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Miguel Ramirez

Miguel Ramirez

Guadalajara

Summary

Core Infrastructure Lead Consultant specialized but not limited to Operative Systems, Compute and Virtualization solutions with 20 years of experience designing, implementing and integrating resilient, scalable complex IT Ecosystems. Expert in leading technical teams, driving projects, and providing strategic guidance to optimize IT environments and deliver business value. Seeking a challenging role to architect and implement cutting-edge solutions.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Core Infrastructure Lead Consultant

AstraZeneca
02.2023 - Current
  • Design, implement and manage resilient and scalable OS/Compute infrastructure solutions, aligning with business objectives and security best practices,
  • Led complex infrastructure projects, including onprem migrations and data center transitions, ensuring minimal downtime and rapid recovery.
  • Execute relevant changes to the enviromnet that ensure KTLO, and the be the go to consultant during MIM.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to team members, resolving complex technical challenges and driving project success.
  • Contribute to the design and implementation of disaster recovery and business continuity plans.

Key Projects:

  • Neogene Acquisition Transition & Migration: Architecting and implementing a secure and scalable infrastructure migration, aligning with enterprise standards.
  • Alexion Workload Migration: Led the migration of critical workloads to a new infrastructure, ensuring business continuity and optimal performance.

Windows Engineering Sr. Specialist Advisor

NTT Data Services / DELL / Perot Systems
09.2006 - 02.2023
  • Served as a senior virtualization infrastructure expert and technical lead, providing architectural guidance and support for complex environments.
  • Designed and implemented end-to-end infrastructure solutions for diverse clients across various industries, including healthcare, life science and commercial sectors. Optimizing performance, security, and data integrity.
  • Led critical incident responses, including disaster recovery and ransomware remediation, ensuring business continuity.
  • Designed IT transition methodologies for reusability.
  • Implemented and optimized virtualization technologies, enhancing resource utilization, and streamlining infrastructure.
  • Led numerous infrastructure projects, defining technical requirements, managing timelines, and guiding cross-functional teams.

Key Projects:

  • Led the transition architecture, aligned large virtualized environment into NTTD Enterprise model.
  • Architected and implemented a strategic transformation of business processes, migrating from vRO to RPA Power Automate. This initiative involved a comprehensive analysis of existing infrastructure, resulting in the design and deployment of automated workflows that significantly improved efficiency and operational agility.
  • Designed and implemented Nutanix SDDC solutions for mission critical including BCP plan.
  • Developed and implemented security hardening strategies, including GPO policies and PowerShell scripts, to mitigate over 60,000 Windows CVE vulnerabilities.
  • Designed and implemented Azure SSO solutions for improved identity management for enterprise applications.
  • Led and played a pivotal role during disaster recovery and business continuity scenarios, minimizing downtime, and ensuring the rapid recovery of critical systems for various customers.
  • Performed cloud readiness assessments and capacity planning with the use of Turbonomic.

Education

Diploma - Quantum Compute

TEC de Monterrey
08.2024

Master’s - Management of Information Technologies

Universidad TEC Milenio
12.2020

Bachelors - Electronic Engineering & Computer Science

Centro de Enseñanza Técnica Industrial (CETI)
12.2005

Skills

  • Compute and Virtualization Solutions
  • IT Transition Methodologies based on TOGAF
  • Enterprise Architect Framework
  • Project Management , ITIL v3
  • TCP/IP Network principles & Solutions
  • Storage and Backup Solution principles
  • Relational and non-relational database principles solutions
  • Problem Solving
  • Azure Solutions Architect
  • Microsoft 365 Administration
  • Azure SSO , Identity Management
  • Azure Stack running on HPE, CISCO HW
  • Windows as Platform
  • Roles, & Features Expert AD, DNS, DHCP, DFS, ADFS, ADCS, RDS, Hyper-V
  • CISCO intersight, Flexpod, Metrocluster
  • UCS Series & Fabric Interconnects
  • VMware vsphere VCSA & ESX 5, 6, 7, 8
  • VSAN 66 and vSAN Ready Nodes
  • OS Driven Performance Optimization
  • Turbonomic
  • AWS Services
  • VMC o AWS
  • DevOps, SRE, CI/CD Basics
  • AS400, Linux Red Hat 5, 6, 7
  • HCI - Nutanix AOS, AHV, PE, PC
  • Scale IO VCE vBlock
  • NetApp HCI
  • Json scripts , YAML , Batch File, PowerShell , CLI, ARM IaC principles
  • Dell PowerEdge, Rack Mount, & Blade Generation 11/14
  • HP ProLiant, HPEC7000
  • Technical Writing, MS Office Tools
  • Manage DynDNS
  • Carbonite (aka Double Take)
  • Replistor (deprecated by EMC)
  • Avamar, NetBackup 7
  • Tanium, SCCM

