Windows Deployment Developer in Louisville, KY, United States

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.

Evaluated and reviewed the footprints used in infrastructure settings. Created detailed migration plans, including stages, rollover, and backup recovery plans. Oversaw the change management process and requests, including presenting them to the management team and facilitating the approval process.

Outlined, developed, and produced new and existing implementation steps, written operating procedures and instructions, and policies and standards according to Microsoft best practice.

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Worked with four different teams at Humana Government Business (SQL Server, data warehouse, data analytics, and Azure governance) to assess and evaluate IT infrastructure, databases structure, functions (applications), and services to design and present workable migration solutions based on Azure migration best practices.

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• Created roadmaps, diagrams, and virtual PowerPoint presentations for implementation and step-by-step deployment of an Azure infrastructure and services solution.
• Presented diagrams, blueprints, roadmaps, and naming conversion details for deploying Azure solutions to VMs, databases, storage, resource group structures.
• Presented, implemented, and deployed a POC for workable, highly available, and scalable application solutions.
• Created automation using ARM templates, Terraform, runbooks, and blueprints.
• Configured artifacts with Azure Automation accounts.
• Wrote implementation documents and step-by-step configuration instructions for databases, VMs, SQL Server data services, data lakes, and analytical services,
• Modeled and calculated implementation cost and analyses.

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Worked with the Hyderabad Virtusa Azure team (34 people) and internal database team (7 people) to implement an Azure Government migration plan to move 200+ VMs of different Virtusa clients within an ITAR-compliant Azure Government environment.

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• Led and facilitated an Azure implementation process by outlining timelines and deliverables.
• Worked with internal and external partners and various team members to implement and coordinate migration processes to Azure Government.
• Created migration plans with different phases of implementation, migration SOPs, and step-by-step IFS Application installation instructions and procedures.
• Used Azure configuration and installation procedures, instructions, migration, recovery tools, and settings.
• Managed VM structures; IFS Applications, services, and templates; Oracle Database, and SOP configuration settings and steps.
• Led and participated in IFS updates, new rollovers, and installation processes in production and staging environments.

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Worked with two internal Swiss Re teams, comprising 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.

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

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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.

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• Provided detailed plans, deliverables, and timelines for the execution and deployment of an on-premise to Azure migration.
• Led and executed the deployment plan with other team members for application and data migration from on-premise to Azure infrastructure.
• Configured and implemented Windows infrastructure clusters to comply with SOX regulations by creating a separation of responsibilities for managing on-premise Windows infrastructure and Azure environments. -
• Managed infrastructure and implementation solutions by deploying service, incident, and change management requests and approval processes.
• Oversaw the overall Azure migration process.
• Configured VMs and databases and installed applications and components.
• Managed go-live Azure implementation progress.
• Created 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. Worked with the Shell HPC services R&D team to integrate and manage an HPC platform and configure HPC clusters and databases.

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• Analyzed and scheduled jobs for R&D applications.
• Monitored cluster nodes and database health and performance. -
• Implemented product and security updates and core Microsoft HPC 2008R2 Server and SQL Database settings.
• Configured new Windows Server roles and features with 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.
• Conducted HPC change management updates with opening products, patching, users, services password changes, renaming, relocating HPC cluster nodes, assigning new IP addresses, and DNS server settings using Windows PowerShell automated scripting language.