AUGUSTINE A. ADEKOYA

34 Kenlen Drive ¾ Edison, NJ 08817

 

H: 848-229-2694                                               segbiod@gmail.com                                        M: 732.429.0880

 

SENIOR  SYSTEMS / VIRTUALIZATION_CLOUD ENGINEER Accomplished engineer with 15+-years experience managing, designing, evaluating, testing, and recommending value-driven "best-in-class" OEM and Enterprise Server Hardware, Storages, R&D, Telecommunication (AV, UC, etc.), Security Monitoring, BigData Analytics, and Software solutions. Storage Related Expertise: Netapps, Veritas, EMC, Symmetrics, Brocade, Clarion, Multi Path, Celerra, HP StorageWorks, IBM FC-SAN, Dot Hill, InforTrend FC and iSCSI SAN, Eurologic FC-SAN, Netbackups, Data Ontap Edge, FlexVol, FlexShare, LoadBalancing, Deduplication, and Snapshot. TelePresence Related Expertise: Tandberg, Life Size, PolyCom (Radvision Scopia MCU-24, Cordian MCU-4205, Cisco MCU-4501, Cisco MCS 7835-13, Cisco TCExpress, Cisco CTS MX / Profile, Cisco CUCM, Cisco UCS and PolyCom RMX 2000. Data Center Facility Design and Build Experience:  Over two decades of Corporate and Engineering lab builds: ·   Site selections/assessments, strategic and capacity planning, commissioning/de/re-commissioning, mission-critical facilities infrastructure preventative and emergency maintenance.    ·   Rack specification, AC/DC scoping/BTU estimation, UPS, ATS, STS, PDU, HVAC, VESDA fire suppression systems, switch gear, structured cabling/shielding, documentation and implementing processes and procedures for 24/7 up-time. ·   Best practices, asset management, team building, vendor management, security and environmental monitoring, hands-on cabling and hardware installation and configuration. ·   Experienced in Virtualization (Hyper-V and VMware), and Cloud technology for Public and Private consumptions (including Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure (Office 365 on Exchange, AD, SQL2012, Visual Studios and few other SOA purposes), Dropbox, and KVM (Linux, Ubuntu, and FreeBSD), physical-to-virtual migrations and modular data center design-build services and solutions. Experienced in Disaster Recovery, Replication and Off-site Tape/Disk storages. ·   Attained faster ON-time completion, within budget, cost-effective solutions that led to better efficiency and greater return on investment (ROI). Data Center (NOC) Sec. / Monitoring Expertise:  NetScout Probes, Puppet, Fluke Network, Infinistream, Achsight, HP OpenView, GigaStor / Observer, SolarWinds, NetDetector, NetForensics, Sonicwall, Axial, and QoS and SLA. Experience and Knowledge of: TCP/IP, UDP, LAN/WAN, VLAN, IPS/IDS, VPN, Firewall, Active Directory/ DHCP/DNS/WINS, RADIUS, LDAP, AV, SIP, H323, H264, H265, SVC, MPLS, QoS, SLA, ISDN, SIP, Skinny (SCCP), and VoIP/IPT, Digital signal trunking. Regulatory and Compliance Exposure: Standards, Frameworks and Tools such as SOX, HIPPA, GLBA, FISMA, CALEA, PCI-DSS, COBIT, ISO/IEC 27001, ITIL, OPM3, ISO 9001, CC - (ISO/IEC 15408), and others: AESN-I, FIPS, TPM, REACH, WEEE, CCC and ROHS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

A2ZLogix, INC. – Edison, NJ                                                                                                 March 2015-

A premier provider of Bandwidth Reduction Solutions for fortune 100 IPTV, Telecom and Cable industries worldwide.

Senior Server Engineer - Quality Assurance and Engineering Development.
Responsible for benchmark testing on existing platforms and conducting researches for “best of the breeds” future Enterprise server/storage products from various manufacturers such as Dell, HP, IBM, and Supermicro as well as various highly scalable GPUs, CPUs, Memory, and various Asynch/Synchronous CODEC and Encode interfaces from DeltaCast, Matrox, AJA, BlackMagic, Nvidia, etc. Performed several build installations, testing, maintenance, upgrades through specialized automation tools and scripts.

