- Project lead for Migration from On-Premise to Microsoft Azure IaaS and PaaS, DevOps architect lead for transforming applications to leverage Microsoft Azure PaaS Services. - Management of a global SaaS infrastructure servicing HRIS applications to Fortune 500 companies and government agencies, including Bank of America, Lockheed Martin, United Technologies, BAE Systems, Ingersoll Rand, FedEx, NYPD, Scotiabank, and FBI.- Management of the US engineering team while overseeing public facing web application development practices conform to stringent security standards.- Manage client and 3rd party audits of the infrastructure to ensure security standards, policies and processes are met.- Research and Implementation of a Next-Generation Firewall, intrusion prevention, and web application firewall infrastructure globally to ensure a strong security perimeter is established for the SaaS infrastructure.- Regularly prepare presentations and proposals for clients regarding infrastructure, operating processes and security policies.- Preparation of annual ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 audit processes for the US infrastructure.- Implementation of a disaster recovery process with a RTO of 2 hours and RPO of 15 minutes.- Successfully work with departments company-wide to ensure priorities are in line with business goals while maintaining stability, security and availability.- Implementation of a Cloud strategy solution with Microsoft Azure for disaster recovery, BI, AI + Cognitive Services as well as Active Directory. - Implemented a cloud backup solution leveraging offsite datacenters and cloud storage for redundancy while removing dependency on physical tape media and offsite media storage vendors.- Lead and implemented a large-scale cost reduction project to reduce datacenter footprint leveraging virtualization technologies (VMware / Hyper-V), de-duplication technologies (Microsoft Windows), and Microsoft Azure IaaS- Microsoft AZ-103 Training

• Lead engineering and development teams to deploy, secure and optimize web applications utilizing Microsoft and open source platforms.• Design and manage high-availability virtual SaaS infrastructure using (VMware / Hyper-V / Citrix Xen), Storage Area Networks (EMC – Fiberchannel, Dell Equallogic – iSCSI), clustering (MS SQL / MySQL), and load balancing ( Brocade / KEMP Technologies).• Managed large capacity web application server farms and database clusters with a load balanced replication system.• Led virtualization effort to convert traditional bare-metal servers and services in to virtualized and portable environments.

• Management and maintenance of Dell hardware servers and Cisco networking hardware.• Designed and implemented open source clustered database systems (MySQL) to support Microsoft based ASP and ASP.NET applications.• Implemented virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) with first generation virtualization technology to facilitate secured access for remote telecommunicating staff.• Management and performance tuning of Microsoft Windows and Linux web applications in a load balanced environment.• Desktop support team lead for Microsoft Windows and Apple OSX Workstations for a 500+ user base.• Design and implementation of a network change management and audit system leveraging TACACS+.• Introduced and implemented use of Powershell for server management and analysis.

• Lead a company-wide project to modernize workstation networking and security utilizing Active Directory and Microsoft Windows.• Created a modernized company-wide email service utilizing open source mail servers and browser based mail clients.• Introduced hybrid operating system infrastructure employing both Microsoft Windows and open source operating systems, to lower licensing costs while increasing availability and reliability.• Designed and implemented a relational database based product tracking and CRM system with Microsoft Access.

• One of 4 founders of the organization. With the goal of introducing an on-premise all-in-one Firewall, intrusion detection, and intrusion prevention and anti-virus appliance.• Researched and developed an all-in-one prototype security hardware platform utilizing Linux and open source security tools such as Snort, Netfilter/IPtables, MySQL databases while facilitating ease of management through a browser based interface and use of off-the-shelf hardware.• Lead Sales and marketing efforts offering a subscription based network security management and monitoring service packaged with hardware to the SMB space.

• Designed and managed a aggregated T1 network that brought internet access to remote SMB located in remote business parks utilizing first generation 802.11 wireless networking.• Managed company network infrastructure and public facing web e-commerce applications.• Introduction of a NAT based network as well as creating IPSec VPN tunnels linking remote offices.• Introduced open source platforms to monitor infrastructure and application performance.

Risk Assessment, Environmental surveys