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Jersey City, NJ

SUMMARY

  • IT manager, strategist and infrastructure architect with leadership and great hands - on experience in various industries: advertising, construction, engineering, media, real estate, tech and professional services.
  • Expert in driving datacenter / cloud / environment efficiency and cost reduction through proper use of hardware, software, process and cloud adoption.
  • Extensive experience providing overarching solution guidance spanning multiple service towers and practice areas within a global organization.
  • Expert in security protection & redundancy for enterprise environments. Leader in driving infrastructure modernization and automation through transformation of legacy enterprise systems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud: Azure, AWS, O365, G-Suite, IaaS / PaaS / SaaS, Proofpoint, Okta

Virtualization: VMware ESXi/vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V / SCVMM

Network: Cisco Nexus / Routers / Switches / Wireless / FEX, InfoBlox, F5 LTM, HP VirtualConnect

Hardware: HP, Dell and IBM Servers and Blades

Security: Palo Alto / Panorama, Juniper SSG / ISG / SA, Cisco PIX / FWSM, Citrix NetScaler, Active Directory, GPO, Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager

Servers and Applications: Windows/Clustering, Exchange, SharePoint, IIS, ADFS, SQL, SCCM, Enterprise Vault

Storage: HPE 3Par / EVA / MSA, EMC Clariion / Celerra, NetAPP FAS Data ONTAP 8.x (7-mode and cluster), Cisco MDS, Brocade

Protocols: DNS, DHCP, VPC / VPC+, FabricPath, FCoE, HSRP, BGP, OSPF, VLANs, 802.1x, 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, Radius, TLS/SSL, IPv4/6

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Senior Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

  • Define monitoring and management standards for managing key infrastructure components spread across datacenters and hub buildings spanning multiple technology service towers to deliver a global technology availability dashboard and increase service delivery quality.
  • Directly involved in coordinating digital transformation activities across multiple service towers including Identity Management, Endpoint Management, Datacenter Rationalization, Cloud Migration, Office 365 Consolidation and LAN/WAN Optimization.
  • Lead strategic technology discussions around enabling digital transformation through adoption of modern technologies and processes.
  • Drive engineering, development teams to rethink system, application deployments by enabling CI/CD pipelines and shift to cloud native systems, moving away from legacy lift-and-shift cloud migrations.
  • Take ownership of messaging hygiene systems and rationalize security posture for inbound and outbound communication platforms (DMARC, DKIM, SPF).
  • Consolidate 91,000 accounts spread across 120 Office 365 tenants into a single tenant
  • Define a standard process, platform and vendors for consolidating tens of thousands of registered domains spread across hundreds of registrars while also consolidating public DNS and PKI vendors to increase visibility, reporting and reduce costs.
  • Own and manage Okta platform(s) serving application access, user provisioning, single sign-on (SAML IDP) and user lifecycle management for 80,000 users across 250 ADs globally.
  • Continually research industry advances and trends, ensuring the latest and best technology adoption firm wide.

Confidential

Manager, Infrastructure & Network Engineering

Responsibilities:

  • Owned and managed multiple dev / test and PoC environments for ITS Global supporting firm-wide initiatives touching 189,000 users in 155 countries. Provided solution guidance for production environments and deployments.
  • Realized almost $1M in year-over-year savings through cleanup, consolidation and capacity management.
  • Over 1000+ VMs under management supporting application development and proof-of-concept solutions for firm-wide adoption.
  • Directly involved in deploying and evaluating Azure Stack for on premise Azure IaaS/PaaS solutions as part of Microsoft’s TAP program.
  • Managed and mentored 4 engineering and desktop direct reports.
  • Provided guidance and support to 45+ onsite and offshore engineers.
  • Provided capacity and forecasting management for engineering teams consuming shared resources.
  • Migrated isolated islands of VM resources into a shared pool with automation and template-based deployments to drive efficiency and cost reductions, while shortening system deployment time from days to minutes.
  • Managed process and security compliance within an environment approved for hosting client data.

Confidential, New York, NY

Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

  • Directly responsible for all core technology within global datacenters, serving over 16,000 users in 60 countries and 250 offices.
  • Primary focus around private clouds, core networking/IP/FC/FCoE connectivity, storage, servers, virtualization, active directory and edge / application security posturing.
  • Key project included a North American datacenter consolidation: reducing 49 racks of legacy physical servers and equipment into 11 racks of modern, high density blades running as a private cloud and replacing global IP / L3 connectivity firm-wide - realizing over $100k/month in OPEX savings.
  • Responsible for design and implementation of the global datacenter backbone, leveraging redundant Cisco Nexus 7ks owning L3 and a redundant Nexus 5k aggregation layer owning L2/FC/FCoE, meshed together using FabricPath.
  • Led the architecture and implementation of a global Palo Alto firewall deployment at all egress points firm-wide. As part of the deployment, a consolidated shared security policy and central logging / reporting platform was implemented leveraging Palo Alto Panorama.
  • Provided guidance and standards for edge application security posturing leveraging F5 LTMs and Palo Alto inbound SSL decryption.
  • Provided subject matter expertise to application development teams ensuring best practices are followed with regards to IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and security practices.

Confidential

Infrastructure Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Provided subject matter expertise to the development group responsible for the eAudIT application used by 70,000 auditors worldwide.
  • Led best practices design for server virtualization and VDI environments while driving system consolidation and efficiency.
  • Assisted with Data Center designs including power and cooling requirements, BladeSystem architecture, connectivity, etc.
  • Created technical architecture documentation, along with non-technical presentation material for senior-level management.
  • Provided technical project management for the infrastructure as it relates to the development project track. Worked with Global Technical Architecture teams to drive future application and environment design.
  • Performed network packet trace discovery and analysis on communication flow between machines.
  • Assisted and reviewed Global Desktop firewall policy distributed to 140k + desktops.
  • Created Proof-of-Concept environments showing examples of next-generation technologies and how they can be leveraged within the various aspects of the eAudIT application.

Confidential

Senior Systems Architect

Responsibilities:

  • Trusted advisor to development and project management staff in one of the eighth largest advertising networks in the world with more than 450 offices in 169 cities.
  • Maintained internal infrastructure including VMware ESXi farm with over 384gb memory, 200+ VMs, NetAPP SAN, SVN repository, CI services, etc.
  • Worked closely with public cloud providers such as Rackspace Cloud and Amazon AWS and design solutions leveraging public cloud services.
  • Assisted client technology teams with their infrastructure and made recommendations for security, stability and scaling needs.
  • Worked closely with internal development teams to refine code and follow best practices, as well as ensure application performance through code review and load testing.
  • Designed, built, secured and managed internal, external, client and cloud environments including Red Hat / Ubuntu Linux platforms and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with MySQL, MSSQL, Amazon RDS running Apache/PHP and IIS/.NET.
  • Managed CMS environments including Umbraco, Sitecore, EpiServer, etc.

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