Daniel Pirro
Greece,NY
Summary
Dynamic, results driven IT Systems Engineer with a 28-year history of achievement and success implementing and managing IT technologies and standards to sustain growth and efficiency. Solid track record of using technology for operational improvements that reduce cost and greatly improve efficiency. Proven ability to bring teams together, accomplish goals on time and on budget. Combined business acumen with innate technology experience enables the production of top-performing IT infrastructures and processes. Practiced at transitioning customers from on-premise solutions to cloud-based deployments. Versed in utilizing cloud infrastructure to alleviate pitfalls inherent to on-site computing.
Overview
29
29
years of professional experience
Work History
Systems Engineer IV / AWS Solutions Cloud Engineer
Innovative Solutions
01.2019 - Current
- Support for AWS, Azure and on-premise traditional infrastructure
- Day to day oversight of approximately 300 cloud, hybrid and on-premise clients
- Use Datto RMM and Autotask for management
- Responsible for the complete IT stack for all clients
- Directed account technicians and am the point of escalation for the department
- Responsible for uptime, updates, policy, security and recommendations for all clients
- Developed custom PowerShell scripts for automation and remediation
- Wrote 'SE' document sets for complete infrastructure overhaul for clients small and large
- Migrate workloads to AWS (Lift and Shift)
- Moved workloads such as EC2, Workspaces and Veeam into AWS.
Senior Systems Engineer, IT Infrastructure Team
Wegmans Food Markets
01.2010 - 01.2019
- Primary focus on the distribution systems and shared ecosystems of multiple teams
- Manage stretch windows clusters between datacenters for WMS and OMS
- Manage IIS web farms
- Manage O365 environment
- Member of the DevOps effort for my department
- Member of the Tech Steering Team
- Strong focus on VMWare (2,600 VMs/50 hosts) across 2 datacenters and Hyper-V (800 VMs/110 hosts) across 110 locations
- Performance tuning for servers, storage and applications
- Worked closely with many development teams.
Senior Systems Engineer Contracted Consultant
Constellation Brands
01.2009 - 01.2010
- Developed and managed a Windows Server engineering process to create and maintain hundreds of custom servers in local and remote datacenters on physical Dell and HP hardware, and very large VMWare host clusters
- This saves the client hundreds of hours each month in both technician time and quality control time.
Senior Systems Engineer
Thomson Reuters Corporation
01.1998 - 01.2009
- Conducted IT Department in accordance with company policies and goals
- Acted as a decision maker, project manager and point of contact for the following items / directives / goals: Utilized new technology to improve efficiency
- Maintained top technology and performance which reduced exposure to campus-wide failures
- Improved new desktop rollout with minimal cost, while also providing a centralized software distribution point for new installations and patching
- Combined multiple backup and archival systems into disc-to-tape and disk-to-disk-to-tape providing for large backup windows within a confined period
- Incorporated virtualization to reduce equipment costs, software costs and operation costs by combining like servers
- Leveraged virtualization to reduce site down-time from days to hours
- Developed and maintained BCP recovery program
- Developed and packaged a Business Continuity Program which allows end users to carry a virtual desktop on a DVD that installs with a typical Microsoft installer and will automatically connect via VPN and allows them to work from home on the exact desktop they had in the office, complete with software, security settings and anti-virus programs
- Using VMWare, the entire facility was configured to have near immediate redundant failover for all services including file, print, licensing tokens and email archives
- Implemented SharePoint server for a localized repository of end user documentation and version control.
Network Administrator Industry Utilities Division
Systems & Computer Technology
01.1997 - 01.1998
- Worked in the utilities division and installed new FDDI networks and Novell servers for client companies and supported the local facility at Agrilink Foods.
Network Technician, Research and Development Division
Eastman Kodak Company
01.1996 - 01.1997
- Supported desktops of 300+ users and migrated desktops and servers to Windows NT 4.0.
Education
BS - Computer Science
St. John Fisher College
Rochester, NYSkills
- VMWare VSphere
- Microsoft Hyper-V
- Microsoft M365
- Azure Cloud
- AWS Cloud
- Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
- Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert
Technicalskills
Windows Desktop (NT-Vista), Altiris Client Solution, MS Windows Server (NT-2003, SBS 2008), Microsoft MDT 2010, Microsoft SCCM, Norton Ghost, MS Office Professional (97-2007), Dreamweaver, Symantec Backup Exec, HP Web Jet Admin, Computer Associates ARCserve Backup, Symantec Anti-Virus 10 Corporate, MS Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), Trend Micro Desktop and Server, Active Directory Users and Computers, Group Policy Modeling, Oracle Database 8i and 9i, SQL Server 2005/2008, VMWare ESXi Server, HP / Compaq and Dell Servers, DLT and AIT Tape Archive Robots, Dell Desktops, Lenovo Notebooks, Baystack Switches, JetDirect Printing, Custom PC Design and assembly, VLAN, Dell Notebooks, CIS Benchmark for Exchange Server, CIS Cisco IOS, CIS IIS Server, CIS Multi-Function Devices, CIS MySQL Server, CIS Security Metrics, CIS SQL 2005 Benchmarks, CIS VM Benchmark, CIS ESX Server Benchmark, CIS Windows DC Benchmark, CIS Windows Server Benchmark, CIS Windows XP Benchmark, CIS Wireless Network Benchmark, Software Licensing, Working With Vendors, Data Center Consolidation, Business Continuity Planning / Disaster Recovery
Key Competencies
- Strategic Planning
- Windows Networks
- Business Continuity Planning
- Disaster Recovery
- Implementation of Security Principles CIS/NIST
Timeline
Systems Engineer IV / AWS Solutions Cloud Engineer
Innovative Solutions
01.2019 - Current
Senior Systems Engineer, IT Infrastructure Team
Wegmans Food Markets
01.2010 - 01.2019
Senior Systems Engineer Contracted Consultant
Constellation Brands
01.2009 - 01.2010
Senior Systems Engineer
Thomson Reuters Corporation
01.1998 - 01.2009
Network Administrator Industry Utilities Division
Systems & Computer Technology
01.1997 - 01.1998
Network Technician, Research and Development Division
Eastman Kodak Company
01.1996 - 01.1997
BS - Computer Science
St. John Fisher College
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