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Aurora, Co, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Nearshore Technology is a highly dynamic environment that models its infrastructure on what it wants for its customers. IT Solutions team is responsible for supporting users, as well as managing Production Systems in various cloud providers while utilizing DevOps practices in a highly agile, highly available infrastructure.

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

Responsibilities include: Documentation and design for both system and network architecture, based on vendor requirements, company requirements and security guidelines System management and maintenance on infrastructure: Weblogic Cluster, Oracle SQL, Apache, Web Applications running PHP and Java based using Ansible and Jenkins for automation and deployments in largely RedHat 6 and 7 Monitoring using Nagios, OP5 and other custom Python, Perl and BASH Scripts Log and system health analytics using Splunk and Grafana Database reports based on customer analytics and maintain Kafka/Zookeeper systems data that pushes to BI teams Recently requested by the Advanced Engineering team to work on the latest vendor software release, including setting up testing infrastructure in VMWare, installing new systems, vetting both Chef and Ansible to determine which automation tool was better for our requirements and assisting on documentation to be handed off to our operations team Work with Juniper SRX Firewalls, Cisco ASA 5585 Firewall, F5 and A10 Load Balancers by designing requirements and plans for Network and Load Balancer teams Using Remedy, Service Now and Jira to work tickets, incidents and manage tasks and deployments. Documenting in ConfluenceKey Accomplishments: In May 2017 Migrated Bright House Home Security customers to the Charter Home Security datacenter with no customer fallout. In August 2017 upgraded firewall and switches in Emergency Response centers in two data-centers In May 2018 proposed, planned and upgraded legacy Oracle RAC Cluster running RedHat 5.5 to RedHat 7 with new hardware. Moved the entire customer base and application stack to new databases with no customer fallout

Greenwood Village, Colorado, Us

Sr. Engineer that was primarily focused on network design, architecture and designing both production systems that utilized Tibco, Microsoft SQL and Elastic Search, as well as custom java applications using Tomcat and corporate network systems that used Shoretel and various AWS servicesKey Accomplishments: Created network template for current and future sites that required connectivity to sites in Singapore, India, London and multiple sites in the US Consolidated old corporate and Shoretel phone networks by adding Layer 3 switches, edge routers using BGP peering between two to three peers and new Cisco ASA firewalls Designed and implemented production network, including SAN systems, HP Blade Chassis Worked closely with Windows team on deploying Active Directory with Office 365 connections Designed and project managed AWS deployments for the BI Analytics system that required VPN connectivity to the production database Designed and worked with systems team to deploy Jira for development team, Jira Service Desk for internal support team and Confluence for the entire company to use

Serving as an IT manager for more than 30 companies around the Denver Metro area. Workingwith:Cisco Security Appliances ASA Ver.7.0 - 9.3Windows Server 2003-2012VMWare ESXi, VCenter 4 and 5Hyper-VOffice 2010-2013Exchange Server 2003-2013Symantec Backup ExecSymantec Endpoint ProtectionActive Directory - Group Policy creation and management, domain migrations andbrand new deploymentsShoretel Phone SystemsWindows XP to Windows 8

San Diego, Ca, Us

Designed, implemented and budgeted for a $1.2 Million dollar infrastructure, consisting of: NetApp and True NAS VMWare ESXi, VCenter and SRM Windows Server 2008, 2012 UNIX - FreeBSD 8, 9, 10 and LINUX - RedHat 5 and 6 Java, PERL and PHP Cisco ASA security infrastructure, with VPN connectivity, Catalyst Switches In 2012, migrated to Juniper SRX and EX series switches for better Layer 3 support and expanded VPN experience for hosted customers Office 365 with Directory Synchronization Configured helpdesk system for customer support teamDesign and implementing video and voice communication between offices, including offices and Datacenters in Brazil, New York and Denver - management decided on Office 365 and Lync - which had to migrate from the in-house Exchange environment.In spring of 2012, became the project manager on design, budget and implementation of remote appliance that runs the companies backup software, running both on-site and cloud backups. The system ran in FreeBSD with custom Catalyst and other opensource software applications that could be remotely controlled from a central server system that was also designed under the same project, which integrated into SalesForce API

Worked as an IT manager for 15 business that supported web hosting and e-mail andsupporting in:Windows Server 2003-2008,UNIX FreeBSD 5, 6, 7Barracuda SPAM security applianceBackup ExecTrend Micro AntivirusExchange 2003-2010Juniper NetscreenCisco PIX and ASA appliancesKey management responsibilities included managing 5 employees on field related tasks fordeployment and budgets for small and medium sized businesses infrastructures.

Austin, Tx, Us

Supported and managed:NetApp and IBM SANSCheckPoint FirewallsFoundry Layer 3 and Layer 2 SwitchesWindows NT, 2000, 2003 ServerWindows 95, 2000 and XPMicrosoft Office 2000, 2003SharepointRedhat 4 and 5.Key responsibilities included; managing help desk tickets - usually assigning tasks to team,scheduling shifts, working with IT managers on service issues in Germany, England, PuertoRico, Canada and throughout the US. Also managing tape backups, supporting customerservice on proprietary software software questions or issues and maintaining standardoperating procedures for data centers.

Network And System Administration/Administrator

Diploma, Learning