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Orlando, Fl, Us

• Led end-to-end architecture of cloud migration projects, moving business-critical applications to Azure, which resulted in enhanced operational agility and improved application uptime.• Designed secure, resilient application architectures to meet business requirements for disaster recovery, business continuity, and security, reducing risk exposure and enhancing data integrity across cloud deployments.• Utilized expertise in Azure resources to modernize application stacks for F5’s legacy systems, improving scalability and decreasing operational costs by over 25%.• Developed and implemented solutions that enhanced security posture, aligning with compliance standards and safeguarding sensitive customer data.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Partnered with senior leadership to translate business objectives into IT strategies, resulting in streamlined operations and optimized infrastructure solutions aligned with corporate goals.• Conducted extensive technical evaluations to select high-performance storage infrastructure components, saving around $500K annually in capital expenditure costs through optimized hardware procurement.• Led multi-disciplinary teams to deliver proof of concept projects for critical infrastructure enhancements, directly contributing to Nordstrom’s long-term enterprise storage technology roadmap.

Greater Seattle Area

• Served as a pre-sales Solutions Architect specializing in Virtual Instruments' Fibre Channel performance analysis platform, leveraging extensive experience in troubleshooting and optimizing storage networks to design tailored solutions for prospective clients.• Partnered with clients' technical teams to develop solutions that increased SAN performance and maximized uptime and availability, directly enhancing the stability and efficiency of mission critical production environments.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Served as a post-sales technical resource for Fortune 100 clients, building trusted advisor relationships with storage architects to provide expert guidance on optimizing their specific Isilon installations.• Collaborated closely with product development and customer support teams to deliver tailored recommendations and ensure swift, accurate escalation of support cases, enhancing customer satisfaction and support efficiency.

Redmond, Washington, United States

• Provisioned and optimized storage across global data centers using EMC VMAX arrays, ensuring robust and scalable storage solutions to support Bing Ads’ revenue recognition services.• Led performance tuning and troubleshooting of complex Brocade Fibre Channel storage networks, resolving critical performance bottlenecks that impacted Bing Ads infrastructure.• Designed and implemented an optimized storage network architecture, leading a small team to execute this new design. This improvement reduced storage performance issues, directly enhancing the reliability of database services for Bing Ads and enabling greater revenue processing capabilities.

Redmond, Washington, United States

• Redesigned and modernized Internet Explorer's test automation lab, transitioning from a physical desktop environment to a Hyper-V-based virtualization platform. This innovation reduced the lab’s physical footprint and power usage, streamlining operations and cutting costs.• Managed a $1 million budget for the procurement of highly available server hardware for Hyper-V, ensuring a robust infrastructure that met the rigorous testing demands of the development team.• Collaborated with a software engineer to create an API-driven virtualization platform, enabling rapid OS image deployment and significantly improving resource provisioning speed and flexibility for test automation.