Senior Systems Engineer
Wynn Resorts / Las Vegas
October 2017 - February 2020
- Managed infrastructure driven projects and evaluate technology implementations
- Partnered with Project Managers, NOC Techs, Network Engineers, Application Support, Software Developers, DBAs and operational teams to resolve any outage or project as required
- Managed a small team of Engineers and Technicians in order to achieve project or operational goals while also serving as leadership
- Assess new technologies (HCI, vSAN, Containerization, etc.) by installing vendor supplied systems as a POC to test and potentially implement into production
- Documented project implementation work in an Architectural Design Document
- Maintained multi-domain Active Directory infrastructure
- Architect, Install, Configure and Managed new VMware 6.5 & 6.7 infrastructure
- Hot Migrated entire virtualized enterprise consisting of over 2000+ VMs & 160+ ESXi Hosts from VMware 5.5 to 6.5 and now to 6.7
- Utilized VMware components (HA, EVC, VUM, vDS, SIOC, etc) to have better infrastructure reliability
- Built Content Libraries for centralized VM install media and tools across multiple vCenters
- Configured VM ESXi Host Profiles to ensure configuration similarity across different host clusters
- Ran VMware Converter in order to P2V and overall reduce our physical data center footprint saving in power consumption costs
- HPE Synergy setup and configuration
- Data Center migration and physical server consolidation
- Setup and configured vSphere Metro Cluster using HPE 3Par Peer Persistence
- Configured VVols and used SPBM policies to manage VM storage