Security Architect
Resume:
Ramses Veloso
Boynton Beach fl, 33426
Phone 561-***-****
************@*******.***
Experience
*/****-*/**** *****’s Management Group ( The Citco Group LTD) Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Security Architect
-Provided 24x7 support assistance to The Citco Group of Companies’ global offices.
-Tests and evaluate security systems to eliminate potential loss of company critical data.
-Assist with Windows AD and domain controller administration and deployment.
-Review Firewall request and confirm compliance with Citco policy, for approval, rejection, or modification as needed.
-Maintain and administer the Safeboot to prevent data loss on mobile devices.
-Provide controlled proxy VPN connectivity for Vendor access using Juniper VPN concentrators.
-Maintain and administer BlueCoat proxy devices and BlueCoat director.
-Maintain PAR, EGP, QUEST applications.
-Perform daily, weekly, and monthly audit functions.
-Review and approve applicable Windows Security patches
-Design solution for Data loss Prevention (DLP)
6/2005-2/2008 eNeighborhoods, INC. (a Dominion Enterprises company) Boca Raton, FL
Infrastructure Architect
-Provided 24x7 support assistance to eNeighborhoods’ IT support team for its enterprise network.
-Tests and evaluate network systems to eliminate problems and make improvements.
-Establishes guidelines and functions to be preformed by the network engineering team.
-Resolve ISP interruption of services in a timely manner to avoid noticeable downtime.
- Test backup communications links to network equipment
-Use network monitoring tools to discover and resolve issues inside the network to maintain the highest possible network uptime.
-Manage tasks assigned to the network engineering team to provide efficient and effective results to the business demands.
-Investigate, recommend, and implement network hardware and software solutions to meet business needs.
-Assembly of yearly budgeting for eneighborhoods’ network engineering team; including negotiation of ISP contracts, equipment maintenance contracts, and any project costs.
-Perform fault tolerance, redundancy and disaster recovery testing of network infrastructure.
-Generate thorough documentation of all phases of the network (including, but not limited to, requirements, operating systems, applications, design, testing, security, architecture, management).
-Coordinate the continuous update of the central network operations control documentation.
-Create / Update networking standards and technical approaches to support and maintenance efforts.
-Provides support and mentoring to network engineering team to facilitate developing and understanding of network concepts, standards and methodology: work with IT personnel to develop / implement / modify networking solutions.
-Report project status to director and communicate when issues are encountered that may affect network availability, project timeframes, milestones or objectives.
-Recommend appropriate business and IT-internal metrics as well as collect the data behind such metrics
-VMware server farm implementation for server reduction and DR needs
-Recommend and lead improvement in the service delivery processes and infrastructure; serve as a primary sponsor for projects that improve delivery of services; collaborate with colleagues to introduce new services and remove obsolete services from production.
-Designed migration from Windows 2000 Active Directory to 2003 Active Directory
-Designed Network to meet current needs while scalable for future growth as business acquisition and mergers occur.
-Design and implemented complex web based server architectures.
-Designed and Implemented Microsoft Project 2000 server for company usage.
-Designed, configuration and implemented (F5) BIG IP load balancing switches.
-Establish site security to prevent un-authorized access to resources, code, usernames and passwords
-Trained co-workers in specific job function and instructed them during their involvement on projects.
-Installed and configured redundant systems for fail-over; Cisco Pix 520 programming and fail-over setup for Firewall protection and Cisco 4510r switch for L3 routing
-Implemented MS SQL Active/Active and Active/Passive clusters with San HP storage.
-Migrated windows 2000 server with exchange 2003 to a windows 2003 server with exchange 2003 at a Collocation to ensure communication via email in case of a disaster
-ensured that web based systems meet the data centers overall objectives, SLA requirement and minimum uptime thresholds.
-Create installation, configuration, and disaster recovery documentation and trained others how to build, manage and support these web based systems.
-Support of HP EVA 5000 SAN. Configured, storage groups, presented and expanded drive configuration for DB servers using HP command view and Configured HP MPIO software and configuration of Q-Logic cards
-supervises the development and maintenance of eneighborhoods’s network communications.
-knowledge of LAN/WAN systems to help design and install internal and external networks.
1/2005-6/2005 AutoNation, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Sr. Infrastructure Architect
- Provide operational and strategic direction to the business analysis and application development groups.
-Responsible for ensuring that the IT infrastructure is capable of meeting business unit established service level agreements for uptime and availability, and provides the flexibility and scalability to meet business unit growth plans.
-Provide sound technical solutions for AutoNation's headquarters and field offices that intermix with external business partners. These business partners include Reynolds and Reynolds, ADP, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Ford and all of the AutoNation's affiliate dealerships.
-Responsible for design, development and architectural review of new technologies. Scope, plan, and prioritizes multiple projects. Manage all aspects of development process including resource planning and budgeting.
-Participate in the evaluation/selection of new technology and provides feedback on the viability and applicability.
-Proactively contributes to department development of business analysis tools and methodologies to make sure that they fit with and support the IT architecture.
-Develop/reviewed systems architecture design specifications for new and existing information system to meet business processes and enterprise architecture requirements.
