§    Designing and Deploying a Multi-Tenancy environment for businesses in Amazon Web Services.

§    Built an Azure tenant and synchronized on premise Active Directory to the Azure cloud to facilitate Business Continuity, as well as Multi Factor Authentication and Rights Management.

§    Developing a data storage and archiving strategy using Dynamic Access Control and File Classification that will replicate on-site data into the Azure cloud using Microsoft StorSimple storage devices.

§    Deployed Active Directory Federated Services to allow SingleSignOn and cloud federation.

§    Managed the project to deploy System Center 2012 in order to enable self provisioning and workload streamlining and ease of management of virtual machines in VMWare, AWS, and Hyper-V environments.

Work History

Dominion Enterprises (Norfolk, Va), Windows Systems Manager, 2007 to present
 

Management

§ Manage the team of Windows Systems administrators both locally and remotely in Carrollton Texas, Canton Ohio, and Seattle.

§ Duties include hiring, counseling, distribution of workloads and metric reporting, evaluations and budgetary issues.

§ Work closely with Business units to establish SLAs that would accomplish the business' goals.

§ Serve as a member of a security team that is responsible for creating policies and procedures that outline our security response and the education of our employees on security measures.

Operations

Microsoft Technologies

§ Manage the centralized Active Directory domain spanning four geographic sites.

§ Resident expert on Microsoft Azure. Manage the Azure environment including delegation of permissions, user administration, and management of cloud virtual machines.

§ Configured and manage Microsoft's StorSimple 5000 and 7000 storage devices that provide Cloud integrated storage into the Azure cloud from on premise.

§ Presently working on a pilot program to deploy Microsoft's Enterprise Mobility Suite company wide.
This suite will address such needs as a Self-Service user password portal, mobile device management, Rights Management amongst others.

§ Working with businesses to migrate applications from on premise into the Azure cloud tenant. This will reduce the physical footprint and reduce licensing costs.

VMWare Technologies

§ Day to day management our VSphere 5 VMWare infrastructure which is comprised of in excess of 2800 virtual machines housed on Cisco USC blades as well as HP servers.
Duties include capacity planning and management using tools such as VCenter and VCOPs.

§ Configured and managed a VCloud Director environment that would be used as a Test/Dev environment.

§ Responsible for the conversion of physical servers to virtual machines in order to reduce management and reduce our physical server footprint.

Amazon Web Services

§ Responsible for the day to day administration of our AWS multi-tenancy environment including the administration of VPCs and IAM.

Dendrite International Cegedim (Chesapeake, Va), Snr. Windows Administrator, 2002 to 2007
 

§ Exchange Administrator for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals.

§ Responsible for the implementation, troubleshooting, deployment, design/build, and capacity planning of Microsoft Windows based applications / architectures according to clients' system requirements and SLAs.

§ Responsible for mentoring and setting deliverables for junior systems administrators.