SUMMARY

• Over 20 years of experience Solutions Architect, Project and Program Management, computer software, computer hardware, system administration, system security, application support, network design, network management and network security.
• Over 18 years of experience in LAN, WAN Networking and programming with good experience in installation, configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco Routers and Switches. Served as the following in these capacities;
• Principal Solutions/Migration/Cloud Architect - Application/Infrastructure/Workload Migration
• Solutions Architect - AD Domain design and implementation (Windows 2000, 2003, 2008, 2012, 2016)
• Solutions Architect - Exchange 2007, 2010, 2016 Unified Messaging Implementation
• Solutions Architect - VMware design and implementation (ESX and virtualization)
• Solutions Architect - Citrix environment design and implementation (Citrix, Zen and remote access)
• Solutions Architect - Data Center design and implementation (Data Center Build-out and design)
• Systems Architect - Network design and implementation (Cisco, LAN and WAN)
• Systems Architect - Messaging design and implementation (Exchange, Lotus notes migration)
• Implement ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) Standards

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Programming Languages: VB Scripts, ASP

Software/Databases: MS Active Directory, MS Exchange 5.5/2000/2003 Server, MS Outlook 98/2000, Netscape Mail, Eudora Mail, Lotus Notes, Seagate Backup, VERITAS NetBackup, Brightstor, ARC Server. IIS 4.0, BMC Patrol, CA UniCenter TNG 2.x, HP-OpenView, SQL 2000 and SQL 2005, MOSS, SharePoint Server, Microsoft Cluster Manager, Citrix, Proxy Server, MS Office, Clear Case, Clear Quest, Rational Rose, DICOM, Citrix MetaFrame, VMware tools, Platespin, Shavlik, Commvault.EMC Greenplum

Operating Systems: Windows 2003/2000/2008 R2/2012R2/NT 4.0/95/98/3.11 , Sun Solaris 7/8, Linux Red Hat, Novell NetWare 4.11, VMware

Hardware: Compaq Proliant Servers, Dell Power Edge 4400/1300/300 , RAID, Compaq, IBM Compatible PC, Sun SPARC E250, E450, Ultra E3000, HP DLT Tape Libraries, EMC Symmetrix, IBS Shark, Cisco 1600/1700/2600/3600/4000/7000/7200 Series Routers, Cisco 1900/2900XL/2948G/L3/4908G/L3/5000, /5500/6509 Series Catalyst Switches, Cisco Hubs, 3 COM Hubs, Load Balancer

Networking: LAN, WAN, Ethernet, TCP/IP, X.25, PPP, Frame Relay, ISDN, ATM, SNMP, LDAP, DNS, VPN, PIX Firewall, VOIP, DHCP, DNS, SAN, TAN

Tools: Dameware, IRemote, Advanced Unistaller, BIGINFO, Dell OpenManage, IBM Director, HP OpenView, Quest ARS, Quest GPMC, Ghost, FileZilla, GPO Tools, Microsoft Tools, PCAnywhere, and Custom tools.:

Web Applications: Hyperion, MIIS, OpenText LES/LEA, Powershell, JBoss,Weblogic, Tomcat, IIS, Apache

Methodologies: Testing, Project Management, Disaster Recovery, Asset Management, Client/Server

Cloud Technology: AWS, Azure, Google

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SENIOR SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Was engaged on both individual projects and engage with the client to deliver other consulting engagements across Consulting and Confidential customers. Serve as Application / Migration Architect responsible for the strategic and detail planning involved in discover, analyze, design, build and execute for complex datacenter migrations. As a team lead, I used my deep infrastructure and application knowledge of migration to lead a team including project managers, technical architects, and delivery engineers.
• Help with identifying business cost saving opportunities by exploring, architecting and implementing smart solutions such as cloud migration and data center consolidation projects. Migrated AIX, SQL, Oracle, ETL and Data warehouse servers.
• Solution Architecture for cloud migration for COTS applications. Public or private cloud (AWS, Azure)
• Scoped new projects, including definition of effort, development of cost & benefits, and statement of work.
• Provided support to sales executives to close consulting deals and initiate consulting projects.
• Guided engagement execution around methodology & approach to ensure timeliness & quality of deliverables meet client expectations.
• Provided thought leadership (both internally and externally) on area(s) of subject matter expertise, including managing/mentoring team members, providing reusable content in the way of presentations, white papers and point of views.
• Developed input on strategic content as commissioned by clients that is focused on solving business issues.
• Made Recommendations and perspectives for strategic-level focused on solving broad problems with multiple tactics and functions underneath the recommended strategy.
• Participated in thought leadership functions, such as industry conferences, webinars, and other publicity events that establish 7Layer as thought leaders in a dedicated space.
• Developed new product solutions or practice areas in coordination with other parts of Confidential focusing on the integration of consulting offerings into the global portfolio.
• Ensured continued emphasis and refinement on improving consulting approaches, processes and practices.

