Scott Russell

VMware administrator

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Brownwood, BrownMember since September 20, 2023

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Highly-skilled System Administrator with over 29 years of experience providing technical solutions in Windows and Linux environments. Successfully reduced system downtime by 15% at Callaway Golf by implemented a global monitoring solution. Looking to secure a local position where I can utilize my experience and proven technical skills.

Experience

OnX Enterprise Solutions, Irvine, CA. 2011 to 2013

Providing cutting-edge technology with IT consulting, Computer and Infrastructure sales

Solutions Architect / Sales Engineer

Developed and implemented large-scale computing environments, leveraging virtualization technologies and automation tools; reduced deployment time by 50% and achieved 20% cost savings for clients.

Example: a client would request a VMware Cluster to consolidate their data center. We would design and quote the software and hardware to build it.

Our team specialized in HP Servers and EMC, HP Storage both SAN/NAS

Provided technical support for Sales team and clients

My consulting service would be requested at clients site for projects or technical training

Callaway Golf, Carlsbad, CA 1995 to 2011

Golf equipment manufacturer with 2500 employees in 6 countries.

Environment: VMware, Windows, Red Hat and AIX OS. HP and IBM servers. EMC SAN /NAS. Cisco Network

Senior Systems Analyst

During the Consolidation project. I built VMware clusters. That reduced Data Center Power, AC, Rack space needs.

10 node ESXi cluster that consolidated 150 Windows servers.
6 node ESXi cluster running SAP, Oracle and Red Hat Linux. Consolidating 35 AIX servers.

Ran the Data Center migration project that moved the data center off site. It included 15 team members from the Linux, Windows, Storage and Network teams.

Implemented a global monitoring solution for 170 Windows servers, 35 AIX systems, and Cisco Lan/Wan equipment.

Project manager that successfully lead the Disaster Recovery project that included 20 team members. Production environment of 50 Windows, 15 Linux servers were brought online in 24 hours. In a different state.

Member of the Storage Migration team that selected, setup and migrated data to the new EMC SAN / NAS environment.

Project member of the Active Directory Global roll-out team. This included 2500 users in 6 countries.