SUMMARY:

• A motivated, accomplished, results - driven professional seeking to leverage full spectrum IT experience while accruing further skills and competencies in projects of increasing scope and complexity.
• I am the proud proprietor of fully functional interpersonal, communications and analytical skills with a demonstrable bias toward action.
• I enjoy troubleshooting and putting together efficient, effective systems and teams. Scalability, simplicity, repeatability, automation are concepts I like to build into my work.
• As a versatile and patient fast-learner I am gratefully well-suited to a profession which I find to be greatly rewarding and am always looking to contribute to the team and a smooth operation.
• I speak and write English and Spanish fluently.
• INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGN, DEPLOYMENT & MANAGEMENT, DEVOPS
• Amazon Web Services (EC2,S3, CloudFront,VPC,RDS,Redshift, R53, etc).
• Azure Ansible
• Full Stack Hybrid Cloud Architecture/Implementation/Maintenance
• Wired Network Design, Diagnostics, Maintenance, Optimization
• Wireless Local Area Networks (Centrally Managed and Autonomous)
• Security - Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Assessment
• Disaster Prevention and Recovery Gap Analysis
• Cisco, Juniper, Sonicwall Firewall & Router Administration (RIP,OSPF,EIGRP,BGP)
• Switching environment design and maintenance (VLANs,VTP, STP, MSTP)
• Managed Desktop Design and Deployment
• TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, WINS design, deployment, troubleshooting
• Server Design/Assembly/Maintenance (Legacy, Virtual)
• Data Replication Technologies
• Management Systems and Automation
• VPN/Secure Remote Access
• Powershell/C# on .NET/PHP /Google Go
• Release Automation
• Big Data (500GB+ DBs) /Application Load Balancing/High Availability Design
• SNMP Monitoring/Management/Alerting
• CLIENT-SERVER ENVIRONMENT ADMINISTRATION & SUPPORT
• Microsoft Windows Server System Farms
• Microsoft Hyper-V
• VMWare ESX Hypervisor
• Microsoft Active Directory/Group Policy Management
• Microsoft Exchange Server
• Microsoft Windows
• Linux Systems
• Microsoft Terminal Services Planning and Deployment
• Citrix Presentation Server Design, Deployment, Administratio
• Microsoft IIS/SQL Deployment, Administration
• Linux/Apache/mySQL Administration
• High Availability/Clustering Design/Deployment/Administration
• STORAGE, BACKUP & DATA MANAGEMENT
• Symantec/Veritas BackupExec & ReplicationExec, Veeam
• Storage Replication, High Availability, Backup design. iSCSI/Fiber SAN Planning, Deployment & Management
• Dell/EMC SAN Systems and Data Management, Navisphere, Recoverpoint
• PROJECT MANAGEMENT
• Microsoft Project - Project design, organization, planning, budgeting and direction.
• Microsoft Visio - Documentation production.
• Agile Methodologies

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provide full stack hybrid cloud devops services.
• Design, Develop, Maintain CI/CD/Test and IT Operations across local and cloud environments.
• On the Systems/Networking side (routing,switching,storage, server administration, edge security, exchange, active directory, provisioning, deprov, etc.)
• Introduced Splunk, Ansible, and cross-cloud dynamic test environments as POC’s that were promptly adopted into full production enterprise-wide.
• Responsible for development of tool that dynamically provisions environments for test automation, orchestration.
• I would love to provide more detail in this section, but I am currently pressed for time. If I am of interest, please let me know and I would be happy to oblige. )

Confidential

Senior DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provide oversight to the leadership, vision and long range goals/objectives of IT infrastructure, applications and delivery, including datacenter, systems, databases, voice/data network and server environments.
• Provide efficient management oversight of all server systems (databases, data networks, capacity planning, network design, security implementations) and prepare/present annual budgets, forecasts and system performance reviews.
• Provide guidance toward the ongoing analysis, design and implementation of new IT systems and infrastructure.
• Provide clients with web based solutions to business challenges.
• Gather requirements from different business areas through the design, development, testing, delivery, and monitoring phases.
• Communicate with clients in order to provide them with the understanding they need to make well informed, business decisions.

