SUMMARY:

• Ability to translate vision into strategy, road maps and plans
• Identity & translate business requirements into technical requirements.
• Ability to influence at all levels of organization by excellent communications & interpersonal skills
• Corporate budgeting for resources and infrastructure/applications
• Interviewing, hiring, managing right resources & growing team
• Manage the infrastructure and operations projects portfolio
• Managing staff members, contractors and resources, people management skills
• Contract negotiations, vendor management, enterprise agreements
• Critical thinking, decision making, Organizational & problem solving skills
• 1 - 1 meetings with team and management
• Participatation in ongoing evaluation of emerging trends and technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Strategy, planning, evaluation, architecture, design, implementation, migration, upgrade and support below:

Office 365:: Messaging, Skype, Lync, Sharepoint, Yammer, Onedrive, Azure AD, EMS, CDN, Teams

Messaging: Exchange, Office 365, Google Apps, Skype for business, Lync, PSTN, SBC, SBA

Collaberation: Cisco Unified Communications, Audio, Voice & Video Conferencing, WebEx, Contact Center, SBC, SBA, Skype Lync Voice, PSTN, Telephony, AudioCodes, Sonus

Cloud: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DaaS, EMS, OMS, Private Public Hybrid Clouds, automation, containers, docker

Azure: ExpressRoute, VPN, Stack, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DaaS, SQL, OMS

Identity:: Active Directory, SSO, MFA, Rights Management, Okta, FIM, ADFS, WAP

AWS: EC2, EBS, S3, Glacier, IAM, VPC, ELB, Autoscaling, Lambda, Route 53, CloudWatch

DataCenter:: Upgrade, Refresh, Migration, SCCM, Inventory

Citrix: - XenApp, XenDesktop, VDI, Citrix cloud, Studio, Director, Storefront

Desktops: Windows 7 Windows 10 migrations & upgrades DaaS, AWS Workspaces, vmware horizon

Devices/ End users: Windows 7, 8, 10 Office roll out, refresh, mobile device mgmt., BYOD, MDM, Microsoft Intune, backups

Server: HP, Dell, Lanovo, Nutanix Cisco Rack and Blades, vmware, windows linux servers

Storage: EMC VNX, VMAX, SAN, NAS, Archieve, Brocades, Cisco MDS, backups, SRM, avamar, data domain

Telecom: Cisco Call Manager, CUCM, Unity, WebEx, Intercall, PRI, Spark

Security: checkpoint, ASA Firewalls, IDS IPS, Encryption, audits, investigations, compliance, risk mgmt

Operation: s: Solarwinds, SCOM, OMS, change, incident management, ITSM, CMDB

Network:: Cisco Nexus Catalyst switches, ISR, LAN WAN, SDWAN, Wireless, MPLS, F5, Riverbed

Database: SQL, Hadoop, Mango, DB2, Data warehousing

Applications: Web Apps, Mobile Apps, LOB, core apps, business productivity apps, salesforce

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Architect/Manager of Infromation Technology

Responsibilities:

• Manage technical team, vendors, contractors
• Resource & budget management for people, hardware, software
• Responsibe for leadership of Network, Server, Storage, Telecom, Security, Cloud, Desktop, Messaging, Database, End user team
• Evaluating technology vendors based on business requirments
• Work on cost reduction intiatives to make datacenter efficient
• Cost reduction by optimization of infrastructure
• Demonstrated success in IT planning, organization and development
• Involved in envisioning, planning, design, POC, integration, deployment migration roll out of projects
• Involved in compant mergers & acquisitions
• Incident, helpdesk, configuration, change & operations management
• Negotiated enterprise agreements to drop unnecessary costs
• TrueUp events & Inventory licensing management
• Team leadership, assessment and reviews, 1-1 meetings
• CritSit calls, change & config management
• Evaluate cloud offering from Saas, PaaS, IaaS
• Migration from onprem datacenter to Azure cloud
• Office 365 adoption, migration, roll out
• Messaging upgrade to Office 365
• Active directory and windows servers upgrade
• Azure AD integration & Microsoft EMS roll out
• Virtualization projects Vmware upgrade
• Lync to Skype Business upgrades
• Cisco WebEx Intercall to Skype business online conferencing migration
• Domain merge, upgrade, integration with Azure AD
• Deploy identity management & Single Sign On solutions
• AWS AD integration and workspaces roll out
• IT DevOps automation options evaluation
• Citrix XenApp XenDesktop upgrade
• Cisco to Lync Skype Migration planning, design, deployment
• Exchange / Messaging servers design, implementation, migration
• Resource planning, vendor managements, professional services & vendor contract engagements
• Lead all IT Infrastructure projects on strategy, planning, design, evaluations.
• Played active role on all IT projects closely working with technical team and leading projects
• Lead execution of Accounting Cloud Services to support small offices worldwide and achieve financial standards without the need for technology and/or support

Sr Manager / Architect / Messaging Collaberation and cloud

Responsibilities:

• Lead IT operational and strategic planning, including fostering innovation, planning projects, and organizing and negotiating the allocation of resources.
• Managed team of over 30+ resources includes onsite, remote and offshore
• Lead role in envisioning, planning, designing effots for messaging & Office 365 cloud development
• Providing cloud customers white glove support, onboarding & helping with escalations
• Exchange server 2007, 2010 and Office 365 product development and release
• Manage the deployment, monitoring, maintenance, development, upgrade, and support of messaging & collaboration systems
• Manage financial aspects, including purchasing, budgeting, and budget review.
• Develop business case justifications and cost/benefit analysis for IT spending and initiatives.
• Implement all IT policies and procedures, including those for architecture, security, disaster recovery, standards, purchasing, and service provision.

IT Architect

Responsibilities:

• Design & Implementation of systems, servers, applications, Infrastrcutre upgrades
• Deploying routers, switches, wireless, security
• Windows installation, upgrades, troubleshooting
• User education & technoly awareness programs