William Smith
Senior Systems Administrator at eMoney Advisor
- Role
- Senior System Administrator at eMoney Advisor
- Location
- Levittown, PA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About William Smith
Expert Management of data center technologies and management of on-prem, hybrid and cloud services.30+ years experience working with:Microsoft servers and services (Active Directory, Certificate Services, DNS) as well as administration of the complete Microsoft365 stack (Azure. Entra ID, Intune)Primary support and administration of multi-site VMware 7.x and 8.x infrastructure located at multiple sites throughout the US with required 99.9% uptime. Complete design, management and support of on-premises VDI infrastructure using Microsoft Hyper-V 2025 in a highly available environment. Administration of VMM and Windows Admin Center v2.Day to day management, monitoring, optimization and planning of all data center hardware including but not limited to HPE Synergy blades, HPE DLs, Pure FlashArray X and FlashBlade arrays, Cisco Nexus switches and Cohesity C5066 clusters for D/R. Design and management of offsite infrastructure with live recovery and 99% uptime running as fully redundant failover of Production utilizing Cohesity and VMware. Design, configuration, support and patching of multiple VMware clusters running 8x and 7.x ESX. Management of vCenter, vOps and Virtual Appliances as well as all Guest VMs.
Experience
Senior System Administrator
Jan 2016 — Present
Day to day administration, design, support, upgrade and patching of highly available VMware 7.x and 8.x clustered environments consisting of over VMs on 1,200+ hosts. Day to day administration, design, support, upgrade and patching of highly available Hyper-V 2025 clustered environments consisting of 600 VDIs on 15+ hosts. Daily monitoring, patching and optimization of infrastructure VMs including all on premises Microsoft services (Active Directory, DNS, Cert, Azure connectors, SCCM, SQL) as well as bare metal HPE servers and Synergy blades.Planning, design and management of large project to upgrade all VMware clusters to VCF9Primary architect and administrator of all Disaster Recovery of corporate infrastructure utilizing Cohesity DataProtect, Pure Snapshots and VMware Live Recovery. Subject expertise and architect level knowledge of the following technologies- Microsoft Server and Desktop OS all versions- VMware 7.x and 8.x including vCenter, Lifecycle Management a vOps- Microsoft Hyper-V 2025 including VMM, Hyer-V Manager, Failover Cluster Manager and Windows Admin Center- Cohesity DataProtect, Cloud Protect for Microsoft 365 and Fort Knox. Disaster Recovery including immutable air gapped backups to AWS and all cloud services backed up (M365, Atlassian)- Pure FlashArray and Flashblade administration including creating and managing LUNs and Snapshots- Full suite of HPE blade technologies including and Synergy chassis, BL480 and BL660s Gen10s to Gen12s. Management and patching using HP OneView and iLO- Utilization of automation tools and scripting using Terraform, Ansible and Powershell.Experienced in overseeing multiple data centers spread out internationally and specializing in D/R, Blue/Green and fully replicated failover sites. Extremely knowledgeable in all Microsoft technologies on-prem, hybrid or Azure. Experienced in lift and shift and replacement of core services utilizing AWS. Management of most core AWS offerings
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