Ben Vazquez

www.linkedIn.com/in/BenVazquez - ac25by@r.postjobfree.com - 863-***-****

IT INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT

INFORMATION SECURITY BUSINESS CONTINUITY CAPACITY PLANNING SLAS BUDGET PLANNING INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGN VIRTUALIZATION STORAGE SYSTEMS NETWORKS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORE QUALIFICATIONS

Business Oriented: Experience providing tailored IT solutions for highly regulated and demanding environments such as those in the construction, banking, retail and healthcare industries.

Team Management: Provide leadership, coaching and direction for the IT infrastructure team and staff. Maintain relationships with other IT leaders to develop a clear understanding of business needs.

Project Oriented: Excellent project management skills. Leading tasks with comprehensive monitoring and control of costs, schedule and resource utilization.

Proactive: Constantly the search for improvements within cost reduction, user satisfaction, higher availability, simpler management, and systems fine-tuning.

Strong Technical Background: Proficiency in industry-leading technologies such as Windows Server, Active Directory, Exchange, SCCM and PowerShell. Experience with VMWare and MS Hyper-V virtualization environments. Working/configuration knowledge of Cisco routers/switches/firewalls and Linux. Proficiency with HP/IBM/DELL/Cisco-UCS servers as well as PureStorage, EMC, NETAPP and 3Par storage systems. Experience with Rackspace, AWS and Azure Cloud Environments.

Communication Skills: Excellent presentation skills as well as training skills. Brilliant technical-to-business translation and vice versa. Bilingual; English and Spanish. KEY CONTRIBUTIONS/ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Managed the procurement of millions of dollars in servers, workstations, printers, storage, software licensing and network communications systems.

Created significant savings by successfully implementing systems consolidation, converged solutions, licensing structures and contract negotiation for several companies.

Have designed and managed multiple datacenter renovation projects and several installations of comprehensive suites of virtualization environments combined with hi-tech storage systems.

Positive track record influencing senior management and key stakeholders to endorse IT initiatives.

Implemented multiple solutions to comply with client’s requirements, legal regulations, and certifications.

Collaborated in the formation of responses for RFPs from government, financial and healthcare institutions.

EDUCATION

Florida Polytechnic University - Master’s Degree in Science of Innovation and Technology Universidad del Turabo – Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems TRAININGS, CERTIFICATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS

Project Management Fundamentals - Techmentor Conferences Attendee - Cisco Firewalls Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices – MS Exchange – MS SCCM – AVAYA PBX System OpenText RightFax Software - Microsoft Certified Professional – Member of the Project Management Institute

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

WellDyneRx Corporation, Lakeland FL – 2014 to present Senior Technology Engineer

General architecture, design and maintenance of the company’s IT infrastructure platforms.

Responsible for overseeing new systems integrations, interoperability and implementations in both the on- premises and cloud environments. Provide training for systems engineers and systems administrators.

Contribute to the efforts in establishing the strategic direction of the information systems and lead the team when executing the strategy.

In charge of the design and enforcement of systems configuration standards and responsible for the entire company’s systems updating platform.

Performance management for servers, virtualization clusters and storage systems.

Lead projects to perform a major hardware refresh in two separate datacenters.

Interview, evaluate and recommend engineering and systems administration candidates. W. S. Badcock Corporation, Mulberry FL – 2012 to 2014 Systems Engineer

Datacenter design and support for a highly virtualized Windows/Linux environment.

Management and support of all storage tiers: new implementations, space planning and provisioning.

Responsible for the strategic planning, management and deployment of security updates and configurations.

Planned and implemented a centralized platform for end-point protection, HIPS and network access control.

Design and implementation of a company-wide anti-spam/anti-virus system for the enterprise email flow.

Collaborating in the design and migration of the company’s Exchange upgrade. MC-21 Corporation, Caguas PR – 2007 to 2012

IT Operations Manager

Management of the company’s information technology infrastructure and operations.

Maintained currency on new technologies and platforms providing direction on what emerging infrastructure technologies should be introduced and integrated within the business.

Administer budget, annual operating plans, procurements and internal/external IT service level agreements.

Strategic direction and direct oversight of IT infrastructure including datacenter design, servers/storage hardware, virtualization environments, software licensing, PBX systems and LAN/WAN solutions.

Main IT liaison for multi-department business initiatives and change control procedures.

Supervise IT infrastructure staff: systems administrators, network administrators, and Help Desk technicians.

Worked closely with HR to ensure that the team's personnel strategy was aligned with the business strategy as well as the members’ professional goals.

In charge of the creation and enforcement of IT security policies, SOPs and technical documentation.

Responsible for the data security strategy across the company’s network: backup systems, antivirus system, updates deployment systems, VLANs, VPNs, DLP and firewall policies.

Business continuity, disaster recovery plan design and implementation. MC-21 Corporation, Caguas PR – 2002 to 2007

IT Systems Administrator

Active Directory implementation and administration: OUs, security groups, permissions and GPOs.

Environment migration from Novell Directory Services and GroupWise to MS AD and Exchange.

Responsible for the acquisition, installation and configuration of the company’s servers systems.

In charge of the implementation of storage systems including SANs, NAS, and JBOD appliances.

Management of communication equipment such as PBX, switches, routers and firewalls.

Deployment and maintenance of networking services such as DNS, DHCP and VLANs.

Second level support for Help Desk personnel.

Citibank, Hato Rey PR – 2000 to 2002

Systems Administrator

Administration of a multi-domain, multi-site Windows NT/2000 environment with 200+ servers.

Daily server’s health checks and performance optimization.

Built UAT and Test Environments for several applications.

Code management and implementation using Visual Source Safe.

Planning and implementation of security framework, update systems and antivirus environments.

Design and maintenance the server’s inventory database according to hardware, software, and risk analysis.

Support for processes interacting with Novell Netware, IBM Mainframe and UNIX. Lord Electric, Río Piedras PR – 1998 to 2000

Technology Specialist (Under construction project with Enron)

Installed and configured construction site systems using Windows 98 and Windows NT.

Network, application and hardware problems support.

Organized data and designed cost control and safety statistics database using MS Access.

Designed custom automated payroll and purchase cost tracking systems.

Supervised and updated project’s classified documentation. New Era Consultants. Mayagüez PR - 1996 to 1998

PC Technician & Sales Consultant

Support sales for pharmaceutical companies and government agencies.

Network topologies design, wiring and endpoint connections.

Novell Netware Networking and user profiles configuration on Windows 95.

Provided desktop and server software/hardware troubleshooting and repair.

Remote and onsite technical support.

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