Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Specialties: Storage Architecture iSCSI CIFS Microsoft Exchange Microsoft AD Microsoft Cluster Services Citrix MetaFrame General Networking Performance Analysis
Developed a recently established Cloud Security function into a mature service covering multiple providers, several tenants, and over one hundred cloud native services - and boosted the overall security and compliance of the environment by: -Helping to establish processes to structure policy releases -Partnering with Cloud Engineering (and other teams) to implement platform and IaC guardrails -Defining metrics to measure progress -Partnering with Application owners to remediate issues and preemptively address security concerns Established a SaaS Security program to enhance the security capabilities and reduce risk for the numerous SaaS-based applications typically consumed across the enterprise.
Leader of a team responsible for providing a sound foundational AWS platform to safely increase delivery speed and reduce overall cost. Currently in a ‘rebuild’ phase to (re)define foundational cloud concepts and designs within an enterprise framework with a focus on audit remediation.
Responsible for a team dedicated to identifying and resolving large, complex, enterprise impacting issues. Currently focused on platform rebuild/remediation for a core analytics platform as well as defining and streamlining enterprise monitoring platforms. Additionally responsible for compute framework functions.
Leads team responsible for systems integration and solutions delivery for applications within the customer advocate space (call center, wealth management, etc) - interface between Infrastructure and Application Development teams that develop solutions for the customer advocate groups.
Lead Storage Architect for NetApp platform in the Storage Engineering group. Responsible for planning future deployments and architecture of NetApp platform, as well as escalated issue resolution. Focus on application integration specific to Exchange, Enterprise Vault, and VMWare as well as a variety of applications and storage principles.
Responsible for resolving the problems deemed unsolvable by everyone else, the politically hot cases, and re-architecting environments remotely (sometimes due to incorrectly sold solutions). Gained in-depth knowledge across every facet of the ONTAP system and its underlying hardware - generalist in nature, but expert in practical application of the job role.