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Greater San Diego Area

· Architecting the migration strategy for multiple data centers and companies to Azure· Responsible for app/system design (IaaS to PaaS), automation, optimization, and security· Implemented ELK, New Relic, Octopus and Tenable

Greater San Diego Area

· Designed and supported the AWS environments for five different companies· Implemented secure, multi-tier, cross-region AWS VPC designs and templates· Successfully migrated numerous MSSQL/MySQL servers to AWS RDS· Designed, implemented, and tested cross-region Disaster Recovery architectures· Deployed Jenkins to facilitate CM and Octopus for app.

San Diego, CA

• Designed and executed a 1000+ server international data center migration for American Express Global Business Travel (AMEX GBT). GBT was split into a separate entity from the credit card business and migrated their.
• Hosted customer requirement, design review, and data center migration cross-vendor strategy sessions for AMEX GBT's data center migration (Dell/EMC, IBM, Microsoft, ServiceNow, and AMEX). Facilitated communication.
• Assumed the Enterprise Architect role over AutoNation with a requirement to make their eCommerce sites to outperform the leading auto eCommerce vendor. Performed extensive analysis on their existing infrastructure and.
• Assisted in numerous customer environment expansions or augmentations into public cloud (AWS, Windows Azure, O365)

Greater San Diego Area

• Performed the requirements and capacity analysis then developed the standardized infrastructure design for Dell’s largest servicing customers private cloud (Dell PowerEdge blades, Cisco Nexus (FCOE), vSphere.
• Assumed the role of technical team lead of 36 engineers for the infrastructure implementation and execution of the data center migration of Dell’s largest customer to Dell data centers (6000+ servers). Significantly.
• Virtualizing over 90% of servers
• Consolidating multiple VSphere Environments
• Standardizing on PowerEdge blade servers
• Combining FiberChannel and EtherNet (FCoE)

• Assumed the roles of Cloud team lead for the organization.
• Performed private cloud design, capacity analysis, optimization, and automation for 200+ ESX hosts and 3000+ virtual machines.
• Coordinated migrations from legacy platforms and remote data centers to the private cloud.

• Assumed the lead role on the integration of acquired companies to technology standards and consolidation of systems to a primary data center with DR at a remote data center.

• Designed and implemented a robust HA VMware ESX infrastructure resulting in the virtualization of over 90% of the Windows and Linux servers. The cost of the VMware infrastructure was offset by the reduction in cost.
• Consolidated various load balancing technologies across the organization to BIG-IP LTMs. Defined a configuration that allowed us to partition the LTMs across different segments of the network in a manner that met all.
• Performed the requirements analysis then assisted in the evaluation, selection, and implementation of the EMC Symmetrix SAN and Celerra NAS. Coordinated and performed the migration of all SQL and ESX servers to the new.
• Developed secure fault tolerant system designs and implementation strategies for over 25 custom Java and.NET applications, web sites, and web services for various business units across the organization.
• Performed the system design for both the EMC Captiva and Onbase ECM implementations to facilitate workflow automation.
• Deployed Splunk across the enterprise for aggregated application and system logging and forensics.

• Hired and trained a staff in India to facilitate 24 hour support for systems in order to meet our SLA requirements without requiring the US staff to work 24/7.
• Provided leadership, training, and documentation for the various system administration teams.
• Maintained over 99.99% uptime for all of the production applications as a result of proper monitoring, process, procedures, and HA system design.

• Designed and implemented a Citrix Presentation Server farm to facilitate global operations.
• Implemented HP Blade Systems as the server standard in order to facilitate servers installations, automation, support, and to reduce power consumption.
• Planned and implemented disaster recovery at a remote facility where critical services could be made available to customers and remote users within 30 minutes of a primary data center outage.

• Implemented and supported Extreme switches, Cisco routers, and Check Point firewalls.
• Responsible for managing and configuring customer frame relay connectivity.
• Responsible for installation, configuration and maintenance of Windows NT, 2000, and NetWare 4.11 servers.
• Supported the WINS, DNS, DHCP, and RAS network services.
• Supported the MS Exchange, MS SQL, IIS, Rightfax, and Remedy applications.
• Implemented and supported Citrix MetaFrame for VPN users.