Transitioned into a Senior Server Engineer role within the IT Operations of the company. Responsibilities included support of the network and LAN/WAN Infrastructure, installation and administration of HP Proliant DL360, DL380, HP Proliant SL250/270, Dell R320/R520/R720/ and R730 servers, Sonicwall Rules and VPN connections, Hyper-V, VMWare, ESXi platforms, Office 365 and SharePoint Online administration, Kaspersky Antivirus Solutions and VDI networks.  All trouble tickets were handled through Connectwise.
*   Led efforts to build robust Network Attached Storages for HA projects and performed various installations of Window Server 2003/2008/2012 standard/R2, Server 2012 DataCenter/ Storage, Windows 8/8.1 and 10, SQL 2008/2012, MySQL, Oracle 10 and 11, and Great Plains (GP) Accounting / Data warehouse software.
*   Recommended and implemented a solution to backup, store and restore all Office 365 and SharePoint online data for disaster recovery (MetaVis), RoboCopy, Acronis, and iBackup.
*   Worked on projects involving replacement/upgrade of PDC/BDC (domain controllers) and DNS servers, Monitoring of companywide Infrastructure with SolarWinds, Cisco Unified Computing Manager with Cisco Unified Computing Central, Zenoss, Secret server, WSUS (patch Mgmt), HP iLO and Dell OME.
*   Worked on MS Office 365 migration project from another cloud base solution which involved migration of all user emails/contacts/calendar items as well as SharePoint data.

PSGCNJ – Bridgewater, NJ    July 2014-March 2015

A 501(c) (3) self-managed organization dedicated to helping people in career transitions

 

 Senior Engineer - Information Technology Group

Responsible for planning, designing IT related solutions (Network, Cloud, Web development, etc.) to other   groups within the organization comprising of 300 users. 

VIDYO, INC. – Hackensack, NJ                             2010-June 2014

A leading company with several patents in SVC Voice and Video Conferencing /Telepresence Solutions, which has been, rated as one of the fastest growing technology companies year after year.

Video Conference Architect - Telepresence Solutions

Responsibilities included research and development on hardware (Vidyo patented Room Systems, Mobile platforms and Audio Visual), platform builds, Storage and Backup, BIOS and Firmware Integration, and all phases of the ITIL product development cycle from initiation through implementation, documentation, prototyping, FA validation until reaching the market.

Successes & Achievements:

·   Subject Matter Expert (SME) who initiated, maintained deep technical and business knowledge of industry directions and trends and possess drive to deliver technology and products in the roadmap on schedule and with the highest quality and greater ROI.

·   Achieved customer satisfactions through creation of Enterprise and OEM relationships with hardware manufacturers such as IBM, Dell, Lenovo, Logic Supply, Intel, AMD, HP, etc., that saved the company over $4M annually by eliminating repeated break and fix issues in the field.

·   Managed cross-group planning activities relating to design, prototypes, integration, performance testing, documentation, FA validation and transitioning of new technological products (Server, Desktop, and Next Unit of Computing) for Vidyo to market in over 50 countries.

·   Worked on various Unified Communication and Telepresence projects involving integration of the Vidyo Portal, Router, Gateway and Replay with Legacy collaboration systems from Cisco, Tandberg, Life Size and PolyCom (Radvision Scopia MCU-24, Cordian MCU-4205, Cisco MCU-4501, Cisco MCS 7835-13, Cisco TCExpress, Cisco CTS MX / Profile, Cisco CUCM, Cisco UCS Manager and Central, and PolyCom RMX 2000.  Included: H.323 Protocol Suite (H.261, H.263, H.264, H.450, G.711, G.723, G.728, G.729, RTP, RTCP, Q.931, H.225, H.245, RAS) and Google Hangout, Microsoft OCS / Lync, WebEx, WebRTC, and Jabber projects.

·   Managed various video, audio and extender quality testing activities involving webcams, , cameras, scalar, and video extenders: Logitech, Tandberg, Microsoft, LG, Sony, Vaddio, Minrray, Blackmagic, Lumens, TelyLabs, Panasonics, LG, with extenders such as Extron, TruLink, StarTech, TVOne, TRIPP.LITE, etc. for up to 300ft over Ethernet as well as longer range over Fiber Optics.

