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IntelliDyne, LLCSolutions Architect
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OpexusTechSolutions Architect/IT Manager
Jul. 2024 - Oct. 2024
FornetixIT Manager
Sep. 2016 - Mar. 20245123 Pegasus Court, Suite X, Frederick, MD. 21704• Managing the IT Department, resources, datacenters in collocation facility for two companies.
• Designed, managed and executed 3 Datacenter moves from one location to another.
• Trained and mentored Employees on projects extending knowledge in new technology and solutions.
• Redesigned and implemented storage environment migrating all data from a Linux and Windows NAS serving out NFS and CIFS to a newly implemented NetApp Appliance.
• Setup, configured and install Dell PowerScale F600 storage cluster to serve up NFS, CIFs and ISCSI.
• Redesigned and implemented the LDAP environment from OpenLDAP to 389 Directory Service in a multi master configuration. Configured LDAP and Active Directory with SSO along with bi-directional password syncing.
• Designed, implemented and configured VMware Horizon 7.12 VDI to serve out Linux and Windows Desktops with two factor authentication and single sign-on.
• Designed, planned and implemented the VMware Horizon upgrade to version 8 (2312).
• Setup and configured Key Manager Appliance to integrate with VMware 8 within Horizon 8 (2312) to encrypt virtual desktops.
• Manage Office365, Email, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams for two separate companies.
• Manage Palo Alto Firewall and Cisco Nexus configuring, new vlans, firewall rules, VPN management and NAT.
• Manage external DNS and cloud virtual machines in Digital Ocean.
• Manage external DNS in Amazon Rout3, GoDaddy and Namecheap along with certificates and domain registration.
• Designed and implemented a VMware environment on version 7.x and consolidated Hyper-V, RHEV and a standalone ESXi host running over 200 plus VM’s to this new environment.
• Upgraded VMware environment to version 8.x.
• Manage the deployment and administration of Linux running on AlmaLinux 8 & 9, RHEL 8.x, SuSE, Ubuntu and managing a patching server for Linux.
• Managed storage Administration on NetApp, ONTAP Cluster mode upgrades and firmware, volume management snapshots and performance monitoring.
J. Craig Venter InstituteDirector of Information Technology
Aug. 2013 - Jan. 20169704 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850• Managed 13 employees including 5 direct reports.
• Relocated the Datacenter from east coast to west coast colocation facility consisting of 29 EMC Isilon Nodes, NetApp FAS 8040 Cluster Mode cluster, EMC Data Domain 860 VTL, 11 VMware ESXi Host, 15 HPC large memory grid servers, several database servers, web servers, application servers and LDAP servers.
• Architected and installed 389 Directory Service with custom schemas to support Linux and MAC OSX authentication configure to work with Windows AD.
• Managed software license and support contracts.
• Managed budget, budget planning and purchasing of technology.
• Managed one on one bi-weekly meetings with direct reports.
• Redesigned and implemented storage environment consisting of 6 platforms to be consolidated and standardized on two platforms and to support a custom chargeback system.
• Managed and administered over 15 VMware ESXi host with 3 clusters including VDI with over 180 Desktops.
• Managed and administered over 200 CentOS Linux servers.
• Managed and administered the storage environment consisting of NetApp cluster mode and several EMC Isilon clusters.
J. Craig Venter InstituteSenior Manager, Information Technology
Dec. 2010 - Jul. 20139704 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850• Managed 9 employees including 4 direct reports.
• Managed all projects for UNIX/Linux and Business applications.
• Managed, administered, configured and installed over 450 servers in the datacenter for which 280 were virtual and 160 of the server were HPC grid physical servers.
• Managed all of the VMware Virtualization environment.
• Replaced HPC Grid software, Sun Grid Engine with Univa Grid Engine.
J. Craig Venter InstituteComputer Systems Manager, UNIX
Jun. 2008 - Nov. 20109704 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850• Managed and mentored 4 Linux Administrators.
• Managed, administered 400 Linux servers with 150 HPC Grid systems and 50 web servers.
• Managed the installation and upkeep of over 500 open source software builds.
• Managed all of the VMware Virtualization environment.
• Managed the UNIX Team time sheets, performance appraisals and training.
J. Craig Venter InstituteUNIX Systems Administrator Team Lead
Jan. 2007 - May. 20089704 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850
J. Craig Venter InstituteSenior UNIX Systems Administrator
Jan. 2006 - Jan. 2007
US ArmyPersonnel Actions Specialists
Sep. 1992 - Sep. 1996Fort Stewart, GA
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