VMware Specialist with multiple certifications and extensive experience in VMware, Citrix and MS server products running in a enterprise environment
Aktualisiert am 30.05.2025
Profil
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Verfügbar ab: 31.05.2025
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davon vor Ort: 10%
VMware
VMware vSphere
Cloud Computing
vCSA
DRS
HA
NAS
NFS
Fibre Channel
NetApp
LDAP
MS Server
ITIL
Dokumentation
OpenStack
Disaster/Recovery
Kubernetes
VMware Lifecycle Manager/vRealize Operations/Identity Manager
Lenovo/Xclarity
HP/OneView
DELL
Cisco UCS
NSX-T
English
fluent
German
fluent
Romanien
Mother tongue

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

Deutschland, Schweiz, Österreich
nicht möglich

Projekte

Projekte

6 Jahre 10 Monate
2018-08 - heute

Global SAP cloud infrastructure

VMWare Engineer/ Cloud Specialist (VMware)
VMWare Engineer/ Cloud Specialist (VMware)
Responsible for maintaining, upgrading and troubleshooting complex internal SAP global cloud infrastructure based on UCS, NetAPP, Cisco,SLES, Open SuSe, VMware vSphere 6.5,ESXI,vCenter VMware, Operation Manager, Openstack, Kubernetes and Docker containers
  • Responsible for Configuration of the VMware based, in a Cloud environment (vSphere 6.5+)
  • Part of the global team and responsible with providing 4th level support to internal and external customers hosted on the SAP Cloud Platform based on 40000 + Virtual instance and 1500 + ESXI hosts deployed globally
  • Review and implementation of configuration according to the design documentation
  • Set-up and configured cluster resources DRS/HA, VMotion, Storage Motion based on business and SLA availability criteria
  • Deploying and implementation of solutions for configuration management and define the future expansion in a multi-tenant environment, based on resources allocation
  • Administrating and monitoring of complex server environments
  • Work together with vendors and cross team specialists in identifying analyzing complex issues in the virtualization stack and in the automated provisioning process, as well as initiation and coordination of escalation process during the incidents and outages
  • Responsible for creating and maintaining appropriate documentation for deployment, configuration, and related processes around disaster/recovery and daily operations of the Virtualization infrastructure as well for supporting the provision of new resources as well as migration and mining processes across the cloud infrastructure
  • Cooperate with the developers and active support for the further development of cloud landscapes
SAP/Intelligence
Dresden
1 Jahr
2017-07 - 2018-06

Implementation of VMware Best Practice on vSphere and vCloud

Virtualization Specialist/ Engineer (VMware)
Virtualization Specialist/ Engineer (VMware)
Responsible for the implementation of VMware best practice running on the vSphere and vCloud for the online charging products and services provided by Vodafone to prepay customers (Germany)
  • Manage relationships with relevant business team partners/stakeholders and at the same time with internal teams and departments by building up trusted relationships and partnerships across all functional domains
  • Grant the quality and acceptance process to ensure the appropriate quality in the delivery phase, delivering high quality products and solutions
  • Recommend business process change ? resulting in formal solution documents that facilitate development work to deliver successful services
  • Evaluate business processes and strategies utilizing standard industry principles, develop and maintain strategic solutions to support organizational business goals and objectives in a cost effective method
  • Represent European Region in Global projects, driving the Global roadmaps according to Regional needs
Vodafone
Düsseldorf
5 Monate
2017-03 - 2017-07

VMware infrastructure

Interim Senior VMware Engineer
Interim Senior VMware Engineer
Interim VMware Engineer assisting with design implementation and support of VMware infrastructure during the interim assignment
  • Part of the VMware core team in creating the migration strategy for the vSphere 6 to 6.5 as well as 300+ESXI and 5000 +VM infrastructure
  • Installing and administering VMware ESX/ESXi 5.x & ESXi 6.xServers
  • Worked together with the team to create process to address the bottleneck during the server consolidation &capacity planning
  • Provided RCA together with VMware BCS on critical VMware infrastructure.
  • Expertise in providing reports for vCenter & ESXi performance reports trough vRealize vCOPS
  • Publishing SOP documents for different technical areas in VMware like vCenter, ESXI,VM Tools Virtual hardware and Dell server equipment
DVAG
Frankfurt
2 Jahre 3 Monate
2014-11 - 2017-01

Implementation of a global concept for VMware

VMWare Architect/Engineer
VMWare Architect/Engineer
Responsible for the Design and implementation of a global concept for VMware in Darmstadt, Boston and Singapore, based on VMware Vsphere5.5. Migrate the existing infrastructure. "From 5.0 and 5.1. And existing SSO solution to the new design. Design and implement a full automated ESX-Host installation for all DC´s. Preparing all GxP relevant Documentation. Handover from "Design and build" to "operation?s" model
  • Migrate the vSphere 5.5 infrastructure to vSphere 6 worldwide in Germany, USA and Singapore
  • Represent the Virtualization team on the POC for NSX infrastructure at Merck
  • Worked together with VMware to implement a POC based on VMware products like NSX, vRealize, vSAN as well integrated the 3th party vendors like Symantec and PaloAlto
  • Create a design blueprint for a global vSphere 5.5 SSO Proof of concept. Implemented SSO 5.5 in a Load Balanced setup based on BigIp F5 in Germany, USA and Singapore
  • The SSO cluster host all the SSO instances for the actual a future vSphere Virtual Centers. Along with the SSO the NGC (WebClient) has been load balanced as well to cope with the increased number of administrative staff and provide fault tolerance
  • Upgraded the vSphere infrastructure running version 5.0 and 5.1 to version 5.5 U2
  • Replace all the default certificates on the vSphere infrastructure to the Merck PKI infrastructure
  • Upgraded the regional manufacture plants running on vSphere version 5.0 to vSphere 5.5 implementing the NetApp best practice to alleviate and fix multiple shortcomings. Optimized and tweaked the ESXI hosts to be compliant with VMware and NetApp best practice as well with manufacture specific application as MES Wonderware and so on
  • Companywide consolidation of SAP/SQL and Oracle in Dedicated vCenters/ Cluster to comply with the license specific requirements
  • Implement an archiving solution based on vCloud Director 5.5 to address the need to isolate the old systems that need to be archived for regulatory compliance
  • Responsible for creating and maintaining appropriate documentation for deployment, configuration, and related processes around vSphere 5.5 and daily operations of the Virtualization infrastructure
  • Liaise with other engineering team members on critical issues but not limited to security networking, storage, data protection
Merck
Darmstadt
7 Monate
2014-04 - 2014-10

