Rashid Hussain

WORK HISTORY

SKILLS

ABOUT RASHID HUSSAIN

IT professional with experience in delivering large scale projects. Exceptional automation, troubleshooting, and problem solving skills to efficiently perform Day 0, Day 1, and Day 2 activities • New Datacenter build and migration projects• vSphere and Software defined Datacenter upgrade projects (vCenter, ESXi hosts, VM hardware, VMtools, SRM, vSAN, NSX, vROPS, vRLI, vRNI, RP4VM…etc)• Compute and Storage hardware refresh projects• VCF on VxRail cluster build and upgrade project• VxRail with vSAN stretched clusters deployment projects• NSX-T greenfield deployment on VxRails cluster projects• NSX-V to NSX-T migration projects• Security hardening project for virtual infrastructure• Install, configure and manage Cisco UCS (Hyper-converged with vSAN)• Disaster recovery implementation projects using VMware SRM, EMC RecoverPoint for VM, Avamar backup, Veeam backup and TSM tape restore• Powershell automation for Windows servers, vCenter, ESXi, vRNI, NSX, Horizon View, F5, Veeam backup, and Avamar backup. Wrote many other custom scripts to automate project related work and other day to day tasks• Deployment, configuration, and hands-on experience with products like vRealize Network Insight, vRealize Log Insight, vRealize Operations, NSX-V, NSX-T, Horizon View, Site Recovery Manager, RP4VM, VMware HCX, vSAN, PowerShell, PowerCLI, Rest API, Checkpoint, EMC XtremIO and Unity.• Security Clearance: Secret Courses and certifications• VCF 4.2 on VxRail Administration• DellEMC VMware Co-Skilled - VxRail• VMware Certified Professional 6 - Network Virtualization• VMware Certified Professional 5.0 and 6.5 - Data Center Virtualization• Microsoft Certified Solution Expert in Server Infrastructure 2012• ITIL V3 Foundation Certified• Security Clearance: Secret