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Herndon, VA, US

Louisville, Kentucky, US

• Architect BC-DR solutions for AWS/Azure cloud environments and on-prem infrastructure
• Serve as a liaison between the business and IT to identify business process impact of planned and unplanned downtime, create downtime procedures, and provide guidance on best practices
• Lead with trust, clarity, and teamwork to foster great relationships with co-workers and vendors
• Create policies and procedures promoting operational resiliency, and set the standard for quality and care
• Lead BC-DR resiliency testing, tabletop exercises, and continual improvement efforts
• Provide enterprise reporting metrics to executive leadership, and provide BC-DR Gap Analysis

Switzerland 🇨🇭, CH

• Create enterprise BC-DR plans for critical applications, systems, data centers, and vendor colocations
• Plan and execute IT DR failover tests, tabletop exercises, Gap Analysis, and take ownership of results
• Collaborate with international colleagues and vendors to meet GRC and revenue preservation efforts
• Design and implement BC-DR tracking tools, create support documentation, and employee training

Round Rock, Texas, US

• Completed EMC nine-week bootcamp, and two-year Associate Delivery Specialist training around the installation and configuration of EMC Data Domain, Networker, Avamar, and Data Protection Advisor software.
• Implementation of the various products and services mentioned above, as well as customer training and documentation
• Ensure all EMC implementations followed costumer policies and procedures as it related to change mgmt.

Round Rock, Texas, US

• Lead and manage GRC and BC-DR engagements, failover testing, and risk analysis
• Create and lead project status report meetings, executive presentations, and stakeholder interviews
• Worked with a variety of clients ranging from state/federal government, legal/financial institutions, and manufacturing facilities
• Serve as an SME on customer and team engagements by designing, implementing BC-DR solutions

Carmel, Indiana, US

• In charge of overseeing many projects, while gaining additional knowledge in deploying and maintaining all facets of network equipment
• Assisted in design of a new data center as well as creating network diagrams in Visio
• Maintained off-site DR infrastructure
• Continuous administration in Active Directory, DNS, DFS, VMware vCenter, Exchange, Cisco Ironport appliances, Websense Triton 7.6
• Responsible for documenting corporate policies and procedures
• Implementation of a Services Catalog and establishment of SLAs

Angola, Indiana, US

• Implementation and management of IT infrastructure and security devices for 30+ companies
• Creation and management of Disaster Recovery protocols
• Continuous administration in Active Directory, DNS, Microsoft Exchange, Check Point and SonicWall Firewalls
• SAN Project Management: implementation, power, cooling, switching, routing, replication, software, disk space, and security requirements as well as providing network diagrams

Angola, IN, US

• Solved technical issues via phone, email, and in-person
• Maintained VoIP and other networking equipment on campus
• Reviewed work orders and automate processes for knowledge base

Courbevoie, Ile De France, FR

• Provided hardware/software support for network infrastructure for Government/States
• Maintained the local data center, as well as three government data centers in southwestern United States
• SAN configuration, implementation, and maintenance
• Created testing environments within VMware vSphere 4.1

US

• Project planning, execution, and follow-up
• Server and workstation optimization
• Hardware/Software installation and troubleshooting

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Informatics

Core 40 With Technical Honors, Information Technology