Highly available VMware infrastructure

VMWare Specialist/Engineer
VMWare Specialist/Engineer
Responsible for the Design of engineering and deploy a high available VMware infrastructure. Define the project scope and implementation of a stretched ESX Cluster across two Datacentres on top of a storage virtualization layer based on EMC VPlex technology. This Design is adopted from a vMSC configuration which is certified and provided by VMware
  • Responsible for Configuration of the VMware based, virtual environment (vSphere 5.1+)
  • Create and execute relevant DR test cases based on the design blueprint
  • Review and verification of configuration according to the design documentation
  • Set-up and configured DRS/HA, VMotion, Storage Motion based on business and SLA availability criteria
  • Development and implementation of solutions for configuration management and define the future expansion in a multi-tenant environment
  • Created proof of concept for the Stretched cluster according to the internal requirements in accordance with the ISO and BaFin regulations
  • Responsible for creating and maintaining appropriate documentation for deployment, configuration, and related processes around disaster/recovery and daily operations of the Virtualization infrastructure
Deutsche Bank/ Post Bank
Eschborn/ Bonn
6 Monate
2013-10 - 2014-03

VMware vSphere Stage Migration

VMware Senior Engineer
VMware Senior Engineer
VMware Senior Engineer working together with relevant teams and responsible for creating the strategy and implementing VMware vSphere stage migration with minimum of downtime from Norddeutsche Landesbank Datacenter to Wincor-Nixdorf Datacenter in a stretch cluster configuration to mitigate the 99.999 uptime required by the customer
  • Responsible for the Design of a VMware vSphere software suite environment.
  • Setup of VMwa re vSphere environment based on vSphere 5.xx and hosted on HP ProLiant BL 460c Blades
  • Set-up and configured DRS/HA, VMotion, Storage Motion based on business and SLA availability criteria
  • Segregation of the systems based on the location function and SLA on different storage class Bronze, Silver, and Gold/Platinum with/without High Availability in a EMC Stretch cluster
  • Troubleshooting problems within the virtual environment in a enterprise environment
  • Provided 2nd and 3rd level on-duty support in non-office hours
  • Created proof of concept and implemented the migration of the Virtual instances from Norddeutsche Landesbank environment to Wincor-Nixdorf custom environment
  • Responsible for creating and maintaining appropriate documentation for deployment, configuration, and related processes around disaster/recovery and daily operations of the Virtualization infrastructure
  • Liaise with other team members on daily operational issues, between the networking, storage, data center 2tnd and 3rd level team to complete the tasks in timely fashion manner
Wincor Nixdorf/ Nord LB
Paderborn
3 Monate
2013-07 - 2013-09

Migration path for the business critical application

Senior IT/Systems Expert
Senior IT/Systems Expert
Primary responsibilities were to provide a migration path for the mission critical application for the after markets data used by the ECB analysts to provide specific financial trends. In particular The Reuters Tick Capture Engine (RTCE) infrastructure had to be migrated to the new version and new infrastructure. The frontend /backend infrastructure needed to provide failover capability in order for the custom client analytical tools to access the RAW data comfort to the SLA agreed upon with the Infrastructure support team.
  • Created and updated the relevant documents relevant to the projected update path
  • Investigated the compatibility of different components of the RTCE to comply with the security, and application compliance guide
  • Tested the components according to the upgrade strategy documentation and worked together with Reuters engineering team to address the necessary changes
  • Create and implement and tested the backup and Disaster recovery plan according to the internal procedure
  • Install and configured the Gust OS and implemented the Clustering system, performed the OS hardening procedure to comply with the security requirements
  • Tested the Disaster Recovery procedure
  • Delivered the Step-by step installation/configuration documentation for the backend/ front of The Reuters Tick Capture Engine (RTCE)
European Central Bank
Frankfurt
8 Monate
2012-11 - 2013-06

New vSphere environment with focus on disaster recovery/avoidance

VMware Architect/Consultant
VMware Architect/Consultant
Served as lead technical consultant responsible for design, engineering and development of a new vSphere environment focusing on disaster recover/ avoidance Support the design, analysis, development and implementation of engineering infrastructure solutions of project based on VMware Site Recovery Manager
  • Providing a comprehensive disaster recovery plan for the virtualization infrastructure based on VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.1 and vSphere Replication
  • Design and implemented dual data center for disaster recovery purpose based on vSphere 5.1 and SRM 5.1 storage based replication for hosted SAP systems
  • Created new concept for disaster recovery and disaster avoidance by separating the management infrastructure for customer hosted systems
  • Responsible for the planning, testing, tuning, configuration and setup for hosting VM infrastructures optimized for SAP systems
  • Responsible for creating and maintaining appropriate documentation for deployment, configuration, and related processes around disaster/recovery and daily operations of the Virtualization infrastructure
  • Liaise with other team members on daily operational issues, tactical and strategic planning as well as system and service recovery
Itelligence
Bautzen
5 Monate
2012-07 - 2012-11

various

Architect Datacenter-Infrastructure/VMware
Architect Datacenter-Infrastructure/VMware
IT Architect working together with relevant teams and responsible for creating the blueprint for the Datacenter Relocation/Datacenter Migration/Virtualization based on VMware vSphere technology
  • Analyzed the complex customer environments, gathered requirements, worked together with various teams to identify the dependencies for datacenter relocation, migration, and/or virtualization, and presented the proposal of a solution to satisfy customer needs. Create tested and documented various work procedure based on best practice of which includes architectural elements such as applications, middleware, platforms, servers, network, storage, capacity, etc. This was used trough the various phases of a project inclusive of assessment, design, and implementation phases
    • Design the workflow process on how the migration procedure should take place
    • Assets and create security best practice for the VMware Infrastructure
    • Create and implemented the best practice for the Virtual Instances pre and post migration
    • Investigate the dependency related but not limited to application backend/frontend, database, storage, networking for the Virtual Instances
    • Create and implement the strategy for the V2V, P2V for the Datacenter migration/ relocation 
    • Upgrade the relevant servers to the new hardware version during the migration process
    • Create the relevant documentation
    • Migrate the environment from vSphere 4.xx to vSphere 5.xx
Deutsche Bahn
Frankfurt/Berlin
3 Monate
2012-04 - 2012-06

Preparing the migration of the virtual infrastructure

Senior Windows/VMware Consultant
Senior Windows/VMware Consultant
Senior VMware consultant providing guideline in preparation for migration of the Virtual Infrastructure to vSphere 5 platform
  • Evaluate the German wide corporate branches in preparation to vSphere upgrade, investigate the dependencies from the hosted systems, applications and they implication
  • Provided my experience and expertise as input on the designing, implementing during the pilot migration project for vSphere 4.xx to vSphere 5.xx
  • Including VMware ESX server, VMware virtual center, setting up V-Motion, HA, DRS, and related VMware products, VM Backup products and other products for virtualization
  • Was responsible for installing, troubleshooting and administrating support for the virtual infrastructure
  • Created the Remediation plans for VMware updates manager to install the updates on ESX hosts to conform to the patch level according to the security best practice
  • Involved with designing and implementing VMware monitoring based on Veeam products as well for drafting the disaster recovery solutions.
  • Made technical recommendations and identified administrative standards, issues and process improvements
MediaMarkt/Saturn
Ingolstadt
4 Jahre 1 Monat
2008-01 - 2012-01

