SUMMARY:

• Responsible for designing and implementing information systems that adequately supports the enterprise infrastructure of organizations from financial, insurance, retail and public sector, either directly or for outsourced customers. Over 10 years of experience collecting/refining/analyzing business/system requirements, defining systems architecture that meet or exceed the business needs (server, mainframe, storage, backup infrastructure, capacity and performance planning
• High availability, business continuity, disaster recovery, virtualization, public and private cloud), ensuring that architecture project roll - outs always meet security standards and are effectively integrated with the current applications landscape. Able to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies, experienced in planning and developing support processes/artifacts adhering to best practices for large and complex enterprise infrastructure architecture projects.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Enterprise Architect, IT PaaS Chief Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Part of Americas Data Centers Transformation Team - first global ISO certified Data Centers Transformation/migration initiative, reaching now 200 Mil USD/year in cost savings. This former Confidential /HPE Enterprise Services now DXC technology project goal is to close old and inefficient data centers relocating all customers to new, modern, energy efficient and low running costs data centers. Multiple transformations, consolidations, public and private cloud migrations, technology refreshes/upgrades have been accommodated prior or during customers large wave migrations trying to keep at minimum the impact on all existing clients SLAs (Service Level Agreements - data availability, performance, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and security - PCI-Payment Card Industry, US Public Sector, encryption, secure data erasure, decommissioning hardware, network hardening) on both dedicated and leveraged hardware.
• Transformation initiatives included massive consolidations - on HPE C7000 blade systems, virtualization - P2V migrations to VMWare ESX, MS Hyper-V, Confidential -UX Superdomes n/v-pars, IBM AIX VIOS/LPAR and Solaris containers/zones, cloud migrations to both private - HPE Helion Virtual Private Cloud and public - AWS or Azure, technology refreshes and upgrades.
• A closing datacenter was BCRS (Business Continuity and Recovery Services- DR) designated and in order to respect the stringent DR RPO and RTO times, complex 3 Data Centers storage replication solutions (reaching most of the time all storage vendors HPE, HDS, IBM, EMC, NetApp native replication technologies limits) where designed and implemented in combination with migration appliances (HPE MPX200), host/application based replications (VMWare ESX Storage VMotion, Oracle Dataguard or GoldenGate, Rman backup and restores, MS-SQL Snapshot and Transactional replications, PlateSpin, DoubleTake; unix rsync) and specialized tools (MS-SQL cluster granular database move via HPE Windows Cluster Extension for 3PAR and XP dedicated software, HPE SAP converged systems solutions)
• Architectural technical guidance for existing customers who selected cloud as the future platform, mapping the current infrastructure, databases and application automation layout to the cloud offering. AWS architectural aspects (similar Azure capabilities): correct sizing (capacity and performance) selection for EC2 instances RHEL and Windows appropriate/recommended S3 storage network cloud specific design: private subnets distribution in availability Zones, security groups, network ACL s, internet gateways and route tables to ensure a secure zone for organization elastic load balancers and auto scaling groups to distribute the traffic and to have a cost efficient, fault tolerant and highly available environments CloudFront distributions to serve content from edge locations to users minimize the load and achieve better response time. transpose the exiting DNS registrations into cloud route 53 name services guidance for current ACL mapping into IAM for creating roles, users, groups (occasionally MFA implementation) RDS databases selection and instances best practices deployment for high availability: multi-AZ with automatic failover, snapshots for local backups advice on using AWS CLI, shell scripting and cron jobs to automate repetitive tasks set the templates rules for monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers via Cloud Watch service
• Active participant in complete overhaul of most Migration architecture deliverables (blocks and artifacts, repeatable processes and interactions), as company landscape suffer major changes (split then merge and now spinoff). The 4 main common generic business architecture repeatable process where Engagement (Advance DC Planning, Presentation of Engagement, Advance DC Solutioning), Rationalization (Initial then Final Migration Strategy TRM), Implementation (Readiness and Execution - playbook), Decommission.
• Determine engineering priorities for client migration deliverables, coordinate the PMs (scheduling and financial budget) and technically the engineering resources to deliver.
• Understand all standard offerings for use in client environments, all applications interdependencies and layout mapping to the existing compute infrastructure (midrange and Mainframe), keep abreast of emerging technologies in the clients industry and technology direction, provide thought leadership and innovation through recommendations demonstrating an understanding of account business model / drivers / needs.
• Technical accountability for end-to-end engineering design, integration and deployment of account specific solutions across all migration impacted service lines, technical leader for the migration, consolidation, standardization, automation and virtualization of the infrastructure environments by providing process workflows, standards governance, directions and improvements for the current deployed infrastructure.
• Develop compute and storage hardware architecture and engineering life cycle process from emerging to current deployment phase.
• Provide engineering resource costing analysis on both migrations and transformations projects, participate in the development of overall migration costing analysis.

