Serving as subject matter expert (SME) for cloud and infrastructure platform assurance and advisory reviews to provide audit teams with expertise and thought leadership that enables successful review of management’s activities and controls and ensures regulatory compliance and risk exposure is being adequately managed and improved.

Designed, implemented, and maintained multi-datacenter platform infrastructure, refresh, and stabilization efforts for the firm’s virtualization, storage, and datacenter services to move towards a 99.9% uptime goal for critical business applications and services.Designed and deployed compute, NVIDIA Grid, storage, and other related datacenter infrastructure to implement and support new DoD compliant HPC clusters to support processing of client workloads more efficiently.Maintained and managed vendor relationships including sales, solutions engineering, and support relations for critical infrastructure products and services.Partnered with internal stakeholders to understand their environments and workloads to drive right-sizing efforts of the business’s datacenter, compute, storage, and power capabilities to reduce waste, optimize efficiency, and improve operational capabilities.Planned and implemented documentation, metrics, infrastructure, and testing methodology for the business’s continuity and disaster recovery efforts and coordinated successful testing and remediation of issues discovered during testing.Deployed and administered cloud infrastructure in AWS and Azure GovCloud regions to support the business’s needs and requirements.Designed, implemented, and tested a new Active Directory and ancillary authentication and access control processes to support new Role-Based-Access-Control requirements from the business.SME for all cloud, virtualization, datacenter, Microsoft Windows Server, and storage architecture, configuration, policies, and standards and ensured these areas adhered to necessary DoD and internal standards and regulations.

Led and delivered advisory and assurance engagements evaluating the effectiveness of management’s activities and controls for IT applications, cloud, infrastructure, and operational environments to identify operational and strategic risks and drive awareness and resolution.Partnered with business and risk stakeholders to drive meaningful reduction in overall risk exposure by identifying gaps within configuration, policies, procedures, and standards by evaluating them against business, industry, and regulatory best-practices, frameworks, and requirements and partnering with stakeholders to bring awareness and drive meaningful adjustments to processes and strategy.Implemented new process improvements and tooling that helped drive adoption of agile practices which reduced audit planning, fieldwork, and final delivery times by weeks. Developed and led a comprehensive IT and cloud technology training program that helped enhance the audit staff’s skills when dealing with IT systems and operations.

Served as the team’s SME for cloud and infrastructure to help guide audit evaluations and testing to ensure comprehensive coverage and evaluation of design and operating effectiveness testing.Participated in advisory, assurance, and risk assessment engagements across a wide range of IT applications, platforms, and services and delivered comprehensive assessments and testing that drove impactful reporting which led to reductions in the business’s overall risk exposure.

Led migration planning, testing, and cutover of client workloads into cloud destinations.Implemented and tested client’s BC/DR plans and infrastructure.Served as a SME for clients’ hosted private and public cloud offerings for professional services clients.Supervised and led managed service offerings for Windows desktop and server infrastructure and served as a Windows and Active Directory SME for internal and client facing projects and services.Completed compliance advisory assessments for clients which included best-practices and PCI-DSS reviews and partnered with stakeholders to define and implement resolution of discovered gaps.

Architected and led the implementation of datacenter infrastructure and services for managed service clients inclusive of virtualization, networking, storage, and security.Served as the SME and architect for all virtualization, virtual desktop infrastructure, email & communications, and security software deployments.Designed, deployed, and supported Active Directory and federated single-sign-on solutions for internal and customer deployments.Responsible for generating and maintaining client, industry, and vendor partnerships to facilitate company growth and reduce total operating expenses.

Led implementation and support of information systems hardware and software administration for a large nationwide customer base involving virtualization, networking, storage, and security.Deployed and supported the enterprise SIEM to enable the network and security SOC to monitor events more efficiently across a large nationwide managed service customer base.Developed and maintained relationships with customers’ management and leadership teams to ensure continued support excellence.Served as an SME and performed advisory and scanning activities for internal and client infrastructure against PCI-DSS requirements and industry best-practices.