Douglas E. Email & Phone Number

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

Datacenter Solutions ConsultingCloud Migration and Azure Office 365 hybrid integrationAdvanced Hypervisor Over Arching Security & Network hardeningSecurity Readiness assessments and mitigationCloud to cloud D/RCould SSO & AD Federation Sync, MS Exchange on prem to cloud migrationFederated Active Directory UpgradesHPE/Cisco LAN WAN Installation and UpgradesCITRIX & ZEN Migrations MSCS and Hypervisor HPC Design and EngineringX86 Rack Design, SAN, Brocade, HPE Apollo & Blade Engineering Mission Critical Upgrades CRAC Power, Heat, cooling technologiesDRS, vCloud, vSphere ultra high density environmentsConsulting Various SME, Technical Project & Portfolio/Program ManagementMS SQL & Exchange 2003-2007-2010-2013 Migration Active Directory /Server 2008 R2/2012Cisco/NxOS LAN WAN hardware/softwareSolarwinds, IBM Director, TSM, HP SIM, Kiwi, Syslog, Dell Open Manager, LanDesk, DSVIEWvSphere, ESXi, CITRIX & XENMICROSOFT CLUSTER & VIRTUAL SERVER Design and EngineeringIBM X/Lenovo/HP/Dell Blade SERIES Rack-Row Design and EngineeringEMC/IBM/HP/Compellant/HDS SAN/NETAPP EngineeringIBM/HP BLADE Advanced Stack Network L2/3 EngineeringPCI DSS, Coordinate CMDB, Process, Compliance, Regulatory Reporting, Audits

Plantation, Florida, Us

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Us

Worked within office of CIO/CTO on corporate and public on premise and cloud IT infrastructure and applications stack for over 100,0000 executives, teachers, and students at 100 remote locations and D3 class enterprise datacenters. Over 50 active projects. Designed and reengineered over 100 sites and datacenters to remove legacy underpowered systems and networks into MPLS based hyper converged blade architecture from HPE and other virtualization vendors while lowering IT budget and support staff count. The stack included, Fortigate 3700D carrier class firewall, Microsoft SDDNS, Cisco 802.11ac mesh, and Vsphere with over 600 application servers. This included 80 Gb backbone, SSD, APC Symmetra and out of band failover technologies for improved issue resolution, metrics, and production uptime.Facilitated the transparent migration 100,000 users from disparate domains into single unified MS Exchange 2017 tennant, MIIS sync provisioning, SSO, federated Active Directory. Instrumented existing domains for rapid seamless ingestion into O365. Engineered and facilitated deployment of expensive POE+ /VoIP infrastructure vPBX replacements to provide over 10K watts per site at over 100 sites.

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

Reported to Executive VP MIS & CSOConsulting lead engineer for complex projects impacting F5000 executives including Multicampus VoIP Switching, IPPBX, 802.11ac debugging coexistences of PC, MAC, PROBOOK, Tablets. smart displays all in qos.

Miramar, Florida, Us

Hand-picked comprehensive matrix of datacenter technologies to implement sweeping end to end datacenter upgrades including hosting OEM shoot outs to address a host of business requirements for a company growing 40% per year. Supervised SOW and IBM Executive Global Services to lead engagement to assess and rank risks to datacenter infrastructure and develop action plans, mitigation, and expansion plans for new state of the art facilitiesManagement of Infrastructure Technology Engineering to supporting projects and infrastructure upgrades, implementation of new technologies. Served as an escalation point for all technology issues related to core IT infrastructureResponsible for managing change and incident resolution at all layers such as customers, PMO, vendors, and change control for line of business and new infrastructure projects. Leveraged skills to improve departmental efficiencies and best practicesStrategic planning for technologies and architecture including reports, presentations, budgets, BOM, to communicate roadmaps and recommendations to stakeholdersInterviews, coaching, feedback, monitoring, task assignment, development/performance management with onsite and remote associates. Performed appropriate decisions considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions and apply varying leadership skills to solve unexpected situations including successful management of critical system infrastructure and On call escalations. Performed vendor SLA management & lifecycle solution delivery for mutual benefits. Established best practices, procedures, enforcing governance system change, problem & availability knowledge and executionUtilized training skills to enable knowledge transfer and user education per best practiceResponsible to enforce engineers to follow architecture, technical and process compliance, and ITIL practicesUnderstanding of Environment, Build, Deployment and Release Management concepts / practices product progression.

Project Leader of Business Continuance and Enterprise Architect • Discovered, communicated, and provided C-level executive reports and boardroom presentations on a comprehensive matrix of datacenter business continuance technologies to re-align with business plan and company growth. Provided step by step corrective action technical plans which were negotiated across channel and a dozen vendors including budgetary lifecycle and headcount goals. • Developed replacement architecture to fully convert legacy systems to leverage vSphere and vCloud Enterprise System Architecture for distributed computing ERP web applications including crafting compute, storage, data replication, and application acceleration hardware. • Performed extensive research, technical level 3 OEM channel escalations, and testing to validate problem statement and findings in support of custom milestone projects and resource plans (MS project, dative, PowerPoint, telepresentations.)

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

Reported to VP IT and CEO offices. Performed and completed sucessful complex IT Datacenter and physical/vm migration, staff office infrastructure migration, supporting cloud infrastructure relocation project for over 10,000 users. Upon successful offices and datacenter relocation, a holdover for validation design testing and new infrastructure certification and new standards project.

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

Reported to Executive VP Global IT. Active Directory upgrade planning and worksheets from 32bit multi-campus to 64bit 2008R2 on global scale including MIIS to FIM and federated forest tools, schema, impact to WAN/LAN, DNS, DHCP, Servers, ESX, ERP business applications, SharePoint, MS SQL and 3rd party interfaces to GAFB, WCCP policy sync ACL filtering, Meta directory/ADAM sync and automation controls, batch import/export, extensive cleanup and conflict resolutionsMS Exchange 2003/2007/2010 Enterprise clustered environment migration, Google Apps for business, Powershell script and batch file automation, VB Script monitoring and uptime automationServed as key resource in the office of CTO for projects and datacenter consolidation using best of breed technologies to enable the CIO strategic vision. Designed, developed, implemented technological solutions using Windows Enterprise Server, Active Directory, and cloud based architecture and ESX VMWare, SAN, & Citrix platforms for enterprise applications. Blackberry Enterprise Server, SAP Financials, MS Office 2010, SQL 2008, Confluence, GFI Antispam, Postini, IBM/HP Cluster Server, NetApp, 3par, HP, EMC, Cisco 9500 SAN, Visio Professional, Office 2010, MS Project Server, WSUS, SCOM, Zenoos, Sitescope, SNMP, Net, ADSI Edit, MISS, FIN, IIS7, IIS6, MSDNHigh attendance no sick days over one-year timeframe, held off on family vacations to meet project deadlines