Victor Santoro

Sharon Springs, NY 13459 contact@victorsantoro.com

With a passion for all things tech, I can provide a comprehensive range of expertise in cloud solutions, software development, data management, and engineering. As an industry professional, I can bring extensive knowledge and experience to the table, ensuring top-notch solutions tailored to your unique business needs. Whether you're looking to migrate your infrastructure to the cloud, develop cutting-edge software applications and internal tooling, optimize data management processes, start a new website, start accepting online payments, or engineer robust solutions, I am here to guide you every step of the way. With a commitment to delivering excellence and staying at the forefront of technological advancements, I will help you navigate the ever-evolving world of technology.

Experience

Sr. Manager - Data & Software Engineering

MFR Consultants - MFRConsultants.com

Senior IT consultant for multiple projects/clients.
Development of internal Proof-Of-Concept applications.
Development of internal software tooling.
Management and development of Azure cloud services.
Development, management, and SEO strategy of company website.
Client engagements for technology deliverables.
RFP/Proposal development.
New technology invention/patents.
IT environment assessments (current,future,gap)

2020 - Present

Software Engineer - Team Lead

GID Global - GE Renewable Energy

Engineering a high availability messaging data pipeline to stream data for 30,000 wind turbines from edge to AWS cloud.
Using SQL/ NoSQL Databases, Docker, Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS (IAM,S3,EC2,EKS).
Development in GE Predix Cloud and AWS.
Automated deployment using Jenkins & GitHub.

2016 - 2020

Database Developer - Team Lead

GID Global - GE Power

Database Design, Development, and Administration.
Creation of ETL jobs in GreenPlum data warehouse to feed applications and reports.
PHP Web Development for 30+ web applications.
Oracle / MySQL / SQL Server Development.
Migration of applications to AWS.

2013 - 2016

Technical Specialist / Data Analyst

Granite International - GE Power

SQL Reporting (PL/SQL,T-SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL).
Familiar with SQL tools such as SQLDeveloper, Toad, SQL Plus, DBeaver, and PGAdmin.
Migration of a Tier 1 GE application (Project Net to EC2 Documentum).
User administration in Oracle Primavera.
Custom built python software solutions.
Web integrations with Google Search Appliance.

2008 - 2012

Technical Specialist

AirPage Communications Group

Database development in Oracle, MySQL, and Access. HTML/CSS Web Development.
Small business networking.
Successfully improved monthly billing routines by developing automated Batch & Shell scripts.
Served as the primary contact for technical issues for over 4,000 customers.
Working with UNIX Based Paging System.

2000 - 2007

Technical Support

GTECH - NY State Lottery

Support NY State lottery clients with ordering and technical issues.

1999 - 2000

Azure Cloud Developer

Annie Selke Companies - Part Time Contractor

Designed and implemented multiple Azure Data Factory pipelines for critical sales and inventory data.
Automated IAM provisioning workflows, accelerating new-user onboarding.
Built real-time cloud alerts via Azure Monitor, reducing incident response times.

Web Specialist

Blue Zenith Design & Strategy - Part Time Contractor

Updated and secured multiple WordPress sites, applying custom PHP plugins and optimizing MySQL queries to improve page load speeds.
Developed Looker dashboards to visualize key client KPIs, driving an increase in data-driven decision-making.

Education

Mildred Elley College

Degree: Information Technology

GPA: 3.6

2001 -2004

Certifications

  • Microsoft - CyberSecurity
  • ScrumAlliance - Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • GE Predix Certified Developer


    • CSM CSM

Skills

Software
  • HTML/CSS
  • PHP
  • JavaScript
  • NodeJS
  • Python
  • Kafka / Zookeeper
  • OAuth2
  • Batch, VBScript, Shell
Data
  • Oracle
  • SQL Server
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • NoSQL - Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra
  • Data Engineering
  • Data Modeling
  • Data Analysis & ETL
Architecture
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • AWS (IAM, EC2, S3, CloudWatch, RDS, etc)
  • Azure (ADF, IAM, VM, Active Directory, OpenAI Cognitive, SQL Databases, SQL Server, etc)
  • ChatGPT / Azure OpenAI Language Model Development/Integration
  • Web Servers - NGINX, Apache, IIS, Wamp
  • Virtual Machines
Yes, even more
  • Atlassian Jira
  • Atlassian Confluence
  • Rally
  • ServiceNow
  • EMC Documentum
  • Docker
  • Agile Development / Certified ScrumMaster
  • ElasticSearch / Logstash / Kibana (ELK)

Interests

I enjoy spending time with my family, taking trips to the caribbean, and playing with my dogs. I have spent my entire career in technology and it is part of my every day life. I have never stopped learning and developing new technical skills and will continue to apply those skills to help the people that are struggling in the technology space. I am an technology agnostic, an open thinker, and welcome new ideas. Lets collaborate together.

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