David Torres

Driven to create a long view strategic approach to support and improvements by designing solutions to resolve today’s problems but scale for tomorrow.

• Empowered IFIC via best practices with technology and process recommendations including:
• Monitoring/Alerting
  • Data Management and Archiving, creating data management policies.
  • DR failover/failback automation
  • DNS management
  • Operational standards
• Deployed Cisco Unified Communications PBX, configured phones
• Redesigned and implemented DHCP split scopes to allow for additional redundancy and availability
• Upgraded 2008 R2 domain to 2012 R2
• Deployed full disk encryption to the Enterprise using Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM)

Improved patching automation by Configuring, Cluster aware updating (CAU)

• Improved deskside security via creation of GPO
• Improved failing 2012 R2 Hyper-V cluster by enabling additional NIC Teaming to segment traffic increase HA and greatly improved performance and reliability.
• Researched and recommended and implemented Dell EqualLogic PS6610SAN Arrays for IFIC.
• Provided mentoring and direction to Helpdesk staff.
• Empowered IFIC via best practices with technology and process recommendations including:
• • • Monitoring/Alerting
    • Data Management and Archiving
    • DR failover/failback automation
    • DNS management
    • Operational standards
  • Deployed Cisco Unified Communications PBX, configured phones
  • Redesigned user start up environment reducing errors and logon times
  • Created new VM for Evault mail access server
  • Provided site and intra-site High Availability for Hyper-V Virtual Environment MSCS and Replication
  • Introduced and configured Server fault alerting and maintenance availability, Dell OpenManage Essentials
  • Created a consolidated backup architecture using D2D2Cloud to replace the legacy direct attached storage tape and enhance disaster recovery processes by leveraging synchronous volume replication using Backup Exec 2015 & AWS S3 Storage Gateway technologies while saving $500 per month in capital expenditures.
  • Assessed, designed and deployed a server and VM consolidation project incorporating site and intra-site high availability for a Hyper-V Virtual Environment (MSCS and Hyper-V replicas)
  • Planned and executed a SAN storage consolidation from 8 disparate storage devices to one consistent storage platform, Dell EqualLogic.
  • Created automation to allow faster simpler backup to a centralized location for devices that could not backup themselves
  • Consolidated, Expanded and upgraded VMware infrastructure to 6.0
  • Recommended and implemented a File Server migration, introducing Volume Deduplication for better data management and capacity control
  • Recommended DR Scripts to introduce expectations, knowledge transfer and organization to disaster recovery tests
  • Recommended and deployed Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) to provide server OS patch updates
  • Reviewed and corrected and created DNS recorded and zones
  • Migrated and upgraded multiple applications from 2003 server to 2012 R2, CA ARCserve RHA,  WhatsUp Gold, McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator

(Newark, NJ) 2/15- Principal Consultant and CEO. Recent projects:

United Structure Solution Inc. (Brooklyn, NY)                                                     9/15-11/15

• Architected and deployed new networking infrastructure
• Implemented centralized storage solution
• Deployed backup to cloud to provide data availability and redundancy

• • Continued to remain hands on and took managerial ownership for entire computing environment, consisting of Dell hardware running VMware 4.1 virtual infrastructure extended to Amazon EC2 and S3 via VPC. Expanded Cloud server footprint to allow for Disaster Recovery
  • Produced $63.6K in OpEx and $25.4K saving in CapEx in first 6 months of employment via lease line, support contracts renegotiations, and discovery of billing errors. This resulted in lower costs and improved service offerings.
  • Managed day to day VMware operations, including deploying new severs, updating templates, vmotioning machines to allow for maintenance, deploying patches. Produced capacity planning & planed upgrades.
  • Produced plans to upgrade network & phone cabling, network switch and deskside systems while introducing a 3 year lifecycle to sustain a current and reliable computing environment. Another result will be a more mobile and agile workforce.
  • Successfully project managed move of corporate office, $250K Budget
  • Re-architected Windows and MAC OS deployment tools for time savings of 75mins per machine.
  • Migrated servers from Windows 2003 server to Windows Server 2008 R2 while preserving application integrity
  • Trained users on use of Cloud based tools, Voodoo & Basecamp
  • Upgraded existing system and deployed additional Ubiquity Wi-Fi access points
  • Expanded Active Directory Infrastructure to AWS EC2 cloud to provide DR capabilities. Also used MS AD group policies to effect forest wide security configurations and day to day for IAM to applications and resources.
  • Reconstructed backup solution to easier facilitate Disaster Recovery of data, also to deprecate local tape and off-site storage, moved to more cost effective Cloud storage (Amazon S3 & Glacier) using Veeam Backup & Replication Cloud Edition v7
  • Installed laptop backup solution for cooperate officers to back up to Cloud allowing for Disaster Recovery of laptop data.
  • Researched and recommend and implemented a cross platform (Windows/MAC) Project Management tracking tool, ProjectLibre
  • Planning transfer of Cloud based email archiving tool to new Cloud provider
  • Implemented corporate IT policies such as “new employee hire/termination” process. Computer lifecycle management and requesting assistance protocols.

Designed created and installed the entire server infrastructure for new line of businesses www.tradewebretail.com and http://www.dealerweb.com. These infrastructures were made up of new, DNS zones, AD Forest, Domain Controllers, OU structure, locking down server security, patching and installing applications. I researched and introduced new technologies to Tradeweb such as the Fault tolerant Stratus ftServers. User account server builds, rack mounting. I managed the corporate IP infrastructure DNS, DHCP, WINS, Redesigned WINS infrastructure to reduce the number of servers, eliminate replication problems & increase efficiency. Introduced and deployed Dell OpenManage monitoring application to provide hardware heath visibility in the server environment (1050+ servers internationally). Introduced and planned a consolidated backup architecture using iSCSI SANs & disk to disk to tape (D2D2T) to replace the legacy direct attached data storage plan. Maintained server fleet housed at remote colocation disaster recovery site. Support day-to-day IT related tools, PCs printers, Blackberry PDA’s. Provided support to 400 users. Responsible for administering the Exchange 2000 e-mail system, Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition, Symantec Web Security (web proxy), and support internal corporate applications. Provided recommendations to improve the server infrastructure systems. Reviewed and recommended monitoring packages (MSCOM) to provide proactive solutions. Worked to maintain Vendor support contracts and relationships. Created and maintained web pages on the corporate web site. In addition I advised and updated corporate IT policies.