Tim Krupp

Virtualization Architect @Core4ce

North Charleston, SC, US

Member of the infrastructure team that deploys, manages and sustains a rapidly growing VMware environment of virtual machines and 1,200+ hosts servicing all Defense Health Agency branches. • Designed and manages RBAC for the entire environment. Manages automated infrastructure changes, including the design and configuration of a custom alerting system. • Creates, implements and automates baselines based on VMware best practice.• Writes Powershell and vSphere PowerCLI scripts to automate complex tasks. Ex: Host Monitoring, vCenter Permissions, Snapshot Retention Automation, Hardware/Tools Upgrades, Security Settings, Infrastructure Reconfiguration, etc.• Leading the design, development, integration and administration of highly customized VMware solutions built into the Cloud Automation network. • Aria Automation (vRA): Fully deployed and built all aspects of the vRealize Automation environment. Access and Authentication, Tenants, Business Groups, Blueprints, Catalogs, Reservations and Fabric Groups. Created custom Blueprints which allow deployment of Windows Servers with extremely detailed specifications utilizing custom Orchestrator code. Blueprints integrate with AD and vCenter for data selection and further customization. Created custom XaaS Forms for PPS and IP Requests which follow approval workflows and integrate with enterprise email services.• Aria Operations Manager: Writes advanced custom views, reports, dashboards and capacity management.• Aria Operations for Logs: Log ingestion for our environment with connectivity into Splunk. Integrated with Aria Operations Manager for additional capabilities and Identity Manager for smart card authentication.• Aria Automation Orchestrator: Writes, maintains and updates custom code. • Identity Manager/Workspace One: Provides a single authentication for application access with smart card authentication.

Midlands Technical College

Associates, Computer Technology