SUMMARY

• Over 25 years as a results - oriented, highly adaptable IT professional with extensive experience designing and executing robust technical solutions for diverse industries in both public and private cloud platforms.
• Penchant for delivering complex data center and migration projects on schedule and within budget through proactive project management.
• Skilled communicator and presenter, able to cultivate strong working relationships across divisions and translate complex technical requirements to key stakeholders.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Denver, CO

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Perform Infrastructure Assessment & GAP Analysis and provide recommendations for remediation efforts on infrastructure and applications footprint.

Confidential, Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Systems Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Design and managed Cloud Governance and Architecture and defined and documented process workflows.
• Accelerated new developments and enabled Confidential to adhere to evolving best practices by establishing collaborative technology review committees and the Architecture Review Board (ARB).
• Project Managed, designed, and delivered enhanced M&A onboarding capacity by deploying VMware Horizon (VDI) technology into enterprise solutions, while maintaining compliance on PII, and GDPR.
• Strengthened IT department operations by conducting COBIT/CMMI assessments and generating clear and actionable recommendations for improvements. Managed and implemented improvements to architecture practice, Incident Management, Change Management along with other ITIL processes.
• Ensured streamlined delivery of major initiatives such as Cloud Management Platform adoption involving networking, IT infrastructure, enterprise applications, and engineering. Worked with stakeholders to document and understand the business requirements, translated them into technical requirements and built the RFP for the solution. Ran the RFP initial adoption of the final solution which was VMware CloudHealth. This is being integrated in their CI/CD pipeline with VMware vRealize Automation (VRA) and Terraform for system deployments and management, and integrated with finance to ensure compliance with budgetary governance constraints.
• Improved Net Promoter Score (NPS) for Enterprise Architecture by over 50% in six months.

Confidential, East Lansing, MI

Data Center Migration Architect

Responsibilities:

• Undertook major data center migration and architecture project for Michigan State University (client); identified client requirements and developed appropriate protocol and architectural requirements for successful data center migration and consolidation.

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Design and managed SaaS Cloud Governance and Architecture.
• Engineered and deployed automated Linux patch management and improved compliance by over 60% while mitigating risk by standardizing system-wide patching processes using an open-source solution, Spacewalk.
• Providing engineering, mentorship and Linux team management across Hawaii-Aleutian, Pacific, Central, and Greenwich time zones.

Confidential, Teaneck, NJ

Senior Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Data Center Migration/Consolidation (Life Sciences): Designed and implemented 20 geographically dispersed data center migrations and consolidations using VMware and Confidential solutions. Identified customer requirements and defined strategic direction for a large-scale data migration project.
• Confidential - Triumph (Q2 2015): Ranked as the top team in recognition of outstanding work, successfully addressing all customer objectives, and developing a world-class, transformative, winning proposition valued at over $200M.
• Architecture, process and guidance on datacenter consolidation of 20 geographically dispersed datacenter to eight.
• Adhered to project timeframes, migrating 60% of targeted application workloads (1500 in 9 months) to RedHat and AIX within budget and ahead of schedule.
• Ensured full compliance with national boundary PII and Confidential regulations.
• Data Center Consolidation ( ): Designed and implemented architecture for a major global provider; project required migration of 400+ enterprise information systems as-well-as bring them to currency across the virtualization layer (VMware), OS, database, middleware, and underlying hardware for three data centers while maintaining their PCI security compliance.
• Developed an effective solution and project roadmap to complete total system transformation within budget and with adhearance to the projected timeframe.
• Confidential - Triumph (Q3 2015): Ranked as the top-winning team for addressing all customer objectives and delivering a powerful proposition for a $40M project.
• Public Cloud Migration ( Confidential ): Spearheaded public cloud migration of 3200+ instances to Azure, using microservices design criteria, while ensuring full information security compliance. Delivered cloud provider portability by repackaging applications using Pivotal Cloud Foundry.

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Digital Transformation Director

Responsibilities:

• Leveraged consultative selling methodologies to provide sales teams with robust IT solutions resulting in a greater than 80% close rate.
• Confidential (Entertainment): Architected and deployed BladeLogic automation for system builds, hardening (PCI, NIST, Confidential requirements), and SOX reporting. Architecture, design and performed and directed migration of 300 workloads from Solaris platform to RHEL and Windows Server for multitier Web, middleware and database platforms.
• InVentiv Health (Clinical Studies Confidential ): Designed system state guidelines for FDA of clinical studies information data systems.
• Implementation of FDA compliance guidelines against systems.
• Public Cloud Migration (): Designed AWS elastic load balancing to accommodate the annual registration period load increase for their on-prem registration systems.
• Reduced cost and improved efficiency of annual registration systems by over 40%.
• Gulfstream Aerospace (Aerospace Manufacturing): Chaired Architecture Review Board for 4 years, and Capacity Management for 2 years.
• Delievered alignment with ITSM, applications, infrastructure and engineering teams demands and developed plans for properly forecasting demand and capacity.
• Confidential, Confidential . - Value Creators (FY 2013 and 2014): Identified opportunities within client infrastructure, leading to improvements resulting in $84M in value to the client Confidential the cost of implementation.
• Managed projects that consistently delivered complex IT infrastructure projects under budget and ahead of schedule.
• Orchestrated critical disaster recovery design in full compliance with industry standards and HIPAA regulations, improving system resiliency, and curtailing identified risks.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Platforms: Confidential (Windows Server, SQL Server, IIS, PowerShell) Linux/UNIX (RedHat, SUSE, AIX, Solaris, Linux), MySQL, VMware vSphere, VMware Horizon, Confidential Virtualization Platform, Active Directory, Open Source Technology, Confidential UCS, Confidential, EMC, Confidential, Hitachi, Confidential

Software/Tools: VMware HealthAnalyzer, F-5, DNS/DHCP, TCP/IP, Confidential Word, Confidential Excel, Confidential PowerPoint, Confidential SharePoint, Confidential Visio, Confidential Project, Archi, BASH, Bourne, PowerShell, Nagios, Nessus, Xymon

Methodologies: TOGAF, Agile, ArchiMate, Automation

Technical Writing: Best Practice Documentation, Architecture, SOP, RunBooks