John Clark

About John Clark

Professional Summary: Accomplished and certified Network Professional with expertise…

Experience

1. Senior Windows System Administrator

   Peraton

   Jun 2020 — Present · US

   PeratonWindows/VMware Systems Administrator, 100% RemoteJune 2020 to July 2024As an integral part of a project team:• create/migrate shared storage from legacy storage to new Hitachi shared storage.• Upgrade/migrations/patching on Windows Server systems (2008/2012/2019) for 250 Windows Servers. • Patch VMWare 6/7 including Vcenter/vSphere and VMs (Virtual Machines). • Research manufacturers’ Hardware Matrix to recommend Hardware changes to upper management for Operating Systems (OS) upgrades and migrations.• Coordinate with on-site personnel for 3 Data Centers. • Develop and maintain expertise in industry trends for cloud computing focusing on VMware 7/8, AWS (Amazon Web Services) virtual solutions, resource management, and service level management through specialized or new product training. • Upgrade firmware.Performed on-call duties, ensuring that the server availability SLA was met

Education

• The University of Kansas

  Bachelor of Arts (BA), Anthropology

  1985 — 1987

• Community College of the Air Force

  Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

  1983 — 1984

Skills

• Brocade Fibre Switches
• Nas
• Netapp Filers
• Fibre Channel
• Hitachi Storage
• Storage Architecture
• Dell Poweredge Servers
• Suse
• Active Directory
• Ldap
• Windows Server
• Isilon
• Tcp/Ip Protocols
• Vmware Esx
• Samba
• Edirectory
• Win 2003
• San
• Hp Blade
• Vsphere
• Troubleshooting
• Apple
• Emc Storage
• Nfs
• Raid
• Ipv6
• Vcenter Server
• Nis
• Dns
• Cisco Routers
• Linux
• Compaq
• Sles
• System Administration
• Fcoe
• 2008 R2
• Mac Os
• High Availability Clustering
• Operating Systems
• Snapshot