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Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Technical lead on Agile development squad focused on modernizing and enabling hybrid cloud mobility for application runtimesEvangelizes benefits of configuration as code, infrastructure as code, containerization, and test driven developmentArchitected build pipeline enabling streamlined maintenance and easy developer consumption of secure base container images.Automated deployment of virtual appliances to vSphere platform, reducing delivery time to hours from monthsEnabled, planned and executed migration of 1000 business critical VMs into vSphere cloud from proprietary converged infrastructure platform, providing 20-30% improved performance with no application impactProvides on-call escalation support for middleware platforms

Boston, Ma, Us

Technical Product Owner for Container as a Service Agile development team, responsible for translating overall vision into strategy, product backlog and feature delivery.Our Container as a Service distribution enables public/private/hybrid cloud application delivery to a secure Docker DataCenter runtime environment through the use of technologies such as Aqua Security, Packer, CloudFormation, Chef, and vRealize Automation.

Boston, Ma, Us

Technical lead for Agile development team building enterprise Container as a Service distribution, supporting public and private cloud, using Docker DataCenter, AWS CloudFormation and Chef.

Boston, Ma, Us

Infrastructure microservice development and orchestration utilizing VMware vRealize Orchestrator and vRealize Automation.

Boston, Ma, Us

Member of Midrange Services Orchestration and Analytics team.Responsibilities include development of reports and tabular models on the Microsoft BI platform and private cloud (ESX, IBM PureApplication System) orchestration and automation with VMware vRealize Automation.

Boston, Ma, Us

Building upon responsibilities as a Systems Analyst, focusing more upon design and architecture to better service growing server footprint (2600+ virtual, 800+ physical).

Boston, Ma, Us

- Primary resource for Windows/Linux server provisioning and configuration for the Commercial Markets business unit.- Utilized established design patterns to develop cost effective solutions in support of application development projects.- Assisted with performance monitoring and analysis as part of troubleshooting efforts.- Supported hardware virtualization efforts, resulting in physical asset reduction and software license recovery. Over $1 million annualized cost avoidance or reductions, and 130 physical assets decommissioned.

Boston, Ma, Us

- Documented requirements for all Commercial Markets AIX, Linux and Windows builds.- Supported end-users for a 5,000+ user SharePoint 2007 collaborative environment.- L1/L2 support for 450 Windows XP and Linux VDI machines.- Managed configuration and scheduling across 20 applications for a shared performance testing environment.- Configured environments for bi-yearly Disaster Recovery exercise.

Rochester, Ny, Us

- Provided end-user support to over 1000 students and faculty members.- Administered desktop systems in 12 department run labs, including a 24 seat student-use computing lab environment.- Created system images and software deployment packages to automate new system and software configuration.- Maintained infrastructure to provide license management, database access, file and printer sharing for department students and faculty.- Managed Active Directory and DNS infrastructure in a large academic environment.

Rochester, Ny, Us

Implemented and administered asset management solution for College of Applied Science and Technology.

Parsippany, Nj, Us

- Performed Quality Assurance testing on customer facing web dashboards.- Developed internal job status monitoring tool using MSSQL Stored Procedures and C#.

Bs, Information Technology

Diploma, General Studies