A natural born techie. Information technology is my passion and vocation.As a senior enterprise infrastructure architect, I have documented, sequenced and implemented end to end solutions for (but not limited to):New Business on-boardings and migrationsData Centre and infrastructure migrationsNew application deployments for both on-premise and cloudEOL hardware replacements and upgradesI have a solid foundation and expertise in:Data Centre Services (Hardware, software, licensing, hosting, facilities)Information Security Cloud Risk AssessmentsPerimeter and network securityDefense in depthIT Due diligenceIT AuditingRisk management and risk avoidanceIdentity and access management + Auto-provisioningProblem and incident managementBusiness continuity and Disaster RecoveryDetailed Logical and physical dataflowsDetailed Infrastructure OverviewsStakeholder and vendor managementRFP evaluationsFinancial management and quotes/costing/forecastingExceptional troubleshooting skillsTraining, mentorship and leadershipProject ManagementTechnical ConsultancyEnd user computing and platform servicesCapacity ManagementI have a thorough understanding of the following technologies:FirewallsNetworksIPS/IDSStorage Area Networks (SAN) + NAS DevicesLoad balancing (Citrix Netscaler)IAM - Webseal, ISIM, ISAM, SDS LDAPProxy and Reverse Proxy ServicesActive Directory (Security Domains)SSO (Kerberos, OAuth, SAML, Client Credentials, etc)API Gateway ServicesDatabases (MS SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle DB)Application Server (IIS, Tomcat, Apache, WAS, Oracle Weblogic, etc)Mainframe (RACF)VMwareHyperVWindows ServerOpen SystemsApplication Containers (Kubernetes + Docker)Terminal Server (RD Gateways and Session Brokers)