Experience

Convera

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Principal Cloud Network Infrastructure Engineer

  • Aug 2022 - Present

  Denver, Colorado, United States My role is to architect and establish newly split company network infrastructure consisting of datacenters in the AWS Cloud and all the branch offices in many countries and 4 continents. Starting from the scratch accomplished this in 7 months. Established relationships with Vendors and ISPs and ordered the required circuits, hardware and contractors. Build and lead team of engineers and contractors for 24X7 support of in all regions. Working with application teams to optimize their applications… Show more My role is to architect and establish newly split company network infrastructure consisting of datacenters in the AWS Cloud and all the branch offices in many countries and 4 continents. Starting from the scratch accomplished this in 7 months. Established relationships with Vendors and ISPs and ordered the required circuits, hardware and contractors. Build and lead team of engineers and contractors for 24X7 support of in all regions. Working with application teams to optimize their applications design from network perspective including security, performance, High availability and DR. Show less



CenturyLink

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

• Sr. Lead Architect / Sr. Lead Engineer

  • May 2016 - Present

  Greater Denver Area Architect and engineer cloud based hosted managed security solutions for enterprise and government customers. Design virtual and physical cloud based managed next generation firewall solutions providing secure internet service and private connections over the private MPLS network. Responsibilities include creating low level design, end to end testing and then training provisioning and operations teams to implement and support the products.



Vantiv Integrated Payments

• United States
• Financial Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Infrastructure Architect

  • Jun 2011 - Apr 2016

  denver, co Architect enterprise infrastructure including network, compute, storage and virtualization.



Red Robin

• United States
• Restaurants
• 700 & Above Employee

• Network Manager & Architect

  • Jan 2004 - May 2011

  Greenwood Village, Co As an architect I helped this restaurant chain grow from 90 to 300+ locations. The company was compliant with SOX and PCI regulations. Gradually redesigned and improved the entire network by building new co-located data-center, DR site and MPLS with 300 remote locations. As a result IT approach changed from fighting fires to advancing the IT technologies. After that company got top score from SOX IT audit and achieved PCI ROC.



Glow Teknologies Inc

• Senior Systems Administrator

  • Aug 2001 - Jan 2004

  Denver, CO



Vroom Technologies Denver, Colorado

• Systems Engineer

  • 1998 - Jan 2001

  Denver, CO



CresSoft

• Team Lead, Systems & Network Support

  • Feb 1994 - Apr 1998

  Lahore