Confidential

Senior IT Infrastructure Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Brocade SAN switch refresh involving Intel/Windows, Unix, iSeries, BUR (tapes) and data centers facilities teams for a perfectly orchestrated ONLINE migration.
• Decommissioning old DS4x00 storage units by migrating using a host based migration approach (Windows, AIX, multipahing software changes) to DS8x00.
• Notes e-mail and collaboration suite upgrade project from Windows bit to Windows bit.
• Windows servers hardware refresh projects - P2P (physical to physical) via Platespin with new resilient Active Directory enhanced design.
• New IBM Mainframe VTS backup solution (IBM 7700 Virtual Tape Systems, four clusters grid) and new DR solution with storage replication vi Brocade BNA and TPC-R for zSeries on DS8870 PPRC (data migration with CKD volumes consolidation).
• Deploy new virtualization solutions with SSD Easy Tier behind the SVC on DS8x00 hardware.
• EMC Centera deployment for new Documentum solution.
• Fix the Cisco SAN initial architecture deployment design to exceed customer performance expectations for the new IBM SVC and Storwize V7000s solution.
• Reverse engineering process of expanding the complex EMC SRDF / TimeFinder BCV environment for 2 core Oracle applications (on Solaris using Veritas). Coach the Unix support team on EMC Symcli technical procedures, update the Contol-M scheduled UNIX scripts, define and build a workflow template on how to address similar requests in the future, refine teams responsibilities and competencies boundaries, propose new Change Management scheduling rules for similar requests.
• Windows servers hardware refresh projects - P2P (physical to physical) via Platespin; P2V - physical to virtual (VMWare ESX)
• Revise the current US based DR plan closing the gaps, enhance and coordinate the changes to fully utilize the deployed technologies, finally achieving the required SLAs.
• As a result of major incident/critical situation, severely impacting all customer lines of business, conduct a deep dive analyze of the Meta SAN, re-design, create the remediation plan and coordinate with vendor support the implementation.
• Address customer VMWare VDI team performance constant complains, analyze, evaluate, design and then implement changes in both compute and network environments.
• Design and create all the required artifacts for the large and complex storage migration (>500 physical servers) from EMC to IBM SVC.
• Coach and document for the supporting team customer new IBM FileNet application deployment on EMC Centera.
• Server hardware refreshes for AIX, SUN and Linux/Windows servers - host based with a lot of consolidations P2V (VMWare ESX).
• Storage migrations due to EMC storage units refreshes
• Redesign and coordinate Mainframe DR low bandwidth performance enhancement on EMC SRDF/A side stopping the constant daily flow of DR link incidents.
• Coordinate NetApp new features implementation: thin provisioning, data deduplication, ONTAP firmware upgrades, qtree quota.
• Exchange migration to NetApp with SnapDrive and SnapRestore.
• Redesign the NetApp NAS McAfee Antivirus solution to alleviate the user access response time delays.
• Collaborate with the customer enterprise architecture team to design and after coordinate the IBM teams for a new deployment of a large VMWare ESX farm using the existing Confidential EVA8000s.
• Finally integrate two Quantum VTL's into the existing BackupExec solution, configuring the DR replication between sites, enabling data deduplication.
• Create all the required transition technical artifacts for the offshore team to atomic details (steady state support, DR, scripting, backup, etc. tasks and procedures).
• Transition the required design/sales/financial documents/proposals for the three stages whole IT infrastructure refresh, part of the initial IBM outsourcing agreement - complete virtualized server environment (Intel VMWare farms for all Windows/Linux servers, AIX LPAR/VIOS for all Unix), storage tiering on DS8800, TSM as enterprise backup.

Confidential

Senior Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Investigate storage performance issues, working with customer Enterprise Architecture and Design team to propose alternate approaches or new solutions.
• Local liaison, conducting presentations, deploying kit tests software and hardware solutions for customer solution architects interest regarding new emergent EMC technologies (virtualization, DR replication appliances, newly announced storage units and emerging SSD adoption).
• Mentor on EMC technologies for both architecture engineering support teams, creating, following customer standards, a multitude of artifacts, documenting to atomic tasks/steps levels.
• Obtain a contract for EMC solution services to fully automate via scripting and scheduling all SAP deployments for Zero Downtime Backup and 3DC DR.
• Design, coordinate the deployment and integration of newly acquired EMC DL4400 virtual tape libraries into the existing Veritas NetBackup environment.

