Technology Consultant at The Prospective Group (2025-12 – Present)
- Coordinating Open RAN 5G test implementations for the first certified OTIC testing center in South America, the CPQD in Brazil
- Deploys and manages MS Teams/Sharepoint sites, Azure EntraID internal and external identities, M365 business premium plus Copilot licenses, and Azure Virtual PC's
- Manages all MS Teams internal and external access for a 300+ user system
- Authors and optimizes ISO certification artifacts (9001, 20000-1, and 27001)
- Leads technical proposal teams for engineering, software development and cybersecurity RFP responses for multiple federal agencies
- Writes position descriptions, recruits highly technical candidates and performs technical screenings for potential new hires
Principal Cloud Architect at Verizon Global Services (VGS) (2017-08 – 2025-12)
- Creates and updates pipeline integrated app updates and automated tests using Java, Python, JavaScript/NodeJS, Mocha/Chai, Selenium, ChromeDriver and GitLab CI
- Deployed AWS SageMaker instances and trained XGBoost ML models with CURs to predict cloud usage by application teams
- Designed and deployed a customized Azure cloud readiness tool within an enterprise onboarding framework for application teams to address cybersecurity, architecture and budgeting prerequisites
- Deploys and manages a wide range of services in AWS and Azure using Jenkins, Terraform, CloudFormation and Azure ARM including EC2, VM, S3, Blob Storage, RDS, Azure SQL, VPC, VNET, ELB, Azure LB, Azure Key Vaults, CloudWatch and Azure Monitor
- Manages Azure enterprise level enrollment cloud budgets and usage costs totaling ~$20M per year, including commitment management (Reserved Instances/Savings Plans/MCA minimum spend agreement)
- Cloud Service utilization monitoring and rightsizing, spend tracking by application team and asset type using VMWare/Broadcom CloudHealth, Kubecost and Azure Console
- Cloud native design and service recommendations, Serverless adoption and Cloud vendor negotiations
- Manages and deploys CloudFormation templates, Auto-Scaling groups, Security Groups, ELBs and EBS storage for Kubernetes clusters
- Performs Kubectl administration for Kubernetes clusters and pods
- Automates metrics reporting to Splunk, Datadog and New Relic using a combination of Bash, API commands, Python and Logstash
- Maintains PKI certificates for Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs) in AWS and NetScaler VIPs for on premises
- Participates in Agile Scrum sprints, backlog grooming and other team ceremonies
Technology Manager at The Prospective Group (2016-09 – 2017-08)
- Leads technical proposal teams for engineering, software development and cybersecurity RFP responses for multiple federal agencies
- Writes position descriptions, recruits highly technical candidates and performs technical screenings for potential new hires
- Deployed NetApp/Cisco FlexPod converged virtual infrastructure for a global US government enterprise network
- Developed and deployed secure Windows Server systems using NIST 800-53 r4 frameworks
- Developed and implemented VMWare vSphere and Windows deployment automation using Cisco UCS Director and PowerShell
- Designed and implemented a test/dev environment in AWS VPC, leveraging EC2, ELB, Route53, AWS IAM, S3 and RDS
- Documented FlexPod and VM Guest installation procedures to create repeatable processes
- Integrated Avamar 7.3 and Avamar Virtual Edition 7.3 into FlexPod and vSphere infrastructure to include Avamar installation procedures and VMDK archiving/disaster recovery process
- Responsible for leading communication and collaboration between project team and client agency stakeholders
- Designed and transitioned to operations the automated deployment procedures for VM guests and ESX hosts on FlexPod platform
- Designed and documented the process for generating PKI CSR requests and installing PKI Cert and Key files on FlexPod and Avamar components
Senior Systems Engineer at Acuity, Inc. – US Department of State (2013-08 – 2016-09)
- Designed and deployed global Avamar archiving and data replication solutions to provide GLR, BMR and DR capabilities for 50k users located at 300 US embassies and consulates (Posts) that are part of the US Department of State networks
- Successfully restored all US Embassy Sana'a, Yemen servers an evacuation in 2015 to Frankfurt, Germany in 4 hours
- Managed SUSE Linux OS host systems – Bash scripts and configuration management
- Integrated Avamar and VMWare vSphere with VMDK proxy deployment and the creation of customized vCenter permissions for service accounts
- Developed and documented Avamar installation and administration procedures for enterprise deployment teams and global branch office admins
- Trained technical teams globally in Avamar replication, restore and BMR procedures
- Managed Avamar storage grid troubleshooting and storage expansion
- Received awards for outstanding technical work from the US Department of State
Systems Architect and Team Lead at Intercom Federal – US Department of State (2002-04 – 2013-08)
- Technical lead for a project converging the enterprise IT environments of two globally deployed co-located federal agencies – US Dept of State and USAID
- Managed engineering team tasks, mentored members and wrote performance reviews
- Leads technical proposal teams for engineering, software development and cybersecurity RFP responses for multiple federal agencies
- Writes position descriptions, recruits highly technical candidates and performs technical screenings for potential new hires
- Designed, documented, tested and implemented a full-scale AD to AD migration leveraging Quest Migration Manager, ADFS v.2 and Ping Federate integration
- Successfully completed project pilot and oversaw production deployment at eight overseas USAID branch offices. Solution supported 1200 overseas personnel working on three continents
- Lead technical and task management resource for an enterprise Windows and Active Directory engineering and design team. Led full AD migration for 275+ global sites and 130k users over two networks. Centralized all admin delegation and user rights
- Developed IAM solutions using Microsoft (AD, ADFS, FIM) and third party (Ping Federate, Quest Software, Directory Wizards) systems with SAML authentication
- Led AD enterprise design and Tier 4 support on a global Windows 2008 Active Directory Forest serving 100k+ users at over 300 sites
- Designed and approved all changes to the Windows AD infrastructure including Group Policies, AD-integrated DNS, and Administrator rights delegation
- Trained admin and engineering personnel on AD and Windows admin functions in formal and informal environments
- Managed engineering team task progress for individual and group efforts leveraging ITIL and Agile Scrum methodology
