SUMMARY

• 25 years of network management, active directory, Microsoft, Linux, and VMware environments.
• 7 years of cloud computing and devops experience
• Helped clients bring traditional datacenters to cloud platforms.
• Enabled legacy code to micro services based cloud architecture.
• Migrated multi - million dollar projects from in house on premises to hybrid and complete cloud based solutions.
• Programming efficiency in all main stream object oriented and legacy languages; JAVA, Python, Ruby, JavaScript etc.
• Infrastructure Architecture Virtualization platform experience as well as migration to cloud of legacy data centers from physical to virtual.
• Enterprise Architect experienced architecture, design, and implementation. Extensive experience in cloud systems design and implementation. Expert in network and client/server architecture. And have effectively managed projects involving IT backend infrastructure and architecture design.
• Extensive knowledge and specialization of, as well as a proven record of success with, leading efforts emphasizing the strategy, design, and development of IT service models and designs.
• Lead client-facing business development, engagement delivery, practice development and thought leadership; especially, identifying and addressing client needs communicating a broad range of services, managing engagements, including preparing concise, accurate documents and balancing project economics management with the occurrence of unanticipated issues.
• Managed, IT strategy, architecture, engineering, operations, policy, processes, standards, organizational design, governance, and change management to enable technology and program delivery.
• Lead and built large teams, creating a positive work environment by developing new opportunities, successful delivery of engagements, monitoring of organizational health, and the driving of thought leadership.
• Leveraged Cloud Management Platforms, Virtualization Strategies, Automation and Orchestration Strategies, Public Cloud Platforms, Cloud Capacity/Performance Optimization, and Application Migrations to a Cloud Platform with a clear understanding of how an IT organization capitalizes upon technology to enable the business.
• Identified and addressed client needs including developing and sustaining deep client relationships using networking, negotiation and persuasion skills to identify and sell potential new service opportunities, preparing and presenting complex written and verbal materials, and defining resource requirements, project workflow, budgets, billing and collection.
• As a practice and team leader, enabled teams to generate a vision, established direction and motivated members, created an atmosphere of trust, leveraged diverse views, coached staff, and encouraged improvement and innovation, and lead by example, while working collaboratively as a member of a team and executing independently.
• Created a solution based practice, grew the organization, developed approaches and methodologies, built a thought leadership platform, lead engagements and provided consistent communication to client and leadership teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Platforms used: Cloud Based solutions Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, VMware V Cloud, OpenStack. Chef, Puppet Enterprise, Ansible, Terraform, GitHub, Jenkins, V Realize.

AWS, Azure, VMware, OpenStack.: Hybrid, Off Premise, On Premise models implemented.

Network Operating Systems: Active Directory, Windows Server 2012, LINUX, UNIX, HP-UX, AIX, Windows 10

Programming and Scripting Languages: JAVA, JavaScript, C++, C#, Perl, Ruby, PHP, Python, Power Shell, SOAP and REST, SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud, Vmware Vcloud, Open Stack platforms used and migrated to.
• Created DevOps culture and a collaboration between development, operations and testing.
• Designed cloud deployment strategies that mitigate risk while meeting infrastructure and budgetary needs.
• Seven years of experience with IAAS, PAAS and SAAS technologies.
• Experience in creation of security compliant infrastructure and applications platforms in the cloud.
• Actively and hands on involved in the creation, implementation, and delivery of private and hybrid cloud based solutions for my customers.
• Extensive knowledge in the programming as well as the architecture and infrastructure domains.
• Master programmer as well as a master scripter when it comes to Vrealize VMware platforms as well as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, PowerShell and other DevOps tool script creations.
• Experienced programmer in all mainstream object oriented and legacy languages; C, C++, JAVA, Python, Ruby, JavaScript.
• Extensive Infrastructure Architecture Virtualization platform experience as well as migration to cloud of legacy data centers from physical to virtual.
• Computer scientist and information technologist whose aim is to utilize computers and technology to solve the business problems and requirements of companies.
• Expert at utilizing whatever technology is required to solve your current situation whether it is programming or platform related. Whether its cloud, in-house or hybrid platform based requiring API integration, or management of an ongoing project you have in order to accomplish your SOW.
• Extensive background in big data migration and implementation on private and public cloud.
• 7+ Years of experience in a Development Operations organization leading, administering, building and maintaining an automation environment
• Robust track record of delivering applications and cloud-based infrastructure delivery in an Agile environment
• Strongknowledge of infrastructure automation tools (Puppet, Chef, Ansible)
• Strong Linux system architecture experience (Red Hat/Centos/Ubuntu)
• Proven experience with Design of solutions to integrate and support of telephony systems, both PABX and VOIP (and hybrids).
• Proven experience with Integration of these technologies with telephony, video, presence, and messaging systems.

Enterprise Architecture

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Network Understanding of VMware, RedHat, HP, NetApp, IBM System servers, Cisco UCS servers, virtualization, SAN and NAS, Active Directory.
• Experienced in Administering Linux, and Windows Server 2012/2008.
• Design, Implementation and Administration of VMware network including distributed switched and VLAN’s.
• Experience in component planning/activities using Visio.
• Expert level understanding of LAN, MAN, and WAN architectures and the design, installation, and operation of global multi-national networks
• Expert understanding of internetwork protocols like BGP, OSPF, MPLS, PIM, IGMP
• Expert understanding of L2 protocols like STP, VSTP, MSTP, LACP
• Knowledge of new data center bridging technologies and unified fabrics
• In-depth WAN experience covering SONET, OCx, DSx, Ethernet Privet Line (EPL), DSL/HSDSL and MPLS
• In-depth understanding of L4 - L7, specifically as it relates to the configuration of local and global load balancing
• In-depth knowledge of DNS and DHCP
• Solid understanding of SNMP
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of VoIP and SIP
• Solid understanding of network analysis
• Experience and high level expertise in designing complex, highly available, infrastructure solutions in a large-scale, multisite, international environment
• IP internetworking and LAN Switching
• WAN circuits and protocols (MPLS, DWDM, Optimization)
• Dynamic IP Routing protocols (OSPF, BGP, PIM Multicast)
• Expertise in inter-AS connectivity (eBGP, MPLS)
• Expert level internetworking troubleshooting in a large-scale network environment
• In-depth knowledge of network management, network availability and capacity plannin
• Excellent PowerShell skills to manage and automate all functions of Exchange
• Experience with electronic communication capturing
• Experience with cloud-based spam gateways
• Experience with MDM systems and the ability to architect/troubleshoot
• Understanding of Lync/Skype for Business topology and ability to architect the environment
• Knowledge of Exchange Web Services and application integration