Principal Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Solution Architect involved in infrastructure migration projects for the following
• Moving Internal email system to Office365
• Cloud migration strategies including recommendations and solutions (AWS, Azure)
• Solution Design and migrating from one ISP to another
• Solution Design and migrating in-house hosted applications to both public and private Cloud
• Solution Design and migrating - in-house phone system to hosted VOIP platform
• Solution Design and migrating core applications/file and print solutions to the cloud
• Solution Design and implementing Cyber security solutions for the enterprise.

Confidential

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• 1. Was engaged on both individual projects and engage with the client to deliver other consulting engagements across Consulting and PWP customers.
• 2. Help with identifying business cost saving opportunities by exploring, architecting and implementing smart solutions such as cloud migration and data center consolidation projects
• 3. Scoped new projects, including definition of effort, development of cost & benefits, and statement of work.
• 4. Provided support to sales executives to close consulting deals and initiate consulting projects.
• 5. Guided engagement execution around methodology & approach to ensure timeliness & quality of deliverables meet client expectations.
• 6. Provided thought leadership (both internally and externally) on area(s) of subject matter expertise, including managing/mentoring team members, providing reusable content in the way of presentations, white papers and point of views.
• 7. Developed input on strategic content as commissioned by clients that is focused on solving business issues.
• 8. Made Recommendations and perspectives for strategic - level focused on solving broad problems with multiple tactics and functions underneath the recommended strategy.
• 9. Participated in thought leadership functions, such as industry conferences, webinars, and other publicity events that establish 7Layer as thought leaders in a dedicated space.
• 10. Developed new product solutions or practice areas in coordination with other parts of PWP focusing on the integration of consulting offerings into the global portfolio.
• 11. Ensured continued emphasis and refinement on improving consulting approaches, processes and practices.

senior migration and solution architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• 1. Was engaged on both individual projects and engage with client to deliver other consulting engagements across Consulting and 7Layer.
• 2. Scoped new projects, including definition of effort, development of cost & benefits, and statement of work.
• 3. Provided support to sales executives to close consulting deals and initiate consulting projects.
• 4. Guided engagement execution around methodology & approach to ensure timeliness & quality of deliverables meet client expectations.
• 5. Provided thought leadership (both internally and externally) on area(s) of subject matter expertise, including managing/mentoring team members, providing reusable content in the way of presentations, white papers and point of views.
• 6. Developed input on strategic content as commissioned by clients that is focused on solving business issues.
• 7. Made Recommendations and perspectives for strategic - level focused on solving broad problems with multiple tactics and functions underneath the recommended strategy.
• 8. Participated in thought leadership functions, such as industry conferences, webinars, and other publicity events that establish 7Layer as thought leaders in a dedicated space.
• 9. Developed new product solutions or practice areas in coordination with other parts of 7Layer, focusing on the integration of consulting offerings into the global portfolio.
• 10. Ensured continued emphasis and refinement on improving consulting approaches, processes and practices.

