Ralph Gonzalez

Ralph Gonzalez

Sr. Systems Engineer @ Pure Storage

About

VMware Architect with broad experience in all aspects of VMware including VMware View and ESX products. Direct experience with architecture for both Fibre Channel and ISCSI implementations including design for server and desktop enviroments. Specialties: Active directory, Citrix (PS4.0 & PS4.5), Linux (Ubuntu,Red Hat, VMware (Esx 3.0-4.0 VSphere),VMware (View 3.0-4.0) Netware Directory Services, Zenworks, PXE, RIS, SMS, Altiris, RDweb (Terminal Services 2008), VMware Thinapp

Country

United States

City

Fort Lauderdale

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

Active Directory, Analysis, Altiris, Citrix, Healthcare Information Technology, ITIL, VMware ESX, Servers, VMware, Networking, WSUS, vSphere, Cisco Technologies, SAN, Hardware, Storage, Software Documentation, Zenworks, Troubleshooting, Microsoft Exchange

Experience

Pure Storage

Sr. Systems Engineer

Pure Storage

LinkedIn
2025-9 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo
Nutanix

Enterprise Senior Systems Engineer

Nutanix

LinkedIn
2020-1 - 2025-9 · 5 yrs 9 mos

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

BROWARD HEALTH

Systems Analyst Consultant / Cloud Architect

BROWARD HEALTH

2007-2 - 2020-1 · 13 yrs

.Lead architect for our corporate VMware ESX server virtualization infrastructure and VMware View strategy. .Designed, acquired and deployed a corporate VMWare ESX Server and VMware View infrastructure with capacity for 400 servers and 1600 Virtual Desktops across approximately 80 ESX hosts and 2 separate VCenter environments. Including multiple VMware View Brokers utilizing VMware View Composer and Cisco ACE load balancer products .Responsible for Life Cycle Management, and Administration using tools in VCenter and Update Manager .Work closely with Storage and Networking teams to ensure allocated SAN, Fiber, ISCSI and networking infrastructure reflected specifications laid out in initial VMWare farm design to ensure successful deployment

Broward Health

Broward Health Systems Analyst

Broward Health

LinkedIn
2007-2 - 2010-10 · 3 yrs 9 mos

*Lead analyst for enterprise VMware ESX server virtualization infrastructure and VMware View strategy. *Designed and deployed enterprise VMware ESX Server and VMware View infrastructure with capacity for 400 servers and 1600 Virtual Desktops across approximately 90 ESX hosts and 3 separate VCenter environments. *Implemented multiple VMware View Brokers utilizing VMware View Composer and Cisco ACE load balancer products. *Responsible for Capacity Planning, Life Cycle Management, and Administration using tools in vCenter and VMware Update Manager *Worked closely with Storage and Networking teams to ensure allocated SAN, Fiber, ISCSI and networking infrastructure reflected specifications laid out in initial VMware farm design to ensure successful deployments.

Ultimate Software

Systems Engineer for SaaS Infrastructre

Ultimate Software

LinkedIn
2010-10 - 2011-2 · 5 mos

Weston

*Infrastructure Engineer for enterprise VMware ESX server virtualization infrastructure. *Maintained enterprise VMware vSphere 4.0 Server infrastructures with capacity for 2000 servers and approximately 400 ESX hosts across 7 VCenter environments. *Worked closely with Storage and Networking teams to ensure allocated SAN, NFS, ISCSI and networking infrastructure were met for POD implementations. Facilitated VMware farm designs to maintain successful deployment for the SAAS environments. *Provided Enterprise Enhanced File Transfer services using GlobalScape Enterprise. This included FTP, FTPS, SFTP, PGP and SSH encryption key rings. *Managed Citrix Xenapp 5.0 and Presentation Server 4.5 Farms including Citrix Access Gateway and Citrix Web Interface 5.0.

North Broward Hospital District

Lan Administrator

North Broward Hospital District

1999-4 - 2007-10 · 8 yrs 7 mos

Support day to day Netware NDS, Active Directory and Exchange 2003 user account administration. Support desktop patch deployment, and management utilizing WSUS and Zen works application push technologies. Provide end user support, by utilizing Heat for ticket tracking. Support customers by utilizing desktop remote control technologies utilizing Zenworks, GotoAssist, and Citrix. Trouble-shoot, respond and resolve daily P1 escalations. Support our Citrix environment which consists of MFXPE and PS4.0. Responsible for packaging applications and application migration conversion. Maintain and create images for new hardware and deploy with Altiris, Ris, and Deploycenter technologies. In charge of product list and maintaining the hardware standards. •Maintain computer desktops and servers on a heterogeneous network which consisted of four major hospital sites and numerous satellite offices. Duties include technical and operational support for software and hardware in both 2nd and 3rd level tiers. Providing PXE support for imaging machines maintaining the workstation enviroment district wide.

CatManDo, Inc.

Independent Insurance Adjuster

CatManDo, Inc.

2005-10 - 2007-1 · 1 yr 4 mos

•Investigate, analyze, and determine the extent of insurance company's liability concerning property loss or damages. Interview or correspond with claimants. Inspection of the covered property which includes accurate measuring, detailed photographic documentation and determining the cause of loss. Analyze information gathered by investigation, and report findings and recommendations for claim settlement.

Education

Broward College

Broward College

LinkedIn

MajorBAS Degree Information Technology

2011 - 2015 · 4 yrs
Barry University

Barry University

LinkedIn

Network and Systems Engineering

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