Moises Figueroa Lead Platform Engineer

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Lead DevOps Engineer

ProSearch

Apr 2021 - Oct 2022 (1 year 7 months)

- Created and actively manage the Azure DevOps for I.T. to ensure our teams are using best practices for source code management, branching policies, secrets, secure service connections and build/release CI/CD pipelines. - Deploy multi-tiered, microservices and serverless infrastructures as code with Packer, Terraform, Azure Vault, Ansible, Python and Powershell via Azure DevOps and Jenkins pipelines for orchestration of tasks. - Spearheaded the migration of Elastic Cloud Enterprise to Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes and automated the build process by creating the pipelines for the Elastic Cloud on a private Azure Kubernetes infrastructure, ECK Deployment, K8S Secret Management, ElasticSearch / Kibana / Beats cluster configuration and NGINX l

Principal Engineer (DevOps)

Keck Medicine of USC

Jun 2020 - Apr 2021 (11 months)

- Implemented Azure DevOps pipelines to automate gold image builds using Azure Image Builder, Hashicorp Packer, Powershell, Chocolatey and the Azure CLI. The gold images had more than 10 applications installed 60% of applications were in Choco's repos and the ones not found were packaged and deployed by using Powershell and Azure Blob Storage. The process auto updated the gold image every month by getting the latest Azure marketplace published image. The process use to take approximately 1 week since multiple teams needed to be engaged but after consolidating all steps into Azure DevOps the image build was done in less than 1 hour. - Created Linux scripts to enhance vendor's proprietary OS and fix issues. - Implemented Ansible playbooks

Sr. Systems Engineer

Cast & Crew

Sep 2019 - Jun 2020 (10 months)

Design, configuration management and support of the entire technology environment consisting in AWS, Azure and VMware. - AWS: AWS CLI and AWS Tools for Powershell, Cloudformation, IAM Policies, AMI Builds, EC2 Configuration, EBS Snaphots, S3 and S3 Glacier, CloudFront, Route 53, Certificate Manager, EKS, Lambda and RDS - Azure: Azure Devops (Repos, Release Management, Pipelines), Virtual Machines, Azure Vault, Azure LBs, Azure AppGateway, Azure Functions, AKS, Azure CLI - VMWare: VMWare Capacity Planning, vCenter Upgrades, ESXi Host Upgrades with VUM, Gemalto Encryption, Storage Policies, Netapp CDOT and 7-mode, Cisco UCS and VMWare NSX - Scripting: VSCode, Powershell, Postman, Docker, and WSL - Configuration Management: Powershell DSC

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Lead Systems Engineer

ProSearch

Oct 2018 - Sep 2019 (1 year)

I managed a team with DevOps, Database and Automation roles and we are responsible for streamlining and increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of internal business processes, providing scaled deployments of infrastructure and finding / implementing synergies between systems via automation with PowerShell, Python, APIs and using DevOps methodologies. Responsible for team success and system engineering as shown below. - Bring ideas to POCs (Proof of Concepts) and work with stakeholders to test and implement their visions with our technical consulting and recommendations. - Document, train and present technologies to executives, employees and IT Team.

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Sr. Systems Engineer - Virtualization & DevOps

ProSearch

Sep 2016 - Sep 2019 (3 years 1 month)

- Architect, manage and change the on prem and cloud (Azure) Citrix Infrastructure components such as Citrix Netscaler, Citrix Storefront, Citrix PVS and MCS, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (formerly Xenapp / XenDesktop ), Citrix Hypervisor with NVIDIA vGPU, Citrix Cloud, Citrix Workspace App (formerly Citrix Receiver), Citrix Policies, FSLogix and Citrix Director and ControlUp for monitoring. - Design, manage and change the VMWare and SCVMM / Hyper-V infrastructure from planning, racking/stacking, host configurations, clustering, configuring DRS and load balancing to networking by creating distributed switches and VLANs and also adding backend storage using Nimble or Pure Storage with iSCSI and fiber channel. - Create custom scripts w

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Infrastructure Engineer

Autodesk - Insight Global

Oct 2015 - Sep 2016 (1 year)

- Design and maintain the Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp and Netscaler Infrastructure for Autodesk's Developers and users of Autodesk CAD applications. - Work closely with engineers from NVIDIA to create XenDesktops with vGPUs to fully utilize the Citrix policies around HDX 3D graphics enhancements which provide the best in class user experience. - Configure and maintain the VMWare and Citrix XenServer infrastructure including patching, upgrades, virtual networking and backend storage with Tintri. - Created reports, solutions and fixes with PowerShell. - Architect and implement the monitoring solution for the Autodesk citrix infrastructure with eG Innovations. - Act as an expert escalation point to troubleshoot and resolve issues with all

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Sr. Systems Engineer (Citrix)

Office Depot Corporate Headquarters

Jan 2013 - Oct 2015 (2 years 10 months)

