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Washington, DC, US

• Continuation of previous employment (transitioned from contractor to full time employee)
• Lead the effort to digitally modernize web hosting monolithic processes and transitioned to a modernized approach w/ Pipelines with IaC utilizing tools such as Terraform and deployment pipelines for Azure and AWS well.
• Managed installation, upgrade and deployment projects and provided on-site direction for network engineers.
• Maintained consistent security to effectively implement best practices and protect US Government, Veterans Administration assets.
• Introduced and established DSC (Desired State Configuration) and transitioned away from GPO's and Scripts for improved implementation and auditing of security of infrastructure. All deployments for IaaS/Containers.
• Hybrid Cloud with Azure Stack HCI and Azure Arc

Syracuse, NY, US

• Supported over 1400 Websites for Veterans and VA Staff/Employees, Enterprise SharePoint Consolidation of over 1000 SharePoint farms and more than 1500 SharePoint websites, with Global Service Load Balancing, PCI/STIG.
• Spearheaded migration from VMWare to HyperV harnessing full System Center stack and full automation of IaaS decreasing deployment times from 23 days down to less than 1 hour, better performance and stability.
• SCOM (Operations Manager) implementation, started with >1000 critical alerts, after resolving 99% of Critical alerts infrastructure stability improved by >500% and never had an outage again for websites.
• Instituted internal process improvements to automate repetitive tasks, shortening data delivery times.
• Unified disparate data structures and operating environments during revamps of processing facilities, data centers and more.
• Worked effectively in Agile environments to maintain efficient project work.

St. Louis, MO, US

• Architected Citrix Environment for 2 hospitals (Washington DC, Baltimore MD) for EMS (Electronic Medical Systems) and access for Doctors, Nurses, etc. supporting over 600 simultaneous users
• Improved disaster recovery and business continuity.
• Coordinated with customers, internal staff and other stakeholders to determine planning, implementation and integration of system-oriented projects.
• Built and maintained network infrastructure consisting of Windows, Linux and virtual products.
• Provided actionable improvements to software and hardware performance.
• Contributed to requirements gathering and analysis for design and production projects.

Jacksonville, FL, US

• Managed project scope, schedule, status and documentation.
• Created strong relationships with key decision makers as trusted consultant of banking product line.
• Presented roadmap and technology infrastructure to customers, demonstrating deep familiarity with APIs, platform infrastructure, security and integration capabilities.
• Provided support during customer implementations and applied industry best practices.
• Coordinated clients post-implementation on user testing, debugging, support and maintenance.
• Conducted research to evaluate systems design and process efficiency.

US

• Managed over 1000 websites and web hosting with over 60 million newspaper pages that were hosted, archived and searchable online
• Architected, Implemented enterprise search engines (Autonomy IDOL, Exalead)
• Architected and managed infrastructure for digitization process (including >600 systems to do OCR), and scripting processes for digitization of documentation with the team
• Rebuilt and re-architected entire web farm due to performance issues and infrastructure related problems, including a move of the entire data center infrastructure in
• Constructed architecture governance processes, communicating parameters to development staff during adoption training.
• Drafted visual representations of software architecture design for presentation to stakeholders.

2005-2007Efficiently functioned as IT director to an organization downtown Washington, DC, 14 facilities around DC, and one in West Virginia Impressively administered the VPN rollout for all sites, remote sites installation, file replications and data backup, Rack Mount DLT TBU installation and configuration, network security camera setting up, as well as.

Owings Mills, Maryland, US

Washington, DC, US