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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.• Manage over $15 million in annual expenditures, ensuring effective allocation and cost control.• Run and manage the organization's Architecture Review Board (ARB) meetings, aligning IT projects with enterprise architecture standards.• Run and manage the organization's Change Advisory Board (CAB) meetings, overseeing change management processes to minimize risk.• Ensured compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards for cloud security and data protection.Key Achievements:• Reduced cloud spending by 20% through cost optimization initiatives.• Implemented reserved instances and savings plans as part of FinOps cost-saving measures, leading to significant reductions in long-term cloud expenditure.• Established a FinOps framework for improved visibility and control over cloud costs.• Lead the migration of critical workloads to Azure, achieving increased scalability and performance.• Work to constantly improve multi-cloud infrastructure, enhancing flexibility and resilience.

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 a Service (IaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), Enterprise Service Management (ESM), and create specific solutions.• 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.)• Responsible for the design, implementation, and support of cloud-based solutions for midsize & enterprise clients. This includes, but is not limited to hosting whiteboard discussions, developing technical architecture, and preparing client documentation.• Ability to analyze technology or data center needs of the Sales teams and create technical documents providing assessments of customer environment and documentation supporting recommendations on proposed solutions• Understanding the detail behind cloud platforms architecture and communicate it at various levels• Provide pre-sales technical assessment, design, and development of proposal and or bill of materials for a solution• Goal‐oriented team player committed to quality and detail• Innovative thinker who is positive and proactive

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.• Migrated physical and Hyper-V servers to newly created private cloud based on VMware.• Provision and maintain Windows and Linux servers, virtual appliances in virtual environment.• Championed for and created advanced services allowing automation and remote monitoring/management of all systems. (workstations and servers).• Implemented and migrated CFX's on-prem Exchange environment to MS Office 365. Migration also included setting up advanced features such as MFA, ATP, and MS Intune MDM.• Enterprise Administrator of CFX's Azure Cloud tenant.• Responsible for creating Azure tenant, connecting SSL-VPN as well as ExpressRoute connections to Azure Cloud for secure and high availability.• Created many services in Azure ranging from Azure DevOps projects, Access control(IAM), Access Policies, Network security groups, Local network gateways, Keyvaults, Subscriptions, Resource groups, Storage accounts, API Connections, Sql Servers, Sql databases, Load Balancers, Virtual networks, Application Insights, App Services and Logic Apps

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, troubleshooting, clustering, deployments, tuning, and maintenance. Environment included 12 locations in 7 counties across Florida.• 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 all following HIPAA regulations.o Responsible for creating new user groups and GPOs for Active Directory.o Wrote and maintained custom Active Directory Group Policy Objects and scripts to increase system efficiency, security and performance.o Designed and implemented Active Directory migration from .com domain to .org domain.• 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 MS Exchange.o Provided operational virtualization administration (VMware, Hyper-V, and Citrix).o Responsible for the entire VMware environment for over 3500+ End Users including DR sites.

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.• Designed, implemented and maintained Data Center virtualization solutions using VMware vSphere suite.• Performed daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity of server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled tasks.• Designed, implemented and tested Disaster Recovery solutions with eFolder, Replibit, and Veeam.• MS Exchange Migrations moving clients from MS Exchange 2003/2007/2010 to Exchange 2013.• Office 365 migrations with Active Directory integration.• Experience with IIS implementation, configuration, application, and user support.• Established and maintained relationships with a multitude of clients in various roles. Client environments ranged from 30 to 15,000 end users.

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 design and integrity of customer’s computer and network systems as well as coordinating complex projects.• 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• Represent professionally to all interested parties including customers, prospects, and outside vendor partners• Expertise with Active Directory domain controllers, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, WSUS, etc.• Configure and administer Hyper-V and VMware ESXi virtual environments.• Design client infrastructure in cloud environments, MS Azure, AWS, Rackspace and IBM.• Design, implement and maintain Datacenter virtualization solutions using VMware vSphere suite.• Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity of server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled tasks.• Design, implement and test Disaster recovery solutions with eFolder, Replibit, and Veeam.• Active Directory Domain Migrations, Intra-forest and inter-forest depending on client needs.• MS Exchange Migrations to Office 365 with Active Directory integration.• Pre-Sales consultations with clients and sales team to determine project requirements

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.• Successfully virtualized the company’s server infrastructure to MS Hyper-V environment.• Implemented Citrix XenApp 6.5 cluster to allow 300 remote salesmen in 42 states remote access, and migrated users from dial-up VPN to the Citrix XenApp server cluster increasing productivity.• Built and deployed custom Sysprep and Deployment Toolkit OS images.• Performed a full range of diagnostics, troubleshooting, installations, and repairs.• Deployed and configured enterprise class firewalls, switches, and wireless APs.• Ability to troubleshoot and use command line tools or GUI to achieve desired results.• Defined and implemented Disaster Recovery procedures.• Defined security requirements for systems including mainframe, servers and workstations.

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