Blake Roberts
About Blake Roberts
Blake Roberts is an ITFP-Cloud Hypercompute Engineer at Chevron in Houston, Texas, with extensive experience in enterprise infrastructure and virtualization technologies.
Current Title and Company
Blake Roberts holds the title of ITFP-Cloud Hypercompute Engineer at Chevron. He is based in Houston, Texas, United States. His role includes responsibilities associated with cloud hypercompute engineering within Chevron's IT infrastructure.
Previous Roles and Experience
Blake Roberts has a diverse professional history in IT and virtualization. He has previously worked at Noble Energy as an Enterprise Infrastructure Systems Virtualization Architect from 2018 to 2020. Before that, he accumulated six years of experience at Apache Corporation as a Senior Virtualization Lead Architect. Earlier roles include an 11-year tenure at ERCOT as Infrastructure Service Delivery Manager and UNIX Systems Administrator, one year at DataChannel as Systems Administrator, and three years at HBSI as a UNIX Systems Administrator.
Education Background
Blake Roberts studied at the University of Washington, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology. He completed his degree over a four-year period from 1992 to 1996.
Technical Certifications
Blake Roberts holds several industry-recognized certifications. He is an IBM Certified Technical Specialist for p-series since 2006, a Cisco UCS Management Certified Professional since 2014, and completed PMP Training in 2014. Additionally, he has been certified in NetApp CDOT since 2015.
Expertise in Virtualization and Cloud Solutions
Blake Roberts specializes in enterprise-level hardware solutions for highly available environments. His expertise includes designing and managing enterprise-level VMWare technologies, such as Site Recovery Manager and multi-site deployments. He is proficient in hyper-converged platforms, including Nutanix, EMC, VCE, and Cisco/NetApp Flexpod, as well as various hardware platforms like Cisco UCS, Dell MX, IBM AIX, HP-UX, DEC/Tru64 UNIX, RHEL, and Oracle Linux. Furthermore, he is knowledgeable in storage technologies like NetApp and HDS, and EMC enterprise backup and recovery solutions.