daniel villarreal

senior systems engineer

About

Experienced System Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. Strong information technology professional skilled in VMware vSphere, Storage Area Network (SAN), Network Attached Storage (NAS), VMware EUC, and Hyper-Converged Infrastructure with Nutanix.

Country

united states

City

long beach

Industry

entertainment

Skill

virtualization, vmware vsphere, public speaking, ruby, bash, leadership, microsoft office, higher education, vmware esx, esxi, ubuntu, powershell, xen server, research, xen, nutanix, red hat enterprise linux, vmware certified professional, vmware view, nagios, active directory, veeam, elk stack, storage area network, nfs, strategic planning, group policy, information security, information security management, vmware euc, puppet, kerberos, terraform, packer

Experience

it technician

aeg

2008-3 - 2012-9 · 4 yrs 7 mos

I was responsible for maintaining network integrity of VLANs for administrative services and the guest network along with fulfilling general IT duties. I was a member of a team which deployed and configured systems with Active Directory, as well as uplinked onsite hardware with offsite resources such as file shares and Microsoft Exchange.

virtualization systems engineer

university of california, riverside

2013-4 - 2017-11 · 4 yrs 8 mos

Virtualization systems administrator for VMware vSphere 5/6 server workloads, and VMware Horizon View (VDI). I am responsible for 4 virtual data centers which host over 1000+ virtual machines. I lead a hyper-converged initiative to replace our cluster’s legacy hardware with 10gb Cisco Nexus switches, and two Nutanix chassis. Since then our infrastructure has scaled from 7 to 34 nodes. I was a member of a team to implemented an enterprise backup solution for production, dev, and test workloads with Veeam Availability Suite 9.5. I also designed and implemented UCR’s VMware Horizon View deployment from proof of concept to production which enables students to access applications such as; Mathematica, SAS, SPSS, JMP, ArcGIS from around the world. I also helped create a linux distribution standard for Ubuntu and RedHat Enterprise Linux; which enabled us to manage our environment more efficiently with puppet. I then implemented RHEL Virtual Datacenter Licensing on ESXi, which enabled us to deploy licensed RHEL servers in an automated fashion.

senior systems engineer

electronic arts (ea)

2017-11 - Present · 8 yrs 11 mos

operating systems analyst

csusb

2009-4 - 2013-4 · 4 yrs 1 mo

I was lead administrator of the data center’s primary XIV SAN, IBM BladeCenter for VDI & IBM 3850’s for virtualization with vSphere 4/5. My core duties consisted of research and development, support systems and services to aid in efficiency and productivity of the organization as a whole. I virtualized bare-metal systems with VMware Convertor for use in our vSphere infrastructure. I lead an upgrade initiative for new compute hardware, along with an upgrade and migration of vSphere 4.1 to 5.1 along with a storage migration to an IBM XIV Gen 2 SAN with 100% uptime of systems. A total of 40TB of data were migrated live without any issues. I enjoyed working at CSUSB which was supportive of new ideas and emerging technology to advance the technological mission of the campus.