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SUMMARY:

Senior level Technology architect - strategist with over 15 years of progressive experience in Analysis, Architecture, Assessment, Design, Governance, Operations and Strategy in variety of industries including HealthCare, Telecom, and Automobile.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Managerial: Balanced Score Card, DICE Model, Six Sigma, Lean Methods etc.

IT Frameworks: Enterprise Architecture, TOGAF, ITIL and some COBIT and CMMI.

Cloud Technologies: Amazon Web Services S3, EC2, EBS, RDS, Glacier etc.

Databases: Oracle, MS SqlServer, MS Access and MS Exchange.

Operating Systems: AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Windows Servers.

Server HW: Dell, HP, IBM, and Oracle servers.

Virtualization SW: VMware, IBM PowerVM, HP nPartitions and Oracle LDOMs.

High Availability SW: Veritas VCS, IBM HACMP, and HP ServiceGuard.

Storage HW: EMC, HDS, IBM and Network Appliance arrays.

Storage SW: EMC, Hitachi, IBM, NetApps & Veritas storage software products.

Tape Storage HW: IBM and STK tape libraries and tape drives.

Tape storage SW: EMC-Legato Networker, IBM TSM and Veritas NetBackup.

Networks: Architectural knowledge of LAN, WAN Protocols & Routers and Switches.

Middleware: Architectural knowledge of WebSphere, Fusion and WebMethods.

Development frameworks: Basic knowledge of .Net and J2EE and dev environments.

Compliance frameworks: Basic knowledge of PCI, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

IT Architect-Strategist

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

  • Collaborated with middle management to identify short and long-term operational issues and recommended remedial courses of action based on IT Strategic Alignment model, DICE model, Strategy maps and Balanced Score Card.
  • Identified infrastructure components of applications for creating Service Management Databases (ITSM) for a Healthcare, Food Processing industry and Marketing Analytics clients Using CA technologies ITIL tool.
  • Analyzed individual application portfolios of three merging companies and advised on rationalization and optimization to consolidate the applications.
  • Researched and created ITIL CMDB CIs for hundreds of application components.
  • Created management reports for CTOs on IT Assessment.

IT Architect-designer,

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:
  • Identified inconsistencies in cost allocation methods on CapEx and OpEx and recommended remedial course of action.
  • Analyzed business requirements to design and architect solutions using standard SDLC processes and procedures if exist, created otherwise.
  • Created, using AT&T Enterprise Architecture modeling tools, ABBs and SBBs confirming to TOGAF and ITIL frameworks and best practices on server, storage, network, data protection and DR infrastructure projects.
  • Advised on IT governance, process improvement, strategy and best practices.

IT Architect-advisor-designer

Confidential

Responsibilities:
  • At WellPoint, researched, evaluated IBM TSM backup infrastructure technology refresh and upgrade project for virtual tape products, tape libraries, and TAN switches in both the Open systems and mainframe environment.
  • At Cardinal Health, transplanted IBM SAP servers and migrated storage from IBM storage to HP storage using SVC from San Diego, CA to Waukegan, IL.
  • At Ford, provided technical assistance and skills transfer for: DS8000, DS4000, SVC, pSeries, and xSeries hardware, Windows, VMWare and IBM TSM.
  • Made operational process improvements.

Storage Architect,

Confidential, Dallas, TX 

Responsibilities:
  • Lead storage architect - Data center migration projects.
  • Lead storage architect - Storage array refresh project.
  • Lead storage architect - Backup software migration project.

Storage Engineer

Confidential, Carrollton, TX

Responsibilities:
  • Led the Data center Storage migration and DR implementation project.
  • Consolidated individual Solaris severs' storage into a virtualized environment.
  • Assessed backup infrastructure, recommended, and justified to VP infrastructure upgrade. Led the upgrade project.
  • Led the storage part of migration of dedicated physical servers and consolidated into VMWare servers.
  • Advised on IT governance, process improvement, strategy and best practices.

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