Franco arteseros resume
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This document provides a summary of Franco Arteseros's experience and qualifications. He has over 15 years of experience in virtualization, VDI environments, systems management, analytics, performance management, and capacity planning. He is experienced with technologies from VMware, Microsoft, Citrix, and others. He has worked as a senior virtualization engineer, senior analytics engineer, and technical architect.
Franco arteseros resume
- 1. FRANCO ARTESEROS Phone: (303) 482-5314 ~ E-Mail: [email protected] URL: HTTP://WWW.ARTESEROS.NET SUMMARY Sr. Virtualization /Wintel/Linux Engineer with over 15 years of progressive experience and proven expertise in Virtualization, VDI Environments, Systems Management, Analytics, Performance Management, Capacity Planning, Migrations, and SMB Solutions . • Experienced in Virtualization Technologies for Server, DC and VPC environments including: Vmware ESXi 5.x, 6.x Vmware vSphere, Vmware vRealize, Vmware VCenter Configuration Manager (VCM), Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix, KVM, Cisco UCS , PowerShell, PowerCLI. • Experienced in Virtualization Technologies for Client and Mobile environments including: Vmware Realize Horizon View, Vmware ThinApp, Microsoft Hyper-V RDP Clients, Citrix XenDesktop / XenApp. • Experienced in Vmware Management and Automation Tools: Vcenter 6, (VCo) Vcenter Operations Manager, (VRo) VRealize Operations, Vcenter Orchestrator, VRealize Automation, Vmware Configuration Manager. • Experienced in Core OS platforms: -Wintel: MS Win Servers/Desktop (2003, 2008r2, 2012r2 / win7, Win8, Win10) -Linux: Ubuntu, Suse, CentOS, RHE, Debian -Unix: Solaris, HP UX -Other: Mac OSx, Google Chromium • Εxperienced in industry leading Systems Management / Capacity Planning / Analytics and Performance Monitoring platforms. - Systems Management: SolarWinds Orion, SevOne, HP SIM, Spice Works, Nagios - Capacity Planning/Analytics: Splunk (Enterprise/Cloud), Syslog-ng (Graylog2, NXlog) - Performance Monitoring: WireShark, Manage Engine, SolarWinds, Nagios • Εxperienced in industry leading Storage Technologies: EMC ESA (EMC Storage Analytics) Manager, NetApp Harvest, Dell EqualLogic Virtual Storage Manager, Vmware VSAN. • Εxperienced in industry leading 89Migration Technologies: PlateSpin, Double-Take Vision, Vmware Converter. • Experienced in leading Cloud Technologies (Public/Private). -Public Clouds: AWS, Vmware Air, MS Azure, Google -Private Clouds: Vmware Realize, Citrix Xen, MS HV, Ubuntu KVM -Cloud Dev Tools: Vmware Realize Automation, AWS/ Vmware Deployment Tools
- 2. EDUCATION • University of Colorado Denver, Computer Science. • ACC, Computer Science. • California Polytechnic University (Pomona), Computer Science. • University of California Los Angeles, Computer Science. CERTIFICATIONS • VMware VCP Certification • HP OV Certified • Dell OM Certified • DELL Server Specialist Certification • iapp Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) • HP OpenView Network Management Certified Consultant • Accredited Integration Specialist • SUN Certified Systems Engineer • Compaq/SCO UNIX Certified Systems Engineer TECHNICAL SKILLS • VMware Data Center (Vmware ESXi 4.1,5.5 and 6, Vmware vSphere, Vmware Vcenter, Vmware Vrops and Vra, Vmware Realize Suite, Vmware VCM, Cisco UCS). • VMware Client (Vmware Horizon View, Vmware ThinApp). • Citrix Data Center (Citrix XenSerserver). • Citrix Client (Citrix XenDesktop, Citrix XenApp, Citrix XenClient.). • Microsoft Data Center (MS 2012 Hyper-V). • Virtualization Management Tools (MS SCCM 2012, PlateSpin, Veeam, Quest, Solarwinds, Kace, Dell, HP, CA), PowerShell. • Public Cloud: (AWS, Vmware Air, MS Azure, Google) • Private Cloud: (Vmware Realize, Citrix Xen, MS HV, Ubuntu KVM) • Cloud Dev Tools: (Vmware Realize, OpenStack, Crowbar, Puppet, Foreman) • Capacity Planning/Analytics Tools: Splunk (Enterprise/Cloud), Syslog-ng (Graylog2, Nxlog) • Systems Management Tools (Dell OME, Altaris, HP OV, CA, KACE. Nagios, SCCM, BMC).
