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Greenwood Village, Co, Us

Director, Project Engineering for the Microsoft Cloud and the Infrastructure Projects team.Play a critical dual role a leader and mentor within the Professional Services department. Responsible for overseeing and ensuring the successful delivery of client projects and driving continuous improvement in engineering practices. Involved in supporting internal sales teams during presales and sales processes and collaborating with partners and product development teams to identify new technology opportunities. A proven strong technical background, excellent leadership skills, and a proven track record in managing complex IT projects.Leadership and Management:• Lead, mentor, and manage the project engineering team, balancing hands-on technical contributions with leadership responsibilities to ensure high performance and professional growth.• Cultivate a collaborative and innovative team culture aligned with company goals.• Develop and implement strategic plans in alignment with the company’s goals.• Primary escalation point and resource for direct reports, ensuring swift resolution of issues.• Oversee performance management, recruitment, team building, and the professional development.• Collaborate with cross-functional leads to ensure seamless project execution and alignment with organizational goals.Project Oversight:• Plan, execute, and deliver projects that meet quality standards, stay within scope and budget, and exceed client expectations.Operational Efficiency:• Monitor and analyze project performance metrics to identify areas for improvement.• Drive process improvements to boost the efficiency and effectiveness, ensuring optimal resource utilization.• Continuously improve operations, streamline work processes, and work cooperatively and jointly to provide quality service.• Manage resource allocation and capacity planning to ensure optimal team utilization.• Identify opportunities for cost savings and revenue generation.

Greenwood Village, Co, Us

Provide design, implementation, troubleshooting and support of infrastructure including servers, switches, routers, firewalls, wireless networks and unified communication systems.Manage the performance of a team of Network Engineers in the areas of utilization, client satisfaction, and Service Level Agreements.Manage my own and my team’s submission of timely, thorough, and accurate billable utilization hours. Maintaining a combined monthly utilization of 75%.Develop detailed functional specifications, design documents, and test plans.Consult with technical and business partners and serve as a consulting resource to support client-hosted installations and implementations.Work cross-functionally with internal and external customers to define deliverables.Support escalation incidents and support on-call duty requirements.Interface with internal clients such as sales, service and field staff as well as external clients to define deliverables.Mentor and train junior-level engineers.Initiate and prepare accurate documentation, reports, schedules, time and expense tracking, and spreadsheets as directed or required by client needs, departmental procedures, and Company policy.Maintain and abide by established department procedures and policies and attend required meetings.Able to install, configure, troubleshoot Layer 2 and Layer 3 switches and associated technologies from Aruba, Cisco, Meraki and Juniper.Able to install, configure, troubleshoot routers used for internal routing, ISP connectivity, MPLS and switches ethernet layer 2 deployment.Able to install, configure, troubleshoot firewalls from vendors such as Palo Alto, SonicWall, Fortinet and Meraki.Able to install, configure, troubleshoot wireless solutions from Aruba, Meraki and Cisco.

Glendale, Ca, Us

As Senior Network Engineer provided complex technical support functions related to the installation, customization, testing, and debugging of Glenair’s local and wide area enterprise networks; assisted in monitoring network performance and responding to service requests to resolve platform and service performance disruptions.In this position I served as the subject matter expert and was responsible for all aspects of Glenair’s data network (wired/wireless).• Proposed solutions to ensure all communications requirements based on future needs and current usage, configuring such solutions to optimize cost savings.• Created and ensured that appropriate network documentation existed, including operational instructions.• Provided monitoring and network analysis regarding short- and long-range planning for in-house systems.• Perform troubleshooting and resolution of network infrastructure and associated systems.• Implemented and troubleshoot LAN technologies such as VLANs, Trunk, Access (port tagging), Spanning-Tree, and Port Security.• Provided third-level support and troubleshooting of network problems.• Recommended data, voice, or video network investment decisions to management based on an independent assessment of current and future network performance, stability, and network management issues.• Reported project status as required for all recurring and non-recurring efforts.• Detailed knowledge of the Microsoft Windows Server family.• Managing routing protocols on large LAN environments.• Networking manufacturer platforms (Aruba, Cisco, Palo Alto, Cisco Meraki)• Experience with network challenges associated with systems integration, including capacity analysis, and system architecture design.• Demonstrated experience using network analysis tools (i.e., WireShark, Opnet,SolarWinds, etc.)• Expert knowledge in the following: DNS, DHCP, STP, VLANs, ACLs, IPSEC, WLC, NAC/ISE,OSPF, iBGP, eBGP, VXLAN• Experience Aruba ClearPass, VMWare ESXi, VMWare vSwitch

