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.