Advanced and efficient IT solutions, technologies and support

Senior VMware Consultant
Senior VMware Consultant
SAP's Information Technology department (SAP IT) is a critical enabler of business success by providing advanced and efficient IT solutions, technology and support to internal clients. Supporting more than 15,000 users and thousands of SAP systems, it is responsible for SAP's worldwide Training and demos IT Systems running on VMware infrastructure and internal business applications

Responsible for the provision of technology consulting and advisory to the IT leadership and infrastructure leader on:
  • Management of the1000+ ESX environment with 20000+VM (Windows and Linux) in a multi 50+ VC environment with multi cluster running DRS, HA and Update Manager.LabManager,XEN based on SuSE Liniux 11
  • 350+ESX Hosts environment configured with 15 PB+ NFS and SAN Storage EMC CX3-80, CX700 and Netapp FAS3050
  • The upgrade of 5 Virtual Center 2.0.2 to 2.5 .1, 2.5, 2.5 U1, 2.5 U2, 2.5 U3 with VMotion, DRS, VMware High Availability, Update Manager (SQL 2000 SP4 SQL 2003)
  • Deploy new ESX cluster based on HP Proliant Blades BL685 G7
  • Upgrade 30+ESX from ESX 2xx to ESX3.5
  • Migrate 250+ VM?s from ESX2.xx to ESX3.5 farm
  • Upgrade 350+Hosts ESX 3.02 Hosts to 3.5.0, 3.5.0 U1, 3.5.0 U2, 3.5.0 U3
  • Setup of various labs test environments for patching tests, as well for related VMware products as VMware Lab Manager, VMware Lifecycle Manager, VMware Stage Manager, VMware Update Manager
  • Centralized standards and policies for server virtualization
  • Virtualized server setup design and architecture
  • Server and application migration from Physical server hardware to virtualized software
  • Advising on the establishment of SLAS for all server and infrastructure services
  • Definition and documenting of services
  • Capacity planning and review
  • Availability and quality of service monitoring
  • Maintenance of continual service and service recovery to agreed SLAs
  • Mentoring junior team members
  • Knowledge transfer to the second level in India
  • Documentation and How-to creation and review
  • Management of application and server authentication
Additional responsibilities include:
  • IT service security compliance
  • IT software licensing control
  • T security management responsibility
Provide expert technical consultancy support to facilitate:
  • Setting in place an overall infrastructure design for Europe that supports business objectives, providing the optimal levels of flexibility, service, resilience and availability at least cost
  • Establishment of a unified server architecture that allows for management and monitoring of services to move easily between site, and that supports a procurement policy that allows for least cost sourcing and ease of re-use of server and storage technologies
  • Ensuring that consistent standards can be applied at all sites for infrastructure facilities
  • Ensuring that infrastructure services can be maintained, or provided in a timely fashion in the event of site-wide failure
  • Setting in place wide service standards and ensure compliance of each site with established SLAs
  • Ensuring that each site can manage infrastructure configuration changes in a managed and auditable manner
  • Setting in place agreed service availability standards based on BIA (Business Impact Analysis)
  • Setting in place appropriate storage facilities to allow for product archiving
  • Assisting with the definition of server, storage and infrastructure roadmaps that allow for forward planning of infrastructure investment
  • Setting in place a model that allows for regular monitoring and potential cost allocation of infrastructure services consumed by production teams
  • Ensuring that transparent working can be conducted between sites for all IT service users
Siemens/ SAP
Waldorf
4 Monate
2007-09 - 2007-12

Office infrastructure, technical Computer infrastructure and IT network infrastructure

VMware Systems Engineer
VMware Systems Engineer
The Eumetsat Information Technology Environment (ITE) supports office and technical computing services as well as network services. The major elements of the Eumetsat IT Environment are the office computing infrastructure (Novell/ Netware server, MS Windows XP SP2 client), the technical computing infrastructure (Unix based), and the IT Network (LAN) infrastructure including Internet connectivity
  • Operated, maintained and monitored the EUM virtual infrastructure system based on 25 VI 3.0.2 Hosts and 250+ Guest OS, Virtual Center 2.0.2, DRS, HA, and VMware Lab Manager
  • Identified, diagnosed and debugged problems related to EUM virtual infrastructure system as well as assessed, reviewed, verified and tested system for components upgrades including lab and field trials
  • Designed, validated and executed the migration of existing systems to the EUM virtual infrastructure
  • Installed, configured, operated, administered and maintained the IT Systems based on MS Windows Server OS
  • Identified, diagnosed and debugged problems related to MS Windows OS as well as assessed, reviewed, verified, validated and tested systems or components upgrades including lab and field trials
  • Monitored service and system level indicators and performed health checks on the EUM virtual infrastructure as well as on the MS Windows Servers. Determined, escalated and/or solved problems
  • Contributed to the procurement of information technology services, systems and components by providing specifications and performing price inquiries, as well as acted as interface with hardware and software suppliers regarding procurement, warranty and maintenance issues
  • Operated and maintained the EUM Test and Validation environment based on VMware Lab Manager ensuring that the production environment was timely replicated on the validation
  •  Identified, diagnosed, and debugged problems related to EUM Test and Validation system as well as assessed, reviewed, verified, validated and tested system or components upgrades including lab and field trials
  • Created, configured, administered, and removed user accounts and groups in the EUM Test and Validation System
Eumetsat
Darmstadt
1 Jahr
2006-07 - 2007-06

Development and management of loyalty marketing strategies

Senior Systems Analyst
Senior Systems Analyst
Loyalty is a global leader in the development and management of loyalty marketing strategies that profitably change customer behavior. Through a team of businesses, each specializing in a distinct loyalty discipline, Loyalty designs, delivers and manages a complete suite of loyalty marketing capabilities.
  • Successfully completed an Exchange consolidation project by designing and implementing a 4-node, clustered Exchange 2003 servers connected to EMS SAN storage
  • Successfully completed a domain consolidation and redesign of Active Directory in the current Windows 2003 network
  •  Designed and implemented a two node production and a two node development SQL 2005 clustered servers. Migrated all existing applications to the new environments
  • Designed and implemented Outlook Web Access (OWA). This OWA was published behind ISA Server 2004
  • Supported VMware virtual infrastructure 2.xx and 3.0 with over 30 hosts, 4 Sites and over 150 Windows and other guest Operating Systems
  • Provided guidelines for managing the current infrastructure of VMware 2.5.x
  • Upgraded VMware Virtual Center 1.3.x to 2.0
  • Designed and upgraded to VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3.0 from various previous versions
  • Worked successfully with Project Manager to create action plan and achieve project timelines
  • Implemented Symantec Client Security 3.1 across the organizations for mobile users to be SOX compliant
  • Installed and configured several Dell Chassis and over 25 Dell 1855 and 1955 blade servers
  • Supported and configured Windows 2000/2003 NOS and TCP/IP, DNS, WINS and SNMP infrastructure
  • Provided second and third level support for the Windows Infrastructure Team
The Loyalty Group
Toronto (Canada)
1 Jahr
2005-07 - 2006-06

