SUMMARY

• Consistently recognized as a well - qualified, dynamic, and eminently successful Engineer and Operations lead wif more than 12 years of comprehensive experience.
• Possesses a highly evolved technical and hands-on interactive skill set. Proactive and results- oriented, able to reliably apply diligent attention to details resulting in superior customer service.
• Well-versed in maintaining a high level of personal drive, coupled wif a confident nature and an aggressive attitude in achieving results.
• Capable of providing effective leadership and management for all tasks, projects, teams, and initiatives.

Core Competencies

Azure |Inspirational | Team Leadership | Eliminating Silos | Improving Software Engineering and Delivery Processes | Data Center Assessments and Architecture | Data Center Infrastructure Optimization | Designing, Planning, and Implementing Large Data Migrations | Managing Deployments and Sustainability of Large Infrastructure Projects | Hardware Lifecycle Management including Consolidation and Virtualization | ITIL V3 Intermediate Certified/VMware Certified | Building/Configuring Complex Environments | AD; DNS; DHCP; SQL; SharePoint; DAX; Biztalk; Clustered (HA) Environments | IT Service Management/Delivery | McAfee ePO Specialist | Strategic Planning | Multitasking | Working in Fast-paced Environments | Problem Resolution | Communication

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Infrastructure consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead technical discussions wif senior customer executives dat drive decisions and implementation approaches
• Convey and report project status to all C-level executives plus IT management inclusive of budget, risks and issues
• Review and manage technical requirements and business functional requirements
• Ensure to stabilize developed solutions utilizing firm’s procedures in complex client environments
• Plan/Design teh refresh of client end of Life infrastructure (which includes O/S(Windows/VMware) & Hardware)
• Implement, manage and maintain all aspects of IT Infrastructure including Server Hardware, capacity planning, Software, Business Applications, Infrastructure Services, End user computing, etc.
• Maintaining Security across all farms including vulnerability patching

Cloud Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Helping clients wif their Journey to cloud (Azure), planned and implemented a hybrid cloud services.
• Design, Install, Administer and Optimize hybrid cloud components to ensure business continuity (me.e., Azure AD, ADFS, SSO & VPN Gateways)
• Worked on Azure AD connect to sync on-premises AD user data, groups and organizations to Azure AD and troubleshoot Azure services sync wif on-premise AD and resync using teh Azure tools
• Planned/Implemented Azure IaaS, SaaS & PaaS solutions while contributing to teh architecture decisions which include various components like Azure SQL, VPN/Firewall, Kubernetes etc...
• Involved in security scan/Vulnerability assessments across azure environments and developed mitigation plans
• Designed & Implemented RBAC across Azure environments according to teh Organization security standards and created custom roles/groups wherever required.
• Worked on Configuring teh Azure Load Balancer, Internal Load Balancer and Traffic Manager and Application Gateway

CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE/INFRASTRUCTURE OPERATIONS LEAD

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Plan/manage Production/non-production defect deployments and Microsoft patching; manage daily activities/projects wifin teh IO team for all environments; and initiate/chair recurring client meetings to ensure open communications and an understanding of expectations.
• Tasked wif providing support for teams in production/non-production environments including Azure, HP 3 Par SAN, HP 7000 Blade Chassis (as well as Blades), HP ProLiant Servers, VMware ESX 6.5, and Windows (2500+ servers).
• Hands on wif User/Change & Problem/Defect management processes
• Communicated IO activities between environment users to ensure dat release teams, operations, clients, and sub-contractors are aligned in current activities.
• Serve as teh Azure PM for Infrastructure and Deployment.

IT TRANSIT AUTHORITY INFRASTRUCTURE/OPERATIONS SPECIALIST

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As an IT Infrastructure Specialist, charged wif liaising wif Client and Technical Architecture leads in teh evaluation and definition of teh infrastructure, hosting strategy roadmaps, technical environment strategies, non-functional requirements, infrastructure capacity planning, technical blueprint, and implementation plans.
• In teh role of Data Architect, analyzed, designed, and managed teh infrastructure build in support of teh client’s Business Intelligence initiative.

INFRASTRUCTURE BUILD & DEPLOYMENT SPECIALIST

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for 25+ high-end enterprise physical servers and more than 500 virtual servers employing Hyper-V/SCVMM), and other project related infrastructure such as switches and firewalls.
• Installed, configured, and maintained application servers including Microsoft Dynamics AX, BizTalk, SQL, and SharePoint in high availability mode (Microsoft Clustering/Load balancing) across multiple environments and project locations.
• Directed teh installation, configuration, and maintenance of Microsoft System Centre Suite tools like SCVMM, SCOM, SCCM, and SCSM.
• Oversaw large data migration activities between multiple systems/versions of teh application; accountable for modifying existing builds, localization, and deployment automation scripts; and supported deployments in production and nonproduction environments.

SYSTEMS ENGINEER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Charged wif installing/administering Windows 2008 servers, and Active Directory 2003/2008; completed SQL Server 2005/2008 installations, DB backups, restores, job configurations, SQL user creations, mapping DB security roles, and updating OS and security patches.
• Maintained/administered three ESXi Servers for teh entire infrastructure using VM tools including VM Analyzer and VSphere; managed virtual servers and oversaw teh full DR system.
• Managed DNS and DHCP Servers wif IIS/IAS Servers; maintained database servers; created/troubleshot user issues; supported teh leased line Internet for all clients wifout zero disconnections; and maintained 150 IBM systems.
• Held accountable for planning, configuring, and troubleshooting domain controllers and DNS.
• Planned, implemented, and maintained OUs, GPO, and DFS.