Experience
Save A Lot Food Stores Ltd.
NetEffects, Inc.
Dates: November 2018 - Present
Positions: Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Noteable Achievements
- Definined starting governance, RBAC, and naming conventions in Azure.
- Developed an in-house, scalable, highly available SFTP design to provide access for third parties while saving data into Azure Storage Accounts using blobfuse for PaaS integrations.
- Developed Azure ARM templates for regular deployments.
- Developed and managed containerized solutions for internal customers such as DevOps build/release agents and Dell Boomi on-premise connectors.
- Provided in-house training for developers on newer technologies such as Azure AD, Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Web Apps, and Microsoft Graph.
- Implemented Windows Virtual Desktop in place of an existing Citrix VDI solution.
- Managed the Azure AD environment including Conditional Access, MFA, AD Connect, guest users, security group administration, third party SSO and provisioning integration.
- Migrated the public facing website to Azure Web Apps and Azure SQL for MariaDB.
- Performed a migration from classic hub-and-spoke to Azure Virtual WAN with on-premises connectivity via VeloCloud SD-WAN.
St. Charles County Government
Dates: January 2012 - Present
Positions: Systems Architect, Systems Engineer II, Systems Engineer I
Noteable Achievements
- Designed and implemented a warm-spare data center.
- Designed and implemented the conversion from individual Hyper-V hosts to two HA clusters for redundancy and reliability.
- Designed the initial architecture and began the first steps for moving on-premise servers to Microsoft Azure.
- Implemented management systems such as System Center Virtual Machine Manager to ease in overall administration.
- Developed scripts to automate virtual machine audits with information such as CPU, network, and disk usage.
- Developed scripts to handle tasks such as enabling and verifying VM replication to allow junior administrators to perform the work.
- Arranged Microsoft Enterprise Agreement renewals and true-ups.
- Technical lead for the county-wide NG9-1-1 upgrade project including text-to-911.
Cybercon.com, Inc.
Dates: August 2006 - December 2011
Positions: Network and Systems Administrator, Technical Support
Noteable Achievements
- Configured and setup new uplinks and customers with BGP peers.
- Performed the migration of hundreds of physical servers to virtual machines to reduce on power and space usage.
- Implemented a centralized blackhole system forthe network and automatic announcements to uplinks over BGP
- Implemented a NetFlow monitoring system to alert NOC staff to possible attacks and botnets.
- Optimized web server software and caching to handle server requests over one million per hour.
- Implemented replacement NMS (Zenoss and OpenNMS) suites to monitor the status of the network.