Sebastian Smith Email & Phone Number

New York City, Ny, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Orchestrated and executed a comprehensive strategy to enhance security and refine access control mechanisms by transitioning from administrator access to permission sets structured around resource tags. This strategic shift fortified security protocols, ensuring more granular control over user access across all profiles.• Managed the AWS Control Tower environment with a focus on seamless integration, overseeing Okta integration, Permission Set creation and deployment, and SCP creation. This holistic management approach ensured a well-orchestrated AWS governance framework aligned with organizational security and compliance standards.• Spearheaded initiatives aimed at optimizing AWS expenditures, resulting in a notable 30% reduction in monthly costs. These initiatives, rooted in meticulous resource optimization strategies, yielded enhanced return on investment and financial efficiency.• Led FinOps efforts that reduced AWS spend using various cost saving techniques such as: AWS Cost Optimizer to "rightsize" instances, EBS volumes, RDS instances, and Lambda memory sizes, ensuring cost-effective resource utilization across the AWS infrastructure. This proactive optimization approach maximized cost savings without compromising performance.• Implemented Cloud Custodian policies to enforce compliance standards and optimize expenditure within the AWS ecosystem. These policies facilitated efficient resource allocation while ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements, enhancing overall governance and cost-effectiveness.• Developed Cloud Custodian policies to migrate EBS volume types, optimize IAM Role usage, and adjust CloudWatch log retention policies. These policies optimized resource utilization, improved performance, and reduced costs, aligning AWS infrastructure with business objectives.

Mclean, Va, Us

- Provides design expertise and consulting to development teams to optimize speed, stability, and security.- Uses AWS products to build highly available, cost effective, and resilient infrastructure components.- Part of a team that’s responsible for governance and cost savings for the Financial Services division. We do this by managing cloud custodian policies, writing python lambdas, and using coordinated communication plans.- Provides consulting and remediation services on IAM roles and bucket policies to maintain a least privilegeposture and ensure we’re complying with enterprise and audit standards.- Provides training and classes for other developers to help them prepare for AWS certification exams- Pioneered the transition to Amazon Web Services for the Capital One Auto Finance line of business.- Leads various initiatives based on quarterly division priorities; including planning methodology to achieve the goal, action plan to get there, and a communication plan to keep management informed.- Built Infrastructure as Code templates using Cloudformation, Serverless Framework, and Terraform.

Plano, Texas, Us

• Collaborated with C-Level directors to manage technology needs.• Supported 45 remotes users and 36 onsite users.• Decreased monthly telecom bill by 50%.• Migrated user base from Microsoft Office and Exchange to Google Apps for Business.• Implemented backup and disaster recovery plan for servers and applications.• Virtualized Windows Server 2003 servers using Hyper-V technology.• Migrated from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 R2 domain.

• Managed Exchange Server for user base of 1000+ users.• Served as support for technical and budgets to C-level executives. Over 5 years.• Implemented plan to setup, configure, and maintain several servers. Included MySQL, Windows Server 2008, and Microsoft SQL 2008 R2.• Configured Open-source Ticket Request system. Included MySQL database with a PERL web interface. Provided Tier 3 support when necessary.• Provided monitoring and maintenance for software licenses for Symantec, Microsoft Exchange, Echo 360 and other academic software packages.• Purchased, configured, and installed certificates for servers and websites.• Increased efficiency for ticket tracking system. Impacted workload and customer service experience.• Coached and mentored Tier 1 and Tier 2 support levels. Improved performance.• Collaborated with team of 12 to process incoming calls and work requests.• Performed ad hoc IT analysis and support for upper management.

• Experience working with 6500, 4500, 3750, 3650 switches, and 7300, 2800, 2900 series routers.• Supported and troubleshoot switches and routers within client’s network.• Performed patch management and security audits to ensure system security.• Developed disaster recovery plans for clients.• Audited employee accounts for suspicious activity or at the request of the client.• Checked application logs and event viewer to obtain useful information in the event of a data breach.• Presented client with after-action reports in the event of an incident, including resolution.• Suggested products and policies that would help prevent future incidents to clients.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Information Technology And Management

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), School Of Economics