Sonny Pakdel

Sonny Pakdel Consultant- Experience VMware Consultant – Self-Employed August 2019 – Present Working part-time as a contractor with VMware NSX for an insurance company. Consultant M&O at Sirius Technology Solutions February 2015 - July 2019 Senior consultant in virtualized computing with focus on VMware NSX deployment and design. VMware Certified Implementation Expert - Network Virtualization (VCIX-NV) - Participated in numerous design workshops and implementations. VMware Consultant-Instructor January 2015 - Present Conducting Official VMware courses. SRM vCOPS Design Troubleshooting Performance Senior Technical Project Manager February 2014 - December 2014 (10 months) Senior Project Manager with focus on Cloud/Virtualization/SAN design and architecture. Senior VMware virtualization consultant/instructor at Real Time Services AB April 2009 - January 2014 (4 years 9 months) Employed as a senior virtualization consultant and VMware certified trainer. Leading projects involving different aspects of virtualization and cloud such as security hardening, networking, optimization, troubleshooting and implementation. Worked as a VMware Certified Instructor in APAC and EMEA delivering over 60 VMware classes for VMware, EMC, Cisco, IBM and many independent VMware Authorized Training Centers (VATC's) Designing and architecting virtual and cloud infrastructure Last project involved building a cloud environment for a large education company. Senior Security & Networking consultant 2007 - 2009 (2 years 11 months) Worked as senior security and communication consultant. Building physical and virtual networks. Designing security solution for public school and enterprise Implementing secure Active Directory design for hosting companies- Hardening virtual infrastructures Senor Engineer 2005 - 2006 (1 year 11 months) Responsible for customer logins and access. Responsible for designing and creating customer file storage. Responsible for designing and implementing Antivirus solution. IT manager December 2003 - December 2005 (2 years) Worked as security and network manager responsible for internal handling of the IT infrastructure. Securing internal and customer networks Implementing autodeploy solutions for server deployment Designing Citrix solutions Teamleader for internal IT-department Network Engineer - System manager at Helsedirektoratet 2001 - 2003 (2 years 11 months) Employed as server manager for internal systems. Deploying Citrix solutions Designing Active Directory solution Implementing automatic Software and OS deployment solutions Education Mid Sweden University Higher Education Diploma with specialization in Computer Engineering, Information Technology, 2010 - 2012 Nercia - Sweden System/Network Engineer, Information Technology, 1998 - 2000 Certifications •MCSE 2012•VCAP-DCD •VCP-NV•VCP 3,4,5,6 •VCIX-NV•VCAP-DCA •MCITP-EA 2008•CCNA Data Center •VCAP-NV