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Designed, managed and maintained the quality and performance of infrastructure and application projects throughout the development and delivery lifecycle. Installed, configured, tested and maintained operating systems, application software and system management tools. Coordinated the activities of internal and 3rd party personnel to conduct testing and training. Proactively ensured the highest level of systems and infrastructure availability. Wrote and maintained custom scripts to increase system efficiency. Provided logs and troubleshooting data to vendor engineers for problem resolution and coordinated testing to confirm problem closure. Acted as a liaison between engineering and Project Management to keep the customer technical teams informed of progress towards project goals.Performed regular server maintenance, including upgrades, configurations and required patching, to keep infrastructure up-to-date. Managed the high availability Misys SaaS network and infrastructure, participating in 24 x 7 application operations. Built and maintained the test and production environments using Cloud and internal services. Worked with development on continuous integration and application deployment.

Contribute to the development, design and implementation of a solution for cloud-like provisioning of VMware based Windows servers within Sanofi’s three global datacenters. Test integration points with the help desk system, Microsoft SCCM, vCenter (VMware), infoBlox (Network), etc. Provide feedback and recommendations for improvement of the user interface to make it highly intuitive and with few options (Amazon like). Contribute to incremental releases of the global Sanofi standard Windows enterprise sever build process. Provision 10-20 VMware based Windows servers each day in a pre-production environment. Test all available options in the automated server provisioning system. Formalize QA testing of individual features/functions to ensure 100% coverage of system requirements per regulatory best practices. Debug installation and support documentation to be published as part of the versioned system release.

Built both virtual and physical client workstations using SCCM. Assisted software developers in testing workstations for a migration from Windows XP to Windows 7. Assisted Head of Infrastructure Testing in creating test cases for the process of building and testing workstations. Researched and gathered information on Big Data providers. Created and delivered presentations to show project status throughout internship.

Investigated and gathered data to create network diagrams for the integration of newly acquired companies, Genzyme and Merial, into the Sanofi Global WAN. Created and delivered presentations to show project status throughout internship.