SUMMARY:

• Seasoned Engineer with 15+ years’ experience in a wide variety of Technologies and Industry verticals. Strong ability to understand technology concepts and translate them into solutions that solve real business and technology problems and needs.
• Highly effective IT Engineer\Manager with over 17 years of experience directing technical experts in design and deployment of high - performance computing environments and complete IT infrastructure. Recognized for leadership in project planning, scheduling, prioritization, contingency and risk planning, and emergency response. Excellent troubleshooting and problem solving skills.
• Cloud solution providers (Azure and AWS), Storage, Virtualization, Replication, Backup / Restore, Disaster Recovery, Fibre and Ethernet Networking, Datacentre Design, Microsoft Technologies, Security.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technologies: Windows Server (all versions), MS SQL 2000, 2005 and 2008, SharePoint (all versions), VMWare, HyperV, WebSphere, IIS (all versions), EMC SANs, Dell, Broadcom and Cisco Ethernet switching, Cisco Fiber networking, Cisco ASA Firewalls, Barracuda VPN and Proxy servers, RSA Secure Token systems, Castle FaxPress, KnowledgeLake SharePoint Document Management, SCOM, MOM, OpsMan, VMM, Lync, MS Office apps, MS Office Web Apps (SP 2010), MS Licensing, Dell, IBM, HP servers. RAID, Wise Thin clients, Windows Thin PC, Windows desktop OS (all versions). SQL Clustering (all versions), MS Clustering technologies (all versions), BiGIP F5 and many more

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Cary, NC

SQL DBA|Enterprise Architect|Senior IT Operations Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Plan, Design, Implement, Manage, Monitor, Trend and maintain Confidential Production SaaS and cloud systems.
• Work with Development teams on poor performing SQL, software and hardware when needed.
• Lots of work with Hybrid Cloud solutions utilizing Microsoft’s Azure platform and Office 365.
• Disaster Recovery
• Business Continuity
• SharePoint Online - Support for SharePoint with SQL DB for custom SP Site created for business process.
• Migrated StrikeIron email system to Office 365
• Created SharePoint (O365) sites with custom business processes. These processes pulled data from on-premises data bases to populate fields in custom forms. Many workflows and alerting triggers.
• Designed and implemented upgrade to SQL infrastructure with new SAN and Servers.
• New SQL Cluster
• New Dell Compellent SAN
• New iSCSI Network
• Worked with Development team to upgrade from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008R2 (SProcs, Tables, SQL Jobs, SSIS packages etc…)
• Designed and Implemented move from Physical Servers to Microsoft HyperV virtual machine infrastructure for both Test and Production environments.
• New 4 server HyperV cluster utilizing Windows Server 2012 R2.
• SAN connected for optimal IOPS with iSCSI network.
• Utilization of Clustered Shared Volumes (CSV) to enable no downtime maintenance to host servers.
• Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager 2012
• Implemented a good deal of IT Automation and Monitoring\Trending using several tools to complete.
• SCORCH - Microsoft System Center Orchestrator
• ManageEngine’s Operations Manager - Monitoring\Trending tool
• Site24x7.com Off and On-Prem monitoring
• SQL SSIS packages
• Holder

Confidential, River Morrisville, NC

Director of Infrastructure and Data Security

Responsibilities:

• Plan, Design, Implement, Manage, Monitor, Trend and maintain RegEd Production SaaS systems. SaaS systems that generate over $30M a year for RegEd.
• Work with Development teams on poor performing SQL, software and hardware when needed.
• Architected, designed, and implemented a 100 server, 100% virtualized environment, using MS HyperV with VMM/SCOM management to support Active Directory, SQL, SharePoint, Lync, and RegEd’s Production SaaS (internal Developed) Applications.
• Migrated virtual environment from VMWare to MS HyperV which has saved thousands on licensing costs with equal or improved performance.
• Designed and implemented Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity solutions with the use of HyperV, VDI, and VMM 2008 R2/SCOM.
• Create and Implement operational and security policies and procedures throughout the enterprise.
• Architected and implemented EMC Clariion SAN environments to ensure high availability and acceptable performance characteristics for HyperV.
• Designed and Implemented HyperV for Development and QA environments for MOSS 2007 and SharePoint 2010.
• Designed and Implemented HyperV for Development and QA environments for RegEd internally developed SaaS.
• Implemented a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environment with HyperV to aid in testing our SaaS applications.
• Project Lead for the installation of entire SAN and Blade implementation which included managing the project plan, schedules, contractors, and financials.
• Architected the relocating of the old datacenter to the newly built datacenter, with minimal downtime by utilizing EMC SAN replication technologies.
• Architected and implemented DR between Raleigh and Charlotte datacentres using EMC SAN replications technologies including boot from SAN.
• Designed and implemented Production Change Control and IT ticketing system in MOSS2007 and SharePoint 2010. Workflows and email alerting.
• Procured and Implemented KnowledgeLake SharePoint Document Management system.
• Managed the upgrade projects for Windows R2, SQL, Office, MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010. OCS to Lync and Windows XP to Windows 7.
• Hired, developed, and manage a team of 6 highly skilled professionals including Desktop Support, Networking and Systems engineers, SharePoint Developer.
• Managed Offshore (India) team of 3 for after-hours Operations and IT Support.
• Manage a $1M+ yearly budget.

Confidential, Morrisville, NC

ASP Operations Manager / MS SQL DBA

Responsibilities:

• Ensure MS SQL database systems function and performance is high.
• Managed and maintained DB Replication for Reporting services
• Work with development teams to ensure performance of production systems were always a high priority for eLearning systems sold as both SaaS and Enterprise installs.
• Worked with Enterprise clients on implementation and any performance issues.
• Created policies, standards, and procedures to provide exceptional customer service, improve server and network uptime, and bring down operational cost.
• Standardized on network management and monitoring tools to provide real-time alerting leading to greater uptime and increased security.
• Increased stability, security, and recoverability of the production SaaS server systems and network through implementation and ownership of all IT policies including backups, security, and disaster recovery planning.
• Project manager for the migration from Windows .

Confidential, Tampa FL

Senior Network Administrator / MS SQL DBA

Responsibilities:

• Systems and DB Engineer for the integration of 80 locations and 500 employees from multiple offices throughout the US and Canada.
• Worked with IT Team to relocate Datacenter/ Corporate Offices.
• Migrated server systems from Windows 3.11 to Windows NT and SQL Server 6.5.
• Promoted to SQL Server DBA in charge of maintaining SQL Server replication to 80 offices.
• Promoted to Exchange Manager. Responsible for the Microsoft Exchange environment for the company with 2 e-mail servers, 500 end-users.