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Seattle, Wa, Us

Architecting, building, and maintaining cost-efficient, scalable cloud environments for the organization.Understanding business objectives of the company and creating cloud-based solutions to facilitate those objectives.Moving archaic systems into the cloud for more efficiency within the organization – aka digital transformation.Keeping cloud environments secure and preventing downtime or security breaches.Determining the risk associated with third-party platforms or frameworks.Looking for ways to improve operations within company to digitize common tasks.Designing, building, maintaining internal cloud applications for the organization.Transferring data and internal processes to cloud architecture.Keeping data leakage and downtime to an absolute minimum.Keeping up to date on best practices in cloud computing and making improvements to the cloud infrastructure of their company or organization.Communicating with internal teams, like Sales, Operations, and IT.Communicate with stakeholders and build applications to meet project needs.Making hardware and software recommendations for the organization, based on needs of the project and organization.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Deliver workshops and webinars (Accelerators and ATX - Ask-the-Expert) to a diverse set of customers that qualify, tailoring deliverables and driving business outcomes within scope and on-time engagementJoin the Customer Success team in customer engagements and events to improve customer adoption and address product concernsContribute to the customer community digital spaces and asset development of Success TracksContribute to product and offer improvement by providing lifecycle feedback to CX Product Management and CX Success Programs TeamsInspire customers to make tactical and strategic deployment decisions and track long term business outcomesCollaborate with Account teams, Customer Success, and Partners to elevate customer adoption as well as address product concernsDrive adoption and expansion of Cisco products by highlighting feature opportunities, winning use cases, and relevant strategies to customers and the Success teamContribute to lifecycle asset development and maintenance through rotations, asset development sprints, and/or stretch assignments with the Lifecycle Success team

Chandler, Az, Us

Build, design, deploy, maintain and lead the implementation of Cloud solutions across multiple public cloud offerings, e.g. AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft AzureParticipate in technology evaluation and reengineering teams to support strategy-definition and continuous process improvement activitiesHelp implement the technology direction, vision, and strategy to enable Cloud technology adoptionImplement and refine cloud future state architectures and roadmaps including architecture standards, guidelines, and industry best practices.Act as project lead around further software defined services and offeringsDevelop, enhance, and maintain automation of cloud enablement toolsRecognize and resolve all business issues and impactAssess urgency of issues and facilitate follow-up and resolution accordingly including service quality initiatives to support a “five nines” product availability environmentPerform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required. Configure CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required; maintain data center environmental and monitoring equipment.Participate in the design, implementation and management of workload automation initiativesAdhere to firm Change Management, Problem Management policies and familiarity with ITIL or other formalized IT operations foundations

Scottsdale, Az, Us

- Expert knowledge of VMware vSphere & related products. Design\deploy\upgrade\migrate various vSphere\vCenter environments from very small to multi-site- Communicate with client to establish connection between Cisco Nexus/Catalyst/UCS and client’s preexisting core- CLI configuration based on client’s existing network infrastructure, including VLAN, VSAN, trunks, spanning-tree- Install and configure Cisco Fabric Interconnects via multiple 10GbE links to Nexus utilizing Virtual Portchannel(VPC)- Install and configure Cisco UCS Blade Chassis / Blades, including Service Profile and boot from SAN configuration- Update/Upgrade and verify device firmware on new UCS and production UCS without outages - Knowledge transfer to client providing on newly deployed data center infrastructure- Automation of Cisco UCS deployments using Powershell and Powertool- In-depth understanding of Cisco.com tools including Cisco Commerce Workspace- Implemented Fibre Channel (FC) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) on Cisco Nexus/MDS switches, multi-vendor server and virtualization platforms, EMC and Netapp and other SAN solutions Nexus deployment as leaves into Fabric Path environment- Nutanix deployment expert on sites of various sizes and either AHV or VMware hypervisors- Demonstrate migration from current VMware environment to AHV and Hyper-V to VMware- Setting up replication to DR site using Nutanix native Data Protection utility with Prism- Worked with sales team & customers in understanding pain points & business objectives- Performed technical leadership in the design, installation, configuration and implementation of VMware and Cisco Data Center solutions for many customers of different sizes/industries. (SMB, Fortune 500, Federal Government)- Designed solutions and worked with post-sales in deployment excellent understanding of the entire sales cycle & technical requirement building