Certification

  • Azure Solution Architect Expert. Passed AZ-900, AZ-104, AZ-303 & AZ-305, 03/01/22
  • Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate. Passed AZ-800, AZ-801, 09/01/24
  • Cyber Security Specialist Certification, ALAPSI, 08/01/20, 09/01/24
  • Project Management Certification based on PMBoK, ITERA, 04/01/20
  • AWS Technical Essentials, IT Institute, 04/01/20
  • Nutanix Certified Professional 5.5, 05/01/19
  • VMware Certified Professional 5.5, 6.0, 6.5, VMW-00935373M-00363593, 12/31/20
  • Turbonomic ACE Certification, 07/01/18
  • MCP Windows 2012, 01/01/16

Training

· 2024: Degreed – Enterprise   Architect University  (in progress)

· 2024: Tec /   AstraZeneca - Diplomate in Quantum Compute

· 2024: ESI Microsoft   - Hybrid Engineer Certification (exams 800 & 801)

· 2022: Microsoft ESI    ADCS, AD, Hybrid Identity, MS ADFS   Troubleshooting

· 2022: Percipio |   NTTD Institute - AWS Architecture & Infrastructure

· 2022: Microsoft WorkshopPLUS   | Windows Server: Vital Signs & 2019 Features

· 2022: Microsoft ESI   | Azure - Instructor Training: AZ-400 (Azure DevOps)

· 2022: Microsoft ESI   | Azure - Instructor Training: SC-300 ( IAM )

· 2021: Microsoft ESI   | Azure - Instructor Training: AZ-900, AZ-303/304

· 2021: Microsoft ESI   | Azure - Instructor Training AZ-104

· 2020: TecMilenio   University - AWS Technical Essentials

· 2020: VMware - NSX   self-paced training, Testking course for VCP-NV exam

· 2020: EMC - Dell   vxrack HCI (Vendor Official Training)

· 2019: VMware -   vSphere Optimize and Scale V6.5 Official Training

· 2019: Nutanix N.C.P   5.5 HCI (Vendor Official Training)

· 2019: NTTDATA -   Cisco Hyperflex (Vendor Official Training)

· 2019: VMware vSAN   v6.6 (Vendor Official Training)

· 2018: Turbonomic   ACE Certification (Vendor Official Training)

· 2013: VMware VCP5   ICM (Vendor Official Training)

Personal Information

  • LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miguel-angel-ramirez-49ab3697
  • Age: 45
  • Visa: B1-B2 | Expiry: 01/21/28
  • Place of Birth: Guadalajara, Mexico
  • Date of Birth: 09/13/79
  • Nationality: Mexican
  • Marital Status: Married

Languages

  • English, Fluent
  • Spanish, Mother Tongue

Hobbies and Interests

  • Spend time with my Family
  • Practice Boxing and other Sports
  • Play the Guitar
  • Enthusiastic of Theory of Physics, and Quantum Cumpute.

Timeline

Core Infrastructure Lead Consultant

AstraZeneca
02.2023 - Current

Windows Engineering Sr. Specialist Advisor

NTT Data Services / DELL / Perot Systems
09.2006 - 02.2023

Diploma - Quantum Compute

TEC de Monterrey

Master’s - Management of Information Technologies

Universidad TEC Milenio

Bachelors - Electronic Engineering & Computer Science

Centro de Enseñanza Técnica Industrial (CETI)
Miguel Ramirez