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Daniel Cartagena

@danielcartagena1

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I build secure, resilient cloud infrastructure across Azure, AWS, and FedRAMP environments.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I'm seeking a long-term role with an organization that values professional growth and advancement, where I can build secure, resilient cloud infrastructure, improve reliability, reduce operational costs, and mentor technical teams.

I'm leading Azure Government infrastructure design and configuration at DSS Inc. in a FedRAMP High environment, maintaining STIG compliance for VA and commercial applications.

I manage and optimize Azure and AWS infrastructure across more than 700 servers, define SLOs and SLIs, redesign disaster recovery, and serve as the primary production on-call escalation. My PowerShell automation reduced application update installation time from more than 90 minutes to under 10.

Across DSS, Next Choice Advisors/Alleaves, and Unified Women’s Healthcare, I've delivered major cloud and infrastructure savings, including approximately $120K in annual backup savings, $36K annually through an AWS HA redesign, and more than $600K over three years through a backup solution.

I've supported enterprise VMware, Hyper-V, AWS, Active Directory, O365, SAN storage, networking, and data center environments across healthcare, federal, nonprofit, call-center, startup, and MSP organizations. I value trust, accountability, and communication, and I enjoy mentoring administrators while building reliable systems.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

System Engineer

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Document Storage Systems Inc. (DSS Inc.)

Aug 2021 - Present (5 years 1 month)

Lead design and configuration of Microsoft Azure Government infrastructure in a FedRAMP High environment, maintaining STIG compliance. Define and monitor SLOs/SLIs for VA and commercial applications, and manage Azure/AWS infrastructure across 700+ servers.

Azure AWS FedRAMP PowerShell Windows Server AI Disaster Recovery Virtualization

Sr. System Engineer

Next Choice Advisors / Alleaves

Dec 2020 - Aug 2021 (8 months)

Owned design, configuration, and management of AWS infrastructure for the Alleaves platform. Led a multi-zone HA redesign and managed O365 environments for multiple clients.

AWS O365 Networking Infrastructure

Sr. System Engineer

Unified Women’s Healthcare

Oct 2018 - Dec 2020 (2 years 2 months)

Managed a 250+ server VMware environment and SAN storage for critical systems. Led data center migration and implemented a backup solution that saved over $600K across 3 years.

VMWare PowerShell Data Center Migration Backup Solutions

System Analyst

Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County (NPO)

Jun 2018 - Sep 2018 (3 months)

Managed the Hyper-V environment and led an Exchange 2010 to O365 migration. Configured switching, firewalls, and datacenter hardware while supporting a mixed Windows/Mac environment.

Hyper V Exchange O365 Networking Firewalls

System Engineer, R&D Engineer

TenX Healthcare (Startup)

Jul 2017 - Mar 2018 (8 months)

Built and supported the company’s virtualized infrastructure and AWS EC2 environment. Deployed an RFID and Bluetooth Low Energy tracking solution for the TenX platform.

AWS EC2 Virtualization

System Administrator

C3 / Customer Contact Channels

Sep 2011 - Jun 2017 (5 years 9 months)

Maintained Active Directory for 10,000+ users and managed a 300+ server VMware environment. Migrated 1,400 users from Exchange 2013 to O365 and SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint Online.

Active Directory VMWare Exchange O365 SharePoint Citrix