Tempe, Arizona, Us

- Defining guide lines for Data Center Converged infrastructures - Compute Network - Storage- Creation of Build Guide Documentation for manufacturing floor Integration- Versatile understanding of networking devices using Command Line Interface (CLI)- Creation of cabling diagram and cabling tables for guidance during Enclosure integration- Designed rack elevation diagrams providing complete visual of infrastructure design Data Center Proposal- Established automatic process for labeling of devices and cables within Data Center enclosures aimed at easing trouble shooting- Supporting production floor Techinians when integration issues arise with system configuration during customer request- Involved in cost estimation with quoting team of Data Center complete enclosure system configuration - Lead planning meetings to align goals and establish expections with sales teams and project managers for new projects- Lead Engineer developing VSPEX EMC Cisco Converged system release - Continuous education on cutting edge devices releases including firmware and Beta device testing- Discovery of requirements and limitation in order to create specific implementation technical documentation- Continuous improvement Build Guide documentation by streamlining and refining steps that can improve efficiency- Sap Hana Database software deployment using Linux open-source operation system medelled on UNIX

Tempe, Arizona, Us

• Architect, Design, Implement system configurations based on customer requirements for networking and unified computing. • Develop datacenter environments using unified computing system solutions for computing and storage.• Enabled partners on CISCO architecture and the versatility of their Data Center Business Solutions.• Establish external technical discussions to facilitate a better understanding of unified computing resources and networking architectures with Avnet solutions.• Lead internal training sessions demonstrating equipment capabilities to sales personal for their use in customer communications.• Achieved all Cisco® Data Center Certifications (See Certifications below for complete list) • Provide pre-sales technical support working with Resellers and Channel sales in order shorten the sales cycle. • Contribute to proposals including large opportunities with values exceeding $5 million dollars all the way down to smaller events with in-channel sales.• Assisted in development and institution of a Cisco Demonstration Center which is used to highlight Cisco leading edge technology through interactive hands on environment. This includes Telepresence Communication and the handling of video conferencing bandwidth demands through Cisco Unified Computing (UCS).

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

Designed, built, and implemented database structures using TSQL and MySQL for storing project scope data. Createdvaried amount of tables that enforced relationships and stored procedures. Use of TSQL to create user friendly views.Enhanced the system by implementing PHP coding which allowed for data to be transferred over the APSES intranet.● Deployed MS Access to all personnel to utilize the Graphical User Interface I configured using Visual Basic. Thisallows users to easily view and edit data located on the SQL server.● Instituted connections to the SQL Database using MS Access and Visual Basic programming. As a result, updates tothe SQL database can now be performed from user’s desks with MS Access.● Incorporated a more versatile user experience to databases by implementing a Microsoft Excel connection using visualbasic. This allowed for the seamless transfer of data from Excel format to Access Database format.● Contributor in weekly team meeting by introducing and presenting innovative technologies/products that aligned withthe objectives of the team.● Completed Energy Savings Rebate Applications by Extracting Data from shared drives in order to populateapplications with Strong data. This allowed for customers to save hundreds of thousands of dollars on energy use.

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

Employed Power Shell by creating scripts to run in active directory on Windows Server 2008 Standard ExchangeManagement Console● Generated Security Group and Distribution List (Members/Owners) which enforce information systems integrity● Implementing Aruba Wireless Network security access for vendors.● Formed Shared Network Drive Folders with different permission levels including Read/Write/Modify for use inapplication development● Introduced new employee Login Scripts to system Network Drives for new employees in order to access definedshared drives● Configured Remote Access using Defender tokens / Citrix Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) access / Internal RDCAccess / Cisco VPN● Provision Basic Access Using Access Request Management Systems (ARMS) in order to enforce Roles / Disable andEnabling Accounts / Delete Active Directory User/Group Accounts

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

Responded to help-desk computer based service issues by means of level one trouble shooting or dispatching to thecorrect information service group.● Priority of supreme customer service in a varied environment of software configuration models which allowed forthe improvement users computing experience● Provide technical support to local and remote network users through IT-Software Quality Assurance● Involved in Company wide deployment of updates to maintain security and technological edge● Proficient with Windows XP / 2000/ 2003 / Vista allowing for troubleshooting end user PC hardware and softwareissues● Contributed to Development of Knowledge Base intranet application which increased the ability to solve computerissues quickly

Chandler Pop Warner● Assisted in the development of inner city youths’ understanding of sportsmanship● Introduced them to the fundamentals of the game of football for both offense and defense

Bachelor Of Interdisciplinary Studies (Bis), Business / Communcations

Bachelor Of Interdisciplinary Studies; Business (Bs), Informatics Computer Sciences