SUMMARY:

• Successful and meticulous IT professional who undertakes complex assignments, meets tight deadlines and delivers superior technology platforms, systems and solutions.
• Possesses extensive domestic/international experience leading complex global IT projects and practical knowledge in cloud computing, project management, business analysis, IT strategy, IT security, systems administration and DevOps. Operates with a strong sense of urgency and thrives in fast - paced setting. Fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Technical expertise includes:

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technology and Tools: RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, Windows Servers, PHP, .NET, C#, Python, Bash, PowerShell, jQuery, Ajax, JavaScript, VBScript, XML, HTML 5, CSS 3, Ruby, MySQL, MongoDB, MS SQL Server, Oracle, Postgres, Firebird, Salt, Chef, Puppet, GIT, Capistrano, Jenkins, Jira, rsync, Nagios, Icinga, Munin, cPanel, WHM, SVN, Apache, IIS, Tomcat, Varnish, Active Directory, Drupal, Magento, Sitefinity, Umbraco, SharePoint, Firewall, Network Policies, Load Balancer, Web Application Firewall (WAF), DNS, SMTP, Postfix, NFS, Systems Development Life Cycle, Enterprise Applications, VMware, MS Hyper-V, Docker, CaaS, IaaS, AWS, EC2, S3, EBS, RDS, DynamoDB, ELB, VPC, CloudFront, Route53, NACL, VPS, PCI Compliance, Verizon, Terremark, Rackspace, Incapsula/Imperva, Akamai, EdgeCast, Keynote, Monits

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Principal Solutions Architect / Infrastructure Project Manager

Confidential, Glendale, CA

Responsibilities:

• Serving as the Principal Solutions Architect and Subject Matter Expert to the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific regions, leading the development, maintenance and governance of application architecture across Nestlé. Responsible for introducing, revising, evaluating architecture designs/systems for automation/industrialization and for providing technical guidance during technical meetings around the globe to ensure security, availability, efficiency, integrity and effectiveness of all supported applications. Working closely with senior IT and business leadership to select solutions and partners to meet functional/non-functional requirements and to define the conceptual and detailed architecture for the development of applications, overseeing their evolution as platforms are deployed.
• Working as the Infrastructure Project Manager of Nestlé with direct report to senior management, maintaining project plans and documentation of all system builds and modifications. Built trust and relationships across the organization, identifying resources, interacting and coordinating with vendors, suppliers, distributors and contract consultants to meet project deliverables and to ensure projects conform to quality, time, budgetary requirements and industry's standards.
• Slashed ticket resolution times by 50% and caused enormous cost savings to businesses by implementing compliant, robust & cost - effective IT solutions and by realigning support operations to service the company more effectively.
• Instrumental in developing and implementing Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery with Jira, Capistrano, Jenkins and Git, as well as a one click cloud provisioning using Salt.
• Responsible for Red Hat s SSSD package release v1.13.3-22.el6 8.4.
• Successfully rolled-out Active Directory to 1216+ LAMP solutions, including e-commerce, without any downtime or disruptions to businesses.
• Responsible for architecture designs in AWS (Virtual Private Cloud, Customer Gateway, VPN Gateway, AWS WAF, ELB, S3, EC2, RDS, Internet Gateway, NAT Gateway, Public/Private subnets, AWS AD and AWS SES, AWS Services) and the implementation of Active Directory Federation Services (SSO) with Microsoft Azure.

Senior IT System Administrator / DevOps Engineer

Confidential, Glendale, CA

Responsibilities:

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• Dramatically expanded LAMP based solutions and seamlessly migrated, in aggressive timeframe, 800+ Nestl s LAMP digital assets across vendors, maintaining availability at 100%.
• Drove 80% of cost reduction by identifying and migrating dedicated solutions to shared ones and by leading works, patching and hardening 4250 systems during the OpenSSL 'Heartbleed' vulnerability, in only 2 days via SaltStack, Bash and VBScripts.
• Initiated the End - Of-Life migration of 510+ Microsoft based digital assets and the AD Interforest domain migration/consolidation (943+ users). Created the support model of all the new service offerings and authored numerous standard routines to ensure complex processes conform to quality and deliver consistent results

