16 Stevens Avenue, Merrick, NY   11566  (516) 867-3524  nlmaione20@gmail.com

Nicholas L. Maione

Summary

Extensive experience in complete architectural and engineering solutions, hands-on Level 3 project management and technical leadership skills with a primary focus on infrastructure engineering and architecture. Deep understanding of the principles of computer and information sciences that inform an integrated approach to large-scale systems management. Detail-oriented and performance-focused professional with proven accomplishments in managing all aspects of systems, cloud, and infrastructure architecture. Recognized for impeccable work ethic, technical acumen, and exemplary ability to manage multiple priorities within diverse work environments. Known for analytical problem-solving and critical thinking aptitudes in developing strategic action plans to resolve complex situations. Equipped with articulate communication and interpersonal skills essential in building positive work relationships with professionals of all business levels. Managed and completed many large-scale, technically challenging projects in rapidly expanding corporate environments and delivered them on time and under budget.

Experience

 

March 2015 – PresentNew York City Department of Education              Brooklyn, NY

 

Cloud Solutions Architect

§ Provide strategic and tactical technical support for enterprise supporting 1.1 million students, 1800 schools and corporate/campus locations throughout the five boroughs of New York City

§ Led cross-functional teams on developing cloud computing standards focused on “day 2” support.

§ Developed cloud services transformation plan to create procurement vehicles, process and methodologies to guide adoption of cloud technologies throughout the NYC DOE.

§ Provide technical expertise to guide organization in development of a cloud adoption plan focused on creation of a cross-functional center of excellence (COE) or cloud brokerage.

§ Developed presentations and documentation supporting Private Optical Transport Network.

§ Planning and design for network redesign effort to consolidate and decommission datacenters, leverage managed cloud services and establish a colocation presence. 

§ Developed 256-bit encrypted data transfer strategy to prepare for cloud migration, utilizing AWS Snowball, for bulk transfer of data reducing network cost, long transfer times and security concerns.

§ Provide subject matter expertise to help identify and translate system and business requirements into design documents and drawings.

§ Produce highly technical client-oriented design documents to illustrate solution strategy and deployments plans.

§ Create detailed request for proposal documents and author service level agreements for large, complex enterprise projects.

§ Survey market landscape for current trends, directions and methods to improve and enhance existing cloud services, network, server, storage and end-point infrastructure.

§ Develop organize and perform extensive testing and evaluation of proposed infrastructure solutions.

§ Work with application and senior management to gather requirements necessary to “right platform” applications based on workload.

§ Serve as the in-house expert and authority in troubleshooting complex infrastructure technologies.

§ Lead the creation of the configuration deployment procedures and train integration and field engineers on various networking configurations

§ Development of overall project structure and documentation utilizing ITIL processes and methodology.

October 2007 – October 2014                       The New York Times Company                         New York, NY

 

Systems Architect

§ Principally responsible for the design and implementation of the virtualization (VMware ESXi 4.x/5.x), storage (EMC VNX, CX, Isilon ) and operating system (Windows/CentOS/RHEL) infrastructure that supports corporate enterprise services and customer-facing web services both on premise and in the cloud across all tiers of service – development, staging, and production.

§ Lead engineer responsible for design, build and implementation of 25 host corporate ESXi 4.1 environment resulting in 80+ percent consolidation of enterprise systems physical server inventory

§ Design, build and implementation of 35 host customer-facing web services ESXi 5.0 environment supporting web initiates in rapidly expanding environment.

§ Provide Level 3 support for all tiers of service in both Windows 2003/2008/2012 and VMware (ESXi 4.x/5.x) enterprise platforms.

§ Definition of SOW, costing and SLA for senior management, CER proposals and turnover documentation.

§ Project lead for private cloud based application platform implementation and design based on the Software-Defined Data Center architecture (self-service and policy-based infrastructure and application provisioning) resulting in streamlining and automating guest/host build and implementation thus speeding time to market.

§ Led cross functional consensus gathering COE tasked with providing SME council and support for next generation compute design. Consult with application teams, development teams, infrastructure teams, outside vendors and senior management concerning all support, design and implementation decisions in dynamic fast-paced environment.

