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Michael Granito

Michael Granito

White House,TN

Summary


Information Technology Architect with a proven track record of architecting scalable, resilient, and secure enterprise IT solutions. Expert in designing infrastructure roadmaps, modernizing legacy environments, and integrating hybrid-cloud architectures to support multimillion-dollar operations. Skilled at driving technical-debt remediation, elevating team capabilities, and optimizing a $3.5 M hosting infrastructure budget at the Metropolitan City of Nashville and Davidson County. Adept at partnering with business stakeholders to translate strategy into technology solutions that enhance corporate agility, streamline processes, and mitigate risk.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

IS Division Manager – Server and Infrastructure

Nashville Metro IT Services
01.2023 - Current
  • Company Overview: The scope of technology utilized by the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County ranges from simple communications devices such as handheld tablets to complex database driven software applications that enable communications and interactions both internally and with the general public. ITS provides technology services to increase the speed of business and availability of information in new ways that were never before possible.
  • Architected and lead the implementation of a Cisco UCSX converged infrastructure deployments in two different data centers supporting as part of infrastructure critical refresh.
  • Architected and lead the implementation of pure flash array deployments in two different data centers supporting as part of infrastructure critical refresh.
  • Architected and lead the implementation of a multi Petabyte refresh of a new Commvault Hyperscale X Hyper Converged Infrastructure deployment. This improved reliability and recoverability for our mission critical backups.
  • Lead, manage and mentor a team of 15 engineers and 3 managers supporting the day-to-day operations of multiple Data Centers and satellite sites. Coordinates with other ITS teams to support Department long range road map goals and initiatives.
  • Coordinated efforts with the infrastructure team and vendors to resolve a critical SAN issue. This restored performance and stability for the ITS virtual infrastructure and the CAL and GIS projects to complete on time.
  • Provided guidance and direction to the server support team on improving incident and outage call handling. This decreased the length of incident calls which significantly reduced customer impact.
  • Provided guidance and technical direction for improving the backup and BCDR processes currently in place. This improved reliability and reduce restoration times for restorations in case of business outages or disasters.
  • Communicated and collaborated with stakeholders to achieve division objectives.

IT Infrastructure Manager

Pathgroup
01.2021 - 01.2023
  • Company Overview: Founded in 1965, PathGroup is a premier provider of anatomic, clinical and molecular pathology services, as well as one of the largest providers of women’s health services in the United States.
  • Manages a team of 7 engineers supporting the day-to-day operations of multiple Data Centers. Coordinates and works with the architecture team to suggest and research new infrastructure both on-prem and in the cloud to meet critical business requirements.
  • Drove initiatives to update multiple Cisco UCS VMware clusters from VMware vSphere 6.5 to 7.0.3. This allowed the business to deploy Kubernetes on-prem for new application initiatives.
  • Deployed multiple Pure X series flash arrays to support decommissioning older VNX SAN arrays. This allowed the business to lower rack costs as the pure solution uses 75 percent less rack space. This also improved storage performance by 200%.
  • Played a pivotal role in establishing a new Azure environment for the business. We moved multiple services to Azure ranging from DNS to Azure Active Directory. A disaster recovery plan was developed leveraging Azure and Veeam to support business critical recovery criteria and to protect against Ransomware.

Systems Administrator III

American Credit Acceptance
01.2019 - 01.2021
  • Company Overview: American Credit Acceptance is a sub-prime auto finance company providing financial solutions from coast to coast. ACA helps to provide common sense lending and affordable payment programs to their customers.
  • Works with a team of 25 engineers to support and upgrade a network consisting of 3 data centers staggered throughout the country. Maintains relationships with multiple vendors and handles mission critical patching for all IT assets and mentor’s junior personnel.
  • Performed patching and remediation on approximately 35 ESXi hosts that were two versions behind. This secured the hosts and improved host performance and virtual machine density.
  • Deployed a new software delivery, patching and suite, Desktop Central to replace an old System Center environment. This has improved the service desk’s ability to support end users, deploy software and to patch workstations and servers very quickly. Currently 1800 devices are supported with this suite.
  • Took the lead on deploying a new Pure Storage solution to replace an aging XtremIO environment. Coordinated with other engineers and project managers to get the new array online, validated and into production 2 weeks ahead of schedule.
  • Was the lead in getting the new VMware on AWS environment deployed and coordinated with other stakeholders to get workloads moved over to the new environment on time and on schedule.

