Experience

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  Alliant Insurance Services

  • San Diego, California, United States

  • Senior Security Engineer

    • Dec 2021 - Present
    • San Diego, California, United States

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  Atlas General Insurance Services

  • San Diego, California, United States

  • Information Technology Systems Administrator

    • Mar 2020 - Dec 2021
    • San Diego, California, United States

    • Managing multi-vendor virtual infrastructure maintenance, support, troubleshooting • Monitoring IT environment for security vulnerabilities and performing best practices to minimize the attack surface • Implemented, designed, and planned new Hyper-Converged infrastructure contains 5 VxRail node• Implemented various Business Continuity Recovery Point Objective (RPO) & Recovery Time Objective (RTO) strategies as per the mission-critical applications.• Managing, monitoring, and improving security with implementing best practices on different solutions like Rapid7, Qualys, Tenable, and Barracuda • Migrating VMs from old infrastructure to new HCI infrastructure with the minimal downtime• Performing best practices and policies to maximize availability in the VSAN environment

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  Novisync, Inc

  • Fishkill, New York

  • Senior Systems Engineer - Technical Lead

    • May 2018 - Mar 2020
    • Fishkill, New York

    • Migrating, Documenting, Knowledge Transfer and performing Best Practices on Converge/Hyper Converge Infrastructure.• Working with software and hardware vendors for technical issues related to backups/restores.• Addressing all tickets & technical issues such as down drives, media and master server performance issues, such as slow backups, restore failures• Tutored 15 employee and coworkers to grant their Nutanix, ScaleIO (VxFlex OS) and VxRail certifications• Performing essential firmware, flare code and all the required code upgrades essential to the virtual environments.• Managing and supporting DR operations resulting in successful production failover to alternate datacenters and third party sites

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  Data Blue, LLC

  • Senior Systems Consultant

    • Feb 2019 - Feb 2020

    • Worked with AD, SCCM, VMware vSphere, vRealize, Cohesity Recovery Plan, Pure Storage, Cisco UCS, Kaseya, Unitrends DR and a great team of experienced engineers.• Managed multi-vendor virtual infrastructure maintenance, support, troubleshooting, and repair.• Executed daily production and development administration and changes in an end-to-end VMware virtualization stack with zero customer impact.• Utilized VMware vSphere CLI, and VMware vSphere PowerCLI to script and automate builds and changes to the environment.• Organized lifecycle management for all server systems, keeping configurations consistent, current and running optimally.• Managed the installation and configuration of Windows Server/Workstations• Managed Active Directory to create users and passwords, created GPO's to OU groups as requested by management.

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  Dell EMC

  • Richardson Texas

  • Disaster Recovery Subject Matter Expert

    • Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
    • Richardson Texas

    • Implemented various Business Continuity Recovery Point Objective (RPO) & Recovery Time Objective (RTO) strategies as per the mission-critical applications.• Worked with EMC customer support to troubleshot issues in the environment.• Implemented a backup strategy along with a disaster recovery plan in the event that the servers or critical network components should go down to prevent lost revenue. • Deployed Recover Point, RP4VM, vSphere Replication and SRM on VSAN, VxFlex OS, VxRail and VxRack Flex environment

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  Pack Of Pros

  • Converge/HyperConverge Consultant

    • Jan 2018 - May 2018

    • Launched Start-Up company to deliver clients a virtualized lab to educate employees or as a test environment • Deployed Hands-on Lab Environment for 3 Clients and around 60 employees• Involved in Knowledge Transfer sessions with customers.• Understand customer requirements and work on the solutions proposals for Public and Private Cloud

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  Nakhl Mehr Andish

  • Virtualization Engineer

    • Jan 2013 - Dec 2016

    The company was previously known as Nakhl MehrAndish Co. PJS• Participated in a team of Engineers to Deploy Private Cloud and Virtualization environment for 12 companies in 16 projects• Architected, design and implement more than 100 ESX servers on a Cisco UCS Blade server. Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect upstream connectivity with Cisco Nexus 5548 for LAN and MDS9148 for SAN.• Deployed Dell EMC All-Flash array for VDI infrastructure.• Configured array monitoring and reporting.• Mentored Junior Windows Active Directory Consultants• Performed infrastructure maintenance according to the Hardware Vendor and Customer change management policies.• Reconfigured the current infrastructure as per the project requirement. Also working with multiple vendors for any project requirement needs.• Traveled worldwide to assist customers with deploying new server installations and provide on-site training, system administration, Progress database administration, and application configuration

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  MEHR Andish Co.

  • Systems Engineer - Network Administrator

    • Jan 2007 - Dec 2012

    The company was previously known as MehrAndish Co. LTD.• Managed multi-vendor virtual infrastructure maintenance, support, troubleshooting and repair for 150 host machines (hypervisors) and 4000 guests during onboarding and transition to external support • Worked on monitoring, patching and updating ESXi hosts and vCenters• Planned, designed, and manage all LAN/WAN related projects• Proactively standardized network devices to influence efficient troubleshooting procedures and educate on network topology.• Worked with vendors for parts replacements• Worked, Deployed and Performed best practices on Windows and Linux servers• implemented, and designed services for Microsoft Active Directory and Windows-based systems

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  MehrAndish Co. Ltd.

  • Helpdesk Technician

    • Jun 2003 - Sep 2006

    Performed PC support and maintenance for diplomatic staff for 9 separate embassies Diagnosed, troubleshot and resolved a wide range of software, hardware, and network issues