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I am an accomplished IT professional with over twenty-four years of experience managing large Windows server infrastructures focusing on implementation, high availability, design, automation, security/risk and company/industry standards.I am proficient in ITIL and Agile methodologies, excelling in complex process-driven environments using tools such as ServiceNow, Confluence, and Jira.As a senior engineer, I am adept at diagnostic practices, delivering swift and safe incident resolution. I consult on projects, recommend solutions, deliver best practices, provide implementation steps and thoroughly document procedures.In recent years I have been more focused on Windows technical leadership driving excellence to new heights, promoting, communication, development, documentation and a strong sense of family.My contributions include designing and implementing an automated in-house build process capable of deploying virtual machines across various domains and VMware Vcentres. I personally wrote and thoroughly documented the code, enabling its adoption by the rest of the team.Developed and coded an Event Log archiving process to capture system logs daily and retain for one year. The process including retrieval scripts to identify missing logs and housekeeping code to maintain only one year of logs per server.Designed and implemented a new SCOM 2019 infrastructure to replace an obsolete SCOM 2012R2 one. Using multiple management servers and gateways as well as SQL databases. Then integrated the alert output to PagerDuty using PowerShell and restfully API’s.Specialties: Agile and ITIl working practices, Technical Leadership, Windows Operating systems from 2000 to 2022, VMWare, Openstack, SCOM, Amazon EC2, Azure, Systems Infrastructure, Network Design and Implementation, Finjan, Websense, Security Appliances, Imperva SecureSphere WAF,HP Server Hardware, IBM Server Hardware, Blade Infrastructure, Virtualisation, VMWare, Project implementation, Powershell and Server Automation including Rundeck/Ansible and git.

Listed skills include Vmware Esx, Virtualization, Infrastructure, Windows, and 44 others.