QUALIFICATIONS- Over twenty-three years of working experience as an IT professional in both corporate and SMB environments. - Comprehensive knowledge working with Linux and Windows Servers. - Four years on DevOps Kubernetes Admin team. Last two years team manager. Prior team scrum leader, SaaS cluster implementation, administration, and support. - Strong Project Management skills. - Focus on security and compliance of cloud environment; SOC2 audit experience. - Expertise with high availability solutions, disaster recovery, mail and database systems, monitoring and security solutions. - Extensive server consolidation and virtualization with VMWare, Amazon Web Services and IBM Cloud. - Experience in designing & deploying infrastructure solutions for small business to enterprise customers. - Developed productive relationships with clients, management, team members and co-workers at all levels utilizing excellent communication skills. TECHNICAL SKILLS/CERTIFICATIONSCertifications: MCSE 2003, VMWare Certified Professional Operating Systems: Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/2008, VMWare 2.5 and up, Linux (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, Amazon)Containerization: Kubernetes/ OpenShift Deployment/ AdministrationHardware/Storage: IBM xSeries servers; IBM BladeCenter; HP/Compaq Proliant, EMC & Hitachi Storage SAN systems. Cisco Routers, Switches, Kemp Load-BalancersNetworking/Arch: TCP/IP, DNS (Win & BIND), DHCP, Cisco IOS, Sonicwall OS, Active Directory, DFS, Certificate Services, OpenSSL, Microsoft Clustering, Fibre Channel, iSCSI. Lucent PBX, Amazon Web ServicesApplications/Tools: Office 365, Apache, nginx, MySQL 5, PHP 5/6, Drupal 6/7/8, Nagios, Zabbix, Subversion/ GIT, VMware Converter, Platespin, SAP R/3, Oracle DB,, MSSQL 00/05/08, MS Exchange 2000/2003, Sendmail,, Citrix, SUS, Netbackup, HP Insight Manager, Powerpath.Scripting: Windows and Active Directory automation with VBScript, ADSI, WMI, SQL, Shell Scripting, PHP5