Geirman Prostov

I configured and implemented Azure application and infrastructure solutions and services to plan the migration process for on-premise enterprise infrastructure to Azure environments by leading, managing, and facilitating multiple Azure deployment projects.

Also, I evaluated and reviewed the footprints used in infrastructure settings, created detailed migration plans, including stages, rollover, and backup recovery plans, and oversaw the change management process and requests, including presenting them to the management team and facilitating the approval process.

Finally, I outlined, developed, and produced new and existing implementation steps, written operating procedures and instructions, and policies and standards according to Microsoft best practices.

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I worked with four different teams at Humana Government Business, including SQL Server, data warehouse, data analytics, and Azure governance teams. We worked on assessing and evaluating IT infrastructure, database structure, application functions, and services to design and present workable migration solutions based on Azure migration best practices.

RESPONSIBILITIES
My responsibilities included:

• Creating roadmaps, diagrams, and virtual PowerPoint presentations for implementation and step-by-step deployment of an Azure infrastructure and service solution.
• Presenting diagrams, blueprints, roadmaps, and naming conversion details for deploying Azure solutions to VMs, databases, storage, and resource group structures.
• Presenting, implementing, and deploying a POC for workable, highly available, and scalable application solutions.
• Creating automation using ARM templates, Terraform, runbooks, and blueprints.
• Configuring artifacts with Azure Automation accounts.
• Writing implementation documents and step-by-step configuration instructions for databases, VMs, SQL Server data services, data lakes, and analytical services.
• Modeling and calculating implementation cost and analyses.

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I worked with the Hyderabad Virtusa Azure team of 34 members and the internal database team of seven people to implement an Azure Government migration plan to move over 200 VMs of different Virtusa clients within an ITAR-compliant Azure Government environment.

RESPONSIBILITIES
My responsibilities included:

• Leading and facilitating an Azure implementation process by outlining timelines and deliverables.
• Collaborating with internal and external partners and various team members to implement and coordinate migration processes to Azure Government.
• Creating migration plans with different phases of implementation, migration of standard operating procedures (SOPs), and step-by-step IFS Application installation instructions and procedures.
• Using Azure configuration and installation procedures, instructions, migration, recovery tools, and settings.
• Managing VM structures, IFS Applications, services, and templates, Oracle Database, and SOP configuration settings and steps.
• Leading and participating in IFS updates, new rollovers, and installation processes in production and staging environments.

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I collaborated with two internal Swiss Re teams, including four people in London, England, and twelve in Geneva, Switzerland. We focused on configuration and deployment efforts for staging a Microsoft HPC server solution in a private cloud environment to accommodate SAS application integration for life insurance product quotes related to natural disasters, climate change assessments, and aging population estimations.

RESPONSIBILITIES
My responsibilities included:

• Providing HPC cloud migration and configuration instructions and implementation, rollback, backup, and disaster recovery plans and metrics.
• Providing a detailed plan for an HPC, highly available, and interactive application solution as a POC for migrating from on-premise data centers to Azure.
• Outlining and presenting deliverables, timelines, and blueprints for an HPC cloud migration execution and deployment process.
• Creating migration SOPs and step-by-step instructions using a private HPC migration process and established procedures.
• Monitoring data leak prevention measurements to comply with European privacy regulations.

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I worked with internal teams in different geographic areas, including New Zealand, Mexico, Canada, and the United States, to implement the migration process from on-premise Windows Datacenters to Azure.

RESPONSIBILITIES
My responsibilities included:

• Providing detailed plans, deliverables, and timelines for executing and deploying an on-premise to Azure migration.
• Leading and executing the deployment plan with other team members for the application and data migration from on-premise to Azure infrastructure.
• Configuring and implementing Windows infrastructure clusters to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) regulations by creating a separation of responsibilities for managing on-premise Windows infrastructure and Azure environments.
• Managing infrastructure and implementation solutions by deploying service, incident, and change management requests and approval processes.
• Overseeing the overall Azure migration process.
• Configuring VMs and databases and installing applications and components.
• Managing a go-live Azure implementation progress.
• Creating a POC migration plan from on-premise data centers to Azure.

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Shell is a Dutch-British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in the Hague, Netherlands. I worked with the Shell HPC services R&D team to integrate and manage an HPC platform and configure HPC clusters and databases.

RESPONSIBILITIES
My responsibilities included:

• Analyzing and scheduling jobs for R&D applications.
• Monitoring cluster nodes and database health and performance.
• Implementing product and security updates and core Microsoft HPC 2008 R2 Server and SQL Database settings.
• Configuring new Windows Server roles and features with the application server and failover configurations, Windows STD-B storage management, HPC server, database backups, recovery settings, database mirroring and always-on configuration, migration, remove-management setting, Hyper-V and database virtual imaging, DNS server and network policies, and Telnet and remote administration tools.
• Conducting HPC change management updates with opening products, patching, users, service password changes, renaming, relocating HPC cluster nodes, assigning new IP addresses, and DNS server settings using the Windows PowerShell automated scripting language.