§ Led cross-functional teams of level 2 engineers and support personnel in corporate chartered architecture, design and implementation projects.

§ Charter projects to identify efficiencies and consolidation opportunities for Enterprise-wide deployment.

§ Critical response team member for platform security and compliance objectives.

§ Built and maintained internal Windows PKI infrastructure

§ Directory services support and administration concentrating on Microsoft Active Directory administration (Level 3 support and maintenance) and group policy design.  LDAP support specializing in UNIX integration.

§ BMC Bladelogic server management and automation support and administration.

§ Hardware (Dell/HP) lifecycle and roadmap architecture.

§ Lead architect for Microsoft DFS design, Branch office deployment and support.

§ Configuration management (Windows - SCCM/Linux - PuppetLabs) and automated infrastructure delivery project lead charged with streamlined and automated data center operations.

§ Support for web services. Primarily Microsoft IIS and Apache Http Server.

§ Led disaster recovery efforts focused on SAN replication (EMC RecoverPoint), Hypervisor (DFS, HA) and Application replication (MSCS, VCS) design to provide fault tolerance, HA, disaster recovery and regulatory compliance.

§ Enterprise systems liaison responsible for adaptation of Agile project management methodology across infrastructure verticals.

§ PowerShell scripting

 

 

August 1997 – October 2007                        Pepsi Cola Company                                                           Somers, NY

Sr. Systems Engineer

§ Level 3 design and support of large-scale Windows Enterprise systems and services

§ Directory services (Active Directory) support and administration focused on management of users and groups, as well as Active Directory delegation via Quest ActiveRoles Server resulting in greater security, automation and regulatory compliance.

§ Design, implementation, support and administration of Tivoli Asset Management for IT

§ Design and implementation of Dell OpenManage hardware management solution providing better visibility and standardization to support resources both on premises and remote.

§ SAN/NAS Capacity management (EMC Clarion)

§ Application performance monitoring and support utilizing HP OpenManage

§ Software distribution implementation and support via CA Unicenter

§ Deploy Microsoft OS patching solution - Windows Server Update Services

§ Level 3 design and implementation for large-scale (1000+ guest) virtualization (VMware) consolidation project. Moving from physical to virtual assets resulting in greater utilization of physical resources and faster time to market. Led four and five engineer teams charged with new technology rollouts, consolidations and migrations.

§ Developed and authored physical and virtual resource procedural standards and operations run books for all support levels across all tiers of service resulting in shorter onboarding of operation resources, consistent standards and practices and greater productivity.

§ Principle support for legacy HP3000 mini-computer platform hosting mission critical enterprise applications as well as platform migration to x86 and HP-UX platform.

 

 

Skills

 

AWS

Amazon EC2

Elastic Load Balancing

Auto Scaling

Amazon S3

Amazon EBS

AWS import/Export Snowball

AWS Storage Gateway

Amazon VPC

AWS Certificate Manager

AWS Directory Service

Amazon CloudWatch

 

Windows Server 2003/2008/2012

SCCM 2012

MSCS

PowerShell

Microsoft Active Directory

DFS

Group Policy

Microsoft Private Key Infrastructure (PKI)

DNS , DHCP

WSUS

IIS

 

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, 2007, 2010

SharePoint, ActiveSync

 

Apache Http Server

Microsoft IIS

Puppet Labs Puppet for Linux and Windows distributions

 

VMware vSphere

ESXi 4.x, 5.x

NSX,

vSAN

vCenter Orchestrator

vCenter

SSO

VMware vCloud Connector (vCC)

 

Juniper vGW  - virtual gateway firewall

Cisco Nexus 1000v

BIND

Citrix NetScaler

Cisco ASA firewall

 

HP Proliant Rack-Optimized Servers and Blades, iLO

Dell PowerEdge, OpenManage, DRAC

 

EMC - isilon, VNX, Clariion, PowerPath, RecoverPoint

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

DataDomain

 

BMC BladeLogic

 

Nagios

 

Bit9

 

Splunk

 

Veritas (Symantec) Cluster Server

 

Atlassian  - Jira, Confluence

Education

 

1979-1981 Nassau Community College                     Associate in Arts (AA)        Garden City, NY                                                       

1981-1982                          State University of New York at Albany                         Albany, NY