Ian Cherry
IT Operations Engineer
Broadway,VA
Summary
Dedicated IT operations engineer with more than 17 years of experience working in enterprise environments. Passionate about technology, process improvement, efficiency, virtualization, data storage, and infrastructure as code. Deep knowledge of enterprise virtualization, stacks based on Linux, data storage systems, and Cisco routing and switching.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certifications
Work History
Systems Engineer
Ellucian
Reston, VA
11.2023 - Current
Senior Cloud Administrator
Sonic Foundry
Broadway, Virginia
06.2022 - 11.2023
- Migrate 700+ TiB of Mediasite slide and video data consisting of 200+ million files from multiple on-premises NetApp FAS clusters to regional FSx for NetApp ONTAP instances in AWS
- Increase efficiency of Mediasite application upgrade procedures in each MVC environment by iteratively automating deployment steps using PowerShell
- Replace monitoring notification method for on-call from email messages forwarded to SMS and manual shift rotation with no escalation to PagerDuty alerts via HTTP POST methods and automatic rotation and escalation
- Establish CloudWatch monitoring of services migrated to AWS
Systems Administrator III
Rosetta Stone, Ltd.
Harrisonburg, VA
01.2016 - 06.2022
- Lead engineer tasked with ensuring at least 99.95% uptime of data center compute and storage infrastructure and global IP services for Rosetta Stone SaaS products
- Architected and automated consolidation of three vSphere environments supporting 1000+ VMs on multiple EMC VNX and HP storage arrays to new compute hardware and new Nimble Storage arrays with zero disruption
- Engineered new multi-provider data center Internet connectivity solution using Juniper Networks MX routers, BGP, and Cloudflare Magic Transit DDoS mitigation
- Migrated data center core routing and switching from Nexus 7000 to 9300
- Consolidated data center edge firewall from multiple Cisco ASA groups to single FortiGate cluster
- Wrote automation and DevOps using Bash and PowerShell adhering to Agile and Kanban methodologies
- Established and maintained IPSec VPN tunnels with BGP route exchange for data center connectivity to AWS, Azure, and GCP environments
- Designed and implemented HA network connectivity for physical Kubernetes worker nodes
- Ensured compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley and SOC2 requirements in virtualization and storage systems
- Experienced with administration of Chef, Confluence, Jira, Kubernetes/K8s,MySQL, DB2, and Splunk
System Administrator II
Rosetta Stone, Ltd.
Harrisonburg, VA
04.2012 - 12.2015
- Managed compute and storage for multiple vSphere environments
- Engineered replacement of VMware Lab Manager using vCloud Director
- Planned and executed upgrades of vSphere, UCS, and EMC infrastructure
- Deployed UCS, VNX, and vSphere in new secondary data center
- Drained workload from and decommissioned secondary data center
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Bridgewater College
Bridgewater, VA 08.2000 - 12.2003
Skills
Performance Analysis and Tuning
undefinedCertification
VMware Certified Professional 6.5 DCV
Training
VMware Education
- VMware vSphere v5.1: Fast Track; Optimize and Scale; Troubleshooting Workshop
Skyline Advanced Technology Services
- Data Center Unified Computing Implementation
EMC Education Services
- VNX Block Storage Performance Workshop
Blue Ridge Community College
- Advanced Linux Network Administration
Timeline
Systems Engineer
Ellucian
11.2023 - Current
Senior Cloud Administrator
Sonic Foundry
06.2022 - 11.2023
VMware Certified Professional 6.5 DCV
11-2018
Cisco Certified Network Associate Data Center
02-2017
Systems Administrator III
Rosetta Stone, Ltd.
01.2016 - 06.2022
VMware Certified Advanced Professional 5 - DCA
01-2015
EMC Proven Professional - Information Storage Associate v2
09-2014
System Administrator II
Rosetta Stone, Ltd.
04.2012 - 12.2015
Cisco Certified Network Associate
12-2010
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Bridgewater College
08.2000 - 12.2003