SUMMARY:

• A proven technology professional of 25+ years with extensive technology and business experience. Well versed in the areas of Solution Architecture, Data Migrations, Application Architecture, Systems Engineering, and Project Management. Responsible for the management and leadership by example of multiple project teams, with members of up to thirty individuals, in a managed services environment.
• Served as liaison with executive management for corporate strategic planning, while managing multi - million dollar business and technical projects which include, migration, installation and production support. An effective communicator, adept in delivering superior customer service and bridging the business and technical communities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software: SAP, VERITAS, NAS, Autosys, Apache, Oracle, NetApp, Sybase, AWS/Google Cloud, Firstwatch, HMC, HACMP, Big Data Analytics, and Networker

Hardware: Sun, Confidential, AT&T, Bull, EMC CLARiiON, DMX arrays, Commvault, Avamar, DLT, HP, Confidential, Symmetrix

Desktop Application Software: Remedy, Visio, and EMC Control Center

Operating Systems: UNIX, Solaris, SunOS, AIX, Red Hat Linux, Windows NT/XP, Windows 2000 Server, BOS, VMS, Ultrix

Networking: DNS, LAN, WAN, WINS, VLAN, LDAP, NFS, DFS, NIS, TCP/IP, SMTP & sendmail, SunLink SNA, SSL

Languages: C shell, Bourne shell, K shell, BASIC, HTML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Phoenix, Arizona

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Mentored Systems Engineers and Business Architects in process, critical thinking and problem solving.
• Map, organize and migrate client applications/hardware to new client data center facilities.
• Data Center consolidation for business acceptance and technical enhancement as per requirements for services requests.
• Mapping of all application within compute environments, provide data flow and infrastructure information for review.
• Capture management of applications, deep dive and verification of all dependencies, documentation of same.
• Provide data center migration experience to large scale aerospace computing environments, including Cloud and Virtual systems.
• Provide architecture documentation consisting of Visio diagrams of applications, SAN requirements, network and applications.
• Client - facing expert at all organizational levels; able to succeed within any organization.
• Experience with OneNote with the creation of documents from migration templates to execution.
• Experience within Agile/Scrum teams for dual purpose project environment.
• Strategize and develop complex responses for changing environments, migrations, triage and support.

Confidential, Tempe, Arizona

Engagement Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Contracted to map, organize and migration of client applications/hardware to new client data center facilities in US and Europe.
• Project management for the migration of data center and office facilities to various locations through the US and Confidential Europe.
• Proactive and result - oriented leader adept in mentoring and motivating the dynamic team to exemplary performance.
• Mapping of all application within compute environments, provide data flow and infrastructure information for review.
• Consolidation of Data Center for client business acceptance and technical enhancements.
• Planning, scheduling and development estimates for new or migrated applications/hardware for intermodal.
• Provide solutions for various client requirements based upon needs and technology changes.
• Development background in order to migrate data with PM skills, milestones, related tasks and assigned recourses.
• Software delivery processes/best practices for new applications scheduled for deployment.
• Progress within Agile/Scrum project environment with various teams for application and migrations.
• Provide architecture documentation consisting of Visio diagrams of applications, SAN requirements, network and applications.

Confidential, Phoenix, Arizona

RFS Engagement Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Client - facing expert at all organizational levels; able to succeed within any organization.
• Capture management of applications, deep dive and verification of all dependencies, utilizing client ITSM/ITIL.
• Data Center consolidation for business acceptance and technical enhancement as per requirements for services requests.
• Provide architecture documentation consisting of Visio diagrams of applications, SAN requirements, network and applications.
• Effective communicator adept in delivering superior customer service and bridging the business and technical communities.

