Armen Minasyan
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Airspace Engineering
Tashkent State Aviation Institute
1992 : 1997
Designs, develops, and oversees architecture of end-to-end integrated systems and applications. Engineers, deploys, and manages networks, systems and platforms.
Develops strategies for data acquisition and archive recovery. Provides technical consulting and support across the network, facilitating use of systems architectural design solutions that consider costs, as well as complexities of systems changes.
Ensures alignment of infrastructure strategy and operations with business goals. Provides subject matter expertise with respect to information architecture and emerging industry trends in systems procedures across multiple domains. Gains organizational commitment for all high-level infrastructure plans through addressing asset management and capacity planning, as well as infrastructure implementation and ongoing maintenance and support. Initiates and participates in projects to evaluate technologies and implementation methods. Develops documents, communicates, and enforces server management and PC workstation/mobile device support.
2021 : Present
MorganFranklin Consulting
Senior Director, Global Workplace Services, Cybersecurity
Reporting to the CIO, responsible for the daily technology operations of the company. Responsible for ensuring seamless delivery of managed services for cloud infrastructure. “Hands-on” management oversight of all information systems and data center operations. Vendor management for product licensing and services. Oversight of the corporate Help Desk team and their efforts. Oversight of the team of system admins and engineers. Responsible for the company's Cybersecurity efforts, including the handling of day-to-day threats. Monitoring service levels of on-site and off-site IT assets. Leading Merger and Acquisition projects across NY Region for newly acquired companies.
2019 : 2021
Compass
Senior IT Manager (IT Director)
Responsible for all aspects of Information Systems in four offices with a user base of 350 agents. “Hands-on” management oversight of all information systems help-desk and data center operations. Supervises a team comprising system engineers. Manage and support day-to-day IT Help desk operations. Monitoring service levels of on-site and off-site IT assets. Provide leadership on a number of projects, including migrating to Office 365 Enterprise, conversion to fully virtualized infrastructure based on VMware vCenter vSphere, LAN/WAN design and implement into two new locations, conversion from Nortel Digital PBX system to hosted VoIP Cisco system. . Proactively monitor, investigate and remediate Internal and external threats using various tools including SolarWinds, Netwrix, CyberArk, Splunk, Varonis etc. Remediate risk findings from assessments, and draft risk exceptions/acceptances.
2013 : 2019
Stribling & Associates
Director of IT
Had overall responsibilities for Stribling 24x7x365 IT department operations. Oversaw the design, implementation and maintenance of Stribling Windows/Linux/Unix, IT Server/Client and Remote Access infrastructure. Managed IT operational staff to provide 24x7x365 system engineering and help desk L1-L3 support to Stribling Broker/User community. Responsible for external technology and technical vendors as it relates to service, contracts, pricing and agreement in place between Stribling, technical vendors and equipment/service provider. Maintained annual IT budget.
2012 : 2019
Stribling & Associates
Associate Director of IT
Had overall responsibilities for Stribling 24x7x365 IT department operations. Oversees the design, implementation and maintenance of Stribling Windows/Linux/Unix, IT Server/Client and Remote Access infrastructure. Manage IT operational staff to provide 24x7x365 system engineering and help desk L1-L3 support to Stribling Broker/User community. Responsible for external technology and technical vendor’s as it relates to service, contracts, pricing and agreement in place between Stribling, technical vendors and equipment/service provider. Maintains annual IT budget.
2010 : 2012
Stribling & Associates
Sr. Systems Manager
Skills
active directory, ASA, Blackberry Enterprise Server, CCNA, CCNP, Cisco Call Manager, Cisco Technologies, Cloud Computing, Computer Hardware, Data Center, DHCP, disaster recovery, DNS, Firewalls, Help Desk Support, Information Technology, infrastructure, IT Management, LAN-WAN, MCSE, microsoft exchange, Microsoft Technologies, Negotiation, NetApp, Network Administration, Network Architecture, Network Design, Network Engineering, Networking, Network Security, Operating Systems, Project Management, routing, SAN, Security, Selling, servers, SharePoint, Storage, Switches, System Administration, System Deployment, VDI, Virtualization, VLAN, VMware, VMware ESX, VoIP, VPN, windows, Blackberry Enterprise
About
Dynamic professional with 20+ years of experience and skills in all areas of IT. Skilled in Enterprise Software, Enterprise Architecture, ITIL, IT Strategy, and Data Center. Ability to effectively communicate with all levels of management and varied departments. Broad technical expertise in the design and development of the network, data center, and related solutions as well as ensuring the health, integrity, scalability, and availability of the environment. Core competencies include:
Application & Infrastructure Optimization • Strategic Business & Technology Planning • Team Building & Leadership • Merger & Acquisition Integration • Budget Planning & Management • Cost Reduction & Avoidance
Hands-on experience:
• Virtualization: VMWare 5.0 – 7.0 servers’ virtualization and Desktop VDI (Horizon View).
• Storage solutions including Cisco UCS, Dell EqualLogic, EMC Stack including VNX, CX, and VNXe series of storage solutions.
• Experience with SaaS, PaaS and IaaS: Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure.
• Heavy experience with Microsoft Azure, ADFS, and Microsoft Office 365/Exchange Online, SharePoint Online.
• Broad knowledge on different platforms including Windows and Apple Mac computers, Windows Servers, Linux/UNIX OS, IBM AS400.
• Expert on Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, Microsoft Exchange 2000-2019.
• Strong knowledge in Routing and Switching, WAN/LAN technologies.
• Security infrastructure implementations; Firewalls, Routers, Switches, Security Appliances (Cisco ASA and Firepower, Netwrix, Splunk), Watchguard, Fortinet, Kerio, Aruba.
• Backup & Disaster Recovery Solutions (Veritas/Symantec Back Up Exec, Veeam Backup solutions, etc.).
• Microsoft SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and IBM Informix Database Administration.
• Capacity planning and performance management.
• Zendesk and SNOW (ServiceNow) Ticketing System Setup and Administration
• Tanium, Axonius, Site24/7
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