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Cleveland, Oh, Us

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Established a set of architectural standards and best practices for the virtual environment.Designed and implemented a greenfield refresh of the global enterprise infrastructure and enterprise infrastructure management. On vSphere 8 and Aria 8 management platforms.Developed a “global mindset” for the virtualization team, integrating the existing US and UK based VMware teams. standardized processes and procedures across the company's global datacenter footprint.Responsible for evaluating new products and presenting them to the leadership team along with recommendations for the future direction of the IT infrastructure.Operationalized the enterprise infrastructure platform by integrating all components of the VMware Aria suite (fka vRealize) to provide resource costing, advanced alerting and self-healing capabilities.Created an Infrastructure as a Service portal and achieved a “public cloud-like” feel to provisioning resources in the on-premises datacenter.Developed a catalog of anything-as-a-service (XaaS) workflows to automate and streamline day-to-day operations for multiple departments across the infrastructure organization. Increased company productivity by developing over two dozen automated workflows across multiple infrastructure verticals that save the company more that 300 man hours per month.Increased the security posture of the environment by bringing the environment in line with the vSphere Security Hardening Guide. Lead vulnerability remediation efforts based on new VMware Security Advisories, the VMware vSphere Hardening guide and the VMware CIS Benchmark. Created a defined set of standards around alerting and alert delivery methods. Integrated infrastructure alerting with the SIEM.

Hartford, Connecticut, United States

Technical lead on project to provide operational readiness for the existing on-premises enterprise cloud solution.Provided full infrastructure support for vRealize Automation 7.6 application.Conceptualized and lead project to create a self-healing SDDC using vRealize Log Insight, vRealize Orchestrator and vRealize Operations Manager. Worked on architecture and design of vRealize Automation 8.x for a unified cloud solution.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Cloud and Virtualization team lead responsible for maintaining the company's virtual, compute and storage infrastructures. Cloud Architecture and Management Sales Engineer with the goal of building relationships with customers by serving as the technical liaison from pre-sales to post-sales Perform customer discovery discussions to understand and document business needs and design requirements. Efficiently and Effectively design solutions for customers using the best mix of vendor partner products. Participate in strategic account planning with Account Executives. Deliver technical presentations explaining products or services to existing and prospective customers. Plan and modify products/services to meet customer needs. Act as the project manager for small –to- medium implementation projects.Cloud and datacenter architecture consultant to enterprise level clients. Provide technical training and development support to the junior and mid-level members of the platform team.

• Monitored customer networks on a day-to-day basis including network services, database management and backup systems. • Troubleshot alerts to keep networks running effectively and efficiently. • Relayed and documented appropriate and relevant information gained regarding clients, while solving or escalating client issues. • Lead client focused meetings such as Technical Business Reviews, Network Reviews and Data Planning Reviews.

Analyzed values of industrial, commercial/retail, office, and residential properties as well as vacant land. Determined value of properties based on comparable sales, project cost and income potential including discounted cash flow analysis. Determined demand and highest and best use for properties using marketability analysis. Analyzed leases, purchase contracts, pro-formas, cash flows, cost estimates and construction plans.

Associate Of Applied Sciences, Computer Networking Systems

Bachelor'S, Economics