Innovative, creative and accomplished professional with an excellent track record designing, deploying, optimizing, and re-engineering multi-platform physical and virtual and cloud environments to improve performance, increase security, and minimize downtime. Skilled in partnering with clients, teams, and vendors to analyze needs and issues. Research and implement effective solutions, standards, and best practices to ensure maximum availability, flexibility,
Innovative, creative and accomplished professional with an excellent track record designing, deploying, optimizing, and re-engineering multi-platform physical and virtual and cloud environments to improve performance, increase security, and minimize downtime. Skilled in partnering with clients, teams, and vendors to analyze needs and issues. Research and implement effective solutions, standards, and best practices to ensure maximum availability, flexibility, and responsiveness of Windows, VMWare / ESX, Linux environments. Proven ability to lead cross-functional and global teams in consistently achieving established goals across dynamically changing environments. Extensive experience in highly regulated FDA Pharmaceutical and CFR Part 11 environments.
Specialties: Expert level with ESX 1.5, 2.x, 3.x and vSphere 4 and vSphere 5
Expert level with VMware View 4 and 4.5
Openstack
Citrix XenDesktop 4 and 5
Citrix XenApp
vCloud Director 1 and 1.5
vFabric AppDirector
Cisco Nexus 1000v
Micosoft Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008
VMware Workstation 4,5,6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE, CentOS, FreeBSD
MAC OSX
Active Directory
Sharepoint
IIS 6, 7
MS SQL server 2005 and 2008
Oracle 10 and 11g
Network Appliance filers
EMC SAN Arrays
AppSense
RTO virtual Profiles
Wyse Devices
Senior SE - Cloud Automation Specialist @ I am part or a world leading innovative technology company. I get to solve complex problems with simple and elegant solutions everyday. How can I help your organization! From July 2014 to Present (1 year 6 months) Cloud Specialist @ I get to help companies take advantage of cloud computing technology to accelerate their business to the next level of agility while reducing their costs. From February 2012 to July 2014 (2 years 6 months) Senior Systems Engineer @ I am currently a Global Product expert for the virtual server hosting platform. I am responsible for global design and future direction of an ever growing global deployment of vmware. I am leading a global effort to develop a private cloud for Bayer based on the VMWare platform using a mix of Netapp and EMC storage and I am a senior technical lead for the current virtual infrastructure in North America. In early 2001 I pioneered virtualization of the Intel platform at Bayer. In 2005 I pioneered an innovation management process and system that continues to be used globally. In 2007 I introduced desktop virtualization at Bayer. In 2003 I introduced Network Appliance to replace legacy file services. I am a creative and innovative thinker and I strive to use technology innovations to better serve my customers and business units while reducing complexity and cost. From January 2001 to February 2012 (11 years 2 months) Desktop Support @ Provide desktop support of Windows and Mac OSX systems. From January 2000 to January 2001 (1 year 1 month) Support Specialist @ Provide first level support to customers that phone in with technical or user interface questions. Ensured that customers issues were resolved in a timely fashion and escalated to second level technical support staff when required. From January 1999 to January 2000 (1 year 1 month) Greater Salt Lake City Area
B.S in Information Technology, Computer Science @ University of Phoenix From 2005 to 2009 Ryan Kelly is skilled in: VMware, Virtualization, VMware ESX, Cloud Computing, Data Center, Active Directory, vSphere, Windows Server, VMware Infrastructure, Security, VDI, NetApp, Citrix, Linux, IIS
Websites:
http://www.vmtocloud.com
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