 Worked with virtual/cloud team and various internal business units to bring their infrastructure onto AWS in an Agile manner. Helped create a business case for the journey to the Cloud. Worked through established processes and engagement model. Integrated on-prem infrastructure (VMware) and public cloud (AWS) to Service Now, along with all the automation to provide a single pane of glass to provide Compute as a Service (IaaS).  Worked through Cloud Readiness and Automation work streams. Help define Cloud Strategy and Migration Plan along with DevOps. Provided Dev teams container services on AWS to perform their testing.  Helped in migrating companywide messaging and office tools to Office 365. Part of the team that initiated the AD integration into Azure.

 Part of the team tasked to architect and deliver Public / Private cloud solutions for TR Enterprise and various business Units.  Developed IaC (Terraform) CICD model with SNOW(Change Management), Jira for Task management and GitHub for collaboration, Jenkin to execute approved and finalized code.  Oversaw multiple simultaneous projects using standard methodologies (ITIL, PMI) to manage resources, scope, timelines, budgets, change and risk. Supported the procurement of hardware and software. Follow strict IT governance models using ITIL & change management systems, while also adhering to data security/privacy acts under Thomson Reuter’s guidelines. Helped implement VMware vRealize Automation and vRealize Operations along with other VMware products and services to help accomplish these saving along with millions more through our P2V program Subject matter expert in managing, designing, implementing and operating Platforms and Virtualization Technologies Technical lead on customer facing virtual infrastructure. Virtual infrastructure includes 60K+ VMs running on approximately 7K physical assets. Work with customers and key stakeholders in data center operations to define requirements and services to be provided to customers. Document and plan projects that include technical requirements defined with the customer.  KTLO activities on a global Windows based infrastructure.

Senior member of project engineering and implementation team. Guide Installation of systems in production datacenters. Sustain and recommend improvements in the project’s implementation and administration. Liaison between project and systems support teams. Worked on Global project to build Datacenter infrastructure. Built Virtual infrastructure on geographically dispersed datacenters and created a high availability VMware virtual farm. SME in VMware ESX clusters, VMware product suit.Determine project requirements and evaluate best practices. Collaborate with project and infrastructure (Tech-Ops) teams to deliver infrastructure to the businesses. Determine business requirements for production systems and infrastructure. Document Project life cycle, identify key resources in project execution. Research and negotiate with vendors for the purchase of computer equipment, software and services. Interface with Business clients and customers to plan and implement production infrastructure. Identifying critical points/activities in project timeline and provide post mortem upon project completion. Design, test, deploy and troubleshoot production systems and infrastructure. Provide support of production systems, including operational process and procedures. Provide third level 24 hour on call support as assigned to assist infrastructure support teams.Assisted with following strict IT governance models using ITIL & change management systems, while also adhering to data security/privacy acts under Thomson Reuter’s guidelines.Built highly available Microsoft SQL database clusters and web servers. Installed and configured Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 & cluster licenses. Installed and configured IBM Blade Chassis, HP Blade centers and Egenera Chassis; configured the networking and SAN requirements for these blade solutions and stand alone IBM, HP and DELL servers.

Team lead for multiple physical environment moves. Tasks including, documenting and drawing up project plans and network plans to facilitate error free moves. Point of contact for multiple networking and management teams, from AT&T, Cap Gemini, Merrill Lynch and Thomson Financial to coordinate successful environment moves.In charge of multiple environments running the Merrill Lynch Online application, including production, staging, testing and development. Tasks included managing all servers, and networking equipment including various model HP servers, Cisco routers and switches, Nortel Alteon load balancers and Lucent Brick and Cisco Pix firewalls.Engineering and installing of complete new environments, including hardware and network connectivity as well as implementing Active Directory, DNS. Installing multiple Microsoft products to make environments application ready. Installing Microsoft products including, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, .Net Framework, Web services, BizTalk Server 2002, Microsoft Content management server and Microsoft SQL.Managed day-to-day networking requirements for the Merrill Lynch Online environments. Tasks including documenting IP, NAT, PAT lists and Hardware, software and user access inventories. Updating and creating firewall rules and network routes. Engaging Thomson, Merrill, Cap and AT&T networking teams to troubleshoot and solve day-to-day network issues affecting application functionality.Consult with development, networking and management teams to analyze network requirements for various networking projects. Prepared project plans including Network diagrams, Application flowcharts, Network and application Access requirements.