Mark Orlando
OBJECTIVE
To obtain a lead position in an exciting company to share my 25 years of experience, skill, and leadership in I.T. infrastructure design, implementation, operations, and management.
EXPERIENCE
Senior Cloud Architect/DevOps Engineer June 2019 – May 2024
Zivra, Chicago, IL
Real Estate Private Equity – Infrastructure/Azure
Designed, implemented, and managed entire corporate network including Active Directory, Azure, and O365 migration, along with switches, routers, VOIP, servers and Firewalls for HQ and 10 branch offices.
Financial Institution – AWS Management
Designed IAM strategy in an AWS hybrid cloud environment for a regional bank.
Migrated Nexus repositories from EBS volumes to S3 volumes in AWS for a National bank
Created and Maintained development environment is AWS.
Financial Institution – AWS CI/CD Prototype
Led implementation of CloudBees CI/CD in AWS, integrating Jenkins, JIRA, and BitBucket into the software release orchestration strategy, streamlining DevSecOps practices.
Implemented automated testing with Zephyr and JIRA in AWS
Designed CloudBees Jenkins on Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) in AWS and developed pipelines.
Various Customers – Implementations on various clouds
Designed and Implemented a Multi-Factor Authentication strategy with RSA SecureID, Authentication Manager, and Cloud Authentication service for a tequila company.
Led migration of NuGet and Puppet packages to new artifacts for large corporate insurance client.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer October 2018 – June 2019
Fox TV, Secaucus, NJ
Led migration of entire New Jersey data center to Las Vegas helping facilitate a smooth transition of infrastructure operations during the Disney acquisition of 21st Century Fox.
Senior Systems Administrator/Infrastructure October 2015 – February 2018
Marc Jacobs International, New York, NY
Led the migration to VMware vSphere 6.0 that helped satisfy a department initiative.
Migrated the email system from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Office 365, making the company more agile by integrating services into the cloud and saving money on unnecessary resources.
Implemented Identity and Access Management with Okta for Active Directory and O365.
Infrastructure Support Analyst November 2014 – May 2015
CLS Bank, New York, NY
Assisted in resolving associated system outages and incidents between data centers in the US and Europe
Maintained Microsoft SCCM, VMware, and Citrix environments, helping virtualize clients and publish applications, creating better scalability, management, and access of critical systems.
System Engineer- Associate February 2014 – November 2014
Booz Allen Hamilton, Red Bank, NJ
SME for Microsoft Active Directory project to develop and implement plan for securing sensitive information for corporate Data Loss Prevention project for large pharmaceutical company.
Helped create weekly progress reports with PowerShell to help the CISO identify and prioritize tasks to effectively budget resources for DLP, IAM, and other ongoing security projects.
Infrastructure Engineer October 2006 – February 2014
Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ
One of two individuals to lead the design and implementation of the enterprise VMware environment, saving hundreds of thousands in hardware, licensing, and other related soft costs.
Migrated to Windows 2008 Active Directory and Exchange 2010 on VMware vSphere, saving the company time by boosting performance and streamlining administration.
Worked to migrate VMware vSphere virtual environment of over 500 VMs from HP Blade Centers to Cisco UCS chassis saving cost by leveraging existing Cisco infrastructure.
Systems Administrator/Engineer June 2002 – October 2006
Linden Public Schools, Linden, NJ
Worked to redesign district network infrastructure including the build of a new data center and changing the culture of technology leading to more efficient business processes.
Advised on technology decisions and supported hundreds of staff, teachers, and students.
PC/LAN Administration/Support July 2000 – June 2002
Mitsui OSK Lines (America) Inc., Edison, NJ
Administered Windows workstations and servers and provided helpdesk and local LAN support.
Helpdesk/Technical Support January 2000 – June 2000
County of Union, Elizabeth, NJ
Provided PC troubleshooting and LAN support for entire county of Union.
Communications Team Chief April 1994 – January 1998
United States Army, Fort Bragg, NC
Supervised the deployment, installation, maintenance, and recovery of tactical networks.
EDUCATION
Diploma, Computer Programming August 1995 – December 1999
The Chubb Institute, North Brunswick, New Jersey
TRAINING
CloudBees Jenkins Core Modern Partner Enablement
CloudBees Flow
Atlassian Project Administration – JIRA
Atlassian Partner Enablement – Accredited Technical Sales Professional
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.0] course, 2012.
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 – 10135: Configure, Managing and Troubleshooting Microsoft Exchange Server
VMware vSphere, Advanced Fast Track [v3x] course,2009
Graduated top 5% of the Primary Leadership Development Course (PLDC) – U.S. Army NCO Academy