Carrying out on-site analyses, diagnoses and solutions of complex problems

Senior Systems Analyst
Senior Systems Analyst
  • Performed on-site analysis, diagnosis, and resolution of complex problems for a variety of end users, Provided second and third level support for the Windows team, recommended and implemented corrective hardware solutions based on HP/ Compaq server hardware, IBM, Dell, Desktops and Laptops including off-site repair as needed
  • Participated in the server consolidation and migration from GSX to ESX 2.5 as well as worked on the MS Virtual server validation project
  • Supported VMware 2.xx and Virtual Center 1.3 xx, on multiple sites and over 50 Windows virtual servers
Cott Corporation
Mississauga (Canada)
5 Monate
2005-03 - 2005-07

Provision of mission-critical web infrastructure and services

Senior Consultant
Senior Consultant
  • Worked with the Enterprise and Client Technology group within the Web Operations (WebOps) team
  • Primary responsibilities were to provide mission critical web infrastructure and services to Morgan Stanley worldwide
  • In particular, to provide and support hosting services for external clients, for the public via internet websites, and for internal clients using IIS, .NET and Java
  • Utilized MOM2000 to monitor applications on 500+ servers, located worldwide, running IIS 5 & 6 and SharePoint
  • Also, provided support for specific web farms for key critical business units and applications, for portals, Sharepoint services web publishing and content management and also for the proxy infrastructure
Morgan Stanley
Worldwide

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Further education

2000
  • Toronto School of Business, Mississauga, Ontario
    • Network & Internet Systems Specialist Diploma
  • Pro Training, Mississauga, Ontario
    • Certificate of Achievement in Personal Effectiveness, Personal Leadership, Career Management, and Interpersonal Skills

Certifications
  • VCP, CCA, MCSE MCP + Internet, MCP 2000, CompTia A+
  • VMware vSphere 4 training (VCP VI4)
  • VMware Certified Professionals (VCP) Virtual Infrastructure 3.0
  • VMware Certified Professionals (VCP) version 2.5
  • Citrix CCA Metaframe Presentation Server 3.0
  • Managing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Network Environment
  • Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
  • Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
  • Managing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Network Environment
  • Implementing and Managing Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
  • Implementing & Supporting Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0.
  • Implementing & Supporting Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 in Enterprise.
  • Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0.
  • Networking Essentials.
  • Internetworking with MS TCP/IP on Windows NT 4.0.
  • Implementing & Supporting Microsoft Information Server 4.0.
  • CompTia A+ Certified

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

VMware VMware vSphere Cloud Computing vCSA DRS HA NAS NFS Fibre Channel NetApp LDAP MS Server ITIL Dokumentation OpenStack Disaster/Recovery Kubernetes VMware Lifecycle Manager/vRealize Operations/Identity Manager Lenovo/Xclarity HP/OneView DELL Cisco UCS NSX-T

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

  • LAN Technology
    • Client/Server Networking
    • Token Ring
    • Ethernet
    • 8274 IBM VLAN switches
    • protocol analyzers
  • Directory Services 
    • Windows 2003 Active Directory Services (ADS)
    • Novell NetWare Directory Services (NDS) 
  • Server Products
    • Exchange 2003/ 2000/ 5.5
    • MOM 2000
    • SMS 2.0
    • Citrix 1.8
    • XP
    • IIS4, 5, 6
    • BackupExec
    • VMWARE GSX
    • ESX 2xx
    • VI 3.0, 3.5
    • DRS, HA, P2V
  • Web Development
    • Active Server Pages (VBScript and Javascript)
    • COM
    • ADO 

Profile
VMware Specialist with multiple certifications and extensive experience in VMware, Citrix and Microsoft server products running over Windows Operating Systems in enterprise environments.
  • Possess in-depth knowledge, understanding and experience in:
    • Designing high capacity, high flexibility servers and storage within a mixed environment cross platforms
    • Virtualization technologies certified and highly qualified in VMware and extensive experience in the usage of ESX(I),Virtual Center, SSO, DRS, HA, Storage VMOTION
    • Vmware Site Recovery Manager
    • Vmware security best practice
    • Server and storage technologies, NAS, SAN, Netapp and Fibre Channel
    • Setup and configuration of Dell and HP C-Class Blade enclosures
    • Active Directory, LDAP and other user authentication technologies
    • Backup policy, technology design and operations
    • Service Management experience (ITIL or similar)
    • Change and configuration management ( policy establishment and execution)
    • Vendor management
    • Project management of major infrastructure upgrades or installs.
  • This is facilitated by a strong desire to take initiative in projects along with a keen understanding of the client?s needs, allowing me to deliver added value

Previous Experience

2002 - 2007
Kunde: Tavi-IT Consulting, Toronto 
Rolle: Computer Consultant/Owner

2003-09 - 2005
Kunde: Financial Institution, Toronto
  • Migrated Windows NT Server domain environment to the Active Directory service in Microsoft Windows Server 2000 operating system for user logon authentication as well as file, print, and application-hosting services
  • Windows 2000/Active Directory

2002-08 - 2005
Kunde: Transportation Company, Scarborough 
  • Windows 2000 Small Business Server Relevate-Subcontract
  • Developed and implemented a new computer network, based on Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003

2003-11 - 2004-01
Kunde: General Motors, Detroit 
  • Citrix Metaframe Xp- Buchanan Associates-Subcontract
  • Contract for Citrix Metaframe Xp implementation for a large automotive corporation with 4 locations, 1500 Citrix users, 40 Compaq Servers, Dual XEON CPU, 150 Printers and 10 Print Servers.

2002-04 - 2002-06
Kunde: Buchanan Associates, Mississauga
Rolle: IT Consultant
  • As a Consultant in the Network Service division of Buchanan Associates duties range from large environments as a technical support consultant, network administration & troubleshooting, to configuration and implementation.

2001-04 - 2002-03
Kunde: The Xenos Group, Richmond Hill 
Rolle: Network Administrator/Analyst
  • Provided network support and administration for 100+ users with NT/2000 workstations and 35 mobile users with IBM ThinkPad & 3COM Palm Pilots. Configured/maintained/monitored Windows NT/2000 networks/servers, connectivity to UNIX based systems and databases.

2000-10 - 2001-04
Kunde: IBM/Manpower, Toronto 
  • Mobile & ThinkPad Unit
  • Successfully completed the HelpCentre Training course gaining a Supporting IBM ThinkPad?s & WorkPad?s Certificate. Duties include assisting customers with system installation, configuration, troubleshooting and management of various IBM mobile products, and applications.

1999-07 - 2000-09
Kunde: Systech 2000, Mississauga 
Rolle: Computer/Network Technician
  • Provided assistance to Consultant, gaining valuable experience in various computerized environments. Duties ranged from networking to basic software installations.

