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Bryan Strauch https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryanstrauch/
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Bryan Strauch is an Information Technology specialist in Morrisville, NC
Resume: Bryan Strauch
[email protected] 919.820.0552(cell)
Skills Summary
VMWare: vCenter/vSphere, ESXi, Site Recovery Manager (disaster recovery), Update Manager (patching), vRealize, vCenter Operations Manager, auto deploy, security hardening, install, configure, operate, monitor, optimize multiple enterprise virtualization environments
Compute: Cisco UCS and other major bladecenter brands - design, rack, configure, operate, upgrade, patch, secure multiple enterprise compute environments.
Storage: EMC, Dell, Hitachi, NetApp, and other major brands - connect, zone, configure, present, monitor, optimize, patch, secure, migrate multiple enterprise storage environments.
Windows/Linux: Windows Server 2003-2016, templates, install, configure, maintain, optimize, troubleshoot, security harden, monitor, all varieties of Windows Server related issues in large enterprise environments. RedHat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu Operating Systems including heavy command line administration and scripting.
Networking: Layer 2/3 support (routing/switching), installation/maintenance of new network and SAN switches, including zoning SAN, VLAN, copper/fiber work, and other related tasks around core data center networking
Scripting/Programming: SQL, Powershell, PowerCLI, Perl, Bash/Korne shell scripting
Training/Documentation: Technical documentation, Visio diagramming, cut/punch sheets, implementation documentations, training documentations, and on site customer training of new deployments
Security: Alienvault, SIEM, penetration testing, reporting, auditing, mitigation, deployments
Disaster Recovery: Hot/warm/cold DR sites, SAN/NAS/vmware replication, recovery, testing
Other: Best practice health checks, future proofing, performance analysis/optimizations
Professional Work History
Senior Systems/Network Engineer; Security Engineer
September 2017 - Present
d-wise technologies
Morrisville, NC
Sole security engineer - designed, deployed, maintained, operated security SIEM and penetration testing, auditing, and mitigation reports, Alienvault, etc
responsibility for all the systems that comprise the organizations infrastructure and hosted environments
main point of contact for all high level technical requests for both corporate and hosted environments
Implement/maintain disaster recovery (DR) & business continuity plans
Management of network backbone including router, firewall, switch configuration, etc
Managing virtual environments (hosted servers, virtual machines and resources)
Internal and external storage management (cloud, iSCSI, NAS)
Create and support policies and procedures in line with best practices
Server/Network security management
Senior Storage and Virtualization Engineer; Datacenter Implementations Engineer; Data Analyst; Software Solutions Developer
October 2014 - September 2017
OSCEdge / Open SAN Consulting (Contractor)
US Army, US Navy, US Air Force installations across the United States (Multiple Locations)
Contract - Hurlburt Field, US Air Force:
Designed, racked, implemented, and configured new Cisco UCS blade center solution
Connected and zoned new NetApp storage solution to blades through old and new fabric switches
Implemented new network and SAN fabric switches
Network: Nexus C5672 switches
SAN Fabric: MDS9148S
Decommissioned old blade center environment, decommissioned old network and storage switches, decommissioned old SAN solution
Integrated new blades into VMWare environment and migrated entire virtual environment
Assessed and mitigated best practice concerns across entire environment
Upgraded entire environment (firmware and software versions)
Security hardened entire environment to Department of Defense STIG standards and security reporting
Created Visio diagrams and documentation for existing and new infrastructure pieces
Trained on site operational staff on new/existing equipment
Cable management and labeling of all new and existing solutions
Implemented VMWare auto deploy for rapid deployment of new VMWare hosts
Contract - NavAir, US Navy:
Upgraded and expanded an existing Cisco UCS environment
Cable management and labeling of all new and existing solutions
Created Visio diagrams and documentation for existing and new infrastructure pieces
Full health check of entire environment (blades, VMWare, storage, network)
Upgraded entire environment (firmware and software versions)
Assessed and mitigated best practice concerns across entire environment
Trained on site operational staff on new/existing equipment
Contract - Fort Bragg NEC, US Army:
Designed and implemented a virtualization solution for the US ARMY.
This technology refresh is designed to support the US ARMY's data center consolidation effort, by virtualizing and migrating hundreds of servers.
