VMware Expert & Cybersecurity Pro

Summary of Professional Qualifications:

Detail oriented, hardworking, highly experienced Information Technology professional with extensive experience in Enterprise Data Center Virtualization. VMware certified with extensive experience in developing, managing and maintaining computer infrastructures including; servers, networks, IT Security Antivirus and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) tools and devices. Core areas of expertise include; Systems Engineering, Cyber Security, Architecture, Operations, Software Development, and Networks. I consider myself a self-starter, with the ability to quickly adapt to new environments and also embrace the learning curve of rapidly evolving technologies.

Education and Certifications:

• BS, Information Technology
• VMware Certified Professional 6.x – Data Center Virtualization
• Splunk Core Certified User Certification
• Security+ Certification

MSP (2020-Present)
Cybersecurity and Systems Administrator

• Support continuous monitoring of Systems in support of NIS 800-53 rev4 including maintaining Account Management SOP, providing system administration artifacts in support of assessments and reviewing WebInspect scans.
• Led migration of systems/servers to AWS Cloud.
• Installed, configured multiple operating systems onsite and provisioned similar instances on AWS cloud.
• Support disaster recovery replication configuration and testing.
• Support McAfee Antivirus/DLP/FW configurations and Level 3 incidents.
• Support Windows Defender Antivirus configurations and Level 3 incidents.
• Install updates to McAfee software as released, also maintain SOPs
• Create, deploy, and manage custom Host Bases Security Systems signatures, while managing the operational network requirements for workstations and servers.
• Ensure that the clients/servers are operational and reporting properly using security applications.
• Virtual Machine network administration.
• Firmware upgrades/ manage.
• Experienced in working with version control systems like GIT and used Source code management client tools like GitBash, GitHub, Git Lab.
• Maintain GIT Repositories, and the access control strategies.
• Implement and maintain Splunk infrastructure and configurations.
• Manage Splunk user accounts which include create, delete and/or modify.
• Engage customers, product managers, and users to align Splunk platform capabilities with business and contract requirements regarding alerts, dashboards, graphs, reports, and visualizations.
• Administer predefined roles in Splunk infrastructure which include admin, power, and user.
• Perform Splunk Enterprise Upgrades on Splunk components in association with Patching schedules.
• Monitor Splunk infrastructure for capacity planning and optimization.

U.S Census Bureau (2020-2021)
VMware Professional Services Consultant- VMware/ Clearbridge

• Virtual Machine network administration
• Firmware upgrades/ manage.
• ESXi O/S monitoring and management vCenter User Migration of Operating systems/servers.
• Disaster recovery replication configuration and testing.
• Disk expansions, additions, and adding other hardware to virtual
• VROPS Version 8.0 Develop Alarms, user management, create
• Dashboards and Reports to maximize utilization in environments.
• VSAN, VSAN, ESXi Management, Configuration and Documentation
• Capacity planning using VROPS to project utilization.
• Configuring and implementing load balancing features to an in-
• production web server cluster.
• Help bring f5 load balancer architecture online and also monitoring using VROPS.
• Experience in developing web-based applications using Python 9,3.8.
• Experienced in working with version control systems like GIT and used Source code management client tools like GitBash, GitHub, Git Lab.
• Experience Creating blueprints, publishing catalogs, creating and configuring VRA workflows.
• In-depth knowledge of computer applications and scripting like Java/J2EE,Ruby, Python, Shell, bash, JavaScript and XML.
• Building the CI/CD process from scratch.
• Migrating from GitLab to docker and implementing GitLab inside docker.
• Installed, configured multiple operating systems onsite and provisioned similar instances on AWS cloud.
• Managed Puppet classes, resources, packages, nodes and other common tasks using puppet console dashboard and live management.
• Responsible for design and maintenance of the GIT Repositories, and the access control strategies.
• Hands on experience using Puppet/Chef as deployment automation tools as part of continuous deployment of products in Dev, Integration and Pre-Production environments.
• Experience in setting up Puppet Master, Puppet Agent for managing enterprise policies and configurations.

