Gabriele Cortina

Senior Infrastructure Engineer with 23+ years of experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise virtualization, cloud, and hybrid infrastructure environments. Extensive expertise managing both VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V platforms across large-scale production datacenters. Proven success leading virtualization migrations, PowerShell automation initiatives, Active Directory modernization, Cisco UCS deployments, enterprise storage administration, and hybrid cloud infrastructure projects supporting highly available business-critical systems.

Associate Director of Systems Infrastructure - Cohen & Steers

(2025-05 - 2026-05)

• Supported enterprise virtualization infrastructure including VMware ESXi and Hyper-V failover clustering environments.
• Utilized SCVMM and VMware vCenter for VM lifecycle management, provisioning, and infrastructure administration.
• Built and configured Cisco M8 servers supporting enterprise virtualization modernization initiatives.
• Configured Cisco UCS profiles and supported UCS infrastructure lifecycle operations and firmware management.
• Administered Rubrik backups ensuring disaster recovery readiness and data protection compliance.

Senior Engineer - Ellington

(2024-09 - 2025-05)

• Managed Hyper-V and VMware virtualization environments supporting development and production infrastructure.
• Served as SME for Azure, AWS, CrowdStrike, and hybrid cloud infrastructure operations.
• Engineered enterprise storage solutions utilizing EMC and 3PAR technologies.

Senior Platform Engineer - Blackbaud

(2021-01 - 2024-09)

• Primary engineer supporting enterprise VMware hyper-converged infrastructure across production and client-hosted environments.
• Migrated 300 VMware ESXi hosts from version 6.7 to 7.0.3 utilizing VMware lifecycle and upgrade best practices.
• Deployed and integrated 40 Cisco UCS M6 servers into VMware vCenter and Cisco UCS environments.

Senior System Analyst - Chefs Warehouse

(2020-01 - 2021-12)

• Migrated 1,600 users from on-premises Exchange and Active Directory to Microsoft 365 and Azure AD Hybrid infrastructure.
• Implemented MFA utilizing Azure Conditional Access and Microsoft Authenticator.
• Consolidated standalone VMware ESXi hosts into Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure clusters.

Principal Engineer - Gartner

(2016-07 - 2020-01)

• Promoted to Principal Engineer managing an 8-member Messaging & Collaboration infrastructure team.
• Designed and implemented enterprise hybrid cloud architecture solutions utilizing VMware and Microsoft infrastructure technologies.
• Administered VMware environments across Development, QA, and Production datacenter infrastructures.

Senior System Engineer - Oracle

(2007-01 - 2016-07)

• Migrated 3,000 VMware virtual machines to Microsoft Hyper-V utilizing PowerShell automation and native migration tools.
• Automated Hyper-V failover cluster deployments improving infrastructure consistency and operational efficiency.
• Utilized SCVMM for Hyper-V host management, VM provisioning, and cluster lifecycle administration.

Network Engineer - Hyperion Solutions

(2000-01 - 2007-01)

• Installed and configured VMware ESX 2.5/3.0 infrastructure on HP Blade systems supporting enterprise server consolidation projects.
• Administered 220+ physical and virtual servers across VMware, Dell, HP, and IBM enterprise environments.
• Supported EMC, NetApp, and HP enterprise storage platforms.

Computer Science Coursework - Computer Science - Mission College (2006)

Computer Science Coursework - Computer Science - SUNY Cobleskill (1995)