Joe Cook Email & Phone Number

Gainesville, Fl, Us

Bermuda (Pembroke, Hm), Bm

· Daily Support and Technical leadership for enterprise patching infrastructure, vulnerability management, and security compliance for 7 Engineers, 3000 Servers, 6000 workstations, across 27 Domains, with 50 Patch Jobs per Month.· Development of tools, solutions and trainings to allow the remediation team to streamline security operations, vulnerability management, and automate incident response.· Created single pane of glass for Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) integration for Manage Engine, Active Directory, SolarWinds Orion, Tenable SC, and Tenable IO workflows using PowerShell, Python, Pandas, SQL, Power Query, and PowerBI.

• Providing strategic direction and roadmaps related to Cloud based Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) architecture.• Meet with the business Client directly to gather requirements documents for delivering Marketing, Sales and Engineering enablement services for Cloud Infrastructure and Automation projects.• Conducting Microsoft Azure Stack and VMware product demos and bake-offs.• Developing custom deployment automation prototypes for Microsoft and VMware enterprise cloud infrastructures, Test/Dev, and VDI. • Implemented and architected Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) for VMware Partners and Clients. • Implemented internal systems processes, creating and implementing automation for Cloud platforms as well as monitoring and alerting systems. • Participated and led deep dives for architectural discussions and specifications involving Cloud and IAAS deployments, security, and high availability for Cloud services. • Developed and delivering health-checkups for Microsoft and VMware virtualized environments with special emphasis on best practices for optimizing storage performance, resource consumption, monitoring and reporting for VDI and Mission Critical workloads.• Prototyped Integration and Plug-ins for Web Applications and Middleware Applications (Tomcat, Jboss, WebSphere, Apache, Nginx, Load Balancers)

Santa Clara, California, Us

• Developed deployment and validation frameworks to automate the hands-on time required to create Microsoft Cloud Reference Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) architectures.• Documentation and research around Microsoft Azure Stack, Hyper-V/SCCM Enterprise Cloud Solutions for Hitachi.• Authored UCP2000 for Microsoft Cloud Reference Architecture white paper.• Developed Deployment Automation for hardware and software deployment and patching using PowerShell, DSC, MDT, ADK, WinPe, WDS, SCCM.• Developed solution validation framework validating storage configuration and performance for Storage Space Direct (S2D) and Hitachi VSP storage using Dskspeed, VMFleet, Vdbench, Powershell and Python.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

• Implemented and delivered VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) Proof of Concepts for VDI and Mission Critical workloads.• Provided Pre-Sales and Technical Marketing supporting VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) go-to-market strategy.• Implemented and architected Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) for VMware Partners and Clients.• Design and architected Infrastructure, VMWare, Data Center, Private Cloud, Virtualization Solutions for Private and Public Cloud Infrastructure for up to 100+ customers. • Authored whitepaper and blog content around VMware software-defined storage technologies.• Developed PowerShell and VMware PowerCLI automation for the VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) Hands-on lab.• Speaker and exhibitor at technology conferences internationally.• Web Applications/Middleware (Tomcat, Jboss, WebSphere, Tomcat, Apache, Nginx).• Developed POC enablement and troubleshooting tools for VMware Account team using HCIBench, Python, PowerShell, PowerCLI, and vSphere Web Services API.• Consultant with technical teams in Web//Middleware Applications and Integration utilizing Tomcat, Jboss, WebSphere, Apache, Nginx, Automation, VMware API’s , Plug In and Load Balancers). • Obtained VMware Sales and Technical Sales certifications.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

• Participated in $20M Avamar implementation for global Bank customer; expedited international Avamar grid installs, automated client roll out method; established daily Operational processes for daily Health Check Monitoring, Event Alerting, Storage Growth Forecasting.• Design and architected Data Center, Private Cloud, Multi-Tenant and Data Protection solutions for multiple EMC Clients and Partner.• Developed and delivered Operational Assurance Service development and delivery for world’s largest concrete provider. Established Infrastructure and Operational best practices resulting in error free Avamar solution. • Provided detailed knowledge transfer and troubleshooting tools for Operational team consisting of Infrastructure and Operational monitoring, troubleshooting, and monitoring.• Automated backup validation process using python and POSIX Shell scripting for cloud backup solution and developed capacity growth projection immediately reducing employee bandwidth.• Obtained EMC storage and Avamar specialist certifications.

• Part of enterprise infrastructure buildout team focusing upon rack consolidation, electrical enhancements, cooling augmentations, and consolidation of systems through virtualization resulting in releasing datacenter space for a multi-million-dollar Medicare Part D initiative.• Architecting and implemented a Large-Scale Enterprise Content Management System (CMS) and Storage EMC Clarion Design for their high availability Data Center (DR) for their FileNet solution. • Reduced cost by developing deployment scripts using bash and windows batch shell scripting limiting the number of man hours required to deploy clients from 32-40hrs per site to 1 employee per site for 5 large scale sites totaling 1500+ users. • Reduced Risk through standardization of Client installs, Resource Coordination and Deployment tests.• Mitigated loss and corruption of data through designing and actualizing high availability and disaster recovery plans. Through detailed planning and rapid execution of disaster recovery procedures, on two specific occasions of UPS failure during planned power outage data integrity was ensured and system functionality was restored within planned maintenance window.• Developed and coordinated training with support staff on custom Imaging Department Applications, Imaging System Server Support, and Administration Tools. As a result, an increased supportability of the system by all personnel was realized allowing Imaging support to move to a 24/7 support model.