- 3. • Performance Monitoring Tools: (WireShark, Manage Engine, SolarWinds, Nagios, NetBrain) • MS Windows OS (Servers: 2003, 2008, 2012 Clients: XP, Windows 7, Windows 8). • Linux/Unix OS (Red Hat, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, HP UX, Solaris, IBM). • Hardware Servers (Dell PowerEdge and Blade Servers, HP Blade Servers, IBM, Cisco). • Hardware Clients (Dell, HP, IBM, Wyse). • Hardware Network (Dell PowerConnect, Dell F-10, Dell Blade I/O, Sonic Wall, Xsigo, Cisco, HP). • Hardware Storage (Dell Compellent, Dell EqualLogic, Dell PowerVault, NetApp, EMC) EXPERIENCE VWORLDTECH LLC. CO March 2016 – Present Sr. Virtualization Engineer / Consultant VWORLDTECH specializes in providing DC and Virtualization Services and Consulting for the SMB market. The VWORLDTECH Portal provides free access to Discussion Boards, Blogs and Resources focusing on Virtualization and Vcloud Technologies. (http://www.vworldtechllc.com) Responsibilities: • Designing, building and configuring the VWORLDTECH Enterprise Virtualization Lab and Portal. In charge of evaluating and implementing the core components of the Enterprise Virtualization Lab. • SMB (Small-Medium-Business) Consulting and Architecting: - Perform current environment assessment (Compute, Storage, Networking, Apps) - Perform current Cloud environment assessment (Private and On-Premise) - Perform Business and Technical requirements assessment (Dev and Ops) - Design and Architect proper solutions based on business and IT requirements. - Core Compute (Physical, Virtual: VMware ESXi/Sphere and MS Hyper-V) - Client (Physical, Virtual: VMware Horizon and Citrix) - Core Storage (EMC, NetApp, Dell) - Core Networking (Physical: Cisco, Brocade OS: MS AD/DNS) - Core Apps (Standard and Commercial) - Cloud (AWS, Air, Azure) • SMB (Small-Medium-Business) Implementation, Testing and Training:
- 4. - Perform P2V and V2V Conversions, Updates and Testing - Perform Installation and Configuration of Core Compute Environments - VMware: (ESXi 5,6, Sphere 6, Vcenter, VRops, VRa, Vlogin Mngr, VCM, UCS) - Microsoft: (Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, SCCM, VNM) - Management Tools: (Quest Foglight, Veeam, SolarWinds, Splunk, PowerShell) - Perform Installation and Configuration of VirtualClient environments - VMware: (Horizon View 6, Horizon Air, Vmware OS Optimization Tool ) - Microsoft: (MS RDS Services, Citrix XenDesktop / XenApp) - Management Tools: (VMware View Mgr, Quest VDI Mgr, Manage Engine) - Perform Installation and Configuration of Core Storage (EMC, NetApp, Dell) - Management Tools: (Vsan, Vops, Quest Strg Mgr, SolarWinds Strg Mgr) - Perform Installation and Configuration of Core Networking - Platforms: ( UCS (E-Series), Cisco 350X-550X, Brocade ICX) - Management Tools: (NSX, SolarWinds, ManageEngine, WireShark) - Perform Installation and Configuration of Core Apps (OS: MS/Linux, Commercial) - Perform Configuration of Cloud (AWS, Air, Azure) - Management Tools: (Right Scale, Kaavo, Amazon CloudWatch) Cognizant, CO December 2015 – March 2016 Senior Virtualization/Analytics/Performance Management/Capacity Planning Engineer Senior Virtualization Analytics Engineer in charge of evaluating customer data for (Data Collection, Data Analysis, Capacity Planning, Event/Alarm processing, Trending and Tuning). Responsibilities: • Upgraded Foglight Enterprise 5.0 to 5.5.3 on with Custom Modules and Scripts. • Managed two Foglight Enterprise 5.5.3 Federated implementation (Prod and Dev). • Each of the Federated implementations was comprised of a Federated Master and 15 child Servers, managing over 2600 Servers. • Evaluated over 2600 servers (Windows, UNIX and Linux) for Transfer or Decommission. • Monitor and Analyze critical data from over 2600 servers before and after the upgrade. • Created custom Consoles, Reports, Queries, Imports and Exports. • Created custom Integrations to external Management Systems (HP Netmon). • Created custom Integrations to Vmware VcOps and VrOps.
