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Biloxi, Mississippi, United States

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

Continued performing responsibilities of previous role as well as the following: Manage over 20 employees as well as dozens of contractors nationwide including Windows Engineer, Linux Engineering, Network Delivery, Enterprise Data Protection, and Data Center Services providing critical IT services and platforms for 35,000 employees. Reduce cost by utilizing CloudFormation Templates to deploy AWS Accounts, VPCs, Windows and Linux EC2 instances. Implement Route53 DNS for external DNS and migrate over 100 domains from multiple DNS providers. Participate as a member of the architecture review board and provide feedback and approval of new implementations. Lead Network delivery team to develop standard build processes that incorporate DISA STIG hardening in new router, switch, and firewall deployments. Standardize Linux template builds using Ansible and transform Linux to replatform onto CentOS leading to eventual savings of over $250,000 in annual support costs.Key Achievements:-Lead AWS and Azure cloud migration assessment to develop strategies to rehost, replatform, or refactor applications and products hosted in our core data centers-Transition from Veritas NetBackup to Cohesity at remote sites to accelerate backup and restore times, increase success of meeting RTO and RPO objectives, reduce long term storage costs by leveraging Amazon Glacier for long term retention, and lower annual backup maintenance costs-Lead network team to migrate over 80 offices from legacy WAN solution to new dual homed divergent Verizon WAN solution

Reston - Va

Manage the Windows, Linux, and Network delivery teams. Develop standards and templates for Windows servers to meet DISA STIGs for all new deployments. Participate in internal and external audits of servers and networks and provide documentation and evidence for audit requests. Design and implement strategies to migrate servers from legacy data centers to core data centers. Strategies include the use of Zerto, Cron jobs, Powershell and various other technologies for data replication. Work with threat and vulnerability management team to establish security baselines and to continuously improve the company’s security posture by implementing or improving the following: Security incident escalation path, whole disk encryption, endpoint management, and patch schedules. Participate in team to validate and document our internal standards leading to MAXIMUS obtaining an ATO from CMS. Create delivery processes to implement network and server infrastructure for new contact center locations including site survey, infrastructure build, staffing, and transition to operations Key Achievements:-Migrate over 1000 servers from project sites and legacy data centers into new collocated data centers-Successfully implement numerous smaller contact center builds & tech refreshes nationwide ranging from 10 to 500 seats per location, each supporting a major contract deliverable

Maximus

Manage team that supports Windows Servers, Active Directory, Backups and Patching. Support enterprise migration from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange. Design and implement plans to consolidate over 47 Active Directory domains into new corporate standard domains. Lead team to implement Bigfix to patch and deploy application to over 15,000 desktops and 2,000 servers. Use Microsoft Deployment Toolkit to standardize physical servers builds and to image desktops at new site deployments.Key Achievements:- Conduct an evaluation of several different backup technologies including Syncsort NSB and Symantec NetBackup to design a 196 TB backup solution based on extensive product testing. Presented analysis and provided recommendation to senior management

Reston, Va

Responsible for the administration and troubleshooting of over 350 physical and 150 virtual servers in primary data center. Provide remote support for branch offices across the country. Monitor and maintain servers in remote offices. Manage Active Directory including troubleshooting of account permissions, DNS issues, and group policies for desktops and servers. Deploy patches and updates to data center development and production servers via WSUS. Travel to projects to perform server installation and AD and file migrations. Operate various backup software such as NetVault, vRanger, Asigra, and NetBackup Pure Disk to provide file level backups of over 45 TB’s of data on Windows, Solaris, Linux, and HP-UX servers.

Training Students how to Scuba Dive and to overcome challenges they may face underwater.

Assist users in computer problems, perform quarterly maintenance on desktop to improve performance, and assist the server and networking teams as needed.

M.Ed, Secondary Education - Social Studies

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), History

Aa, International Studies

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa