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Wilmington, MA, US

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Boston, MA, US

--Continued to manage the IT Systems and Field Engineering team--Took over management of the Azure Cloud and Core Services team (Azure Infrastructure and Active Directory Services) - in January of 2024--Took over management of the Endpoint Engineering team (Citrix, Azure Virtual Desktop,Mobile Device Management, and physical endpoints) - in Jaunary of.

Boston, MA, US

--Aligned staff to work towards cross training of IT systems and Warehouse services. This allowed us to leverage the 2nd/3rd shift Warehouse support for IT Systems issues.--Migration of all Warehouse Sorters from Windows 2012 to Windows 2019.--Overall support for all sorters, yard management systems, warehouse management systems, labor management.

Boston, MA, US

--Leverage Agile Sprint methodology to increase the team's ability to deliver projects from 2+ months to under 6 weeks--Implemented Agile Program Management across both teams and assigned Programs for my senior engineers to lead. This created a sense of ownership from the staff and allowed them to work together to prioritize the program work that needed to.

Boston, MA, US

--Migrated 2 of our larger services - Passwordstate password manager and Atlassian Confluence from on-prem VMs with backend SQL Availability Group DBs to GCP Compute instances leveraging Cloud SQL for the databases. This deploy was across 3 regions (US West, US East, EU West). This was done leveraging Terraform for the deploys and DSC for configuration.

Boston, MA, US

Program/Platform Ownership:--VMware Platform - builds/upgrades/design--POP design - design appropriate compute and storage platforms for POP locations--Datacenter Architecture - Availability Zone design, rack layouts, power layouts, design work for new hardware/platforms, POCs--Hardware standards - current hardware profiles, use cases for different.

Boston, MA, US

--Redesigned Cisco UCCE phone system hardware platform. This entailed a sizing/scoping exercise of the phone system for BOM creation, SOW negotiation/creation, reconfiguration of the existing UCS environment to support the additional UCS hardware and migration of the VMs.--vCenter upgrades from 6.0 to 6.5 which was particularly complex due to the.

Boston, MA, US

--Primary focus was on the design and architecture of Wayfair’s on-prem VMware environment and all physical servers - including SQL, Big Data, and AI/ML--Successfully designed and implemented a hardware solution and VM configuration that allowed Wayfair to go from a 100% physical SQL server footprint to a 100% virtual SQL server footprint. Using data.

Canton, Massachusetts, US

• Design and deploy technology in the core foundation area utilizing reference architecture and industry best practices.
• Ability to work on a project team following the designated methodology and deliverables as outlined by the statement of work.
• Mastery of all specialty tracks within the practice.
• Provide Strategic planning and insight towards new technology.
• Provide tactical planning and insight towards implementation of new offerings.
• Gather client business requirements and architect a solution that meets the client’s needs.

Canton, Massachusetts, US

• Ability to design and deploy technology in the core foundational area utilizing reference architecture and industry best practices.
• Ability to work on a project team following the designated methodology and deliverables as outlined by the statement of work.
• Mastery of one specialty track within their practice.
• Can articulate to stakeholders how the solution adds value to the client and meets the client’s objectives with little to no guidance.
• Lead deployment and support for solutions that can be new, integrated with legacy systems, or upgrades of current systems with minor supervision.
• Assist and mentor other team members with deployment or best practices.

Canton, Massachusetts, US

Boston, MA, US

• Technical Lead for implementation of new Data Center project, which consists of 16 UCS B Series Chassis, 2 VNX 8000, Cisco Nexus 6000/5500/3000 series switches.
• Plan architecture and infrastructure for new and existing virtual systems for a financial systems environment.
• Design operations and implementation surrounding virtual infrastructure; configure and write supporting documentation.
• Investigate issues with the IT systems to identify systematic problems and root causes; work with vendors as necessary to resolve issues.
• Design and assist with Arrowstreet's business continuity plans.
• Create documentation and best practices for access and controls, benchmarking, policy management, backups and recovery, performance, reliability, usability and support surrounding virtualization platforms.

Lowell, MA, US

• Implement VMware Infrastructure solutions in Services, Development and Production environments at both the Primary DC in Boston and the DR facility in Chicago.
• Manage and implement the current expansion project, which doubled Kronos Cloud’s existing capacity.
• Work with VAR to install and configure 8 HP BladeSystem C7000 chassis running 128 HP BL460c Gen 8 blades. These chassis were spread across 2 physical data centers, one in Boston and one in Chicago, and represented all.
• Provide Linux infrastructure expertise and assistance to the rest of the Hosted Systems group.
• Develop and implement infrastructure capacity planning and optimization using VMTurbo Operations Manager.
• Conduct research on emerging virtualization technologies that will help improve overall performance of the environment.

Newton, MA, US

• Primarily focused on VMWare vSphere, Cisco UCS, Cisco MDS and EMC Celerra/Clariion SAN technologies.
• Manage and maintain lifeIMAGE’s entire VMware 5.1 infrastructure, including Corporate, Production, and Disaster Recovery sites.
• Design and build out all new virtualization initiatives.
• Monitor and back up all environments using Veeam One Monitor and Backup & Replication.
• Setup VM Images containing builds of Centos, RedHat and Windows using VMware best practices to fine tune configurations for optimal performance.
• Procure and implement all new server hardware, storage hardware, and networking equipment.

• Subject Matter Expert on VMware vSphere 4.1 and VMware Lab Manager, EMC CX4 and AX4 series SANS, and Cisco MDS 9124 Fiber Switches.
• Responsible for overall management of vCenter 4 infrastructure consisting of 25 ESX/ESXi servers running 550 virtual machines – both in Production and corporate data centers.
• Implemented VMware Lab Manager for entire Engineering organization consisting of 3 departments. This increased the productivity of the individual developers and saved the company 5 man hours per developer per week.
• Expanded existing virtual infrastructure from 30 VMs on 1 server attached to a small CX4-120 SAN to 550 virtual machines on 25 servers attached to 3 CX4-120 SANs and 2 AX4-5 SANs.
• Created and implemented all security roles for corporate vCenter.
• Work with all department heads on capacity planning and budgeting for future growth of vSphere infrastructure.

• Manage vendor relationships to ensure that all hardware and software purchases are within budget and are lowest cost.
• Responsible for training all new Network Engineers in procedures and iMakeNews specific technologies.
• Create policies, procedures and Network Documentation for all project, training and daily operations.
• Management of all Production related technologies including Dell and HP Servers, Baystack switches, Storage arrays including Direct Attached HP MSA50s, Dell 1850 NAS devices, and EMC iSCSI AX100i SANS, Checkpoint and.
• Capacity planning and performance tuning of all EMC and HP data warehouses.
• Split web server reads/writes across multiple file servers using DoubleTake replication to keep all content in sync – increasing response speed of both the authoring web farm and the analytics and tracking public web.

Waltham, MA, US

• Supervise ongoing daily monitoring of Gomez’s international Network infrastructure.
• Manage infrastructure projects including, deployment of Firewall devices, Cisco Catalyst distribution layer switch upgrade and Gomez application software to 95 Gomez international locations.
• Responsible for training all new Network Engineers in procedures and Gomez specific technologies.
• Create policies, procedures and Network Documentation for all project, training and daily operations.
• Management of all Server, Switch and VPN appliances across 35 ISPs and 95 Datacenters worldwide.
• Build, QA, ship, and coordinate installation of site by utilizing ISP/contractor remote hands support.

Billerica, MA, US

• Management of production service infrastructure including Voicewatch, FarSight, Hammer On-Call, and Eload Expert.
• Collocation server deployment for FarSight including remote software deployment on 33 collocated servers across the US and EU and management of outsourced installations.
• Management and Configuration of all Firewall devices (NetScreen 5XP/GT, 100, and 204; PIX 520 and 525).
• Technical management of Internet Service Providers (20 ISPs total).
• IIS Web Servers Configuration & Administration (IIS 5.0/6.0).
• SQL 2000 Database Server Configuration, Administration, and Performance tuning.

Waltham, MA, US

• Maintain all Production servers and peripherals as well as all firewalls and intrusion detection systems.
• Administration and Management of Enterprise firewalls and security settings.
• Monitor Internet connectivity, server uptime, web hits, and other server issues utilizing Enterprise Montior to make sure that all Production servers were available 24x7.
• Installation, Configuration, and Management of all Development, QA, Staging, and Training environments.
• Installation and Configuration of corporate Microsoft Exchange 5.5 server and performed the IS/DS restore in Disaster/Recovery scenario.
• Configuration of the proprietary web based software for all IIS web servers and upgraded software using Visual Source Safe.

Santiago, CL

• Management a 50+ user Netware 4.11/Windows NT LAN/WAN.
• Configuration and Management of Microsoft IIS 4.0 server running on Windows NT 4.0.
• Design and Deployment of Microsoft SQL 6.5 Databases to act as development backend components of web based training programs.
• Installed, configured and maintained all development, QA, staging, and training environments.
• Configuration of CSU/DSU and Bay Network Router using a Frame Relay connection for office-wide Internet access.
• Create and implement security policies regarding software auditing, Internet usage, computer usage, email, and virus scanning.