Confidential, Tempe, Arizona

Technical Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Managed one Application Architect and one System Administrator (RHEL) for data gathering and migration process.
• In - depth knowledge and experience in information systems architecture, delivery methodologies, and software design patterns.
• Capture management of applications, deep dive and verification of all dependencies, utilizing Confidential ITSM/ITIL.
• Effective communicator, delivering superior customer service and bridging business and technical communities.
• Result-oriented leader adept in mentoring and motivating a team to exemplary performance for the client.
• Capture management of applications, deep dive and verification of all dependencies.
• Mapping of application within Production and Test environments, provide data flow and infrastructure information for review.
• Provide data center migration experience to large scale financial, manufacturing and medical environments.
• Provide architecture documentation consisting of Visio diagrams of applications and environment run books.
• Consolidation of Data Center for client business acceptance and technical enhancements.
• Provided risk analysis for all migration projects (using Event Chain methodology) to show potential risks.
• Strategize and develop complex responses for changing environments, migrations, triage and support.
• Project management of all migration processes which ensure the success of the migration.
• Disaster Recovery architecture and cost analysis for expansions, documentation of same.

Confidential, Tempe, Arizona

Senior Migration Architect

Responsibilities:

• Managed three Application Architects and two Project Managers for data gathering/capture management, migration process and PMO functionality within the client data center.
• Disaster Recovery architecture and cost analysis for expansions, documentation of same.
• Mentored Application Architects, Engineers and Business Analysts in process, critical thinking and problem solving.
• Client - facing expert at all organizational levels; able to succeed within any organization.
• Result-oriented leader adept in mentoring and motivating a team to exemplary performance for the client.
• Effective communicator, delivering superior customer service and bridging business and technical communities.
• In-depth knowledge and experience in information systems architecture, delivery methodologies, and software design patterns.
• Provide data center migration experience to large scale healthcare environments.
• Capture management of applications, deep dive and verification of all dependencies, documentation of same.
• Provided risk analysis for all migration projects (using Event Chain methodology) to show potential risks.
• Creating of master servers and virtual environment for consolidation of servers/services within new data center.
• Provide architecture documentation consisting of Visio diagrams of applications, SAN requirements, network and application
• Data Center consolidation for business acceptance and technical enhancement as per requirements for services requests.
• Heavy documentation for all Data Center activities and Cloud infrastructure.

Confidential, Phoenix, Arizona

Application Architect

Responsibilities:

• Interface with Application Security teams in all aspects of end to end availability, including the testing of new data center environments for vulnerabilities, penetration testing (internal/external) and providing results for risk and governance to clear for migration.
• Result - oriented leader adept in mentoring and motivating a team to exemplary performance for the client.
• Capture management of applications, deep dive and verification of all dependencies, utilizing client ITSM/ITIL.
• Effective communicator, delivering superior customer service and bridging business and technical communities.
• Mapping of all applications within Production and Test environments, provide data flow and infrastructure information for review.
• Using Event Chain methodology for all migration projects, detailed all potential risks to applications and migration strategy.
• Decommissions of assigned hardware for joint asset consolidations as per migration directives.
• Creating of master servers and virtual environment for consolidation of servers/services within new data center.
• Strategize and develop complex responses for changing environments, migrations, triage and support.

Confidential, Thornton, Colorado

Storage Vertical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Utilization of NetApp, SanScreen and Virtual Instruments products for all infrastructure availability and performance for storage.
• Interaction with all Technical Project Managers, reporting issues and successfully completing all project reporting.
• Review and enhance project plans for data center storage and disaster recovery processes.
• Independent consulting (various companies)
• Worked remotely or onsite for term short technical and business based solutions.
• Solution Architecture, Systems Engineering for startup companies, small to midrange technical environments.
• Data center consolidation, expansions, and migrations. Asset management audits and decommissions.

Confidential, Chandler, Arizona

Operating Systems Engineer (Contract)

Responsibilities:

• Experienced in the Confidential midrange and enterprise computing and network environments.
• Responsible for system build of a range of sizes and for all business units, for sustained corporate growth.
• Single servers, mid - range and large scale enterprise servers for various lines of business.
• Building of Windows, Red Hat Linux, Solaris servers, navigates and troubleshoots hardware, firmware and connectivity for network and SAN with a variety of build processes, i.e., WinPE, Linux, and ABT.