Director of Systems Engineering

Valiant Solutions
01.2016 - 01.2019
  • Company Overview: Valiant is a leading provider of cloud-based Human Capital Management Solutions, serving business leaders nationwide in both the Security Guard and Hospitality markets.
  • Leads vision, strategy, and execution for all facets of hosting infrastructure, including physical servers, VMware virtual environments, Microsoft Azure instances, enterprise storage, backups and disaster recovery protocols, help desk operations, and desktop and laptop computers, with accountability for a $1M budget and the performance of an 8-person team of engineers, as well as negotiations with vendors. Maintains accountability for the deployment and patching of mission-critical software applications.
  • Exercises responsibility for 300 Windows and Linux servers running in a VMware vSphere 6 environment that includes nine physical Microsoft SQL 2008 servers with 37 running instances that host over 6000 databases.
  • Revolutionized the performance of the data center, transitioning 350 physical servers to virtual environments, lowering the number of racks by 50% in six months and reducing monthly power costs by 60%. Additionally, replaced legacy hardware, improving reliability and lowering support contract expenses.
  • Credited with implementing a new disaster recovery site in Garden City, New York featuring a recovery point objective of six hours and a return to operation target of six hours.
  • Achieved increased consistency while improving the ability to support laptop and desktop computers by rationalizing 15 models down to three. This led to lower support costs and a 30% gain in employee productivity.
  • Introduced a modern telephony solution that increased productivity while lowering subscription costs by 15%.
  • Generated $100K in annual savings by transitioning to an Exagrid backup solution featuring 60 days of backup on-site and three years stored in AWS, an improvement over storing 5 years of backup tapes on-site.
  • Key projects included the migration of a VMware 4.1/Hyper-V environment to VMware vSphere 6, completing a 6-month initiative in three months, as well as a migration of the data center from Dell to Cisco networking equipment, achieving milestones and deliverables three months ahead of schedule.

Manager of the Windows Server Support Team, Northwell Health Account

Allscripts
01.2013 - 01.2016
  • Company Overview: Allscripts provides physician practices, hospitals, and other healthcare providers with practice management and electronic health record technology. Allscripts also provides solutions for patient engagement and care coordination, as well as financial and analytics technology.
  • Effectively managed a 12-person team of engineers providing 24/7/365 support to 3700 servers distributed throughout 15 hospitals and 200 ambulatory care facilities of the third-largest health system in the Northeast, supporting approximately 65,000 end users. Responsible for system implementation, patches, upgrades, and change management. Hosted weekly meetings of the Change Advisory Board to review and approve change requests from the client.
  • Collaborated with design and implementation teams to rapidly deploy new server technologies across production, test, and quality assurance environments, including VMware 5.5 and Hyper-V.
  • Safeguarded mission critical Northwell Health systems by designing and deploying a disaster recovery plan to ensure the client’s ability to sustain hospital operations in the event of an unforeseen emergency.
  • Navigated a 1.5-year project involving a complex landscape of regulatory requirements, including HIPAA and PII management, to decommission a legacy data center at Lenox Hills Hospital and transition workloads to a collocated data center.
  • Delivered a 70% improvement in reliability by consolidating 10 print servers with over 4500 print queues throughout the Northwell Health System into four virtual print servers.
  • Replaced a legacy NAS with a Dell EMC Isilon Hybrid NAS, migrating 20 terabytes of information and achieving improved duplication capabilities and storage utilization.

