Tommy Grot is a Principal Cloud/Systems Engineer with more than 12 years of professional experience in IT Infrastructure Management/Operations. I have 10+ years of expertise in VMware Solutions. I am a motivated, enthusiastic, and pro-active engineer with an excellent attitude.
I am apart of:
- VMware Education Contributor – SME Exam Development
- VMware Beta Program – (VMware Cloud Director, VMware vSphere)
➦ Experienced in VMware Design & Architecture of Data Center Virtualization: vSphere, vCenter, vSAN, vRealize Suite
➦ Experienced in VMware Design & Architecture of Network Virtualization with VMware NSX.
➦ Experienced in VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware Cloud Director, VMware Cloud Director Availability
➦ Experienced in VMware Multi-tenancy and Cloud Architecture & Implementation
➦ Experienced in Networking, Infrastructure, Routing, VRFs, VLANs, Firewalling,
➦ Experienced in Virtualization Technologies for delivery of virtual desktops and apps, infrastructure including VMware Horizon View, VMware AppVolumes, VMware Workspace One Access.
➦ Experienced in several Operating System platforms: Linux: Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, Kali, Microsoft Windows Servers/Desktop 2019, Windows 10 Customization
➦ Systems Management: Ansible, Terraform, Observium, Elastic Stack, Nagios, NTOP, Wazuh
➦ Performance Monitoring: Elastic Stack, ElastiFlow, Storage platform: EMC OneFS, Ceph, FreeNAS, Windows Storage Spaces.
➦ Migrations: VMware Cloud Director Availability vCenter vMotion, Cross vCenter vMotion, vCenter Converter, v2v, p2v, Organization Migrations.
➦ Automation: Ansible & Terraform – Infrastructure as Code Automation for VMware Cloud, Full Cloud Deployments
Certifications I achieved –
- VMware Certification Subject Matter Expert – Network Virtualization 2023
- VMware Certified Implementation Expert – Data Center Virtualization 2023
- VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Data Center Virtualization Deploy 2023
- VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Data Center Virtualization Design 2022
- VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization 2022
- VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization 2022
- CompTIA Security+ ce Certification
Degrees I have Accomplished:
- Colorado Technical University – Masters of Science in Computer Science – Cyber Security Engineering 2019-2020
- Colorado Technical University – Masters of Science in Information Technology – IT Security Management 2018-2019
- Colorado Technical University – Bachelor of Science in Information Technology – Network Management 2014-2017
Professional Achievements:
Data Center Design:
I designed Andrew Wommack Ministries on premise datacenter, with the collaboration
of the Network Engineer, for this design and build out. We decided on the room, laid
out rack positions, designed hot/cold aisles, found appropriate cooling, spec’d out
adequate power, picked racks, cable managers, switches, servers, UPS’s, distribution,
etc. With our design, purchases, configurations, and deployments of all server/network
hardware/software we were able to save the company hundreds of thousands of dollars
in consulting, configuration and deployment fees, and there have been no
complications.
VMware Horizon View Project:Horizon View platform with 150+ Virtual Machines
Planned, researched, designed, configured hardware/software for the VMware Horizon
View platform which the organization utilizes for Work from home employees, this
platform consists of 3 x Dell PowerEdge R740XD – All Flash 45TB vSAN cluster, each
with dual Intel Platinum Xeons 8168, 1TB of Memory, 2 x 20Gb network backbone.
This project I took on saved hundreds of thousands of dollars in consulting,
configuration, and deployment fees