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Chesterfield, Missouri, Us

Chesterfield, Missouri, Us

Chesterfield, Missouri, Us

• Supported different business units through provisioning, maintaining, and decommissioning of storage resources in accordance with their DevOps models. Maintained over 6.5 PB, 3 storage vendors, 13 storage arrays, and 7 global datacenters.• Worked with management to facilitate capacity planning and define standards. Generated detailed usage reports and identified trends.• Participated in disaster recovery planning and testing exercises• Maintained and updated documentation to ensure accessibility and accuracy of department information.

Östersund, Se

• Migrated application environment to Microsoft Azure. Provided a scalable and highly available solution where applications can be quickly deployed.• Deployed Citrix Virtual Apps to enable users with remote access to applications regardless of location or operation system.• Planned, coordinated, and monitored projects between various collaborating departments.• Assisted the support team to deliver customer satisfaction through structured preparation, understanding of requirements and objectives, and continual technical support.

St Louis, Mo, Us

• Designed, implemented, and managed the corporate storage and virtualization environment. Identified and drove strategies to innovatively solve current bottlenecks.• Managed over 1.6 PB of storage across 6 NetApp clusters in 2 datacenters. Worked directly with NetApp to architect new clusters. Installed and configured new disk shelves. Created, monitored, and deleted disks, aggregates, volumes, and LUNs.• Designed and implemented NetApp SnapCenter to consolidate backup-management operations. Reduced time to clone and restore database environments, allowing for more efficient application development and improved data lifecycle.• Managed over 650 virtual machines across 3 clusters and 33 hosts. Provisioned, monitored, and decommissioned virtual machines for all corporate initiates. • Designed and implemented VMware vRealize Suite to address requirements related to operations for compute, storage, network and application-level resources. Deployed a self-service catalog for users to provision their own virtual machines. Created orchestration workflows to automate Day 2 configurations. • Researched and planned a hybrid cloud strategy. Developed a strategy which will satisfy all technical goals, business strategies, and organizational plan. • Compiled and automated various system reports which enabled management to gain visibility into the health of the corporate infrastructure and plan for future needs and requirements.• Involved in disaster recovery tests. Planned for unforeseen events that may disable day-to-day operations. Developed and tested plans to recover as quickly as possible, which will enable the business to continue to provide services to its clients.

Chesterfield, Missouri, Us

O'Fallon, Mo, Us

• Involved in designing a SaaS based application architecture that allowed the development team to build a scalable, highly available application at lower costs and on a pay-per-use basis. Supported over 100 databases, 1000 power users, and 30,000 agents.• Enforced network security through proper firewall hardening techniques, consistent monitoring, and continual testing.• Involved in designing and deploying 2 Windows domains. Secured domain through configuration of Active Directory and Group Policy. • Involved in designing and configuring of 4 corporate network IP address spaces. Utilized DNS and DHCP.• Ensured system stability through the administration of Windows operations. Scripted and automated health monitoring to reduce the amount of time before an event is raised. Lowered the possibility of missed events due to human error.• Implemented Microsoft Hyper-V virtual server farms. Decreased operating cost through reduced power consumption and smaller footprint. Increased uptime and improved recovery time.• Implemented Microsoft Remote Desktop Services deployment. Provided greater availability as applications were accessible across different operating systems from anywhere over the internet. • Implemented Microsoft Team Foundation Server environment. Increased efficiency through greater process control. Automated redundant manual functions through build events. Enhanced security and versioning functionality with source code management.• Improved disaster recovery options though the use of multiple replication and backup strategies.• Created and maintained technical documentation. Reduced maintenance issues due to missing information, or poor records. Improved efficiency by making technical know-how and system history available to subsequent parties. Ensured that tasks are completed in a consistent and repeatable manor.• Designed, built, and maintained servers, workstations, software, and physical network connections.• Maintained C/C++ applications.

O'Fallon, Mo, Us

• Developed applications in C# to assist in automating and streamlining redundant daily tasks. Allowed for more time to be dedicated to direct customer interaction.• Developed custom SQL scripts to meet customer requirements.• Implemented, upgraded, and maintained Oracle databases for solution deployment.• Diagnosed and resolved software issues through analysis of compliance testing.• Effectively planned, organized, directed, and controlled implementations from beginning to end. Initiated, designed, executed, monitored, and completed all projects. Recognize risks, communicated clearly, motivated all parties, and resolved conflicts.• Trained users on proper software usage.• Created and maintained user documentation. Improved the rate of implementation of new systems.