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San Francisco, California, US

Seattle, WA, US

• Lead technical customer relationship for a subset of business units for a Fortune 10 customer.
• Educating stakeholders and architecting solutions for AWS’s most strategic customers to speed up their adoption of cloud services and transform their use of technology with multiple products and services across all of.
• Provide solutions to customers using technologies across the entire AWS platform, enabling complex migrations anddesigning architectures to include various managed services across multiple technical domains, including.
• Trusted advisor in the design, architecture, and enabled the implementation of multiple global scale applications for aFortune 10 customer; both cloud native and migrated from on-premises data centers.

Seattle, WA, US

• As a secondary role, serve as the senior leader for AWS supported DeepRacer events and customer engagements across the U.S. and Canada. Connect with customer executives and engineers through DeepRacer events to drive.
• Create new training and certification frameworks, role guidelines, and leadership paths to support better event execution and crew training, resulting in a significant CSAT improvement across customers and employee.

Seattle, WA, US

• Led technical customer relationships for a territory of enterprise state and local government customers.
• Educated stakeholders and architected solutions for various state and local government and K-12 education customers to speed up their adoption of cloud services and transform their use of technology with multiple.
• Provided solutions to customers primarily around compute, storage, and networking technologies; as well as supportingcomplex migrations and designing architectures to include various managed services across multiple.
• Responsible for supporting account managers in all parts of the sales cycle at the enterprise level, including providingcustomer demos, building proofs-of-concept, performing customer immersion days, and earning trust.

• Lead Engineer / Platform Architect for Infrastructure and Security Team, working on projects ranging from physical infrastructure, server and network virtualization, storage, and coordinating a major data center.
• Managed, prioritized and assigned infrastructure tasks across the team, related to new efforts, ongoing maintenance, and various projects.
• Started setup and proof-of-concept testing for various environments hosted in Microsoft Azure.
• Architected complete rebuild of VMware virtualization environment for better cost efficiency/performance.

Lemont, IL, US

Led project to transform IT services delivery across the lab by introducing an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) managed private cloud that allows for on-demand self-service provisioning.Modernized virtualization infrastructure by rolling out new hyper-converged systems in a new datacenter and restructuring services to make them highly available across.

Chicago, IL, US

Responsible for day-to-day operations, maintenance, administration, and systems engineering for all aspects of a VMware environment that supports large numbers of tier 1 and lower applications for one of the largest airlines in the worldInaugural member of newly created VMware Operations team, developed and implemented multiple policies and procedures for.

Chicago, Illinois, US

Supported, maintained, and engineered a diverse Red Hat Linux (5,6,7) & Solaris (8,9,10) environmentCompleted major reorganization and rebuild of VMware environment, establishing best practices and greater performance and reliability for virtual systems across 4 sites across the United States with over 500 virtual machines and 25 hosts - upgraded from.

New York, NY, US

Responsible for supporting and administering multiple extremely large and diverse customer networks at an L1/L2 level for physical and virtualized Unix and Linux systemsSupported Operating Systems: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Scientific Linux, and SolarisAnswered proactive monitoring alerts and dispatches regarding all aspects of server, OS, and.

Chicago, IL, US

Supported Virtual/Dedicated servers running CentOS & cPanel/WHM for clients around the worldMaintained and organized data center space, building, provisioning, upgrading, and troubleshooting both internal and client hardwareWorked with Virtuozzo/OpenVZ, Nagios, Idera/R1soft, Chef, IPMI, and Cacti, among other technologies, to support internal and client.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Criminal Justice/Police Science

Associate Of Arts (A.A.), Liberal Arts And Sciences/Liberal Studies

High School Diploma