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Redmond, Washington, US

Redmond, Washington, US

San Antonio, Texas, US

• Due to the scale restrictions of System Center Virtual Machine Manager, I co-architected and developed a custom-built solution to satisfy the customer needs. By using the Agile framework to establish a regular release.
• Lead Developer for the in-house automation framework to manage isolated customer Hyper-V environments through Azure. The custom built software utilized Azure CosmosDB, App Services, Azure Automation (both DSC and.
• Collaborated with various internal teams to achieve full automation and self-service capabilities for Hyper-V Hypervisors and Virtual Machines.
• Managed feedback loop system designed to facilitate the flow of communication from customers and internal end users, to influence which backlog items are prioritized.
• Developed an automated method to deploy Azure Stack Dev Kits.
• Internal documentation and external customer communications for Microsoft Cloud technologies.

San Antonio, Texas, US

• Responsible for the leading and integrating new Microsoft based solutions for Rackspace customers.
• Lead the technical product team responsible for initial Microsoft Hyper-V and Cloud Platform offering at Rackspace.
• Lead architect and developer for the integration of Cloud Platform, specifically the Windows Azure Pack, at Rackspace.
• Worked to implement support for Microsoft Azure at Rackspace.
• Developed an Azure IaaS monitoring solution leveraging OMS, Service Bus, and API App.
• Implemented and documented the support of SQL Server Always-On.

San Antonio, Texas, US

• Responsible for a $1M MRR mid-market and enterprise account base. Day-to-day activities included:
• Managing and advising accounts network configurations, virtualization platforms, database servers, and storage arrays.
• Implementing complex architectures to optimize the customer and end users experience.
• Worked closely with internal groups to achieve optimal solutions for my assigned customers.
• Prepare customer systems to handle an influx of traffic due to large scale marketing and sales events.
• Implement security standards to handle security and compliance requirements.

San Antonio, Texas, US

• Responsible for complex problem solving of customer technical issues and implementing best practices for a variety of systems including:
• Active Directory Certificate Authority
• Active Directory Domain Services
• IIS
• Microsoft DNS
• System Center Operations Manager

San Antonio, Texas, US