USHEALTH Advisors

Licensed Health Professional.

Have access to all health coverage plans both public and private. Helping individuals, families, self employed, and small businesses maximize benefits while minimizing cost. 

Have the support of US Health Advisors a UnitedHealthCare company, a community of people focused on HOPE by Helping Other People Everyday.

Licensed Health Professional

Milestone Growth Partners

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SureClosing

Georgia-Pacific LLC

IT Project Manager

Intern

Alpha One Media

IT Support Specialist

Advance Parking Solutions

Account Manager

PurpleBox, Inc.

Helping individuals, families, & businesses find affordable health coverage solutions

In the corporate world, we all have that 'what if?' itch. 

That daring idea of carving our own path. 

I've been there, staring at the walls of my 9-5 job, feeling the pull of something greater. 

I made my move, first to the thrills of real estate investment, got close to the 7-figure mark. But the journey didn't end there.

The shift from corporate comfort to the entrepreneurial wasn't without its fears—the biggest being the loss of health benefits.

Today, I spearhead a health insurance agency.

Helping self-employed individuals and small business owners with the confidence to embrace their entrepreneurial spirit.

We don't just find health plans; we engineer peace of mind so you can continue scaling your business and NOT have to worry about getting or providing health insurance for your business.

If you're a budding entrepreneur, solopreneur, freelancer, consultant, or small business owner seeking health insurance options, reach out. 

Let's make your entrepreneurial journey a well-insured one.

Brian Phan

Dell SecureWorks

• Team manages the platform hosted on multiple AWS accounts and helps squads responsible for developing and supporting various applications hosted on the platform. 
• Support migrating applications into AWS and provide continued support.
• Automating, and maintaining multiple openshift clusters in AWS  including day2day  activities -  Scaling up/down a number of hosts, certificate renewals,  and general patching and maintenance.
• Responsible for integrating with observability and monitoring systems for  RedHat Openshift clusters and other AWS/non-AWS resources(vault/consul/keycloak/harbor) used to host varios applications. 
• Observability systems include Datadog, Wavefront, PagerDuty and Rundeck.
• Cluster upgrades and cost savings solutions both in infrastructure and monitoring systems.
• Responsible for reviewing HA, and regular DR testing of pilot & and production clusters.
• Team responsible for reviewing security and applying vulnerability fixes.
•  Extensive exposure into core AWS cloud services - design and implementation of VPC, EC2, EBS, S3, Security Group, RDS, ELB, KMS,  IAM, DirectConnect, and EMR. and more  Dealing with cloud networking and security challenges

Site Reliability Engineer - DevOps - Cloud Platform Engineering 

Secureworks

•BigData Platform handles security events exposing data for search, forensic investigation, analytics, and data-science purposes. ingest and enrich over 300 billion security events per day (3.5 million/second)
•Key platform technologies used >> Cloudera CDH - Hadoop, HDFS, Hive, Impala, Kafka, AWS – S3, Elasticsearch, Kibana Logstash, EMR, and more 
•Using JIRA, Confluence, Terraform, GIT, Chef, and Ansible to keep on top of day-to-day operations. 
•Migration of existing on-prem/legacy workload and capabilities into the Cloud AWS.
•During various stages of migration we have operated in Private, Public, and Hybrid cloud models.
•Ensure Business continuity and high availability of our data and services so the changes are transparent to the user.
•Migration to open-source technologies, reduce license costs and vendor dependencies.
•Moved on-prem machines across physical locations, Migrated from RedHat to CentOS
•Migration of on-prem servers from a legacy platform to a private cloud ( SDDC, vRA)
•Decommissioning legacy applications and hardware.
•Setup and manage Cloudera BDR - backup disaster recovery for HDFS and Hive metastore 
•AWS route53 hosted zone, Infoblox for DNS management to solve DNS problems working in a hybrid model.
•PagerDuty, Datadog, Wavefront, Cloudwatch integration, Microsoft Teams - setting up a channel and its "incoming webhook"
•hdfs balancer to rebalance data across datanodes and disks, especially after replacing a faulty one
•Changed disk type and encryption of running cluster.

Consultant - Cloud/Bigdata

Lloyds Banking Group

• Sr consultant responsible from day0 for designing, implementing, securing and supporting Big Data infrastructure for different business use cases and applications.
• Lead Implemention of high availability appropriate for components in the Hadoop ecosystem - HDFS, Hbase, YARN, Hive, Oozie, Zookeeper, Flume, Kafka, Solr, Ranger, etc.
•DR Replication solution suitable for individual use-case and application - HBase replication, Kafka Mirror Maker, HDFS snapshot replication, and Hive replication using Falcon-Oozie.
•Migration of Hadoop Clusters including Live Production to strategic DCs and securing behind firewalls maintaining availability for business services.
•User Access to Hadoop services – Authentication and authorization using  Kerberos, Ranger, SSSD, QAS, CyberArk, HDFS ACL, and Knox.
•HDFS, HBase, and Kafka sizing to deliver scalable solutions. YARN tuning to improve performance.
Implementation of security by introducing and managing components below:-
•Kerberos Integration for all cluster services. LDAP and Active Directory integration.
•Implementation and configuration of Ranger and design of security policies to adhere to Organisations security standards.Implement and Manage Knox Gateway for a single point of authentication and access for Hadoop services.
•Troubleshooting day-to-day issues on Hadoop clusters - route to live Dev, Test, Pre-Prod, and Prod/DR

