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Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States

- Serve as infrastructure lead supporting Autoscribe's engineering team in delivering a scalable, robust and highly available IT infrastructure dispersed across multiple data centers and cloud environments.- Designed and implemented production and DEV environments in the cloud leveraging Amazon WebServices to build a scalable and modern network architecture that is load balanced (ALB/NLB) hosted inmultiple availability zones/VPCs supporting hybrid architectures (prem/off-prem).- Effectively managed the IT security landscape to include IDS, Cisco ASA Firewalls, Cisconetwork switches, event tracking and log management across the enterprise.- Spearheaded the successful build-out of a new colocation DR stack to include project management,architectural design, hypervisor replication strategy, virtualization platforms (VMWare/Hyper-V), SAN (fiber channel/iSCSI), and multi-layer network routing between production data centers and failover stacks in an active/active configuration leveraging IaaS.- Led the design and hands-on deployment of multiple Windows Server Failover Clustershosting multiple roles and nodes supported by enterprise storage arrays which resulted ineliminating single point of failures and delivering a load balanced (BIG-IP F5), scalable architecture to our front-end web tier.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

- Served as Infrastructure Lead supporting USAID’s Office of the Chief Information Officer(M/CIO). Responsible for the management, strategy and execution of all IT infrastructure solutions across the agency.- Tasked with leading the on-site engineering management team in generating current state assessments, gathering configuration information, requirements definition and business case development. - Spearhead infrastructure solutions blending networking, server hardware, and virtualization environments.- Design and deliver cost effective infrastructure solutions meeting USAIDs’ requirements and assist with planning and implementing systems and network integrations.- Responsible for delivering engineering logical designs, proof of concepts and architecting solutions that encompass the entire infrastructure stack from the components that make up the network up through the operating systems that reside on the network.- Designed and implemented the USAID Engineering Innovation Lab built in the Amazon (AWS) cloud utilizing the EC2, VPC and EBS/S3 storage platform for in-house development in support of targeted proof of concepts.

Springfield, Virginia

- Responsible for leading the infrastructure functions within the organization, including planning and executing infrastructure projects and directing all IT activities in support of clients in the health care industry.- Spearheaded the design and implementation of a new robust virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) supporting software developers overseas in delivering a real-time claims adjudication system serving thousands of health plan members stateside.- Responsible for managing clients’ production and non-production environments to include maintainingstable environment configurations and ensuring capabilities met project requirements.- Ensured confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the company’s information systems and assets.- Responsible for defining and enforcing policies regarding change and release management.- Effectively applied change and release management tools including source control, incident/defect tracking and testing systems.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

- Managed the operations of the corporate network; planed, developed, maintained, supported, and optimized all systems and communication links; purchased hardware and software; assisted in planning and project management for IC (Information & Communication) technology infrastructure for the organization; contributed to organizational policy with regards to quality standards and strategic planning; and provided network support and administration, including installation, configuration, and LAN management in an Active Directory environment.- Led the implementation of a new infrastructure build-out to include design, development and final installation to meet project objectives. (switches, routers, voice and video conferencing, server specifications and emerging technologies)- Effectively managed the company telecom backbone to include a robust ShoreTel VOIP system combined with Cisco POE network switches. Collaborated with phone carriers to perform site upgrades and maintenance.- Managed the company Active Directory and administered the Domain to include group policies, user profiles and MS Exchange integration.- Responsible for ensuring the security and stability of the network to include comprehensive back-up and recovery, including off-site storage (co-lo) of all data stored on the production network.

Reston, Virginia

- Established technical priorities, standards and procedures within the organization. Supervised and led team comprised of support technicians and network engineers within the IT division to provide enterprise systems, desktop and network support. - Provided reports to key stakeholders involved with build-out of Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul facility. - Managed corporate network LAN/WAN, including system stability, security, backups and disaster recovery. Supporting enterprise servers, network, desktop hardware and software.- Spearheaded workgroup to establish priority and escalation procedures for ticket handling within the organization. Provided input and technical guidance in creating service level agreements. Produced weekly and monthly status reports and presented to senior management.- Managed, supported and troubleshoot corporate e-mail and calendaring server, firewall, routers and switching infrastructure. Managed corporate website, intranet and content management system.- Responsible for company voice and data communication systems, strategic planning for future growth, policy and procedure writing and management of IT resources.- Spearheaded a company wide security risk assessment abiding by ISO 27001, NIST security standards.

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Management Information Systems

Education record

Ccna, Mcp, Security +