Lead and mentored teams of engineers, fostering a collaborative, result-driven, and inclusive team culture. Set clear goals and provide continuous performance feedback, supporting the career growth of the team. Architect and manage AWS Infrastructure to support scaling needs, optimizing for performance, cost, and reliability.Oversee AWS cloud-based services (VPC, EC2, ECS, EKS, ECR, S3, RDS, ALB, ACM, etc.), ensuring efficient resource utilization and adherence to best practices.Drive initiatives to automate, optimize, and enhance cloud infrastructure using infrastructure as code (IaC) with Terraform.Implement and manage Bitbucket Pipelines for streamlined CI/CD processes, supporting rapid and reliable application delivery.Build and maintain automated workflows, testing frameworks, and deployment pipelines to ensure fast, efficient, and secure software delivery.Advocate for and implement best practices in DevOps, including observability, monitoring, and logging.Provide technical guidance and support to application development teams, ensuring alignment with infrastructure and security standards.Collaborate with product and engineering teams to establish technical requirements, manage project milestones, and ensure the successful delivery of applications.Develop and enforce cloud security policies, procedures, and practices to safeguard data and infrastructure.Oversee vulnerability assessments, implement security controls, and respond to security incidents.Ensure compliance with relevant regulatory and industry standards (e.g., GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA).Work closely with the executive team to define technical strategy, establish KPIs, and contribute to long-term business planning.Develop and manage budgets for technology projects, driving cost efficiencies and making recommendations for investments in tools and infrastructure.Communicate technical initiatives, project progress, and strategic insights to stakeholders across the organization.

With 25+ years of providing I.T. support and services for some of the top Fortune 100 companies in the world. I'm here to provide clients with remote administration and support services that provide the operational framework for the delivery of each organization's I.T. systems and software to meet their requirements using open-source software, Cloud Computing, and data center services. I can and will deliver great results with a process that’s timely, collaborative, and of great value for my clients.* Ability to build and maintain customer relationships to allow ongoing long-term support services.* Provide solutions that guarantee a cost-effective implementation and integration of business-critical applications and components.* Coordinate and facilitate consultation with clients to define systems and business requirements for new technology implementations.* Establish clear plans and priorities.* Produce high-quality technical and briefing documents.* Excellent communication skills (verbal, written, and listening).Education: B.S.E.E.T. DeVry Institute of Technology

*Led the successful migration of TheCreditPros on-premise data center in Newark, NJ, to AWS Cloud.*Architected and implemented multiple VPC's within the new AWS infrastructure.* Provisioned and configured multi-az Sophos UTM firewalls with each VPC to ensure high availability and fault tolerance. *Created custom Linux and Windows server images using VMware tooling and imported the images into EC2 AMI's. *Utilized AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) to migrate MySQL and SQL Server databases to highly available, multi-AZ AWS RDS Aurora clusters with read replicas for optimized performance.* Migrated DNS services from GoDaddy to Route 53.* Used CloudFront distributions for CDN to enhance global performance and content delivery.* Designed and deployed robust CI/CD pipelines leveraging AWS services such as CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeCommit, streamlining application development and deployment processes.* Developed and delivered training sessions to engineering teams and executive management, ensuring smooth adoption of the new AWS cloud infrastructure.* Created detailed network architecture diagrams and comprehensive documentation hosted on a Wiki knowledge base using Redmine, facilitating streamlined access to information.* Provided hands-on DevOps support to development and operations teams, enabling seamless collaboration and efficient incident resolution. * Regularly audited and optimized cloud infrastructure costs by rightsizing instances, leveraging Reserved Instances and Spot Instances, and implemented S3 lifecycle policies for data storage.* Spearheaded initiatives to automate repetitive tasks, including patch management, backup strategies, and environment provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like CloudFormation and Terraform.* Deployed centralized logging and monitoring systems using CloudWatch Logs, CloudTrail, and third-party tools to enhance observability and incident response capabilities.

Responsibilities: Installed, configured, fine-tuned and supported Chef automation servers that stored policies to automate the provisioning for new nodes. Executed the Chef "knife" command-line tool to allow interfacing between the Chef server and the local chef repository to manage nodes, recipes, cookbooks, roles, stores of JSON data and provisioning. Used Chef & Kubernetes to both orchestrate and automate the deployment of application containers across clusters of hosts providing a container-eccentric infrastructure. Implemented and configured a Cassandra NoSQL database infrastructure that offered linear scalability and fault-tolerance access to mission critical data. Defined, configured and activated a new private cloud network infrastructure to host new hardware and a state of the art software application stack for a redesigned corporate website. Implemented additional configurations within Cisco and Juniper security appliances using Cisco ASA/IOS and Juniper JunOS to apply specific firewall rules, which provided integration and security with the current LAN's and WAN.

Designed and configured an AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to provide isolation and security of AWS services and resources. Defined AWS Security Groups which acted as virtual firewalls that controlled inbound and outbound Protocol/Port traffic within the AWS VPC. Implemented AWS HA configuring AWS EC2 Auto-Scaling Groups and AWS Elastic Load Balancers. Deployed, configured and supported an AWS RDS Aurora MySQL cluster. Configured AWS IAM Group and User login authentication to AWS services. Performed database queries to analyze performance and made the appropriate configuration changes to the RDS parameter groups. Migrated the production on-premise MySQL Server schema to the new AWS RDS Aurora instance. Enhanced the overall performance of the AWS RDS Aurora cluster, by increasing the architectural class definition of specific RDS instances.

