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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

In my most recent role, I am accountable for the Operating System and Application patching, vulnerability and issue risk mitigation, and observability platforms while ensuring database security, stability, and system availability.Here are a few examples of my contributions to the organization: • Directed the seamless migration of the Operational Datastore System's database, reporting, job scheduling/execution, and custom application resources from Azure to AWS.• Championed the implementation of Datadog for infrastructure and cloud monitoring, with an emphasis on the integration of AWS Cloud Services, Service Now ITSM, and agent deployment across the entire infrastructure.

Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, United States

During this time, I managed a team of engineers who monitored and analyzed application performance and resolved technical issues. I formed a five-person team focused on observability, application performance, and reliability, as well as company-wide protocols for detection and scalability.Here are a few examples of my contributions to the organization: • Implemented Elasticsearch Fleet Central Management system and incorporated with numerous data sources, including AWS, Azure, 1Password, CrowdStrike, CyberArk, Osquery, Okta, Zscaler, Proofpoint, Office365, Windows, and Linux Logging.• Contributed to providing alerts on detected threats by executing Elasticsearch SIEM system for the Security Operations Team.

Horsham, Pennsylvania

As an Enterprise Solutions Architect, I analyzed the business requirements of multiple departments and designed technological solutions while leading a team of developers to design an Enterprise Reporting System that supplanted multiple high-maintenance products with a single self-service product. I oversaw a Tiger Team that addressed BytePro Enterprise LOS software performance issues caused by a tenfold increase in application users.Here are a few examples of my contributions to the organization: • Received an excellence award for significant inputs to a major data center migration that uncovers various difficulties.• Created a solution for BytePro Enterprise LOS Macros that allowed developers to construct and unit test Macros outside the software package, reducing deployment errors and production defects.

Yardley, Pa

Throughout my term in the position, I drove application solution, scalability, and performance through requirements gathering, documentation and process formulation for testing and deployment of internal and cloud-based applications.Here are a few examples of my contributions to the organization: • Effectively tracked vendor website updates, including low-level web calls, proxy setting, and event handling by launching an automated collecting system.• Permitted clients to pull out specific information by creating a REST Service for utilization with third-party and mobile applications, as well as a custom Lookup and Verification Submission tool.• Executed a single sign-on solution for clients utilizing PingFederate by creating an ASP.NET MVC 5 N-Tier/N-Layer architectural solution and integrating ADFS 2.• Cut nightly refreshes from over 8 hours to under 2 hours by redesigning an ETL process database utilized by numerous web-facing applications.

Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, United States

Responsible for the underlying architecture, quality and performance of business applications. Perform requirements gathering, documentation, time estimations, and management of internal and outsourced development projects. Oversee the work of two software development teams.

Ivyland, Pennsylvania, United States

Responsible for the architecture as well as overseeing the work done by a software development team of four. Served as technical adviser to management providing a programming perspective and assisting in requirements gathering.