SUMMARY
- I am a driven, hardworking individual who has over 25 years’ experience in the IT industry, with emphasis on infrastructure architecture.
- I have excellent communication, troubleshooting, creative problem solving, and time management skills.
- I am dedicated and a self - motivated person who works well individually or as an energetic team member.
- I adapt quickly to new concepts, am reliable, and have flexible working hours.
- I hold a unique and rare blend of consulting, engineering and development skills, enabling the delivery of “best-of-class” automation solutions, monitoring facilities, custom metrics reporting, and troubleshooting tools.
- I am seeking employment with a company where I can grow both personally and professionally.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential
DDI Solutions Architect, Senior Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Enhancing Architecture with design expertise to various companies throughout USA and Canada
- As a 24 year DDI/Certified expert with QIP, Infoblox and Bluecat, I provided my expertise to various customers and value
- Wrote SOW’s to various companies. Created low-level design documentation and execution planning
- Provided hands-on configuration and troubleshooting to our various clients
- Provided deployment guidance to ensure implementations are consistent with design specifications
- Understanding business challenges, goals, and environment
- Mentor other staff members
- Support for major issues SME and Senior experiences
Confidential
IPAM Engineering SME Infoblox
Responsibilities:
- Lead role ( SME ) of new DDI roll-out which included aligning all vendors to begin POC testing and validate BNY requirements.
- Design/create Installation of a Test Acceptance Plan to present to the CTO and other high level management.
- Produce formal written architecture documentation based on project needs
- As the SME, I was in the front line of this highly critical design solutions.
- Monitored and raised risks that may inhibit solution delivery from other key people, engineering and architecture teams.
- Designing the blueprint for all the individual applications to be developed or enhanced, their interactions, and their relationships to the New and existing core business processes of the organization
- Build/designed rack location of the 3 new Greenfield Data Centers which will house the new equipment and route all new traffic to new IP network.
- Design and Architected the entire Infoblox Roll-out for entire bank
- Lead a team of 15 members to assist and participate in business requirements definition and the technical designs I have created.
- Merged 3 QIP Organizations into one.
- Migration of all QIP DNS and DHCP to Infoblox
- With various custom scripting I have developed all legacy QIP data into Infoblox as one whole. This took skill, and expertise to merge data without missing any key data.
- Designed and re-built legacy DNS Anycast from OSPF to BGP as this was the new model going to the new datacenters.
- API automation for VDI clients
- Ongoing design changes to meet Federal Guidelines
- Monthly DR testing
- Integration of all Infoblox into Cloud, AWS, Azure, govcloud and GPC
- Developed a prototype of PowerDNS in Azure, offload to where events triggered in Azure drive automation to perform operations such as creating A records and making entries in IDIP.
- API scripting for Cloud team to pre-provision desktops.
- (TSD Traffic Management) for specific CNAME’s (x.imt-aws.com) can be applied to the www.X-company.com
- Work with Asset Management Technology (AMT) hosting sites in AWS
- Python scripting for various tasks among IDIP Team (IT Directory of Inventory Products)
- Enhancing Architecture with design expertise
- Develop a DNS solution for public cloud needs.
- Scripting of various EA’( extensible attributes-metadata descriptors) to match and populate Tenant ID as an example.
- Developed a script for clarity count of NetBrain IPs with what matches with Infoblox. With any records (e.g. A Records, CNAME) etc..
- Extensive scripting and processing of over 7 million address’s that have been “band-aid” over the years into Various QIP Organizations.
- Processing and collapsing of DHCP profiles
- Implemented DNS Anycast on BGP company wide
- Windows Active Directory customization into Infoblox, with advanced ACL
- Importing data that were kept on Spreadsheets, processed data into Infoblox readable format
- Trained BNYMellon staff on how to use and maintain Infoblox
- API scripting for cloud team to pre-provision desktops.
- Cybersecurity with Infoblox RPZ and Threat Insight
- Ecosystem Integration with SIEM
- THREAT INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM (TIP) Integration, Threat-Connect, Qualys
- Python/Perl scripting for various tasks and integrations across all of company
- Support for major issues SME and Senior experiences
- Enhancing Architecture with design expertise
- Assured completeness of deployment and implementation plans of new infrastructure, network and platforms to all key players throughout this continued major project.
- External DNS and protection from DNS attacks
Confidential
Security Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Planning, design and deployment of Infoblox using best practices
- SolarWinds to Infoblox Migration
- Knowledge Transfer
- Actively contribute knowledge, tools, and techniques to internal teams
- Provided product feedback to product management
Confidential
Security Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Migration conversions from Cisco ACE to A10 Thunder ADC
- Migration conversions from f5 to A10
- Global Server Load Balancing
- Layer 4 Load Balancing and Session Persistence
- SSL Protocol/Certificate Management
- SSL Offload (client/server ssl) and SSL Proxy Persistant
- ADC perform advanced switching (Layer 2 ) functions: for vlan tagging and untagging. Static and dynamic Ethernet link aggregation. Static trunks Dynamic trunks via LACP.