Managed the development and automation efforts of performance validation testing cycles. Formulated exhaustive, high-coverage validation plans with the objective of zero HW bugs found downstream during product/device and SW integration steps. Performed application level load, vulnerability and quality assurance testing of Intel next generation x86/x64 microprocessors running on UNIX, Linux and Windows server/desktop operating systems. Executed tests, analyzed results and identified bottlenecks that may negatively impact performance. Maintained a validation dashboard for tracking and indicating the status of HW/SW performance validation tests. Coordinated system testing, validation procedures and development of documentation. Gathered and organized data from benchmarks for evaluation and comparison with competitors. Prepared project status reports and facilitated formal presentations as needed. Ensured validation activities were compliance to the product life cycle (PLC) from definition to productization. Work closely with architecture and marketing to deliver data useful in driving next generation x86/x64 microprocessor enhancements. Shared the results as needed with internal and external customers and provided recommendations based on that data.

Provided 24x7 support for an enterprise-wide IBM AIX UNIX environment including daily AIX administration, problem determination and resolution, and support of a highly virtualized environment. Perform AIX and 3rd party software upgrades including planning, design and implementation. Assisted with operational support and engineering direction on IBM Power hardware design including VIOS, network, storage and workload balancing. Identified opportunities and implemented process improvements based on automation or elimination of unnecessary administration tasks. Installed and offered ongoing support of IBM Tivoli products. Directed and lead a very high level migration project, which consisted of migrating all the data and file systems from a SUN StorEdge 6320 SAN Storage Subsystem to an IBM DS8000 series SAN Storage Subsystem using an IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC). Provisioned file systems on an IBM Total Storage DS4800 in a 4 node Microsoft Cluster Windows Server 2008 and Symantec Vault SAN environment. Provisioned Logical Unit Numbers (LUN's) on IBM DS6000/DS8000 storage subsystems for various hosts running many applications and Oracle databases. Configured and upgraded host bus adapters and performed LUN masking and hard and soft zoning using Brocade fiber switch definitions for adding zone members and zone sets to the fabric.

Administered IBM RS6000, HP9000 and SUN Enterprise local and remote production servers running IBM AIX 6.1, HP-UX 11i and SUN Solaris 8, 9 & 10 Unix OS's throughout the US. Performed leadership roles on numerous projects, interfacing with IBM Global Services, HP, SUN, EMC and Network Appliance Support Services. Administered and supported numerous Network Appliance and EMC Symmetrix storage subsystems. Configured Brocade, McData and Cisco fiber switches and directors, by creating and adding zone members and zone sets for fabric wide zoning within Storage Area Network (SAN) infrastructure environments. Administered and supported disk/tape backups and restores using Veritas Netbackup, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM), and UNIX/Linux archival and restoration commands. Planned for and executed complex modifications to existing associated architectural components to meet specialized needs.

Supported approximately 250 IBM P690/P595/i595 RS6000 servers in a global aircraft CAD/CAM design and development environment running the IBM AIX 5L UNIX operating system. Created and configured multiple IBM AIX Logical Partitions (LPARS) using the IBM Hardware Management Console (HMC), which consisted of various Virtual I/O configurations including, assigning CPU cores, Physical/Virtual Memory, Storage, Network Interface Cards (NIC's) and Host Bus Adapters (HBA's) to each individual LPAR. Assigned volume groups and logical volumes on an IBM Total Storage DS8300 SAN to implement the best possible performance for Oracle 9i/10g databases, by using low/high speed hard drives for specific partitions. Defined and created zones on IBM Total Storage SAN256M director fiber switches to provide isolation and high availability between servers, hosts and storage subsystems. Installed, configured, supported and upgraded Enovia V5/Catia4 CAD/CAM applications on numerous IBM RS6000 servers. Deployed new IBM RS6000 P5 & P6 server systems by executing the IBM AIX 5L Network Installation Management (NIM) utility to install the AIX Base Operating System and software applications from numerous AIX NIM master servers. Carved Logic Unit Numbers (LUN's) on IBM/EMC storage subsystems for shared/dedicated data storage among numerous host systems. Configured, monitored and supported numerous IBM 3584 tape libraries using IBM Tivoli Storage (TSM) for file system backups and restores. Executed performance evaluations of large-scale systems including resource usage, load balancing, log file analysis and bottleneck identification.

Provided expert support services for storage management technologies, including EMC, Hitachi, Network Appliance and IBM. Monitored and supported ADIC, StorageTek and IBM tape libraries using Veritas Netbackup and Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM). Created an intranet on-line web site which consisted of IBM, HP, SUN and Veritas troubleshooting guides for Level l & II Unix administrators.

Installed, configured, fine-tuned and supported approximately 200 UNIX/Linux servers in an E-Commerce software development and quality assurance environment consisting of SUN Enterprise, HP 9000, IBM RS6000 UNIX servers and Intel/AMD x86 Linux servers. Deployed, installed, configured and supported EMC, IBM and Network Appliance storage subsystems to implement NAS and SAN network storage infrastructures. Supported backups and restores using storage vendor supplied software storage tools. Installed, configured, fine-tuned and supported J2EE IBM Websphere & BEA Weblogic application servers and Apache, Tomcat, iPlanet & Microsoft IIS web servers. Interacted and supported database administrators related to Oracle & IBM DB2 database servers. Used the OpenSSH suite of network connectivity tools to establish remote secure public key encrypted connections and perform a variety of services. Installed, configured, fine-tuned and supported J2EE IBM Websphere & BEA Weblogic application servers, Apache, Tomcat, iPlanet and IIS web servers.