SUMMARY

• Capable, self - motivated, and results-oriented Sr. IT Management professional, employed in sophisticated and challenging positions in corporate IT, with experience managing infrastructure, operations, multiple projects and staff, delivering consistent results.
• Extensive experience in key roles of corporate IT environments, spanning multiple decades.
• Excellent managerial experience, coupled with solid technical skill and knowledge in DevOps, Systems, Network Operations, with strong experience in stakeholder management, customer support, and customer service.
• Recognized as an effective leader, mentor, communicator, and problem solver.
• Responsible for providing strategic influence and direction to enterprise level business environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Linux (CentOS, RHEL, Debian …), Windows (all version up to 10/2019), OSX and other

Languages (Scripting): Shell, PowerShell, YAML, Jinja, HCL, Groovy, Python and others ….Application Services RedHat IDM/IPA, RedHat Satellite, Jenkins, Artifactory, DNS (AD, Bind, Unbound R53 and many others), Active Directory, MS Exchange Server, SMB/CIFS, DFS, DHCP, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, NFS, LDAP, Kerberos, RADIUS and many others

Databases: AWS RDS, Azure SQL, MS SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL

Network Equipment: Cisco Routers, Switches and Access Points, HP, Dell and other vendors

Financial Systems: MS Great Plains, Fiserv ITI Premier, M&I Eastpoint, WSA NTABLM, CRIF, Other proprietary financial systems

Firewalls: Cisco, Cisco IronPort, Microsoft TMG, Check Point, WatchGuard, Sophos, Untangle, Palo Alto, IPTables, Squid, multitude of open source and branded appliances

Remote Connectivity: Microsoft RDS, Remote and Virtualized Applications, Thin Clients, VPN (SSL/IPSec/L2TP/PPTP)

Communications: MPLS, VOIP, Wireless, T1, Frame Relay

Virtualization Platforms: VMware, HyperV, Citrix Xen

Cloud Infrastructure: AWS, Azure, Rackspace

Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Packer, Salt-Cloud, AWS-CLI, Azure-CLI, GOVC (VMware), Jenkins orchestration, GIT (Code management) …

Configuration Mgmt: SaltStack, Chef, Ansible, CFEngine, Group Policy, SCCM

Video Conferencing: Lifesize, Polycom VSX, Avaya, Skype

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Lead Infrastructure Architect

Confidential - Short Hills, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Member of the TechOps/Cloud Services Team,
• Managing, Designing and Implementing Cloud (AWS/Azure) and non-MSP Datacenter, infrastructure Architecture, Policies and Procedures, Automation, Infrastructure as Code and Core Services.
• Managing and Designing the Configuration Management (SaltStack) Architecture, P&P, and related workflows.
• Architected, modularized, developed and implemented a flexible dynamic Configuration Management platform, that allows a layered templatized application, enforcement, versioning of system configurations, security policies, necessary core components, agents.
• Architected and Developed a SaltStack based Continuous Deployment environment, to support an Agile development support, that allows the dynamic Fully Automated Release Management of Java, Python, NodeJS, and any other packaged application (using a Maven based versioned packaging approach)
• Developed a CM SaltStack extraction plugin to be used for applying configurations in automated processes driven by Jenkins
• Architected, Implemented and Managing the Approved Windows/Linux Golden OS Images, content, build and deployment across Global DnB Cloud Infrastructure (All AWS/Azure Accounts) and non-MSP DC VMware infrastructure, using latest generation techniques that use tools as Packer, Bitbucket, AWS/Azure Cross-account policies, RBAC.
• Created Infrastructure as Code Managed Platform using Terraform, that includes RBAC, Code review and approval process.
• Created the Global TER IAC Reusable Modules collection, comprised of self-developed and tested modules that align with internal resource creation policies and integration with DnB infrastructure.
• Designed and Created a Linux/Windows Terraform Wrapper “TFMake” that handles the managed usage of IAC, in AWS, Azure, and VMware, by creating a Terraform Deployment Environment, allowing a stable multi-site, active-passive, dr deployment, while sourcing information from specially architected and standardized repositories, that allow strict Change Management, RBAC, and leverages a structured multi-account state storage infrastructure.
• Member of the DnB Architecture Review Board
• Overseeing the technical/architectural part of the new projects onboarding process. Managing Project requirements and driving the technical implementation process.
• Implemented hands on from initiation to closing, multiple high-profile projects, as migration of the DnB Match platform to Cloud, and others such as the multi-application DnB Scoring platform, Global CMS and many others.
• Maintaining core infrastructure systems and toolset.
• Guiding, working closely with the Systems Administration team members, on the technical aspects of all projects.
• Mentoring, guiding several DnB Team members, from the Sys Admin and Development teams, ensuring smooth technical collaboration.
• Architected and redesigned the DnB Boston datacenter, leading hands on the architectural, technical aspect of the datacenter modernization, re-platforming core systems on modern high-performance Cisco UCS compute and all SSD EMC Storage.
• Managed licensing and purchasing of core infrastructure components and support, for the Boston datacenter
• Managing the security and compliance stack automation, implementation and maintenance, constantly collaborating with the DnB Security team.
• Overall Infrastructure and Architecture Technical Escalation SME for various challenges regarding the DnB Global IT infrastructure

Branch IT Operations Lead

Confidential - Short Hills, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Managing the onboarding of the third-party NPX Boston Data Center acquisition to the DnB Technical Operations Department,
• Managing NPX Boston Data Center day to day IT Operations
• Managing the knowledge transfer and the information gathering process, for all infrastructure, applications and operations of the NPX Boston Data Center and related AWS accounts.

Contractor/Senior Systems Administrator

Confidential - Short Hills, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Member of the TechOps Team,
• Responsible for tasks related to the Linux, Windows Platforms, across DnB AWS Cloud infrastructure and non-MSP hosted Datacenters.
• Providing expertise on audit, compliance and remediation.
• Designed and Implemented Configuration Management based compliance requirements, deployment and enforcement, to secure systems based on DnB Security Guidelines.
• Guided the MSP (Ensono) team Linux Security Hardening process creation and implementation.
• Designed and implemented an Identity Management infrastructure (RH IDM) and integrated DNS infrastructure for the AWS Cloud Platform, providing a multi-tier, self-replicated, high resiliency DNS infrastructure that allows Dynamic DNS registrations.
• Responsible for overseeing and administration of the Austin vXchnge Datacenter 3 tier colocation, VMware virtualization platform and the POC Engineering VMware infrastructure.
• Responsible for large scale migration, planning, management and execution, such as the VMware-AWS migration of the Enterprise Services VMware/VBlock hosted staging environment.
• Responsible for TechOps VMware/Red Hat Licensing accounting, maintenance and renewal.
• Responsible for overall VMware infrastructure reviews, recommendations, and support (day to day operations) of non-MSP hosted DnB VMware platforms.
• Created an AWS hosted Linux/Windows Self provisioning system and integrated it with the current ticketing system (Cherwell), with automated Configuration Management, DNS, Accounting, IDM and AD integration.

Senior Systems Manager / Project Manager

Confidential - New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities include reporting to the CIO, managing the nationwide Data Center Operations (DCOM), managing the daily operations of the internal IT team, and managing vendor relationships and contracts.
• Managed the IT Help Desk Department, Systems, and Network Administration operations.
• Developed yearly IT strategic plans and budgets.
• Set standards for hardware and software procurement, amortization.
• Wrote policies and procedures governing management, operations, and security.
• Managed IT compliance process: Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and GLBA.