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New Orleans, La

Reporting to Director of Cloud Technology, responsible for assisting application teams with the migration of legacy applications to AWS and Azure clouds in a secure and scalable manner.• Develop and maintain Chef Cookbooks to install and configure infrastructure tools as part of instance deployment.• Migration of applications from corporate datacenters to AWS. Reduced operating costs from 30% to over 90% through hardware elimination and utilization of cloud infrastructure.• Configured environments in Scalr for use by application teams to host converted applications, including Load Balancers, Compute Instances, Network Security Groups, Storage, Auto Scaling, etc.• Enforced security and governance using tools and automation.

New Orleans, La

Reporting to Director of Windows Infrastructure, provided Tier 4 escalations in support of Windows and VMware environments.• Deployed internal private cloud using vRealize Automation to assist development teams with Operating System upgrades and migrations to legacy applications.• Developed and automated key asset and configuration reports used to drive project to eliminate unsupported Operating Systems from datacenters, avoiding corporate obsolescence charges.• Led rightsizing efforts using data mined from vRealize automation and CA Capacity planner to reconfigure overprovisioned compute assets, leading to annualized savings of $1.3 MM.• Redesigned Windows patching process for Treasury business using a combination of Python and PowerShell integrating HPSA (Opsware) with existing WSUS process, resulting in an 80% reduction in staffing support with an associated reduction in patching defects from 25% to less than 1%.

Cincinnati, Ohio

Providing services to multiple internal customers, translated business requirements into compliant, cost-effective architectures to be supported by dedicated compute team.• Provided Tier 3 escalation support for Windows and VMware infrastructure issues. • Review root cause analysis and develop preventative actions following incidents and outages.• Performed scheduling of resources across midrange computing. • Lead project resource for Windows and VMware server deployments, providing architecture and design requirements.

Cincinnati, Ohio

Reporting to the Director of Compute Technologies, responsible for development of standards for Windows and VMware technical domains.• Planned migration of physical of compute assets to new virtualized datacenter environment.• Evaluated and implemented design for Grid-based Actuarial compute environment into VMware blade server environment.• Responsible for implementation and remediation of Server Security Standards across midrange compute platforms.

Kettering, Ohio

Responsible for leadership and technical strategy for VMware and Windows Compute environments.• Estimation of all project costs for datacenter projects requiring Windows Server infrastructure.• Designed and implemented VMware ESX deployments in datacenters and business centers, reducing remote site server footprint for core infrastructure by 80%.• Coordinated server support and resourcing across multiple business centers.

Covington, Ky

Cincinnati, Ohio