Confidential

Senior IT Infrastructure SME Lead

Responsibilities:

• Plan, coordinate and supervise the fast paced Infrastructure build/user access ready project, delivering 145 servers/month (hardware, IP and SAN connectivity, OS, databases and application installation and configuration, real customer data transfer completed).
• Design and coordinate the deployment of the required DR for all production main application/databases (Oracle and SAP).
• Architect and coordinate the setup of new dedicated Confidential Data Protector Enterprise Backup solution with special extensions used for Oracle, SAP and VMWare ESX.

Confidential

Systems Management Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Involved in day-to-day support through a rigorous Change / Problem Management process, discover and eliminate gaps in large new solutions deployment from a wide area: infrastructure, server technology and OS, storage, backup, DR requirements, databases, performance and capacity, monitoring and scheduling.
• Design and coordinate various storage migrations as customer changed the preferred hardware vendor in a frequent basis.
• Technical lead for a multitude of new revenue generating initiatives:
• Windows files servers consolidation on EMC NAS (NDMP backup on IBM TSM, EMC CAVA antivirus solution)
• Implementation of the LAN free and Direct-to-Tape new TSM backup solution.
• Complete revamp of the existing EMC TimeFinder (BCV and SRDF) scripting environment for automated scheduling new setup.

Confidential

Senior Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepare the environment for the company new Health Benefit Management application: IBM AIX, dynamic LPAR and HACMP with automated Oracle application switch over.
• Support the SAN infrastructure (Brocade and EMC), owner of the Synchronous DR replication to SunGard
• Support the EMC Legato Networker and StorageTek libraries LAN free backup environment, all the UNIX platforms (Solaris, AIX and Confidential -UX), design and perform all achievable hardware consolidations to achieve significant savings on licensing and vendor support agreements.
• Rebuild and automate via the enterprise scheduler the company external FTP communication saving tens of thousands of dollars on PGP licensing by transferring from UNIX to Windows
• Create on Confidential OpenView Operation Center, using the deep business and applications processes knowledge gained, new templates and thresholds for various log files and events (OS level, Oracle and Sybase, Introscope-Java, BEA Weblogic, BEA Tuxedo, SNMP, networking, application) achieving over 50% duration impact reduction on all Major Incidents.

Confidential

Senior Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Create a large suite of Disaster Recovery Plans for the convergent billing solution and ESI (External Service Interface) systems: backup procedures, SAN local Business Continuity scheduled operations for zero impact backups, SAN consistent group data replications, UNIX administration run books, applications and validation tests.
• Enhance the MPS (Message CDR’s tool records Processing System), the first main Amdocs Billing component. Fine-tune the Tivoli process maps (parallels, dependencies, flow) running on the Unix Confidential main production machines.
• Monitor the Oracle 8 database performances on Confidential -UX 11 V2600 clustering (MC / Service Guard) servers with EMC 8100 and 3700 SAN (Storage Area Network) using Precise SQL.
• Automations using Visual Basic 6.0, VB script, Access, Excel and Hummingbird Exceed for Switch Control reporting generation system (SQL queries on Oracle databases) and two real time CSM performance transaction monitor (capturing the Windows, Tuxedo calls and screens through Visual Test from Rational Software and RTW - Response Time Workbench, with clients on balanced Citrix farms and the applications on the UNIX servers).
• Provide systems integration support (capacity planning and performance) for the new Compaq Prepay system for all Production Services division departments: Security, IT help desk, Production Support (SLD, DAD, PID).
• Planning and analyze the PCDOCS (internal document management solution from Hummingbird) transfer into the production environment (NT Terminal servers, Citrix Metaframe farm and ICA client).
• Manage the integration into production of company new e-bill presentment and payment Derivion e-business solution (Sun, Oracle 8, Weblogic, firewall policies).
• Quantify the migration impact from Windows NT domains (multiple domains, hundreds of servers and thousands workstations) to Windows 2000. Set-up a test environment, perform and document each upgrade steps, design the Active Directory, domain integration, resource distribution; analyze the desktop environment, propagate, deploy the Win2000 Professional with specific applications on remote workstations with no user interaction (unattended method).

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design and Implement the Y2K solution for all WAN (Cisco 4000 Series routers) in NT environment (Service Pack installation, applications and hardware upgrade, DHCP, DNS and WINS services).
• Systems, mail (voice and electronic), network and backup administrator for a mixed and dispersed (8 branches all over Ontario) environment: UNIX IBM AIX 4.2, Windows NT 4.0, Wang Database Hardware, voice mail system (Meridian Mail), corporate network fax server (Visifax), Microsoft Exchange 5.5 e-mail Server, Internet proxy server firewall for secure communication with the main supplier, Detroit Diesel Co. of USA, McAfee anti-virus solution.