In this role, I successfully architect and implement network designs using industry and vendor best practices in medium to enterprise environments. I build and employ new and existing networks supporting a variety of vendors, including Cisco, Meraki, Aruba, Palo Alto, Fortinet, and SonicWALL. I created / implemented VPNs from cloud resources to office locations. 𝙈𝙮 𝙎𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙄𝙣𝙘𝙡𝙪𝙙𝙚:● Develop new and existing networks supporting a variety of network devices ,including firewalls, routers, switches, and wireless access points.● Mitigate / resolve network connectivity and performance issues relating to firewalls, VPNs, switching, and wireless access points.● Designed VPNs between locations to ensure secure communications while alleviating unneeded services / applications. ● Architect and apply new VMware vSphere environments using industry / vendor best practices in medium to enterprise environments.● Engineered latest cloud environments in Azure and AWS while focusing on costs, performance, and network security. ● Evaluate and address ransomware attacks while partnering with onsite teams to locate archived copies of data from backups, SAN / NAS snapshots, or other possible data locations. ● Rebuilt network infrastructure in VMware vSphere, AWS, or Azure. ● Redesigned network infrastructure while employing network segmentation with vLANs and firewall rules to secure network resources.

I consulted with companies on ways to optimize, utilize, and manage their network infrastructure while advising them on new technologies, industry best practices and business / data flow processes. I also designed scalable, resilient, and secure network infrastructures using products from Cisco, Aruba, Brocade, Palo Alto Networks, SonicWall, Fortinet, and other vendors. 𝙈𝙮 𝙎𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙄𝙣𝙘𝙡𝙪𝙙𝙚:● Assist organizations in remediating Ransomware attacks while designing and implementing new network / system solutions to prevent future attacks. ● Deliver Active Directory support and provide EMR Solutions for medical clients.● Oversee Exchange Servers and SQL Servers and provide physical network infrastructure installations, maintenance, and support.● Serve as a virtual CIO for organizations and a business analyst between clients and developer teams.● Lead IT and network Built and implemented VMWare vSphere solutions on various server hardware and storage solutions ranging from HP, Dell, IBM, Cisco, Equal Logic, Left Hand, EMC, and NetApp ● Train in-house IT staff on day-to-day operations / maintenance of new systems and coached end users on ways to better utilize new systems to maximize RTO● Provide managed services support of clients not budgeting for full-time, in-house IT staff. ● Collaborated with management / decision makers on ways to lower TCO and maximize investment dollars.

San Jose, California, Us

As a security analyst, I managed a process improvement project for Symantec’s Web Security Service (WSS) and supporting information security management system (ISMS). I also consulted with the Ops group on the VMware environment and addressed issues with performance in the environment.𝙈𝙮 𝙎𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙄𝙣𝙘𝙡𝙪𝙙𝙚:● Played a key role by contributing to ISO 27001 certification and SOC 2 attestation reporting for cloud services.● Successfully reviewed existing controls for ISO27001 and created / updated documentation library for information security management system. The initiative provided a single source of reference for operational documentation and compliance requirements for the security program.● Advised group on best practices and use of VMware API features. Aided with the implementation of suggestions and monitored environments for results based on the implementation of advisements.● Engineered network and process diagrams to better describe data flows and customer data storage throughout the service. Network diagrams were combined with process diagrams to show topology and how processes worked together within the environment. This also enabled better understanding for customers, enhanced automation, and reduced training costs for new employees.

I was contracted to deliver VMware consulting and training services to military, local governments, and private companies including fortune 500's. I successfully architected solutions for new and existing environments with SLA, developer, users, security, and management needs in mind. 𝙈𝙮 𝙎𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙄𝙣𝙘𝙡𝙪𝙙𝙚:● Engaged with users to gather requirements and partnered with development vendors and teams.● Partnered / collaborated with business development by taking responsibility for functional and technical elements for FRIs/RFPs.● Successfully delivered numerous classes while receiving excellent evaluations due to students consistently passing CVE certification exam.

Santa Clara, California, Us

As a VMware Solutions Architect, I developed white papers, best practice guides, reference architectures, and lab validations for cutting-edge technology. I also provided hands-on end-to-end proof of technology, which included hardware, software setup, and configuration of SAN, NAS, UCP, Blades, LPAR’s, Hypervisors, operating systems, DNS, DHCP, PXE, and images that replicated enterprise environments for POT, POC, LVR, and RA. 𝙈𝙮 𝙎𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙄𝙣𝙘𝙡𝙪𝙙𝙚: ● Delivered test plan, lab reports that enabled the team to achieve objectives for improving performance while reducing $100MM in overall cost and saving 200 hours in project costs for a documentation project.● Devised and delivered test plans, lab reports, technical presentations, analyst briefings, and white papers to address various areas of HDS storage solutions.● Composed lab validation report for VMware auto-deploy, designed, built, and tested Hitachi UCP for VMware on HUS VM, and delivered reference architecture. ● Successfully planned, designed, implemented, and executed complex enterprise-level storage, network, and blade server solutions from configuration and testing to support of the developed solution.● Commended by leadership for engineering, building, and testing Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select for VMware vSphere and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select for Citrix XenDesktop.● Engineered and tested integration of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000 with VMware VAAI.● Managed the ongoing recommendations and best practices for storage, network, and blade server solutions around business continuity, high availability, backup, recovery, and archiving.● Designed, built, and tested 250 virtual machines' performance during dedupe operations on Hitachi NAS Platform environment.