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Kitchener, On, Ca

Kitchener, Canada Area

• Design, deploy and manage infrastructure on AWS using infrastructure-as-code methodology with Terraform.• Participate in planning, implementation, and growth of resources on AWS.• Develop, deploy, documentation for best practices for server infrastructure, virtualization, and cloud computing.• Analyze and monitor performance bottlenecks and key metrics to optimize software and system performance utilizing technologies as Grafana, Elastic Search/Kibana and CloudWatch.• Mentoring SaaS Operations/QA lab team on VMware/Cisco UCS best practices.• Deployed Stateless ESXi to reduce complexity and increase agility reducing ESXi upgrade times from 48 minutes to 7 per server, entire DC can be patched with <1 hour of human effort.• Developed and deployed a 0 downtime platform strategy for UCS/VMware platform.• VMware ESXi/vCenter upgrades 5.0 -> 5.5 -> 6.0 -> 6.7• Cisco UCS Manager updates 2.2 -> 3.1 -> 3.2

Waterloo, Canada

Provide customers with reliable, secure, and high performance services. Member of a team responsible for the planning, design, implementation, maintenance, security and monitoring of customer-utilized applications, servers, devices, and networks within a high availability environment.• Manage and administer production Windows and UNIX based servers and services according to policies and best-practices• Administration of Hosted Open Text applications (Livelink/Content Server/Archive Server)• Develop, maintain, respond to and troubleshoot monitoring of servers, devices, and applications to meet service level agreements• Install, upgrade and maintain servers and software within the Hosting infrastructure• Design and implement fault tolerant and scalable systems, web based and enterprise solutions across three datacenters globally• Implement and administer application and system security to meeting the standards required by the Hosting Security Policy and Security Department• Assist in the administration implementation and troubleshooting of all supporting services according to policies and procedures: VMWare environment, Databases (MS-SQL/Oracle), Storage Devices (SAN/NAS), Load balancers, DNS, Windows Domains/Active Directories, HTTP/HTTPS, Mail Servers, NTP, SNMP, Backups, etc. in conjunction with appropriate infrastructure teams.• Part of 24/7 on call rotation for Cloud Services Hosted Clients

Main IT person for several medium and small clients, helping them to design/redesign, project and implement their IT infrastructure and systems. • Actively work on the installation, test, operation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of server/network hardware and software systems• Skilfully ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of systems, networks, and data through the analysis, maintenance, implementation of policies, procedures and tools with the integration of the described technologies: - Microsoft: Windows Servers and Services, Exchange Server, HyperV, SCCM, Navision and SQL Servers- HP/VMware: ESX Servers, Storage, Tape Library and Hardware management software- Cisco: Routers, Switches, Firewalls and Wireless- IBM Tivoli Fast Back Backup: Backup Solution and data replication- Symantec: Backup Solutions, Instant Recovery - Symantec Endpoint / McAfee Policy Orchestrator / Trend: Anti-Virus Solutions

Pre Sales Consultant for the Brazilian North-Eastern States providing technical support for a team of sales managers, redesigning IT for clients providing new optimized solutions. • Projects were designed aiming to generate a “Return of Investment” in less than a year through the reduction of energy consumption, increase system uptime and reduction of management and supporting time, promoting the “Green IT”• Increased the number of closed deals by the implementation of proof of concepts (POC) projects utilizing a mix of the following technologies: - Citrix: Virtualization of applications and servers, data link optimization, VPN-SSL, Single Sign-on and LB- Microsoft: Windows Servers, MS(TS), MS (OCS), Exchange 2008, ISA Firewall, SCOM/ SCCM and HyperV- HP: Tower/Rack/Blade Servers, Storage, Tape Library and Hardware management software- Cisco: Routers, Switches, IP Phones, Video Conference, Firewalls and Wireless- CA/Symantec: Backup Solutions, Instant Recovery and data centre replication- Microsoft Fore Front/ McAfee Policy Orchestrator /Symantec Endpoint: Anti-Virus Solutions

Computational infrastructure of the company was composed of more than 30 connected sites around the country with more than 300 servers, which includes almost 11000 desktop computers.• Supported the IT infrastructure of the industrial and the commercial unit from Recife City and its connection with the main data centre located in the Head Office in São Paulo City. These two units were composed of a infrastructure of 5 linked buildings, which included almost 300 desktops and 10 servers • Expertly kept and configured the following technologies:- Routers, Switches and IP phones, Cisco- Applications Servers SAP and industrial monitoring applications Servers- Operational Systems: Servers Windows 2003 and Desktop’s Windows XP- Windows Services: Active Directory, Group Police, T.S., DHCP, IIS, DNS and VPN- Citrix Xenapp and Terminal Server- ERP: SAP, SI - Industrial System of Management and Production- Anti-Virus Solution: McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator- Trauma Zero: Monitoring Tools, Inventory, Management and remote support

• Projected and designed an IT infrastructure composed of four linked buildings, 15 servers and approximately 350 desktops, of which 140 were Thin Clients• Coordinated the IT team that was responsible for the project, configuration and implementation of the physical and logical domains of the LAN • Applied Active Directory with Group Police to manage security politics and users accounts• Skilfully designed the projects of the Operational Systems, Mails Servers, Firewalls, routers, switches and its rules of security with the synergic integration of the following technologies: - Operational Systems: Windows 2003 Server, Linux Fedora, Windows Clients 9X/2000/XP- Windows Services: AD, GPO, T.S., HTTP, HTTPS, DHCP, IIS, DNS, VPN and NTP- Linux Services: Firewall Builder, Systems of IDS Snort with Acid, Proxy Squid, VPN, Samba, SSH, NFS, Apache - HTTP, Monitoring Software’s MRTG/Nagios, Backup- Mail Server: Microsoft – Exchange, Linux - Send Mail (SMTP, POP, IMAP, LDAP)- Data Bases: Paradox, MySQL, Postgres, Oracle

Supported and maintained the IT infrastructure of the head office, with almost 15 servers and 150 desktops, IT infrastructure of the company had: • 10 linked branches, approximately 1000 desktops and 50 servers• Provided training to the support trainees• Proficiently configured and maintained the following technologies:- Mail Server (Lotus Notes – Domino)- Windows Servers NT/2000 - Active Directory (DHCP, DNS, IIS, HTTP, HTTPS, NTP)- Applications Piramide (Languages, Centura, with Oracle, Sybase)- Linux Red Hat Servers, UNIX (Sun Solaris)- Firewalls Linux – IP Tables, Proxy Squid and Routers and Switch configuration – 3Com

Mba - Specialization, E-Commerce Management

Bachelor, Computer Science

Computer Science