Designed, racked, implemented, and configured new Cisco UCS blade center solution
Implemented SAN fabric switches
SAN Fabric: Brocade Fabric Switches
Connected and zoned new EMC storage solution to blades
Specific technologies chosen for this solution include: VMware vSphere 5 for all server virtualization, Cisco UCS as the compute platform and EMC VNX for storage.
Decommissioned old SAN solution (HP)
Integrated new blades into VMWare environment and migrated entire environment
Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversions and migrations
Migration from legacy server hardware into virtual environment
Disaster Recovery solution implemented as a remote hot site.
VMware SRM and EMC Recoverpoint have been deployed to support this effort.
The enterprise backup solution is EMC Data Domain and Symantec NetBackup
Assessed and mitigated best practice concerns across entire environment
Upgraded entire environment (firmware and software versions)
Security hardened entire environment to Department of Defense STIG standards and security reporting
Created Visio diagrams and documentation for existing and new infrastructure pieces
Trained on site operational staff on new equipment
Cable management and labeling of all new solutions
Contract - 7th Signal Command, US Army:
Visited 71 different army bases collecting and analyzing compute, network, storage, metadata.
The data collected, analyzed, and reported will assist the US Army in determining the best solutions for data archiving and right sizing hardware for the primary and backup data centers.
Dynamically respond to business needs by developing and executing software solutions to solve mission reportable requirements on several business intelligence fronts
Design, architect, author, implement in house, patch, maintain, document, and support complex dynamic data analytics engine (T-SQL) to input, parse, and deliver reportable metrics from data collected as defined by mission requirements
From scratch in house BI engine development, 5000+ SQL lines (T-SQL)
Design, architect, author, implement to field, patch, maintain, document, and support large scale software tools for environmental data extraction to meet mission requirements
Large focus of data extraction tool creation in PowerShell (Windows, Active Directory) and PowerCLI (VMWare)
From scratch in house BI extraction tool development, 2000+ PowerShell/PowerCLI lines
Custom software development to extract data from other systems including storage systems (SANs), as required
Perl, awk, sed, and other languages/OSs, as required by operational environment
Amazon AWS Cloud (GovCloud), IBM SoftLayer Cloud, VMWare services, MS SQL engines
Full range of Microsoft Business Intelligence Tools used: SQL Server Analytics, Reporting, and Integration Services (SSAS, SSRS, SSIS)
Visual Studio operation, integration, and software design for functional reporting to SSRS frontend
Contract - US Army Reserves, US Army:
Operated and maintained Hitachi storage environment, to include:
Hitachi Universal Storage (HUS-VM enterprise)
Hitachi AMS 2xxx (modular)
Hitachi storage virtualization
Hitachi tuning manager, dynamic tiering manager, dynamic pool manager, storage navigator, storage navigator modular, command suite
EMC Data Domains
Storage and Virtualization Engineer, Engineering Team
February 2012 – October 2014
Network Enterprise Center, Fort Bragg, NC
NCI Information Systems, Inc. (Contractor)
Systems Engineer directly responsible for the design, engineering, maintenance, optimization, and automation of multiple VMWare virtual system infrastructures on Cisco/HP blades and EMC storage products.
