MorphoTrust USASenior Systems Engineer, Storage and VMware
May. 2013 - May. 2014Greater Nashville Area, TNEngineered, built, and maintained VMware and SAN infrastructure that supported TSA Precheck, TWIC, and Aviation, Channeling Applications for Production, DR, and Development. Implemented Disaster Recovery side of this multitiered "system of systems" virtualized infrastructure. Built out racks in Nashville for Vsphere, SAN, and DR plan. Once DR racks were shipped, traveled to DR site and deployed solution in one business day. Data replication; use VNX EMC Mirror View /A and VNXe to VNXe, file based, for replicating deltas for business continuity and testing. Leverage VMware, VeeamOne, and EMC Performance Analytics to track and monitor performance and capacity trends.Uncovered performance problems and made recommendations for coordinating with vendors to purchase and deploy hardware augmentation for load adjustment. Implement iSCSI and NFS “mpio” solutions to help mitigate performance and resiliency. Plan and deploy production application testing against infrastructure concepts and various outage scenarios. Examples; DR, SAN SP Failures, partial fabric outages, and VMware host failures. Engineer, design, and implement Vsphere 5.0 migration to Vsphere 5.5 for all environments. Deployed and maintained hypervisor level antimalware protection using Trend Micro Deep Security version 8 and 9. Backup and recovery; uncovered and corrected backup inefficiencies reducing backup and latency windows with Veeam Backup and Replication. Leverage PowerCli and Naviseccli in automation for metrics, business continuity, testing, and deployment.