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Al Amaya
Over 5 years of
direct Project Management work experience on solution architecture
planning, implementation and monitoring of medium to large scale IT
projects.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Project Manager/ Service
Delivery
2012-Present
CSC, Virginia/California
§ Plan, Execute and Monitor migration of data center
workloads for Computing, Database, Application and Data Center
Infrastructure. Accomplishment: Reduced Server Total Cost of
Ownership (TCO)
§ Project management (PM) duties using ITILv3, Agile, Lean
VSM and Six Sigma best practices.
§ Test & evaluation product usability (Impact/Change
Management), affordability, functionality, security and performance to
assess suitability/dependencies for integration into existing system
environments
§ Schedule resource allocation, consultation,
implementation and usage of delivery systems while working with
customers/business partners to ensure environments are compliant with
Information Security Policy
§ Provide support for live virtual-to-virtual migrations,
physical to virtual migrations, physical server migrations for new
implementations of both physical (30%) and virtual servers (70%)
§ Collaborate with storage, middleware, database and
network analysts to provide integrated infrastructure solutions,
escalate/mitigate risks as presented
§ Reduce costs by providing cost-effective computing
infrastructure designs in support of IT projects, programs by use of
virtualization
§ Develop proposals and contract acquisitions for use in
meetings presentations. (Use case, Proof of concept demonstrations) in
response to RFPs
§ Develop strong understanding of existing IT
Infrastructure services (e.g., strategic data centers, cloud computing,
server, storage, backup, network, web, database, desktop services) for
planning
§ Align executive initiatives with related architecture
standards, direction, design patterns, security requirements and any
specific contractual requirements for application sustainability and
overall lifecycle.
§ Risk Management: Mitigate risks by proactively
identifying issues and communicating them appropriately via risk chart
report or log
§ Accountable for ownership of technical projects and
implement them hands- on reducing costs in technical support, training and
maintenance
§ Analyze corporate data according to specific information
requirements
§ Present oral and written project status reports to
client and track progress / performance using power pivot tables and KPI
charts
Project Manager / System
Integrator
December 2009 – October 2012
ID Systems, Los Angeles, California
§ Project planning and design for optimization of disaster
recovery capabilities, including decreasing recovery time on existing
non-high availability services, Business continuity, Data protection,
Storage configuration and Enterprise technology solutions
§ Increasing efficiencies in IT for Modernization,
Obsolescence, Expansion and Growth
§ Monitor and maintain system alerts for physical, virtual
and private/public hybrid cloud ESXi hosts and VM assets in vSOM with vCOPS
via vCCM tool
§ Manage the enterprise environment for Health Care,
Banking, Insurance, Real Estate, Manufacturing, Oil & Energy and
Government/Aerospace Defense industry
§ Discovery and proactive inspection of current security
controls using vulnerability scanning, network auditing tools, penetration
testing for forensic incident reporting.
§ SCCM/SCOM client management for large scale phased
deployments (2500+)
§ Utilize OSD, WSUS and SCCM to deploy images, updates and
software packages
§ VOIP telephones setup/install, PBX, Cat 5e/6 cabling, wiring
network panels and Avaya IP Office, Cisco Call manager and Nortel voicemail
systems
§ Projects: Win 7 Deployment, SharePoint 2010/2013
implementation, Exchange 2010/2013 upgrade, DAG, High Availability
Clustering, load balancing, using virtualization to implement disaster recovery and
HP thin client provisioning via Altris
§ RIM BlackBerry/iPhone rollout and projects involving
clients, vendors and multiple dept.’s
§ Manage teams using guidance, performance reviews,
coaching/mentoring to develop skills
§ Organize weekly meetings/conference calls to provide
status report to management on projects
§ Manage Linux/Windows server project to convert Physical
to Virtual infrastructure (Esxi) for
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IT Roadmap, Long range planning, Capacity planning, Change
management, Decision management
Mitsui USA (subsidiaries) 2012-present
§ Completed migration project XP to Win7, Exchange 2003 to
2010, Server 2000 & 2003 to 2008R2, Lync, SharePoint 2010, JDE OneWorld
to JDE E1 and SOX/JSOX
§ Project to implementation VMware Virtual Infrastructure
to remediate and decommission infrastructure
§ Implement business continuity hardware SAN project using
Dell Equal logic storage array
§ Collborate with auditors and make necessary adjustments
and tweaks on CIs
§ Conduct periodic reviews of progress as well as a final