Betriebssysteme

Windows Server
2012/ 2008/ 2003/ 2000
NT 4.0
Novell NetWare
3.12/ 4.11
Windows
XP/ 2K/ 98/ 95/ 3.x/ CE
Linux
RedHat, SuSE
OS/2 Warp
DOS

Programmiersprachen

Visual Basic
SQL
Perl
HTML

Datenbanken

SQL Server
2008/ 2005/ 2000/ 7.0
Oracle 7.3.2
IBM DB2
MS Access

Hardware

HP
IBM/compatible personal computers
HP ProLiant
IBM Netfinity
DLT/ DAT
SCSI
RAID
IBM Thinkpad Dell Latitude

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

Deutschland, Schweiz, Österreich
nicht möglich

Projekte

Projekte

6 Jahre 10 Monate
2018-08 - heute

Global SAP cloud infrastructure

VMWare Engineer/ Cloud Specialist (VMware)
VMWare Engineer/ Cloud Specialist (VMware)
Responsible for maintaining, upgrading and troubleshooting complex internal SAP global cloud infrastructure based on UCS, NetAPP, Cisco,SLES, Open SuSe, VMware vSphere 6.5,ESXI,vCenter VMware, Operation Manager, Openstack, Kubernetes and Docker containers
  • Responsible for Configuration of the VMware based, in a Cloud environment (vSphere 6.5+)
  • Part of the global team and responsible with providing 4th level support to internal and external customers hosted on the SAP Cloud Platform based on 40000 + Virtual instance and 1500 + ESXI hosts deployed globally
  • Review and implementation of configuration according to the design documentation
  • Set-up and configured cluster resources DRS/HA, VMotion, Storage Motion based on business and SLA availability criteria
  • Deploying and implementation of solutions for configuration management and define the future expansion in a multi-tenant environment, based on resources allocation
  • Administrating and monitoring of complex server environments
  • Work together with vendors and cross team specialists in identifying analyzing complex issues in the virtualization stack and in the automated provisioning process, as well as initiation and coordination of escalation process during the incidents and outages
  • Responsible for creating and maintaining appropriate documentation for deployment, configuration, and related processes around disaster/recovery and daily operations of the Virtualization infrastructure as well for supporting the provision of new resources as well as migration and mining processes across the cloud infrastructure
  • Cooperate with the developers and active support for the further development of cloud landscapes
SAP/Intelligence
Dresden
1 Jahr
2017-07 - 2018-06

Implementation of VMware Best Practice on vSphere and vCloud

Virtualization Specialist/ Engineer (VMware)
Virtualization Specialist/ Engineer (VMware)
Responsible for the implementation of VMware best practice running on the vSphere and vCloud for the online charging products and services provided by Vodafone to prepay customers (Germany)
  • Manage relationships with relevant business team partners/stakeholders and at the same time with internal teams and departments by building up trusted relationships and partnerships across all functional domains
  • Grant the quality and acceptance process to ensure the appropriate quality in the delivery phase, delivering high quality products and solutions
  • Recommend business process change ? resulting in formal solution documents that facilitate development work to deliver successful services
  • Evaluate business processes and strategies utilizing standard industry principles, develop and maintain strategic solutions to support organizational business goals and objectives in a cost effective method
  • Represent European Region in Global projects, driving the Global roadmaps according to Regional needs
Vodafone
Düsseldorf
5 Monate
2017-03 - 2017-07

VMware infrastructure

Interim Senior VMware Engineer
Interim Senior VMware Engineer
Interim VMware Engineer assisting with design implementation and support of VMware infrastructure during the interim assignment
  • Part of the VMware core team in creating the migration strategy for the vSphere 6 to 6.5 as well as 300+ESXI and 5000 +VM infrastructure
  • Installing and administering VMware ESX/ESXi 5.x & ESXi 6.xServers
  • Worked together with the team to create process to address the bottleneck during the server consolidation &capacity planning
  • Provided RCA together with VMware BCS on critical VMware infrastructure.
  • Expertise in providing reports for vCenter & ESXi performance reports trough vRealize vCOPS
  • Publishing SOP documents for different technical areas in VMware like vCenter, ESXI,VM Tools Virtual hardware and Dell server equipment
DVAG
Frankfurt
2 Jahre 3 Monate
2014-11 - 2017-01

Implementation of a global concept for VMware

VMWare Architect/Engineer
VMWare Architect/Engineer
Responsible for the Design and implementation of a global concept for VMware in Darmstadt, Boston and Singapore, based on VMware Vsphere5.5. Migrate the existing infrastructure. "From 5.0 and 5.1. And existing SSO solution to the new design. Design and implement a full automated ESX-Host installation for all DC´s. Preparing all GxP relevant Documentation. Handover from "Design and build" to "operation?s" model
  • Migrate the vSphere 5.5 infrastructure to vSphere 6 worldwide in Germany, USA and Singapore
  • Represent the Virtualization team on the POC for NSX infrastructure at Merck
  • Worked together with VMware to implement a POC based on VMware products like NSX, vRealize, vSAN as well integrated the 3th party vendors like Symantec and PaloAlto
  • Create a design blueprint for a global vSphere 5.5 SSO Proof of concept. Implemented SSO 5.5 in a Load Balanced setup based on BigIp F5 in Germany, USA and Singapore
  • The SSO cluster host all the SSO instances for the actual a future vSphere Virtual Centers. Along with the SSO the NGC (WebClient) has been load balanced as well to cope with the increased number of administrative staff and provide fault tolerance
  • Upgraded the vSphere infrastructure running version 5.0 and 5.1 to version 5.5 U2
  • Replace all the default certificates on the vSphere infrastructure to the Merck PKI infrastructure
  • Upgraded the regional manufacture plants running on vSphere version 5.0 to vSphere 5.5 implementing the NetApp best practice to alleviate and fix multiple shortcomings. Optimized and tweaked the ESXI hosts to be compliant with VMware and NetApp best practice as well with manufacture specific application as MES Wonderware and so on
  • Companywide consolidation of SAP/SQL and Oracle in Dedicated vCenters/ Cluster to comply with the license specific requirements
  • Implement an archiving solution based on vCloud Director 5.5 to address the need to isolate the old systems that need to be archived for regulatory compliance
  • Responsible for creating and maintaining appropriate documentation for deployment, configuration, and related processes around vSphere 5.5 and daily operations of the Virtualization infrastructure
  • Liaise with other engineering team members on critical issues but not limited to security networking, storage, data protection
Merck
Darmstadt
7 Monate
2014-04 - 2014-10

Highly available VMware infrastructure

VMWare Specialist/Engineer
VMWare Specialist/Engineer
Responsible for the Design of engineering and deploy a high available VMware infrastructure. Define the project scope and implementation of a stretched ESX Cluster across two Datacentres on top of a storage virtualization layer based on EMC VPlex technology. This Design is adopted from a vMSC configuration which is certified and provided by VMware
  • Responsible for Configuration of the VMware based, virtual environment (vSphere 5.1+)
  • Create and execute relevant DR test cases based on the design blueprint
  • Review and verification of configuration according to the design documentation
  • Set-up and configured DRS/HA, VMotion, Storage Motion based on business and SLA availability criteria
  • Development and implementation of solutions for configuration management and define the future expansion in a multi-tenant environment
  • Created proof of concept for the Stretched cluster according to the internal requirements in accordance with the ISO and BaFin regulations
  • Responsible for creating and maintaining appropriate documentation for deployment, configuration, and related processes around disaster/recovery and daily operations of the Virtualization infrastructure
Deutsche Bank/ Post Bank
Eschborn/ Bonn
6 Monate
2013-10 - 2014-03

