Experience

Freelance; Self-employed IT professional

• Information Technology Infrastructure Consultant

  • 2019 - Present

  • Delivering solutions to clients in need of infrastructure design or improvements • Abiding to best practices to propose viable options that fit client needs, focusing on security, automation, monitoring, self-healing, scaling, redundancy, and high availability • Providing assistance and performing implementations, migrations, and deployments of systems and applications residing in any source or target environment, including physical and virtual servers and infrastructure, public and private Clouds



Avanade

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Infrastructure Consultant

  • Sep 2017 - 2018

  • Designed the strategy to manage Client IT Infrastructure in order to support the delivery of operational efficiencies, improve employee and workplace performance, and meet dynamic business demands • Coordinated the overall infrastructure improvements across the workplace, network, data center, and operations as well as provided resources to manage and run the infrastructure on a managed or capacity services basis • Performed in-depth technical investigations, gathered and assisted with defining requirements; proposed, designed, and implemented solutions that fit the clients’ needs



Infusion

• Brazil
• E-Learning

• Platform Consultant

  • Mar 2017 - Sep 2017

  • Designed the strategy to manage Client IT Infrastructure in order to support the delivery of operational efficiencies, improve employee and workplace performance, and meet dynamic business demands • Coordinated the overall infrastructure improvements across the workplace, network, data center, and operations as well as provided resources to manage and run the infrastructure on a managed or capacity services basis • Performed in-depth technical investigations, gathered and assisted with defining requirements; proposed, designed, and implemented solutions that fit the clients’ needs



Q9 Networks

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• System Administrator

  • 2015 - 2016

  Participated in requirements gathering, design and implementation activities for companywide (internal and external) migration to the open source Zabbix monitoring solutionInteracted closely with development and other cross functional teams to define andimplement specific tasks, leveraging enhanced capabilities for infrastructure monitoringDeveloped Perl/PHP/Python tools, installation packages and deployment plans formigration automation; generated XML/JSON templates and dynamic configurations for awide range of devices and systems with various GNU/Linux, BSD and Microsoft based OSCommunicated technological concerns and recommended solutions to management



BlackBerry

• Canada
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Service Engineering Specialist

  • 2009 - 2015

  Supported and enhanced high-availability infrastructures with SLA agreementsPrepared and maintained software and hardware documentation and layoutsInvolved in discussions and support activities with various internal and external clientsParticipated in 24/7 on-call rotation and after hours maintenance activitiesCross-platform BBM and SecuVoice Services (2014-2015)Worked closely with Development in a DevOps team automating, deploying, and supporting over 12,000 RedHat/CentOS/Ubuntu VMs in VMware and OpenNebula/KVM environmentsCreated and maintained contextualization scripts and Chef cookbooks for deploymentsTrusted Service Manager (TSM) Service (2011-2014)Participated in multiple iterations of architectural design, implementation, ongoing support and monitoring of the mobile payment infrastructure to meet stakeholders' needsApplied and acquired skills with implementations of various technologies, products and platforms, such as Thales HSMs, Oracle databases, Java, JBoss EAP, and RedHat ELParticipated in RFP activities, security certifications and audits by Visa and MastercardBlackBerry Provisioning Service (2009-2012)Developed and enhanced existing tools written in various programming and scripting languages, such as Bash, Perl, Python, Java, SQL and PL/SQL, PHPManaged and implemented WebLogic application servers with Oracle database back-end



Phantom Fiber

• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Network and System Administrator

  • 2006 - 2008

  Administered and supported the Active Directory Domain environment consisting of Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista and GNU/Linux Servers and Workstations Administered Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, including backups, imports, and exportsImplemented, configured and maintained DNS, DHCP, WSUS, and DFS servicesMaintained and monitored the infrastructure with NMAP, Nessus, Snort, and NagiosImplemented hardware failure solutions; performed backups and disaster recoveryManaged IIS, Apache httpd and Tomcat servers; wrote Perl, Bash, VBS, Batch scriptsImplemented, supported and maintained Microsoft CRM and FogCreek FogBugz systemsBuilt VMware Server environment; created and managed virtual machinesAdministered Microsoft SQL Server and VSS; created and managed databasesPackaged and deployed software products for clients and provided supportProvided 24/7 support for all departments in the local and remote officesCreated database driven PHP documentation, inventory, and reporting system



tripcentral.ca

• Canada
• Travel Arrangements
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Website Professional

  • 2006 - 2006

  Designed and implemented MySQL database for the Staff Management projectCreated PHP pages for management and user accessPackaged the project for deployment along with installation and testing scriptsApplied Agile development methodologies Designed and implemented MySQL database for the Staff Management projectCreated PHP pages for management and user accessPackaged the project for deployment along with installation and testing scriptsApplied Agile development methodologies



SS&C Technologies

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technology Specialist

  • 2004 - 2005

  Administered over 300 Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and Solaris serversPerformed Microsoft Windows Domains installations, management and maintenanceDeveloped websites and web applications with ASP and PHP; Perl and shell scriptingBuilt and managed VMware environments; Norton Ghost images managementDesigned and implemented system reporting with SQL database and WMI using WSHCreated systems documentation webpages and Visio diagrams Administered over 300 Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and Solaris serversPerformed Microsoft Windows Domains installations, management and maintenanceDeveloped websites and web applications with ASP and PHP; Perl and shell scriptingBuilt and managed VMware environments; Norton Ghost images managementDesigned and implemented system reporting with SQL database and WMI using WSHCreated systems documentation webpages and Visio diagrams