·   Provided advice, guidance and direction to carry out plans and procedure helping to ensure schedule attainment, product development, process adherence, performance and budget targets were met.

·   Served as liaison to strategically define scope and responsibilities with the IT "Think-thank" Business unit regarding deployment of key infrastructure on Fiber Channel / iSCSI from Infortrend, Cisco MDS switches, Brocade, MacDAta, NetApp Storages(FAS2Xxx-FAS6xxx).E2612(primarily for Engineering testing), V3250, FAS 2240-2 and FAS 6220, multitray DLT tape systems (Overland DLT 200 and NEO 20000).

·   Lead engineer on implementation and testing of Business Continuity Planning/Disaster Recovery through application of Clustering, Snapshots, SnapMirror, and SnapVault.  Also executed an enterprise-wide DFS namespace design for location transparency and storage virtualization for NAS and ILM, which significantly benefited the company's global IT infrastructure.

·   Managed the team responsible for i/O performance tuning researches on VMWare (ESXi 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1 and 5.5), Linux Virtualization (KVM) and Cloud based configurations using Ethernet Test tools used: Valid8 Protocol (1Gig) and TeraVM {10Gig}. Unixbench, Wireshark and IrisView.

·   Initiated and worked with the project management team charged with the IoT (Internet of Things} initiatives to design, execute and position the company's SaaS product offerings through the Cloud.    

·   Managed deployment of storages for internal customers and teams according to approved requirements. This consisted of assessing vFiler needs, Aggregate, FlexVol, and Qtree creation, Exports, CIFS Shares, Quotas, Deduplication, Data OnTap Edge (remote site server based platforms), FlexShare, Snapvault, Snapmirror, OnCommand Operations Manager, Flexclones. Configured and migrated lots of applications into the Amazon AWS and autoscaled lots of the servers into Amazon EBS while sustaining performance and reliability needs.

·   Planned, implemented and supported IT installation of Cisco UCS, Cisco ASA 5510 security appliance as well as for SSL and IPS functionality. Completed extensive LB (load balancing) on multiple platforms via vserver/vip and configured FW and DNS to accommodate existing servers/nodes on VLAN.

·   Experienced engineer in application of Unix/Linux/FreeBSD/Ubuntu/Windows/iOS, ITIL, SLA, QOS, JASON UI/API tools, Agile-Scrum processes and JIRA Ticket Management and Escalation Systems.

 

NIKSUN, INC. – Monmouth County, NJ                                                                                                         2000-2010

A premier provider of network performance and security monitoring products for enterprise SMB environments worldwide.

Senior Lead Engineer (2005-2010)
Built an impressive record of achievements through a series of increasing responsibilities. As Lead Engineer charged with introducing advanced solutions into NetVCR, NetDetector, and NetOmni product offerings for large-scale government, aerospace, financial, and telecommunications markets.

·   Qualified and recommended to the product management team the need for integration of major Fiber Channel/iSCSI storage vendors such as IBM, Enteryasis, HP, Intel, Dot Hills, Adaptec, and Infotrend’s (Galaxy), and Fabric switches from Cisco, Brocade, etc. into NIKSUN products offerings.

·   Managed a team of Systems Engineers responsible for product roadmaps and infrastructural tasks intended to announce EOL and also improve performance and increased scalability on tiered Storages on EMC VNX-3300, VNX 5500, Symmetric DMX-3, and NetApps FAS 2020), 3PAR, etc. Post Sales implementation agreements.

·   Implemented VMware vSphere 4.0 on EMC Symmetric DMX-4 to virtualize production data center, improved system availability and reduced server deployment times by as much as 70%.

·   Served as L3 field engineer with responsibilities to resolve critical issues at major client sites globally. 

Responsibilities include new server builds, maintenance and monitoring of existing hardware, operating systems and application monitoring and patching across 250 physical and virtual servers running Windows 2000, 2003, & 2008, Active Directory, IIS, SQL 2000 and SQL 2005.

Co-Project lead for Server Consolidation, utilizing Network Appliance Filers, within NIKSUN Corporate and our premium customers like Verizon, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, etc. 