VMware vSphere Stage Migration

VMware Senior Engineer
VMware Senior Engineer
VMware Senior Engineer working together with relevant teams and responsible for creating the strategy and implementing VMware vSphere stage migration with minimum of downtime from Norddeutsche Landesbank Datacenter to Wincor-Nixdorf Datacenter in a stretch cluster configuration to mitigate the 99.999 uptime required by the customer
  • Responsible for the Design of a VMware vSphere software suite environment.
  • Setup of VMwa re vSphere environment based on vSphere 5.xx and hosted on HP ProLiant BL 460c Blades
  • Set-up and configured DRS/HA, VMotion, Storage Motion based on business and SLA availability criteria
  • Segregation of the systems based on the location function and SLA on different storage class Bronze, Silver, and Gold/Platinum with/without High Availability in a EMC Stretch cluster
  • Troubleshooting problems within the virtual environment in a enterprise environment
  • Provided 2nd and 3rd level on-duty support in non-office hours
  • Created proof of concept and implemented the migration of the Virtual instances from Norddeutsche Landesbank environment to Wincor-Nixdorf custom environment
  • Responsible for creating and maintaining appropriate documentation for deployment, configuration, and related processes around disaster/recovery and daily operations of the Virtualization infrastructure
  • Liaise with other team members on daily operational issues, between the networking, storage, data center 2tnd and 3rd level team to complete the tasks in timely fashion manner
Wincor Nixdorf/ Nord LB
Paderborn
3 Monate
2013-07 - 2013-09

Migration path for the business critical application

Senior IT/Systems Expert
Senior IT/Systems Expert
Primary responsibilities were to provide a migration path for the mission critical application for the after markets data used by the ECB analysts to provide specific financial trends. In particular The Reuters Tick Capture Engine (RTCE) infrastructure had to be migrated to the new version and new infrastructure. The frontend /backend infrastructure needed to provide failover capability in order for the custom client analytical tools to access the RAW data comfort to the SLA agreed upon with the Infrastructure support team.
  • Created and updated the relevant documents relevant to the projected update path
  • Investigated the compatibility of different components of the RTCE to comply with the security, and application compliance guide
  • Tested the components according to the upgrade strategy documentation and worked together with Reuters engineering team to address the necessary changes
  • Create and implement and tested the backup and Disaster recovery plan according to the internal procedure
  • Install and configured the Gust OS and implemented the Clustering system, performed the OS hardening procedure to comply with the security requirements
  • Tested the Disaster Recovery procedure
  • Delivered the Step-by step installation/configuration documentation for the backend/ front of The Reuters Tick Capture Engine (RTCE)
European Central Bank
Frankfurt
8 Monate
2012-11 - 2013-06

New vSphere environment with focus on disaster recovery/avoidance

VMware Architect/Consultant
VMware Architect/Consultant
Served as lead technical consultant responsible for design, engineering and development of a new vSphere environment focusing on disaster recover/ avoidance Support the design, analysis, development and implementation of engineering infrastructure solutions of project based on VMware Site Recovery Manager
  • Providing a comprehensive disaster recovery plan for the virtualization infrastructure based on VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.1 and vSphere Replication
  • Design and implemented dual data center for disaster recovery purpose based on vSphere 5.1 and SRM 5.1 storage based replication for hosted SAP systems
  • Created new concept for disaster recovery and disaster avoidance by separating the management infrastructure for customer hosted systems
  • Responsible for the planning, testing, tuning, configuration and setup for hosting VM infrastructures optimized for SAP systems
  • Responsible for creating and maintaining appropriate documentation for deployment, configuration, and related processes around disaster/recovery and daily operations of the Virtualization infrastructure
  • Liaise with other team members on daily operational issues, tactical and strategic planning as well as system and service recovery
Itelligence
Bautzen
5 Monate
2012-07 - 2012-11

various

Architect Datacenter-Infrastructure/VMware
Architect Datacenter-Infrastructure/VMware
IT Architect working together with relevant teams and responsible for creating the blueprint for the Datacenter Relocation/Datacenter Migration/Virtualization based on VMware vSphere technology
  • Analyzed the complex customer environments, gathered requirements, worked together with various teams to identify the dependencies for datacenter relocation, migration, and/or virtualization, and presented the proposal of a solution to satisfy customer needs. Create tested and documented various work procedure based on best practice of which includes architectural elements such as applications, middleware, platforms, servers, network, storage, capacity, etc. This was used trough the various phases of a project inclusive of assessment, design, and implementation phases
    • Design the workflow process on how the migration procedure should take place
    • Assets and create security best practice for the VMware Infrastructure
    • Create and implemented the best practice for the Virtual Instances pre and post migration
    • Investigate the dependency related but not limited to application backend/frontend, database, storage, networking for the Virtual Instances
    • Create and implement the strategy for the V2V, P2V for the Datacenter migration/ relocation 
    • Upgrade the relevant servers to the new hardware version during the migration process
    • Create the relevant documentation
    • Migrate the environment from vSphere 4.xx to vSphere 5.xx
Deutsche Bahn
Frankfurt/Berlin
3 Monate
2012-04 - 2012-06

Preparing the migration of the virtual infrastructure

Senior Windows/VMware Consultant
Senior Windows/VMware Consultant
Senior VMware consultant providing guideline in preparation for migration of the Virtual Infrastructure to vSphere 5 platform
  • Evaluate the German wide corporate branches in preparation to vSphere upgrade, investigate the dependencies from the hosted systems, applications and they implication
  • Provided my experience and expertise as input on the designing, implementing during the pilot migration project for vSphere 4.xx to vSphere 5.xx
  • Including VMware ESX server, VMware virtual center, setting up V-Motion, HA, DRS, and related VMware products, VM Backup products and other products for virtualization
  • Was responsible for installing, troubleshooting and administrating support for the virtual infrastructure
  • Created the Remediation plans for VMware updates manager to install the updates on ESX hosts to conform to the patch level according to the security best practice
  • Involved with designing and implementing VMware monitoring based on Veeam products as well for drafting the disaster recovery solutions.
  • Made technical recommendations and identified administrative standards, issues and process improvements
MediaMarkt/Saturn
Ingolstadt
4 Jahre 1 Monat
2008-01 - 2012-01

Advanced and efficient IT solutions, technologies and support

Senior VMware Consultant
Senior VMware Consultant
SAP's Information Technology department (SAP IT) is a critical enabler of business success by providing advanced and efficient IT solutions, technology and support to internal clients. Supporting more than 15,000 users and thousands of SAP systems, it is responsible for SAP's worldwide Training and demos IT Systems running on VMware infrastructure and internal business applications

