Alex Abraham Email & Phone Number

Herndon, Va, Us

Columbia, Md, Us

Spearheading a team of 12 onshore and offshore technical resources, I hold accountability for the workload and daily operations of 5 additional team members for a $2.5B company with 15K+ employees delivering digital transformation for diverse industries. Key contributions:• Cultivating a climate of trust and accountability, retaining the average employee for 3+ years • Steering the vision and strategy of critical initiatives including selecting, planning, and executing multiple products such as SAN, VMware, AWS migrations, GCP, Azure, a data center consolidation, active directory, VDI, and migrations of homegrown apps • Orchestrating the project management lifecycle from conception to launch, owning product selection, support and subscriptions, P&L accountability, and vendor management with cost containment in mind • Stimulating consistent revenue growth by sustaining systems and solutions to support a client base of 15K+• Reducing impacts to clients to achieve zero SLA infractions 4 years consecutively • Fostering employee career growth and core competencies, training and mentoring 10+ individuals and serving as technical manager and trusted advisor on complex issues to inspire top-level performance,• Regulating workflows, defining individual goals, and developing performance plans to elevate overall team performance • Synergizing teams by prioritizing key assignments, leveraging emerging collaboration tools, and communicating effectively • Presiding over vendor management to negotiate favorable terms, reduce costs, and power overall business performance • Consolidating multiple SSL, domain name, and DNS vendors to drive costs from $150K to $27K annually • Playing a pivotal role on the team that monitors cloud spending, shifting the webserver design to save roughly $17K annually • Automating operational workflows to minimize manual labor, reducing the time to create new cloud accounts and networking tasks from 5-7 business days to roughly 15 minutes

Columbia, Md, Us

Selected as Team Lead for multiple engineering and enterprise-wide initiatives, I drove solution delivery, enterprise block storage, enterprise virtualization platforms, enterprise infrastructure, enterprise fabric, and solutions management. Key contributions:• Directed the overall project from a technical guidance and support standpoint, performing higher-tier work while guiding junior techs through lower-tier assignments to deliver 100% of projects within budgetary and time constraints • Drove upgrades and migrations across geographically distributed teams while limiting service disruption to clients• Strategized with internal and external stakeholders to curate user-friendly documentation, develop and convey forecasts and budgets, and align teamwork with key organizational goals• Produced enterprise risk mitigation and regulatory compliance strategies designed to safeguard the firm’s assets and reputation • Created policies and procedures to ensure full compliance with state, federal, and international laws and regulations • Devised solutions by embracing cutting-edge solutions

Columbia, Md, Us

As solutions architect, I owned responsibility for designing, implementing, and managing virtual environments using VMware, managing Windows Active Directory Services, and deploying 5PB of enterprise block storage. The entailed governing the workloads of a top-flight team of junior to mid-level technicians and professionals and introducing new standards, protocols, and procedures that stimulated bottom-line improvements in company performance, including identifying and rolling out efficiency processes. Key contributions: • Automating 40% of all enterprise-level technical workloads • Elevating organizational competency and individual employee engagement by creating a mentoring process• Spearheading enterprise storage platforms using Dell EMC VMAX, Hitachi AMS, HUS, and HP EVA• Delivering effective client solutions on public clouds for business applications such as AWS, GCP, and Azure

New York, New York, Us

I am part of our Data Center Operations. I have various responsiblities from new systems design and implementation to maintaining exisiting systems.