Mark C. Taylor

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About Mark C. Taylor

A technology leader with over 20 years hands-on experience in VMware virtualization, server hardware infrastructure and Microsoft technologies. I bring a track record of leading teams, implementing and driving technology programs and managing multi-million dollar projects. I led a server virtualization team in their role in the largest telecom asset transformation on record. Virtualization Design and Implementation *Design, install, and configure VMware ESX/ESXi 4.x / 5.x / 6.x/7 within vSphere 4/5/6/7 environment, DRS, HA, VM guest backup via Legato, Symantec, Commvault, and Avamar backup technologies and VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM). Experience with building Stress Test /Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity environments. Experience with VMware View and Citrix XenApp desktop virtualization (VDI). Certified as VCP5-DCV, VCP6-DCV; completed SRM 5 and VMware View 5 course work. Completed ‘Configuring Cisco Data Center Unified Computing’ course work. VCOPs/vRealize Ops/Log Insight manager install/configure experience.* Analyze and troubleshoot on an advanced level, performance of SAN-backed VMware ESXi infrastructure to determine proper allocation of resources to a multi-department user population with widely varying needs. Experience with Pure Storage, Nimble Hybrid/AFA, EMC VMAX, IBM Flex, Dell/Compellent, NetApp, Cisco Whiptail, Dell Isilon, and Hitachi HDS storage. Lead Storage/Infrastructure Architect experience. Server OS Support and Implementation * 20 years experience with System Architecture, Engineering and Support on a variety of platforms, including Cisco UCS blades and Fabric Interconnect switches, HP ProLiant blade and rack servers and enclosures, Dell blade and rack servers and enclosures. Experience with Provisioning/Deployment using BMC BCO and BladeLogic. Experience with scripting languages, including Windows Powershell/VMware PowerCLI, VMA appliance, Cisco UCS Powertool, VBscript, Perl, MS LogParser, ADSI, HTML, and SQL.