U.S Census Bureau (2016-2020)
VMware Engineer Federal Contractor

• Virtualization Engineer providing support for VMware Infrastructure, Provide planning, support, and optimization to an environment of 3000+ users.
• Provide VMware support including virtualization planning, deployment, troubleshooting and day-to-day operations and management. VROPS, Log Insight, ESXi installation and support, also Analyze and troubleshoot performance and configuration issues of vSAN-backed VMware ESXi infrastructure. Manage compute and storage resource capacity to optimize system performance for VMware in the United States Census Bureau. Virtual Disk Management including allocating and increasing Virtual disk on Linux, Ubuntu, CentOS and Windows Guest.
• VMware ESXi 5.5 to 6.5 patching and upgrade for an environment of 5000 Virtual Machines.
• Optimize and perform resizing while upgrading vSAN Controller for the VMware environment supporting 3,000+ users.
• Daily tasks included working with VMware end users and working with application teams to install, improve or deploy updates to their applications installed in VMware.
• Develop and maintain documentation of all processes associated with administration of the VMware environment and duties performed by system administrators.
• Assists in capacity planning, performance monitoring and tuning on assigned systems.
• Hands on experience in design and Build of VRealize Automation 2/VRealize Operations Manager 6.0 as well as VRealize Log Insight.
• Importing OVF files, Deploying Virtual Machines (VM’s), Converting Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual (V2V) Machines.
• Managing Access Control through vCenter server, Optimizing Resource Utilization, Load Balancing (VMware DRS) and ensuring High Availability (VMware HA) VMware ESXI, vCenter, VMWare Update Manager, Distributed Switches, vMotion, Storage vMotion, Fault tolerance, VMware HA, VMware DRS, vSwitches, dvSwitch, VVol, vSAN.
• Use RVtools to gather metrics on VMware infrastructure.
• Patch Management and installing updates to ESXi host and Updates of vCenter servers.
• Administrating a Cisco UCS and IBM blade environment.
• Provided 24/7 On Call support onsite and remotely on rotation basis.
• Present, optimize, and upgrade LUNS from VMFS5 to VMFS6.
• Installing and configuring ESXi hosts.
• Manage Multiple Server suites (Windows, UNIX and Red Hat Linux) on
• VMware ESX server.
• Knowledge and experience on VMware NSX and VMware cloud networking and security VCNS products and implemented NSX-V Functional components, NSX-V Functional services, Logical Switching, Routing, Firewalling and load balancing.
• Expertise in deploying and maintaining vCenter/vRealize Operations
• VMWare vRealize Operations (VROPs) utilization for capacity planning.
• Created custom alerts SMTP and SNMP notifications and email alerts for CPU, Memory and Storage utilization in VMware vRealize
• Operations Manager(vROPS).
• Managing and troubleshooting Cisco UCS chassis along with Cisco Partner support.
• Hardware Support for various IBM and Cisco chassis models.
• Experience with PowerShell, PowerCLI, VB.NET, Web application using NET, C# and Perl scripting.
• Installing and maintaining the machines with updated patches and necessary client software packages by using package management tools like RPM, YUM etc.
• Develop alerts and timed reports in Splunk.
• Develop Splunk dashboards, visual metrics, and custom Splunk alerts for different divisions.
• Provide regular scheduled metrics and custom reporting in Splunk to Provide overall management of Splunk ITSI platform including user accounts, Space utilization, Documentation and access.

NOAA – Maximus (2014-2016)
Systems Administrator II Federal Contractor

• Provide systems administration support for Linux and Windows systems in a physical and virtual environment using VMware. Responsibilities Include server and workstation upgrades, backup and disaster recovery, monitoring, user account setup and security administration in a 24/7 On Call Operational customer facing environment.
• McAfee EPO Anti-Virus experience registering systems to receive DAT files in an air gapped environment, and also running McAfee Reports.
• Experience configuring, monitoring, upgrading and maintaining systems hardware, software and related infrastructure in a Raid 5 environment.
• Installation, Upgrading and maintaining Red Hat Satellite 5.4, 5.7, 5.9.
• Experience maintaining systems with the Nagios monitoring tool.
• RSA Token Administering creating and assigning tokens to Users.
• Account Management using Centrify fully integrated with Active Directory across both UNIX and LINUX platforms.
• Windows Active directory experience with managing users and groups, also local and group passwords.
• Experience using Puppet Automation.
• VMware creating, starting and stopping Virtual Machines.
• Provide Citrix support for Users.
• Managed VDI assignments and user sessions using VMware Vsphere and Citrix XenCenter
• Integration of 2 factor authentication for Citrix environment (RSA, and Symantec VIP).
• Expertise in troubleshooting and resolving issues in enterprise Citrix environment, Including Web Interface, application enumeration and performance issues, Printing and provisioning issues, for internal and external clients.
• Administering Tripwire for IT Audit and Logging, running reports for gap
• Ensure that users experience minimal downtime due to software, hardware, and network issues/failures.
• Logical Volume Administration including creating a swap file/partition to extending a logical volume.
• Migration of the AD Services, File and Print Servers, clean-up of the OUs and policies. Assessment of the current Active Directory.

 MSP (2011-2014)
Systems Support

• Provide Systems support in an office environment with Windows, Linux and Network support. Install and Configured Linux OS and wireless Printer
• Managed daily admin server functions such as back-ups, upgrades, and management of disk space etc.
• Installed updates to client PCs.
• Identified and implemented prompt solutions to root causes of technical errors.
• 24/7 Oncall support during alternate weekends

Certifications:

• VMware
• Splunk
• CompTIA
• Security+

VMware Engineer Skills:

• ESXi
• VROPS
• RVTools
• Licenses
• Host Profiles
• vCenter
• VRealize Software
• vCenter Converter
• VSphere
• VSAN
• vSwitches
• VMware NSX
• VRO
• VRA

Expertise:

• Linux
• Windows
• Unix
• Splunk
• Naigios
• Cisco
• McAfee
• Citrix
• XenApp
• Nessus
• VSAN
• Azure
• Active Directory
• TCP/IP
• LAN, WAN, and WLAN
• F5 Load Balancers
• Python
• Git
• Infrastructure as Code