review for overall effectiveness and adequacy of security operations,
capacity and audit reporting
§ Administration and management of system security,
Virtual/Physical servers
Raytheon-Appiled Signal Technology
2011-2012
§ Project management for rollout of multi-site nation-wide
migration projects (XP to Win 7, Exchange 2003 to 2010, BlackBerry), PC
refresh from Dell to HP, Dell Rack servers, HP Blades, Data migration,
copying, moving and back-up replication
§ Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 to 2010 migration, Office
2010 Suite implementation and support, mailbox datastore creation/migration
using PowerShell
§ SCCM/SCOM desktop and server management, remote imaging
OSD, test Images, User State Migration and Windows Deployment Services
(WDS) and MDT 2008, Bit Locker, App Locker, Application packaging, manage
image deploy/capture, backup snapshots
§ Update and configuration of Win 2008r2 servers physical
and virtual in ESX, ESXi
§ Data Migration & SCCM software distribution, server
and desktop management in SCOM
§ Support multi-site environments with over 30 site
connected locations Mac, Linux and Windows hardware and software maintain
System Security Plans (SSP) to implement security procedures in
coordination with management personnel
§ Lead and execute data migration project, layering
software applications and integration of company acquisitions into WAN/LAN
network to maintain data integrity and security
§ Harden all systems in preparation for
cutover/integration with hard disk encryption
§ Microsoft Exchange Server 2003/2007/2010 migration,
implementation and support
§ Multi-site environments with over 30 site connected
locations and 25,000 users nationwide
§ Asset and inventory tracking, warranty equipment and
hardware MAC report all activity in Excel spreadsheets and on-boarding
manifest, update internal SharePoint site and expand “How to” and “FAQ”
knowledge base
§ Collaborate with various departments including Network
Administrator, Architect, Engineers, Developers and Database Admins
IT
Manager
July 2007 –
December 2009
Siemens Global, Southern California
Region
§ Financial planning and budgeting for IT OP/CAP
Expenditures and workforce IT Spending
· Perform Project manager tasks planning, budgeting,
scheduling, resource management on multiple projects
§ Reduced operating cost by 30% creating in-house
solutions and managing hardware assets.
§ Direct day-to-day technical operations, resource
provisioning, backups, inventory, schedule network changes, repair
activities and monitor network performance, capacity and utlization
§ Application Performance Management of engineering 3D
modeling Drafting Auto CAD
§ Compile technical training and process
Visio/Project/PowerPoint documentation for team to aid with day-to-day
support issues in Knowledge Base and SharePoint sites including “How to’s,”
“Announcements” and “FAQ’s”
§ Coordinate critical system events, NAS SAN storage
admin, backup and capacity planning and future growth
Computer Information
Systems
December 2003
Fullerton College, Fullerton, California
Irvine Valley College, Irvine, CA
Microsoft Virtual Academy
VMWare Partner University
Gartner Webinars
PMI Member Webinars
IEEE Member
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OS / Hypervisor
Microsoft Server 2008R2, 2012, &
Tablet, Unix, Linux, RHEL, SUSE, Centos, Free NAS, BSD, Ubuntu, Solaris,
HP-UX, Fedora, VMM, HPC, Active Directory,
Office 365
Cloud IaaS PaaS Amazon Web
Services, AWS, EC2, Azure, Rackspace, Google, Office 365, vRealize
Automation, vCAC, vCenter, vCloud Air, vCSA
Monitoring & Performance
WSUS, SCCM, SCOM Essentials,
F5 Loadbalancing, Solarwinds Orion,
Nagios,
Virtualization
VMware vSphere with Operations
Management, vSphere Data Protection
Desktop
VM Horizon, Citrix XEN App, Net Scaler,
VDI, VMWare Esxi 4,5, 5.5, vSphere, HyperV, Oracle VM Manager, vCenter,
vCenter Configuration Manager 5.7
Storage
SAN, NAS, NetApp, HP MSA Storage RAID Arrays,
Tape Disk Library, NetApp FAS, EMC VNX, Dell Equal Logic, Synology
Networking
Cisco UC, Catalyst 4948 10gb, Nexus 7000,
IPS, Aruba, Switches, Routers, DNS, TCP/IP, Wireless, Fabric Manager 5.0
Backup DR / HA
Data Domain, Backup Exec 2012, VERITAS,
VMWare Site Recovery Manager, Replication, Disaster Recovery, Back-up,
Clustering, High availability, fail over clustering and customized
configurations
UC
& Mobile
Outlook, Lotus, Lync, Sametime, Jabber,
Jive, Exchange, RIM Blackberry, Android, Apple, Mac OS X, iPhone, iPad,
Call Manager, Avaya IP Office, Nortel, Polycom, VTC Tandberg
Metrics Reporting
IBM Cognos, Centi, rational Clear Quest,
Tivoli, Google Analytics, PowerPivot, KPI,
Database
Oracle, SQL, MySQL, Access, IBM DB2,
NoSQL, NewSQL
Software / PM Tools
MS Project 2010/2013, Visio, Tableau,
Steelray, Milestones Pro, Atlassian, BaseCamp, Adobe Creative Suite,
Photoshop,
MS Office Suite,
SAP, Crystal Report, ServiceNow, Ca Tech
Certifications
MS Licensing
VMWare Licensing
VCE, PMP, ITIL v3 Foundation in progress
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