Successes & Achievements:

·   Contributed to enhancing interface cards to enable the integration with POS, ATM, OC-3, OC-12, OC-48, OC-92 networks and 10 Gigabit Ethernet infrastructure for Network Performance and Security Surveillance requirements.

·   Collaborated with vendors such as Intel, HP, IBM, SuperMicro, Sun Microsystems, Seagate and Hitachi to test and ensure that server hardware and storage components met United States, Canada, China and United Kingdom regulatory requirements.  Also made big contribution to the NetVOICE (Video and Voice data capture) Project

·   Submitted /re-certify Firewall rules via PIRA, DR Pair setup and execution knowledge, Load Balancer design and execution via EURC

·   Provided Tier 3 Level world-class network monitoring, troubleshooting, fault management and solution support onsite on our NetDetector Security Monitoring and NetVCR products to: Verizon Wireless, GD., Barclays Bank (London), UBS, Goldman Sachs, IBM, Citi Group, Morgan Stanley, and Thompson Reuters.

·   Performed compliance risk assessments based on ITIL (best practice framework for Service       Management), COBIT/ITGI (SOX compliance framework), and ISO 17799 (Infrastructure best practice)

·   Provided several routine Tier 3 Level support to platinum customers on regular basis.

·   Experienced in RDBMS concepts and data modeling with SQL and ORACLE, plus Scripting PERL/TCL, C, C++, Java, Unix Shell.

NIKSUN, INC. – Team Lead Engineer (2003-2005)

Promoted to lead the evaluation, testing and integration of new architecture, platforms and hardware devices into NetVCR and NetDetector product offerings to improve performance, enhance capability, strengthen redundancy, and reduce costs while meeting evolving customer network / application monitoring and security surveillance needs.

Led the evaluating, testing and integration of new devices to enhance SAN switching, management, and storage provisioning. Conducted complex testing of vendor-provisioned storage systems to attain cost vs ROI. Collaborated with various manufacturers and Nationally Recognized Test Labs for certification of ROHS, NEBS and FUS cert.
Successes & Achievements:

·   Credited with analyzing and resolving complex open systems SAN / Disk issues at client sites, facilitating the capture of more than $8 million in contracts.

·   Chosen as primary liaison with storage manufacturers for the provisioning of Adaptec SANbloc, XTORE, Xyratec, StorCase, Adaptec FS4500, DOTHill RIVA / SANnet II / Sannet NEBS/ REO, and IBM StorEdge SAN, NetApp F880 and FAS270 platforms.

·   Coordinated the testing, troubleshooting and design of solutions to support integration with new AMD and Intel Architecture 64-bit systems, and FreeBSD, HP-UX, Linux and Windows.

·   Defined solution and framework to integrate Windows and Redhat, operating systems into SAN storage platforms to support the launch of NetOmni, an enterprise network and service delivery management portal. Highly knowledgeable in Python, Java, Objective-C, or C++ and shell scripts.

·   Tested, recommended and led the integration of SATA and SAS storage system into product offerings, increasing disk growth by multiple-terabytes on single disk-subsystems while reducing storage costs by more than 30%.

R&D Engineering Laboratory Manager (2000-2003)

Recruited as a core member of team charged with designing, engineering, testing, integrating and enhancing hardware and systems to enable the launch of the first and next-generation of company’s NetVCR and NetDetector products.

Fully accountability for selecting, verifying and integrating hardware and systems; testing and resolving hardware, firmware and system compatibility issues; creating technical documentation; and designing solutions to increase storage capability, reliability, and traffic generation across complex network environments. Evaluated industry and emerging technology trends on SCSI cards, motherboards, processes, drives and RAID products. Collaborated with Qlogic, LSI, Adaptec, Intel and IBM partners to resolve compatibility, performance and End of Life (EOL) issues.
Successes & Achievements:

•   Pivotal role in facilitating the design and launch the 1^st generation of NetVCR, a proactive network, service and       application monitoring appliance; and award-winning NetDetector, a full-featured appliance for network security surveillance, signature-based anomaly detection, analytics and forensics.

