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San Jose, CA, US

Architect complete infrastructure overhaul with best practices, aligned with SOC2, ISO 27001 & utilizing zero-trust. Provide lifecycle support for approx 2 consultants, 350 users & 1000 security assets. Design & migrate legacy all company networks to a DMZ screened subnet architecture using redundant Fortigate & Sophos XG firewalls. Implement IPS, IDS.

Audit and offer recommendations aligned with zero trust architecture and SOC2.Team lead for ICE Systems Team with about 10 engineers. Offer guidance to the team, training, provide project management and forecasting, and conduct KPI audits. Write procedural documentation & create diagrams. Manage and implement server and workstation infrastructure with.

San Jose, California, United States

Service Team Lead Engineer for technical projects and cases for USWired clients.Veeam Backup specialist providing multi-site BDR, caching and S3 storage repos.Azure VDI pools, FSLogix profiles, MFA, RDS Farms, MFA, ARM templates, VPN/VPC Gateway, File Sync/File Share, InTune, Teams, OneDrive, Sharepoint, Exchange, & AD.Migrate on prem only clients to Azure.

San Jose, California, United States

Project planning, management, implementation, & forecasting for approximately 100 rack roll out within 4 different CoreSite data centers nationwide. Initial BGP setup for external 100 Gbps circuits. Internal OSPF routing. Setup 100/40 Gbps MLAG/VPC network for approx 100 racks of Cisco servers. Setup dark fiber for multi-site geo-redundant VMWare.

Hickory, North Carolina, United States

M&A to rip and replace networks for 18 manufacturing sites nationwide and provide 100% RF coverage for about 10,000 employees.I managed the integration of 18 national manufacturing centers from Cisco Catalyst to Meraki SD WAN. VRRP, OSPF, AD Based authentication on VPN.Implement network templates to deploy about 200 switches and 1100 WAPs.Wireless tuning.

Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton-Marion Area

Build a regional storage solution out of EMC for NC hospitals and support a regional Internet Service Provider. Deployed geo-redundant enterprise EMC storage and vCloud offerings. Buildout and maintained 8 POP locations around North Carolina and installed network, biometric card reader systems, camera systems, and setup alerts.Overhauled an aging billing.

Hickory, North Carolina, United States

M&A of 18 different facilities for 8 companies. Provide nationwide support to 600 users. Supervise one report. Migrated 18 sites to 11 sites on a highly available nationwide fiber MPLS from T1s.Implemented HA firewalls and IDS/IPS for 3 x PCI DSS 2 sites. Pentesting.Deployed enterprise-grade endpoint security, encryption, and RMM.Upgraded and consolidated.

Lenoir, North Carolina, United States

Lead data implementation of a SSAE16 II data center (23,500 SQ FT) & deployed about 50,000 IPs and 800 racks including hardware. Support, unit testing and installation of customer networks.Subnetting, IPAM, IP routing, and management of VLAN networksProvisioning and maintaining cPanel, SolusVM, VMWare, LAMP/NGINX/IIS, Active Directory, Bind/Power DNS.

Miami, Florida, United States

• Managed all domestic screen printing for up to 5 million units a month.
• Inventory analysis and reporting for over 10 million units a month with less than a 3% margin of error; cut losses over 50% since hiring date.
• Support for all internal systems and domain for 100 users.
• Assisted with ERP and PLM system implementation.

Naples, Florida, United States

• Drafting for two architectural firms.
• Deployment of school networks up to 400 PCs; provided support.
• Wrote custom billing system for a small cell phone distributor.