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Cary, NC, US

Lead a global performance engineering team architecting, provisioning, tuning, and performance testing distributed, data analytics solutions in virtualized (VMWare), and cloud environments (Azure, AWS, Google, OpenShift)Lead a matrix cloud engineering team researching and evaluating cost for performance cloud service offerings such as instance types.

Cary, NC, US

Led a global performance engineering team architecting, provisioning, tuning, and performance testing distributed, data analytics solutions on bare metal and virtualized (VMWare) environments backed by various storage technologies (SAN, NAS)Managed application performance and scalability projects simulating real-world workloads in commensurate environments.

Raleigh, NC, US

• Led a team of Technical Architects, Engineering Managers and Project Leads responsible for enterprise infrastructure, data center operations (DCO) / security operations (SOC), and related security posture. Direct.
• Co-develop IT security policies, standards and procedures for computing assets and data center operations ensuring compliance.
• Support incident response activities, forensic investigations and implementation of security prevention controls
• Support security assessments including vulnerability and penetration testing and other offensive strategies
• Adept at integrating IT security policies and standards into technical designs and daily operations
• Support internal and external audit reviews ensuring compliance of internal systems, applications and operational processes.

Raleigh, NC, US

• Quickly promoted to inspire, mentor and motivate a diverse engineering team responsible for building, securing and operating enterprise UNIX and Middleware systems. Key responsibilities included the availability.
• Established, tracked and maintained service delivery metrics (CPU, Memory, Disk, I/O, Critical processes, Backups, Uptime) to reduce new and repetitive service outages overall reducing mean time between failures (MTBF).
• Led the research, design and deployment of a highly-available hub-and-spoke (3000+ node) MQ Series network. Project standardized integration protocols (FTP, MSMQ, Socket) and ensured guaranteed/secure delivery
• Participated in IT audit, regulatory compliance (SAS 70, PCI-DSS, SOX, ITIL) and security investigations tracking and managing unresolved incidents and non-compliance findings
• Established and implemented IT security policies and standards for server patch management, OS hardening, middle-tier SSL, and non-SSL standards

Raleigh, NC, US

• Recruited to mentor and lead by example the implementation of pragmatic engineering standards in the design, integration, and implementation of secure, highly available, n-tier solutions. Technical consultant.
• Developed operational and security baselines for UNIX/ Windows servers ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and availability
• Lead R&D efforts for warehouse modernization including; voice pick integration, wireless (Wi-Fi) and mobile device retrofit, high-speed sorter retrofit, and carousel picking across eight distribution centers..
• Reduced unplanned downtime by ~30% through the selection and deployment of open-source technologies (Nagios, RHEL, MySQL) and cost-effective infrastructure (VMWare, LPAR) resulting in increased mean time between failures
• Managed vendor relations including; Product support, Statements of work, (SOW), and non-disclosure agreements (NDAs)