Professional Summary
Multicloud Solutions Architect with 15 years in IT infrastructure, focused on designing, migrating and optimizing workloads on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. I combine hands-on engineering with technical presales: scoping solutions with clients, running proofs of concept, and leading the team that implements them. Strong background in AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) migrations, Well-Architected reviews, disaster recovery, FinOps, and Windows/PowerShell automation. AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional and Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect.
Experience
Lead the 6-person Implementations & Engineering team on cloud transformation projects across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, and work in presales as the bridge between engineering and prospective clients.
- Delivered AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) engagements across all phases: Assess in presales (Migration Evaluator, AWS Application Discovery Service), then Mobilize and Migrate with the engineering team.
- Completed around 10 MAP Lite engagements, mostly for public-sector clients, and one full MAP for a retail client covering about 300 servers.
- Migrated on-premises workloads to AWS using CloudEndure, site-to-site VPNs, EC2 and RDS.
- Ran 15+ formal AWS Well-Architected Framework Reviews (WAFR) and designed cost-effective solutions for prospective clients based on the framework's six pillars.
- Designed, implemented and administered multiple auto-scaling e-commerce sites on AWS (EC2, ALB, EFS, RDS, ElastiCache).
- Delivered proofs of concept for storage and backup migration (Storage Gateway, S3) and for workload migration and disaster recovery (CloudEndure, AWS SMS, AWS MGN, Elastic Disaster Recovery).
- FinOps: reviewed and optimized cloud spend for multiple clients, investigated and mitigated cost anomalies, and implemented Reserved Instances and Savings Plans.
PowerShell lead on the Automation & Services Integration team.
- Administered Windows Server (2008 R2, 2012 R2, 2016), SQL Server (2008-2016), Active Directory, IIS 7.5 and Azure.
- Supported eDiscovery platforms (Relativity, Brainspace).
- Researched and remediated vulnerabilities on Windows Server 2008 R2/2012 R2 and RHEL 6.
- Built PowerShell monitoring for Relativity usage, agents and configuration changes.
- Improved the Relativity cache cleanup process with multithreading.
- Automated Active Directory reporting, including alerts on changes to key groups, and daily SQL Server tasks.
On-site contractor for a global oil company.
- Administered EMC NetWorker backups across 7 regional sites and automated reporting for all of them.
- Local Exchange 2007 administration specialist; automated mailbox creation with PowerShell.
- Administered NetApp storage and Windows Server 2008 R2/2012 R2.
Automation lead in a mixed engineering/operations team.
- Cut login times from over 4 minutes to 30 seconds by replacing 50+ legacy logon scripts with Group Policy.
- Deployed WDS from scratch and used it to upgrade 800+ computers from Windows XP to Windows 7.
- Deployed WSUS from scratch for 1,500 workstations and servers (first project after promotion from tech support).
- Administered Active Directory (2 domains in a trust relationship, 2,000 users) and migrated it from Windows Server 2003 to 2008 R2.
- Administered Microsoft Exchange and migrated it from 2007 to 2010, then to 2013.
- Built PowerShell tools for production, including automated user account creation and password-expiration reporting; several are still in use.
- Administered VMware ESXi (15 hosts, 200+ VMs globally) and web apps on Apache Tomcat and IIS 6/7.5, with Bash-automated deployments on Linux.
- Technical manager for remote branches in Korea, Peru, Spain and Uruguay.
First-level support: Active Directory user administration, and corporate-wide Kaspersky antivirus deployment and management.
Certifications
Most are verifiable on my Credly profile.