Architected, built and supported fault tolerant platform for company wide applications. Migrated vital IT infrastructure services from network closet in HQ to fully edundant dual data centers solution. Designed and implemented backup strategy for disaster recovery for Jira, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Confluence and regulatory data retention for MS Exchange. Managed mialbox migration to G-Suite and user and group syncronization between G-Suite and Active Directory

Responsible for selection, proof of concept, Alpha and Beta deployments of private infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud. Selected platform based on Cisco UCS,Citrix Cloudstack and Nexenta storage. Defined and implemented virtualization, storage and orchestration layers of IaaS deployment. Created VM templates for deployment in the private cloud. Developed granular usage reports in Cloudstack.Designed, architected and deployed 300-CPU compute grid solution based on Torque and Maui with automated deployment and Puppet based administration of cluster nodes. Setup monitoring and job scheduling facilities. Facilitated processing of large amount of visual data on a tight schedule. Worked through multiple issues associated with ‘big data’ processing: network, storage, scheduling.

Architected, deployed and supported infrastructure for several research projects completed and under way in US and Europe.Designed and deployed large (>150 servers) compute cluster for in-house map-reduce application.

Responsible for setting up and day to day running of multiple development instances of Autodesk Location Based Services product. Purchasing hardware, setting up and administering RedHat Linux, Weblogic, Alteon loadbalancers and SSL accelerators, OpenBSD firewalls, IPSec VPN.

Participated in data migration from several different enterprise databases to Siebel CRM solution. Was responsible for creating, optimizing and troubleshooting Siebel Enterprise Integration Manager (EIM) configurations.

As a part of IT Architecture team worked to evaluate new technologies. Researched and tested wireless security tools. Architected and managed deployment of Symantec Enterprise Security in Autodesk. Developed concept for enterprise hierarchical software license management tracking and reallocation, wrote proof of concept code for software inventory.

Founded and led to successful acquisition profitable budget web hosting company with $300,000 yearly revenue.Architected and built low cost network and server infrastructure for web hosting company serving 1,000,000 web hits and 60,000 email messages per day.Set up, customized and administered web, mail, DNS servers , OpenBSD firewalls and network intrusion detection using commodity hardware and RedHat Linux OS.. Managed customers` accounts migration to new web hosting platform when company was acquired by a leading competitor.