Benjamin Dean

• Senior Engineer administering VBlock 350 and 740 and VxBlock 1000 converged infrastructure
• Performing enterprise-wide upgrades of VMware vSphere.
• Providing guidance and support handling virtual environment to resolve issues about VBlock, VxBlock, Nutanix and DellEMC environment
• Performing p2v and v2v hot & cold migrations using VMware VMconverter by integrating into the VBlock and VxBlock and Nutanix environment
• Design, Implement and administer multiple DELLEMC and cloud storage solutions like VMAX, Isilon, VNX, Nasuni and Netapp
• Providing best practices on performing operational activities for VBlock, VxBlock and Nutanix environment
• Implement and Administer Cisco MDS and Nexus switches
• Performed SAN & NAS migrations using EM COPY and SAN COPY and moving storage to a new Hyper Converged environment
• Implement and administer the Cisco UCS environment.
• Implement and administer DellEMC PowerEdge Servers.
• Performed regular health checks of VBlock and VxBlock and provided reports with status to customers accordingly.
• Provide KT sessions on Hyperconverged architecture and administration to the customer technical team
• Preparing run books and admin guides on VBlock and VxBlock family series as per customer requirement Which resulted in the creation of a 200+ page runbook and document
• Senior Engineer Troubleshooting issues about network, storage, Compute, and VMware level as required and providing best practices on VBlock and VxBlock Administration for better performance and redundancy
• Perform RCM Upgrades annually on the entire Converged and Hyper-Converged Environment
• Leveraged data-driven decision-making to identify opportunities for process enhancements, leading to significant cost savings.

VMWARE/ DIRECT TV Project:

• Responsible for Designing, Implement 4 external platform service controllers with 8 vCenter Server Appliances 6.0 U1b for to data center with replication and load balancer for platform service controller and high availability for vCenter and hosts
• Manage migration from 6 vCenter 5.1 with VM tags and 3 vCenter 5.5 with VSAN to new VCSA 6.0
• Created Runbook documentation of the whole Process
• Knowledge transfer for VCSA 6.0, to customer.

VMWARE/ Broward Health Project:

• Responsible for Designing and Implementing the vCenter Server Appliances 6.0 U1b for to data center with Fault tolerant and high availability for the vCenter and the hosts
• Manage the migration process from vCenter 5.0 to new VCSA 6.0
• Created documentation of the whole Process
• Knowledge transfer for VCSA 6.0, to the customer.

Between projects, I was a system Engineer for the Internal datacenter.

• Administered Network Resources - Data communications equipment, WAN links and LAN
• Hands on Cisco 3700, 3800 series routers and 6500 Cat switches
• Maintained Windows Server 2003 and 2008 at all locations, which included checking event logs, keeping server patched and updated
• Set group policy settings to secure publicly accessible computers
• Managed Internet connections
• Microsoft ISA 2006 proxy server configuration and administration
• Implemented QOS for Voice and video traffic
• Maintained data backup for all client locations running Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 and Backup Exec 2010
• Enhanced and maintained internal network infrastructure consisting of Cisco ASA, PIX firewall modifications, DNS, DHCP, and Active Directory
• Set up TCP/IP, NIC, VLAN, VPN, and VoIP
• Provided improvements to client's infrastructure, working with client's individual technological needs and budget
• Kept a cycle of deploying new computers/servers at each client location
• Maintained licensing for each client location
• Documented all work done at client locations, including issue, troubleshooting steps, and resolution
• Research new technologies for clients
• Also worked as a customer Support Engineer (Hardware and Networking) Installing Operating System, Window 95, Window 98, Me, Window 2000 Professional Edition, Win XP Professional, Server 2003 Standard Edition, Enterprises Edition, and Install Software, Maintenance Printer Service and Assembling and Troubleshooting
• Lan Configuring Cable crimping
• Peer-to-Peer Networking, Domain, Wireless & Troubleshooting.