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Yulee, Fl, Us

Yulee, Fl, Us

The Woodlands, Texas, Us

Established enterprise vendor relationships and standardized global network refreshes. Led a global network refresh project that when complete will upgrade all business and plant location core networks. Replaces legacy Cisco, Brocade and HP switches, while standardizing on Cisco 9200/9300 platform. Developed a strategy for consolidating and migrating compute resources to four global data centers (2 US, 1 EU and 1 APAC) from 38 disparate locations. Migrated the management of internet circuit and Fortinet FortiGate firewalls to 3rd party. Conducted business review of all outstanding SOWs and created appropriate staffing plans that would enable meeting FY24 goals and objectives Conducted RFP for wireless network replacement in all global business offices and plants. My major goals are to modernize wireless infrastructure to 6g technology while providing enhanced wireless capabilities for plant DCS network teams.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Led 8-person cloud SRE team responsible for supporting internal customers migrations to cloud and cloud-based solutions (GCP and Azure). Developed a multi-year strategy for HashiCorp Vault to support a zero-trust security model, enhancing cyber resilience and secrets management in the cloud spaces. Maintained and supported Cloud IaaC solution based on Hashicorp’s Terraform, Vault and Sentinel solutions. Established yearly OKRs that aligned with business goals

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Led 7-person infrastructure engineering team responsible for migrating and integrating disparate OUs into THD's core IT services portfolio. Delivered integration strategies that aligned with business objectives, corporate security, and IT governance standards Developed project plans for transferring IT services to appropriate THD IT teams Developed and documented OU’s business continuity and disaster recovery plans prior to migration based on THD standards.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Refreshed core data center network from legacy CISCO VSS core to modern Cisco spine leaf design. Modernized BC/DR program, shutting down warm legacy SunGard DR site and migration of DR datacenter to hot site inside THD Atlanta datacenter. Architected and modernized compute and storage for core ERP application to IBM P8 and EMC XIO flash arrays. Project would enable HACMP for LPAR failover and storage failover utilizing EMC Recover Point. Migrated legacy VMWare environment to Nutanix. Established yearly OKRs that aligned with business goals.

Supported enterprise customers storage, computer, and networking environments. Pre-sales engineer for storage, SAN, and backup solutions. Architected, engineered, and implemented storage, SAN, and backup solutions. Managed project teams that performed implementation and migrations projects. Worked with customers to develop cloud storage strategies. Authored services SOW and RFP documents.

Irving, Texas, Us

Led team of storage engineers and architects responsible for the architecture, engineering, and implementation of SAN/storage solutions for a 20-million-dollar/yr. storage service. Responsible for supporting KTLO operations, data archiving and backup, disaster recovery, and replication activities. Led project that that would migrate 10.5PB of production data off legacy EMC, IBM, and NetApp arrays to IBM and NetApp all flash arrays. This project would encompass leading a team of over 30 cross functional IT engineers, and 5 project managers that interfaced with over 200 IT and business stakeholders. The execution of the project led to a savings of 7 million dollars over 2 years, through modernization of storage ecosystem, removal of wasted/unused storage, and rationalization of support contracts. Engineered and implemented storage virtualization solutions throughout the enterprise storage service that supported organization migration to hybrid cloud. Developed standards for evaluation and testing of new storage and EDP solutions, on prem, hybrid, and in cloud. Architected and implemented the refresh of core SAN infrastructure at two separate data centers, which consolidated 30 separate SAN fabrics into 4 fully redundant 16GB SAN fabrics based on CISCO 97xx directors leading to a saving of $150k annually in support costs. Architected storage solutions for SAP, SAP HANA which supported a 150B dollar/yr. pharmaceutical distribution system. Engineered and implemented enterprise storage systems that support hybrid cloud strategy Architected and engineered archiving solution that would have data older than 18 months stored to public cloud saving organization $700k annually while simplifying IT governance controls. Responsible for developing enterprise capacity management process for on-prem, internal cloud, and external cloud storage. Conducted quarterly business reviews with business units to ensure proper forecasting of storage service.

Irving, Texas, Us

Integrated SAN/Backup/DR infrastructure post-acquisition. Overhauled disaster recovery programs, reducing RPO and RTO significantly. Architected the integration of SAN/Backup/DR infrastructure from acquired company to corporate IT organization. Developed quarterly patching/update process for storage environment that met ISRM requirements and improved operational stability. Established monthly reporting metrics for SAN, storage and backup environments. Engineered the shutdown process and conversions of legacy systems and branch locations. Architected, engineered, and implemented storage virtualization for 1.5PB environment. Architected and implemented replacement of legacy IBM TSM backup solution that protected 3PB of online data. Architected and implemented comprehensive overhaul to business unit's disaster recovery program. Architected and implemented flash solution for IBM iSeries that supports BU’s ERP. Established framework for DR governance committee designed to better align business needs with DR capabilities. Managed 18-person team consisting of project managers, SAN, storage, and EDP engineers. Hiring manager for SAN, storage, and EDP engineers and administrators. Established yearly goals and metrics for employees that aligned with business directives.

Jacksonville, Fl, Us

Managed and architected infrastructure integration projects for acquisitions. Architected, engineered, and implemented a SQL consolidation plan. Consolidated 12 disparate SQL servers supporting 35+ SQL instances running SQL2000, SQL2005, SQL2008 to four SQL2008 clusters Architected and engineered the virtualization of the data center. VM adoption went from <5% to 100% for development, and 0% to 95% for production. Engineered first comprehensive patching process for core Unix and Oracle environment that led to quarterly patching of enterprise systems Engineered and implemented a NetBackup/Data Domain solution that replaced HP Omniback backup environment. Backup success rate went from <50% on 1st attempt to 99.9% and restore rates from <25% to 100% while saving the company 100K annually in tape and support costs. Architected, engineered, and implemented a 5-year SAN/Array project that consolidated the physical SAN environment from 8 fabrics to 4 and 10 storage arrays to 4, saving the organization 2.3 million dollars over 3 years. Architected, engineered, and implemented migration of ERP from HP/UX to IBM Power/AIX platform. Managed implementation projects of three data center network refreshes. Led project that would implement data archiving for all enterprise databases. Implemented several process improvements that drove cost savings and efficiencies in project forecasting, and execution. Managed the day-to-day operations of production and DR data centers. Architected and implemented 3 major expansions of data center including one complete move Architected 100% lights out management of data center. DR architect for all enterprise systems. Managed a team of 30 cross functional admins, project managers, and consultants. Established yearly goals and metrics for employees that aligned with business directives. Hiring manager for Oracle, UNIX, Linux, Windows, ESX, SAN and SQL administrators.

Jacksonville, Fl, Us

Provided L1/L2 support to retail and distribution locations. Supported IBM POS systems and token ring LAN environments.

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