Vadim Chirkov

About Vadim Chirkov

VMware vSphere Administration-Software Defined Networking utilizing VMware NSX and vCloud Networking and Security-Hybrid cloud administrator utilizing VMware VCAC / vRealize Automation Suite and vCloud Air/AWS/Azure as compute pool- VMware vSAN administrator-Microsoft System Center / Hyper- V Administration-Windows and Linux Server Administration-Citrix Xen Desktop Administrator-Amazon AWS Cloud Service Administration for Disaster Recovery-DevOps Engineer supporting multiple mid-tier applications including IIS, Apache Web Serves, Apache Tomcat Servers, Wordpress, Atlassian Jira, Atlassian Confluence, and Apache Solr-Data Integrity and backup solution provider via PHD Virtual for VMs and Symantec Netbackup for MS SQL and non-SQL data

Experience

1. Sr Vmware Administrator

   Guidance Software

   Dec 2014 — Present · Pasadena, CA, US

   Projects-Design, implement, and administer a Citrix XenDesktop solution as part of the Remote Worker/Work from Home initiative. Infrastructure roll out included a build out Citrix Netscaler Gateway HA cluster, Active/Active Storefront and Controller architecture, with a MS SQL 2014 AvailabilityGroup Cluster-Architect, deploy, and administer a hybrid cloud solution, utilizing VMware vRealize Automation suite with leverage of Amazon AWS and vCloud Air for compute resources. Design included roll out of VMware NSX edge devices for network isolation for on prem instances to support product demo for sales, professional services, and engineering departments-Responsible for design, roll out and administration of a training environment, utilizing VMware vSAN infrastructure, VMware NSX, and vRealize Automation suite for CEIC 2015 and EnFuse 2016 conferences. The platform served to deliver certification courses to over 400 concurrent users as part of the preparation for the EnCE and EnCEP examination-Roll out of Microsoft System Center architecture with Azure cloud back-end for on demand training platform. Leveraging System Center VMM, Orchestrator as well as other components of the suite to deliver an automated, on demand training environment.Daily Tasks-Responsible for administration and management of vSphere Infrastructure spanning 50+ ESXi hosts, running VMs. Utilizing VMware vCenter Operations Manager to resolve resource contention and issues impacting daily performance of individual VMs as well as production, qa, and development environments-Layer 2 network engineer, responsible for configuring and troubleshooting East-West traffic between servers-Window Domain admin, responsible for management multi domain Windows environments, including setting up trust relationships for multi-forest environments, resource management, and permission management-Configuration and deployment of Solarwinds Orion as part of cross domain monitoring solution

Education

• California State University, Northridge

  BS in Business Administration focusing on Finance and Economics, Finance, General

  2002 — 2006

• California State University, Northridge

  BSBA, Finance and Economics

  2002 — 2006

Skills

• Photoshop
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Outlook
• Security
• Microsoft Word
• Mysql
• Soap
• Adobe Acrobat
• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Exchange
• Sql
• Linux
• Strategic Planning
• Web Services
• Network Administration
• System Administration
• Quality Assurance
• Microsoft Excel
• Support Engineers
• Powerpoint
• Windows
• Integration
• Html
• Servers
• Apache
• Windows Server
• Android Development
• Xml
• IT Management
• Rest
• Red Hat Linux
• Business Strategy
• Troubleshooting
• Ios Development
• Soapui
• Xcode