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Phoenix, Az, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Cultivate numerous projects with various organizations under the global IT consulting firm service provider company. Manage the life cycles of a client organization's application portfolio, coordinate releases by understanding the app integration for conflict prevention, and Information Technology landscape growth plans aligned to the client's business vision. Assess, design, and execute data center and network migration strategies among large, complex projects in global sites through infrastructure development.Collaborate with development teams on complex programs and review software functionality to assess compliance to migration strategy requirements, including specifications within an established time frame or change management.Actualize project objectives, technologies, systems, information, and specifications consistent with the IT project plan.Translate project requirements into project objectives, including mentoring B2B clients and optimizing project delivery. Assess existing technologies for End of Life (EOL) and/or End of Support (EOS) by recommending upgrades performance on the platforms before the migration process, to prevent potential downtimes after the system migrations. Interface with areas affected by the project, such as end-users, organizations, vendors, and implementation partners.Meet with the applications team responsible for in-scope applications to determine, analyze, and document the affinities of the developing application with other applications in both upstream and downstream processing.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Collaborated closely with an integrated accounts team to evaluate application architecture to deliver the best migration solution. Provided a viable migration plan based on the application assessment to ensure the efficiency of the relocation. Worked with 1,155 applications and 9,000 servers (8,000 virtual/1,000 physical) for data center relocation assessment. Documented the client's in-scope applications and their affinities to other applications both upstream and downstream.Collected data from the client, including exports from their Change Management Database and other configuration tools. Installed FireScope collectors on the client's network to gather network flows sent to/from the in-scope servers.Reviewed the data provided by the client, combined with the data from FireScope to create an application flow assessment and presented them to the client for review and confirmation.Sorted all in-scope applications into "Move Groups," based on their affinities to applications and other technological criteria.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Planned the migration of the applications from one data center to another while performing uplifts to a modern platform. Supported the data center relocation plan with an emphasis on viable short-term and long-term migration strategies. Worked with 90 applications and 160 servers for production data center relocation and a platform uplift project. Facilitated the client's migration of servers to a new Data Center and provided an overall detailed migration project plan.Provided supplemental tools to align the client with the details of the project, such as a comprehensive checklist on the project guidelines/durations, sign-off email process and formats, and quality assurance standards following the migration.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Assessed the flows that are generating the most substantial system traffic (also known as "Top Talkers") and the impact on mainframe applications. With this assessment, the client can minimize latency and the adverse effects of the applications before migration efforts.Defined and documented project tasks and resource requirements for the operational aspects of the assessment. Installed FireScope collectors for the internal team to configure their network gear that forwards the header information. Utilized the data source information from the Change Management Database systems and other sources. Cross-referenced the data source information against the extracted IP addresses from the data collected by FireScope to map out the applications communicating with the mainframe.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Assessed and recommended software solutions and upgrades to enhance IT systems in support of a relocation effort, including estimating costs for the migration.Worked with 100 applications and 894 servers (mostly virtual) for production data center relocation assessment.Assessed the in-scope applications along with the projected costs for migration from the on-premise data center to the cloud. Gathered 894 servers into a comprehensive list, then utilized the pricing/sizing tool of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft's Azure to generate estimated costs to move from an on-premise data center to a cloud environment, based on selections comparable to the In-Scope inventory derived from CPU, memory, and storage.Evaluated the client's Operating Systems for any EOL/EOS conflicts and recommended an upgrade before migration.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Strategized on resolving project challenges by collaborating with the senior engineers of various partners to align them with the data network cutover program's status, actions, and changes throughout its completion. Attended Change Advisory Board meetings and various daily Voice Network Infrastructure program consultations. Managed the Network Transition process of the migration plan involving the point-of-departure of parent company WAN connections to point-of-arrival connection to a new global WAN. Documented, tracked, and managed staff for the deliverables to meet the overall timelines and regulations of the project. Managed meeting with resources from England, India, Argentina, Asia Pacific, and all over Europe for the global project. Partnered with the senior network design teams to layout the overall details of the plan along with objectives, procedures, and requirements to cutover the 100+ global sites in Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Europe, and throughout the Asia Pacific.Coordinated and tracked all deliverables with external telecommunications vendors to ensure project timelines were met. Traveled to Gurgaon and Bangalore City in India to personally oversee daily onsite activities of cutover at a significant site.Managed company-wide SSL encryption deployment of circuit traffic while mediating issues amongst security and business units who were impacted by the change. Provided weekly updates to senior leadership with key statistics and open issues.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Led migration efforts to migrate the client’s production applications to a new staging network in preparation for the data center migration. This included distributed hosting systems and business applications for the partner and client for an $800M project including over 2700 servers, 700 applications and connections to 17 mainframes.Analyzed the application data and composed move group events and application affinities based on maximum migration capabilities. Led the migration of systems from the primary data center while coordinating with a team of Application Architects and EngineersSuccessfully migrated applications to new datacenter which involved regular meetings with application owners to understand and document migrating applications. Mapped out a solid migration plan for each application to ensure maximum uptime.Worked with 3.700 virtual servers for the cloud adoption project and with 689 applications and 2,749 servers (physical/virtual) with 1.4 Peta Bytes of storage for data center relocation.Led the team on working on 94 applications and 441 servers for the disaster recovery data center relocation project.Migrated VMware supported servers to OpenStack/KVM by working with Cloud teams to document a best practice strategy for cloud-to-cloud migration. Coordinated multiple migration rooms and the implementation of cloud migration strategy with production support teams while ensuring that all transition activities run smoothly for a successful migration.

Basking Ridge, New Jersey, Us

Managed the transition engagement of client IT services into the client Managed Services delivery model in compliance with the service levels and metrics. Implemented the contractual requirements and oversaw the execution of consolidated project plans. Conducted assessment for EMC Engineers to gather and analyze data and performed SAN Remediation at a client’s site on Windows Clustered Servers moving to different tiers of SAN over several phases.Distributed computing of preventive maintenance and practice excellent problem-solving skills to guarantee timely resolution of issues concerning the system design and operations, ensuring documentation of customer concerns.Performed preventive maintenance and practice excellent problem-solving skills to guarantee timely resolution of all issues concerning the system design and company services, ensuring project documentation of raised concerns.Efficiently performed duties related to helpdesk support, data center monitoring, data back-up, and report generation.

Phoenix, Az, Us

Collaborated with cross-functional business clients while supervising IT teams to understand, document, and communicate project objectives aligned to business scope, technical requirements, milestones, deliverables, schedule, and cost estimates.Accomplished a progressive management experience starting as a Systems Administrator before moving into managerial positions such as manager of the Windows System Administrator and the Network Engineering team. Managed teams of network and systems engineers, allocated resources to projects, and defined timelines for delivery for best practices. As a mentor, was tasked to inspire, influence, motivate, and lead by example through coaching the team for collaboration, and the importance of providing feedback for project planning and product development. Monitored capacity, performance, and continuous improvement on WAN servers while managing system alerts. Worked with the team of system engineers to determine issue management, disaster recovery, and additional program resources.Provided 3rd Level Troubleshooting for Web application server problems; interfaced with technology architects, security administrators, and network personnel to ensure delivering architecture upgrades that stabilize web server performance.