Steven B. Email & Phone Number

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, APM, iRules, SSL certificates management, DDoS and Bot protection, Load Balancing, and Scripting (iRules and CLI).• 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 migrations,- over 200 environments migration from Azure App Services to AKS.• 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.• Assisted with architecting an Ansible automation platform for F5 operationalization to streamline provisioning, ADO pipelines for operational efficiency (reduced requests processing time by 70%)• Leads infrastructure modernization for SaaS suite from an IaaS technology stack to microservices PaaS architecture: AKS, Azure SQL, CosmosDB, Cognitive Search, Service Bus, APIM, B2C.• Oversees cost control practices reducing overall Azure expenditure by 30% through Storage Spaces Direct, consolidated networking, resource auto-scaling, right-sizing, and single to multi-tenant conversions.• Ensures robust business continuity: disaster recovery plans, regular fail-over testing, automating backups, and multi-region redundancy.

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.• Advanced network consults and implementations across SMB, enterprise, and Edu environments – firewall sandwiches, monitoring, proactive responses, failover clusters, 802.1x and multisite policy-based management (SD-WAN).• P2V/V2V and right-sizing for public, private, hybrid cloud initiatives. • File, block, and hyper-converged storage deployments.• Wireless network deployment, management, and integrations.• Responsible for design, implementation, documentation, budgeting, and migrations for core Microsoft technologies (Server, Azure, O365).• Pre- and post-sales consult, design, and implementation desktop and app virtualization initiatives (XenDesktop suite, Microsoft RDS and Horizon View).• Emergency response and break/fix incidents.• Documentation, knowledge transfer, and best practice education for most customers by request.• Evaluate and present findings on potential technologies for both customers and managed services offerings.• Implement performance/stability monitoring utilities from a variety of vendors at customer sites.• Lead, organize, and provide resolution for multi-vendor troubleshooting sessions on unfamiliar line of business and/or mission critical applications.

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 and/or malware outbreaks.• Maintained stability and security of over 175 PCs and servers via policy enforcement, regular software patching, and a documentation initiative which compiled to 300 pages.• Virtualized 99% of desktops, 100% of servers, and various appliances (firewall, storage).• Removed numerous single points of failure reliably leading to 99.9% uptime.• Reduce budgetary needs by 10% via automation, open source, and virtualization initiatives.• Introduced network monitoring and logging that provides real time and historical visibility into library’s network for capacity planning, troubleshooting, and optimization.• Provided disaster recovery design for all data leading to an RTO of <1 hour and RPOs of 1-24 hours.• Created on-premise Software as a Service (SaaS) and Desktop as a Service (DaaS) infrastructure enabling on-demand roaming for staff previously tied to a single desktop.• 2 years as chair of library consortium’s technology group, providing guidance on emerging technologies.• Managed the scheduling, performance reviews, conflict resolution, and training of 8 employees.• Led a migration on-premise Exchange server to Office 365 .