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Middletown, Pa, Us

Middletown, Pa, Us

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Integration Architect (January 2021 – Present)• Serve as a key member of the team in charge of companywide initiatives, ensuring the advancement of architecture procedures within established timespans and sustaining project deliverables by designing/implementing various techniques for service-oriented architecture.• Reinforce integration architecture by taking a holistic approach to cloud strategy, adopting applications, platforms, and infrastructure as a service, as well as operating with a set of requirements, concepts, and models to drive cloud services decisions that are in line with the organization’s strategic IT goals. • Drive the construction of secure, economical, and flexible models, all while ensuring that major programs and migrations are in line with the IT financial plan, project portfolio, and business goals of the company. • Conduct aggressive research into IT enterprise systems best practices and techniques and make recommendations for new technology adoption. Assess the consequences of incorporating new technology into IT networks.• Received the President Impact Award for successful migration of environmental solutions into the company.Key Projects: - Captained key projects in Azure, Active Directory, and Office 365; integrated SSOs (ADFS 2019, Azure Enterprise Applications and Azure Active Directory).- Liaised cross-functionally to upgrade the Active Directory; and worked with external company to deploy LogRhythm Siem.- Upgrading Active Directory from 2003 to current 2012 R2. Final Goal: Active Directory 2019.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

• Oversaw various global IT projects which impacted company systems worldwide, developing governance frameworks, researching best practices across comparable organizations, and benchmarking organizational components and performance metrics.• Implemented cost-effective solutions through rigorous assessment of project requirements, identification of deliverables, and development of goals through communication and collaboration with stakeholders, vendors, and partners.• Championed industry’s best practices in delineating and reporting on the impacts and outcomes of standard operating procedures and alternatives, providing recommendations, and implementing modifications as necessary.• Mobilized systems engineering expertise to develop products throughout the software lifecycle to boost business efficiency from ideation and requirements definition to development and successful deployment.• Executed industry best practices and strategic methodologies in providing TechOps support to global IT Infrastructure, including customers and teams, and educating them on troubleshooting.Key Projects: - Programmed scripts in VBScript/PowerShell to automate Office 365 Dynamic Distribution Groups, and customizing AD Attributes.- Implemented the network in Azure, as well as deploying various servers to it. - Successfully led the EIT Global Operations team consisting of 5+ domestic and international professionals to achieve performance goals – responsible for extending customer service and solving tier 3 support, providing daily direction and communication to employees, responding to and resolving issues, addressing disciplinary/performance problems according to company policy, and setting yearly team goals including performance reviews.- Integrating Active Directory and O365 for Acquisitions, and Divestitures, and Service-now, as well as migrating Office 365 Mailboxes. Largest 2000 Seats.- Completed the Harsco Leadership Advantage Program.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

• Demonstrated systems engineering expertise while participating in global project meetings to deploy solutions to company initiatives. • Drove exceptional IT experience towards efficient automation process of monitoring, technical services delivery, and provided strategic direction on business process improvement.• Ensured compliance with organizational standards while conducting troubleshooting, and configuration, and managing Active Directory.• Utilized efficient oversight of IT strategic direction, as well as execution of infrastructure, security, performance monitoring, and overall project management.• Secured appropriate treatment of risks, compliance, and information assurance from internal and external perspectives; conceptualized, designed, and created secure systems; and responsible for aspects of product development testing.• Managed virus security incidents, assessing the severity of issues, isolating affected systems, sending out notifications, informing management, updating virus software, sending samples to vendors, and deploying updated signatures.Key Projects: - Strategically maintained the multi-million-dollar global data center, responsible for overall maintenance and coordination of servers and systems (Windows and Linux Servers, NetApp Filers and VMWare).- Key player in the migration to Office 365; controlled the Exchange 2010/2013 Hybrid Environment containing all Mailboxes; served as the senior person on all changes related to Active Directory; maintained internal/external DNS.- Utilized AD Federated Services 3.0 to integrate Apps. - Implemented SCCM/SMS globally to 7500+ systems in more than 50 countries.- Deployed VMware vSphere ESXI 5.1 to consolidate Data Center Systems; converted over 400 Systems to VMware; ensured reliability and performance; and utilized NetApp SAN for Storage Failover.- Used Spanish skills to integrate ESCO Corp. into Harsco Environment.- Built SQL clusters holding companywide databases.

Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, Us

• Worked on positions of progressive responsibilities to commandeer high-profile projects, tasked to supervise various implementations, delegate roles/responsibilities, design/implement quality assurance & control, and utilize network knowledge to deploy solutions.• Assessed system suitability for the organization’s needs and expectations, liaising with end-users, software vendors, and programmers in order to achieve the projected outcomes.• Administered risk mitigation across projects by working through a structured set of criteria to assess data, identify trends, and devise strategies; review program status reports; and reduce potential project impact.Key Projects: - Commonwealth of Pennsylvania  Drove the integration of Exchange 2000/Windows 2003/SMS 2003 Network for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, successfully effectuating a more streamlined process and saving time. Senior architect of the team responsible for all projects and decisions.  Led projects and assigned tasks to junior members, while also taking charge of the test lab, responsible for testing all solutions for submittal to the Change Management Board. Interviewed Candidates for a 3.5 million dollar project. Wrote the project plan for the Windows 2003 upgrade project; performed all the active upgrading of Windows 2000 Domain to Windows 2003; and implemented a public key infrastructure for the Commonwealth. Spearheaded the SMS project; implemented the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Systems Management Server 2003 Central Site with 35 primary and 50 secondary sites; authored the Commonwealth Specific Best Practices for SMS Architecture; as well as designed an optimal location for Server Systems bases on WAN Bandwidth. Migrated a 65,000-user Windows NT 4.0 domain to Windows 2000 with over 150 Active Directory sites, as well as MS Exchange 2000 Servers to EMC Clariion SAN; upgraded the Exchange 5.5 E-mail System to Exchange 2000; and maintained 80,000 Mailbox MS Exchange 2000 architecture.

Accountable for service delivery and customer satisfaction for AMP, Inc.

Responsible for 1000 End User Systems

Responsible for all decisions that led this company to profitability for two years.

Designed a One-Micron Concentricity machine

Master Of Science, Information Systems

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science, Electrical Engineer