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Clearwater, Florida, United States

• Developing CI/CD Pipelines in Azure DevOps that provide Development with end-to-end release cycles.• Developing Deployment Pipelines to Kubernetes targets including on-premises and Azure Kubernetes.• Working with Visual Studio to create Azure Resource Management Template projects that integrate into solutions.• Manage Azure resources for the DevOps Environment.• Creating Hybrid Worker infrastructures for Azure Automation both in the cloud and on premises.• Administrative scripting in PowerShell and T-SQL.• Creating automated notifications using Microsoft Power Automate (Flow)

• Conducting Solution Review calls (Pre-DevOps, People and Process Management) to architect and coordinate Platform (SQL and IIS) solutions across 400+ NBCU Applications spanning 16 Business Technology Groups.• Work with various teams and projects to setup SharePoint Online Sites and implement Office 365, Microsoft Teams collaboration solutions.• Work on team with passthrough of 200+ SQL instances per year averaging multiple TB per year of SQL storage.• Microsoft System Center Orchestrator Runbook creation for automated installations of SQL, IIS.• Administrative scripting in PowerShell and T-SQL and integration into SSIS packages.• Setup, configuration and optimization of Windows IIS (6.0 – 10.0) application servers and SQL Servers (SQL 2005 through SQL 2016).• Technical Project Lead for creation of integration between SharePoint and Orchestrator for automated ticket handling of specific, high volume tickets. • Primary technical resource on Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2 deployment.• Documentation of operational standard and procedures.• Windows Server OS setup and maintenance.• Use of HP PPMC and ServiceNow for ticketing and resolution tracking.• Working on Engineering team for Azure product offerings.• Working with multiple domain, multiple forest environment.

(Yp.Com, Nbcuniversal)

• Microsoft System Center Orchestrator Runbook creation.• Setup, configuration and optimization of Windows IIS web application servers and SQL Servers (2000 total) in horizontally load balanced environments.• Work with the various internal teams to implement standards and best practices for development and production life cycles.• Work in mixed environment of IIS 6.0 and 7.0 for front end and back end application farms. Includes setup, configuration and troubleshooting.• Administrative scripting in VBScript and PowerShell.• Documentation of operational standard and procedures.• Windows server setup and maintenance.• Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization in clustered environments.• Use of Jira for ticket tracking.• Work with HP System Insight Management in an enterprise environment.• Working with multiple domain, multiple forest environment.

• Developed hardware and documentation standard for MS SQL HA clusters. Clusters are a mix of SQL 2005, 2008, 2008 R2 and 2012.• Maintenance of SQL HA Cluster and SQL Mirroring in DR facility.• Windows server setup, administration and maintenance and Linux administration.• Worked extensively with internal Server and Client software teams as well as Database Administration to fine tune and execute development and production releases.• Setup, configuration and optimization of Windows IIS web application servers and SQL Servers (200 production / 600 total) in horizontally load balanced environments. (All client traffic is processed through web application servers.)• Administrative scripting in VBScript, PowerShell and Bash.• Use of CVS and TFS for code revision control.• Work in mixed environment of IIS 5.0, 6.0 and 7.0 for front end and back end application farms. Includes setup, configuration, monitoring and troubleshooting.• Leading current project to isolate and optimize key data services to solid state storage.• NetApp SAN uplift and maintenance.• Design and documentation of SAN and fabric transition.• Experience with NetApp, HP EVA, HP MSA and open source SAN arrays.• Working in team hosting 24x7x365 NOC with managed SLAs.• Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization of Development and QA environments.• Lead for virtualization hardware for new Production project.• Working with multiple domain, multiple forest environment.• Experience with LTO libraries and backup strategies and optimization.• Mentoring Associate System Administrators and System Administrators.• Documentation of operational standard and procedures.• Managing vendor relationships.

• Installation, configuration and setup of Microsoft Windows Servers.• Working with the various development and QA teams to enable the delivery of company products to customers.• Performed research and development support services including research lab maintenance, product testing, product analysis and documentation support.• Maintenance of SQL Server Merge Replication environments in outsourced locations. Version used was SQL 2005.• Manager of local IT staff, Helpdesk, Server Administration and Database Administration.• Managing vendor relationships and outsourced co-location services.• Setup and maintenance of multi-Active Directory Domain environments.• Effective planning and deployment of GPOs in multi-domain environment.• Experience with LTO libraries and backup strategies.• Supported training divisions by arranging and documenting course material.

• Interfaced between commercial desktop, commercial portable and enterprise customer service divisions and engineering divisions of Compaq Computer Corporation.• Performed troubleshooting and resolution implementation of technical and service issues within Compaq and between independent hardware and software vendors.• Install, setup, and troubleshoot business class applications.• Developed and delivered technical program for Compaq Atlanta call center to strengthen relationship between first and second level service teams.• Wrote and distributed technical information used in Compaq educational account recovery project.• Wrote “how-to” documents for case management / engineering case tracking system.• Participated as member of the Microsoft Premier team for commercial desktop division.

Houston, Texas Area

• Pre-sales and post-sales service and support.• Serviced customers at onsite locations within the greater Houston area.• Install, setup, and troubleshoot business class applications and operating systems.• Integrated with independent hardware and software vendors for product resolution.• Install and test telephone and data wiring.• Assembled, configured and maintained multiple name-brand and clone Intel x86 class systems.