Senior IT System Administrator / DevOps Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Engineered the infrastructure environments of Brazil's largest promotion to date with daily TV ads and average of 5 million visits per day. Successfully migrated 120 of their web applications from an EOL data center to a new virtual private cloud environment in only 2 months and without any disruptions to the business, receiving several recognitions.
• Secured 2000+ digital assets with a selected cloud Web Application Firewall Solution which successfully blocked one of the biggest Anonymous DDoS attacks against the most important Nestl s digital asset.
• Saved US$ 2.6 million by implementing a new secured redirection solution developed in C#/.NET
• Declined database ticket resolution times from 5 days to 1 day with automation, using VBScripts to create, delete, backup and restore MSSQL databases.
• Promoted a centralized repository developed in C#/.NET which assisted in decreasing incident ticket resolution times by 25%.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and enabled the company s systems and its infrastructure, supervised support requests and coordinated 7 people for the execution of challenging projects across the country. Orchestrated the deployment of public health care systems to the state and the exportation and implementation in Mexico.

Senior IT Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded and coordinated strategic projects as part of the Digital Transformation and international expansion plans, participating in technical meetings and performing engineering design evaluations/reviews and works to complete projects within budget and scheduling constrains, providing advice on most suitable IT choices and for different systems.
• Stimulated the ZERO waste, ONE team and 100% engagement mindset in the IT department to respond quickly to changing business requirements and to contribute to what consumers and customers value most.

Head of IT & Infrastructure

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Started as a System Administrator and played several different roles before being promoted to oversee day - to-day IT operations that included providing 24/7 client support for mission critical solutions.
• Played a significant front-line role in business development. Instrumental in strategic IT planning & execution, software engineering, system/infrastructure design, business/technology analysis, reporting requirements, product quality, project delivery and client satisfaction. Led international development teams based
• Designed and coded in PHP/jQuery/Ajax/MySQL and in .NET/C#/MSSQL state - of-the-art API s, systems and tools which aided the increase of the client base by 1660%.
• Successfully negotiated a US$ 500,000 contract with the biggest Latin America hardware supplier for a B2B solution.

IT Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Succeeded to develop and implement one of the largest University Portals in Brazil using SharePoint, tripling web traffic from 400,000 to 1.2 million visits per day.
• Redesigned applications and implemented MVC software design, improving overall performance by 70%.

IT Chief Programmer Analyst / Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Pioneered the first e - commerce solution (PHP/JavaScript/MySQL and in .NET/C#/MSSQL) in the nation to allow one-click online purchases and increased profits by bringing US$ 35,000 monthly revenue over a two-year period.
• Decreased by 30% the delivery time of projects by designing solutions for faster development.
• Automated the process of the national YP telephone directory registration which led to closing one of the company s largest contracts with them.

IT Senior Programmer Analyst / Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Forged a breakthrough solution to promote and sell Colgate's new line of products and led the sales strategy resulting in closing the company s largest contract with them. The solution enabled their first online ad to generate 200,000 registrations in two hours, contributing to the enormous success of their campaign nationwide.

IT Senior Programmer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked on software and web applications release life cycles. Developed, tested, debugged, troubleshot and maintained via version control systems (Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, CVS, SVN) Bash, VBScript and PowerShell scripts used in monitoring, alerting and automation tasks to create, configure, optimize, harden and patch machines (Unix,
• Linux and Windows) and systems. Installed and configured different Operating Systems (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, and Windows Server) as well as Active Directory, Apache, Tomcat, PHP and IIS on 1200+ Windows and Linux servers available in 16 countries around the globe and performed critical server administration tasks. Eliminated need to hire by performing dual roles (Programmer and System Administrator), with estimated US$ 60,000 annual savings.

Global Account Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed top Global Accounts in the Americas region, reporting to the Global Sales Director. Worked closely with the sales department to define and align technical infrastructure solutions for each client based on their technology needs.
• Developed several mission critical software in C#/.NET/SQL which led a major Fortune 100 company to sign a US$ 1.5 million contract.