- Architect, implement and manage the Office Depot global Citrix Infrastructures hosting 12,000 max users / 4000 concurrent sessions for XenApp (82 applications) and XenDesktop (350 Pooled and Persistent VDI) with Access Gateway and Netscalers. - Manage and upgrade different versions of Citrix Metaframe 4.0, XenDesktop 5 to Xenapp 6.5 and XenDesktop 7.x. With Citrix machine creation services (Citrix MCS) and Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) - Implement, analyze and monitor the Citrix Environment via Edgesight. - Provide application virtualization solutions with App-V, ThinApp, Citrix Streamed Applications and PowerShell to automate application user tasks. - Configure, maintain the VMWare and Citrix XenServer infrastructure including

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Sr. Systems Engineer (Messaging)

Office Depot Corporate Headquarters

May 2012 - Jun 2013 (1 year 2 months)

Managing the global Cloud-Hybrid Messaging infrastructure consisting of Google Apps for Business, Servers hosting Microsoft Exchange 2003 with Journaling, Windows 2003 Clusters, Windows Live Communications Server, Symantec Veritas NetBackup, Quest Message Stats for reporting, Trend IMSS 7.1 for message hygiene, Blackberry Enterprise Servers and Google PostIni for Spam Filtering. Strong DNS understanding for SPF Records administration. Provide 24/7 level 3 strategic support and Incident Problem Resolutions via ITIL Standards.

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Systems Engineer (Messaging)

Amgen / HP

Jan 2011 - Dec 2011 (1 year)

- PowerShell Automation - Microsoft Exchange 2003, 2007 and 2010 server administration and level 3 Outlook support in a global environment of over 10,000 users including c-level executives and escalations. - Managed global exchange database(s), antivirus applications, messaging and content filtering, load balancing, disaster recovery, error log tracking and SAN technologies such as Netapp SnapManager, HP MSA and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. - Strong collaboration together with Active Directory and DNS. - Leader in powershell scripting for Exchange engineering tasks - Created and developed a centralized web interface consisting of forms with powershell scripts in backend (SQL and WMI queries) used to automate server reporting, administr

Systems Engineer

Comcast

Mar 2008 - Dec 2010 (2 years 10 months)

Responsible for monitoring, administering and troubleshooting server technologies such as Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 , Exchange 2003, SMS 2003 / SCCM 2007, Sharepoint 2003, IIS and Apache Web Servers, Windows Server 2003 & 2008 Major Accomplishments: - Designed, Developed and Administered Comcast's South Florida Intranet Portal with PHP/MySQL (WAMP), Joomla and Sharepoint 2003. - Improved OS Imaging from manual .ISO deployments to server based automated deployments by leveraging Norton Ghost, FOG and SMS 2003 / SCCM 2007 - Developed web applications to automate business tasks, increase employee communications and optimize daily processes using Adobe Flex (ActionScript), PHP/MySQL

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Web Consultant

Techintellect, Inc.

Jan 2008 - May 2012 (4 years 5 months)

- Working with small businesses to plan, develop, design and support web applications and/or web pages to increase brand awareness, profitability and overall company growth. - Coordinating & managing the planning, design, development and deployments. - Experienced web developer (HTML, CSS, AJAX, PHP, MySQL, Adobe Flex/ Flash, ActionScript) - Experienced with many open-source web platforms (Wordpress, Joomla, Magento, Drupal, VTiger) - Consulting Internet Marketing (SEO, Email Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Affiliate Marketing) - Creating and managing social media marketing campaigns & integration with websites Major Accomplishments: Helped client in breaking a Guiness World Record with a provided custom built solution (Adobe Flex, PHP,

IT Engineer Level 2

Humana

Jan 2007 - Feb 2008 (1 year 2 months)

Monitor, administer and troubleshoot Citrix Presentation Server 4.5, Web Servers (IIS / Apache), Active Directory, Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007, SMS 2003, SCCM 2007, Norton / Symantec Ghost, VMware. Major Accomplishments: - Company acquired 3 medical clinic centers and technologies needed to be consolidated. Migrated 10 Remote clinics in South Florida with 1200 Endpoints from StandAlone PC Architecture to Dell ThinClients using locally installed applications via SMS 2003 and Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 delivery of streamed and published applications. Streamlined imaging process and application delivery.

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Lead Technician - Small Business Support

Compusados

Jan 2005 - Mar 2007 (2 years 3 months)

Key Responsibilities: - Provide technical support to small - medium sized businesses. - Diagnose, Troubleshoot and repair server and computer related issues. - Technical Consultation for small-medium sized businesses. Common tasks: - Diagnose troubleshoot and repair issues with clients, servers and workstations. - Troubleshooting Networking Issues. - Server hardware diagnostics, upgrades and troubleshooting - Software installations and upgrading - Installation of technology-related devices sold in-Store - Data Recovery

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Tier 3 DSL Network Support (NOC)

BellSouth International, Inc

Jan 2004 - Jan 2005 (1 year 1 month)

OSI Network Troubleshooting from Layer 1 to Level 4 for small business customers.

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