Confidential

Sr. Systems Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Direct and oversee implementation, design, standardization and documentation of companywide technical architecture and design and implement datacenters, servers and networks, applications and data solutions are consistent with corporate/business/and/or departmental objectives.
• Automate build and deployment processes in a hybrid (AWS + proprietary) hosting environment.
• Lead/Mentor all personnel involved in IT services such as functional systems administration and troubleshooting, capacity planning and load management, security assessments and threat resolution, monitoring and resolution of reliability and performance issues, user support, and infrastructure maintenance at the system level and for individual hardware and/or software components Manage, Design, and Administer Microsoft SQL Server databases including writing, testing, implementing, and maintaining Shell scripts, and network and server tasks Provide infrastructure support, application and server configuration and monitoring, and database administration support for a cloud based software company.
• Forecast new and emerging technologies to determine suitability for current and future multiple internal teams to ensure all company and product online computing needs are met
• Provide planning, designing and testing strategies for disaster recovery procedures including conceptualizing and planning of the datacenters and related systems
• Design,Implement log parsing, aggregation and analysis tools and integration with existing monitoring systems (Zabbix,Nagios,Splunk) Plan
• Develop, and Document best practices and operating procedures Lead in the selection of, design, and implementation of new computer equipment, including servers, data storage systems, and backup systems, as well as the systems software that runs on those server Designs, implements, and manages both local and wide-area networks of machines spanning multiple datacenters on multiple continents Implemented release management system for production applications, continuous integration for development environments.

Confidential

Lead Systems and Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provide direction, support to a team of desktop support engineers, systems engineers, DBAs, a messaging engineers to ensure process, workflow.
• Responsible for on-premises physical and private cloud servers and infrastructure, as well as hybrid/public cloud resources in satisfaction of business needs.
• Direct report to CTO. Perform full spectrum network audit for a globally distributed multiple site network environment, identify, document, communicate issues.
• Manage Switching and Routing infrastructure for Thomas’ business units, ensuring the smooth operation of the organization’s voice and data network in order to provide maximum performance and availability for system users.
• Provide high-level support for voice and data network systems and technical staff, create and maintain network documentation, hardware and software standards, develop projects as needed in order to upgrade to new and/or improved communication equipment and procedures.
• Propose, Design, Deploy, Maintain Linux based open sourced SNMP management framework. Distributed monitoring for network devices, server health, and front-end website availability, monitoring, and remediation. Web Services and API development using REST/SOAP Propose, Design, Deploy, Maintain Linux based network device configuration backup, diff, and versioning system. Lead research, design, development of Virtual Hybrid Cloud Initiative/Diaster Recovery Overhaul project.
• Integrating local VMWare ESX on Netapp + Homegrown iSCSI SANs with Amazon EC2, MS Azure. Deploy BGP multihoming with failover and IP address relocation for NY and PA sites.
• Cisco Nexus 7000, Cisco 4507,Cisco 6509, Cisco ASR Series, Cisco ASA, Cisco 5508 WLC, Extreme BlackDiamond 8810, Juniper ISG-1000,Juniper SSG-550,Cisco 2900,3700 IOS Switches, Extreme Summit Switches. Monitors and optimizes deployed infrastructure and proactively addresses problems
• Responsible for web application & network performance and reliability. Oversight on development and maintenance of documentation of deployed infrastructure and related maintenance, installation and configuration procedures. Provides “end of the line” support per request from various constituencies and investigates problems.
• Implements and maintains monitoring tools and manages metrics and reporting for systems infrastructure
• Performs ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades and resource optimization as required and configures CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required. Designs, configures and installs all network components such as switches, routers, appliances, servers, and other network systems components.
• Develops test plans, matrices, and platforms to examine functionality, performance and viability of those components.