Windows Server Build Team Lead

Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)
01.2008 - 01.2013
  • Company Overview: Computer Sciences Corporation provides information technology services and solutions in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. A demonstrated record of success and achievement, marked by a series of promotions to positions of increased influence and authority.
  • Directed 10 system administrators engaged in the deployment of Windows servers, virtual machines, and services for Boeing, a key client. Overall, deployed approximately 7500 servers to locations in the United States, Moscow, and Japan, handling communications between engineers and project management teams. As a Line of Service Manager, investigated and resolved issues ranging from server outages to issues impacting SAN and networks.
  • Captured gains in efficiency and productivity, lowering the cycle for simple Windows server deployments to five business days. Additionally, collaborated with delivery partners and clients to build 10-day and 20-day deployments into moderate and complex environments.
  • Introduced improvements to the server decommissioning and surplus process to lower the time required to remove obsolete servers from enterprise environments, accelerating asset re-deployment and new asset deployment to achieve project milestones and deliverables early and under-budget.
  • Early Career
  • Windows Server Business Unit Lead, Computer Sciences Corporation
  • Windows Technical Site Lead, Computer Sciences Corporation
  • Windows System Administrator, Computer Sciences Corporation

Skills

  • Cisco UCS
  • Windows Server (2016-2022)
  • VMware vSphere (67-80)
  • Microsoft Azure (AZ-900)
  • AWS
  • Commvault HyperScale X HCI
  • Pure FlashArray Storage
  • Veeam Backup & Replication

Accomplishments

Recovered a failed vendor driven Powerstore SAN array failure that took down production for the entire city of Nashville. We didn't loose a single virtual machine out of the 1000+ plus virtual machines we host.


Pushed a right sizing campaign to recover unused virtual machine resources and try to shrink our virtual environment to support lowering our VMWare VCF costs.


Designed and implemented a rapid fix to our backup environment to address the lack of backups caused by numerous technical and procedural issues.

Certification

  • NAVY SUBMARINE SCHOOL Journeyman Network Administration Certification
  • NAVY SUBMARINE SCHOOL Novadigm Radia Administration and Radia Package Publishing Certification
  • NAVY NETWORK INSTALL TEAM, USS TEXAS (SSN 775) Oracle 9i Database, Windows Servers, Routers
  • ORACLE 9I DBA BOOT CAMP Introduction to Oracle 9i SQL, Certification Oracle 9i Database: Fundamentals I, Certification Oracle 9i Database Fundamentals II, Certification
  • CompTIA Security+ Certification
  • Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Certified (AZ-900)
  • Microsoft Azure Administrator AZ-104T00

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Building and Leading IT Strategy
  • Infrastructure Management
  • Defining Project Management Strategy
  • Developing Resilient, Future-Proof Solutions
  • Assembling Top Teams
  • Quality Assurance and Testing
  • Expertise in Cost Containment
  • Experience in Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity
  • Aligning Technology and Business Strategy
  • Key Advisor to Enterprise Leaders
  • Managing and Migrating Data Center Operations
  • Surpassing Performance Targets

Languages

English

Interests

I am a musician, avid drone pilot and gamer in my free time I also have a fairly involved home lab where I deploy beta's and new tech where possible I work a lot with Docker and home storage solutions like Truenas Scale

Timeline

IS Division Manager – Server and Infrastructure

Nashville Metro IT Services
01.2023 - Current

IT Infrastructure Manager

Pathgroup
01.2021 - 01.2023

Systems Administrator III

American Credit Acceptance
01.2019 - 01.2021

Director of Systems Engineering

Valiant Solutions
01.2016 - 01.2019

Manager of the Windows Server Support Team, Northwell Health Account

Allscripts
01.2013 - 01.2016

Windows Server Build Team Lead

Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)
01.2008 - 01.2013

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