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Miami, FL, US

Sunrise, FL, US

• Consolidated vendors and renegotiated contracts to optimize costs on renewals, private and public cloud contracts and overall cost governance in accordance to our hybrid multi-cloud strategy.
• Executed appropriate staffing and budgetary plans to align with business forecasts, and project requirements and commits.
• Develop benchmark measures (KPI’s, technical measurements, Performance targets and SLA’s) to evaluate productivity within both the team and technology.
• Developed proposals and presentations for internal and external executive audiences outlining TCO and ROI gains over 3 to 5 years roadmaps.
• Boosted team member productivity by enhancing performance monitoring and instituting motivational approaches. Leveraging ServiceNow and Scrum sprint processes we stay engaged as well as greater velocity.
• Identified cost improvement changes and cost savings plans to increase company savings and deliver successful strategies to maximize revenue.

Ft. Lauderdale, FL, US

• Evaluated employee skills and knowledge regularly, training, and mentoring individuals with skill development.
• Developed proposals for clients outlining project scope and timeline. Identifying timelines and deliverables with realistic timeframes based on requirements.
• Collected project information and disseminated to appropriate stakeholders.
• Fostered positive and performance-oriented environment by implementing successful reward systems and motivational strategies.
• Facilitated installation processes to deliver project requirements on time.
• Participated in development meetings for high-value customers and business operations updates.

• Serve as Technical Team Lead for a seven member Citrix Team.
• Oversee a Citrix Virtualization architecture consisting of over 1000 servers in multiple datacenters running on VMWare ESXi hypervisors.
• Led project for Citrix provisioning, converting major applications (NextGen, Financials, etc.) to Citrix provisioned servers load balanced between three PVS servers leveraging flash arrays (Tintri, Nimble, NetApp) for.
• Design all Citrix virtualization projects including writing statements of work, compiling a bill of materials, and presenting to C-Level.
• Leading the project of migrating from Citrix XenApp 5.0/6.5 to XenApp/Xendesktop 7.15 LTSR.
• Coordinate with multiple teams to complete projects and write documentation.

Marathon, Florida, US

• Wrote and maintained custom scripts to increase system efficiency and performance time.
• Enhanced desktop support staff's abilities to support and administer Citrix environment.
• Design and Implemented Citrix XenApp/Xendesktop infrastructure for critical application delivery.
• Design and Implemented NetScaler X MPX systems to deliver Citrix applications as well as numerous SSL VIPs, VPNs, AppExpert, re-writes, redirects, etc.
• Delivered engineering design, technical guidance and support to application developer teams building custom in-house systems.
• Maintained and developed reference architecture, how-to instructions, and knowledge base articles.

Coral Gables, FL, US

• Recruited to establish and managed an enterprise-wide program.
• Oversaw enterprise-wide efforts to identify and evaluate all critical systems housing highly sensitive data.
• Designed and implemented Active Directory Group Policy to secure communications and lock down these systems, department needs and overall management throughout the environment.
• Active Directory Integrated Dynamic DNS, Trust Creation and Schema administration, FSMO Role, Site Administration, Group Policy Administration, AD scripting
• Group policy development, testing and implementation based on department or school needs (Software Restrictions, GPO for virus outbreak resolutions combination of a GPO with a script, Desktop Screen Saver GPO, WSUS.
• Level 4 support of hardware, application and peripheral operations, hubs, switches, routers (DHCP, DNS, WINS, File and Print, FTP and SFTP, SQL, RIS, Ghost, SAV, IIS, Exchange and SMTP servers.

Ba, Computer Science

High School Diploma, Regular/General High School/Secondary Diploma Program