PROFESSIONAL PROFILE:

• Senior - level professional experienced as a senior system engineer for over 10 years
• Highly analytical decision-maker with extensive experience in building, turning around with a proven history of increasing productivity and turning around difficult situations.
• Great in-depth understanding of emerging technologies and their applications, security, as well as business expertise.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Security Operations Architect

Confidential, Plantations, FL

Responsibilities:

• Designed security awareness training for different companies
• Conducted risk assessment for different companies
• Experience in working with GCP App Engines, Compute Engine, Cloud IAM Cloud Pub/Sub, Autoscaler
• Worked on different projects to migrate data from different clients to GCP
• Proficient in AWS services like VPC, EC2, S3, ELB, AutoScalingGroup (ASG), EBS, RDS, IAM, CloudFormation, Route 53, CloudWatch, CloudFront, CloudTrail.
• Experienced in creating multiple VPC’s and public, private subnets as per requirement and distributed them as groups into various availability zones of the VPC.
• Created NAT gateways and instances to allow communication from the private instances to the internet through bastion hosts.
• Involved in writing Amazon Lambda to manage some of the AWS services.
• Used security groups, network ACLs, internet gateways and route tables to ensure a secure zone for organizations in AWS public cloud.
• Created and configured elastic load balancers and auto-scaling groups to distribute the traffic and to have a cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and highly available environment.
• Created S3 buckets in the AWS environment to store files and configured S3 buckets with various life cycle policies to archive the infrequently accessed data to storage classes based on requirements.
• Possess good knowledge in creating and launching EC2 instances using AMI’s of Linux, Ubuntu, RHEL, and Windows

Senior Systems Engineer

Confidential, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Responsibilities:

• Designed the Cerillion Telecom Architecture and migrated the platform to a new Confidential PowerHA Cluster.
• Build and maintained PowerHA clusters for six Caribbean countries
• Solicited, developed and maintained the HMC
• Developed new products and monitoring dashboards like Nagios saving the company $500,000 a year.
• Worked with front end support teams when billing issues arose
• Oversaw security compliance and championed SOX audit on servers
• Managed different teams of engineers and support teams offshore
• Managed risk mitigation, business continuity and conducted a thorough risk assessment
• Conducted security vulnerabilities using tools like Tanium
• Provisioned and managed cloud infrastructure on AWS
• Strengthened user information by implementing high standard password policies and authentication.
• Worked with software teams on payment solutions and other apps using agile.

Systems Administrator

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

Responsibilities:

• Worked and managed different IT teams to designed and managed infrastructural needs based on the client’s specifications.
• Headed and managed the replacement of Walmart’s IT infrastructure worldwide.
• Took full responsibility for configuration, installation, patching, and maintenance of production environments and reducing downtimes by 70%.
• Managed ticketing systems and ensured timely resolution of tickets in Remedy 7
• Worked on Walmart’s migration team which replaced hardware and software and backup systems.
• Maintained daily production tasks and monitored processes using Nagios

System Engineer Team Lead

Confidential, Dubuque, Iowa

Responsibilities:

• Oversaw the recruiting and operations of new employees
• Contributed to the original startup team and increased revenue from $1 million to $3 million in overall projects
• Trained new employees and built new IT infrastructures such as Vios and Lpars for different businesses
• Exceeded plans for growth, achieved sales of $10 million within the third year together with our team.
• Assigned tickets and tracked customer satisfaction using internal KPI
• Worked with different technologies such as PowerHA, TSM, VIO, HMC, Comvault etc.
• Installed, configured and maintained IT systems

Business Process Specialist

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Responsibilities:

• Worked with 10 business units in the Electronic and Communication Department
• Standardized E&C Dashboards from V-lookups to INDEX functions
• Improved metrics and prompt corrective actions when the actual goal was not met
• Worked with the IT teams to transfer E&C system from Lotus Notes to SharePoint
• Designed process diagrams and trained administrators on the new changes.
• Converted all V-lookup formulas to basic writing formulas to be used in SharePoint
• Calculated tolerance levels and data clean up.
• Worked with IT to expand SharePoint to other departments.

Field Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created a social safety net fund for workers to provide healthcare and educational needs for their families.
• Led a team that drove revenue from $5 million to $12 million in 2005 on cocoa production
• Coordinated the review and evaluation of production data and employee performance in accordance with existing quality assurance and safety criteria.
• Verified, revised, updated and implemented all Standard Operational and Safety procedures to accommodate and improve quality enhancement operations.
• Ensured policies and procedures are monitored and updated to include regulatory changes.
• Directed and oversaw short-term and long-term planning of regulatory submission initiatives.
• Negotiated with outside agencies as needed to resolve key regulatory and price issues.
• Liaised with maintenance to coordinate quality, operational and safety standards of all production equipment and assist in qualitative data analysis.
• Coordinated and assisted in the management of qualitative data providing appropriate updates.