Manager, Cloud Architecture. Infrastructure Automation Resume Washington, D.C - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Certified AWS Solutions Architect and VMware VCAP professional providing expert technical support and thought leadership to Commercial and U.S. Federal government customers and leads efforts for teh modernization of infrastructure, improvement of service delivery, and implementation of private/public/hybrid cloud best practices in Federal Services, Media/Technology and Financial Services. Excels in complex environments and quickly adapts

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Washington, D.C

Manager, Cloud Architecture. Infrastructure Automation

Responsibilities:

Built a MVP/POC integrating an end-to-end process of automated infrastructure in a non-production multiple cloud provider solution between AWS, OpenStack, GCP and Digital Ocean. First, by building development instances and networks in Vagrant and deploying with Terraform and AWS CLI. Maintained linted version control via Git repository and single continuous integration/delivery pipeline with Jenkins. Developed and wrote Chef cookbooks including ChefSpec unit testing, along with Ansible playbooks and Puppet manifests to control post deployment immutability and idempotent configuration. Beta integration with Docker containers, Vault and Consul key-stores.
Managed a small NetSec off-shore team in IDC to transition operations from client to Accenture outsourcing.
Facilitated client workshops and questionnaires to capture new Business Development ventures by crafting a multi-workstream solution dat would modernize and cut costs of a Defense Contractor’s aging Infrastructure.

Confidential

Technical Account Manager

Responsibilities:

Delivered competitive advantage, emphasizing best practices, through Business and Data Center transformation implementing and architecting complete multi-node high-availability, fault-tolerant VMware vSphere 5.1 & 5.5 virtualized cluster environment including Active Directory, DNS, DHCP servers, ESXi hosts, NFS/VMFS NAS & iSCSI, RHEL/SuSE/Ubuntu Linux and Windows 2008 R2 server guest OSes.
Developed stress tests on Virtual Machines for CPU, Memory, Disk me/O & Network Traffic utilization for performance tuning and monitoring supplementing an audit for consolidation, business continuity, and disaster recovery scripting (Shell/PowerShell) & automation (Puppet/Chef) of workloads/workflows. VCAP5-DCA certified.

Confidential, New York, NY

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Piloted Technical Account Manager role for Confidential to migrate Confidential ’s client relations from a reactive, problem-solving role, to a proactive consultative relationship for issue resolution.
Generated ~$3 Million in annual revenue managing technical aspects of corporate client relationships such as Credit Suisse First Boston, Goldman Sachs, Instinet, and Marsh & McLennan.
Resolved crucial global firewall issues for CSFB and secured a $1 million/year customer support contract.
Proactively managed firewall and security issues to minimize problem escalation with Client contracts valued at approximately $1 million/year.
Created customized client crisis contingency plans based on Pareto principals and on best practice remedies.