SUMMARY:

Proactive and multi - certified IT Professional and Architect with progressive solutions architecture and technical systems expertise accrued in 15+ years in Enterprise Networking roles seeks an opportunity to flex project management skills in contract roles. Offers a wealth of expertise in best practices for networking on Microsoft, Solaris, Linux Technological Platforms with a demonstrable talent for translating business-end requirements into workable technical solutions. Brings proven performance in root cause analysis in challenging environments, scrutinizing processes, procedures and technologies to advance performance.

EXPERTISE IN:

• Strategic IT Planning
• Infrastructure Administration
• BDR
• Migration Management
• Disaster Recovery Planning
• Business Requirements Gathering
• Project Management Methodologies
• Resource Planning & Prioritization
• Risk Assessment & Mitigation
• Functional & Technical Specifications
• Solutions Development & Testing
• Data Center Design & Operations
• Client Relationship Management
• Data Center Migration
• Vendor Management
• Budgeting & Cost Control
• Cross-functional Team Leadership
• Emerging Technology Analysis

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Act as a Technical Design Authority; working on the definition, assurance and governance of client solutions.
• Tasked to analyze stakeholder requirements for complex systems - from both functional and non-functional perspectives and architect and deliver optimal solutions
• Determine integrated applications, network and architecture solutions that meet performance, usability, scalability, reliability, and security needs
• Coordinate the design and integration of total system including subsystems. Research and recommend technology to improve the current systems
• Understand the needs of the business and determine the best technical solutions leveraging the current capabilities aligning with strategic objectives.
• Scope and identify project deliverables, and create project-specific documentation such as functional specifications, technical specifications, Run books and scope documents etc
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to the teams for project level architectures and design work
• Prepare and present oral and/or written technical reports and project presentations.
• Drive Innovative Business Improvements and develop new insights into solutions that result in organizational improvements; promote a work environment that fostered creative thinking, innovation and rational risk-taking.
• Balance Immediate and Long-Term Priorities, Seek to meet critical objectives while considering the impact of those decisions and activities on the ability to achieve long-term goals.

SR. F5/ APPLICATION SECURITY CONSULTANT

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Available 24X7 for working on critical issues and deployment.
• Responsible for architecting, maintaining and enhancing Suncor’s VPN connectivity for over 10,000 users and external vendors.

• Participated actively in cross-function Infrastructure teams to help solve issues involving various technologies spanning multiple work groups; consulting with project engineers/managers to ensure infrastructure is appropriately deployed and utilized in delivering applications and technology solutions
• Analyzed and improve services levels Audit problem and change records for process compliance.
• Architected Solutions and lead efforts to implement the appropriate BDR environments levereraging the appropriate set of infrastructure standards and resource
• Provided support to install code to system test and production to ensure maximum supportability by applying best practices.
• Acted as SME in data center migration and consolidation.
• Managed and update SSL Certificates and Keys on F5 devices. Serve as SME on all security issues.
• Performed infrastructure technical analysis, design review, and provided implementation plans on proposed logical and physical designs.

MANAGER / SR. NETWORK & INFRASTRUCTURE ARCHITECT

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led F5 Big IP LTM migration from 1500 to 6900 by directing requirement analysis to transition the technology and circumvent technology challenges, leveraging expertise in load balancing architecture.
• Interfaced with vendors to manage the project implementation while coordinating with security to fore front zero downtime migration of this critical application.
• Selected to devise IT policies and implementation plan as the Infrastructure Manager, leading the design and technical solutions engineering to stabilize the application layer.
• Met goals of matching a 50-80% growth requirement to accelerate corporate expansion by introducing VMware, leading the planning and implementation of enterprise class VMware solutions running over 150 VMs.
• Increased infrastructure performance and slashed downtime by migrating application servers to newly implemented NetApp 2040 and EMC VNX SAN, increasing application storage and functionality.
• Collaborated with development team to enhance security system development, implement web content filtering on the Juniper and Palo alto firewall
• Designed Active Directory domain Windows 2003 to 2008. Managed domains across three different site
• Led resource planning and productivity reviews to zero-in on departmental operating objectives while developing roadmaps, policies, design standards and frameworks across the domains of Network & IT infrastructure.
• Created security procedures and developed Change Management policies to implement request tickets, standardizing helpdesk team change management tactics and improving technical change management.
• Directed management of two data centers infrastructure in Chicago and Toronto while fronting leadership and direction to junior team members, evaluating skill sets by planning staff-led technology and business presentations.

SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Recruited to lead an ambitious datacenter transition from internal Waterloo centers to a Q9 hosting centre in Brampton, managed server identification and service review while identifying connectivity in networks and environments.
• Instrumental member of an expansive project team, liaising with managers, internal network, server teams and windows team to lead risk assessment on 1000+ legacy servers.

SR. INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Tasked to migrated Confidential site to an in-house datacenter, leading network infrastructure planning, vendor and customer management, and security coordination for server transportation.
• Instrumental project member to design network routing for the new in-house datacenter, resulting in improved hands on access to site management and increased operations savings.
• Led the restructure, deployment and maintenance of BGP using Cisco 3600 routers and Juniper Netscreen 502 firewall to equip infrastructure with effective security following relocations.
• Fore-fronted secure data transfer using SFTP, PGP and installed and refreshed SSL certificates on F5 load balancers and servers to ensure top-line performance and scalability.
• Enhanced server performance by leading UAT, production and Disaster Recovery planning, coordinating fiber and VPN connections, building out failover design strategy and maintaining a unique production replica DR site.

ENTERPRISE MESSAGING SUPPORT ENGINEER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Strategically manage the configuration of Exchange Server 2000/2003/2007 in Front End/ Back End and Cluster environment, improving customer service reviews with key clients
• Project managed critical corrections to MS Exchange store and mail errors box, zeroing in on error root causes by replicating errors in lab environment using Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 and Virtual PC 2004/2007
• Analyzed customer needs and deployed Active sync, RPC/HTTPS, OWA on Exchange Server based on requirements, additionally leading the design and deploy of Windows Active Directory Infrastructure.

NETWORK ENGINEER

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Contracted to lead emergency response to network outages, managing the installation, configuration and administration of Windows servers, leading project management of network cabling implementation using CAT 5e, and directing remote upgrades of all Windows client PCs.
• Hired to design and implement a network spanning 25 branch offices and head office locations and led the deployment and configuration of Dell servers and personal computers, installing Windows 2000 and Windows XP network operating system and managing a Tax preparation application.