Lead BigData Hadoop Administrator ( Contract )

Lead a team of 5 to 10 for various projects, listing just few. 
1. Internet Banking: Led a team building 1200+ Linux servers for one of the biggest digital transformation projects including re-platforming from AIX to Linux. Responsibilities involved Installation, configuration, and support of various operating systems. Configured Linux, was new to the bank, to provide a number of different services such as Database (Oracle dataguard, DB2 ), IBM Websphere, IBM IHS, and many more. Successfully tested many Linux distributions such as Redhat, CentOS, and Debian (Ubuntu). 
2. Setting up a platform for bank merger: Worked extensively on IBM technologies - AIX, PowerHA, MicroPartitioning (LPAR) on IBM System Power5, 6 and 7 servers. This includes all aspects of creating and installing of single and dual Virtual I/O Servers (VIOS) and logical partitions in both stand-alone and PowerHA configurations – additionally setting up and making use of a centralised NIM server for AIX gold image deployment. Implemented IBM GPFS-based solution providing high IO throughput from multiple nodes to a common set of data for SAS-based application. For maintaining and meeting growing business needs have done various projects on the same GPFS cluster like planning and migrating Storage for GPFS and PowerHA-based infrastructure also have added additional storage and LPARs into the working GPFS cluster.

UNIX Technical Lead

Wipro

Associate Consultant

Project 1: TATA Capital Limited, DCO Infrastructure Support
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 System Integration for TCL Project. The customer had IBM P595,P570,MMA,FHA model servers ,with around 110 LPARS configured along with  IBM DS8300  and DS4400 Storage, TSM3310 tape library, Brocade and Cisco SAN Director. Sizing of Hardwares. Installation, upgradation, of IBM P-Series server hardware.Installation and administration of VIO servers & Client LPARS, HACMP clusters for critical Applications. Managing IBM DS8300, 4400 Storage, CISCO MDS 9509 SAN switches.Attaching host systems to the SAN switches, creating zones, creating and assigning LUN’s from storage. Planning for the Micro code upgrades in the environment.
Project 2: PD Hinduja Hospital 
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Installation of SUN T2000, v245 series servers & installation of the same with Solaris 10. IPMP Configuration & RAID configuration with SVM.  Coordination with EMC for installation of EMC Clarion 310 & CENTERA storage’s. Support for existing v880 servers & other Intel based hardware’s like basic user management, file system management & disk management with backend support from SUN.

AIX & Storage Administration

HCL Infosystems Ltd

Server Hardware implementation and support for major clients in Mumbai like MTNL, Onida, Reliance Power, Dena bank, Canara Bank, District Courts . Service and call out support for Key Customers.
Design, Implementation and support of Sun, HP, HCL, Midrange/Entry level Servers, Printers, Switches
Hardware trouble shooting and problem solving on various intel, sparc and RISC based machines

Sr Systems Engg

An accomplished Infrastructure Consultant and Technical lead managing servers, storage infrastructure and data-centre operations across various platforms over different locations. Effectively plan, configure, and optimize IT infrastructure to achieve high availability, security, and performance. Extensive experience interacting with business owners, project managers, solution architects, application teams and third-party vendors to ascertain expectations and deliver top quality products. Proven ability to create and deliver solutions tied to business growth, organizational development, and systems/network optimization. Comfortable managing teams, projects, and platforms in a range of IT environments. Known for being committed, keen learner of new tech as well as mentor for beginners with a drive to achieve results and ensuring projects and workloads are delivered in a timely manner.

Relevant latest Industry certifications
>>Cloud - AWS Advanced Networking - Speciality 
>>Cloud - AWS Certified Security - Specialty
>>BigData - Hadoop HDPCA Hortonworks
>>Cloud - Amazon AWS SysOps Administrator - Associate
>>Cloud - Amazon AWS Solution Architect Associate
>>Cloud - Amazon AWS Cloud Practitioner
>>Cloud - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations

Key areas of interest.
Cloud ​: Amazon AWS - VPC, DirectConnect,  EC2, ELB, EBS, Security Groups, NACLs, S3, RDS, Route53, IAM, BigData specialty offerings, and more.
Big Data​:   Hortonworks HDP & Cloudera CDH stack, Elastic Search, Kafka  - Design, Implementation, Security, Administration, AWS EMR. 
DevOps Tools: Terraform, Vagrant, Docker, BitBucket, Jira, Chef, PagerDuty, Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift.
Security: AWS IAM, KMS, Cloud HSM, Ranger, AD, LDAP, Kerberos, SSL, SSH, OS hardening
Disaster Recovery and Cluster Migration: Data replication Hbase, HDFS-distcp with  Falcon and Oozie, Kafka MirrorMaker, WANdisco Fusion
OS:  AIX, Linux ( CentOS, RedHat, Ubuntu), Solaris, HP-UX, SCO-Unix, Novel Netware, Windows
Hardware: Dell PowerEdge R720, HP DL 380 for Hadoop, IBM Power, x86, Oracle Sun, HP 9000 Series.
High Availability: Hadoop components, HACMP, GPFS, Veritas, SFT-III, 
Virtualization: IBM Power VM, LPAR/VIO, LPM, VMware, HP IVM
Storage & SAN: IBM storage DS4K & 8K, Cisco MDS 9k, Brocade 
Tape libraries: IBM 3xxx series, SUN StorEdge

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