Confidential

Infrastructure Migration Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the end to end technical details of each migration
• Define what and how applications or infrastructure can be migrated into new Data Center
• Leverage knowledge and experience to reduce risks and increase stability of the overall architecture
• Validate infrastructure and application eligibility method for cloud migration
• Help clients define migration standards and compatibility
• Help in identifying the right migration strategy based on the client environment
• Responsible for discussing various migration strategies with the client and helping them understand the impact of the migration
• Lead migration activities and have a total of 5 resources working directly on my team
• Responsible to perform application mapping services to define asset relationships and dependencies.
• Responsible to lead the technical aspects of the migrations program.
• Responsible for the creation of required data collection artifacts.
• Responsible for technical deliverables, for data quality and completeness of requirements generated from migrations database—if manually generated, responsible for completing or assigning.
• Responsible to Ensure migrations best practice and technical guidelines, artifacts prescribed, etc. are adhered to in a timely manner; e.g. application flows, technical architecture, test plans and any other success driven artifact is completed.
• Responsible for working closely with SMEs to ensure a successful execution of data collection and analysis
• Responsible for development of transformational options and activities.
• Responsible for performing a gap analysis an assessment to determine completeness of server, storage and network equipment information Raises issues/risks in timely manner.
• Responsible for Technical Execution plan in coordination with PMO Works closely with project management office to ensure delivery of the project.
• Ensure the completeness of the Migrations Technical Planning and Execution.
• Communicating effectively is expected in terms of adequately addressing all the concerns of stakeholders; and the integrity of the Program, in terms of connecting all the various views to each other, satisfactorily reconciling the conflicting concerns of difference stakeholders and showing the trade-offs made in doing so.
• Responsible for conducting workshops with application owners to gather (or confirm) information about application requirements and utilize the data gathered to modify the composition of Waves and Move Groups.

Confidential

Infrastructure Solution s Architec

Responsibilities:

• Assessed the current environment
• Conduct Competitive benchmark Analysis of similar provider as the client and come up with the best options whether to go data center hosted or managed approach.
• Assessed the following areas;
• Network
• Storage
• Power
• Capacity Management - Suggested best practice
• Helped to define PCI and HIPPA standards and compliance.
• Monitoring and Alerting solutions
• Backup and recovery best practices
• Vulnerability assessment
• Best practice for Business continuity solutions
• Identify and recommend remediation for all single points of failure in the environment
• Be a conduit between the executives and the business units to understand what their needs are and to come up with the best way to either host or outsource their application.
• Help guide the business to adopt industry standards across the infrastructure.
• Help identify the best hosting provider with the best solution that meets the client’s needs.
• Help guide the client to adopt ITS standards.
• Help in designing a security standard for server/OS/Virtual Machine build for various applications
• Help in analyzing the current security standards and coming up with the best security policy based on industry standards.
• Help with recommendations and design for OS build (Windows 8 and windows 7 build)
• Help in building server templates with different VM templates for different network environments for different clients.
• Helped the client test and evaluate MS virtualization using Windows Server 2012R2

Confidential, CHICAGO, IL

Infrastructure Solution s Architect

Responsibilities:

• Configure storage profiles for ESX servers and then storage migrate servers to respective affinities.
• Responsible for working with the different business units to develop the engineering design to support the business and operational requirements for either new systems or enhancements to existing systems. Interacts in a professional manor during the project engagement.
• While helping with designing the storage platform, had to come up with PCI and HIPPA compliance due to sensitive information residing on some application servers. Also assessed the environment to make sure they were PCI compliant.
• Responsible for defining standard engineering designs, templates, processes, and procedures for implementing projects that follow existing architectures.
• Analyzes system performance, modifying parameters to improve throughput and effectively utilize system resources. Monitors resource usage, making required adjustments.
• Worked with the team and supported Cisco UCS/HP Blade support as it relates to VMware and new OS deployments.
• Participates in on-call production support activities. Is expected to have the technical knowledge and capability to handle all problems that may arise. Proactively puts procedures in place to prevent and reduce the severity of outages. Implements automation wherever possible.
• Coordinates activities with vendors as required.
• Responsible for implementation of required hardware and/or software for all tier and affinity infrastructures.
• Responsible for developing the organization by mentoring junior engineers and developing “how to” guides under the direction of the manager or consultant.
• Responsible for accurately estimating and planning activities within the domain to provide the necessary input into the project managers for developing an end to end plan under the direction of the manager or consultant.
• Complies with all USIT policies, standards and procedures.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.