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Provide IT leadership for a key clients in 4 states managing and optimizing their IT infrastructure. The environments are comprised of 500+ PCs, 90 servers, email, in house web and application development, databases services, ECI and hotel management. Principally direct project management, system administration, disaster recovery design, system upgrades and database management. Review financials and conduct cost analyses, and engage in heavy customer relations regarding financials.▪ Directed PCI projects, essential to achieving and maintaining credit card compliance as the client company was acquired by another hospitality industry firm.▪ Provided security consulting during the acquisition phase, to ensure protection of proprietary data and personal, high-profile client information. Instituted change control management during the consolidation of assets. ▪ Migrated the accounting platform from AS 400, customized, obsolete, and insufficient for scaled business operations, to MS Dynamics, allowing a larger pool of resources to access and utilize the system. ▪ Managed IT projects for property management Suits installation and upgrades. Created interfaces between legacy and new systems. Recommended hardware components, oversaw security, configured servers, and guided administration.▪ Steered the effort to modernize the Content Management System (CMS) providing insight and guiding stake holders to a unified vision to ensure the success of the effort which included multiple technologies such as Microsoft's Great Plains, SharePoint, Drupal, Joomla and streaming media services.▪ Provide recommendation for awards and wage management for all employees.▪ Provide planning and management for Office365 exchange configuration and migrations. To include Proofpoint and Okta IAM integration.

As a senior cloud security engineer, our goal was to implement and maintain application and cloud security (AWS, GCP, and Azure) through application security, endpoint security, and data security utilizing various products and techniques such as Palo Alto, Checkpoint, Proofpoint, Cisco, Trend Micro, F5 Big-IP, Okta, Carbon Black, Twistlock and Redlock. Implement and manage DLP in a layered approach beginning with the software development cycle, access and scanning on endpoints, and traffic in transit and at rest globally.

Enterprise Architecture / Cybersecurity information officer leading enterprise transformation projects, developing and providing information to decision makers, and developing compelling visualizations to support decision making.Responsible for determining enterprise information security policy and strategy. Overseeing the development, implementation, and enforcement of information security standards and procedures. Ensures that all information systems are functional correctly regarding secure policy. In charge of IT risk evaluations, audits, and security incident investiation. Manages a departmental function within a broader corporate function. Develops major goals to support broad functional objectives. Approves policies developed within various sub-functions and departments. Comprehensive knowledge of the overall departmental function.

As the senior database administrator, drove enterprise database performance by providing expert knowledge in maintaining, monitoring, performance tuning, backup, and recovery of the financial management, security incident management, facility management, student administration, and personnel access system. All these tools relied on the Oracle Relational Database Management System (RDBM) for the acquisition, storage, and retrieval of data. Monitored the database and system logs for signs of anomalies indicating potential threats or vulnerabilities, and remediate, report, and track such items. Consulted with stakeholders, managers, and customers to determine and evaluate requirements design and development methodologies.Led the provisioning of enterprise database products and services for publicizing, storing, and transmitting information that supported the agency's mission.Held senior responsibility for the technical analysis, planning, security, design, acquisition, development, testing, implementation, operation, and disposition of database products and services.Ensuring that managed systems were patched and hardened according to security regulations and guidelines, and that the documentation of system settings was maintained and reviewed.Currently as a COR III I have been the primary overseeing the development of applications, web development, data integration and database management. Ensuring requirements are met and resources are managed properly to meet milestones for the many projects.

Planned upgrade of retail management system and warehouse management system migration to SAP. Instituted business processes to improve data integrity and order administration time. Guided implementation of Foreign Trade Zone accountability process. Developed, planned, and implemented system life cycle for the Oracle 9I, 10gR2 and SQL server databases, consisting of 1.2 terabytes of data for North, Central and South Americas. Identified strategies to improve forecasting of server performance and availability. Configured, installed and managed Oracle on IBM AIX and RedHat Linux environments, as well as Microsoft SQL 64 and 32 bit environments. ▪ Managed an international database environment spanning 3 continents. Improved data response time by 40 percent, this led to an increase in profit of 15 percent.▪ Key figure in implementing Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) project, which validates every item that requires taxes and duties to be paid on goods that enter the US for Hugo Boss USA. Responsible for developing business rules and compliance checks. ▪ Managed modernization of disaster recovery process and reduced recovery time from 6 hours to 5 minutes

Administered MS SQL, Oracle and Linux servers, which primarily involved capacity planning, physical and virtual database modernization and database performance optimization, in Oracle and Microsoft SQL environments. Continually identified strategies to improve analysis of anticipated server performance and availability. Configured, installed and managed Oracle on Linux 64 and 32 bit environments, as well as Microsoft SQL 64 and 32 bit environments. Diagnosed and repaired server issues, and backed up SQL and Oracle databases. Conducted RMAN, Linux Shell and Perl scripting. Installed VMware software, configured VMware clients, managed VMware resources, and troubleshot VMware. Ensured functionality of SAN and ISCSI devices. ▪ Coordinated single sign on authentication project across multiple systems: Unix, Windows and Apple, a HIPPA and SOX-mandated security requirement.▪ Ensured system was HSPD 12 compatible and 508 compliant, for compatibility with government contracts requiring single sign on. Identified authentication solution for HSPD 12 for Linux.▪ Directed project to reduce size of SQL servers, to ease administration, raise performance, and deliver a $450K annual savings in licensing.▪ Provided guidance and support for the selection and implementation of Linux integration with active directory. Trained other employees on the administration of the integration software.