Tony Flores

Tony Flores

Data Media Conversion Specialist / Mainframe Operator

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Sr. Cloud Platform Engineer: Turning Coffee into Code | Solving Problems, One 'Hello World' at a Time!

  • Education

    • Scottsdale Community College

      2008 - 2011
      AAS Linux Networking Administration

      Currently attending college for my AAS in Linux Networking. Received CCL for Linux Professional and Linux Associate.

    • Glendale Community College

      2008 - 2011
      Linux / Unix, Information Security
  • Experience

    • Acxiom

      Nov 1998 - Jul 2008
      Data Media Conversion Specialist / Mainframe Operator

      Changing of the data structure to accommodate new or different needs for the data, including converting from EBCDIC to ASCII, unpacking compressed fields,or restructuring the fields in a database, duplicate copy of data from one piece of media to another.Mainframe Operator - Submit JCL jobs to mainframe, Weekend Backups, and Maintain Tape Library.

    • Coventry Health Care, an Aetna Company

      Sept 2008 - Sept 2017
      VMware Systems Engineer

      Maintain virtualized data centers in a large enterprise environment. Support Linux and Windows guests. - vCenter / vSphere / ESXi 4.x and 5.x- Automation with PowerCLI- Automation, logging and management with VMware Management Assistant- Shell Scripting- ESXi troubleshooting with UI and CLI- vCenter Operations Manager- Log Insight- VCAC- UCS- HP G6/G7/G8

    • Choice Hotels International

      Jan 2017 - now
      Sr. Virtualization Engineer

      Cisco UCSNutanixVMware vSphere 6.xESXi 6.xvRealize Automation ( vRA )vRealize Operations vRealize SuiteSRM

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Linux+

      CompTIA
    • Novell Certified Linux Administrator (Suse Linux Enterprise 11)

      Novell
    • LPIC-1

      Linux Professional Institute
      Apr 2011
    • RHCSA

      Red Hat
      Sept 2011
    • NPP 5.0

      Nutanix
      Aug 2017