John David Dove
Principal Virtualization Engineer @Virtustream
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WORK HISTORY
Principal Virtualization Engineer @Virtustream
Virtustream is a Dell Technologies Company as of 1/1/2022.• Served as team lead for global compute team consisting of 25+ engineers• Multi-Tenant environment with 10k+ VM’s, 10+ physical data centers, and 400+ ESXi hosts• Automated complete UCS buildout start to finish – Capable of 100 new UCS builds in 1 hour• Automated complete NetApp decommission with over 400TB of data and VMs• Consolidated four physical data centers into two with minimal downtime• Managed and built 50+ UCS domains across the globe• Automated (PowerCLI) the migration of 700+ hosts and 150+ clusters from vSphere 5.5 to 6.0• Utilized VMWare SRM for Disaster Recovery tests and failovers• Kept environment up-to-date and patched according to UCS interoperability matrix• Utilized Cisco bug scrub to validate patch levels before global patching• Worked to automate and streamline most daily tasks being performed manually• Created complex DR automation, utilizing PowerTool and PowerCLI – over lines of code• Traveled to India to build and train new offshore team consisting of 25+ engineers • Created complex capacity management scripts to streamline quarterly buys• Created complex data center trending dashboards for executive visibility into environments• Worked to decommission all EOL hardware and standardize hypervisor deployments• Deployed and tested 3rd party POC’s aimed at improving visibility into environment
EDUCATION
ITT Technical Institute
Associates, Computer Networking Systems
SKILLS
ABOUT JOHN DAVID DOVE
A senior level IT professional with 10+ years’ experience in dynamic growing environments. Highly effective leader with both domestic and international expertise. Accustomed to complex business needs and fast paced atmospheres. Cloud Computing background with a concentration in data center migrations, high availability, automation, and disaster recovery. A detail oriented and goal focused engineer aimed at saving costs while improving stability, performance, and availability of business critical applications and services.
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