Bryan Hill

Experience

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  TETRA

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2005

  Helpdesk
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  Woodforest National Bank

  Jan 2004 - May 2010

  System Administrator

  Worked in a production environment of 350 servers spread across multiple datacenters.Designed, tested and implemented Altiris SMS, currently providing server inventory, asset management, and patch management. Provided 24x7 on-call support for Helpdesk and Technology Operations on production systems and applications.Work with Business Analysts and Application Support to ensure business continuity for more than 8,000 employees and 850,000 customers. Responsible for server hardware inventory, warranty and parts replacement. Created over 300 server vital documents explaining maintenance windows, services provided, and more.Created and managed a project plan from VMWare ESX 3.0x to ESX 3.5. Supported over 250 virtual machines and 30 hosts in a clustered environment.Provide Microsoft patch deployments to production and lab servers ensuring SLA’s, also presenting upper management vulnerability reports on a monthly basis. Show less

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  NextIO

  May 2010 - Oct 2010

  Systems Engineer

  Responsible for pre and post sales technical support for customers and internal support for sales engineers. Responsible for provisioning new hardware for customer demonstrations and conventions. Creating new benchmarking standards for NextIO hardware.Received customer and vendor issues/bugs and found solutions by providing hardware engineers with debug information from customer and by duplicating issues in lab. Provided material to marketing to highlight test results using various benchmarking tools. Show less

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  Pentair

  Oct 2010 - Jun 2011

  System Administrator

  Responsible for entire Infrastructure of facility from workstation to server support, network management and upkeep of datacenter.Updated and maintained ESXi 4.1 environment consisting of 6 ESXi hosts and 35 guests across multiple datacenters.Distribute and supervise server storage space allotments for Infrastructure using Dell MD3000.Developing a project plan to migrate to Windows Server 2008 for Filtrations Solutions Division. Created IT policies by using industry best practices for our VM environment to help ensure optimal system configuration and availability.Handled Helpdesk and field services support calls using a variety of support tools for local and remote support requests for 75 workstations.Administer and maintain end user accounts, permissions and access rights.Adhere to IT access-management incident response and change control procedures.Manage support tickets through LAN Desk, maintaining 98% SLA of tickets that come through.Documents procedures for IT department on frequently used programs, systems and common IT tasks.Implemented Symantec Backup Exec 2010 to backup virtual and physical servers.Working on implementing Sharepoint as an Intranet replacement and a document repository for departments to use for projects and specifications.Attend and contribute to software compliance meetings for Microsoft, Adobe and other 3rd party applications ensuring corporate IT Policies are followed.Working with Engineering, Development, Sales, Customer Service and other departments to act as a technical advisor for joint initiatives. Show less

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  Forum Energy Technologies

  Jun 2011 - Feb 2014

  Systems Engineer - Datacenter

  Key responsibilities includes managing the infrastructure of the Datacenter and remote site servers, Administration of VMWare environment, Storage Administration and Backups.VMWare Administrator managing two Datacenters with multiple clusters using DRS, HA, SRM and Heartbeat Manager. Designed Virtual Datacenters and Clusters to meet business needs and performance SLA's. VMWare versions range from ESX 3.5 to ESXi 5.1U2. Responsible for ESXi standalone hosts across the US, Canada, Mexico, UK, Singapore and Dubai. Testing and developing a project plan to migrate from 5.1U2 to vSphere 5.5.Setup and deployment of Dell Blade Chassis' with M610 and M620's.Although not incredibly comfortable with configuring switches, I have deployed Dell M8024's, M6224's, Force10's MXL's in the Dell Blade Chassis and the Force10 S4810 rack mount switches.Commvault Administrator using Simpana 9 with experience backing up Windows Servers file level, SQL Databases and SQL Clusters, VSA, Exchange DAG's and Sharepoint Sites. Setup off-site dash copies for Disaster Recovery purposes. Managing over 400 Datacenter and remote-site servers with backups to disk.Worked with engineers and architects from Dell and Cisco to simplify the infrastructure by removing overly complex Datacenter designs and implemented a completely new re-engineered network, server and storage foundation. The results gave us an easier to manage infrastructure by removing unnecessary software and hardware to support and manage and improving the high availability requirements of our servers, storage and networks. Setup and configured Equallogic FS7600, PS6510e, 6510, 6100x, and 4100x arrays for replication and snapshots. Managing over 15 Equallogic arrays from the PS and FS family.Configured and Manage Compellent SC8000 arrays within the primary datacenter and DR Site. Managing storage for ESXi hosts, Windows iSCSI SAN Attached Volumes, SAN to SAN replication, Live Volume and snapshots. Show less

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  Lone Star College

  Mar 2014 - Feb 2022

  VMWare Administrator III

  Lead Virtualization Administrator for Lone Star College. Managing virtual and physical compute, storage, and virtual networking for 95,000 students and 6,500 employees.

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  Prescriptive Data Solutions

  Feb 2022 - now

  Senior Architect