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Contract Power Platform developer at Microsoft. Recognized for my idea of leveraging chatGPT and power platform to automate the generation and population of knowledge base articles during live chats. Enabling IT service management systems to organically adapt to the changing needs of the customer and supply real-time solutions to user questions.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Designed and implemented High availability and disaster recovery automation for complex private cloud exchange environment. Patch and hotfix deployment, restoration of customizations. Triggered via Change request (SCSM) (SMA) (SCCM)

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Subject matter expert consultant for all divisions and departments on SharePoint, Teams, Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, IOT, Azure migration and integration solutions, Workload automation, O365, Power platform and Azure evangelist, Microsoft System Center. Ground up design and development of advanced automation solutions for green field Hybrid Cloud utilizing Microsoft System Center (SCCM, SCOM, SCVMM, SCSM, SCORCH, SMA, Azure Automation, power platform, SharePoint server and online) High Level Design, administration and tier 3 support of SharePoint online, Teams, Power BI and related Data connectors, Audience targeting and Security.Designed New user on-boarding automation utilizing custom developed run-books parsing form data, Cloud hosted SAP success factors data, Active directory and custom designed SQL tables for Site specific standardized data population, Security and distribution group assignment and M365 Licensing. POC and Production Design of no and low code M365 mobile apps for use on Manufacturing Floor, mobile and after hours support Teams, IT inventory....Design and implemented big data projects, integration of multiple isolated geographically distributed and architecturally diverse data sources. AZ data connector, data factory. BI, Power apps. 200+ automation activities designed Utilizing a wide spectrum of on site and cloud-based services.SQL DBA As needed: Designed, Maintained and Tuned SCSM, SCORCH and Custom Automation Databases. Redesigned cluster architecture improving HA and DR.

Irving, Texas

Hired on as a subject matter expert in virtualization and SAN Storage Management.Identified and remediated extensive issues with the existing Hyper-V, VMware, MSSQL and SAN infrastructure Spread across three data centers and seven remote offices.Ground up rebuild of System Center Virtual Machine Manger environment, updated existing Hyper-V standalone hosts into highly redundant SAN attached Clusters, introduced live migration, site to site VM replication, introduced ODX (Offloaded Data Transfer) to reduce Host overhead, SMIS and Rapid Provisioning. Redesigned disaster recovery procedures for site-to-site failover.Planed and implemented the merger of two data centers.Overhauled existing Evault Disk to Disk backup solution, leveraging best practices in order to reduce unnecessary storage bloat, identified and remediated gaps in recoverability of critical data/systems, introduced system recovery procedures and guidelines.Identified archived and purged obsolete and redundant data resulting in over 45% reduction in SAN storage utilization.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

* Responsible for design and Management of Corporate Virtualization infrastructure, VMware, Hyper-V, EMC, PowerPath. * VMware and Hyper-v content expert for Ongoing SAN Migration To VMAX 40k, Data migration, Stretched Cluster implementation. * Designed and implemented disaster recovery protocols For VMware and Hyper-V * Planned and implemented zero downtime ESXi 4 Hardware Refresh to ESXi 5 * Recommended and implemented improvements in VMware and Hyper-V Environments. * Designed and implemented MS System Center Cloud environment, enabling rapid deployment of Business services. * Tested designed and deployed hyper-v 2012 Dev & Prod Environment replacing 2008 environment. (2012 R2 testing now) * vSphere 5 to V-appliance vSphere 5.5 * SCO 2012 R2 integration into System Center environment, Runbook Designs For End User Initiated VM creation in Hyper-v and VMware (cloud)

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

* Project Manager for companywide Server virtualization Using ESXi 4 * Designed and administration of Blackberry Enterprise Server 4.0-5.0, designed It polices and deployment applications including RSA SecureID, mobile SharePoint, mobile MSCRM. * Implemented Two companywide SharePoint installations, wss v2 and wss v3,1. Responsible for all site design, security administration and workflow creation. * Administering and creating secure network operations center (NOC) implementing active directory infrastructure, planed and implemented migration and decommission of exiting Novell network. * setup and administration of Checkpoint FW-1, Raptor firewall, Shiva VPN, Raptor VPN, and intrusion detection systems. * Investigated intrusion attempts using a variety of tracking software and firewall logs to document activity and point of origin. * Investigated inappropriate internet usage and documented productivity loss. * Foot printed systems and simulated intrusion attempts to harden security. * Introduced and implemented PGP encryption for secure FTP transfer between clients and customer representatives. * Redesigned and streamlined NT and Novell backup procedures to reduce media expenditure by 50%. * SQL database administration of national resident address list. * Built and deployed common use software packages within active directory.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

* Second shift Helpdesk primary responsibilities included, UNIX backup and user administration, Novell GroupWise administration, printer maintenance. * Data entry of patient information. * Documentation of financial information