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Orlando, Florida, US

• Lead the strategic direction, implementation, and optimization of cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure, AWS, and GCP public clouds, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.
• Developed and implemented FinOps strategies to optimize cloud spending, including budgeting, forecasting, and cost allocation.
• Provide leadership and guidance to the cloud operations team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Manage relationships with vendors and service providers, ensuring alignment with business objectives and contractual obligations.
• Implemented robust monitoring and alerting solutions to proactively identify performance issues and optimize resource utilization.
• Oversee multiple teams of offshore and nearshore contractors as well as direct reports, ensuring cohesive collaboration and high performance. Teams consist of Cloud, Network, Storage, NOC, and Database technicians.

Independence, Ohio, US

• Cloud Architect that builds solutions utilizing Microsoft Azure Cloud. Some of my responsibilities are:
• Engage with customer executives to identify pain points and opportunities to deliver value and then translate them into viable solutions
• Interact at multiple levels within a customer account (Enterprise Architects, Domain Architects, Directors, VPs, and CXOs) and maintain these relationships throughout their customer journey.
• Lead architecture and design engagements to demonstrate how cloud services meet the needs of strategic customers, including IT Transformation, Digital Products/Services, Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as.
• Understand the business strategy of the customer and articulate how Advizex can enable and deliver value to their organization, seamlessly integrating into their current and future technology landscape
• Experience in delivering technology workshops (networking, security, backup, disaster recovery, etc.) and aligning it to industry verticals (healthcare, retail, manufacturing, financial services, etc.)

Orlando, FL, US

• Responsible for architecture, design and implementation of CFX's private and public cloud environments.
• Spearhead IT initiatives to consolidate corporate environment to virtual infrastructure, responsible for the entire VMware environment including DR sites.
• Designed, validated and implemented virtualization utilizing VMware vCenter along with VMWare vSphere as a foundation for follow-on projects to completely virtualize CFX and prepare the organization for cloud.
• Created multiple Active Directory domains with advanced features. One domain for corporate users, one domain as a DMZ for public facing websites.
• Migrated existing Active Directory domain, along with users and Group Policy Objects to the new Active Directory environment created on virtualized hardware.
• Responsible for creating new user groups and GPOs for Active Directory, based on least privileged access and best practices.

Tavares, FL, US

• Served as Cornerstone’s Senior Systems Architect with responsibilities over architecture and a team of system administrators. Projects included implementation of complex enterprise applications on multiple platforms.
• Successfully planned and implemented full DR solution providing actively mirrored storage. Created a private cloud based on VMware infrastructure.
• Consolidated standalone data closets in 26 locations into redundant corporate datacenters.
• Manager of two direct-report Senior System Administrators as well as a Service desk staff of 8 IT technicians.
• Created two corporate Active Directory domains utilizing Windows Server, with advanced features.o Designed and built advanced security and restrictions using Active Directory Group Policy, Trusts, Federated Services.
• Provisioned and maintained Windows and Linux servers in virtual environment; built, supported and administered over 900 virtual servers.o Migrated and upgraded key business software to new virtual machines, including.

• System Engineer for Managed Service Provider with 4000 clients in industries, such as banking, healthcare, insurance, non-profit, wholesale, retail, city and federal government.
• Designed and implemented servers (Window server 2008R2 & 2012 R2, RHEL, and Debian variants).
• Created and upgraded Active Directory domain controllers, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, WSUS, etc., based on client need. Domain migrations involved both Intra-forest and inter-forest.
• Designed, built and implemented firewalls (Cisco, Cisco Meraki, Sophos, SonicWall, Juniper, and Palo Alto) for clients.
• Configured and administered Hyper-V and VMware ESXi virtual environments.
• Designed client infrastructure in cloud environments, MS Azure, AWS, Rackspace and IBM SoftLayer.

Shreveport, LA, US

• System Engineer for Managed Service Provider servicing 3500 clients in industries, such as banking, healthcare, insurance, non-profit, wholesale, retail, city and federal government. Responsible for maintaining the.
• Served as the technical lead on complex issues, opportunities and projects
• Deliver and support high level solutions using industry leading enterprise technologies including servers, storage solutions, switches, routers, firewalls, and wireless access systems
• Perform complex troubleshooting and resolution for systems at different enterprise levels, serving as escalation point for issues as necessary
• Document, track and troubleshoot tickets as needed to evaluate and assess technical risks, adherence to standards, and progress according to Service Level Agreements (SLA’s)
• Provide training, mentorship, and support professional development of fellow engineers

Shreveport, Louisiana, US

• Managed an environment consisting of 3 production warehouses and a corporate home office for the largest sporting goods wholesale distributor in the USA.
• Managed and coordinated six IT help desk technicians engaged in assisting end users.
• Successfully implemented the networking for a $10 million dollar Knapp OSR Shuttle System.
• Designed and maintained small businesses infrastructure (AD/DNS/DHCP/WSUS).
• Responsible for hardware/software purchasing recommendations, budgeting and planning.
• Migrated the organization from MS XP/MS Server 2003 to MS Windows 7 and MS Server 2008R2.

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