Provide best-fit solutions to complex sets of business requirements leveraging technology, best practices, and collaboration while adhering to vision and architecture.Define and implement frameworks and process flows to deliver solutions from strategy to build to operate phases..Collaborate with diverse teams to manage projects through to the operational phase.Architect and implement secure, resilient, and optimized Azure infrastructure solutions to host application solutions to meet business requirements.Employ DevOps automation and strategies to automate application deployment to cloud infrastructure.

• Supervise IDBT team cultivating an environment that leads to success. Ensure projects technical requirements are met, within budget, and contracted timelines. Facilitate teamwork, open communication, and a culture, conducive to continual learning, good customer relationship, conflict resolution, and good morale. • Cloud Engineer: design, implement and maintain Azure cloud solutions configuring VMs, Storage Accounts, Cosmos DB, Key Vault, App Services, Logic Apps, SQL DW, Azure Data Factory, Azure Monitor, NSGs, and Log Analytics, ARM Templates (IaC). • DevOps Engineer: design, implement and maintain Azure DevOps Solution implementing branching strategies, branch policies, security, pipelines, repositories, Artifacts, etc.. Support development teams to meet the project infrastructure requirements.• Infrastructure Engineer Lead designing technological solutions that consist of project design, implementation, documentation, resource planning, risk assessment, vendor interfacing and disaster recovery.• Design infrastructures and develop processes with strong concentration on disaster recovery, business continuity, as it relates to data: storage, backup and recovery.• Designed, proposed, implemented and documented new Backup infrastructure that optimized data recovery to a secondary datacenter that resulted in decreased overall costs, improved efficiency and quicker return to operation in the event of a disaster.• Windows Platform SME for Infrastructure Engineering for both physical servers and VMWare• Improved NetBackup infrastructure by defining a data protection NetBackup strategy in accordance to industry proven standards. Deploy and document process for disk based backup targets, Data Domain. Deploy and document NBU DB Agents: SQL, SharePoint, Oracle, and Lotus Notes.

Infrastructure Engineer Lead designing technological solutions that consist of project design, implementation, documentation, resource planning, risk assessment, vendor interfacing and disaster recovery.• Designed, proposed, implemented and documented new Backup infrastructure that optimized data recovery to a secondary datacenter that resulted in decreased overall costs, improved efficiency and quicker return to operation in the event of a disaster.• Windows Platform SME for Infrastructure Engineering for both physical servers and VMWare• Improved NetBackup infrastructure by defining a data protection NetBackup strategy in accordance to industry proven standards. Deploy and document process for disk based backup targets, Data Domain. Deploy and document NBU DB Agents: SQL, SharePoint, Oracle, and Lotus Notes.

• Managed NetBackup infrastructure. • Managed several deduplication and replication solutions including Symantec Puredisk and Netbackup Media Server Deduplication.

• Upgrade Symantec Net Backup version 6.5 to 7.0.1• Implement streamlined Net Backup policies and procedures to increase efficiency and decrease backup time of completion and failures.• Administer patch management of servers and desktops through WSUS• Administer Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager

SIDM FLSAllocated EMC and HDS storage for new or existing systems. Coordinated troubleshooting activities, engaging vendors as necessary to resolve various break/fix issues including crisis/outage impacts related to SAN, backups, and servers. Administered Active Directory and vmWare Infrastructure. Monitored all NBU backups and restores. Built new servers for application rollouts coordinating server hardware, networking, storage, backup and disaster recovery requirements including cluster servers, and SQL 2005. Completed the transition from Verizon to Frontier Communications, specifically the Storage Infrastructure and Data Management environment by:Streamlining the transition process by completing storage allocations (EMC & HDS) of all servers moving from Verizon to Frontier network.Facilitating a Disaster Recovery site for business critical applications (SAN). Increasing storage capacity (EMC & HDS) by implementing storage decommissioning process for retired applications.Training team to leverage tools, ensuring effective support of Storage infrastructure.Defining policies and procedures for crisis and ticket management ensuring maximum uptime and minimizing lost seat minutes.Increasing project's speed to market thru timely server builds.

Increased efficiency by leveraging available tools allowing support from being reactive to proactive with greater emphasis on prevention of SAN (EMC, HDS, NetApp) and backups issues. Coordinated troubleshooting activities, resolving various break/fix issues including crisis/outage impacts regarding SAN, backups. Monitored all NBU backups and restores.Lowered TCO and increased capacity by decommissioning of TSM (Tivoli Storage Management).

Administered Banyan Vines Network and NT Domains. Provided client support, including optimization of local and remote sites. Installed and administered IIS servers for Intranet Web Hosting. Interfaced with vendors to support frame relay. Managed Cisco LAN/WAN devices under supervision. Installed/supported client desktops Win 3x, 95 and NT. Monitored power, UPS and communications equipment.Project Lead for Banyan file services to NT 4.0 migration.

Designed and implemented network based solution based on NT technologies to support complex LAN/WAN. Deployed Cisco WAN/LAN equipment and NT servers. Maintained/administered NT Domains, Citrix Farms, remote access and disaster recovery to local and remote branches. Monitored network performance. Provided disaster recovery solutions for mission critical systems.Project Lead implementing Multiple Master Domain Model from Netware. Project lead migrating ccMail to Exchange 5.5.

Administered/maintained NT 3.51 domain and trusts. Installed/maintained Citrix farms for business units. Installed CSU/DSUs, FDDI Concentrators, Cisco LAN/WAN equipment. Maintained IBM Controllers and FEPs on Token Ring Network. Installed and configured all hardware and software for NT servers, and app servers (SNA Server). Provided disaster Recovery solutions for mission critical systems.Site leader converting from point to point WAN to frame relay WAN project, which increased data transfer speed and reliability between sites. Completed migration from Mainframe/terminal (token ring) to NT Domain model (ethernet).Project lead upgraded desktops from Win 3x to 95, increasing end-user productivity and efficiency.