Salvatore A. Scalora

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Enfield Ct, 06082

Cell-860-***-****

adcu03@r.postjobfree.com

PROFILE

Computer DevOps Consultant with over twenty (20) years’ experience in Information Technology Services of Financial, Government, Technical and Healthcare Industries. Extensive experience in Industries Best Practices regarding the datacenter consolidation of Windows, Linux, Unix, SAN, Desktop/Server, VM, Cloud Computing, DevOps and Network Hardware Technologies. Customer Oriented, self-starter with strong problem solving and decision-making skills who is passionate about learning new technologies. Experience also includes server and storage administration roles, presales support, remote copy technology, disaster recovery, client/server technologies, troubleshooting and customer support.

SKILLS SUMMARY

Hardware

Intel-based Servers, Sun Sparc Workstations, EMC SAN, EMC NAS, EMC CAS

Operating Systems & System Utilities

Solaris, MS Windows, HP-UX, Linux, VMware, Hyper-V

Network Systems & Technologies

TCP/IP, WLNP/WNP, Cisco Routing, VoIP, Fiber Channel

Database Management Systems

MS Access, SQL Server

Commercial Software

Chef, Urban Code Deploy, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Ansible, Jenkins, Subversion, GIT, Docker, Kubernetes, MS Project, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio), ASAP Utilities, WebEx, HPSA, HPOO, Secure CRT, Black Duck, MS OneNote, Notepad ++, Atom. Chef-DK, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Python, Veeam

Methodologies & Standards

DevOps, Agile, Six Sigma, LEAN, AGILE SCRUM, ITIL Best Practices, DC Migration and Cloud Computing Methodology

EXPERIENCE

Accenture Flex LLC 2019 - Present

A Multinational Professional Services Company

Application Development Analyst – BI DevOps Team

Worked on the DevOps team for a large Insurance company. Responsibilities included daily build maintenance and deployments, coordinating and participating in refresh of development project spaces, high speed pipeline support, process documentation and improvements. Also includes CI Tasks including (but not limited to) Jenkins/UCD configuration changes, triaging build/deployment failures, smoke test execution post-test builds, new service setup as well as starting and restarting JVM’s.

Helped develop and Test the PAVE System

Co-Created the team Wiki SharePoint site

Created the training curriculum for new joiners

Worked with and tested Kubernetes to be used within our High Speed Pipeline

Participated and contributed in planning sessions to create a true DevOps Culture.

The United Health Group – Optum Technology, Hartford 2013 - 2019

A leader in Public Healthcare.

Sr I.O. Engineer (Cloud Consultant) DevOps Lead – Chef as a Service (ChefaaS)

Worked on Chef for DevOps team that developed an Infrastructure as Code Chef Service with a goal of continuous delivery, and adopting a true DevOps culture. Responsibilities included Discovery Analysis and POC of new capabilities under the ChefaaS Umbrella, Mentoring Engagement teams to the Chef Training and Production environments, supporting the Chef-DK toolset, Jenkins Pipelines and GIT repos to communicate to the Chef Managed UI. Drove Knowledge Transfer sessions, engaged in Break-fix and issues resolution. Managed relationship to partner teams, worked closely with product development teams to deliver a product roadmap. Owned and Managed the Chef-DK Development Kit including analyzing, testing and certifying CDK Windows, Linux and Mac platforms. Other duties included on-boarding new employees, managing team system access, updating documentation, maintaining website SharePoint (Chef Center of Excellence) and team global groups as well as working with Internal Security Team to ensure our service is secure.

Played a key role in shaping the technology direction and participated in contributing to the relevant technical communities of practice

Established Rules of Engagement with partners teams to cultivate our DevOps Culture

Worked on a project to migrate our Chef infrastructure to AWS EC2 Instances

Hosted weekly and monthly meetings with our Chef Community

Managed multiple teams in upgrade and checkout activities of Chef Environment

Worked within Optum business processes to apply and obtain approval for creation of the (Chef-as-a-Service) Service.

Completed the DR Plan for the ChefaaS Service

Created the ChefaaS Training curriculum to get an engagement team up and running quickly

Created a data gathering template to assist in making migrating apps to move into the (AWS) public cloud easier.

IT Systems Analyst (Cloud Consultant) – Virtual Application Stack (VAS) Services

Responsible for the Virtual Application Stack (VAS) solutions development, implementation, and support of an internal Cloud Solution that would give Development teams the ability to spin up and spin down Linux and Windows test systems in preparation of implementing a DevOps culture. Responsibilities also included leading requirements gathering, analysis and design activities such as consulting with users to evaluate business requirements, identifying operating procedures, evaluating existing or proposed systems and preparing detailed design specifications from which applications will be on boarded to utilize the internal cloud-based VAS solutions. Other responsibilities included acting as the liaison between Business and Systems Analysts, Developers and project management groups within UnitedHealth Care, also skilled in presenting and evaluating design solutions objectively and facilitating conflict resolution as well as planning and managing assignments of varying scope and developing pioneering approaches to emerging industry trends.