- 5. IBM Global Services, CO September 2015 – December 2015 Senior Virtualization Analytics/Performance Engineer Sr. Virtualization Analytics Engineer in charge of evaluating customer data for (Data Collection, Data Analysis, Capacity Planning, Event/Alarm processing, Trending and Tuning). Responsibilities: • Designed, built and implemented Task Defined Virtual Appliances using Vmware, Hyper-V, Vbox (Windows/Linux) focusing on Performance Monitoring, Capacity Planning, Traffic Monitoring / Analysis, Vmware Management/Performance, using the latest technologies and tools. • Systems Management/Monitoring/Performance. (Tools: Nagios, SolarWinds, SevOne, Cacti, SCCM, MS MAP). • Network Management/Monitoring/Performance. (Tools: Nagios, WireShark, OpenNMS, PRTG, NTOP, Splunk) • Storage Management/Monitoring/Performance. (Tools: NetApp Harvest/NetApp Advisor with (Graphite metrics server, Grafana Dashboards and Splunk Log/Event Monitor/Analysis), Vmware VSAN with (Vrops, Veeam, Foglight). • Vmware Management/Monitoring/Performance. (Tools: Vsphere 6, Vrops, vmware Log Insight Manager, Veeam ONE, Quest FogLight, VMTurbo). • Designed. Built and implemented Virtual Test/Dev Labs to convert Real-Time/Long-Term data to Synthetic Data to simulate Load/Traffic scenarios. (Tools: Silk, I/O Meter, various Simulators). TeleTech Englewood, CO March 2015 – August 2015 Senior VMware Migration Engineer Responsibilities: • Senior Technical Migration Engineer for the Wintel to Data Center migrations. In charge of assessments of current systems and application loads for proper migrations to VMware VSphere 5.5 infrastructure, In charge of correlating and managing multiple migration tasks including (Server Evaluations, OS upgrades, Application dependency assessments, P2P, P2V and Hybrid migrations. Implemented Vmware Vcenter Configuration Manager (VCM) for Change Management and Automation. • Performed P2V evaluation tests of existing Wintel Servers (2003-2008-2012) for migration to main TeleTech Data Centers in CO. Evaluation tests included collecting required information from remote servers, using SNMP and WMI tools. Used Wintel (MS MAP), Vmware (Converter) and 3rd party tools to evaluate data and create accurate reports for the migration process. Used Vmware Vcenter and VCM ti configure and manage the Cisco UCS infrastructure.
