Rick Scherer

Current

Founder at NetAppTips.com
Founder at VMwareTips.com
Solutions Architect at SDDPC

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Past

Systems Engineer at C3 Communications
Systems Engineer at LMKI / Myrient
Systems Engineer at The Press Enterprise

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Education

VMware

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Rick Scherer’s Summary

Expert knowledge is designing advanced virtualized environments.

Advanced Expertise in VMware, NetApp, Cisco, Sun, HP and EMC.

Business Case Analysis and Preparation

Enterprise Architecture & Governance Development (TOGAF)

Infrastructure/Vendor Management

Presentation Skills

Project Management and Effective Communication

Strategic Analysis & Planning

Team Building

3rd Tier Engineering & Customer facing skills

Rick Scherer’s Specialties:

VMware Virtualization (vSphere 4, VI3, VI2, View, Workstation, Lab Manager, Site Recovery Manager)

Apache, IIS, iPlanet, SunOne, Weblogic, Tomcat

Documentum, Teamsite, SIRE, Granicus

Solaris 8/9/10, Red Hat, SuSE, CentOS, AIX, HP-UX, OS/400, Windows

SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL

Citrix XenApp, VMware ThinApp

Active Directory, LDAP, NIS

SSL, PGP, PHP, HTML

NetApp FAS6040,3040,2050,960,R150 - ONTAP, SnapDrive, SnapManage

VCP2, VCP3, VCP4, vEXPERT, VSP, VTSP

Rick Scherer’s Experience

Founder

NetAppTips.com

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2009 — Present (11 months)

In late January 2009 I decided to start a blogging website dedicated to the advanced use and functionality of NetApp products. This website is NetAppTips.com
Founder

VMwareTips.com

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

A website dedicated to news and information regarding Virtualization and 'Green IT'. Started in September 2008, the website now receives over 50,000 visitors per month.
Solutions Architect

SDDPC

(Non-Profit; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2001 — Present (8 years 4 months)

Architected, implement and manage over 30 VMware ESX 4.0 hosts running on a variety of hardware, including HP C-Class Blades, HP DL380, HP DL580 and Sun x86 hardware. Designed and implemented FCoE infrastructure for major virtualization computing environment running on Cisco Nexus hardware. Performed updates of VMware ESX servers starting from ESX 2.0 to ESX 4.0 and have ran multiple upgrades of VMware vCenter management software. Also support and manage NetApp FAS, Sun StorageTek and HP EVA Storage in relation to multiple virtual environments.

Architected and Implemented SAP NetWeaver into VMware vSphere cluster for The City of San Diego, this included Development QA and Production systems including full planning for Business Continuance and Disaster Recovery. The system consists of over 40 virtual machines running on a NetApp FAS6030 storage system.

Design included Architecture Design, Implementation Blueprint, Test Plan, Assembly and Configuration Guide as well as Operations Guide. Total CAPEX and OPEX savings to equal well over $1,000,000 for the life of The City of San Diego’s virtualization project.
Systems Engineer

C3 Communications

(Computer Software industry)

August 2000 — August 2001 (1 year 1 month)

Designed and implemented a Cisco Powered nationwide network along with a nationally recognized data center equipped with HP NetServers offering Microsoft .NET ASP applications offered via Citrix Metaframe in a Windows 2000 environment, bundled with high-speed DS1 thru OC-48 service sold to customers across the U.S via a standardized web platform using a custom built SQL based OSS System. Also managed a 30 location Point to Multi-Point Wireless WAN. Two websites were also developed for the company, one www.c3speed.com a corporate website mainly using HTML and Flash 5.0. www.c3bizinabox.com an ASP portal using HTML, Cold Fusion, Flash 5.0 and SQL. C3Bizinabox.com is a world-class website with access to over 1200 informational websites and proprietary RPC information. www.myxpc.com is a retail site for the APPS-on-TAP product which is the Microsoft .NET ASP application offered via Citrix Metaframe.

I was laid off.
Systems Engineer

LMKI / Myrient

(Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2000 — August 2000 (3 months)

Hired as a Systems Engineer, company went bankrupt and I was laid off.
Systems Engineer

The Press Enterprise

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Newspapers industry)

December 1998 — June 2000 (1 year 7 months)

Project Manager and Installer for all Frame-Relay, ISDN and DSL lines/Equipment. Configured and maintained all CSU/DSU, DSLAM, Router and Switching equipment. Also maintained the AUTOSELLER (autoseller.pe.net) SQL automotive inventory server. Running Sybase SQL and IIS 4.0. DNS/Apache server maintenance and administration was also done on Sun Ultra servers.