Resume

In the last ten years, I have invested time as programmer and certified Oracle DBA as well as IT manager and security coordinator, but I have devoted the last four years to designing and evangelizing virtualization solutions. I take a long-term, holistic and strategic approach to assessing and designing solutions.  I’m a proven engineer and architect, but most important, I’m a trusted advisor to my customers. In addition to my technical experience, I bring strong Midwestern work ethic and values that help me earn credibility and trust with my customers. I’m a tireless educator and utilize a variety of media to help illustrate the value of virtualizaiton solutions. I take my role as “trusted advisor” very seriously, ensuring that my customers have the best information available from our vendors and from the virtualization community as a whole.  A VMware Certified Professional since 2006 and awarded the distinction of VMware vEXPERT in 2009 by VMware, I have the technical ability, strong communication skills and leadership skills necessary to help your company or customers innovate in this new virtual world.

MAJOR ASSIGNMENTS

November 2007 – Present

Alliance Technologies, Inc.

Solutions Architect and Virtualization Lead

• Awarded VMware vExpert award for 2009. Only 300 award recipients world-wide.
• Company spokesperson for all things virtualization and cloud computing related.
• VMware Certified Professional since 2006 with expertise providing capacity planning, storage design, DR Planning, and value-engineered VMware Virtual Infrastructure designs to meet business requirements.
• Lead Liquidware Labs Stratusphere VDI assessments and lead VDI consulting.
• Experienced with the design and implementation of Storage Area Networks (SAN) to support VMware infrastructures.
• Technical lead on Quest vWorkspace Dynamic Desktop Initiative project for Fortune 1000 company in the MidWest.
• Designed and implemented Disaster Recovery plans utilizing Vizioncore vRanger, Veeam Backup and VMware Site Recovery Manager.
• Designed innovative solutions to customer requirements using VMware’s proven Virtual Infrastructure Methodology.
• Has designed and coordinated complex solutions requiring VMware, SAN, backup, DR, VDI and Citrix as well as project managing the diverse group of SMEs necessary to implement.

Pella Regional Health Center,

Systems Analyst – June 20, 2005 to November 2006

Information Security Coordinator – November 2006 to May 2007

IT Infrastructure and Support Manager – May 2007 to November 2007

Fulfilled duties of vacant IT Director from June 2007 to November 2007

• Lobbied for and got approval for the creation of an IT steering committee for the purpose of creating an IT Strategic Plan and improving IT governance.

• Developed creative and inexpensive solutions to difficult problems.

• Performed duties of an interim IT Director from June through November of 2007.

• Served as HIPAA Security Officer and was responsible for our IT security plan, DR plan, performing HIPAA audits and coordinating all security activities including an external penetration test.

• Worked with executive team to develop IT priorities and 2008 IT budget.

• Led cross-functional team to bring a secondary data center online.

• Served as the IT representative at building project meetings and coordinated the many low voltage wiring and associated IT projects that came out of the building project.  Verified that IT needs were being met throughout the new hospital building project.

VMware:

• Researched, designed, and deployed VMware’s ESX 2.5.x servers and Virtual Center 1.5 on Dell servers connected to an EMC Clariion CX-700 SAN utilizing VMware’s Virtual Infrastructure Methodology (VIM) to guide the project. Initial deployment of 2 ESX servers saved us from purchasing 12 stand-alone physical boxes.

• Created a second VMware farm configured with VI3 (ESX 3.0 and Virtual Center 2.0) and performed a migration upgrade of all virtual machines.

• Manage the administration of our Virtual Infrastructure and help train other admins how to administer the farm. Currently running 50+ virtualized servers (Windows and Linux) on 4 physical ESX host servers.

• Brought VDI to PRHC, and continued to expand our VDI desktop usage.

Network Administration:

• Manage the administration of Linux systems.

• Configured NTP, Apache, MySQL, NFS, Samba, Iptables, SELinux, Yum and other Linux services.

• Setup Rails hosting on Apache through CGI as well as through a Mongrel cluster fronted by Pound web server. Installed and configured Rails, rails dependencies, Mongrel, and Mongrel cluster via RubyGems (packaging system for Ruby programs and libraries).

• Configured NTP server on Linux and configured Windows domain controllers and VMware ESX servers to sync time from NTP server.

• Coordinated the consolidation of SQL Server databases onto centralized server and also created a centralized IIS server for all Windows-based web applications.

• Attended CCNA boot camp to better acquaint myself with routing and switching basics.

• Assisted in the administration of Cisco wireless, HP Pro-Curve managed network, and Secure Computing Sidewinder firewall.
  

Management/Leadership:

• Assessed priorities in IT infrastructure and made proposals to our Admin Team to make them aware of our risks and propose solutions to mitigate those risks.

• Participating in the selection and interview process for the vacant IT Director position.

• Performed annual performance reviews for staff and helped them set and reach goals. Guided an employee on a 4-week plan to get his Citrix Certified Administrator certification and he passed his exam on the first try.