Confidential, Phoenix, Arizona

Infrastructure Systems Engineer (Contract)

Responsibilities:

• Technical liaison with clients, partners, content developers, application developers and end users.
• Technical and business reporting for root cause analysis of production outages.
• Technical and business liaison for remote data center consolidation and migrations.
• Asset management, audits maintenance and decommissions of obsolete equipment.

Confidential, Chandler, Arizona

Information Security Analyst (Contract)

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for risk management, inclusive of emerging vulnerabilities, risk factors, and associated threats for security based projects
• Responsible for Information Security Access and sanction controls review.
• Responsible for corporate governance, relating to risk assessment, focusing on threat identification within virtual and physical securities, within the corporate structure.
• Review all possible penetration testing (security) on existing client network, servers and applications to provide client with as much risk feedback as possible.
• Use of COPS, CRACK, SATAN on network hosts to collect and report security/vulnerability statistics.

Confidential, Tempe, Arizona

Infrastructure Architect (Contract)

Responsibilities:

• Provided business and technical recommendations on all aspects of these requirements.
• Business and technical leadership responsibilities for corporate enterprise SAP initiative, for large manufacturing and business centers.
• Consolidation of remote data centers and business units based upon computing environment migration to other facilities.
• Utilization of VMware ESX for enterprise infrastructure server builds for SAP enterprise environment based upon Sun Solaris.
• Utilization for various SAP solutions for label, print, end user access within DR process.
• Planned and documented high level DR process for functional specifications.

Confidential, Torrance, California

Solution Architect (Contract)

Responsibilities:

• Provided business and technical recommendations on all aspects of these requirements.
• Architect responsible for planning, design and execution of migration of 13 facilities for Linux, RHEL, Solaris, AIX environments to central enterprise computing centers for large application services.
• Decommissions of remote data centers for joint asset consolidations as per business directives.

Confidential, Mesa, Arizona

Business Analyst (Contract)

Responsibilities:

• Assist in the administration of RHEL enterprise servers for new applications for services.
• Created documentation formats for server information books, all Linux operating system and database installation guides.
• Liaison among clients groups in order to gather, analyze, communicate and validate requirements for all changes to all projects.
• Outlined network LAN/WAN infrastructure, provided documentation for firewalls, network connectivity and process flow information.
• Organizational readiness activities for all off - site disaster recovery processes within Linux/RHEL computing environment.

Confidential, Tempe, Arizona

Solution Architect / Business Analyst (Contract)

Responsibilities:

• Consolidation of several remote data centers based upon computing environment migration to two data center facilities.
• Consolidation of remote data centers and business units based upon computing environment migration to other facilities.
• Re - maintenance and decommissions of remote data centers for joint asset consolidations.
• Identifying emerging vulnerabilities and evaluating associated risks and threats.

Confidential, Phoenix, Arizona

Systems Architect/Technical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Create, organize and execute transition of business and technical units to new company and new facilities.
• Participate in the change management process, on-shore and offshore, by logging and processing all changes.
• Migration of 5000 servers utilizing AIX, Solaris and Linux OS environments to central enterprise computing centers for multiple new company central data centers.
• Identifying emerging vulnerabilities and evaluating associated risks and threats.
• Mentored Systems Engineers and Business Architects in process, critical thinking and problem solving.

Confidential

Information Security Specialist / Logical Access Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managing a team of nine Logical Access Specialists, for provisioning of quality security results during transition period.
• Review all Solaris, AIX, Windows, and Linux, servers, for corporate security compliance, within three tiered environments.
• Responsible for the administration and monitoring of the corporate LDAP environment.

Confidential

Business Continuity Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to the routing of all business continuity resources to provide solutions for worldwide user base.
• Firewall rule changes per requirements, and compliance regulations, for system/network additions.
• Investigations of root cause analysis for major service/application outages.
• Provide confirmation of all systems, and related information, from Technical Engineers and Systems Administrators.
• Participate in the change management process, on-shore and offshore, by logging and processing all changes.