Responsible for the provision of technology consulting and advisory to the IT leadership and infrastructure leader on:
  • Management of the1000+ ESX environment with 20000+VM (Windows and Linux) in a multi 50+ VC environment with multi cluster running DRS, HA and Update Manager.LabManager,XEN based on SuSE Liniux 11
  • 350+ESX Hosts environment configured with 15 PB+ NFS and SAN Storage EMC CX3-80, CX700 and Netapp FAS3050
  • The upgrade of 5 Virtual Center 2.0.2 to 2.5 .1, 2.5, 2.5 U1, 2.5 U2, 2.5 U3 with VMotion, DRS, VMware High Availability, Update Manager (SQL 2000 SP4 SQL 2003)
  • Deploy new ESX cluster based on HP Proliant Blades BL685 G7
  • Upgrade 30+ESX from ESX 2xx to ESX3.5
  • Migrate 250+ VM?s from ESX2.xx to ESX3.5 farm
  • Upgrade 350+Hosts ESX 3.02 Hosts to 3.5.0, 3.5.0 U1, 3.5.0 U2, 3.5.0 U3
  • Setup of various labs test environments for patching tests, as well for related VMware products as VMware Lab Manager, VMware Lifecycle Manager, VMware Stage Manager, VMware Update Manager
  • Centralized standards and policies for server virtualization
  • Virtualized server setup design and architecture
  • Server and application migration from Physical server hardware to virtualized software
  • Advising on the establishment of SLAS for all server and infrastructure services
  • Definition and documenting of services
  • Capacity planning and review
  • Availability and quality of service monitoring
  • Maintenance of continual service and service recovery to agreed SLAs
  • Mentoring junior team members
  • Knowledge transfer to the second level in India
  • Documentation and How-to creation and review
  • Management of application and server authentication
Additional responsibilities include:
  • IT service security compliance
  • IT software licensing control
  • T security management responsibility
Provide expert technical consultancy support to facilitate:
  • Setting in place an overall infrastructure design for Europe that supports business objectives, providing the optimal levels of flexibility, service, resilience and availability at least cost
  • Establishment of a unified server architecture that allows for management and monitoring of services to move easily between site, and that supports a procurement policy that allows for least cost sourcing and ease of re-use of server and storage technologies
  • Ensuring that consistent standards can be applied at all sites for infrastructure facilities
  • Ensuring that infrastructure services can be maintained, or provided in a timely fashion in the event of site-wide failure
  • Setting in place wide service standards and ensure compliance of each site with established SLAs
  • Ensuring that each site can manage infrastructure configuration changes in a managed and auditable manner
  • Setting in place agreed service availability standards based on BIA (Business Impact Analysis)
  • Setting in place appropriate storage facilities to allow for product archiving
  • Assisting with the definition of server, storage and infrastructure roadmaps that allow for forward planning of infrastructure investment
  • Setting in place a model that allows for regular monitoring and potential cost allocation of infrastructure services consumed by production teams
  • Ensuring that transparent working can be conducted between sites for all IT service users
Siemens/ SAP
Waldorf
4 Monate
2007-09 - 2007-12

Office infrastructure, technical Computer infrastructure and IT network infrastructure

VMware Systems Engineer
VMware Systems Engineer
The Eumetsat Information Technology Environment (ITE) supports office and technical computing services as well as network services. The major elements of the Eumetsat IT Environment are the office computing infrastructure (Novell/ Netware server, MS Windows XP SP2 client), the technical computing infrastructure (Unix based), and the IT Network (LAN) infrastructure including Internet connectivity
  • Operated, maintained and monitored the EUM virtual infrastructure system based on 25 VI 3.0.2 Hosts and 250+ Guest OS, Virtual Center 2.0.2, DRS, HA, and VMware Lab Manager
  • Identified, diagnosed and debugged problems related to EUM virtual infrastructure system as well as assessed, reviewed, verified and tested system for components upgrades including lab and field trials
  • Designed, validated and executed the migration of existing systems to the EUM virtual infrastructure
  • Installed, configured, operated, administered and maintained the IT Systems based on MS Windows Server OS
  • Identified, diagnosed and debugged problems related to MS Windows OS as well as assessed, reviewed, verified, validated and tested systems or components upgrades including lab and field trials
  • Monitored service and system level indicators and performed health checks on the EUM virtual infrastructure as well as on the MS Windows Servers. Determined, escalated and/or solved problems
  • Contributed to the procurement of information technology services, systems and components by providing specifications and performing price inquiries, as well as acted as interface with hardware and software suppliers regarding procurement, warranty and maintenance issues
  • Operated and maintained the EUM Test and Validation environment based on VMware Lab Manager ensuring that the production environment was timely replicated on the validation
  •  Identified, diagnosed, and debugged problems related to EUM Test and Validation system as well as assessed, reviewed, verified, validated and tested system or components upgrades including lab and field trials
  • Created, configured, administered, and removed user accounts and groups in the EUM Test and Validation System
Eumetsat
Darmstadt
1 Jahr
2006-07 - 2007-06

Development and management of loyalty marketing strategies

Senior Systems Analyst
Senior Systems Analyst
Loyalty is a global leader in the development and management of loyalty marketing strategies that profitably change customer behavior. Through a team of businesses, each specializing in a distinct loyalty discipline, Loyalty designs, delivers and manages a complete suite of loyalty marketing capabilities.
  • Successfully completed an Exchange consolidation project by designing and implementing a 4-node, clustered Exchange 2003 servers connected to EMS SAN storage
  • Successfully completed a domain consolidation and redesign of Active Directory in the current Windows 2003 network
  •  Designed and implemented a two node production and a two node development SQL 2005 clustered servers. Migrated all existing applications to the new environments
  • Designed and implemented Outlook Web Access (OWA). This OWA was published behind ISA Server 2004
  • Supported VMware virtual infrastructure 2.xx and 3.0 with over 30 hosts, 4 Sites and over 150 Windows and other guest Operating Systems
  • Provided guidelines for managing the current infrastructure of VMware 2.5.x
  • Upgraded VMware Virtual Center 1.3.x to 2.0
  • Designed and upgraded to VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3.0 from various previous versions
  • Worked successfully with Project Manager to create action plan and achieve project timelines
  • Implemented Symantec Client Security 3.1 across the organizations for mobile users to be SOX compliant
  • Installed and configured several Dell Chassis and over 25 Dell 1855 and 1955 blade servers
  • Supported and configured Windows 2000/2003 NOS and TCP/IP, DNS, WINS and SNMP infrastructure
  • Provided second and third level support for the Windows Infrastructure Team
The Loyalty Group
Toronto (Canada)
1 Jahr
2005-07 - 2006-06

Carrying out on-site analyses, diagnoses and solutions of complex problems

Senior Systems Analyst
Senior Systems Analyst
  • Performed on-site analysis, diagnosis, and resolution of complex problems for a variety of end users, Provided second and third level support for the Windows team, recommended and implemented corrective hardware solutions based on HP/ Compaq server hardware, IBM, Dell, Desktops and Laptops including off-site repair as needed
  • Participated in the server consolidation and migration from GSX to ESX 2.5 as well as worked on the MS Virtual server validation project
  • Supported VMware 2.xx and Virtual Center 1.3 xx, on multiple sites and over 50 Windows virtual servers
Cott Corporation
Mississauga (Canada)
5 Monate
2005-03 - 2005-07

