Zaccai Cokerson
Tinley Park,IL
Summary
- Highly energetic highly motivated extremely likable smart and strong professional passionate about and love tech. worked in business for a over 9 years, and have built my own cloud worked with server virtualization for over three and a half years. i love how technology improves the way businesses perform. i am excited about the cloud.
- Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
- To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.
- Enthusiastic Cloud Architect eager to contribute to team success through hard work, highly cognitive skill and excellent organizational skills.
- Clear understanding of the cloud. Motivated to learn, grow and excel in cloud architecting. Driven Cloud Systems Administrator with Three and a half years of experience in Active Directory execution.
- Proven history of managing complex infrastructures and data center operations. Expert in solutions-oriented business application problem-solving and dedicated to providing best-in-class service.
- Skilled at troubleshooting, communication and collaboration.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
Work History
Cloud Solution Architect/Active Directory Administrator
Samsung Service Center
San Francisco, CA
05.2021 - 02.2022
- Created and administered users, profiles and accounts, also maintaining systems accessibility and documentation.
- I AM, AAA.
- Granted the fewest privileges possible for application users within the customer's environment.
- Inventoried and categorized all existing custom applications deployed in AWS.
- Encrypted data stored in EBS as an added layer of security.
- Encrypted Amazon RDS as an added layer of security
- Performed security monitoring, security event triage, and incident response, coordinate with other team members and management to document and report incidents.
- Orchestrated integration and communication of software upgrades.
- Resolved issues and escalated problems with knowledgeable support and quality service.
- Achieved 100% customer satisfaction rate while administering highly available cum high performing cloud architecture.
- Designed high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) and backup strategies to meet application objectives Studied and analyzed complex system requirements
- Designed and deployed and managed dynamically scalable, available, fault-tolerant, and reliable applications on the Cloud. Selected appropriate Cloud services to design and deployed an application based on given requirements.
- Migrated complex, multi-tier applications on Cloud Platforms. Designed and deployed enterprise-wide scalable operations on Cloud Platforms.
- Implemented cost-control strategies for the customer's environment. Restricted access to instances to decrease the risk of malicious activities such as brute force attacks, SQL injections, or DDoS attacks. Managed AWS-provided portal account access credentials and privileges.
- Deployed Redshift in order to support data ware housing and post-incident forensic investigations for a given database.
- Led design of new Cloud technologies by partnering with application teams.
- Designed and implemented target cloud platform for migrations at scale.
- Defined and documented public cloud adoption best practices and strategies.
- Evaluated cloud technology alternatives and made a case for the best approach. Hands-on proof of concept work will be required in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS cloud products.
- As a last line of defense against a compromised account, I ensured all IAM users have multi-factor authentication activated for their individual accounts and limited the number of IAM users with administrative privileges.
- Led server infrastructure development, quality assurance, staging and production systems.
- Created AWS and Azure test environments to build proof of concepts for Dome9, Barracuda Guardian Security, CloudPassage in search of a topnotch Cloud Infrastructure visibility for customer's enterprise account monitoring.
- Collaborated with engineering and development teams to resolve application to platform integration issues for both IaaS and PaaS services.
- Deployed AppDynamics for Application monitoring and optimizations. Deployed SonarQube for static code analysis for customers code pipelines.
- Deployed CloudFormation to support proof of concept for code autoautomation IAAS/IAC.
Cloud Solution Architect
Ulta-Lit Technologies
Atlanta, GA
01.2019 - 05.2021
- Provided solution designs to meet system strategies, capabilities and technologies and to respond to current and future business requirements.
- Designed and built server virtualization on AWS Cloud
- Identified and remediated single points of failure and security risks.
- Provided architectural leadership and guidance to technical teams to deliver robust, highly scalable and cost-effective solutions.
- Defined cloud architecture for both hybrid and non-hybrid cloud solutions.
- Interfaced directly with customers, stakeholders and end-users regarding capability architectures, requirements use cases and stories to derive, develop and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications.
- Enhanced throughput of cloud storage by improving IOPS and enhancing output of the same. Implementing a robust autoscaling strategy.
- Performed seamless Migration processes and strategies from the network and data center to the cloud whilst ensuring cost effectiveness.
- Provided 2nd and 3rd level technical support and troubleshooting to internal and external clients.
- Recommended design changes to production systems in response to changing business process, capacity, risks and performance requirements.
- I AM, AAA. on AWS.
- Created and administered profiles and accounts, also assigned roles, policies and authentication for users.
- Resolved network issues and equipment and software troubleshooting queries to maintain data accessibility.
- Made recommendations regarding information technology infrastructure overhauls.
- Designed and evaluated WAN and LAN connectivity technologies.
- Enhanced availability of infrastructure through enterprise-wide planning, thorough testing, efficient implementation and comprehensive support.
- Created and administered profiles and accounts, also maintaining systems documentation.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Economics
OVERSEAS
ABUJA, NIGERIA11.2011
Skills
- Amazon Web Services
- Performance Monitoring and Optimization
- Team Collaboration
- Infrastructure Planning
- Migration
- Quick Learner
- Self Motivation
- Microsoft Azure
- Firewall Management
- Network Firewall Management
- Decision Making
- IP Addressing and Subnetting
- Problem Solving
- New Technology Integration
- Startup and Shutdown Management
Timeline
Cloud Solution Architect/Active Directory Administrator
Samsung Service Center
05.2021 - 02.2022
Cloud Solution Architect
Ulta-Lit Technologies
01.2019 - 05.2021
Bachelor of Science - Economics
OVERSEAS
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