David Riley
Sr. IT Operations Specialist
- United States of America
Member Since: 2008/08/14
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Sr. IT Operations Specialist
Newfield Exploration
April 2013 – Present
Firefighter/EMT-I/IT Director
Atascocita Fire Department
January 1994 – Present
Sr. Systems Engineer
McKesson Specialty Health | US Oncology
July 2008 – April 2013
• Primary VMware and Windows Engineer for a multi-million dollar datacenter migration project, migrating all Production systems from our Houston datacenter to our new datacenter in Rancho Cordova, California.
• Redesigned, upgraded, and expanded upon the vSphere environment in our Houston Datacenter.
• Designed and deployed the vSphere environment in what became our Production Datacenter in Rancho Cordova, California.
• Deployed a small-scale VMware View Premier environment in both datacenters, load balancing external access using NetScaler appliances.
• Primary Engineer responsible for an ESXi v4.1 Infrastructure consisting of 800+ VMs and 150 ESXi Hosts in 2 separate datacenters and 36 satellite locations across the country.
• Redesigned, upgraded, and expanded upon the vSphere environment in our Houston Datacenter.
• Designed and deployed the vSphere environment in what became our Production Datacenter in Rancho Cordova, California.
• Deployed a small-scale VMware View Premier environment in both datacenters, load balancing external access using NetScaler appliances.
• Primary Engineer responsible for an ESXi v4.1 Infrastructure consisting of 800+ VMs and 150 ESXi Hosts in 2 separate datacenters and 36 satellite locations across the country.
Sr. Systems Engineer
River Oaks Imaging
February 2007 – February 2008
In addition to primary role of Systems Administrator, was responsible for management of Helpdesk, Desktop Support, and System Administration in an environment with 80+ Servers, 650+ Workstations and Printers. Designed and coordinated the restructuring of the Active Directory and Exchange environments.
Systems Administrator
Northeast Medical Center Hospital
March 2004 – February 2007
Began as an Applications Engineer for a companywide application migration project. Duties then shifted to Systems Management as the Primary Point of Contact for the Data Center with 75+ servers, mid-range and Enterprise level SAN, SAN Virtualization, and a growing number of VMware Virtual Servers.
Clinical Systems Analyst
Memorial Hermann Healthcare System
January 1999 – March 2004
Began in Desktop Support, then transitioned to an Application Conversion Team.
Education
Kingwood College
AS, AAS
Computer Science
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Eighteen years of experience in Enterprise IT, with an emphasis on implementing “Best Practice” methodology, focused on VMware Virtualization, Datacenter Consolidation, Disaster Recovery, and High Availability. Recognized as an accomplished troubleshooter, and for my ability to improve system design, increase efficiency, and motivate team members in developing strategic goals and exceeding core objectives.
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