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Senior Solutions Architect, Global Financial Services

BDO USA, LLP

* Direct influence over $3M+ yearly revenue as both pre-sales engineer and technical architect, with daily oversight of the team's pipeline and project delivery staffing
* Impacted over 50% YoY Azure cloud consumption growth since 2017 by acting as the Azure Cloud Services Provider (CSP) Evangelist internally and with strategic customers. Currently leading efforts to gain Azure Expert MSP certification and further drive cloud conversions.
* Established and leading the Advanced Networking + Storage engineering community, serving as the main source of information for well-architected frameworks and best practices for our team of cloud and infrastructure consultants

Experienced Manager

SWC Technology Partners

* Key member of small ISG Strategy group acting as pre-sales engineering, architecture and delivery lead across all infrastructure and cloud technologies.
* Acted as one of two Partner Cloud Solutions Architects (P-CSA) with Microsoft, engaging with customers in Immersion Experiences that focused on cloud technologies and strategies for Azure/O365 migrations.
* Developed framework of and delivered on Cloud Economic Assessments for customers looking to migrate to Azure, building cost models, cloud model benefit analysis and high-level migration strategies.

Effective January 17, 2020, SWC Technology Partners combined with BDO’s Technology
& Business Transformation Services Practice to form BDO Digital.

Principal Consultant

* Focused on architecture and implementation of Microsoft Unified Communications solutions around Lync, Skype for Business and Exchange.
* Championed network reference architectures for UC projects, with a focus on proper end-to-end packet prioritization, queueing and Edge QoS.
* Delivered early datacenter migrations to public cloud services like Azure and AWS, and designed and implemented BGP-based cloud VPN failover strategies.
* Architected and implemented the largest Skype for Business deployment for 30k users and 100 agent Zeacom contact center.
* Developed our UC framework and best practices on migrations and greenfield deployments.

Senior Consultant

Aqueity Inc.

Achievements:

* Lead role in the development and implementation of new client solutions such as VMware/Hyper-V private clouds, SQL failover clusters, Lync and Exchange Unified Messaging, WAN optimization, and migrations to public cloud services like EC2 and Azure.
* Managed all on-premise to hosted services migrations, resulting in substantial client savings and reduced management expenses.
* Built new virtualized internal IT environment using VMware vSphere, Windows Server 2003 R2, Exchange 2010 DAG and UM, SharePoint 2010 with SQL 2008 R2 failover clusters, Lync Server 2010 and Asterisk based custom phone system.
* Lead role in the technical development and deployment of Image-based Backup and Intrusion Prevention solutions as a service, which now accounts for 25% of added revenue.
* Designed and implemented multiple VMware clusters using EMC and Dell iSCSI SANs resulting in increased revenue by reducing infrastructure costs associated with direct attached storage while increasing system availability.

Responsibilities:

* Lead in resolving all Tier 3 escalated issues through applied experience, research and vendor management.
* Managing over 140 Servers, 1000 Workstations, and 50 Firewalls within a diverse client base accounting for over 1.5M in annual revenue.
* Proactively managing equipment on 3 full racks at two datacenters including core Layer 3 switching fabric, redundant edge routers and load balancers.

Senior Systems Engineer

PCCTI

* Improved and streamlined many aspects of the business by implementing solutions such as Multicast Ghost across locations for drive imaging, direct mailing systems, and a centralized image management system.
* Taught several courses including A+, Network+, CIW (Web Developer / E-Commerce).
* Implemented the first File and Mail server for the company using Windows SBS 2003, as well as a custom Asterisk VoIP system.
* Responsible for managing 100 public and 20 company computers, 2 servers, and all networking equipment.

IT Administrator / Instructor

Regal Furnishings

Systems Administrator

IT Architect and Consultant with over 17 years of experience and a focus on advanced networking, public cloud architecture and enterprise compute and storage infrastructure.
As a Solutions Architect at AWS, my goal is to ensure our customer’s success in the deployment of workloads on AWS through architectural guidance, Proof-of-Concepts, prototyping, and evangelizing new services and optimization opportunities through presentations, Well-Architected reviews, immersion days and workshops.
My pride-and-joy home lab demonstrates my passion and dedication to the field. It is constantly evolving and allows me to play with the latest in containers and automation. I am also bilingual in Spanish as native tongue.

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