Jae Ellers’ Resume
Jae Ellers
10620 SW Lancaster Road, Portland, OR 97219
(503) 805-9288 jae.ellers@gmail.com
Virtualization Architect
Seeking a position architecting and implementing complex IT systems using virtualization technology to improve efficiency, performance, security, and reliability.
Professional Profile
- Motivated team leader actively improves practices by seeking new methods, streamlining processes, and automating existing systems.
- Focused problem-solver applies technology to business needs to add value and improve ROI.
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Experienced systems engineer with extensive technical skill set and expertise in requirements analysis, systems architecture, vendor selection, systems integration, performance analysis, and troubleshooting.
Areas of Technical Expertise
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Professional Experience
Senior Systems Engineer, EvoStor, Inc, Campbell, CA; February 2010 – Present
- Responsible for pre and post sales duties with EvoStor storage solutions
- Install and configure EvoStor systems with VMware vSphere environments
- Develop and champion best practices for EvoStor systems with VMware implementations
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Develop, create, deliver sales presentations and demonstrations for potential customers
Senior Systems Engineer, MSI Systems Integrators, Portland, OR; May 2008 – Feb. 2010
Automate and standardize critical business processes to lower TCO and improve operations
Advisor: Tripwire, Portland, OR; June 2009 – Present: Advisory board member assisting product development team with feature sets, use cases, design input for vWire product development
Advisor: Montana State University, Bozeman, MT; Oct 2005 – Present: Advisory board member assisting Computer Science department head and staff determine direction for CS and related curriculum.
Senior Systems Engineer, Tektronix, Inc, Beaverton, OR; Oct. 1999 to May 2008
VMware:
- Technical Champion for adoption of VMware technology.
- 60% of engineering servers virtualized. 130 virtual machines with 16 hosts in 5 datacenters on 3 continents.
- Received quarterly award for cost savings of $275k/year realized.
- Used VMware Workstation, ESX Server, VirtualCenter, P2V, Converter.
- Updated & expanded existing ESX 2.x farm to VI3 utilizing FC SAN and iSCSI storage with Vmotion, DRS, HA.
- Provided server build, VM migration, and operational procedures.
- Extended server consolidation to regional sites in England, Japan, & India.
Citrix:
- Designed and implemented Metaframe XP server farm for engineering access to Windows desktops from Linux and Solaris clients.
- Updated Citrix server farm to Presentation Server 4.0 using automated build.
- Regional Site: Implemented regional site systems supporting VMware ESX Server, IBM Rational Clearcase and Clearquest, Windows 2003 Domain Controllers, and NetApp storage in Bengaluru, India and Tokyo, Japan on IBM Bladecenters and NetApp storage with iSCSI and NFS.
Team Lead:
- Lead team of system administrators to implement system changes and planned upgrades. Improved documentation quality and response time through process improvements.
- Lead team to implement performance data collection using 3-tier design with ASP.Net front end, data collection from Solaris and Windows systems using C#, and MS SQL Server database. Provided specifications for front end and MS SMS data collection components for other engineers. First user of .Net Framework at Tektronix. Gathered data from 700 systems.
- Linux: Designed and implemented a low-cost thin client solution to connect to Solaris and Linux development servers using Redhat Linux 9.0. Kernel and driver patching were required to support desired features with full custom kernel build. Custom kickstart installations created to PXE boot from RIS server.
- Custom Hardware Selection: Responsible for specifying hardware purchases for servers.
- Process: Implemented improved departmental process with automated Word templates integrated with custom Clearcase triggers for versioning development and procedural documentation.
- SW Development: Ported 10k lines of unmanaged C++ to C# for Logic Analyzer product line.
- Windows: Designed and implemented Windows automated install and imaging process using MS sysprep and RIS server.
Mechanical Engineer, Tektronix, Inc, Beaverton, OR, June 1995 – Oct. 1999: Thermal & mechanical design of printer components and tooling using Pro/Engineer
Education
Graduate coursework in database design, computer architecture, object oriented design
Affiliations & Certifications
Mazamas Climb Leader, ’06 Climb Committee Chair, ’02 Ski Mountaineering Chair