SUMMARY:

• Seasoned IT Technologist , seeking a challenging position within an organization that will welcome significant contributions to operational improvement and planning for long - term enterprise needs.
• Offering 25+ years of progressively responsible leadership and technical experience as well as a track record of positive outcomes, including significant improvements in reliability, availability and performance of network computer hardware and software .
• Extensive experience directing diverse staffs and consultants with a team approach that emphasizes a cohesive work environment.
• Several years of experience working directly with external customers, senior executives, and managing relationships.
• Strong analytical skills and proficiency at troubleshooting both technical and operational issues.
• Results-oriented, adaptable leader, with proven success in aligning technology initiatives with long-range organizational objectives.
• Solid critical thinking skills, commitment to professionalism, and ability to improve overall effectiveness.
• A self-starter with excellent communication and time management skills.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Network Planning/Design
• Technology Selection
• Virtualization
• HP Blades
• Disaster Recovery
• Network Administration
• Oracle Service Bus
• MS Systems Center apps
• Agile
• Azure
• Gitlab
• System Engineering
• Version Control
• Weblogic
• High Availability
• VMWare
• System Implementation
• Serena Deployment Automation
• SAN/NAS storage
• AWS
• Ansible
• Office 365
• Cost Control
• Budgeting
• System Upgrades
• Customer Relations
• Vendor Relations
• Quality Assurance
• Serena Dimensions
• Performance Tuning
• Devops
• Github
• Docker

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Infrastructure Architect and Middleware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Technical Lead of Devops team of 4 responsible for maintaining and troubleshooting Oracle Middleware components such as Weblogic 10g and 11g, Confidential components such as Publisher, Collaboration, Confidential Portal, analytics, and Oracle Business Process Manager(OBPM).
• Support the waterfall and agile SDLC and ensure code and environments are delivered on time.
• Responsible for building Jenkins jobs that build and deploy to Middleware environments.
• Work with Serena Dimensions and SVN for version control.
• Deployed software to Weblogic and troubleshoot issues with deployments. Works closely with the most senior developers and release managers on multiple teams to architect solutions and troubleshoot the highest level of issues for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid for PQRS on the DECC contract.
• Devops engineer working with AWS, the ELK and LAMP stacks, Ansible, ELBs, Docker containers, EC2, Amazon RDS, S3 storage supporting developers creating micro services in Agile development.

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder

Responsibilities:

• Co-founder and CTO for technology startup with 25 employees, contractors, and consultants.
• Hired and managed developers and architects to design and implement company infrastructure for development and office IT infrastructure.
• Jira, Survey Monkey, MSDN, Agile SDLC, Azure and AWS cloud hosting a modified LAMP stack, and Office 365.
• Successfully led the effort to build and deploy and launch mobile app in the Confidential store and Working website for parents to rate businesses to provide ratings and reviews for other parents.
• Successfully entered seed round of funding and raised 150k in initial funding.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Distributed Systems Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manager for 60+ engineers, 6 teams, and 3 managers responsible for Operations, Engineering, and Installation for UNIX, WINTEL, Storage, and Virtualization for 2000 servers in a 24x7 enterprise private cloud environment. Manager of Microsoft professional services for CITIC contract.
• Worked directly with GTLs and Director level customers at CMS. Provided weekly reports, attended weekly meetings, central point of contact for mid-tier issues for the CMS customers. Managed a large portion of the annual data center shutdown activities at the BDC Authored several unsolicited ROMs (UROMs) for the customer to improve virtualization platforms that resulted in hundreds of thousands of additional work and revenue for the contract
• As an engineer: Implemented and supported EMC Celera NAS (LINUX) replacing 5 node file cluster supporting 30 TB of storage. Lead Engineer for configuring NAS shares, storage, networking, and troubleshooting for 7500 users.
• Implemented, configured NS-960 and NS-120 EMC SANS. Allocated storage, built RAID volumes to support 50+ ESX hosts, clusters, SQL databases, and servers. One of 4 engineers primarily responsible for the virtualization infrastructure. This required implementation, upgrades, migrations, and troubleshooting 50+ ESX hosts.
• This team also supported all aspects of the 6 bladeframes housing 70+ HP and Egenera blades. Architected upgrades and designs.

Confidential, Greenbelt, MD

IT SYSTEMS MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• While reporting directly to the CTO, designed and implemented virtualization private cloud infrastructure running on VMware ESX (LINUX) for enterprise supporting 3000 users with 300+ servers, EMC SANs, domain controllers, file server clusters, Citrix farm, Exchange clusters, SQL clusters, VMWare hosts and guest operating systems, backup servers, and configuration management (SCCM) and monitoring (SCOM) systems.
• Experience working with developers and guiding them concerning policies and procedures.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

CONSULTANT/SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Consulted with client senior-level engineering team supporting 24x7 mission-critical, revenue-generating server farm with more than 1000 servers in data centers located around the U.S for a company with global presence.

Confidential, Greenbelt, MD

MANAGER, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Responsibilities:

• While reporting directly to the CFO, managed all system and network administration efforts, to include server configuration and administration, system optimization, capacity analysis and planning, data backup and restoration, upgrades, and patches.
• Consolidated servers, implemented Active Directory and SQL databases, centralized email storage and backup, and installed SANs to improve efficiency of existing infrastructure.
• Supported external customers remotely.
• Supervised and mentored 3 system administrators. Implemented encryption, new intranet web server, routers and firewalls to reduce security vulnerabilities.
• Expanded Active Directory to support Mac and Unix clients. Supported 5 NASA UNIX workstations for day to day operations.