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I’ve been wanting to tackle this topic for a while: Quantum computing vs. blockchains – is it an existential threat, or a chance to reinvent mining…
I’ve been wanting to tackle this topic for a while: Quantum computing vs. blockchains – is it an existential threat, or a chance to reinvent mining…
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🚀 I'm thrilled to announce preview launch of the AWS MCP Server – a remote, authenticated Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enhances the…
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Experience & Education
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Courses
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AWS Big Data Certification Prep Course - A Cloud Guru
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AWS Big Data Certification Prep Course - Linux Academy
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Advanced Architecting on AWS
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Architecting on AWS
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Basic Administation for Citrix XenApp 6
CXA-204-2I
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DevOps Engineering on AWS
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Executive Conversations
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Google Certified Professional - Part 1/2/3 - Linux Academy
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Google Cloud Security Essentials - Linux Academy
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Outcomes Based Account Management
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RHEL Administration I
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VMware vCenter Operations Manager: Analyze and Predict [V5.x]
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VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V5.0]
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VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V5.1]
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Projects
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Secure Landing Zone in Google Cloud Platform
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Implemented a suite of detective controls using centralized Stackdriver logging, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Functions to secure deployments to Google Cloud Platform. Designed multi-project strategy, organization-wide controls, and IAM roles per best practices.
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Automation Framework to Accelerate and Simplify Deployments to AWS
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Contributed to a team-developed Python-based framework automating the generation of security-compliant CloudFormation to be used by firm application teams.
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E-mail Migration from Exchange 2010 On-Premises to Office 365
Migrated over 900 objects from Microsoft Exchange 2010 environment to Office 365 using a hybrid model. Deployed Office 365 Microsoft Office binaries company-wide. Redirected supporting application such as Axway Mail Gateway and Airwatch to Office 365.
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Multi-Datacenter Migration to Amazon Web Services Public Cloud
Design global account and VPC structure in AWS. Build all new applications in the cloud. Migrate existing applications through rearchitecture leveraging native cloud services where possible and appropriate on a workload by workload basis.
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SQL Server Optimization, Standardization, Stabilization
Migrated all databases to optimized SQL Server 2014/Windows Server 2012 VMs with minimal downtime and no issues.
Designed SQL Server VMware template and post-install bootstrap to optimize and standardize SQL Server deployments.
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SAP Implementation on VMware
Assisted SAP consultants in design of highly available, fault-tolerant, SAP infrastructure in VMware ESXi 5.1 consisting of 34 servers. SAP modules included ECC, PI, BOBJ, Data Services, and BPC.
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Project Lifecycle Management Implementation
Created and configured 18 servers in a highly available configuration to support the Project Lifecycle Management application rollout.
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Citrix XenApp 6.5 Implementation
Designed and implemented Citrix XenApp 6.5 farm consisting of 20 servers to replace aging Citrix MetaFrame farm.
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VMware Implementation and Expansion
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Implemented initial VMware datacenter cluster as well as 3 separate expansion projects including additional IBM x3850 x5 server installations, ESXi 5,1 installation and configuration, IBM DS3524 storage arrays, IBM SAN Volume Controller configuration, Brocade SAN Switch zoning, and IBM XIV storage array configuration.
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Deployment Automation to AWS with Global Financial Services Organization
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Accelerate onboarding of app teams to AWS through a combination of an automation framework, reference architectures, and well-documented sample code, Confluence wikis, and JIRA step-by-step backlogs.
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Automated AWS Security Violation Detection and Remediation with CloudCustodian for Global Financials Services Organization
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Utilized open-source CloudCustodian framework to implement detective controls and automated remediation using AWS Config and AWS Lambda. Additionally, implemented automated development environment resource shutdowns leading to substantial cost savings.
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High Performance Comuting Grid Implementation on AWS
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Re-architected and implemented 1000+ core HPC grid running RHEL/Univa to AWS using CFNCluster/SGE/Amazon Linux. Leveraged autoscaling with SR-IOV enhanced networking in conjunction with Avere Cloud NAS to exceed the performance of the existing on-prem solution in a core-for-core bakeoff.
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English
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