- 6. • Performed Application assessment tests of existing commercial and legacy applications to evaluate application dependencies (Hardware, OS, DB, Network, Storage), and correlated resources from the (Wintel, Vmware, Citrix) teams to provide a stable, and fully manageable, virtualized application infrastructure. • Assisted with migrations of Wintel, Linux and AIX 4.x systems Using Vision Double-Take (Availability and Move) and PlateSpin. CHI/Wipro, Englewood, CO October 2013 – February 2015 Senior Technical Architect (Wintel / VMware / Citrix) Responsibilities: • Sr. Technical Architect for the Wintel Migration project (200+ Wintel / Linux Servers in the US). In charge of correlating and managing multiple migration tasks including (Server Evaluations, OS upgrades, Application dependency assessments, P2P, P2V and Hybrid migrations). • Performed P2V evaluation tests of existing Wintel Servers (2003-2008-2012) for migration to main Data Centers in CO and TX. Evaluation tests included collecting required information from remote servers, using SNMP and WMI tools. Used Wintel (MS MAP), Vmware (Converter) and 3rd party tools to evaluate data and create accurate reports for the migration process. Correlated resources from various IT groups (Compute, Network, Storage, DC) to provide complete HW/OS migration solutions. • Performed Application assessment tests of existing commercial and legacy applications to evaluate application dependencies (Hardware, OS, DB, Network, Storage), and correlated resources from the (Wintel, Vmware, Citrix) teams to provide a stable, and fully manageable, virtualized application infrastructure. • Participated in 100+ successful Server Migration projects. Including (P2P, P2V, Hybrid) scenarios. All projects were fully documented and properly tested. • Worked with various IT groups and vendors to create and share accurate documentation for internal migration projects. Documentation included (Step-by-Step docs, Best practices docs, Demo Videos, Tools Guides, Visio Diagrams). • Created and managed the internal Server Migration Team Test Lab. Lab included (HW: Cisco UCS, HP Srvrs, Dell Srvrs, Netapp Stg, DMC Stg HV: Vmware Vsphere, MS HyperV, Citrix). • Server Migration Team lead (CO HQ). Charged with interviewing and evaluating 50+ candidates for various positions, local and remote, within the Server Migration Team. • Charged with training, mentoring, and monitoring of all new team members. Dell Inc., Aurora, CO October 2008 – July 2013 Product Technologist Senior Advisor/OSE (On-Site Systems Engineer)/SME (Subject Matter Expert) Responsibilities: • SME (Subject Matter Expert) for Systems Management products including Dell, HP,
- 7. Microsoft, CA, Altaris and Cisco. • Senior level System Engineer in Virtualization Technologies for Data Centers and Server environments including: Vmware ESXi 4.1 and 5.1, Vmware vSphere, Vmware Capacity Planner. Microsoft Hyper-V. Citrix XenSerserver. KVM. • Senior level System Engineer in Virtualization Technologies for Clients and Mobile environments including: Vmware Horizon View, Vmware ThinApp. Microsoft Hyper-V RDP Clients. Citrix XenDesktop, Citrix XenApp, Citrix XenClient. • Lead OSE for Colorado with VMWare and Microsoft, aiding in pre-sales and post-sales. Also hands-on with implementation of VMWare and Microsoft virtualization products at customer sites. • Evaluate customer requirements for a VDI implementation. Including business needs, Technical requirements. • Evaluate which VDI solution would fit the customer requirements better (Vmware, Citrix, MS, Hybrid). • Architect the VDI solutions, and verify that all the components and resources were available. • Participated, with the Dell VDI team, in the implementations of the VDI environments. • Performed Management and Performance monitoring after the VDI implementations were completed to ensure proper configuration. • Discussed all virtualization technologies, understanding the differences between them and able to articulate the advantages of each. • Provided customers with on-site POCs (Proof-Of-Concept) in the areas of Enterprise level Servers, Networking, Storage, Virtualization and Systems Management. • Worked in highly decentralized and customer facing environments. Developed, presented, implemented and explained the value of proposed infrastructure solutions to all levels of management and IT Departments. • Performed a wide variety of technical and administrative duties in overall enterprise solution assessment, design, validation, development, delivery and sales. • Presented whiteboard sessions to all levels of client organization including C-Level. • On Site at DELL on-The-Road shows to speak about virtualization and DELL hardware and Systems Management products. Vericept Corporation, Denver, CO February 2005 – November 2008 Solutions Consultant Responsibilities: • Technical support for all Vericept products (Development and Implementation). • Technical support for Field Solution Consultant Team (Implementation). • Technical support for Channel Partners (Pre-Sales and Implementation).
