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Toronto

- Implementation, design and ongoing lifecycle management of VMware IAAS private cloud.- Provide technical direction for product teams regarding infrastructure and operations best practices.- Coaching and mentorship of on prem cloud engineers.[ VMware: vSphere, ESXi | Cisco ACI, IOS | Palo Alto Networks: PAN-OS | Dell/EMC: FX2S, ScaleIO/VXFlex OS, Data Domain, Avamar | LogicMontior | Microsoft: Server 2012R2, 2016, 2019 | CentOS 7.x | Salt | Python ]

Toronto

- Developed automation toolkit for provisioning public cloud based infrastructure and services.- Worked closely with development teams deploying their applications and services to the cloud.[ Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Sumologic | SignalFX | Python ]

Mississauga

- Architected replacement infrastructure for multiple SaaS properties, standardizing administration concepts, server layout, control toolkits and authentication.- Developed automation tools for code deployments, disaster recovery, daily maintenance tasks, client file distribution and monitoring.- Administered and maintained production, stage, uat, performance and development environments consisting of 500+ Linux, Unix and Windows hosts.- Technical lead on multiple projects including data center migration and consolidation, design and build of centralized monitoring platform for products and hosts,.- Technical management of public facing production infrastructure (web, app, proxy, file, load balancers).- Responsible for installation and management of data center hardware devices (rack/blade servers, load balancers, PDUs and KVMs).- Worked closely with multiple product development teams, improving performance and design for high availability production systems. Also worked closely with shared services (network, storage, security) ensuring successful delivery of projects.- Virtualized multiple multi-tiered products to internal IaaS VMWare cloud including products such as Apache, Tomcat, JBoss, Squid, Postfix/Qmail and Oracle RAC.- Ensure continuous service delivery for the Active Outdoors SaaS products including campsite registration, hunting and fishing licenses and internal management systems.

Toronto

- Administered and maintained production, stage and development environments containing multiple AIX, BSD, Linux, Solaris and Windows servers. - Developed documentation for essential aspects of internal infrastructure. - Provided client consultation on UNIX / Network design and administration concepts. - Provided technical support for Infor’s Human Capital Management / Workforce Management application. - Technical Lead on projects including infrastructure monitoring, statistics / analysis trending and architecture of replacement production infrastructure.

Toronto

- Technical Lead for projects including content caching/acceleration, application load balancing replacement, network infrastructure upgrade, Linux migration (RHEL21 to SLES9) and network monitoring (Netsaint to Nagios). - Defined and maintained release management standards and processes for cbc.ca . - Administered and maintained broadcast critical Unix environment including multiple Linux, BSD, HP/UX and Solaris servers. - Developed documentation for essential aspects of the infrastructure. - Received 2006 Award of Excellence (elected by peers).