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Geneva, IL, US

Rosemont, Illinois, United States

• Technical lead of a team responsible for the operational excellence of a large-scale Azure environment (24/7/365 across 7 regions and 3 continents).
• Upholds support for SaaS platforms utilized by over 100 P&C insurance carriers, maintaining 99.99% system availability and transactional integrity in high-stakes environments.
• Adept in cloud and network architecture: designing robust innovative solutions leveraging Azure services.
• Delivers scalable F5 BIG-IP NextGen firewall and WAF solutions, effectively handling high-volume traffic and improving reliability. Procurement, POC, design, documentation, and training the team to operate F5 LTM, ASM.
• Cloud migration initiatives: - over 10 large AWS to Azure conversions of live customers’ environments, - on-prem to Azure migrations through Site Recovery Manager,- over 400 environments of Barracuda WAF to F5 Big-IP.
• Piloted and implemented monitoring renovation featuring integration of Grafana/Prometheus, PagerDuty, and Splunk that reduced enterprise logging costs by 45% with no minimization of service.

Winston-Salem, NC, USA

• Primary Azure architect responsible for DR (ASR/Veeam/Zerto), migration, hybridization, optimization, chargeback, scoping, cost mamanagement and security.
• Designed, implemented, secured, optimized, monitored, and troubleshot a myriad of multivendor, multisite networks to meet customer SLAs.
• Integrated 550 user corporation to Horizon View from vanilla RDS on 15 node ESXi 6.7 cluster including storage, network, and DR configuration.
• Piloted InTune as cloud migration strategy for SMB customers.
• Escalation point for/Management of all technical tiers and Sales Engineers.
• Designed, implemented, and maintained managed backup/DR service offerings for SMB customers (Veeam, AppAssure/Rapid Recovery, SRM, SAN-based replication, Azure Site Recovery) on-prem, colo or cloud.

St Charles, Illinois, United States

• Provided 1, 3, 5 year technology plans to meet the needs of STC constituents.
• Designed a redundant layer 3 switching infrastructure providing secure, routable VLANs with granular access control and no performance compromise.
• Implemented campus wide wireless access for private use via 802.1x providing secure wireless roaming throughout SCPL.
• Implemented a content filtering resulting in a 90% reduction in staff intervention and 98% reduction in torrent traffic reducing bandwidth for legitimate users.
• Developed technology use policy, eliminating hundreds of help desk calls.
• Migrated an antiquated flat Windows 2000 domain to modern to 2012R2 domain hierarchy with advanced group policies. The finished product granted an 80% reduction in help desk calls related to unauthorized software.