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Lexington, KY, US

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Director and lead technical engineer for the development of Data Center, Managed Services and hybrid and public cloud solutions.
• Managed and acted as the lead principal engineer for a highly skilled technical team in the design and implementation of complex IT projects.
• Managed IT costs, budgets, vendor and customer contracts.
• Designed hybrid and public cloud platforms running on VMWare, AWS, Azure and other enterprise class systems. This includes the architecture of both traditional SAN, HCI and multiple aaS cloud platforms.
• Architected and implemented private and public cloud technologies including compute, storage, virtualization, Hyper-Converged, security, data replication and backup systems.
• Created new systems and processes within the company to help speed delivery models while also enhancing customer experience during engineering engagements.

New York City, New York, US

• Provided technical leadership and engineering expertise in the development of new public and hybrid cloud platforms and Managed Services solutions.
• Acted as the technical team leader and principal solutions engineer in the architecture of new hybrid and public cloud solutions running on VMware, AWS, Azure and Nutanix cloud architectures. This includes.
• Built out dozens of new technical solutions which included Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), Backup as a Service.
• Successfully designed and deployed complex disaster recovery and business continuity platforms to meet customer high availability requirements, auditing and compliancy standards.
• Architected dozens of enterprise compute, storage, virtualization, security, backup and public cloud platforms across customer sites and cloud regions.
• Developed new customer contracts which included Managed Services, Professional Services Statements of Work, Standard Operating Procedures, HW/SW Bill of Materials, RFPs, cloud and vendor agreements. Maintained.

New York City, New York, US

• Managed and provided technical leadership of the company’s Professional Services delivery team covering the Carolinas and Georgia. Also acted as the Practice Lead for data center and cloud solutions which included the.
• Managed the company’s southeast Professional Services delivery team which included over a dozen solution engineers, coordinators and Project Managers.
• Performed several changes in the organization which led to the expansion of the company’s delivery team and operations while also expanding customer revenue.
• Architected and implemented hybrid and public cloud compute solutions for customers running on VMWare, Dell EMC, Cisco, HPE, AWS and/or Azure platforms.
• Responsible for new customer Data Center projects which included new hardware and software platforms as well as executing Data Center migrations and relocations.
• Designed many private cloud solutions including Converged Infrastructure (CI), Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI), compute, storage, SAN, virtualization and MDR/EDR security platforms.

Charlotte, NC, US

• Acted as the Practice Lead and architect in the development of new enterprise Dell EMC storage and backup platforms, Cisco compute and VMWare based virtualization solutions.
• Architected new enterprise compute, storage, virtualization, backup and hybrid cloud solutions for customers.
• Provided technical leadership and direction to customers during data center migrations to new hybrid and public cloud architecture.
• Designed and implemented new disaster recovery solutions and executed plans at remote sites while using a range of industry migration tools to achieve those goals.
• Responsible for identifying and advising customers on new technology platforms while also operating within and maintaining various compliance, security and auditing standards and certifications. This includes hospital.
• Architected and implemented Cisco compute and networking architectures with integration to Dell EMC VMAX, Unity storage and backup platforms such as Avamar and Data Domain.

Round Rock, Texas, US

• Designed and architected new private and hybrid cloud environments. This includes enterprise storage, virtualization, backup and compute platforms for large Dell EMC enterprise customer accounts.
• Managed, led and provided large account oversight while ensuring that project needs were being met and new platform engineering initiatives were being achieved running on Dell EMC compute, storage, virtualization.
• Performed all aspects of the pre-sales engineering process including sizing, quoting, cost analysis (TCO) and positioning of new solutions.
• Engaged with customer senior management in the development and incorporation of dozens of new technologies and solutions to enhance company business operations while also reducing costs.

Round Rock, Texas, US

• Provided successful technical leadership and engineering expertise in the architecture and implementation of dozens of new enterprise class Dell EMC compute, storage, SAN, disaster recovery and backup solutions to.
• Acted as the technical leader on multiple projects involving junior level implementation specialists and project managers.
• Built out design workbooks and Statements of Work for new project initiatives.

Round Rock, Texas, US

• Implemented a new SAN, storage, backup, compute and disaster recovery system running on Dell EMC, HPE, Cisco and Brocade SAN platforms.
• Implemented and supported disaster recovery testing efforts. Developed new custom scripts running for both UNIX and Windows based systems.
• Developed new technical documentation supporting new platforms and operations.

• Acted as the lead engineer for a team of over a dozen Quality Assurance (QA) testing specialists that involved many months of rigorous pharmaceutical NFAT testing for a new SAP platform supporting their pharmaceutical.
• Executed and supported multiple rounds of disaster recovery platform testing.
• Developed new logical instructions and standard operating procedures in the support of new systems and processes.

Falls Church, VA, US

• Acted as the technical IT solution advisor to the Deputy Director at the Center for Information Technology (CIT) branch of the NIH. This included the architecture and implementation of a new compute, storage, SAN.

Bethesda, MD, US

• Engineered and implemented new compute, storage, SAN, backup and disaster recovery platforms for Marriott’s global hotel chain and brands.
• Successfully architected and performed multiple rounds of disaster recovery and backup testing of critical IT infrastructure to ensure business continuity.