Provide support, integration, operation, and maintenance of various system management products, services and capabilities on both the unclassified and classified network
Coordinate with major commands, vendors, and consultants for critical support required at installation level to include trouble tickets, conference calls, request for information, etc
Ensure compliance with Army Regulations, Policies and Best Business Practices (BBP) and industry standards / best practices
Technical documentation and Visio diagramming
Products Supported:
EMC VNX 7500, VNX 5500, and VNXe 3000 Series
EMC FAST VP technology in Unisphere
Cisco 51xx Blade Servers
Cisco 6120 Fabric Interconnects
EMC RecoverPoint
VMWare 5.x enterprise
VMWare Site Recovery Manager 5.x
VMWare Update Manager 5.x
VMWare vMA, vCops, and PowerCLI scripting/automation
HP Bladesystem c7000 Series
Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012
Red Hat Enterprise and Ubuntu Server
Harnett County Schools, Lillington, NC
Sr. Network/Systems Administrator, August 2008 – June 2011
Systems Administrator, September 2005 – August 2008
Top tier technical contact for a 20,000 student, 2,500 staff, 12,000 device environment District / network / datacenter level design, implementation, and maintenance of physical and virtual servers, routers, switches, and network appliances
Administered around 50 physical and virtual servers, including Netware 5.x/6.x, Netware OES, Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008, Ubuntu/Linux, SUSE, and Apple OSX 10.4-10.6
Installed, configured, maintained, and monitored around 175 HP Procurve switches/routers Maintained web and database/SQL servers (Apache, Tomcat, IIS and MSSQL, MySQL) Monitored all network resources (servers, switches, routers, key workstations) using various monitoring applications (Solarwinds, Nagios, Cacti) to ensure 100% availability/efficiency Administered workstation group policies and user accounts via directory services
Deployed and managed applications at the network/server level
Authored and implemented scripting (batch, Unix) to perform needed tasks
Monitored server and network logs for anomalies and corrected as needed
Daily proactive maintenance and reactive assignments based on educational needs and priorities Administered district level Firewall/IPS/VPN, packet shapers, spam filters, and antivirus systems Administered district email server and accounts
Consulted with heads of all major departments (finance, payroll, testing, HR, child nutrition, transportation, maintenance, and the rest of the central staff) to address emergent and upcoming needs within their departments and resolve any critical issues in a timely and smooth manner Ensure data integrity and security throughout servers, network, and desktops
Monitored and corrected all data backup procedures/equipment for district and school level data
Project based work through all phases from design/concept through maintenance
Consulted with outside contractors, consultants, and vendors to integrate and maintain various information technologies in an educational environment, including bid contracts
Designed and implemented an in-house cloud computing infrastructure utilizing a HP Lefthand SAN solution, VMWare’s ESXi, and the existing Dell server infrastructure to take full advantage of existing technologies and to stretch the budget as well as provide redundancies
End user desktop and peripherals support, training, and consultation
Supported Superintendents, Directors, all central office staff/departments, school administration offices (Principals and staff) and classroom teachers and supplementary staff
Addressed escalations from other technical staff on complex and/or critical issues
Utilized work order tracking and reporting systems to track issues and problem trends
Attend technical conferences, including NCET, to further my exposure to new technologies
Worked in a highly independent environment and prioritized district needs and workload daily Coordinated with other network admin, our director, and technical staff to ensure smooth operations, implement long term goals and projects, and address critical needs
Performed various other tasks as assigned by the Director of Media and Technology and
Superintendents
Products Supported
Microsoft XP/Vista/7 and Server 2000/2003/2008, OSX Server 10.x, Unix/Linux
Sonicwall NSA E8500 Firewall/Content filter/GatewayAV/VPN/UTM Packeteer 7500 packet shaping / traffic management / network prioritization
180 HP Procurve L2/L3 switches and HP Procurve Management Software
Netware 6.x, Netware OES, SUSE Linux, eDirectory, Zenworks 7, Zenworks 10/11
HP Lefthand SAN, VMWare Server / ESXi / VSphere datacenter virtualization
Solarwinds Engineer Toolset 9/10 for Proactive/Reactive network flow monitoring
Barracuda archiving/SPAM filter/backup appliance, Groupwise 7/8 email server
Education
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
Minor: Mathematics
UNC School System, Fayetteville State University, May 2004
GPA: 3
High Level Topics (300+):
Data Communication and Computer Networks
Software Tools
Programming Languages
Theory of Computation
Compiler Design Theory
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing I
Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing II
Principles of Operating Systems
Principles of Database Design
Computer Graphics I
Computer Graphics II
Social, Ethical, and Professional Issues in Computer Science
Certifications/Licenses:
VMWare VCP 5 (Datacenter)
Windows Server 2008/2012
Windows 7/8
Security+, CompTIA
ITILv3, EXIN
Certified Novell Administrator, Novell
Apple Certified Systems Administrator, Apple
Network+ and A+ Certified Professional, CompTIA
Emergency Medical Technician, NC (P514819)
Training:
Hitachi HUS VM
Hitachi HCP
IBM SoftLayer
VMWare VCP (datacenter)
VMWare VCAP (datacenter)
EMC VNX in VMWare
VMWare VDI (virtual desktops)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Emergency Medical Technician - Basic, 2019
EMT - Paramedic (pending)
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