Experience

Fremont Bank

• United States
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Systems Engineer

  • Oct 2016 - Present

  Was a member of a team that ranged in size from 4-7 people. Was primarily responsible for storage management and troubleshooting and VMware administration when hired. Grew into a role that primarily focused on the overall physical compute, storage, and virtual networking for 4 vCenter deployments in 2 sites. Performed migration from 5.1 to 6.0 and then to 6.7. Was the technical lead on complete Enterprise Storage migration from NetApp to Tegile (Now Intelliflash/Tintri after acquisition by DDN) that involved moving 280+TB from one array to another. Migrated over 400 SQL databases with zero unplanned downtime. Implemented Enterprise PKI server. Was co-lead on Exchange 2010 to 2016 migration. Decommissioned the 201 environment after migration. Provided extensive On-Call support for afterhours escalations. Managed SRM Dr implementation planning and maintenance. After the Senior Administrator and Team lead left the company, became the “point person” for all critical tasks and issues. Show less



Safeway

• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lab Configuration Engineer

  • Jun 2015 - Oct 2016

  I was one of several engineers responsible for the construction, planning, and upkeep of 75+ Development and QA labs for Safeway-Albertsons Companies. This included the physical infrastructure as well as some software management. I was also responsible for completing setup and refinement of a VMware deployment that allowed the virtualization of labs at great savings to the company. Setup and manged Vmware 5.5 deployment on HP Blades, with HP backend storage and designed and built the network and fiber infrastructure. I also was involved with planning, and execution of Dev/QA projects that targeted over-arching company goals and made sure that project delivery was smooth and on time. Show less



Performant Corp

• United States
• Financial Services
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Jr. Sys Admin

  • Feb 2010 - Jun 2015

  Worked from Help Desk to Systems Admin. Was responsible for senior level work, including ESXi re-build, full scale deployment of 20+ server application roll outs to meet business needs. Was lead Engineer on several projects reporting to C-level Executives. Worked with Senior Network Engineer on company wide network refresh and physical plant upgrade in support of companywide telecom up-lift. Was primary POC with InfoSec team to manage and verify systems integrity and security for Federal, State, and private PII/PHI contracts. Traveled to remote corporate sites to perform work that was not able to be done with remote hands. Primary POC for in-house software troubleshooting and ticket resolution. Worked with application development teams and DBA’s to move company goals forward. Show less



Wald, Ruhnke, and Dost Architects

• Monterey, CA

• IT Assistant

  • Feb 2008 - Jun 2009

  . Second of two IT staff that managed 50+ workstations and supporting servers. Managed deployments and hardware lifecycle for business critical machines. Designed and executed Deltek Business software upgrade. Was lead on Autodesk AutoCAD upgrade and transition from single license model to volume license. Managed and maintained large format plotters and blue-print reproduction machines. Was principal administrator of Avaya phone system. Managed complete upgrade of company web hosting and e-mail from multiple desperate providers to one unified provider which reduced IT costs by 30% Show less