environment running on vSphere 5.5 through 6.5. Managing 650+ ESX vSphere hosts supporting over 17,000 Virtual Machines • Overall responsibility for the vBuild and vRun organization within WIPRO/Ensono Datacenter & Cloud Solutions. • Implement Zerto for Disaster Recovery • Implement VRO and VRA for WIPRO/Ensono’s customer facing cloud environment. • Implement vSAN in our newly developed HCI environment leveraging Dell Hardware. • Migrate legacy environments from vSphere 5.x and 6.x to vSphere 6.7. • Implement Zerto for Disaster Recovery • Leverage VEEAM for workloads migrations • Draft and implement Information Security policy throughout the enterprise. • Manage the information security policy framework (Policies, Standards, and Procedures) - gap and capability assessments, policy refresh cycle, approval process, risk-based implementation. • Define and manage the information security risk management process - risk identification, assessment, remediation, and reporting. • Reports to the Chief Information Security Officer on progress, risks, issues, and escalation. • Develop and report on information security compliance metrics • Oversee execution of internal IS risk assessments and assist with annual audits and compliance audits. • Manage vendor assessment and risk remediation life-cycle by initiating, facilitating, reporting and tracking • Contribute to the development of a multi-year road-map for security, policy, compliance and risk management. • Raise Information Security awareness across the organization. Managed Security Awareness life-cycle. • Represents IS and facilitates all internal and external IS audit engagements in concert with the Audit and Compliance.
• Plan/Build/Run WIPRO’s DC&CS virtual environment running on vSphere 5.5 through 6.5. Managing 600+ ESX vSphere hosts supporting over 16,000 Virtual Machines • Implement Zerto for Disaster Recovery • Customer onboarding and datacenter migrations using Platespin, NetApp Replication, Recoverpoint block level replication and Veeam Availability Suite (Backup and Recovery). • Overall responsibility for the vBuild and vRun organization within WIPRO Datacenter & Cloud Solutions. • Manage eight onshore and 19 offshore staff members with direct influence over 5 more in our Plan, Engineering and Solutions team. • Deal Evaluations, which include Plan of Record as well as Statement of Work reviews • P1 & P2 RCA Reviews • Supports the development of Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)-based ITSM strategies to support the Technology Infrastructure organization • Designed, documented and implemented vRealize Ops Manager to monitor worldwide virtual infrastructure • Designed and documented new Cisco UCS virtual environment as part of the client’s private Cloud initiative • Designed and documented new ESXi 6.x+ environment to run on Cisco UCS Blades • Worked with 3rd party vendor to design a self-service portal for the procurement, delivery and management of virtual workloads (part of the cloud initiative) • Manage Services portfolio providing status reporting to management, stakeholders and executive staff regarding the service portfolio’s overall health status • Provide status reporting on service projects by clearly communicating and presenting all pertinent details in relation to the project’s health, status, risks, and successes of the project to stakeholders and sponsors • Identifies and actively managed risk according to impact and probability, escalating when necessary • Manage the process of ensuring Runbooks are updated and submitted for approval ahead of the deployment of a service into the production environment
• Build WIPRO’s DC&CS virtual environment running on vSphere 4.5 through 6.0. Managing 400+ ESX vSphere hosts supporting over 12,000 Virtual Machines • Implement Zerto for Disaster Recover • Customer onboarding and datacenter migrations using Platespin, NetApp Replication, Recoverpoint block level replication and Veeam Availability Suite (Backup and Recovery). • Manage end-to-end new customer onboarding exercises: Datacenter workload migrations (compute, memory, storage & network requirements). Meet PCI and HIPAA (when required) compliance and promote disaster avoidance best practices. • Advise; Service Delivery Managers, Project Managers and Technical Account Managers on best practices and standards which has enabled us to significantly reduce delivery times and streamlined processes. Furthermore, we have been able to reduce RTOs. • Recognized by senior management as well as our internal and external customers due to our ability to deliver a consistent quality product. • Have developed partnerships with internal towers (Storage, Network and Onsite) as well as external vendors, which we leverage to streamline processes. Yielding faster handoff and delivery. • Orchestrate the transition of new business opportunities to WIPRO Technology's Virtualization Cloud computing stack and/or dedicated environments where required. • Promote WIPRO's IaaS, PaaS and BaaS offerings to our customers with the intention to create further business opportunities for WIPRO. • Recommend VMware best practices to mitigate downtime and to provide enhanced performance on CoLo deployments. • Promote capacity planning best practices and execute right-sizing exercises leveraging account managers and change control processes.
• Responsible for 32 vCenter located between N. America, EMEA and APAC • Responsible for PCI Compliance yearly recertification • Executed Data Center migration projects concurrently about 1600+ Windows and Linux applications migrated P2V, V2V by using VMware Converter. • HARDWARE: - Cisco UCS B200 M2/B230 M2, M3 sand M4 series Blade servers, Cisco UCS 6120/6148 and 6296 Fabric Interconnect switch. • Experienced in Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware vSphere4.x through 6.x/vCenter Servers and Deploying HA & DRS Cluster, Managing cluster resources. • Successfully completed vBlock platform firmware upgrading to VCE support Matrix version 3.0.3 as part of bug fix activity. • Upgrade the Fabric Interconnects, UCS Chassis Firmware, UCS Blades, Create Service Profile Template, Create Boot Policy • Create UUID Pools, create vNIC Template, IP Pools, MAC Pools for each vNIC, VSAN IDs, HBA Templates, WWNN Pools, WWPN Pools, WWxN Pools, Add VLANs • Upgraded VMware Tools and VM Hardware version 9 on all windows based Virtual Machines, which will now enhance Virtual Machine performance and ability to perform block level incremental backup. • ESXi4.1/5.X Host patching exercise across the enterprise to remedy security vulnerabilities and PCI compliance. • Successfully completed Virtual Machines migration and ESXi boot LUNs from old VMAX to new VMAX storage. • Cloning, deploying new VM's from Templates different type of guest OS like Windows 2K3/2K8, Red hat Linux. Creating virtual NIC cards for the respective VMs and assigning the network connections. • Creating vSwitchs, different type of port group's like Service Console, VMKernel, Virtual Machine and assigning the VLAN no's. Configured NIC Teaming for load balance & failover. • Managing VM's and ESXi hosts by using vSphere Client, Putty and Web Access and installing the VMware Tools on the VM's.
• Configure, build, implement and manage ESX Servers including patches and updates. Assist in resolving associated system outages and other incidents (ESX 3.5.2 – ESXi 4.1). • Operational contributor to a virtualization footprint of 6,300 ESX hosts and over 118,000 Virtual machines, both Application and VDI systems spanning the globe. • Add VLANs to Nexus 1000v as well as on the UCS Manager • Upgrade the Fabric Interconnects, UCS Chassis Firmware, UCS Blades, Create Service Profile Template, Create Boot Policy. • Create UUID Pools, Create vNIC Template, IP Pools, MAC Pools for each vNIC, VSAN IDs, HBA Templates, WWNN Pools, WWPN Pools, WWxN Pools, Add VLANs • Work with other teams across the enterprise to implement and successfully manage VMware infrastructure on Dell, IBM, HP as well as Cisco Equipment.