- 8. • Provide Pre and Post Sales support for the Sales and Channel teams. • Designed and manage Virtual Product Lab for testing and demosDesign and deployment of custom virtual solutions based on all Vericept and Technology Partners products. • Technical support of various OS implementation platforms (UNIX, Linux, Windows 2003/XP, OSX). SixHat Technologies, Littleton, January 2005 – December 2005 Co-Founder/Senior Consultant Responsibilities: • Developed the 6HT System. • Created the 6HT~WinGuruXP Console. • Architected and implemented network solutions for several small and large customers. IBM Global Services, Boulder, CO, January 2004 – December 2004 Network Management Tools Senior Engineer Responsibilities: • Architected Network Management solutions for large IBM customers. • Supported Network Management solutions for internal and external IBM customers. • Senior support engineer for CiscoWorks. • Senior support engineer for Lucent VitalNet. • Support engineer for IBM NetView and MRTG. Fidelia Technology Inc., Princenton, NJ January 2003 – December 2003 NetVigil SE / Consultant Responsibilities: • Design and Implementation of Service Management solutions utilizing the NetVigil product suite. • Developed product demos and presentations for several large customers. • Member of the product development advisory team. • Collaborated with engineering group developing management integration products. • Collaborated with management team negotiating corporate relationships with large customers and partners. Hewlett Packard, Englewood, February 2001 – December 2003 HP OpenView Solutions Architect
- 9. Responsibilities: • Worked with Pre and Post sales teams developing and delivering technical sales presentations and plans. Managed consulting and engineering teams during the implementation phase. • Designed and implemented custom product integration solutions for several customers. • Developed technical and non-technical sales presentations for several HP OpenView products. • Participated in a wide range of forums, user meetings, and customer presentations providing sales and technical support. • Developed product demonstrations and custom training materials for customers and HP OpenView sales and technical teams. • Worked with the HP OpenView product teams identifying product positioning and providing competitive analysis. TRINAGY Inc., Denver, CO January 1999 – December 2001 Senior Solutions Engineer Responsibilities: • Managed all areas of Pre and Post technical sales cycles. • Participated with sales team developing new sales and marketing strategies and documentation. • Implemented large complex solutions using performance management tools. • Developed custom performance management solutions specializing in Radius, VoIP, and other communication technologies. • Created several technical and non-technical presentations and training materials. • Collaborated with engineering group developing performance management integration products. • Collaborated with management team negotiating corporate relationships with large customers and partners. Aprisma Systems Inc., Denver, CO January 1996 – December 1999 Senior Network Management Engineer Responsibilities: • Led Network Management engineering team in the Colorado region and worked with corporate sales team as a senior technical consultant. • Implemented large complex solutions using a variety of Network Management tools. • Participated in several forums and corporate presentations providing sales and technical
- 10. support. • Developed custom integration Network Management products and solutions. • Created sales and training materials for technical and non-technical audiences. • Worked with senior management team establishing Pre and Post sales services. Cabletron Systems Inc., Denver, CO January 1994 – December 1996 Senior Network Engineer Responsibilities: • Designed and implemented complex network infrastructure solutions for several large customers and participated in all areas of Pre and Post sales cycles. • Designed and implemented large network infrastructures utilizing a wide variety of networking technologies. • Developed network design and implementation tools for Cabletron and Cisco network devices. • Developed custom sales and training materials for customers and internal groups. • Collaborated with the Network Management team developing tools to manage large hybrid network infrastructures. • Provided technical and sales support to customers and internal groups.