Programming:

• Developed custom scheduling application in Ruby on Rails for the Pella Medical Clinic.

• Developed Perl programs to export data from DB2 and flat files into MySQL and created a web interface allowing HR department to quickly search historical time clock info.

• Created backup scripts with Ruby for backing up some network appliances through sftp.

Wizard Computers

Carroll, Iowa Feb 26, 2003 to June 17, 2005

• Worked as IT consultant, web developer and network administrator with focus on designing and delivering value-based solutions to small businesses. Solutions include Small Business Server 2003, point to point VPN, Terminal Server 2003, and custom developed web applications.

• Two years experience providing consulting to Carroll County State Bank and was involved in developing the architecture for their new Active Directory forest and helping their IT staff prepare for and respond to IT security audits.

Infrastructure:

• Designed, installed and maintained Windows Small Business Server 2003-based network systems including: file service, DHCP, DNS, VPN, print service, Exchange 2003, SharePoint services, network anti-virus, and scheduled tape backup.

• Configured Terminal Server 2003 to allow remote access to business critical applications.

• Administered Linux server to run LAMP-based support, CRM and project management programs.

• Wrote custom backup scripts using BASH, Perl, tar and scheduled through cron system. Used Samba to share files with Windows machines.

Programming/Database:

• Experience installing and managing MySQL, SQL Server, and Oracle 9i.

• Oracle Certified Associate DBA with Oracle 9i. Installed Compiere ERP & CRM suite on Oracle 9i on Red Hat 9.0.

• Developed web applications using Perl, PHP, MySQL, HTML and CSS to automate business processes that had outgrown their previous email-based systems.

Halbur Enterprises (Contract), IT Consultant – Halbur, Iowa – Feb 2003

• Identified possibility for automating data entry during the conversion from AS/400 accounting/billing solution to Windows-based Peachtree Accounting.

• Contacted legacy software company to export customer and inventory data to CSV files, used Perl and Excel to clean up data for import, and used built-in data import tools in Peachtree to import the data.

  
  

Professional Computer Systems, Co., Programmer – Denison, Iowa

April 1, 2002 to August 1, 2002

• Developed software in Progress 4GL on SCO Unix platform.

Alliance Technologies, Programmer – Des Moines, Iowa

July 2000 to March 29, 2002

• Developed, maintained and supported legacy VAX/VMS billing, payroll, and accounting applications.

• Programmed in PL/SQL, BASH, and Perl within a Solaris environment to interact with Oracle 9i database.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

VMware: VMware vExpert, ESX 2.5.x, 3.0.x, 3.5.x VSphere 4.0 Virtual Center 1.5.x, 2.0.x, 4.0, Workstation 5.x, 6.x, VMware Server, VMware Player, Converter, VMware Fusion.

Storage: Equallogic, Compellent, EMC Clariion CX-700, Lefthand VSA, DataCore SAN Melody

Desktop Delivery: Liquidware Labs Stratusphere, VMware View, Quest vWorkspace, Terminal Server, ThinLaunch Thin Desktop

Linux: Red Hat 7.2-Red Hat 4.x. CentOS 4.x. ESX Console Operating Systems (Heavily modified Red Hat OS).

Software for Linux: BASH Shell, MySQL, Apache, NTP, NFS, samba, ssh, iptables, Oracle 9i.

Programming Languages: Ruby (Rails), Perl, PHP, BASH, XHTML, CSS, Boston Workstation.

Web Software: Wordpress, PHPBB, Cerberus HelpDesk, Drupal, GSS Helpdesk.

Databases: MySQL, SQL Server, and Oracle 9i OCA DBA.

Windows Server: NT, 2000, 2003, SBS 2003, Sharepoint Services, Terminal Server 2003, IIS, DHCP, DNS, Active Directory.

Networking: Managed switches, Sidewinder firewall, Cisco Pix 501, Cisco Aironet, home firewalls.

Other Software: Vim, WinSCP, Ethereal, tcpdump, VMS, Unix, EMC (Legato) DiskXtender, Veeam Backup, Veeam Monitor, Vizioncore vRanger, Vizioncore vReplicator.

CERTIFICATIONS AND AWARDS

VMware vExpert 2009

VMware Certified Professional, June 2006 (VI2.5), June 2008 (VI3.5)

Oracle Certified Associate DBA – Oracle 9i, Feb 2003

ADDITIONAL TRAINING

VMworld, Nov2006, Sep 2007, Sep 2008, Aug 2009

VMware Partner Exchange – 2008, 2009

Quest vWorkspace – 2009

Sidewinder Firewall training (Secure Computing), Feb 2007

CCNA Boot camp, Jan 2007

EMCWorld, April 2006

RSA Conference, Feb 2006

VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES

Knights of Columbus – Pella Council #12334

Youth Soccer, Track and Field, and Baseball Coach

EDUCATION

Central College, Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics, May 2000