SUMMARY:

• Insightful and analytical twenty - five-year information systems professional with balanced experience in network architecture, Windows solutions, Azure infrastructure, Active Directory, Kubernetes containerization, system integration and analysis. A motivated innovator with skills and experience to see projects through from conception to rollout.
• 25 years of technical experience in system architecture, network and workstation hardware, project management, and server implementation.
• Excellent knowledge of Windows 2012, 2016 Server, Active Directory, GPO management, Azure networking, Linux, Kubernetes,, CI/CD
• Quick Learner with an ever-expanding knowledge of new technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Platforms/Systems: Windows 2008, Windows 2012, Windows 7, Windows 8, Active Directory Design, Citrix Metaframe 1.8, Metaframe XP, Metaframe Presentation Server 3.0, 4.0, XenApp 4.5, 5, 6.5, 7.6, Solaris version 9& 10, IIS, Linux (Red Hat), SUSE Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, VMWare 2.5, 3.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, AKS, AWS, EKS

Software: Unicenter, Checkpoint, Sendmail, Sitescope, RMS, IMS, Active Administrator, GPO Admin, Native AD and GPO Tools, Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0, Netshield, Groupshield, MacAfee, Rightfax, SMS, HP Top Tools, HP OpenView, Citrix Secure Gateway, RSA, Puppet V3 Enterprise, Splunk 6.3, HPOO, Blade Logic, Docker, Kubernetes, Grafana, Prometheus, F5, O365, SCOM, SCCM, Confluence, Redis, ElasticSearch, NGINX, AVI, Azure Dev Ops, Kube Router, Grafana, Sysdig, Calico, Azure Front Door

Database Applications: Oracle 8, 9, 10 g, 11g, SQL Server 2005, 2008, 2014, 2017, 2019, Cosmos DB

Programming Languages: Terraform, Visual Basic.Net, WinBatch, Perl, Powershell, C+, Linux Shell Scripting, YAMLs, JSON

Hardware/Networking: Dell Poweredge Servers, Citrix Netscaler, HP Netservers, IBM X Series, IBM Blade Servers, SPARC Hardware, Network Appliance Filers, EMC ISilon, Cisco Routers/Switches, Nortel Switches, Nortel Hubs, PC hardware, HP Printers, 100T architecture, Gigabit networks, BNC, Ethernet, DNS, WINS, NWLink IPX/SPX, TCP/IP, DDP (Appletalk), DFS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Austin, TX

Senior Platform Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working on developing a new AWS infrastructure for Kubernetes. Also incorporating IL5 and FedRamp security principals to new environment. Also creating new clusters for worker processes such as CronJobs and other repetitive tasks
• Setting up Istio Service Mesh for ingress and network policies
• Incorporating Datadog monitoring
• Incorporating Argo CD\Bit bucket for CI/CD deployments
• Utilizing Artifactory for container registry

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Part of a 5-person team supporting an infrastructure that includes Linux, Windows, Azure, Kubernetes, CI/CD, & IAC. Support for several hundred developers and other organizations within the Rock family of companies to allow a smooth integration of new technologies to an ever-expanding IT organization. Sole responsibility for an ever-growing Linux environment and Azure Networking & Kubernetes
• Building and support for 50+ CentOS and RHEL Linux Servers
• Lead effort to build a lower environment confluence environment which allowed the testing of updates and patched for production confluence environment
• Currently participating on an effort in migrating entire server infrastructure to Azure Cloud
• Working on deploying new network and server infrastructure with Terraform
• Working with my team to create a new AD structure in Azure and create new infrastructure to replace current on prem environment
• Working on integrating Kubernetes containers into current environment to ensure code and data integrity while minimizing hardware footprint.
• Integrating on new CICD pipeline integrations using Azure DevOps.
• Creating new NGINX ingress configurations for new web app microservices.
• Leading effort to expand Redis environments as the company standard for web and app caching
• Azure policy and subscription setup for Nova application
• Integrating Twistlock\Prisma Cloud as CVE scanning tool for CI/CD, ACR, and Azure Subs
• Investigating new apps to improve Confidential ’s Kubernetes environment Azure Front door for Cluster load balancing and high availability, among others.
• Work with PWC to institute new security standards using Palo Alto for east\west traffic as well as north\south
• Institute namespace security and network policies for Kubernetes.
• Working on implementing Scalr into Confidential CICD pipelines.

Confidential

Design Engineer IV

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities include support for 100000 + user environment for both environmental and application related issues, provide hardware and operating system maintenance for 1500+ servers, and work with engineering teams to implement new technologies that improve the client’s workflow and productivity. Also, responsible for a several large Active Directory environments spanning 100000 + users.
• Lead design effort to create a data conversion environment to quickly onboard new clients to hosted applications. This cost savings on 26 million dollars of revenue.
• Integrated Citrix XenApp 6.5 in ever expanding enterprise environment. Application moved from custom desktops to Web Interface solution to facilitate easier deployment of applications and reduce the time needed on customizations.
• Lead effort in the deployment of the new VMWare environment. This has allowed the company to reduce its hardware footprint and 4 Million Dollars on maintenance and additional leasing fees.
• Have worked 8000 + cases and have resolved 99% within the given SLAs.
• Provided third tier support for all AD, GPO, Citrix, VMWare, and General Server related issues
• Created hundreds of documents to aid first and second tier support teams in troubleshooting issues quickly and effectively.
• Provided off hours support via 24 x 7 x 365 on call
• Worked nights and weekends to ensure projects would meet required deadlines.
• Collaborated with vendors from Citrix, VMware, and Microsoft for both system issues and project related endeavors
• Lead active directory architect for the migration of 30,000 users, 1000 Server environment centralized datacenter environments. Maintained several forests and multiple domains.
• Lead effort to upgrade systems from windows
• Leading effort to migrate systems to new windows 2012
• Assisted in the effort to migrate from VMWare 3.5 to 4.1
• Familiar with Native AD tools and some third-party tools such as Quest’s Active Administrator and
• GPOadmin amongst others.
• Incorporated PowerShell to aid in Active Directory, GPO and Server Maintenance.
• Created GPO’s to create a structure to accommodate new ISO standards Created new published application security to improve security for 20,000 applications.
• Incorporated UNIX (Solaris 9 & 10) and SUSE Linux 11 into skill set and have been a productive member of the UNIX design group.
• Lead effort to create DR solutions for windows-based products.
• Created automation scripts using PowerShell and VB in an effort to streamline processes.
• Built server Deployment scripts using PowerShell to eliminate redundant and time-consuming tasks
• Assisted in the rollout of Splunk Universal Forwarder on newly developed application servers.
• Helped develop Splunk process logging for homegrown apps
• Added Linux and Solaris support to ever growing knowledge
• Familiar working with large and small environments
• Knowledge of ITIL and working with compliance issues (SOX, SAS 70, ISO)
• Worked with several problem ticketing apps such as CA Service desk and Siebel
• Familiar with all change management processes
• Very team oriented with experience working in various team compositions
• Self-starter and motivated to provide the best quality work
• Good at multitasking and can handle multiple projects simultaneously