•  Spearheaded the build out, expansion and management of R&D Lab to effectively test and verify performance and compatibility of new architecture, software, hardware and interface devices, and subsystems. Expanded lab from 25 to more than 150 servers, multiplexed routers, switches and traffic generators within 2 years. Effectively tested and verified compatibility of IBM, SuperMicro, HP and Tyan motherboards across PII, Core and AMD architectures, which were subsequently adopted into product offerings.

• Researched and evaluated performance of disk subsystem products from multiple manufacturers to support controlled packet capture on Ethernet, T1, E1, X.25, T3, E3, FDDI and HSSI recording interfaces.

 

DMR CONSULTING GROUP / MERIAL LTD. – Iselin, NJ                                                                       1998-2000

Originally hired to plan and manage deployment and upgrade of LAN/WAN infrastructure to support Y2K remediation efforts. However, based upon attained Y2K project success, I was retained to manage and enhance internal IT infrastructure for DMR HQ and other locations throughout the US.
Systems Administrator (1999-2000) / Technical Consultant (1998-1999)
Oversaw the complete modernization of Y2K Network Infrastructure to minimize disruption and improve overall capability for Corporate. Led a multi-million project to deploy and/or upgrade servers, desktops, laptops, storages and network infrastructure for 7 laboratories throughout 5 states for Merial Ltd.(a subsidiary of Merck & Co. Pharmaceutical}
Successes & Achievements:

·   Responsibilities include new server, desktop/laptop builds, maintenance and monitoring of existing hardware, operating systems(Win NT / 2000, Windows 2000) and application patching across hundreds of servers running Windows NT 4.0, 2000, UNIX, Solaris, LDAP, RADIUS, IIS, SQL, MS mail and Exchange.

·   Conducted detailed feasibility analysis of infrastructure at each site; defined technology needs; project managed and completed all efforts to meet Y2K-compliant environments 3 months earlier.

 

EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS
MBA in Management Information Systems & Finance  ¾  PACE UNIVERSITY LUBIN GRADUATE SCHOOL, NEW YORK, 1992
BS in Computer Science  ¾  KEAN UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY, 1986
Associate Member (AIB) ¾  AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF BANKING, NEW YORK, 1996
6-Months Network / Infrastructure Training  ¾  METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF NETWORK TECHNOLOGY, 2005
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) ¾  MICROSOFT, 1997

TECHNOLOGY PROFICIENCY

SNMP, UDP, TCP/IP, ICMP, IPX/SPX, NetBIOS, LDAP, RADIUS and TACAS Protocols

Network Devices; E1, T1, D3, HSSI, ATM, POS, Gig Ethernet and 10G and Frame Relay.
VMWare, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, RH Linux, CentOS, UNIX, Solaris, Novell, Windows, and MAC OS. 
Traffic Generators;
Spirent SmartBits 2000 and Adtech 4000, Flame Thrower, ATM Switcher and Fore-Runner LE 155, Test Director & Load Runner, Ixia Gig-Ethernet and 10GB Traffic Tools. Agilent 8920 and Tektronix TDS5000B, PCI/PCIE Subsystem Interfaces; LSILogic, Adaptec SCSI, IDE, EIDE, SATA and SAS.  RAID Controllers; Qlogic Host Bus Adapters; LSIlogic HBA and Emulex HBA.  SAN & DAS: DOTHill SANnet, RIVA, NEBS based REO, EUROLOGIC, Xtore, IBM Total-Storage, and Infotrend Storage Platforms.  SAN Switches: Brocade, McData & Qlogic.  Enterprise Storage; EMC VNXe 5100, VNX5500 and 5700 with FAST, Symmetrix-DMX-3, DMX-4 and V-MAX,Security and Compliance, Local, Remote and Application Protection Suites, NetApp and HP FC-based SAN, IBM Smart Cloud (App Performance Management Suites), IBM Tivoli, Virtual I/O Server, HP Arcsight SIEM, HP OpenView Control Center, VSphere 5.1, VCenter Operations Manager (VCOP), NetView, NetBackup, etc. Utilities.  
Network Routers, Switches and Firewall equipment from Cisco, Juniper, and Bay Routers/Switches.

CITIZENSHIP:       United States of America