Developed strategies to improve service development life cycle and governance processes.

Developed a repeatable process in support of the VAS solution, which included VMware, HPOO and Veeam.

The Collective Group LLC, Austin, TX. 2013 - 2013

A leader in Infrastructure and Datacenter Solutions

Senior Consultant – Data Center Consolidation Services

Responsibilities included Discovery/Analysis, Detailed Planning and Execution of Migration Plans using a proven methodology and Industries best practices regarding the consolidation and relocation of Corporate Datacenters. Also responsible for conducting client interviews, data validation and cleanup, building migration bundles and deliverables such as Migration Run Books and reports; as well as focusing on identifying opportunities for mitigating risk, improving service levels, reducing costs and other opportunities for virtualization and consolidation in addition to assisting team mates as needed.

Working for Forsythe Consulting Services as a contractor for a Large Foreign Client.

EMC, Rocky Hill, CT. 2006 - 2012

A leader in Storage Hardware and Software

Sr. Practice Consultant – EMC Consulting Services

Responsibilities included Discovery/Analysis, Detailed Planning and Execution of Migration Plans using a proven methodology and Industries best practices regarding the consolidation and relocation of Corporate Datacenters. Also responsible for conducting client interviews, data validation and cleanup, building migration bundles and deliverables such as Migration Run Books and reports; as well as focusing on identifying opportunities for mitigating risk, improving service levels, reducing costs and other opportunities for virtualization and consolidation. Other responsibilities included Pre-Sales Support, Mentoring New Employees, Project and Business Development Work such as designing templates, reviewing Statements of Work and assisting other project teams as needed.

Six years’ experience in Managing, planning, relocating and consolidation of corporate datacenters involving the following:

Network Technology

Storage Technology – EMC, HP, Dell

Virtualization Technology – VMware, Hyper-V

Server Technology (Windows, Unix, Linux or Solaris)

DB Technology (MS Access, SQL)

Cloud Computing Technologies

Worked on multiple government projects to help EMC open the door to new opportunities in the Federal Sector.

Provided oversight and training to SAIC to migrate the Walter Reed Medical Center Datacenter to Bethesda, MD.

Consolidated three Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Datacenters into one.

Rescued multiple failing projects with extensive experience and professionalism.

Intuit Inc.

American Express.

Guardian Life Insurance Inc.

Created the Process Methodology for EMC’s India Offshore Resources.

Successfully Completed the Datacenter Migration project for Hospital Corporations of America (HCA) 6 months ahead of schedule.

Accenture/EMC, Hartford, CT. 2004 - 2006

A leader in the Consulting Industry

Associate Practice Consultant – EMC Consulting Services

Responsibilities included data gathering, analyzing current technology and the development of deliverables. Additionally, providing support to project team-mates by recording detailed notes and maintaining the project SharePoint, creating templates used by other EMC consultants as well as storage catalogs and disaster run books. Other responsibilities included weekly status reports and project itineraries.

Conducted Storage Tiring Assessment of Norton HealthCare’s storage infrastructure.

Participated in ITIL Management Assessments.

Migrated and Consolidated the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) datacenters.

INRANGE TECHNOLOGIES, Shelton, CT. 2000 - 2002

A leading edge Storage Networking Company

Technical Support Specialist - Technical Support Dept, Open Systems Division

Responsible for the Technical Support role as the resident Windows and SQL expert for my team, as well as providing technical assistance and level 2 support of customers and field engineers that included training, installing and maintaining network hardware, SCSI, and ATM technologies; also specialized in Message Directors, DASD Extension, Storage Area Networks, Raid Controllers, Intel and HP Servers. Often provided technical leadership within Professional Services during the pre-sale and post-sale cycles, and wrote technical papers for the Documentation Writers. Often worked closely with the engineering departments as a technical resource in the development and sale of state-of-the-art storage, disaster recovery and remote copy technology. Kept abreast of emerging networking, communications and system hardware technologies as well as participated in special engineering projects as needed.

Worked in the project development of the Inrange MD/9000 Message Director for the United States Secret Service.

Worked with the Training Dept to develop a message director course for field engineers.

Tested and integrated FCFP (Fibre Channel Frame Passer) on the 9801 DASD extender.

Worked closely with Intel to identify a major problem with their Sabre 8-way servers.

CERTIFICATIONS

Six Sigma – Yellow Belt

LEAN Foundations

AGILE SCRUM

EMC Proven Professional

EDUCATION

Computer Processing Institute, East Hartford CT.

Received a certificate for Data Processing, 1985 - 1986

Capital Community College, Hartford CT.

Attended two years, 1993 - 1995

Microsoft Corporation, Hartford CT.

Completed a course on: Windows 2000 Professional, 2002

Completed a course on: Windows 2000 Server, 2002

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