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Boca Raton, Florida, Us

Serve as Linux SME, maintaining and modernizing a physical/virtual hybrid legacy infrastructure, while working to migrate to Infrastructure-as-Code in AWS.

Mysore, Karnataka, In

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Hands-on, working management of onsite teams of UNIX systems engineers, monitoring systems administrators, and offshore contract teams for overnight incident response. Provided proactive technical direction and leadership through re-platform of primary data center and buildout of new, second data center for disaster recovery and business continuity by decommissioning, migrating, replacing, or virtualizing hundreds of legacy servers.* Worked to mature root cause analysis process, reducing severity 1 and 2 incidents by >90% over 2 years.* Served as infrastructure subject matter expert, approving and accountable for infrastructure changes.* Championed and established regular maintenance windows and patch cycles for decades-old infrastructure, remediating thousands of security vulnerabilities.* Collaborated with chief information security officer in risk-based prioritization of findings, designing and implementing changes to remediate issues and improve security posture.* Implemented and managed administration of multi-site enterprise monitoring tools for metrics and trouble reporting, enabling trend analysis-based performance improvements, and reducing average outage durations from hours to minutes.* Administered multiple Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments and services, including virtual machines, replicated storage, databases, and DNS in business continuity and disaster recovery plans.

Contract under Sagent Partners (Now Obsidian Global)Managed and scaled infrastructure to provide fully-integrated virtual learning and instruction experience, in-house and over internet. Role rewritten by client to reflect broader responsibilities and accomplishments within first year. Contributed to materials preparation and presentation for select academy courses.* Championed and directed server infrastructure modernization for Defense Cyber Investigations Training Academy (DCITA), determining suitability to requirements, generating cost-benefit analysis and roadmap, and implementing changes to support tenfold student body growth over 3 years with no significant service interruptions.* Designed and executed upgrades, consistently exceeding service level agreement (SLA) requirements.* Maintained full-service availability during network and infrastructure redesign by creating load balanced, fault tolerant, standardized virtual environment with replicated shared storage.

Provided strategic technology leadership and innovative business solutions for clients in telecommunications, non-profit, education, and new media sectors. Coordinated strong onsite and remote technical teams including software developers, systems engineers, and customer service personnel. Managed entire product development lifecycle from business analysis to user acceptance.* Determined clients’ requirements and designed technological solutions, preparing estimates and directing implementation through delivery for projects ranging up to $4MM.* Evaluated new technology trends, determining feasibility and translating concepts into marketable products, jumpstarting multiple diverse lines of business and building technology to run them, including:* * Baltimore-Washington Telephone Company / Olehphone; wireline and voice over IP telephone provider (CLEC) and internet service provider (ISP), first to market with consumer-focused “local” phone service for expatriates, allowing US phone number to ring anywhere in the world.* * CardKnox; PCI-DSS compliant payment solution for small merchants.* * TorahMedia; highly active streaming service with terabytes of media and millions of subscribers.* Reduced data center footprint from 11 server racks to 3 and decreased energy consumption by more than 2/3 by leading network, storage, and server modernization / virtualization initiatives.* Created and implemented disaster recovery and business continuity plans, using hybrid cloud with multiple redundant providers to maintain essential telephone services for customers.* Partnered with Red Cross in wake of hurricane Katrina to rapidly create and deploy contactlovedones.org, helping 110K+ people reunite.

Contributed to patented technology and managed development of a mobile device designed to play video games intended for desktop personal computers. Recruited and coordinated distributed group of hardware and software engineers to maintain parallel development efforts, producing working prototypes.

Contract under Butler InternationalLed team to assess Quality Assurance environment and provide recommendations for efficiency improvement and consolidation of hardware and functionality. Documented observations and recommendations for improvement. Provided documented analysis of existing infrastructure and created a roadmap for implementation of recommendations. Worked closely with Director of QA to achieve corporate goals with zero reduction in workforce.

Worked to develop and improve Red Hat Linux-based operating environment heavily customized for web hosting. Perl scripting for systems automation, security, and performance and trouble reporting. Analyzed security needs and set policy for over 1000 Internet-connected web and mail servers. Proactively monitored internet security activity in order to maintain an uncompromised customer environment. Led development of first line intrusion detection and response system. Contributed to software to find and disable user tools intended to compromise server security. Led and participated in development teams for projects including network failover, capacity planning and design, and scalability. Led effort to upgrade and standardize operating system kernel levels and patches and software distribution to a large scale network, and developed software to automate the process. Automated the disabling and removal of scripts and programs designed to send unsolicited bulk e-mail (SPAM) from web and mail servers.

Baltimore, Maryland, Us

Contract under The ACI GroupDeployed and managed scalable workflow infrastructure encompassing document imaging, storage, and retrieval. Provided analysis of performance and recommended and implemented server and network optimizations over the course of 4 years to achieve highest levels of efficiency, resulting in a 100% trouble-free environment. Top-level problem resolution for user support and help desk.

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