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• Provide advice to Cloud Security Director and team on AWS security strategy at Fortune 50 company---o Assist with implementation and development of security strategy---o Assist with design and implementation of.

Lexington, Kentucky Area

• Managed Operations team consisting of systems administrators and network engineers
• Initiated, architected and implemented AWS adoption for production workloads
• Operated and managed on-site data center, remote site datacenter, and cloud deployments
• Responsible for Systems and Network architecture
• Responsible for site security implementation
• Re-architected and replaced disaster recovery plan

Lexington, Kentucky Area

• Managed datacenter and server farm supporting production, test, development, and enterprise workloads
• Managed SAN storage systems
• Managed corporate LAN, datacenter LAN, and WAN networks

San Francisco Bay Area

• Negotiated network and datacenter contracts
• Managed Website Operations
• Designed network and server architecture
• Specified datacenter infrastructure needs
• Specified and acquired all network and server hardware
• Negotiated pricing and support for all hardware

San Francisco Bay Area

• Managed website operations team (BroadVision, Scene7, Endeca)
• Managed warehouse and backend systems (WMS, HP3000, Oracle Financials)
• Maintained and installed Solaris, Linux, and Windows servers.
• Maintained and installed network infrastructure for the entire enterprise (four locations throughout the US)
• Managed and installed PIX and vpn3000 concentrators
• Managed overall network infrastructure and design

San Francisco Bay Area

• Managed operations teams for Quote.Com, Lycos Mail, and Wired News
• Implemented cross training for systems administrators for the above properties
• Merged on-call rotation of staff for the above properties to improve coverage and reduce workload among the staff
• Interfaced with engineering and product management groups to ensure continued site stability and to resolve issues related to engineering defects.
• Responsible for approximately 600 servers in four data centers consisting of Solaris, Windows 2000, Network Appliance, and Linux
• Planned and executed four data center moves and two new data center build outs

San Francisco Bay Area

• Created NOC for 24x7 monitoring of production site.
• Created on-call policy and rotation for 24x7 second level support for production site, providing single point of contact for escalation of production issues
• Evaluated and negotiated contracts with vendors for connectivity, hardware, and software for the production site
• Designed production network and infrastructure for Swiss partner, traveled to Zurich and Geneva to evaluate datacenter and network providers, and assisted in negotiations with partner
• Interfaced with OEM clients to review operational status on quarterly basis. Clients included Schwab, Vanguard, and Fidelity.
• Created policy and procedures for product releases and defined appropriate release windows.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Maintained production networks and network hardware configurations
• Provided training and guidance for junior administrators
• Maintained and evaluated vendor relationships, and renegotiated as appropriate
• Interviewed and assessed potential new hires
• Interface with other departments, such as engineering, QA, marketing, to ensure smooth rollout of new products with minimal impact to the customers
• Responsible for site security

San Francisco Bay Area

• Installed and Maintained production Solaris and Windows NT servers for internet content provider
• Designed and implemented backup storage solution
• Designed and implemented network improvements and created network redundancy resulting in better throughput and reduced failures
• Provide guidance and mentorship for the junior Operations team members.
• Designed, implemented, and maintained firewall for both corporate and production networks

San Francisco Bay Area

• Installed and Maintained Solaris servers for medium sized internet service provider
• Configured and maintained sendmail, pop, imap, http, irc, ftp, and nntp servers for production use
• Assisted in the design and implementation of new server architecture to merge and consolidate three regional ISPs

San Francisco Bay Area

• Assisted customers with installation, setup, and troubleshooting of dial up networking for connection to the internet
• Assisted customers with installation, configuration, and troubleshooting of internet applications (email clients, nntp clients, web browsers, irc clients, etc)