Provision of mission-critical web infrastructure and services

Senior Consultant
Senior Consultant
  • Worked with the Enterprise and Client Technology group within the Web Operations (WebOps) team
  • Primary responsibilities were to provide mission critical web infrastructure and services to Morgan Stanley worldwide
  • In particular, to provide and support hosting services for external clients, for the public via internet websites, and for internal clients using IIS, .NET and Java
  • Utilized MOM2000 to monitor applications on 500+ servers, located worldwide, running IIS 5 & 6 and SharePoint
  • Also, provided support for specific web farms for key critical business units and applications, for portals, Sharepoint services web publishing and content management and also for the proxy infrastructure
Morgan Stanley
Worldwide

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Further education

2000
  • Toronto School of Business, Mississauga, Ontario
    • Network & Internet Systems Specialist Diploma
  • Pro Training, Mississauga, Ontario
    • Certificate of Achievement in Personal Effectiveness, Personal Leadership, Career Management, and Interpersonal Skills

Certifications
  • VCP, CCA, MCSE MCP + Internet, MCP 2000, CompTia A+
  • VMware vSphere 4 training (VCP VI4)
  • VMware Certified Professionals (VCP) Virtual Infrastructure 3.0
  • VMware Certified Professionals (VCP) version 2.5
  • Citrix CCA Metaframe Presentation Server 3.0
  • Managing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Network Environment
  • Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
  • Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
  • Managing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Network Environment
  • Implementing and Managing Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
  • Implementing & Supporting Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0.
  • Implementing & Supporting Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 in Enterprise.
  • Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0.
  • Networking Essentials.
  • Internetworking with MS TCP/IP on Windows NT 4.0.
  • Implementing & Supporting Microsoft Information Server 4.0.
  • CompTia A+ Certified

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

VMware VMware vSphere Cloud Computing vCSA DRS HA NAS NFS Fibre Channel NetApp LDAP MS Server ITIL Dokumentation OpenStack Disaster/Recovery Kubernetes VMware Lifecycle Manager/vRealize Operations/Identity Manager Lenovo/Xclarity HP/OneView DELL Cisco UCS NSX-T

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

  • LAN Technology
    • Client/Server Networking
    • Token Ring
    • Ethernet
    • 8274 IBM VLAN switches
    • protocol analyzers
  • Directory Services 
    • Windows 2003 Active Directory Services (ADS)
    • Novell NetWare Directory Services (NDS) 
  • Server Products
    • Exchange 2003/ 2000/ 5.5
    • MOM 2000
    • SMS 2.0
    • Citrix 1.8
    • XP
    • IIS4, 5, 6
    • BackupExec
    • VMWARE GSX
    • ESX 2xx
    • VI 3.0, 3.5
    • DRS, HA, P2V
  • Web Development
    • Active Server Pages (VBScript and Javascript)
    • COM
    • ADO 

Profile
VMware Specialist with multiple certifications and extensive experience in VMware, Citrix and Microsoft server products running over Windows Operating Systems in enterprise environments.
  • Possess in-depth knowledge, understanding and experience in:
    • Designing high capacity, high flexibility servers and storage within a mixed environment cross platforms
    • Virtualization technologies certified and highly qualified in VMware and extensive experience in the usage of ESX(I),Virtual Center, SSO, DRS, HA, Storage VMOTION
    • Vmware Site Recovery Manager
    • Vmware security best practice
    • Server and storage technologies, NAS, SAN, Netapp and Fibre Channel
    • Setup and configuration of Dell and HP C-Class Blade enclosures
    • Active Directory, LDAP and other user authentication technologies
    • Backup policy, technology design and operations
    • Service Management experience (ITIL or similar)
    • Change and configuration management ( policy establishment and execution)
    • Vendor management
    • Project management of major infrastructure upgrades or installs.
  • This is facilitated by a strong desire to take initiative in projects along with a keen understanding of the client?s needs, allowing me to deliver added value

Previous Experience

2002 - 2007
Kunde: Tavi-IT Consulting, Toronto 
Rolle: Computer Consultant/Owner

2003-09 - 2005
Kunde: Financial Institution, Toronto
  • Migrated Windows NT Server domain environment to the Active Directory service in Microsoft Windows Server 2000 operating system for user logon authentication as well as file, print, and application-hosting services
  • Windows 2000/Active Directory

2002-08 - 2005
Kunde: Transportation Company, Scarborough 
  • Windows 2000 Small Business Server Relevate-Subcontract
  • Developed and implemented a new computer network, based on Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003

2003-11 - 2004-01
Kunde: General Motors, Detroit 
  • Citrix Metaframe Xp- Buchanan Associates-Subcontract
  • Contract for Citrix Metaframe Xp implementation for a large automotive corporation with 4 locations, 1500 Citrix users, 40 Compaq Servers, Dual XEON CPU, 150 Printers and 10 Print Servers.

2002-04 - 2002-06
Kunde: Buchanan Associates, Mississauga
Rolle: IT Consultant
  • As a Consultant in the Network Service division of Buchanan Associates duties range from large environments as a technical support consultant, network administration & troubleshooting, to configuration and implementation.

2001-04 - 2002-03
Kunde: The Xenos Group, Richmond Hill 
Rolle: Network Administrator/Analyst
  • Provided network support and administration for 100+ users with NT/2000 workstations and 35 mobile users with IBM ThinkPad & 3COM Palm Pilots. Configured/maintained/monitored Windows NT/2000 networks/servers, connectivity to UNIX based systems and databases.

2000-10 - 2001-04
Kunde: IBM/Manpower, Toronto 
  • Mobile & ThinkPad Unit
  • Successfully completed the HelpCentre Training course gaining a Supporting IBM ThinkPad?s & WorkPad?s Certificate. Duties include assisting customers with system installation, configuration, troubleshooting and management of various IBM mobile products, and applications.

1999-07 - 2000-09
Kunde: Systech 2000, Mississauga 
Rolle: Computer/Network Technician
  • Provided assistance to Consultant, gaining valuable experience in various computerized environments. Duties ranged from networking to basic software installations.

Betriebssysteme

Windows Server
2012/ 2008/ 2003/ 2000
NT 4.0
Novell NetWare
3.12/ 4.11
Windows
XP/ 2K/ 98/ 95/ 3.x/ CE
Linux
RedHat, SuSE
OS/2 Warp
DOS

Programmiersprachen

Visual Basic
SQL
Perl
HTML

Datenbanken

SQL Server
2008/ 2005/ 2000/ 7.0
Oracle 7.3.2
IBM DB2
MS Access

Hardware

HP
IBM/compatible personal computers
HP ProLiant
IBM Netfinity
DLT/ DAT
SCSI
RAID
IBM Thinkpad Dell Latitude

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