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Highly focused Director of Infrastructure & Cloud Architecture dedicated to designing and delivering a stable, robust, and high performing global infrastructure crossing multiple technologies including networking, security, storage, and compute. Highly proficient in leveraging best of bread technologies from Cisco, VMware, Microsoft, Checkpoint, Dell, Pure, and F5 to build elastic cloud environments. Leverage AWS, Azure, and Google GCP public cloud environments to enable business growth. Security focused to meet modern threats head on and apply over arching security principals to segment networks and grant access to known resources.With over 15 years experience in the IT industry, highly experienced with providing solutions to drive the business needs forward by creating IT solutions with new capabilities in both the public cloud and private cloud space, eliminate single points of failure, maintain optimal performance, and drive costs out to obtain a competitive advantageAccomplishments: - Designed and implemented multiple Cisco Nexus 9K, 7K, 5K, 2K based Data Center environments, as well as 6500/4500/3850 series switches, ASR1002x/1001x/3900/2900 series routers, Application Content Engines, Voice, Wireless Controllers globally.- Designed Cisco ACI focused Data Centers in order to achieve a secure logical segmentation for mission critical applications.- Designed and implemented multiple Cisco UCS compute platforms to scale out, including chassis based virtualization environments, chassis based bare metal, and rack mount servers.- Designed and built a global MPLS based WAN and SD-WAN for multi-link efficiencies- Designed and implemented SIP based VoIP solution with integration between Cisco Call Manager and MS Lync- Designed and built a standard perimeter network security architecture on the Checkpoint Firewall platform, enabling advanced features such as IPS, Mal-Ware protection, and Identity awareness.

Listed skills include Data Center, Network Security, Vmware, Disaster Recovery, and 30 others.