-Responsible for researching, comparing, cost-justifying, recommending, and establishing current and future hardware and software architectures for all aspects of information technology, from networks backbone to operating systems and shared software services.
-Managing complex IT infrastructure projects using ITIL principles. Some of the solutions included wireless, exchange 2003, Hyperion, Mom 2005, and BindView.
5/2003-1/2005 NCCI, Boca Raton, FL
Sr. System Administrator
-Maintain and support Windows server environment.
-Work closely with management and engineers to resolve technical issues.
-Supported the Network support team with troubleshooting Firewalls, hardware load balancing switches, DNS, SSL, FTP, and SMTP dependant programs.
-Provided support for Custom developed application as well as 3rd party hosted applications in all environments.
-Worked with security team on com+ security, file security, active directory security and web security.
-Support of SQL connections to Microsoft SQL databases and Oracle databases.
-Hardware refresh of internet and intranet environment from development to production.
-Migrate web applications (web content and com+) from QA to Production using Application Center 2000 when applicable.
-Replace Site Server 3.0 search function with Microsoft Share Point 2003 search service.
-Upgrade Microsoft Share Point 2000 Server to Microsoft Share Point 2003.
-Implement Microsoft Project 2003 for the PMO department.
-Worked on the system disaster recovery plan during the 2004 hurricane season and provided support to recover the systems from the power outage.
6/2000 5/2003 RealMetros.com, Inc., Hollywood, FL
IT Director
- Reported to the Chief Technology Officer, and worked directly with users across all levels of the organization.
-Responsible for managing all aspects of IT operations, telecommunications services, their respective processes, and quality.
- Accountable for managing and monitoring physical resources that are required for IT service delivery including storage, processing power, network capacity, electrical power and power distribution, air conditioning, and capacity planning across all of these dimensions
-Partnering with the internal business units while providing an integral function in the planning, development, and deployment of new technologies and business solutions within the organization.
-Designed migration NT 4.0 Servers with IIS 4.0 on NT domain infrastructure to a Windows 2000 Server with IIS 5.0 infrastructure with Clustered windows 2000 Advance Server for platforms on a Native mode ADS Infrastructure.
-Design and implementation of GDS booking engine, equipment selection, server load testing, and SQL database.
-Design and Management of QA environment to analyze implementation.
-Management and designing of IIS servers for a new booking engine.
-Network design; meeting with vendors to review their products for network needs; full network upgrade from Sonic Firewalls & NT 4.0 systems to Cisco Pix 520 & Windows 2k with ADS; complete network redesign based on my design.
-Install and configured redundant systems for fail-over; Cisco Pix 520 programming and fail-over setup for Firewall protection.
-Installation and configuration of Cisco CSS 11154 load balancing switches with Microsoft s Network Load Balancing Services NLBS for over 4,000 web sites each with more than 85,000 pages; dual processor units with Raid 5 with spare drives; gig fiber through put to the Clustered content web servers on Windows 2000 Advanced Server.
-Implemented Microsoft Project 2000 server for company usage.
-Configuration of Altiris management suite to reduce the cost of owning and managing desktops, notebooks, handhelds, and servers; VPN 3000 Concentrator setup and implementation for users nation wide.
-Windows 2000 terminal server implementation for the data entry users in the office and nation wide. Exchange 5.5 server setup and migration to Exchange 2000 sever.
-Management of Enterprise Windows 2000 ADS Infrastructure and applications including but no limited to DNS, Global Catalog Servers, and Domain Controllers.
-Replaced, frame point to point T1 connection with osicom routers with a Clear channel point to point connection using Cisco 2620 router for the corporate office to collocation.
-Connection of remote office at Miami Beach and its migration to Weston.
-Deployment of SMS 2.0 with sp 4 to help ease security patch installation and to expand the Help desk Capabilities.
5/1999-2/2000 Proxymed, Hollywood, FL
Sr. Network Systems Engineer
-Redesign "QA lab"; deciding on which products meet network needs
-Developed teams for the new software and hardware deployment.
-Provided Support for 400 Windows NT and Windows 2000 servers
-Analyzed and optimized network security to comply with internal security policies, corporate and FDA audits.
-Managed and maintained firewalls and ensured adherence to corporate security standards and procedures.
-Developed and deployed methodologies for testing network performance and providing performance statistics and trends.
-Implemented backup solutions using Backup Exec and NetBackup, configured notifications to regional administrators.
5/1998 - 2/1999 Interim Services, Inc., Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Network Systems Sr. Analyst
-Organizing product roll out for in-house OEM products for their franchised offices and organizing a team of SMS administrators to push Microsoft product updates.
12/1995 - 5/1998 The Answer Group, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Commercial Trainer
-Instructed over 1,400 TAG technicians on various operating systems, IBM, Gateway, 3com, Intel and Compaq products.
- Created training manuals, policies and procedures for new employees.
Education
MCSE, MCP, Cisco CCNA 2.0 Certification, Security +, CISSP Trained.
Everest University Pompano Beach – Candidate for Computer Information Science.
Villanova University Six Sigma Green Belt and Six Sigma Black Belt Certification
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