SUMMARY:

• Accomplished IT executive with over 20 years of experience who is skilled at leading the development, deployment and support of robust technical services, systems administrations, and architectures across multiple industries and platforms to include, technology, financial, real estate, healthcare, government contracting and telecommunication services.
• Offering a unique combination of strategic technology vision, business acumen, and tactical leadership to consistently deliver to plan and bring value to the organization.
• Lead System Administration - Over 20 years in system administration, leading teams and mentoring Junior Administrators.
• Improving overall quality and performance through the use of shell scripting creating tools to monitor and check the health of the systems.
• Setting up SLA’s and team career path training programs.
• Change Management Process (Human Side) - Setting up a transparent process so that everyone should know exactly what is going on. There are a few methods of how to do this. Review and understand all requirements and how it will have an effect on the organization. Find out who the affected people or groups are and have a kick off meeting to introduce the resource team to those that will be affected by the project. Explain what people can expect over the life of the project. Actively listen to their concerns and communicated out how we can overcome their concerns. Give the users and stakeholders of what they can expect from myself and the team and give regular updates by email and follow up with conference calls or personal calls as needed. Also have a SharePoint sight of what the project is and reinforce the project goals and next steps so everyone at any moment can see where the project is at.
• Enterprise Systems Innovation- track record for implementing cutting-edge solutions that solve business issues while controlling costs and risk; advanced knowledge in Cloud and virtualization architectures and Enterprise wide initiatives.
• Cloud Architecture - Proven track record in designing / Implementing and Monitoring cloud technologies on both VMWare and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Technology Services Expertise- across multiple industries, and understand the various lines of business, system requirements, compliance and regulations. Strong technical background in infrastructure technologies and planning.
• Project Management (PM) / Project Management Organization (PMO) - Solid foundation of project initiation, planning, budgeting, monitoring, configuration management, risk identification, verification, testing and remediation with a strong emphasis on coordination and reporting skills. Planned projects over 3 Million.
• People Management- motivated leader who has built, developed and managed high-performing IT teams. Very strong interpersonal skills with an ability to develop strong partnership with stakeholders and harvest strong relationships with internal technical resources across organizational departments and business lines.
• Business Analyst- Documentation and business requirement skills, advanced analysis skills across all integrated Oracle modules and partner interfaces. Ability to perform and document complex data analysis across multiple system platforms.
• Expertise in- Strategic IT planning; enterprise, data center, virtualization architectures; risk and cost controls; Harvesting relationships and customer management; change management; quality management; staff development and leadership; project management; solution testing, resource and management.
• Civic Involvement: Council of Governors, Little Theatre of Alexandria (Alexandria, Virginia), Forte Leadership, Mclean Orchestra (McLean, Virginia), En Pointe Leadership, BalletNOVA (Falls Church, Virginia).
• Professional Achievements: Speaking Engagements; Society of CPAs, Northern Virginia Chapter December 2011, Spoke on How to Select a Cloud Computing Company, South African Government 2007, Premier of the Eastern Province, Gave speech on Black Empowerment and development
• Awards: National Leadership Award - 2001, Business Advisory Council Honorary Co-Chairman.
• Professional Memberships: Project Management Institute - Since 2016, Toastmasters International - Since 2012.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: UNIX / Linux packages: SCO XENIX, SCO UNIX, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, HP HP-UX, Sequent Dynix, OpenSuSE 10 - 12.3, Redhat RHEL 6.5 SuSE Enterprise Server 9.x 10.x, Windows Desktops / Servers

Systems Software and Protocols: System Software and Protocols: TCP/IP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, DNS, NFS, NIS, BIND, POSTFIX, Sendmail, SSH, SSL, XRDP, VI, VIM, EXIM, Telnet, FTP, DHCP, SAMBA, LDAP, cvs, LAMP

Networking: CISCO Ironport C170 email appliance, CISCO routers, Juniper Firewalls, NSLOOKUP, Ping, Tracerout

Databases: Oracle 12c, 11g, MySQL

Web Servers: Weblogic, Apache LAMP, Jboss

Programming: C, C++, Shell Scripting, Bash, Ksh, perl, IOS/ Xcodes / Swift, Web Programming (HTML, PHP)

Cloud: Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2, S3, Route 53, DevOps, VPC, CloudFormation, CloudFront, CloudWatch, VMWare Vsphere

Roles: System Administration, Technical Support/ Management, Project Management

Common Applications: All Standard Microsoft Products (Office, Projects, Visio), Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, In-design, MS Project 2012 Server, MS Share Point 2012

Processes: SLDC, Agile / Scrum

Industry Knowledge: Financial, Telecommunications, Real Estate, Government Contracting

Service/Change Management (ITSM): Remedy, Service Now

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Chief Architect

• Responsible for the day to day operation and support of Virtual servers and clients utilizing cloud technologies both on VMware and AWS.
• Analyze, design and implement, configuration and testing new servers using a mixture of Linux and Windows servers depending on the client needs.
• Project management of client support and reporting on migrations and upgrades based on the Agile/ SCRUM process.
• Design/ implement/ maintaining and monitoring of network infrastructure on the cloud using DNS (Route 53), NFS (S3), Web servers (EC2) Active Directory, XRDP, Email Servers (AWS WorkMail, MS Exchange Server), and Apache2.
• 24x7 Support of clients Enterprises, using cross platform UNIX / Linux / Windows (Solaris, IBM AIX, HP-UX, Redhat, SuSE) environment using VMWare and AWS platforms. Support was included for Desktop / Laptop / MAC / and Mobile Devices.
• Essentially Responsible for Project Manage all client migrations to the cloud by closely monitoring the needs of the client and matching them to the actually server configuration and data needs. Ongoing monitor and Maintenance of servers in the cloud.

Confidential, Mclean, Virgnia

Project Manager II

• Served as planning liaison between enterprise teams and L2 and L3 Production Support Teams to Migrated SAN from IBM to EMC SAN across all portfolios at Fannie Mae.
• Insured Fannie Mae application infrastructure is moving to cloud and is virtualized.
• Contributed to success by leading projects within the Technology infrastructure and Production Services.
• Communicated with Stakeholders and End Users to balance priorities of development team rollouts and enterprise management upgrades.
• Reported to the Director of IT issues and resolutions as they occurred.
• Worked closely with Systems Administration teams mentoring them to work more efficiently through the use of shell scripts to migrate servers more quickly and improve downtime.

Confidential, Sterling, Virginia

• Migrate existing users, computers, and applications of legacy domain controllers in the US BU Offices onto AMS.com at a functional forest level of 2012 R2.
• Drew infrastructure initiatives that improve the company's overall operational stability and efficiency.
• Worked with externalized Infrastructure-as-a-Service vendors.
• Retired 13 physical servers across 10 different locations and distribute the remaining servers between the Primary Domain Controllers (PDC) and Office POD’s for resiliency/redundancy and secure these infrastructure servers using PDC Trend Micro, HIDs, FIM, Anti-Virus, SIEM Arc Sight solutions and Nessus Scans.
• Created Project SharePoint page for documentation using MS SharePoint 2012.
• Planned for Project created using MS Project 2012.